M.N.

Homoeopathy Medical
College and Research Institute, Bikaner

Department of Materia Medica

Submitted to:- Submitted by:-
Prof. Dr. Abdul Wahid Shubham Suman
Batch 2017-18
B.H.M.S. 4th year
Topic-
[Link] SULPHURICUM
[Link] TINCTORIA
[Link] SULPHURICUM
[Link] PHOSPHORICUM
[Link] DECANDRA
[Link] METALLICUM
[Link] SULPHURICUM
• Potassium Sulphate
(KALI SULPHURICUM)
• Ailments accompanied by profuse
desquamation. Applicable to the
later stages of inflammation. Yellow,
mucous and serous discharges,
profuse and intermittent. Has been
found of much use in oxaluria.
• Head.--Rheumatic headache, beginning in evening.
Bald spots. Dandruff and scaldhead.
• Ears.--Eustachian deafness. Discharge
of yellow matter (Hydr).
• Nose.--Cold, with yellow, slimy expectoration. Nose
obstructed. Smell lost (Nat mur). Engorgement of the
nasal pharyngeal mucous membrane, mouth
breathing, snoring, etc, remaining after removal of
adenoids.
• Respiratory.--Coarse rales. Rattling of mucus in
chest (Tart em). Post-grippal cough, especially in
children. Bronchial asthma, with yellow
expectoration. Cough; worse in evening and in hot
atmosphere. Croupy hoarseness (Hep; Spong).
• Extremities.--Pain in nape, back and limbs, worse in
warm room. Shifting, wandering pains.
• Fever.--Rise of temperature at night. Intermittent
fever, with yellow, slimy tongue.
• Skin.--Psoriasis (Ars; Thyroid). Eczema; burning,
itching, papular eruption. Nettle-rash. Polypi.
Epithelioma. Seborrhœa. Favus. Ring-worm of scalp
or beard with abundant scales.
• Modalities.--Worse, in evening, heated room. Better,
cool, open air.
[Link] TINCTORIA
• Wild Indigo
(BAPTISIA)
• The symptoms of this drug are of an asthenic type, simulating low
fevers, septic conditions of the blood, malarial poisoning and extreme
prostration. Indescribable sick feeling. Great muscular soreness and
putrid phenomena always are present. All the secretions are
offensive-breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc. Epidemic influenza. Chronic
intestinal toxæmias of children with fetid stools and eructations.
• Baptisia in low dilutions produces a form of anti-bodies to the bac
typhosus, viz, the agglutinins (Mellon). Thus it raises the natural
bodily resistance to the invasion of the bacillary intoxication, which
produces the typhoid syndrome. Typhoid carriers. After inoculation
with anti-typhoid serum. Intermittent pulse, especially in the aged.
• Mind.--Wild, wandering feeling. Inability to think. Mental confusion. Ideas
confused. Illusion of divided personality. Thinks he is broken or double,
and tosses about the bed trying to get pieces together (Cajeput). Delirium,
wandering, muttering. Perfect indifference. Falls asleep while being
spoken to. Melancholia, with stupor.
• Head.--Confused, swimming feeling. Vertigo; pressure at root of nose. Skin
of forehead feels tight; seems drawn to back of head. Feels too
large, heavy, numb. Soreness of eyeballs. Brain feels sore. Stupor; falls
asleep while spoken to. Early deafness in typhoid conditions. Eyelids
heavy.
• Face.--Besotted look. Dark red. Pain at root of nose. Muscles of jaw rigid.
• Mouth.--Taste flat, bitter. Teeth and gums sore, ulcerated. Breath fetid.
Tongue feels burned; yellowish-brown; edges red and shining. Dry and
brown in center, with dry and glistening edges; surface cracked and
sore. Can swallow liquids only; least solid food gags.
• Throat.--Dark redness of tonsils and soft palate. Constriction, contraction
of œsophagus (Cajeput). Great difficulty in swallowing solid food. Painless
sore throat, and offensive discharge. Contraction at cardiac orifice.
• Respiratory.--Lungs feel compressed, breathing difficult; seeks open
window. Fears going to sleep on account of nightmare and sense of
suffocation. Constriction of chest.
• Back and Extremities.--Neck tired. Stiffness and pain, aching and drawing
in arms and legs. Pain in sacrum, around hips and legs. Sore and bruised.
