Jun 19 2008
Drug Cartoon: LACHESIS by Dr. SUNEEF AH
LACHESIS
Dr. SUNEEF A H
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Dr. Suneef A H
Homeopathic Materia Medica
Jun 19 2008
Drug Cartoon: CINA by Dr. SUNEEF AH
CINA
Dr. SUNEEF AH
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Dr.Suneef AH
Jun 13 2008
Drug Cartoon: NUX VOMICA by Dr.SUNEEF AH
NUX VOMICA
Dr. SUNEEF AH
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Dr. SUNEEF AH
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Apr 27 2008
MATERIA MEDICA QUESTION SET-1
MATERIA MEDICA QUESTION SET-1
Full Questions
Give the “Drug Picture” of the following drugs:
- Arsenic alb
- Aurum met
- Bryonia
- Baryta carb
- Calc.C.
- Carbo veg
- Causticum
- Graphites
- Gelsemium
- Kali carb
- Lachesis
- Lycopodium
- Merc sol
- Nux vom
- Natrum mur
- Nitric acid
- Pulsatilla
- Rhus tox
- Sulphur
- Silica
- Thuja
Short Notes
Give the Generalities of
- Bryonia
- Cina
- Lycopodium
- Nitric acid
- Sulphur
Give the Leading Indications of:
- Arsenic alb
- Ant. Crud
- Ant. Tart
- Argentum nit
- Abrotanum
- Aethusa
- Baryta carb
- Calc. Carb.
- Causticum
- Carbo veg
- Graphites
- Ipecac
- Kali carb
- Lycopodium
- Natrum mur
- Nitric acid
- Pulsatilla
- Rhus tox
- Sulphur
- Thuja
- Baptisia
Other Short Notes
- Give the leading indications of Kali bi & compare Merc c. Merc.s & Nux v in dysentry
- Give the guiding indications of Bell & compare delirium of Bell., Hyosc., & Verat alb
- Climacteric irritability of Lachesis & compare it with Puls
- Indicate finer composition of Graphites & Silicea & differentiate their skin symptoms
- Write the mental, physical generals & modalities of Kali carb, Lachesis, Ars alb.
- Explain Baryta carb is an idiotic child
- Thuja is king of sycotic
- Ant. Tart. is a death rattle
- Causticum is an important consideration in paralysis
Give Biochemic indications of these drugs
- Calc Flour
- Calc Phos
- Calc Sulph
- Ferr Phos
- Kali Mur
- Kali Phos
- Kali Sulph
- Mag Phos
- Nat Mur
- Nat Phos
- Nat Sulph
- Silicea
- Give Biochemic indications of Kali mur in upper respiratory tract infection, Nat phos in gastric complaints
- Nat phos in allergic disorders
- Mag phos in colic
- Ferr phos in fever
Compare & contrast:
- Puls & Nat mur in mentals
- Arnica & Ledum in trauma
- Baryta C & Cal C in children disorders
- Ipecac Ant tart in respiratory disorders
- Ant C & Puls in gastric complains
- Nitric acid & Aesc in rectal complaints
- Colo & Mag phos in colic
- Carbo veg & Sec cor in collapse
- Borax & Nitric acid in mouth complaints.
- Biochemic & homoeopathic system of medicine
- Aconite & Ars alb in mentals
- Arnica & Rhus tox in injuries
- Spongia & Drosera in cough
- Hepar S & Merc s. in throat complaints
- ArsA & Apis in skin-mucus membrane.
- Bryonia & Rhus tox in joint pains
- Graph & Sulphur in skin disorder
- Aconite & Bell in fevers
Give indications of:
- Urinary symptoms: Apis, Berb V, Lyco
- Fever: Aconite, Bell, Bapt, Gels, Hell, Hyos, Puls, Nux V
- Injuries: Arn, Calendula, Rhus T
- Female disorders :Kali C, puls, Sec C
- Diarrhoea: Aloe, Podo
- Gastric complaints: Arg N, Ant C, Aeth, China, Ipec, Sulp.
- Irritability: Cina Cham
- Tenesmus/Dysentry :Merc cor
- Colic :Colo
- Pain: Aco, Cham, Ledum
- Catarrhal symptoms :Allium c, Euph
- Respiratory symptoms: Amm c, Ant t, Allium c, Dulc, Drosera, Ipec, Kali bi
- Cough: Spongia, Drosera
- Coryza: Euphr
- Rheumatism: Colch, Ledum, Puls, Rhus t
- Joint involvement: Caust, Ledum, Puls, Rhus t
- Skin(Mucous membrane):Apis, Ars, Graph, Hepar s, Nit acid, Sil, Sec C, Thuj
- Rectal complaints: Aloe, Aesc, Graph, Nit acid
- Piles: Aesc, Ign
- Headache: Bry, Sil.
