Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body

Forebodings and fears. Fears death but believes that he will soon die; predicts the day. 

Fears the future, a crowd, crossing the street

Imagination acute, clairvoyance

Pains are intolerable; they drive him crazy

Music is unbearable; makes her sad

Thinks his thoughts come from the stomach--that parts of his body are abnormally thick

Feels as if what had just been done was a dream

Physical and mental restlessness

Does not want to be touched

Sudden and great sinking of strength

Burning in internal parts; tingling, coldness and numbness

Thirst for cold water

Urine scanty, red, hot, painful

Menses too profuse, too protracted, late

Anxious dreams

Draught of cold air

Checked perspiration

Very hot weather

In warm room

In evening and night

Lying on affected side

From music

From tobacco-smoke

Dry, cold winds

Dread of people, and desire to be alone

Cannot do anything in presence of others

Intensely shy, blushes easily; bashful

Music causes weeping

Despair, loathing of life

Fantastic illusions

Restless, excited, very loquacious

Time passes slowly

Thinking, difficult in the morning with old people

Dwells upon unpleasant things

Extreme nervous hypersensitiveness

 External numbness of whole body in the morning and weakness

Weakened by age or overwork

Great remedy for the aged, with impairment of all functions, weakness, coldness and numbness, usually of single parts, fingers, arms

Ebullitions and pulsations after walking in open air

Urine turbid, even during emission forming a brown sediment

Menses too early; discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident

Profuse, bluish leucorrhœa

Presence of strangers

From any unusual thing

Morning

Warm room

Lying on painful part

Cold drinks

Depression, and irritability

Diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing)

Fear of examination in students

Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence

Irresistible desire to swear and curse

Hallucinations; thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills

Anxiety when walking, as if pursued

 Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with tendency to use violent language

Brain-fag

 Absent mindedness

Very easily offended

Malicious; seems bent on wickedness.

Suspicious

Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead

Absence of all moral restraint.

Empty feeling in stomach; eating temporarily relieves all discomfort

Objects appear too far off

Menses scanty

Leucorrhœa, with soreness and itching

When lying on side

From rubbing

Gay humor with disposition to laugh and sing

Urine turbid, thick, full of mucus

Offensive foot-sweat

Much concerned about his fate

Cross and contradictive; whatever is done fails to give satisfaction

Sulky; does not wish to speak

Peevish; vexed without cause

Angry at every little attention

Sentimental mood.

Thickly-coated white tongue

Cannot bear heat of sun

Tendency to grow fat

Loss of appetite

Desire for acids, pickles

Menses too early and profuse

Leucorrhœa watery; acrid, lumpy

Cold bathing

In evening

Acids

Wine

Water

Washing

During rest

Moist warmth

Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure, with thorough disgust of life, and thoughts of suicide

Talks of committing suicide

Great fear of death

Peevish and vehement at least contradiction

Fear of people

Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply

Cannot do things fast enough

Over sensitiveness to noise, excitement, confusion

Stools hard and knotty

Urine turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment

When getting cold

Sunset to sunrise

takes cold easily, and then always have swollen tonsils

Very sensitive to cold

Offensive foot-sweats

Very weak and weary

Must sit or lie down or lean on something

Very averse to meeting strangers; bashful

Loss of memory

Mental weakness

Irresolute

Lost confidence in himself

Confusion

Childish; grief over trifles

Constipation, with hard, knotty stools

Menses scanty

While thinking of symptoms

From washing

Lying on painful side

Visual hallucinations throng about him and come to him from within; crazed by a flood of subjective visual impressions and fantastic illusions

