SEPIA

SYPHILINUM



 SEPIA


Supplements  

  Cold, clammy hands. 
  Foot sweat  -  Sepia, Nit-ac. Iod., Psor. 
  > from eating  -  Sepia, Anac., Chel., Jod. 
  
Additions and Underlinings in Text 
  Pains extend from other parts to the back (rev. of Sab.); are attended with shuddering (with chilliness, Puls). [without being cold] 

  Sensation of a ball in inner parts [may be in throat, bladder, uterus, stomach, rectum]; during menses, pregnancy, lactation; with constipation, diarrhœa, hæmorrhoids, leucorrhœa and all uterine affections. 
  Coldness of the vertex [about size of dollar] with headache (Ver. – heat of vertex, Calc., Graph., Sulph.). 

  Anxiety: with fear, flushes of heat over face and head; about real or imaginary evils; toward evening. 
  Headache: in terrific shocks; at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow; in delicate, sensitive, hysterical women; pressing, bursting  by external pressure, continued hard motion. 

  Yellowness: of the face, conjunctiva; yellow spots on the chest; a yellow saddle across the upper part of the cheeks and nose (Carb-an.); a “ tell tale face” of uterine ailments. [moth spots on forehead] 
  Herpes circinatus in isolated spots on upper part of body (in intersecting rings over whole body, Tell.). [Tub.] 

  Pot-belliedness of mothers (of children, Sulph.). [Calc-carb., Calc-iod.] 

  Painful sensation of emptiness, “all-gone feeling”, in the epigastrium, relieved by eating (Chel., Mur., Phos.) [Reflex nervous trouble from some other part.]  

  Tongue foul, but becomes clear at each menstrual nisus, returns when flow ceases; swelling and cracking of lower lip.  (Nat-m., Sepia, Hepar, Sul.]

Constipation: during pregnancy (Alum.); …

  Enuresis: bed is wet almost as soon as the child goes to sleep (Kreos.) [Nat.m., Caust.]; always during the first sleep. (Tub., Psor., Med.]  
  
Violent stitches upward in the vagina; lancinating pains from the uterus to the umbilicus. [Nit-ac.] 

  Prolapse of uterus and vagina: pressure and bearing down as if everything would protrude from pelvis; must cross limbs tightly or “sit close” to prevent it; with oppression of breathing (compare, Agar., Bell., Lil., Murex, Sanic.).  [Agar., Lil., Mur., Nat-c., Nat-m.] 

  Dyspnoea:  after sleep, in room, > dancing or walking rapidly. 

  Aggravation: In afternoon or evening; from cold air or dry east wind; sexual excesses; at rest; sultry, moist weather; before a thunderstorm (Psor.) 


 SILICEA

Supplements  
  Silicea Chronic of Puls. 
  Give only at going down of moon. 
  Never recovered from some disease years and years ago, pertussis, asthma dates to disease of childhood. 
  To open an abscess or gland give – Hepar., Sil., Graph., Merc. 

Additions and Underlinings in Text
  Scrofulous, rachitic children with large heads; open fontanelles and sutures; much sweating about the head (lower than Cal.) [face and forehead but don’t wet pillow], which must be kept warm by external covering (Sanic.);distended abdomen  [sunken abdomen]; weak ankles; slow in learning to walk. 

  Nervous debility; exhaustion with erythism; from hard work and close confinement; may be overcome by force of will. [only remedy with this symptom] 

  Ailments: caused by suppressed foot-sweat (Cup., Graph., Psor.) [Ginc.]; exposing the head or back to any slight draught of air; bad effects of vaccination, especially abscesses and convulsions (Thuja); chest complaints of stone-cutters with total loss of strength.  [Thuja, Sars., Sil., Nit-ac., Apis] 

  Want of vital heat, always chilly, even when taking active exercise (Led., Sep.) [Calc., Psor.]  
  Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of glands, cervical, axillary, parotid, mammary, inguinal, sebaceous, malignant, gangrenous. [Flour ac., Baryta c., Iodide] 

  Has a wonderful control over the suppurative process – soft tissue, periosteum or bone – maturing abscesses [mastoid cells] when desired or reducing excessive suppuration (affecting chiefly the soft tissues, Calend., Hep.).  

