Thursday, December 12, 2013

Homeopathy Study Questions and Keynotes 2

Choose from: Allium, apis, baptisia, belladonna, Eupatorium perf, euphrasia, ferrum phos, hepar sulph, kali bic, stramonium, tuberculinum

  1. sudden screaming, UTI w/ burning urination
  2. bone pain, flu with great soreness, > perspiration
  3. fear of water yet thirsty, < bright shiny objects
  4. fever w/out sweat that radiates heat, desires lemons
  5. purple face that feels heavy/numb, < beer
  6. acrid nasal discharge, hayfever, < warm
  7. acrid tears, but nasal d/c bland, hayfever, allergies
  8. milk allergy but craves it, desires travel
  9. bright red blood, early stage fever, <motion or touch
  10. extreme fear of wasps/bees, very sensitive to pain
  11. thick gluey nasal discharge, < undressing
  12. temper tantrums, fever w/ delerium, fears dark
  13. SE broken in pieces and scattered on the bed
  14. thirstless, anaphylaxis, redness
  15. discontented w/ everything, URTI w/ lymphadenopathy
  16. sunstroke, > bright light, > company
  17. very sensitive to cold air, chilly, late common cold
  18. H/A < cold, SE sand under eyelids
  19. alternation of symptoms (GI, resp, joint) >motion/pressure, allergic to beer
  20. H/A from closing eyes, allergies w/ bland tears 
  21. shattering cough w/ head & chest pain, > on hands & knees
  22. SE throat splitting apart, > open air
  23. redness, high fever, violent, delerious
  24. fears heights, boils that suppurate, < alone, < touch
  25. restless, romantic, <cool, wet weather/before storm
  26. claustrophobic, easily offended, splinter-like pains
  27. craves smoked meat, > dry heat
  28. rapidly wandering pain, < cold, < damp
  29. bad breath, rapid onset flu, GE, sepsis < heat/indoors
  30. Night terrors, febrile convulsions
  31. sudden anger when irritated, < heat
  32. profuse discharges, cough only during day, <sun
  33. sudden onset URTI/flu, pallor, anemic
  34. throbbing H/A < light/jarring, bruxism



Answers:

  1. apis
  2. eup-perf
  3. stram
  4. bell
  5. bapt
  6. allium
  7. euphr
  8. tub
  9. ferr-phos
  10. hepar-sulph
  11. kali-bic
  12. stram
  13. bapt
  14. apis
  15. tub
  16. stram
  17. haparsulph
  18. ferr-phos
  19. kali-bic
  20. allium
  21. eup-perf
  22. allium
  23. bell
  24. hep-sulph
  25. tub
  26. hep-sulph
  27. tub
  28. kali-bic
  29. bapt
  30. stram
  31. apis
  32. euphr
  33. ferr-phos
  34. bell

Keynotes: Allium, apis, baptisia, belladonna, Eupatorium perf, euphrasia, ferrum phos, hepar sulph, kali bic, stramonium, tuberculinum

Allium cepa:

q  Has affinity for mucous membranes e.g. cut an onion get sulfuric acidand mucous membranes react
q  Has a lot of burning secretions particularly, from the nose
q  Gushing- Blow and blow and blow and still get more secretions from the nose
q  Sx’s worse in a warm room and worse if secretions don’t flow
q  Profuse bland lacrimation- don’t burn
q  Pain in the larynx – sore throats
q  A lot of coughing to clear secretions cause they have post nasal drip as well

Apis Mellificum

q  Swollen
q  Hot
q  Itchy
q  Stingey
q  Red
q  Is every bee sting an apis case = NO
q  If hot and full of fluid and swollen it is Apis; this can happen with a bee sting, allergy, cellulits, cellulites
q  Think water balloon-painful itchy stingy water balloon then it is Apis
q  On emotional plane they are busy and active and very vital people, want to be in control think like Queen bee
q  Aggravated by heat
q  Better with cold applications
q  Thirstless; even though they are loosing fluid into whatever would they have they don’t want to drink
q  Apis sore throat is swollen and red and the uvula looks like a water balloon and is bright red and looks boggy
q  Spongey swellings that are red and stingy are Apis
q  Useful in ovarian cysts-on US ovary looks big and swollen and spongy
q  Affinity for the right side

Baptisia tinctoria

q  “Gooey nasty little remedy”
q  Pus, gooey secretions
q  Terrible breath (look in throat and it almost makes you fall over it is so smelly)
q  Person just can’t think d/t not feeling well
q  Run fevers
q  Hallucinate
q  Think someone is with them in bed
q  Bacterial infections
q  Feel like body is breaking apart; lot of physical pain
q  So exhausted can fall asleep while talking to you
q  Can be useful in some influenzas
q  Throat can looks dusky dark and ulcerated
q  Can’t get comfortable when lying down
q  Real dullness and putridness in general
q  Very, very sick and probably belong in the hospital 