Decubitus.
• Sleep.--Sleepless and restless. Nightmare and frightful dreams. Cannot get
herself together, feels scattered about bed. Falls asleep while answering a
question.
• Skin.--Livid spots all over body and limbs. Burning and heat in skin
(Arsenic). Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium and prostration.
• Fever.--Chill, with rheumatic pains and soreness all over body. Heat all
over, with occasional chills. Chill about 11 [Link] fevers. Typhus
fever. Shipboard fever.
• Modalities.--Worse; Humid heat; fog; indoors.
[Link] SULPHURICUM
• Sulphate of Sodium-Glauber's Salt
(NATRUM SULPHURICUM)
• A liver remedy, especially indicated for the so-called
hydrogenoid constitution, where the complaints are such as
are due to living in damp houses, basements, cellars. They are
worse in rainy weather, water in any form. Feels every change
from dry to wet; cannot even eat plants growing near water,
nor fish. Always feels best in warm, dry air. Clinically, it has
been found a valuable remedy for spinal meningitis, head
symptoms from injuries to head, mental troubles therefrom.
Every spring, return of skin affections. Tendency to warts.
Fingers and toes affected. Chronic gout (Lycop).
• Mind.--Lively music saddens. Melancholy, with periodical attacks of mania.
Suicidal tendency; must exercise restraint. Inability to think. Dislikes to
speak, or to be spoken to.
• Head.--Occipital pain. Piercing stitches in ears. Vertigo; relieved by sweat
on head. Bursting feeling on coughing. Hot feeling on top of head. Bursting
feeling on coughing. Hot feeling on top of head. Boring in right temple,
preceded by burning in stomach. Ill-effects of falls and injuries to the
head, and mental troubles arising therefrom. Dreams of running water.
• Stomach.--Vomits sour. Brown, bitter coating on tongue. Yellow
complexion. Thirst for something cold. Bilious vomiting, acid dyspepsia,
with heartburn and flatulence.
• Abdomen.--Duodenal catarrh; hepatitis; icterus and vomiting of bile; liver
sore to touch, with sharp, stitching pains; cannot bear tight clothing
around waist, worse, lying on left side. Flatulency; wind colic in ascending
colon; worse, before breakfast. Burning in abdomen and anus. Bruised
pain and urging to stool. Diarrhśa yellow, watery stools. Loose morning
stools, worse, after spell of wet weather. Stools involuntary, when passing
flatus. Great size of the fecal mass.
• Urine.--Loaded with bile. Brisk-dust sediment. Excessive secretion.
Diabetes.
• Respiratory.--Dyspnśa, during damp weather. Must hold chest when
coughing. Humid asthma; rattling in chest, at 4 and 5 am. Cough, with
thick ropy, greenish expectoration; chest feels all gone. Constant desire to
take deep, long breath. Asthma in children, as a constitutional remedy.
Delayed resolution in pneumonia. Springs up in bed the cough hurts so;
holds painful side (Bry). Pain through lower left chest. Every fresh cold
brings on attack of asthma.
• Back.--Itching when undressing. Violent pains in back of neck, and at base
of brain. Piercing pain between scapulć. Spinal meningitis; opisthotonos.
• Extremities.--Swelling of axillary glands. Inflammation around root of
nails. Burning in soles; śdema of feet; itching between toes. Gout. Pain in
limbs, compels frequent change in position. Run-arounds. Pain in hip-
joints, worse left, worse, stooping. Stiffness of knees, cracking of joints.
Rheumatism, worse in damp cold weather.
• Skin.--Itching while undressing. Jaundiced, watery blisters. Sycotic
excrescences; wart-like red lumps all over body.
• Modalities.--Worse, music (makes her sad); lying on left side; dampness of
basement, damp weather. Better, dry weather, pressure, changing
position.
[Link] PHOSPHORICUM
• Phosphate of Sodium
• Natrum phosphoricum is the remedy for conditions
arising from excess of lactic acid, often resulting from
too much sugar. Ailments, with excess of acidity. Sour
eructations and taste. Sour vomiting. Yellow, creamy
coating at the back of the roof of mouth and tongue.