  Children are obstinate, headstrong, cry when spoken kindly to (Iod.).  [Sil., child angry for whole day] 

  Chronic sick headache [every 7th day], since some severe disease of youth (Psor.); ascending from nape of neck to the vertex, as if coming from the spine and locating in one eye, especially the right [Sang.]  (left Spig.); pressure and wrapping [head] up warmly (Mag-m., Stron.) [Psor.]; > profuse urination. [Sang., Gels.] 

  Constipation: always before and during menses (diarrhoea before and during menses, Am-c., Bov.); difficult, as from inactivity of 
  
rectum; with great straining, as if rectum was paralyzed; when partly expelled, recedes again (Thuja). [Op., Nat-m., Sul., Sanic., Mur-ac., Mag-m., Agnus c.] 
  Fistula in ano alternates with chest symptoms (Berb., Cal-p.) [Tub.] 

  Discharge of blood from vagina every time the child takes the breast (compare, Crot-t) [pain to chest or scapula] 

  Night walking; gets up while asleep, walks about and lies down again (Kali. br.) [Puls.] 
  Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates (Graph., Hep., Merc., Petr.) [Bell. – scream before waking] 
  Crippled nails on fingers and toes (Ant. c.) [Ingrowing toe nails] 

  Takes cold from exposure of feet (Con., Cup.). [Calc., Tub.] 
  Sweat of hands, toes, feet and axillae; offensive. [but not a particle of moisture] 
  Fistula lachrymalis; ingrowing toe-nails (Mag.p.a., Mar. v.)  [Ant.c.]; panaritium; … 
  Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from the tissues; fish bones; needles, bone splinters. 
  
  Aggravation. - Cold; during menses; during new [and full] moon; uncovering, especially the head; lying down. 


Additions and Underlinings in Text

  Worse after sleep or sleeps into <(lach.),[lac-c.]


  Thyroid gland swollen even with chin; with suffocative paroxysm at night. 
  Goitre. [Brom., Hepar., Iod., Nat-m., Calc.] 
  Cough: dry, sibilant, ….; > eating or drinking warm things. [ 
  Spermatic cord swollen, painful; testicles swollen, bruised, squeezed; after suppressed gonorrhoea or maltreated orchitis.  [After mumps (Rhod., Puls.)]


 STANNUM

Supplements   
  Better by crying – Ign., Actea., Croc. 
 

Additions and Underlinings in Text

  Extreme exhaustion of mind and body. 
  Sinking, empty, all-gone sensation in stomach (Chel., Phos., Sep.) [Sul.] 
  Colic: > by hard pressure, or by laying abdomen across knee or shoulder (Col.) [Pod., Plumb.]; … 
  Menses; too early, too profuse; sadness before; pain in malar bones, during. 

  Leucorrhœa; great
 debility; weakness seems to proceed from chest (from abdomen, pelvis, Phos., Sep.). 
  While dressing in the morning has to sit down several times to rest. [Tub.] 
  Nausea and vomiting; in the morning; from the odor of cooking food (Ars., Colch.) [Sepia, Stan.]  
  When singing or using the voice, aching and weakness in deltoid and arms.  (only remedy] 

 
 Expectoration  [musty], profuse like the white of an egg; sweetish, salty (Kali-i., Sep.); sour, putrid, musty; yellow, green pus (heavy, green, salty, Kali-i.), during the day. 
  Sweat: mouldy, musty odor, after 4 A.M. every morning [Phos-ac., Acetic ac.]; on neck and forehead; very debilitating. [Tub.] 
  
  
 STAPHISAGRIA

Supplements 
    Wards off the mental shock or indignation that will cause cancer. 
  Always hungry 15 minutes after eating.  Stomach feels as if hanging down. (Staph., Ipec.) 
  

Additions and Underlinings in Text

    For the mental effects of onanism and sexual excesses.  [Makes them oversensitive to harmless words.] 
  Ailments from pride, envy or chagrin.  [mortification] 
  Was insulted; being too dignified to fight subdued his wrath and went home sick [Ign.], trembling and exhausted (the rev. of, Nux). 

  Styes, chalazae on eyelids or upper lids  [lower lid – Puls.], one after another, leaving hard nodosites in their wake  (Con., Thuja) [Sil. to make suppurate.] 
  Toothache: during menses; sound as well as decayed teeth; painful to touch of food or drink, but not from biting or chewing;  

  Teeth turn black, show dark streaks through them; cannot be kept clean; crumble; decay on edges [Tub., Syph.] (at the roots, Mez.,  Thuja); scorbutic cachexia. 
  Urging to urinate, has to sit at urinal for hours; in young married women; after coition; … 
  Onanism; persistently dwelling on sexual subjects; constantly thinking of sexual pleasures. [Agar.] 
  Arthritic nodosities [Felon] of joints [Sulph.]… 
  Fig-warts; dry, pediculated, cauliflower - like; after abuse of mercury (Nit-ac., Sab., Thuja). [Sars.]