- Collapse: Verat alb
- Oral cavity: Merc sol
- Dentition: Podo
- Eye symptoms: Euphr
- Child: Ant c, Abrot, Cina, Calc c, Cham
- Child milestones: Baryta c
- Destructive dimensions: Kali bi, Merc s
- Causation(A/F):Caust, Calc c
- S.O.A: Calendula, Kali c
- Modalities: Bry, Borax, Caust, China, Calc C, Merc S, Thuja
- Antidote: Bell, Ipec
- Delirium: Nat mur, Thuja, Bell, Bry
- Sensation as if: Thuja, Verat alb, Ign
- Insanity: Arg nig, Aurum met, Hyosc, Kali phos, Lach, Lyco, Nit acid,
- Mentals: Puls, Sulph, Thuja
Apr 27 2008
THUJA
THUJA
Dr.Sreechithra H
Psoric++
Sycotic+++L
Syphilitic++
Tubercular++
CHILLY+++
Appearance
- Adapted to hydrogenoid constitution – is a very fleshy person, dark complexion, black hair, unhealthy skin
- Face waxy and shiny. It looks as if it had been smeared over with grease, sickly looking individual.
Reserved
- They take the position of the observer- they observe every thing while offering nothing of themselves.
- They do not allow any form of deep communication.
- They are emotionally very hard people
Suspicious
- Extremely suspicious of surrounding people
- He is very slow to trust others.
- They will withhold information and does not portray truthfully who he really is.
Manipulation
- He will purposefully withhold information just to test others, to see if others know what they are doing.
Dual personality
- They are quiet proper, courteous and upright at the office, but he becomes altogether a different person at home.
- At home they show violent irritability, jealousy, quarrelsome etc.
- The irritability is usually shown towards the people about the house, the husband and mother.
- These patient may appear closed, proper, and correct but there will be always underlying manipulative cheating tendency
Fixed ideas
- Feeling that the legs are breakable, as if made of glass.
- Something alive in the abdomen
- Sensation as if someone walking alone side with him
- That he is under some superior power.
Perspiration
- Only on the uncovered part, while he sleeps, sweetish, honey like smell.
Intolerance
- Onion, pungent food
Despondent and dissatisfaction
- Dullness and forgetfulness of mind will leads to dissatisfaction.
- They are cold, calculating, manipulative, and scheming.
- They cut themselves off, you will never know what they have in mind.
- They have anxiety about health but they will face problem directly.
Apr 27 2008
SULPHUR
SULPHUR
Dr.Sreechithra H
Psoric+++L
Sycotic++
Syphilitic+++
Tubercular+++
Hot+++
Appearance
- Patient is lean, stoop shouldered, dirty looking, hungry.
- Face- dirty, shriveled, red faced people especially lip, as if blood will ooze out on mere touch.
- Pot bellied appearance, emaciated limbs.
- Stoop shouldered person, who walks and sits stooping, walks like an old men.
- Cannot tolerate standing, every standing position is uncomfortable.
Sedentary life style
- Person will confine to his room, who will never take exercise.
- Will eat only simplest food, food not sufficient to nourish their body.
Dirty
- Always dirty looking, and have filthy odour.
- “Ragged philosopher”- they are scholars, inventors, works day and night in thread bare clothes and batted hat.
- He has long, uncut hair and dirty face. His study is unclean and untidy, leaves books pilled up.
- He is not disturbed by uncleanliness, even rag seems beautiful.
- Aversion to being washed, always aggravate after bath.
Selfishness
- He has no thought of anybody else wishes and desires but his own.
- Every thing that he contemplates is for the benefit of him selves.
- There is absence of gratitude.
Philosophical mania
- Monomania over strange, abstract and occult things that are beyond their knowledge.
- It’s a kind of reasoning with out any hope of discovery, with out any possible answer e.g. “who made god?”
Superiority complex
- He believes he is superior to others and others are unable to understand his genius.
- He believes that he is the “king of the world” and will make a paper crown for himself.
Inventive genius
- He is averse to systematic work.
- He gets an idea into the mind and he is unable to get rid of it, he follows it and follows it until he drops into something and many times that is how tings are invented.
Aversion to business
- He is indolent, averse to ay kind of serious business.
- He will sit around and do nothing and let his wife “works his finger nails off” taking care of him. He thinks, that is all she is good for.
Itching of whole body
- Skin even with out much eruption, itches much, itches from warmth of bed and from wearing woolen clothes.
- Scratching often relieves the itching.
Burning
- Ameliorated by cold application.
Hungry and thirsty
- Wants much cold water.