Inflammation of any part of the throat, with
sensation of a lump in throat. Flatulence, with sour
risings. Colic, with symptoms of worms. Cracking of
joints. Jaundice (1x trit). Oxaluria.
• Mind.--Imagines, on waking at night, that pieces of furniture are persons;
that the hears footsteps in next room. Fear.
• Head.--Feels dull in the morning, full feeling and throbbing.
• Eyes.--Discharge of golden-yellow, creamy matter from the eyes. Dilation
of one pupil. Whites of eyes dirty yellow.
• Ears.--One ear red, hot, frequently itchy, accompanied by gastric
derangements and acidity.
• Nose.--Offensive odor. Itching of nose. Naso-pharyngeal catarrh, with
thick, yellow, offensive mucus.
• Face.--Paleness of bluish, florid appearance of face.
• Mouth.--Canker sores of lip and cheeks. Blisters on tip of tongue, with
stinging in evening. Thin, moist coating on the tongue. Yellow, creamy
coating at the back part of the roof of the mouth. Dysphagia. Thick,
creamy membrane over tonsils and soft palate.
• Stomach.--Sour eructations, sour vomiting, greenish diarrhśa. Spits
mouthful of food.
• Male.--Emissions without dreams, with weakness in back and trembling in
limbs. Desire without erection. Gonorrhśa.
• Female.--Menses too early; pale, thin, watery. Sterility, with acid
secretions from vagina. Leucorrhśa; discharge creamy or honey-colored, or
acid and watery. Sour-smelling discharges from uterus. Morning sickness,
with sour vomiting.
• Extremities.--Rheumatism of the knee-joint.
• Back.--Weariness; aching in wrists and finger-joints. Hamstrings
sore. Synovial crepitation. Rheumatic arthritis.
• Skin.--Yellow. Itching in various parts, especially of ankles. Hives. Smooth,
red, shining. Erysipelas. Feet icy cold in daytime, burn at night. Swelling of
lymphatic glands.
[Link] DECANDRA
• Poke-root
(PHYTOLACCA)
• Aching, soreness, restlessness, prostration, are general
symptoms guiding to Phytolacca. Pre-eminently a
glandular remedy. Glandular swellings with heat and
inflammation. Has a powerful effect on fibrous and
osseous tissues; fasciæ and muscle sheaths; acts on
scar tissue. Syphilitic bone pains; chronic rheumatism.
Sore throat, quinsy, and diphtheria. Tetanus and
opisthotonos. Decrease of weight. Retarded dentition.
• Mind.--Loss of personal delicacy, disregard of surrounding objects.
Indifferent to life.
• Head.--Vertigo on rising. Brain feels sore. Pain from frontal region
backward. Pressure in temples and over eyes. Rheumatism of scalp; pains
come on every time it rains. Scaly eruption on scalp.
• Mouth.--Teething children with irresistible desire to bite the teeth
together. Teeth clenched; lower lip drawn down; lips everted; jaws firmly
set; chin drawn down on sternum. Tongue red tip, feels rough and scalded;
bleeding from mouth; blisters on side. Mapped, indented, fissured, with
yellow patch down center. Much stringy saliva.
• Throat.--Dark red or bluish red. Much pain at root of tongue; soft palate
and tonsils swollen. Sensation of a lump in throat (Bell; Lach). Throat feels
rough, narrow, hot. Tonsils swollen, especially right; dark-red
appearance. Shooting pain into ears on swallowing. Pseudo-membranous
exudation, grayish white; thick, tenacious yellowish mucus, difficult to
dislodge. Cannot swallow anything hot (Lach). Tension and pressure in
parotid gland. Ulcerated sore throat and diphtheria; throat feels very hot;
pain at root of tongue extending to ear. Uvula large, dropsical. Quinsy;
tonsils and fauces swollen, with burning pain; cannot swallow even
water. Mumps. Follicular pharyngitis.
• Abdomen.--Sore spot in right hypochondrium. Rheumatism of abdominal
muscles. Colic at navel. Burning griping pains. Bruised feeling through
epigastrium and abdomen. Constipation of the aged and those with weak
heart. Bleeding from rectum.
• Urine.--Scanty, suppressed, with pain in kidney region. Nephritis.