Sees monsters, hideous faces

Furious; rages, bites, strikes; desire to escape

Disinclined to talk

Perversity, with tears

Hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids

Excited mental state

Hyperæsthesia of all senses

Restless sleep

Dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water

Pains come and go suddenly

Great children's remedy

No thirst, anxiety or fear

Violence of attack and suddenness of onset

Averse to meat and milk

Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse; very offensive and hot

Sleeps with hands under head

Jar

Noise

Draught

After noon

Lying down

Exceedingly irritable; everything puts him out of humor

Wants to go home

Talks of business

Dislike to be carried or raised

Physical weakness, all-pervading apathy

Complaints develop slowly

Has vertigo from raising the head

Pressive headache

Dry, parched lips, mouth

Excessive thirst; thirst for large draughts

Bitter taste

Sensitive epigastrium, and feeling of a stone in the stomach

Stools large, dry, hard

Mucous membranes are all dry

Urine red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot

Menses too early, too profuse

Evening

Open air

Warm weather after cold days

Warm drinks

Warmth

Any motion

Morning

Eating

Hot weather

Exertion

Touch

Pressure

Rest

Cold things

Forgetful, confused, low-spirited

Anxiety with palpitation

Obstinacy; slight mental effort produces hot head

A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork

Averse to work or exertion

Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence

Gets out of breath easily

Increased local and general perspiration

Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats

Best indicated in fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour

Aversion to fat, meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt, and sweets

Milk disagrees

Thirst; longing for cold drinks

Menses too early, too profuse, too long

Leucorrhœa, milky

Increased sexual desire

Longing for fresh air

Dreams of the dead

Ascending

Cold in every form

Water

Washing

Moist air

Wet weather

During full moon

Standing

Lying on painful side

Apparently under the control of the second self, but, the original self, prevents the performance of acts which are under the domination of the second self

Exaggeration of the duration of time and extent of space

Time seems too long; seconds seem ages; a few rods an immense distance

Extremely happy and contented, nothing troubles

Excessive loquacity; exuberance of spirits

Constantly theorizing

Ideas crowd upon each other

Very forgetful; cannot finish sentence

Is lost in delicious thought

Uncontrollable laughter

Clairvoyance

Emotional excitement; rapid change of mood

Cannot realize her identity

Urine loaded with slimy mucus

Menses profuse, dark, painful, without clots

Dreams of dead bodies; prophetic

From coffee

Liquor and tobacco

Lying on right side

Cold water

Rest

Anxiety at night, with orgasm of blood

Feeble circulation and lowered vitality

All secretions are offensive

Hearing confused; cannot tell direction of sound

Weak digestion

Flatulence

Repugnance to fat food

Menses too early, frequent, long lasting, followed by great exhaustion, so weak, can hardly speak, flow only in morning

Loss of animal fluids

Tendency to chronicity

Aversion to darkness

Fear of ghosts

Sudden loss of memory

Blood seems to stagnate in the capillaries, causing blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis

Body becomes blue, icy-cold

Head is hot

Coldness, breath cool

Pulse imperceptible

Oppressed and quickened respiration, and must have air, must be fanned hard, must have all the windows open

faints easily, is worn out

Persons who have never fully recovered from the effects of some previous illness

Aversion to milk, meat, and fat things

The simplest food distresses

Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and abdomen

Premature and too copious menses; pale blood

Leucorrhœa before menses, thick, greenish, milky, excoriating

Night

Open air

Cold

Fat food

Butter

Coffee

Milk

Warm damp weather

Wine

From fanning

Cold

Sensation of internal chill

Moaning and howling

Does absurd things

Confounds present with the past; feels like a child

Stupid feeling

Melancholy, with indifference

Mistrustful

Desire for unnatural things, like coal

Draughts

Concussion

Tobacco smoke

Pains like electric shocks here and there

Sensation of a cloud enveloping her

Great depression, with dream of impending evil

Fears riding in a closed carriage, of being obliged to jump out

Incessant talking

Visions of rats, mice, etc

Menses profuse, dark, coagulated

Cold (except headache)