- Hungry feeling, on coming to table he loath food, he takes only simplest and lightest things
- Craving of stimulants, aversion to milk
- Drinks much and eat little
- Emptiness of stomach occurring at 11′o clock cannot wait for lunch.
Apr 27 2008
STAPHISAGRIA
STAPHISAGRIA
Dr.Sreechithra H
Psoric++
Sycosis+++
Syphilitic++
Tubercular++
Chilly++
Appearance
- Women who are rather delicate and highly strung.
- They are highly timid
- Men may appear masculine and hard but they are very sensitive and timid inside.
Excitable and sensitive
- These persons are very excitable and very easily aroused, but the problem is that they do not allow natural outlet for their arousal, very sensitive to slightest mental impressions, least action or harmless words offends.
- Great indignation about things done by others or by himself, grieves about consequences.
Personality
- They are very delicate and sensitive nature, very considerate of others
- She feels her problem belong to her alone and presume to be a burden to others, but if the listener shows sincere interest and sympathy she will quickly opens up.
- She is never egoistic, harsh or proud.
Suppression of emotion
- It is the basic pathology of staphisagria.
- Though she is easily arousable, she will not allow natural outlet for their emotions,
- She has an internal sense of powerlessness, and the patient feels unable to fight even for her own rights.
- She quickly learns to submit to any quarrels or imposition.
- When she is insulted, being too dignified to fight subdued her wrath and will go home sick- she will not fight back..
Disappointments
- Ailments from grief are always related to romantic relationship
- They will easily recover from an occupational reversal but they tent to suffer much from a disappointed love.
Timidity
- They usually do not appear timid in public, in their occupations; parties etc and they are quit friendly. The timidity occurs when they meet someone to whom they feel romantically attracted.
- They usually develop active fantasy life, but they fear too much closeness
Relationship
- They are highly excitable and hence easily aroused in a romantic relationship.
- She will fancy romantic imaginaries around her relationship, she will think about her lover all day long and she replace in her mind past encounters and future possibilities.
- Her problem arises when relationship comes to reality; she is more comfortable at a distance.
Too much importance on little things
- She attaches too much importance to small things like gestures. Eg; when her lover greet her with expected enthusiasm, she become exaggerated out of all proportions to reality.
- She can be easily satisfied and hurt by small things hence it is very difficult to materialize romanticism; hence many relationships fail to last and experience disappointments.
Artistically talented.
- They involve usually in solitary artistic activities like painting music etc
- They do not indulge in extroverted stage actor or singer
Sexual relationship
- At first there is great arousal particularly when not actually in the presence of the lover and the arousal is released through masturbation..
- When ever confronted with actual sexual situation the patient become impotent or frigid.
Apr 27 2008
SEPIA
SEPIA
Dr.Sreechithra H
Psoric ++
Sycosis+++
Syphilitic+
Tubercular++
Chilly+++
Appearance
- Dark hair, rigid fibers.
- She does not have natural curves of a women, she is thin and flat chested.
- Tall, thin, wiry, pointed features.
- She always sits with legs crossed.
- Long history of abortions and sterility.
- Better by vigorous activity, dancing etc.
Indifference
- Even towards to family members, to once occupation, to whom she loves best.
- Stillness of emotions, feels without emotions.
- Cannot be stimulated to have joy or emotion to any affection.
- Does not feel to have any natural affection of a mother to her child and to her husband.
- Does not have any manifestations of love (it can be due to nursing of a over vigorous child or from a over vigorous husband )
- She will become cold and frigid women.
Face
- Anaemic, jaundiced appearance.
- Yellow saddle across the face.
- Enormous freckles, warts on the face.
Aversion to husband, children, sex.
- Aversion to sex, when husband demands it, she will develop an aversion to her husband.
- No natural love towards her husband, when her husband gets home, she does not have any smiles to great him. She says her husband to leave her alone.
- She is indifferent towards others tears.
Anger, irritability and spiteful
- Angry, when her baby wants to be picked up and carried. When children’s are quarreling.
- E.g. when her six year old started drumming with a spoon on a tin pot , she will snatch the tin pot and hurls it away and smacks her little son.
- When in company she is spiteful and indifferent to those who love her best.
Company
- Worse in a company, yet dreads to be alone.
- Spiteful in a company to whom he loves best.
Anxiety
- Enormous anxiety with fear of something bad is going to happen.
- She will cry day and night not knowing why.
- Usually cry during consolation; spells of weeping
Gnawing hunger
- Empty feeling in stomach, she eats and eats can’t get a full feeling.
Dullness of mind
- Feels that she is stupid
- It takes long times to reflect the meaning of the question, takes a long time for her to give an answer.