 STRAMONIUM

Additions and Underlinings in Text  
  The delirium is more furious, the mania more acute, while the congestion, though greater than Hyos., is much less than Bell., never approaching a true inflammation [Typhoid] 
  No pain with most complaints; Painlessness is characteristic. (Op.)  


 SULPHUR


 Supplements
  Can’t wear woolen, it makes them itch. 
  LIPPE says: give Sulphur at new of moon.  
 
Additions and Underlinings in Text  
  Children: cannot bear to be washed or bathed (in cold water, Ant-c); emaciated, big-bellied; restless, hot, kick off the clothes at night (Hep., Sanic.) 

  [Hep., Lach., Merc., Sanic.]; have worms, but the best selected remedy fails.
 
  When carefully selected remedies fail to produce a favorable effect, especially in acute diseases, it frequently serves to rouse the reactive powers of the system; clears up the case (in chronic-diseases, Psor.) [Cal., ‌ ‌] 

 
 Complaints that are continually relapsing (menses, leucorrhoea, etc.) 
  [‌];  patient seems to get almost well when the disease returns again and again. 
  [ ] Congestions to single parts; eyes, nose, chest, abdomen, ovaries, arms, legs, or any organ of the body marking the onset of tumors or malignant growths, especially at climacteric. 

  Sensation of burning: on vertex; and smarting in eyes; in face without redness; of vesicles in mouth and dryness of throat, first r. then l.; in stomach; … 

  Constant heat on vertex; cold feet in daytime, with burning soles at night [Puls., Psor., Med., Cham.], wants to find a cool place for them (Sang., Sanic.); puts them out of bed to cool them off. (Med.); … 
  Weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in stomach about 11 a.m [Sul., Sep.] 
(10 or 11 a.m. > by eating, Nat-c.); .. 

  Diarrhoea; after midnight; painless;
 driving out of bed early in the morning (Aloe., Psor.) [Tub.]; as if the bowels were too weak to retain their contents. 
  Constipation: stools hard, knotty, dry as if burnt (Bry.) [Lac-d.]; … 
  Menses: [Excessive]; too early, profuse, protracted. 
  
  Chronic alcoholism; dropsy and other ailments of drunkards: “they reform” but are continually relapsing (Psor., Tub.) [far gone in alcoholism – Apocynum] 
  
  Relations: Sulph., Calc., Lyc,; or Sulph., Sars., and Sep. frequently follow in given order. 
  [When Sulph., Calc., Lyc., in given order have failed, Therid. will cure.].  


 SYMPHYTUM

Additions in Text

  Mechanical injuries; blows, bruises, thrusts on the globe of the eye. 
  [Injury to the nerve of eye tissue.] 


 SYPHILINUM

Supplements
  Inherited Syph. has disk nose, lack of development of bones of nose, lack of energy. 
Roman nose is full of energy and push. 

Additions and Underlinings in Text   
  Pains from darkness to daylight; begin with twilight and end with daylight (Merc., Phyt.) 
  Loss of memory [Lach.]; cannot remember names of books, persons or places; arithmetical calculation difficult.  [All Nosodes have loss of memory.] 

  Terrible dread of night on account of mental and physical exhaustion on awakening; it is intolerable, death is preferable. 

  Headache, neuralgic in character, causing sleeplessness and delirium at night; commencing at 4 P.M.; worse from 10 to 11 and ceasing at daylight (ceases at 11 or 12 P.M., Lyc.); falling of the hair [Phos. in spots] 

  Acute ophthalmia neonatorum; lids swollen, adhere during sleep; pain intense at night by cold bathing.  [Arg-n. better by hot bathing.] 

  Teeth: decay at edge of gum and break off; are cupped, edges serrated; dwarfed in size, converge at their tips (Staph.).  [Creo., Merc.] 

  Syphilitics or patients who have had chancre treated by local means, and as a result have suffered from throat and skin, troubles for years, are nearly always benefited by this remedy at commencement of treatment unless some other remedy is clearly indicated.