Juniperus-Communis
(Juniper Berries)Catarrhal inflammation of kidneys. Dropsy, with suppression of urine. Old persons, with poor digestion and scanty secretion of urine. Chronic pyelitis. URINARY Strangury; bloody, scanty urine, violet odor. (TEREB.) Weight in kidney region. Prostatic discharge. Renal hyperemia. (EUCALYPTOL.) RESPIRATORY Cough with scanty, loaded urine. RELATIONSHIP Compare: SABINA; JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANUS– Red Cedar-(Violent tenesmus vesical. Persistent dragging […]
Juglans-Regia
(Walnut)Skin eruptions are prominent. HEAD Confused; feels as if head were floating in air. OSCIPITAL SHARP PAIN. STYES. FEMALE Menses early, black, pitch-like coagula. Abdomen distended. SKIN Comedones and acne of the face. Crusta lactea, with soreness around ears. Itching and eruptions of small red pustules. Scalp red, and itches violently at night. Chancrelike ulcer. Axillary […]
Juglans-Cinerea
(Butternut)A faulty elimination that produces jaundice and various skin eruptions, is pictured by this drug. The sharp, OCCIPITAL HEADACHE, usually associated with liver disturbances, is very characteristic. Pain in chest, axillae and scapula, with suffocative sensation. Feeling as if all internal organs were too large, especially those of left side. Cholelithiasis. HEAD Dull, full head. Eruption […]
Jatropha-Curcas
(Purging Nut)Of value in cholera and diarrhoea. The abdominal symptoms are most important. Suppressed measles (H. Farrington). STOMACH Hiccough, followed by copious vomiting. Nausea and vomiting, brought on by drinking, with acrid feeling from throat. Great thirst. VERY EASY VOMITING. Heat and burning in stomach, with crampy, constrictive pain in epigastrium. ABDOMEN Distended, with gurgling noises. […]
Iris-Versicolor
(Blue Flag)Thyroid, PANCREAS, salivary, intestinal glands, and gastrointestinal mucous membrane, are especially affected. Increases the flow of bile. Sick headaches and cholera morbus are a special therapeutic field for its action. HEAD Frontal headache, with nausea. Scalp feels constricted. Right temples especially affected. Sick headache, worse rest; begins with a blur before eyes, after relaxing from […]
Ipecacuanha
(Ipecac-root)The chief action is on the ramifications of the pneumogastric nerve, producing spasmodic irritation in chest and stomach. Morphia habit. The principal feature of Ipecacuanha is its PERSISTENT NAUSEA and vomiting, which form the chief guiding symptoms. Indicated after indigestible food, raisins, cakes, etc. Especially indicated in fat children and adults, who are feeble and catch cold […]
Iodium
Insulinum
(An active principle from the pancreas which affects sugar metabolism.) Besides the use of Insulin in the treatment of diabetes, restoring the lost ability to oxidize carbohydrate and again storing glycogen in the liver, some use of it homeopathically has been made by Dr. Wm. F. Baker, showing its applicability in acne, carbuncles, erythema with […]
Ignatia-Amara
(St. Ignatius Bean)Produces a marked hyperesthesia of all the senses, and a tendency to clonic spasms. Mentally, THE EMOTIONAL ELEMENT IS UPPERMOST, AND CO-ORDINATION OF FUNCTION IS INTERFERED WITH. Hence, it is one of the chief remedies for hysteria. It is especially adapted to the nervous temperament-women of sensitive, easily excited nature, dark, mild disposition, quick […]
Hypericum-Perforatum
(St. John’s-wort)The great remedy for injuries to nerves, especially of fingers, toes and nails. Crushed fingers, especially tips. Excessive painfulness is a guiding symptom to its use. Prevents lockjaw. PUNCTURED wounds. Relieves pain after operations. Quite supersedes the use of Morphia after operations (Helmuth). Spasms after every injury. Has an important action on the rectum; haemorrhoids. COCCYDYNIA. Spasmodic […]