- Great absentmindedness
Indolent
- Does not want to do any thing, either work or play, even it is an exertion to think.
Aversion
- Pressure around neck
- Salt
Guru
- State of mind similar to seekers of truth, their ideas of detachments, they cut down their emotions, forced detachment.
Apr 26 2008
PULSATILA
PULSATILA
Dr.Sreechithra H
HOT/CHILLY
Psoric++
Sycotic+++L
Syphilitic+
Tubercular++
Constitution
- Fair, anaemic look.
- Plethoric, tall, blue eyes.
- Large lips, affectionate.
- Mild, gentle, timid.
- Easily flushing of face.
- Slow motion is characteristics.
Changeability
- A fluid yieldingness, no resistance to challenge.
- They tends to mould herself to what other wants.
- Her mood, her ideas, her thoughts, her concepts will often changes from one idea to another.
Emotionally
- emotionally easily arousable
- easily moved to laughter or tear
- Weeps easily, relieved by weeping ameliorated by consolation, she draws out your compassion.
Relationship
- she always want a relationship, because she lacks self identity, so to her the relationship is steadying anchoring force
- Forms a relation and even if he is a negative person, she become influenced as long as he is forceful.
- She may easily fall in to relationships before marriage, but once a family is formed she is loyal.
Marriage
- She has notion that company of an opposite sex is a dangerous things to cultivate, though she cannot resist a proposal.
- Aversion to marriage is a strong symptom.
Personality
- soft, well spoken individual with nice tender feeling
- they are optimistic, but easily discouraged
- Can never be aggressive or cruel, does not want impose to his ideas upon others.
Sympathetic
- Sympathetic towards those closed to her.
- May worry about a member of her family, but does not take on others feeling (outside the family).
Extremely fanatic
- They do not make a judgment of there on, but will take on someone else’s attitude to the extreme.
- Religious fanatism.
Religious
- Religious freaks, especially dwells on religious notions, fixed ideas concerning scriptures.
- she misuses and manipulate scriptures to her own detriment.
- Easily attracted to dogmas, to spiritual community likely to change from one dogma to another.
Thirst
- no thirst, but like cold refreshing drinks
Cravings
- craves ice creams, pastries etc
Aversion
- fat rich food, meat, pork etc
Modality
- Aggravation by heat, sun, closed room, alcohol stimulants.
- Amelioration by uncovering cold water, sea shore.
Apr 26 2008
PLATINA
PLATINA
Dr.Sreechithra H
Psoric++
Sycotic+++
Syphilitic+
Tubercular++
HOT/CHILLY+
Constitution
- Women who are thin and rigid muscular fiber.
- Dark complexion.
- They often wear fluorescent dressing and put lot of ornaments.
- Persons who walk and talk proudly irrespective of the surrounding people.
- Face usually round with sensual lips.
Strong sexual desire
- Strong sexual desire especially from the young age leading to masturbation.
- They involve sexually at a young age.
- She will throw herself whole heartedly in to sexual relationship, with great romanticism and idealism.
- The platina women will gave her totally. She wants the relationship to be fulfilling emotionally as she desires it to be sexually.
- Virtually it is impossible for any man to satisfy them, she then become disappointed because the world is unable to satisfy their such excessive needs, she may then try to suppress the powerful sexual instinct resulting in their mental picture, resulting in contempt of men. Eventually, she may separate sex from romantic love, becoming interested in sex for the sake of sex only.
Hysteria
- Hysterical patients, who are alternate gay and sad
- Incredibly happy, so that she would embrace anything (nymphomania) and laugh at the saddest thing.
- Sadness, so that the most joyful things distress her.
- Who cry easily.
Delusion
- As if everything about her was small. All persons physically and mentally inferior, but she is physically large and superior.
Superiority complex
- Repeated grief and disappointment leads to a bitter vengeful and walled off individual.
- She thinks herself to be superior to others and others are beneath her.
- She believes she did not belong to her own family actually, she believes she was to be born in a royal family.
- She usually ‘looks down’ upon people and cast then off unwillingly.
Arrogant, snappish and sharp tongued persons
- They are proud and cross with everyone.
- Trifling thing produce profound vexation.
- Their talk is often proud and talks about things that reflects superiority complex.
Dislike her children
- Calls them too little.
- Demands children to produce more marks than everybody else.
- Beat them without provocation.
Contempt for the world
- She thinks she is emotionally more capable of love.
- She feels she is unique individual; misunderstood by others with lesser capacity for love, not made for this world.
- She may refuse to participate in conversation in company because of this.
Fear
- Fear that a fatal accident will be fall her husband.
- She believes that her husband will be killed, awake late in to the night, awaiting his return home.