Belladonna

q  Well proven remedy
q  Looks a lot like Aconite
q  Comes on suddenly
q  Generally right sided
q  Intense heat in part affected
q  Does not want to be talked to, looked at, jarred in anyway, stimulated
q  Affected by changes in temperature
q  General aggravation is 3 pm
q  Worse motion
q  Aggravated at menses
q  Cardiac sx’s, GI sx’s, anything to do with vagus nerve
q  Affects GI tract
q  Cramping pain
q  Can have chronic or acute vertigo
q  Spike violent fevers
q  Kids can have violence e.g. biting is a big thing, impulse control problems, hitting
q  Remedy for seizures
q  A lot of HA’s that come on suddenly and person usually gets hot, HA’s are throbbing (can be a good migraine remedy)
q  Aggravated by light and motion
q  Pain better with cold application
q  Pain better by being very still in dark room
q  Earache of Belladonna can have outside part of ear red, pain is throbbing
q  Pains of Belladonna are throbbing
q  Love lemons and lemonade
q  Can be very cruel/mean to animals

Eupatorium perforlitum

q  So sore feel like bones are breaking esp back
q  Bone cancer pain
q  Deep deep ache in bones
q  Thirst for cold drinks even if they are cold
q  Fever
q  Bone pain

Euphrasia

q  Tissue affinity: eyes and mucous membranes
q  Burning lacrimation, bland snot (opp of Allium)
q  Lots of photophobia cause their eyes sting and burn
q  Allergic rhinitis
q  Conjunctivitis
q  So much gunk they blink a lot

 Ferrum phosphoricum

q  Vanilla of homeopathic prescriptions
q  Person without a lot of sx’s
q  High fevers, fevers of 102 with no sx’s no HA, no toothache, no GI upset, nada-just a fever
q  Prescribe it d/t lack of sx’s
q  Ivons never uses this remedy
q  Can have some flushing
q  Can have nosebleeds
q  Pretty much high fever no other sx’s = Ferrum phos

Hepar sulphuricum

q  Gets rid of pus
q  Offensive pus
q  Exquisitely sensitive to pain
q  Very, very irritable
q  Chilly and aggravated by cold; intolerant to cold
q  Intolerant to drafts
q  Swelling, abscesses, indurations
q  Relieved by abscess being cut open/erupting; Hepar sulph will cause this
q  Will help to ripen abscess; make it ready for I & D
q  Can have pharyngitis
q  Good for Peritonsillar abscess = Quinsey
q  Pain like someone is sticking person with a sharp stick
q  Worse swallowing, pain can go to ear
q  Can be R sided

 Kali bichromium

q  Likes structure on mental and emotional plane
q  Very rule oriented, like structure
q  Don’t need to impart structure on others just like it for themselves
q  Chilly
q  Worse from cold, don’t like drafts
q  Known for affinity of mucous membranes of sinus cavities
q  Snot of Kali bichrom can be used as a sling shot (bouncy, ropey, stringy snot), generally green
q  Pain at root of nose from having lots of snot
q  Pain in specific spot, will point to it
q  Strings of snot in back of throat
q  Sound like Fran Drescher
q  Productive cough from swallowing snot; can also have N/V b/c of it
q  Crave sweets like all Kali’s
q  Arthritis where they point to it-wandering joint pains from day to day but always specific place
q  Joint pains can alternate with sinus sx’s or GI sx’s
q  SRP= feel like they have a hair on their tongue

Stramonium

q  Pervasive fear-may have come on after an acute event
q  Something that happened in childhood that caused tremendous amount of fear
q  Nightmares-have to have this for it to be a stramonium
q  Fear of cornered animal-could commit murder
q  Stammering
q  Tendency to rage and violence
q  Strabismus
q  Convulsions
q  Crave sweets
q  Violent sexual desires
q  Stems from episode that scared the heck out of them

Tuberculinum

q  Remedy that is used in the US more then other places
q  Need to travel
q  Tend to be romantic thinkers and well traveled-b/c the grass is always greener on the other side
q  Real need for excitement
q  Fanciful and romantic thinkers
q  Dark side is that it can be very violent and hyperactive; a lot of kids with hyperactivity and ADD need this remedy
q  Have tons of secretions “snot R us”
q  Hypersensitive to a lot of stimuli
q  Can have allergies to cats and dogs, to dander, to foods
q  Children can be disobedient, malicious behavior, resent affection of others if not directed to them
q  Can be very calculated in their behaviors (e.g. kid ripping up pansies that mom just planted)
q  Emaciated
q  Failure to thrive
q  Can be born with congenital anomalies e.g. cleft palate
q  Long eye lashes (esp in boys)
q  Strip of hair down their backbone
q  Sensitivity to dairy which may be why they have a lot of snot
q  Teethe late, or poorly
q  Lose hair precipitously
q  Crave milk even though sensitive to it
q  Recurring colds
q  Arthritis worse cold wet weather
q  Tinea
q  Eczemas
q  Sleep in the knee to chest position
q  Better in the mountains

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