During menses; the more profuse the flow, the greater the suffering

Eating

Disobedient

Taciturn

Despondent

Ideas crowd in mind; prevent sleep

Disposition to hurt other people's feelings

Sudden crying and tossing about

Sensitive to draughts

Food tastes too salty

Milk disagrees

Menses too early, dark clots and abdominal distention, profuse

Averse to exercise; sensitive to touch

Draught of air

Every other day

Loss of vital fluids

At night

After eating

Bending over

Hard pressure

Open air

Warmth

Great debility in the morning in bed

Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and palpitation

Excitement causes mental depression

Depressed, timid, averse to society, and afraid of being alone

No inclination for business or study; takes no interest in anything

Memory weak; unable to sustain 'any mental effort

Tremulous weakness after every stool

Menses delayed and scanty

Sweat as soon as one sleeps, or even when closing eyes

Turning or rising in bed

Celibacy

Before and during menses

From taking cold

Bodily or mental exertion

In the dark

From letting limbs hang down

Motion

Pressure

Imagines he hears someone talking

Dreads to be left alone

Fear of rain

Can speak, but cannot understand speech

Cold things disagree

Desire for sweetened buttermilk

Cold feeling in stomach

Discharge of black blood between menses

Dreams about dead persons

Cold drinks

Wet weather

Indifference towards those loved best

Inability to realize responsibility

Buoyancy

Mentally elated and gay

Averse to coffee

Desire for fancy dishes, highly seasoned food, cold water

Warm drinks produce diarrhœa

Urine scanty, dark

Menses copious, frequent, too long

Copious and excoriating leucorrhœa

Profuse, sour, offensive perspiration

Morning

Warm drinks

While walking.

Sees, hears, tastes imperfectly, and general muscular weakness

Sinking sensation

Slow in answering

Thoughtless; staring

Involuntary sighing

Complete unconsciousness

Picks lips and clothes

Horrible smell from mouth

Stool jelly-like, white mucus; involuntary

Urine suppressed; scanty, dark; coffee-grounds sediment

Sudden screams in sleep

Evening until morning

Uncovering

Inclined to be unseemly and immodest in acts, gestures and expressions

Very talkative, and persists in stripping herself, or uncovering genitals

Jealous, afraid of being poisoned

Very suspicious

Foolish

Great hilarity; inclined to laugh at everything

Low, muttering speech

During menses

After eating

When lying down

Best indicated in the nervous temperament-women of sensitive, easily excited nature, dark, mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in execution

Great contradictions

Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling patients who suffer acutely in mind or body

Cannot bear tobacco

Changeable mood

Introspective; silently brooding. Melancholic, sad, tearful

Not communicative

Sighing and sobbing

Averse to ordinary diet

Longs for great variety of indigestible articles; craving for acid things

Urine profuse, watery

Menses, black, too early

Open air

After meals

Coffee

Smoking

Liquids

External warmth

Change of position

Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration

Best indicated in exceedingly thin, dark complexioned patients

Tremor

Craves cold air

Sluggish vital reaction, hence chronicity

Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs

Anxiety when quiet

Present anxiety and depression, no reference to the future

Sudden impulse to run and do violence

Forgetful

Must be busy

Fear of people, shuns every one

Empty eructations, as if every particle of food were turned into gas

Anxious and worried if he does not eat

Urine frequent and copious, dark yellow-green, thick, acrid with cuticle on surface

Acrid leucorrhœa, thick, slimy, corroding the linen

In warm room

Right side

Walking about

Open air

Weak and tired

Especially adapted to the young

Want of nerve power

Mental and physical depression

Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy

Indisposition to meet people

Extreme lassitude and depression

Very nervous, starts easily, irritable

Brain-fag; hysteria; night terrors

Loss of memory

Slightest labor seems a heavy task

Great despondency about business

Shyness; disinclined to converse

Humming and buzzing in the ears

Very yellow urine

Short breath on going upstairs

Worry

Mental and physical exertion

Eating

Cold

Early morning

Rest

Nourishment

Cannot bear anything tight anywhere

Great loquacity

Amative

Sad in the morning; no desire to mix with the world

Restless and uneasy; does not wish to attend to business; wants to be off somewhere all the time

