R.A. with modalities:  Amel. slow movement; cold - local and general; cold shower; rainy weather.  
  Agg. movement; night; changes in weather especially dry to wet. 
   (Martin STÜBLER, AHZ. 1987) 
  
 HECLA LAVA 
  

    May be considered specific for Calcaneal Spurs:  (4CH or 5 CH or b.d. once every   4-5 days for a few months.) 
  Appropriate constitutional medicine like Calcarea phoshoricum, Aurum, may follow. 
  (Robert SEROR, L’Homeopathie Francaise, 1982)

  
  I have used it in Osteoarthritis, particularly in Heberden’s Nodes of the terminal phalanges.  These can erupt quite quickly and painfully.  (Hecla lava 6 or 12 twice daily). 
  (L.R. TWENTYMAN, BHJ. 1/77) 

 HELLEBORUS NIGER 

  In Encephalitis etc. acts slowly.  If temperature rises, or Sweat, Diarrhoea, Vomiting occur, do not interfere; consciousness will later return, with tingling in fingers, screaming, rolling head etc. 
   (HL. 2 & 3/94) 
  
  In cases of Hypertension where thermo- and chemo- receptors show an increase in Acidity with symptoms covering it, mostly in fat women with profuse menses and bioclimatically ‘hot’ persons. 
  (J. von MOGER, HG. 9/77) 
  
  Sensorial depression, with a bitter or insipid taste.  Food always tastes insipid.  Thirstless in all illnesses. 

  Melancholic subjects who are always slow to answer when spoken to.   
  Involuntary sighing, dull, apathetic. 
  Loss of hair and of nails. 
  Mydriasis.  Fixed stare without any reason. 
  Always rubbing nose. 
  Ccold sweat on face. 
  Anasarca and Dropsy. Always have diminished vitality 

  Bores head into pillow. Rolls the head into the pillow day and night 
  Carphology during pains. 
  Tendency to Goose-flesh. 
  Frequent and ineffectual urging to urinate. 
   (Pierre SCHMIDT, HG. 6/77) 
  
  This remedy intervenes at the deepest levels of Depression, even the most severe depressive states when all hopes seems to be lost and the ill person is in Stupor, out of touch with the world, rocking back in endless rhythmic states.    (DG) 
  
 HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM 
  

    Sour persons, desire sour food.  Egoistical, lazy, cannot forgive a mortification. 
  (Alfons GEUKENS, HL. 2 & 3/94) 
  
  Dissatisfied with himself and others.  Sensitive to people, with strong unreasonable likes and dislikes of individuals. 
   (K.G.PRIESTMAN, BHJ. 4/78) 
  
  The child forms strong likes and dislikes, will want only one person to look after him, or will take an unreasonable dislike to a member of the family, a teacher or a nurse in the hospital ward, or just the opposite - a great attachment to one particular person. 
  (K.G.PRIESTMAN, BHJ. 2/76) 
  
  In injuries:  Lacerated or crushed fingertips; wounds that are painful; penetrating wounds of palms and soles; pains that throb and stab as from a splinter.  Hepar suppurates out foreign bodies, such as broken needles, especially when embedded in parts too dangerous to operate on or when the foreign body is too small to be located. 
(A.  Dwight SMITH, JAIH. 5-6/67) 
  
  This is the main remedy for acute suppuration whether it is a case of Otitis, an Abscess, Conjunctivitis or Tonsillitis.  An important mental symptom: “Wants to set things on fire”.      (DG) 
  
 HYDROPHIS CYANOCINCTUS 
  

    Dr. TWENTYMAN  obtained the Venom of this Sea Snake with the help of Dr. P. SANKARAN, Bombay and forwarded to Nelsons. The Provings were done with 10 provers and 4 controls.  Interest had been provoked by an earlier survey of 125 cases of Sea snake bite (Dr. REID of Penang General Hospital, BHJ. 1957).  The Provers took the 6c daily for 3 months; one after another stopped taking the powders, complaining bitterly, and some could not be persuaded to restart the experiment.

