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Some useful Homeopathic remedies – Part 56.

CROTALUS HORRIDUS.

IT IS A REMEDY TO BE REMEMBERED IN HEMORRHAGE.

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It is a remedy derived from the poison of a Rattlesnake.

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It is a useful remedy for absorption of intra-ocular hemorrhage. It is particularly for retinal bleeding.

It is useful in low septic states and general disorganization of the blood.

It is useful in states similar to Disseminated Intra-vascular Clotting (DIC).

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It is useful in curing carbuncles, malignant scarlatina, plague and cholera.

It is useful in vertigo, weakness and trembling.

It is useful in spasm of the esophagus, and cancer of the throat.

It is useful in terrible vomiting and nausea where the patient cannot bear anything in the stomach.

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It is a great remedy for Coffee ground hemorrhage from the stomach in cases of Gastritis.

This remedy is useful when the stools are thin offensive and black.

It is also useful when there is hemorrhage from the intestines and dark blood oozes from the rectum.
It is also useful in uterine hemorrhage with pain radiating from the thighs.

This remedy is also useful when the urine is dark and bloody.

It is useful in boils, carbuncles with dark skin and in septic states.

It is useful in countering the bad effects of vaccination.

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CRATAEGUS OXYACANTHA.

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THIS REMEDY IS A HEART TONIC.
This remedy is derived from the Hawthorn plant.

This remedy is useful in giddiness, lowered pulse and whenever there is air hunger.

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This remedy is also useful in persons who gasp for breath, have difficulty in breathing and a rapid pulse with Cardiac failure.

It acts on the muscle of the heart and it is a heart tonic.

It is useful whenever the heart rate is irregular.

It is useful in raised arterial blood pressure.

It is useful in chronic heart disease with low cardiac output and edema.

It is useful when the patient has cold extremities, pallor and irregular pulse.

It is said to have the power to dissolve the athero-sclerotic plaques or fat deposits within the Coronary arteries.

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It is useful in Angina pectoris.

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COPAIVA.

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This remedy acts on the mucous membranes of the urinary tract.

It is useful when there is burning pressure, painful urination, with retention of urine with pain in the bladder, anus and rectum.

The catarrh in the bladder is associated with dysuria (difficulty in passing urine) and the urine smells of violets.

The testicles are sensitive and swollen.

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The remedy is also useful in hives, fever and constipation.

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CONIUM MACULATUM.

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This remedy is derived from the plant the Poison Hemlock, from the natural order of Umbelliferae.

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It is said to be a constitutional remedy for widows and widowers, who have a suppressions of their sexual desires and this also suits hysterical persons. It is useful for all the troubles at the change of life in old maids and bachelors.

It is a remedy that is useful in ascending paralysis ending in the death of the person due to failure of the respiration.

This remedy is also said to be useful in persons who have a tendency to develop cancer, indurations, stony hard glands and fibroids in the uterus.

It is a useful remedy when there is difficulty in gain with trembling and sudden loss of strength while walking.

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It is a useful remedy in persons who have hypochondria with a weak memory.

The mental state of those requiring this remedy is that they are depressed, timid with no inclination for business and their memory is very weak.

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It is useful for vertigo while lying down and turning over in bed or while turning the head sideways and the vertigo is worse while shaking the head.

It is a useful remedy when the headache is stupefying with nausea and vomiting.

It is useful in Phlyctenular conjunctivitis with keratitis, when there is photophobia and excessive lacrymation.

It is useful in acrid eructation, with nausea and acrid heartburn, which is ameliorated with acidity.

The remedy is useful when there is frequent urging with tremulous weakness after passing stools.

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This remedy is useful when there is difficulty in voiding urine and when there is dribbling in old men. It is a very useful remedy in Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy in elderly male subjects.

It is a useful remedy in males who suffer as a result of suppressing their sexual appetite. It is also useful when the testicles are hard and enlarged. It also said to be good to combat impotence.

In females, this remedy is useful, when there is dysmenorrhoea and the menses are delayed and the periods are scanty. It is also useful for itching around the pudenda. This drug is also useful for the ill effects of suppressed sexual desire, suppressed menses.

It is good remedy to shrink enlarged and indurated glands.