Jealous 

Mental labor best performed at night

Suspicious

Nightly delusion of fire

Derangement of the time sense

Craving for alcohol, oysters

Constipated, offensive stool

Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relieved by the flow

Breathing almost stops on falling asleep

Left side

Spring

Warm bath

Pressure or constriction

Hot drinks

Closing eyes

Warm applications

Anxiety

Timidity

Tendency to anger and rage

Vehement angry mood

Dissatisfied; hated his fellow beings

Desire for solitude

Morose and peevish humor

Violent thirst for cold water

Heat of bed

Warmth

Putting feet in cold water

Functional power weakening

Failures of the digestive powers

Best indicated in older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc; also precocious, weakly children; to persons intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power

Thin, withered patient, full of gas and dry

Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities

Melancholy; afraid to be alone

Little things annoy, extremely sensitive

Averse to undertaking new things

Head strong and haughty when sick

Loss of self-confidence

Hurried when eating

Constant fear of breaking down under stress

Apprehensive

Weak memory, confused thoughts; spells or writes wrong words and syllables

Cannot bear to see anything new

Cannot read what he writes

 Sadness in morning on awaking

Pains come and go suddenly

Sensitive to noise and odors

Red sand in urine

Intolerant of cold drinks; craves everything warm

Emaciation

Debility in morning

Humming and roaring with hardness of hearing

Dryness of mouth and tongue, without thirst

Aversion to bread, etc

Desire for sweet things

Cannot eat oysters

Likes to take food and drink hot

Menses too late; last too long, too profuse

Leucorrhœa, acrid, with burning in vagina

Cannot lie on left side

Dreams of accidents

From right to left

From above downward

4 to 8 pm

From heat or warm room, hot air, bed

Warm applications, except throat and stomach which are better from warm drinks

After midnight

From warm food and drink

On getting cold

From being uncovered

Uneasiness and lachrymose humor

Peevishness and chagrin

Aversion to conversation; prefers solitude

Nervous excitability with tendency to weep readily

Excited; unhappy; fitful; emotional

While reading, feels as if some one was reading after her, and she must keep reading faster and faster

Sensitive to noise

Cannot digest milk

Urine can be passed only by pressing abdominal muscles

Stools knotty, like sheep's dung, crumbling at verge of anus

Menses black, clotted

Leucorrhœa with every stool and after exercise

Lying on right side

From sea bathing

Mental exertion

Motion

Open air

Fears bad news

Desires strong tasting things, eggs, fried fish, beer

Aversion to bread and butter

Sour eructations and taste

Yellow, creamy coating at the back of the roof of mouth and tongue

Menses too early; pale, thin, watery

Leucorrhœa; discharge creamy or honey-colored, or acid and watery

Coitus

Does a good deal of mental work; has mental strains and leads a sedentary life, found in prolonged office work, over study, and close application to business, with its cares and anxieties

Seeks stimulants, coffee, wine

Takes preferably rich and stimulating food

Pre-eminently a male remedy

Hypersensitive and over-impressionable

Zealous fiery temperament

Easily chilled, avoids open air

Very irritable: sensitive to all impressions

Ugly, malicious

Cannot bear noises, odors, light, etc

Does not want to be touched

Time passes too slowly

Even the least ailment affects her greatly

Disposed to reproach others

Sullen, fault-finding

Loves fats and tolerates them well

Constipation, with frequent ineffectual urging, incomplete and unsatisfactory; feeling as if part remained unexpelled