Suicidal tendency
- Depression over the world’s inability to satisfy her. She may become suicidal, although she is unlikely to commit suicide.
- She may feel a powerful desire to kill those who are close around her, such as husband and child, especially stimulated by the presence or sight of a knife.
- This is a controlled desire to kill; but platina will rarely act to it.
- Easily attracted to dogmas, to spiritual community likely to change from one dogmas to another.
Thirst
- Not thirsty, but like cold refreshing drinks.
Craving
- Craves ice creams, pastries etc.
Aversion
- Fat rich food, meat, pork etc.
Modality
- Aggravated by heat, sun, closed rooms, alcohol stimulants.
- Amelioration by uncovering, cool water, seashore.
Apr 26 2008
PHOSPHORUS
Psoric+++
Sycotic++
Syphilitic++
Tubercular+++L
Chilly+++
Constitution
· Physically they are tall slender fair skinned, delicate eyelashes, fine blond persons.
· young people who grows too rapidly and are inclined to stoop
- Children
- warm, outgoing, affectionate artistic and very sensitive,
- Children are opening minded and impressionable.
- One can “see through” the child, they being effortlessly manifested, without much reserve.
- Extroverted
- diffusion is the keyword of phosphorous
- They readily diffuse into the environment and to their surroundings.
- They enjoy friendship and company.
- Such persons are enjoyable to have around.
- warmth and affection differs freely towards friends and even to strangers (they have no secrets what ever on mind is shared freely )
- Personally
- highly intelligent and refined personality
- warm and affectionate
- They can easily become a politician or sales agent due to the ability to sell anything he believes in.
- They are very impressionable and believe anything which is told to him.
- Sympathetic
- They are highly sympathetic even towards strangers.
- They freely put interest of friends above his personal things.
- They have a high push for humanitarian causes.
- Company desires
- they enjoy being in a friendship and company
- need for company is so strong that it drive him to leave his house to find friends to talk to.
- Easily startled
- this can relate to the state of mind of day dreaming. Awareness shift to far off places and circumstances
- during day dreaming sudden noise like blowing horn, slamming a door or burst of thunder , the day dreamer is startled because the awareness is jotled back to reality
- Easily refreshed by sleep
- Because phosphorous patient can immediately diffuse the physical awareness, he can readily diffuse and rest.
- hence they are quickly refreshed, as it often a quick and sound sleeper
- Anxiety
- true, anxiety for the welfare of others whether friends or strangers
- anxiety about health- if he hear of some one with particular illness, he is concerned with the possibility that he might have that illness
- But they are easily assured by counter suggestion and patient sighs with relief and is profoundly thankful.
- Fearful
- Fear of dark, fear of being alone, fear of twilight, fear of thunder storms.
- Fear of death, panic state over the idea that the death is imminent. He goes out, talk to friend (not about health in particular) and he is much relieved.
- Patient
- Impressionable and trusting, follows directions willingly and with effusive gratitude.
- Views prescriber as a friend, shaking hands warmly, sitting forward on the seat, gives symptoms freely without holding back.
- Thirst
- Particularly for cold drinks especially refreshing drinks like juices.
- Desires
- Salt, fish, chocolate, sweet etc.
- Internal burning.
Apr 26 2008
NUX VOMICA
NUX VOMICA
Dr.Sreechithra H
Psoric+++
Sycotic++
Syphilitic+
Tubercular++
Chilly+++
Constitution
- Strong constitution, husky, solid, compact, muscular type of body.
- Rigid muscular fibers.
- Dark complexion.
Personality
- Ambitious, intelligent, quick, capable, and competent.
- They have a strong sense of duty and strong values of work ethics.
- They are self reliant rather than dependent
- They are excellent, hard working, efficient employer and their talents lead them towards such occupation such as supervisor, manager, businessman, salesman, accountants etc.
Ambitious and competitive
- Nux patient become ruled by work and he over emphasis on achievement and competition.
- They are workaholic and dominated by work.
- Because he is capable, he is quickly promoted to greater and greater responsibility and nux person will welcome such promotion.
Fastidious
- They have compulsive efficiency; their fastidiousness is tied to the emphasis on efficiency.
- They want every thing in a neat and orderly manner because they cannot lose time seeking for something.
Artificial stimulation
- They work harder and longer, expecting more from him and others.
- They carry assumption that any problems can be overcome by sheer effort and ability.
- The most difficult thing for them is resign him to the inevitable.
- So to keep them stimulated and they use various means such as coffee, cigarette, drugs, even sex.
Hypersexual
- They have strong sexual desire, and may indulge their sexual impulse even beyond the bounds of conventional morality.
- Their indulgence in sex finally result end state of exhaustion, and later they suffer from impotency.