  The Keynotes were Depression, Tiredness and Heaviness, dull frontal Headache, dry. 
burning Throat, stabbing pains in the limbs, Abdomen, Chest and Heart, night starts and Nightmares, aggravation in the morning on waking; symptoms left sided.

  Another symptom was tender muscles.  This appears significant as the recurrence in the Snake bite cases of red, even black, Urine, suggests the excretion of Myoglobin.  Myoglobinuria had been seen often in victims of crush injuries during the war.  The fundamental action of the Venom could be on muscles rather than on nerves.

  Dr. RAESIDE suggested the employment of this remedy when indicated in Neuromuscular disease – Poliomyelitis, Muscular Dystrophies, Diphtheria, Crush Injuries.  The drug picture resembles that of  Lachesis, except that there are no hot flushes, but rather more limb pains, more muscular weakness. 
   (Frank BODMAN, BHJ. 3/77) 
  
 HYOSCYAMUS NIGER 
  

    Talks and thinks of sex (obscenities).  More a mental sexuality, does not necessarily perform sexual acts. 
  (G.VITHOULKAS, 2 & 3/94) 
  
  Children:  May be obedient; but sibling jealousy may even provoke them into a cold- blooded aggression; may push the baby into the swimming pool! 
  (HL. 2 & 3/94) 
  
  Terror, reaching a crescendo in ecstasy (Belladonna, Stramonium).  Passive fear, of a suspicious and distrustful nature;  fear of being poisoned, refuses food and medicines. Everybody is against him. Wants to  escape.  Tendency to flight is marked.  (Bell.  convulsive in fear; Stram. more violent.) 
  The inside is warm, the skin is warm, uncovers and demands coolness on the body.  The face is pale, demands warmth on the head.  The brain is bloodless.  Fever symptoms are mild.  Passive delirium. (Bell. warm outside, cold inside.  Wants to be covered, desires warmth on the body.  Cerebral Hyperaemia with active Delirium). 
  (Gerhard KÖHLER, BHJ. 1/76) 
  
  Aetiology:  Infectious diseases (such as Pneumonia, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, acute Polyarthritis, Encephalitis, etc.) affecting the brain.  Arteriosclerosis of the brain vessels,  Alcohol, Parturition. 
  The symptoms arise from affections of the brain, and to a lesser degree, of the parasympathetic nerve.  Old arteriosclerotic people often show jealousy which also occurs in Grave’s disease and the experience of STIEGELE thatHyoscyamus 3X produces severe manic conditions in cases of Grave’s disease points to it in higher potencies in Thyrotoxicosis, if other symptoms correspond. 
   (W.GUTMAN, HG. 2/84) 
  
  Hyoscyamus children wet their parts at day time and wet the bed at night.  Dry spasmodic cough at night during teething.  Sometimes they leave bigger package in their pant.        (DG) 
  
 HYPERICUM PERFOLIATUM 
  

    Dislocated (5^th) toe. 
  (W.A.BOYSON, JAIH. Jan-Feb, 1965) 
  
  Suffers from low spirits.  Full of presentiments.  Easily scared.  Thinks he is bewitched.  Troubled sleep, talks in sleep.  Pays close attention to his dreams,  which can become a mania.  Easily led to act against his wishes which reflects his spiritual infantilism. 
   (G.URETZKY, LIGA, 1995) 
  
  Injuries to the Spine, as a fall on the Coccyx, and a concussion of the Spine, where the whole Spine is very sensitive to touch. 
   (Edward COTTER, HG. 6/70) 
  
  Hypericum in Asthma.  Spasmodic attacks during foggy weather or before a storm.  It may be called upon for painful Haemorrhoids and for Eczema on the face and hands with intense itching.  Hypericum is well known for its use in prevention of Tetanus.       (DG)