Frequent calls to urinate; little and often

Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular

Sexual desire too strong

Cannot sleep after 3 am until towards morning; awakes feeling wretchedly

Dreams full of bustle and hurry

Mental exertion

After eating

Touch

Spices

Stimulants

Narcotics

Dry weather

Cold

In evening

While at rest

In damp

Wet weather

Strong pressure

Thinks he is double, or some one else lying alongside

Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs

Irritable, easily offended, vexed at everything

Low-spirited, with dimness of sight

Strong aversion to fat food, meat

Must rise at night and eat

Leucorrhœa, profuse, albuminous

Riding in cars, carriages, or ships

Mental emotions

Eating cabbage

Dampness

Before and during a thunder-storm

Passive motion

Lying with head high

Dry weather

Great nervous debility

Emaciation

Amative tendencies

Great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odors, touch, electrical changes, thunder-storms

Suddenness of symptoms

Great lowness of spirits

Easily vexed

Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of every corner

Clairvoyant state

Great tendency to start.

Loss of memory

Dread of death when alone

Brain feels tired

Excitable, produces heat all over

Restless, fidgety

Hypo-sensitive, indifferent

Hearing difficult, especially to human voice

Thirst for very cold water

Stools long, narrow, hard, like a dog's

Urine turbid, brown, with red sediment

Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but last too long

Leucorrhœa profuse, smarting, corrosive

Vivid dreams of fire; of hæmorrhage;  lascivious dreams

Physical or mental exertion

Twilight

Warm food or drink

Change of weather

Getting wet in hot weather

Evening

Lying on left or painful side

During a thunder-storm

Ascending stairs

Lying on right side

Cold food

Cold

Open air

Washing with cold water

Sleep

Pains increase and decrease gradually

Tremulousness

Irresistible impulse to kill

Self-exaltation; contempt for others

Arrogant, proud

Weary of everything

Every thing seems changed

Objects look smaller than they are

Stool retarded; feces scanty; evacuated with difficulty; sticky stools

Menses too early, too profuse, dark-clotted

Abnormal sexual appetite

Sleeps with legs far apart

Standing

Evening

Melancholy, deep and persistent; religious

Suicidal tendency

Wants the head kept warm, wants warm clothing even in summer

Extreme sensitiveness to cold

Lack of reaction, i.e., phagocytes defective; when well-chosen remedies fail to act

Secretions have a filthy smell

Profuse sweating

Cardiac weakness

Easy perspiration when walking

Very hungry always; must have something to eat in the middle of the night

Eructations like bad eggs

Leucorrhœa fetid, lumpy, with much backache and debility

Dread of least cold air or draft

 Changes of weather

In hot sunshine

From cold

Warm clothing, even in summer

Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable, contradictory

Seeks the open air; always feels better there, even though he is chilly

Discharges thick, bland, and yellowish-green

Symptoms ever changing

Thirstless

Peevish

Chilly

Great sensitiveness

Wants the head high; feels uncomfortable with only one pillow

Lies with hands above head

Timid, irresolute

Fears in evening to be alone, dark, ghost

Likes sympathy

Children like fuss and caresses

Easily discouraged

Morbid dread of the opposite sex

Religious melancholy

Given to extremes of pleasure and pain

Highly emotional

Mentally, an April day

Desire for tonics

Averse to fat food, warm food, and drink

Dislikes butter

Two or three normal stools daily; no two stools alike

Tardy menses; too late, scanty, thick, dark, clotted, changeable, intermittent

Leucorrhœa acrid, burning, creamy

Wide awake in the evening; first sleep restless

Rich fat food

After eating

Towards evening

Warm room

Lying on left or on painless side

When allowing feet to hang down

Motion

Cold applications

Cold food and drinks, though not thirsty

Thoughts of suicide

Extreme restlessness, with continued change of position

Sensorium becomes cloudy

Great apprehension at night, cannot remain in bed

Desire for milk

Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat

Stools of cadaverous odor

Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment

Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid

Dreams of great exertion

Cold, wet rainy weather and after rain

At night

During rest

Drenching

When lying on back or right side

Warm, dry weather

Motion

Walking

Rubbing

Warm applications

From stretching out limbs

Esp indicated for old people with shriveled skin-thin, scrawny old women

Whole body is pervaded by a sense of great heat

Debility, anxiety, emaciation, though appetite and thirst may be excessive

Craves acids

Brownish, offensive leucorrhœa

Menses irregular, copious, dark; continuous oozing of watery blood until next period

