HOMEOPATHIC RESEARCH

- A.W. Cowperthwaite. Synonym. Lycopodium Clavatum. Natural order. Lycopodiaceae. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Lycopodium acts powerfully upon the vegetative system, depressing its action, and causing a slowly advancing weakness of functional power and decay of tissue. It acts especially upon the mucous membranes of the respiratory, digestive and genito-urinary organs and upon the skin, but shows its most important local action upon the liver and the digestive tract, where it produces a disturbed digestion, hepatic congestion, constipation, etc., and upon the kidneys causing the"uric acid diathesis." The lymphatic system becomes weakened, the glands, especially of the neck, swollen and indurated, and the skin sluggish and unhealthy. The chief characteristic of this remedy is an excessive accumulation of flatulence in the abdomen. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Lycopodium Clavatum Mind. Depression of spirits; weeping; sad, melancholy, despondent (Natr. mur., Lob., Puls.); apprehens...

- A.W. Cowperthwaite. Natural order. Labiatae. Common names. Bugle Weed. Virginia GENERAL ANALYSIS. Chief action is upon the heart, where it much resembles the action of Digitals, without, however, the cumulative effects or the latter. Primarily it weakens the power and vitality of the heart, decreasing the blood pressure in the arteries, and consequently the tension everywhere, and thus producing a condition of cardiac irritability, with depressed force. Secondarily, it gives rise to cardiac erethism, and if pushed far enough would result in hypertrophy with dilatation. As a result of the primary action upon the heart, a general venous stasis occurs in all the organs of the body, notably the liver, lungs and kidneys. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Eyes. Protrusion of the eyes, with tumultuous action of the heart; exophthalmus from cardiac disease. Dull pain in left supra- orbital region. Painful pressure in eyeballs (Aloe., Bapt., Cimic.). Stomach. Circumscribed pain and compressio...

- A.W. Cowperthwaite. Synonym. Chloride of Sodium. Common names. Common Salt. Table GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon the blood, the lymphatic system, the mucous lining of the digestive tract and upon the liver and spleen. It causes a deterioration of the blood, which, with a high degree of irritation, results in inflammation, partaking of a scorbutic nature, and from which arise various ulcers and eruptions on the skin, as well as destructive inflammations of mucous and glandular tissues and conditions generally pointing to a distinct dyscrasia of a scorbutic character. Aside from this dyscrasia the most essential feature of Salt is its power to produce a condition of system or a cachexia simulating that which results from long-lasting or badly treated cases of ague, and it is in this sphere of therapeutics that Salt has achieved its greatest victory. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. Melancholia depressed, sad and weeping (Ign., Nux m., Puls., Rhus tox.); consolation aggravates; pref...

- A.W. Cowperthwaite. Synonym - Strychnos Nux Vomica. Natural order - Loganiaceae. Potencies: Nux Vomica 6C,12C,30C or 30CH,200c or 200CH,,1M,10M,50M,LM,CM, GENERAL ANALYSIS Nux vom. acts pre-eminently upon the spinal cord, including the motory and sensory centers at the base of the brain, affecting chiefly that portion of the spinal tract which presides over reflex functions. The condition produced is one of excessive irritation and excitability, giving rise to incoherent muscular action, which, in the extreme, constitutes violent tetanic contractions, and which, finally, may end in entire cessation of muscular movement, or paralysis. These tetanic convulsions, affect particularly the limbs and trunk; the former being rigidly flexed, and the body arched as in opisthotonos, the respiratory muscles rigidly contracted, rendering breathing laborious, even to asphyxia, while at the same time there are present spasmodic conditions of the face, jaws, throat, oesophagus and of the int...

- A.W. Cowperthwaite. Common name. Glacial Phosphoric Acid. Preparation. One part of Potencies: PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM 6C,12C,30C or 30CH,200c or 200CH,,1M,10M,50M,LM,CM, GENERAL ANALYSIS. The chief sphere of action of Phosphoric Acid is upon the nervous system, in which, from waste of nerve tissue or from depression, it produces debility without erethism (with erethism, Cinchona), giving rise to conditions simulating those which result from continue grief, over-exertion of mind or body, sexual excess, etc. Through this influence its chief local effects are upon the kidneys and male sexual organs, and next upon the bones and skin, as indicated by its pathogenesis. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. Weakness of memory (Anac., Agn., Ambr., Kreos., Lach., Merc., Natr. mur., Nux m.). Quiet; perfectly indifferent (Berb., Sep.); difficult comprehension; imbecility. Ideas lost and mind weak. Incapacity for thought (AEth., Cimic., Gels., Nux v.). Disinclination to talk; answers questions r...

- A.W. Cowperthwaite. Common name. Phosphorus. Preparation. A saturated solution is Potencies: Phosphorus 6C,12C,30C or 30CH,200c or 200CH,,1M,10M,50M,LM,CM, GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts powerfully upon the vegetative nervous system and upon the blood, tending in each to disorganization and destruction, which is manifest more especially in the paralysis consequent upon the destruction of nerve force, and in the disorganization and decomposition of organic substance, consequent upon the modification of the blood life. The first condition produced is one of violent erethism, going on to congestion and inflammation; this soon gives way to a condition of torpor and paralysis, which may indicate exudation in parenchymatous organs, or decomposition of the blood and of organic tissues, including the brain, spinal marrow and the bones. The most essential action of of Phosphorus is upon the blood, the maxillary bones, the lungs and the teeth. The character of this action has already been ind...