Sensitivity
- Occur indulgence of stimulants eventually lead to crisis leads to toxicity.
- The entire nervous system becomes over whelmed and oversensitive.
- Even slight stresses such as light, small noise, smell, some ones voice or singing is intolerable.
Light sleeper
- Sleep by fits and starts, wakens at 3 a.m. and the business affairs crowds on him so that he cannot sleep again. Until late in the morning.
- He wants to sleep late in morning.
Impatient and irritable
- Impatient with himself and especially others. Scolding and reproaching others over minor incidents.
- Acts impulsively over small, disturbance, difficulty in buttoning his shirt, he rips the button off.Walks out of room slamming the door.
Angry and violent
- Gets angry, wants to get away, tears things up, scolds, goes home and take it out to family and children.
- Many husband beat their wife, parents commiting child abuse.
Suicidal disposition
- Shooting himself with a gun or jumping from a height but afraid to die.
Intolerant to contradiction
- Because he is certain that he is right and is impatient with others who have not thought the problem as quickly as him, and he is often right in every situation.
Insanity
- Impulse to kill others, murder her husband and desire to throw her baby to fire.
Desires
- Highly spiced seasonal food, stimulant, pungent things, spices etc.
Apr 26 2008
NATRUM MURIATICUM
NATRUM MURIATICUM
Dr.Sreechithra H
Psoric+++
Sycotic+++
Syphilitic++
Tubercular++
Hot+
Appearance
- Thin, delicate, anaemic people.
- Characteristic crack in the middle of lower lip.
Sensitive
- They are emotionally very sensitive.
- They experience the emotional pain of others, and feel that any form of rejection, ridicule, humiliation, or grief would be personally intolerable. E.g. adults are reluctant to date for the fear of rejection.
Introverted and closed fellows
- After being hurt for many times they learn to become cautious, they create a wall of invulnerability and will enclose in their own world.
- They avoid being hurt at all cost.
- They think twice before becoming involved in an emotional experience, so they turn to introverted activities, which are emotionally safe like reading books, music, dwelling on ideas and fantasies.
- They become quiet content in their isolation.
- They are self contained, and they solve the problems by themselves.
- Their motto is “not to hurt and not to be hurt”.
Personality
- They are quiet clear and strong on mental plane.
- They have high degree of awareness and objectivity as well as great sense of responsibility; hence they are likely to be sympathetic to others on distress.
- Tendency to receive impressions of life, very seriously.
- They accumulate awareness and understanding beyond their age.
- They are mentally strong, and enjoy being presented with challenging circumstances.
- They have strong principles and will not compramise on any circumstances.
Company
- Enjoy being in a company and thrives on the nourishment of emotional contact with others.
- Enjoy receiving affections from others, but they themselves will not express affections easily.
Serious natured
- They cannot knowingly inflict pain on others, hence they will become serious.
- They will not make jokes, that my ridicule someone.
- They will not reveal their emotional vulnerability or create injury to others.
Relationship
- They are very sensitive internally. hence they will easily fall into relationships. But they will never admit it to that person.
- They believe in one love and if that relation fails, they will never marry again.
Children’s
- They are very sensitive to disharmony, but they will never react, and will suffer inside.
- Well behaved children, mere glands of disapproval are sufficient to make them not to do it.
- Hysterical tendency on reprehend. React in extreme degree.
Older people
- Do not express emotions easily, they will not cry under any circumstances.
- When uncontrollable they dissolve in to hysterical weeping.
- They have deep sentimental attachment, but they will never show their feeling. E.g. when father dies, daughter grief silently, cry inside her room and no body knows the depth of their attachment. She then becomes introverted in her world of book and music.
- There is no moaning and crying in front of others, only occasional sighing and then they will break down. Hysterical sobbing.
Sensitive
- To all the mental emotions, slightest emotional injury. Sensitive to noise to light, cigarette smoking.
Music
- Emotional vulnerability causes depression, and she retires in to her room, and puts on the saddest music, she can find, and this will aggravate her depression.
- Eventually when depression passes of music rejuvenate her.
Dreams
- Dreams of robbers will not be satisfied until complete search of house is made.
Apr 26 2008
LYCOPODIUM
LYCOPODIUM
Dr.Sreechithra H
Psoric+++L
Sycotic+++
Syphilitic++
Tubercular+++
Appearance
- Persons who are intellectually keen, but physically weak.
- Emaciation of face, neck, and upper part, while an excess of fat, may accumulate around the abdomen, lips and lower limbs.
- Face – excessively wrinkled (prolonged anxiety); look prematurely old.
- Premature graying of hair.
- Flapping of alae naesi.
Personality
- Lycopodium suits up to highly intelligent and intellectual people.