Great aversion to heat

Warm covering

Uncovering

Rubbing

Stretching out limbs

Upward tendency of its symptoms

Easy fainting

"Ball" sensation in inner parts

Sepia acts best on brunettes

Feels cold even in warm room

Indifferent to those loved best

Averse to occupation, to family

Irritable; easily offended

Dreads to be alone

Very sad

Weeps when telling symptoms

Miserly

Anxious toward evening; indolent

Everything tastes too salty

Longing for vinegar, acids, and pickles

Worse, after milk, especially when boiled

Loathes fat

Red, adhesive, sand in urine

Leucorrhœa yellow, greenish; with much itching

Washing

Laundry-work

Dampness

Left side

After sweat

Cold air

Before thunder-storm

Pressure

Warmth of bed

Hot applications

Drawing limbs up

Cold bathing

After sleep

Pains that come and go gradually

Sad, anxious

Discouraged

Dread of seeing people

Smell of cooking causes vomiting

Menses early and profuse

Leucorrhœa, with great debility

Sleeps with one leg drawn up, the other stretched out

Dizziness and weakness when descending

Lying on right side

Warm drinks

Hard pressure

Difficult thinking

Busy all the time

Childish peevishness in grown people

Irritable

Affections vitiated; very selfish, no regard for others

Religious melancholy

Averse to business; loafs-too lazy to arouse himself

Imagining giving wrong things to people, causing their death

Depressed

Thin and weak, even with good appetite

Heat and burning, with itching; made worse by heat of bed

Inertia and relaxation of fiber; hence feebleness of tone

Ebullitions of heat

Dislike of water

Dry and hard hair and skin

Red orifices

Sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am

Cat-nap sleep

Aversion to being washed

Complaints that relapse

General offensive character of discharge and exhalations

Very red lips and face, flushing easily

Milk disagrees

Great desire for sweets

Great quantities of colorless urine

Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making parts sore

Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating

Cannot walk erect; stoop-shouldered

Cannot sleep between 2 an 5 am

When standing

Warmth in bed

Washing

Bathing

Morning

11 am

Night

From alcoholic stimulants

Periodically

Lying on right side

From drawing up affected limbs

Foxy

Destructive impulses; moral relaxation

Must constantly busy herself or walk

Sensitive to music

Averse to company, but wants some one present

Ungrateful, discontented

Guided by whims

Constriction sensations

Formication; Extreme restlessness; must keep in constant motion even though walking aggravates

Intense sexual excitement

Profuse menstruation, with frequent erotic spasms

Contact

Noise

Seeming others in trouble

Music

Bright colors

Rubbing affected parts

Emotional sensitiveness; music causes weeping and trembling

Complaints from moonlight

Rapid exhaustion and emaciation

Left-sided and chilly medicine

Dislike for fresh meat and potatoes

Rancid eructations after fat food

Cannot eat onions

Profuse leucorrhœa; thick, greenish

Menses scanty, retarded

Perspiration sweetish, and strong

Heat of bed

At 3 am and 3 pm

From cold, damp air

After breakfast

Fat

Coffee

Vaccination

While drawing up a limb

Cold perspiration on the forehead

Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces

Coprophagia; desire to eat feces

Violent mania alternates with silence and refusal to talk

Melancholy, with stupor and mania

Sits in a stupid manner; notices nothing; Sullen indifference

Frenzy of excitement; shrieks, curses

Aimless wandering from home

Mania, with desire to cut and tear things

Cursing, howling all night

Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed

Averse to warm food

Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt

Stools large, with much straining until exhausted, with cold sweat

Menses too early; profuse and exhausting

Wet, cold weather

Warmth