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EUPHRASIA :

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- Gladstone Clarke. Symptoms Lacrimation is the guiding symptom in Euphrasia. 1. Acute catarrhal affections esp. of eyes and nose; profuse acrid lachrymation with profuse bland coryza (rev. All. C.); often assoc. soreness and pressive pain behind sternum and hacking cough with free mucous expectoration; cough only during daytime, ((<)) on rising a.m.; influenza; whooping cough. 2. Conjunctivitis; acute with excessive, acrid, watery discharge; sub-acute with profuse, mattery discharge, making cheeks sore; accumulation of mucous on cornea causing frequent blinking to effect removal; photophobia; lid margins swollen, red, burning, even ulcerating. 3. Menstrual disorders; flow lasts only one hour. or late and lasting only one day. 4. Ailments resulting from falls; contusions, or mechanical injuries to external parts. 5. Modalities; ((<)) evening or on rising a.m.; indoors; warmth; south winds; (>) outdoors.

FLUORIC ACID:

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- Gladstone Clarke. Woman of floric acid. Symptoms 1. Complaints of old age or prematurely old-looking persons, even children; broken-down constitutions esp. from abuse of alcohol or from mercurio-syphilitic dyscrasia. 2. Disposition to constant and rapid motion; "seems as if she could walk for ever" 3. Bone diseases esp. long bones; caries with thin, excoriating discharge; of mastoid process; bone fistulae esp. dental and lachrymation. 4. Varicose veins and ulcers; bedsores; naevi; old cicatrices which become red, itching, and threaten ulceration. 5. General resemblance to Silica but modality reversed ((<)) heat, (>) cold.

GRAPHITES:

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- Gladstone Clarke. Symptoms : Sluggish graphites woman. 1. Scrofulous subjects esp. women with tendency to unhealthy corpulence; sluggish, "pasty" habit. At Climaxis. 2. Great sadness and despondency with inclination to weep esp. at hearing music; apprehension, mind dwells upon death. Children acute and impudent, laugh at reprimands. 3. Marked debility with anaemic conditions. Sexual debility from abuse. 4. Unhealthy skin; every injury suppurates. (a) Itching eruptions with oozing of corrosive, transparent, honey-like fluid; esp. about the ears, face or entire scalp; gen. (<) Warmth. (b) Skin dry, nails become hard, thick, brittle; rhagades; excoriations; special affinity for scar tissue. 5. Glandular swellings and indurations. 6. Alimentary disorders (>) eating, (>) warm milk, (<) cold drinks; dislikes sweet, animal food, fat, salt; tongue gen. clean. 7. Abdominal distension from flatulence with constipation; stools too large, lumpy, covered with mucus or ...

HYOSCYAMUS :Acute mania; patient, talkative, quarrelsome, gen. lascivious, exposes the person, etc

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- Gladstone Clarke. Symptoms : Lasciviousness. - Hyoscymus girl. Exposes the person. 1. Acute mania; patient, talkative, quarrelsome, gen. lascivious, exposes the person, etc.; in the between state, suspicious depression, fears solitude, poison, plots. Ailments from jealousy, unfortunate love, mental emotions. 2. Delirium during course of acute diseases; temperature not markedly high; restless, picks bedclothes, etc.; beclouded senses; staring eyes; dry tongue, etc.; involuntary urine and faeces; stands midway between Bell. and Stram. lacking cerebral congestion of former and fierce, raging of latter. Delirium tremens. 3. Spasmodic affections without consciousness; every muscle twitches from eye to toes; opisthotonos; convulsions, of children from fright, worms; of pregnant or parturient women. 4. Nervous coughs; teasing, dry, spasmodic, ((<)) on lying down, (>) sitting up (Dros.); ((<)) night, using voice, eating, drinking. 5. Insomnia in irritable, excitable subj...

IGNATIA AMARA :

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- Gladstone Clarke. Symptoms  Rea time, typical Ignatia personality Boiron Ignatia amara 200CK 80 plts ,  1. Nervous, hysterical women; dark hair and complexion; pale, wan, drawn appearance; disposition mild but easily excited; quick in perception, rapid in execution (ctr. Puls.). 2. Rapid alternation of mental states (Crocus. Puls.) with underlying condition of melancholy; moodiness; full of silent grief, sits and sighs; over-delicate consciences; sometimes angry but never ill-natured (see Cham., Nux V.); (>) alone but does not resent consolation. 3. Mental and physical exhaustion from long-concentrated grief, from worry or strain; from disappointed love, etc. 4. Hypersensitiveness, mental and physical; easily offended, intolerant of pain, etc. 5. Spasmodic affections originating in mental causes, (<) touch; chorea, convulsions, etc., in children, from fright,  punishment or worms; globus hystericus. 6. Penetrating pains in small circumscribed spots, e.g. headache...

KALI BROM:

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- Gladstone Clarke. Symptoms Sleep walking is very prominent in Kali brom. 1. Large, fleshy people, particularly children and young persons. Patients suffering from brain fag with numb feeling in head as if would lose reason; loss of memory, forgets how to talk; fits of uncontrollable weeping and profound melancholic delusions, even mania. 2. Nervous restlessness, must keep busy; fidgety hands (feet- Zinc.); restless and sleeplessness at night. from worry, etc.; somnambulism. 3. Spasms-inco-ordination of muscles-paralysis; stammering speech; staggering gait; epileptiform convulsions, etc. 4. Anaesthesia of various parts or of entire body; esp. of fauces from alcoholism. 5. Acne-like eruptions esp. on face, chest and shoulders (Eugenia J.).

LAC CANINUM:

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- Gladstone Clarke. Symptoms:  Must hold breast firmly when going up or down stairs.  1. Nervous, restless, highly sensitive temperament. 2. Patient forgetful, absent-minded; drops letters and words in writing; cannot concentrate; intense despondency-a chronic "blue" condition; attacks of rage; fears solitude, death, insanity, falling down stairs, etc. 3. Symptoms erratic; change from side to side every few hours or days; apt to being and end with M.P. 4. Throat complaints; sensitive to touch externally (Lach.); pains extend to the ears; (<) empty swallowing. 5. Shining, glazed appearance of lesions; e.g. diphtheritic deposit, ulcers, etc. 6. Sinking feeling at epigastrium; usually not (>) eating. 7. Female disorders. Periods premature, profuse, flow bright, viscid, stringy, in gushes. Breasts painful, inflamed, (<) towards evening and from least jar must hold them firmly when going up or down stairs. Useful when necessary to dry up the milk. 8. Hyperaesthesi...