- It is found frequently in professions requiring public performance; priest, lawyers, school teacher, even politician.
- Avaricious
Cowardice
- They feel themselves to be weak and inadequate, incapable of fulfilling their responsibilities in life and so they avoid responsibility.
- Externally they present to the world an image of capability, extroverted friendliness, courage etc.
Sensitiveness
- Sensitive to noise like crackling to paper, ringing of bells or slamming of door.
- Sensitive to criticism, cannot endure opposition or contradiction, is beside him, but will not fight directly, but will wait for the right occasion to revenge him.
Self centered greedy.
- They always think about themselves.
- They will adopt every crooked method to reach the top, and to achieve a position or fame.
“Creeps to the top”
- They even tarnish the image of his wife and children’s to attain position or to degrade the image of his opponent.
Relationship and sex
- They seek sexual gratification without having to face the personal responsibilities.
- They are afraid of responsibilities in life like marriage, children’s, and even other forms of commitment of life.
- Relationship to sex is superficial, quick, and easy and they often visit prostitutes.
- On marriage, they may experience sexual dysfunction impotency because of fear of unable to fulfill responsibility of intimacy.
Fearful
- Of being alone, of dark, ghost, even stranger dogs.
- Desire company, but in the next room.
- Great fear of suffering.
- Constant fear of inner state of weakness. They may feel anxiety and tension before giving a speech, but they can do perfectly well on beginning the speech.
Inferiority complex
- They have an inner feeling of inferiority complex; hence they will exaggerate their achievements to compensate.
- It is based up on powerful need to receive admiration and respect from others.
Emotional
- Patient often weeps in an act of receiving a friend or meeting an acquaintance.
- Weeps on receiving gift, on slightest joy even when thanked.
Flatulence
- The abdomen is bloated with flatulence.
- Extreme hunger, but few mouthfuls fill the throat.
- Constant belching.
Apr 26 2008
LACHESIS
LACHESIS
Dr.Sreechithra H
Psoric++
Sycotic+++
Syphitic++
Tubercular+++
Hot++
Appearance
- Thin emaciated person.
- Always wear loose dress, unable to wear tight dresses.
- Cannot endure tight ornaments around neck.
- Every complaint is aggravated on going to sleep and on morning on waking up.
Personality
- Intelligent, easy flow of idea.
- Patients suffering from long lasting grief, jealousy or disappointed love.
Loquacity
- Torment, those around him, with her talkativeness.
- Rapid shifting of ideas. One word will lead to a story.
- Talk continuously, always in a hurry, hence they leave sentence unfinished.
Jealousy
- To every one around her, neighbours etc
Suspicious
- Suspect even her husband, and her own children. Will lay out all possible things that the husband being with a girl friend etc.
- She will even accuse her own children having other relationship.
- She will imagine that her husband, children and friends are trying to damage her.
- Relatives are trying to poison her and hence will refuse to eat.
- Thinks she is under the influence of super human control.
- She is compelled to do things by spirit.
- She hears commands, and she is forced to do things accordingly.
- She hears commands to steal, to murder, to confess things that she has never done.
- She imagines that she had stolen something.
- Great fear of law.
Religious Insanity
- She continuously prays to God for her opponent’s destruction.
- She will sing and beseech to God.
- She will go in to black magic.
- She will do unpardonable sin in the name of God.
- Always speak ill of others.
- She will try to tarnish the image of others, whom she didn’t like.
- In love failure, she always exploits all the possibility to tarnish the image of his boyfriend.
Sensitive
- Sensitive to her surrounding. Easily disturbed by noise.
- She can hear flies walk upon the walls, clock striking.
- Sensitive to slightest pressure around the neck or abdomen.
Apr 26 2008
IGNATIA
IGNATIA
Dr.Sreechithra H
Psoric+++
Sycotic++
Syphilitic+
Tubercular+++
Chilly+
Constitution
- Nervous, sensitive, easily excited nature, dark, hair and skin, quick to perceive and rapid in execution.
- In appearance, they lose their feminity.
- There is something hard about them. There may be slight hair growth on the face.
- They become hard, indifferent, to be liked by men anymore,(will sit back, take chair fartherest away from office).
Personality 
inconstant, impatient, irresolute, quarrelsome).
- Able, quick, clever, artistic, women of today.
- Women of liberation movement, who want to liberate and assert her.
- She would try to equal men.
- She will say, I will do it and is capable for performing it, hence she will take over lot of responsibilities and position, but deep down romantic, this idea will always get conflict with the reality.
Proud
- She is proud of herself, the way she handles situation.
- She is capable, and does things for herself and demands nothing (help) from others.
