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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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| COMMON NAME |
: | White
Hellebore. |
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| Ailments from |
: | -Fright
-Disappointment in love -Injured pride or honour -Suppressed. exanthema -Opium, tobacco, alcohol. |
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| MODALITIES |
: | < Exertion
< Drinking < Change of weather < Cold drinks < Before and during menses < Fright < Before, during after stools < Touch < Pressure < During pain < Wet cold weather < Opium eating < Tobacco chewing < Injured pride > Milk > Warmth > Covering > Walking > Hot drinks > Lying > Eating meat |
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| MIND |
: | -Hyperactive,
restless, disobedient, haughty, rude,
critical. -Cannot bear to be left alone, yet persistently refuses to talk. -Thinks she is pregnant, soon will be relieved. -Delusions of impending misfortunes. -Delusions of religion and identity. Believes he is Christ, or a saviour, or a prophet, or that h is on a divine mission. -Religious affections. Excessive praying. -Precocity. Asks may questions. -Mania with desire to cut and tear everything, especially clothes. -Mania with livid, lascivious talk, amorous, or religion. -Deceitful, never speaks truth. -Feigns sickness. -Nymphomania, kisses everybody before menses. -Embraces everyone, even objects. -Imagines that world is on fire. -Swallows his own excrement (cophrophagia). -Melancholy. Brooding. -Wants to commit suicide by jumping from window. |
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| GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -For
children and old people; extremes of life,
persons who are habitually cold and deficient in vital reaction. Young
people of nervous, sanguine temperament. -Adapted to patients with rapid sinking of vital forces, complete prostration and collapse. -Sudden and violent onset. -Profuseness of discharges. -Cold perspiration on forehead with nearly all complaints. -Attacks of fainting with least exertion, excessive weakness. -Icy coldness of face, tip of nose, feet, legs, hands, arms and many other parts. Cold feeling in abdomen. -Thirst - intense unquenchable, wants everything cold. -Sinking feeling during haemorrhages. -Head-Sensation -of a lump of ice on vertex
with chilliness,
-as if heat and cold at same time on sleep, -as if brain were torn to pieces. -Headache begins in occiput, settles over one of the eyes -Chronic long standing nervous < overexertion < riding < working in hot days. -When Spigelia and Silicea failed. -Face-Cold, blue, pale features, sunken, hippocratic. -Red while lying, becomes pale on rising up. -Nose-Epistaxis comes on during sleep, at night only, from right nostril. -Dryness of nose, mouth, throat, sensation of burning in brain. -G.I.T.-Tongue-Cold pale, cool sensation as from peppermint. -Taste-peppermint like. -Craving for acids, sour, sour fruit, lemon, salt, ice, fruit, sardines, juicy refreshing things. -Inspite of nausea and vomit, gnawing hunger, voracious appetite. -Violent vomiting with profuse diarrhea, followed by tremendous weakness, 'collapse'. Surgical shock. -Vomiting excessive with nausea and great prostration < drinking < least motion, great weakness after. -Dyspepsia from chewing tobacco. -Diarrhea, frequent, greenish, watery, gushing, mixed with flakes, with cutting colic in abdomen with cramps commencing in hands and feet spreading all over, in calves. -Prostrating diarrhoea, after fright, eating fruits, impure water, with cold sweat on forehead. -For Asiatic cholera with rice-water stools. Retention of urine in Cholera. -Constipation-no desire, stool large hard in round black balls, from inactive rectum, frequent desire felt in epigastrium, in babies produced by very cold weather. -Female genitalia-Dysmenorrhoea with vomiting and purging, cholera-like symptoms at commencement of menses. -So weak, that scarcely stand for 2 days at each menstrual nises. -Night blindness preceding menses. -Respiratory system-Bronchitis of old people, with inability to expectorate, though large amount of mucus in chest. -Tickling deep in chest, as if it would produce cough. -Extremities-Rheumatic pains in limbs < wet weather < warmth of bed > continued motion. -Fever-In congestive or pernicious intermittent fever, with extreme coldness, thirst, great prostration, deathly pallor. -Cold stage predominates and overshadows heat stage. |
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| KEYNOTES |
: | -Profuseness-of
all discharges, leading to
prostration and collapse, violent vomiting with profuse diarrhoea. -Cold perspiration on forehead with all complaints. -Thirst for large quantity of cold water. -Craving for acrid, cold drinks, juices and refreshing things. |
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| NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -A
picture of collapse, coldness, weakness,
blueness, is seen in the remedy. -COLDNESS runs throughout the remedy. -Blueness. -Violence and suddenness. -Fainting -Profuseness. |
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| CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | 1)
Profuse diarrhoea and vomiting with great
prostration. 2) Cold sweat on forehead concomitant to all symptoms. 3) Icy coldness of various parts. |
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| CLINICAL |
: | -Behavioural
disorders, Cholera, Dysmenorrhoea,
Gastroenteritis, Hyperactivity, Mania, Neuralgia, Pneumonia, Raynaud's
disease, Schizophrenia, Seizures. -When Nux-v and Lyc fail for constipation in babies. -For epistaxis during sleep when Bry, Merc, Nit-ac, Nux-v fails. -When Spigelia and Silica fail in headache- Clarke. -When after fright, there is coldness of body. | |||
| REMEDY RELATONSHIPS |
: | Followed Well By: Acon, Bell, Cham, Puls, Rhus-t, Sep, Sulph Follows Well: Am-c, Arn, Ars, Bov, Camph, Carb-v, Cinch, Cupr, Ip, Lyc, Nux-v Compare: Acon, Agar, Alum, Ambr, Anac, Ant-t, Apoc, Ars, Aur, Bell, Bry, Calc, Camph, Cann-i, Carb-an, Carb-v, Cast-eq, Cham, Chel, Cocc, Colch, Coll, Coloc, Con, Croto-t, Cupr, Dulc, Elat, Ferr, Gels, Hell, Hyos, Ign, Iod, Iris, Jatr, Lach, Lob, Med, Nat-m, Nux-v, Op, Ph-ac, Phos, Plb, Podo, Puls, Rheum, Sec, Sep, Spig, Stann, Stram, Sul-ac, Sulph, Tab, Tarent, Val, Valer, Zinc, Ziz Antidoted By: Acon, Camph, Chin, Staph It Antidotes: Ars, Chin, Cupr, Op, Tab |
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