• Female.--Mastitis; mammæ hard and very sensitive. Tumors of the breasts
with enlarged axillary glands. Cancer of breast. Breast is hard, painful and
of purple hue. Mammary abscess. When child nurses, pain goes from
nipple all over body. Cracks and small ulcers about nipples. Irritable
breasts, before and during menses. Galactorrhœa (Calc). Menses too
copious and frequent. Ovarian neuralgia of right side.
• Male.--Painful induration of testicles. Shooting along perineum to penis.
• Heart.--Feeling as if heart leaped into throat (Pod). Shock of pain in cardiac
region alternating with pain in right arm.
• Respiratory.--Aphonia. Difficult breathing; dry hacking, tickling cough;
worse at night (Mentha; Bellad). Aching pains in chest, through mid-
sternum; with cough. Rheumatism of lower intercostals.
• Back.--Aching pains in lumbar region; pains streaking up and down spine
into sacrum. Weakness and dull pain in region of kidneys. Back stiff,
especially in morning on rising and during damp weather.
• Extremities.--Shooting pain in right shoulder, with stiffness and inability to
raise arm (see Heart). Rheumatism pains; worse in morning. Pains fly like
electric shocks, shooting, lancinating, shifting rapidly (Puls; Kali bich). Pain
in under side of thighs. Syphilitic sciatica. Aching of heels; relieved by
elevating feet. Pains like shocks. Pain in legs, patient dreads to get up. Feet
puffed; pain in ankles and feet. Neuralgia in toes.
• Fever.--High fever, alternating with chilliness and great prostration.
• Skin.--Itches, becomes dry, shrunken, pale. Papular and pustular lesions.
Most useful in early stages of cutaneous diseases. Disposition to boils, and
when sloughing occurs. Squamous eruptions. Syphilitic eruptions. Swelling
and induration of glands. Venereal buboes. Scarlatina-like rash. Warts and
moles.
• Modalities.--Worse, sensitive to electric changes. Effects of a wetting,
when it rains, exposure to damp, cold weather, night exposure, motion,
right side. Better, warmth, dry weather, rest.
[Link] METALLICUM
• The Metal
(PLATINA)
• Is pre-eminently a woman's remedy.
Strong tendency to paralysis,
anæsthesia, localized numbness and
coldness are shown. Hysterical spasms;
pains increase and decrease gradually
(Stannum). Tremulousness.
• Mind.--Irresistible impulse to kill. Self-exaltation; contempt for others.
Arrogant, proud. Weary of everything. Everything seems changed. Mental
trouble pressed menses. Physical symptoms disappear as mental
symptoms develop.
• Head.--Tense, pressing pain, confined to a small spot. Cramplike,
squeezing pain. Constriction about forehead and right
temples. Numbness, with headache.
• Eyes.--Objects look smaller than they are. Twitching of lids (Agar). Eyes
feel cold. Cramp-like pain in orbits.
• Ears.--Feels numb. Cramp-like twinges. Roaring and rumbling.
• Face.--Prosopalgia, with numb feeling in malar bones, as if the parts were
between screws. Pain at root of nose, as if squeezed in a vise. Coldness,
creeping, and numbness, in whole right side of face. Pains increase and
decrease gradually (Stann).
• Stomach.--Fermentation, much flatulence; constriction; ravenous hunger;
persistent nausea, with anxiety and weakness.
• Abdomen.--Painter's colic. Pain in umbilical region; extending through to
back. Pressing and bearing down in abdomen; extending into pelvis.
• Stool.--Retarded; feces scanty; evacuated with difficulty. Adheres to
rectum, like soft clay. Sticky stool. Constipation of travelers, who are
constantly changing food and water. Stool as if burnt.
• Female.--Parts hypersensitive. Tingling internally and externally (Kali
brom; Orig). Ovaries sensitive and burn. Menses too early, too
profuse, dark-clotted, with spasms and painful bearing-down, chilliness,
and sensitiveness of parts. Vaginismus. Nymphomania. Excessive sexual
development; vaginismus. Pruritus vulvæ. Ovaritis with sterility. Abnormal
sexual appetite and melancholia.
• Extremities.--Tightness of thighs, as if too tightly wrapped. Numb and
weary sensation. Feel paralyzed.
• Sleep.--Sleeps with legs far apart (Chamom).
• Modalities.--Worse, sitting and standing; evening. Better, walking.