- Perfectionist
Sensitive
- Fall in love with a married man, coach man etc.
- In appearance, they are hard, capable, successful, independent woman.
- They are highly talented, educated, and cultured personality.
- They when put to society, they tend to get easily hurt.
- Get easily hurt in a relationship.
- She is easily affected by anger, grief, marriage, death, emotional disturbances etc.
- Easily offended, will not take contradictions or fault finding lightly. Excites anger.
- They grasp quickly and execute quickly.
- Cannot bear tobacco or tobacco smoke will aggravate her headache.
- Sensitive to pain.
Changeability
- Changing of mood frequently.
- Mental conditions shift rapidly from joy to sorrow, from laughing to weeping.
- She is unpredictable, gets nasty, then gentle, and then gets nasty.
- They are not emotionally stable persons. Changeability in her character and mood.
Grief
- Persons physically and mentally exhausted, by long concentrated grief, moody and desire to be alone.
- Broods over solitude, on imaginary trouble.
- Conflict of romantic ideas with reality, broods over imaginary troubles, will keep it to her and will not talk. Easily hurt over, contradiction, scolding, punishments, vexations etc.
- Suppressed grief, involuntary sighing.
- Sudden grief produces a state of shock, where they remain speechless, no way to talk out or cry. E.g. seen in death in a family.
Weeping
- At the moment of shock she is unable to cry, later she will go inside, lock the door and cries.
- Sobbing crying goes almost into spasms.
- If you ask about emotional things, the patient may start to cry, she tries immediately composing herself and will withdraw immediately.
- If she cannot control it comes out as hysterical crying, when she regains control, she will appear as if nothing has happened.
- Feels crying as the worst thing to do, will go some where else to cry.
- Hysterical sobbing and crying, convulsion, fainting, etc.
- Nice calm words during a crisis will make her worse.
Irritable
- She is angered easily, quarrelsome, they may insult others with words. In her grief, she will say unjust things, accuse unjustly, because she is under stress.
- No humbleness in ignatia, if she apologizes in her outbreak, she is not calm about it. When she apologizes she mean logically, but not emotionally.
Relationship
- Get easily hurt in a relationship; as a result she may get nasty, then gentle, then nasty. So the man gets tired of her, she then become overwhelmed by emotions.
- She is changeable.
- In a love affair, she will suppress until one day, it will come out in hysterical reaction.
- She will accuse the man of coldness, not showing enough attention.
- Sensitive women in our society, forced to be aggressive.
- She meets her first love, will believe in him totally.
- If the man show little indifference, or did not show total attention, she become silent and broody.
- The introversion begins, will not talk and at certain time, will breaks down, make a scene, out of control.
Jealous
- She will imagines all stories about her husband being with a woman, all kind of stories about what her husband is doing. But unlike Lachesis she will keep it to herself. She will feel absolutely degraded to make a scene.
Suicidal tendency
- She will thinking of committing suicide, but she wont do it, she is too logical.
Apr 26 2008
FLOURIC ACID
FLOURIC ACID
Dr.Sreechithra H
Psoric++
Sycotic++
Syphilitic+
Tubercular++
Hot++
Materialistic; enjoy life to its full extend; not bothered about spiritual development, awareness, discipline etc
Crude energy:
- They have a driving force for sexual intercourse.
- Early intercourse (begins at the age of thirteen to Fourteen)
- Insensitivity and aggressive
Relationship:
- No satisfaction in any relationship, they frequently change them.
- Beautiful girlfriends, but superficial relationship.
- Early but short marriage.
- Cannot relate wife and children if they don’t please him.
- Promote their own feeling of enjoyment.
Superiority:
E.g. will get all girlfriends to wear blue shirt
Kindness:
- Help others materially, don’t understand any other help.
Sensitivity to suffering of others:
- Go to extreme to save the life of a child with cancer because deep down, there is an anxiety about his own health.
- Tremendous fear of suffering. Make friends with doctors, want to enjoy life and die with out suffering.
Fear of cancer; fear of suffering in future.
Apr 26 2008
Causticum
Causticum
Dr.Sreechithra H
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Psoric+++
Sycosis+++
Syphilitic++
Tubercular+++
Chilly++
Constitution
- Sensitive, excitable people, quick to react responds with hyperactivity and over reaction
Sympathetic
- They have strong sense of social justices
- Intolerance to any kind of authority
- He will not tolerate anything that oppresses either himself or others
- Excessive concerned for injustice in the world, and pain of others.
- The patients are extroverted, revolutionist and he want to destroy the world, because it is not what it should be
- When such people have been through grieves and vexation, the initial state of over reactivity becomes turned inward and become introverted and gradually become paralyzed mentally, physically and emotionally.
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