This remedy suits persons whose complaints come on after prolonged celibacy and in females who are worse before and during their menstrual cycles.

TIPS FROM THE HOMEOPATHIC MASTERS…
CONIUM is a useful remedy for Hypertension.
Dr. F.C. Askenstedt.
CONIUM is especially useful in profound and long continued weakness following exhaustive diseases.
Dr. Cowperthwaite, M.D.
Depression during menstruation, pregnancy and the climacteric is counteracted by CONIUM dilution 4x.
Dr. Meta Gumpertz.

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CONDURANGO.

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IT IS A USEFUL CANCER REMEDY.

This remedy stimulates the digestive functions and improves the general health.

It is a great cancer remedy at the ulcerative stage when fissures or deep ulcers appear.

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It is useful for cancer of lips and anus.

It is useful to allay the pain in the cancer of the esophagus, throat or stomach.

It is a great stomach remedy with ulceration, vomiting food and constant burning pain.

It is useful in the spasm of the esophagus with burning behind the sternum where the food seems to stick.

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COLOCYNTHIS.

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This remedy is derived from Bitter cucumber. It is found in Europe and in tropical countries.

Patients who require this remedy are usually extremely irritable and impatient and become angry or are offended when they are questioned. Such patients may even throw out things in their hands, during fits of rage.

It is generally useful in neuralgic pains better from pressure and heat.

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This is an extremely useful remedy for sciatica and abdominal cramps.

The remedy is useful whenever there is an agonizing cutting pain in the abdominal area, which causes the patient to bend double.

The remedy is useful when the pain comes in paroxysms and the pain radiates down both hips and thighs. The pain is drawing, cramping tearing and better from heavy pressure.

The remedy is useful whenever the patient has a bitter taste in the mouth.
It is useful whenever there is pressure like pain in the eyeballs and for left sided neuralgias.

It is useful in contraction of muscles and pain in the right deltoid.

It is useful whenever there is vertigo while turning the head to the left.

This remedy is useful in ailments that come on after a bout of anger, such as; colic, diarrhea vomiting and suppressed menstruation.

This remedy works best whenever the patient is worse from anger and indignation, and feels better doubling up, from hard pressure, warmth and lying with the head bent forward.

TIPS FROM THE MASTERS ABOUT COLOCYNTHIS…

COLOCYNTHIS has been found useful as a palliative of the pain of Glaucoma and Iritis; the pain extending into the head, better from pressure.

Dr. H. C. Allen, M.D.

COLOCYNTHIS cures colic again and again, then KALI C, steps in to end the trouble.

Dr. T. K. Moore, M.D.

STAPHISAGRIA is sometimes to be substituted for COLOCYNTHIS in the effects of violent emotion in women and children when the violent abdominal cramps fail to yield to the latter remedy.

Dr. E. A. Farrington, M.D.

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COLLINSONIA.

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This remedy is derived from the plant called as Collinsonia Canadensis or Stone Root.

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It is a specific remedy for bleeding piles with constipation of an obstinate nature, with a sensation of sticks in the rectum.

It is useful in female subjects, who develop piles after pregnancy.

It is useful in itching around the genitals with soreness and piles during pregnancy.

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It is useful in non-specific abdominal colic pains.

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It is useful in women with dysmenorrhoea and piles.

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COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE.

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This remedy is derived from the Meadow Saffron plant, which belongs to the Liliaceae group of plants.

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This remedy affects the muscular tissues markedly along with the periosteum and the synovial membranes of the joints.

It is suitable whenever the person feels great weakness, internal coldness and a tendency to collapse.

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It is useful whenever the smell of food causes nausea, with pain in the stomach with flatulence.

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There is distension of the abdomen with gas.

The remedy is useful whenever the stools are painful, scanty, jelly like with shredded particles in large quantities.

It is useful whenever there is sharp pain in the left arm and tearing in the limbs in warm weather.

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It is a useful remedy when there is a pins and needles sensation in the hands, wrists and when the fingertips become numb.

It is useful when the limbs are stiff with a gouty inflammation, and in shifting rheumatism, which is worse in the night.

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It is useful in Lumbo-sacral strain.

It is a useful remedy when the patients are worse from sundown to sunrise, from motion, loss of sleep, smell of food, and mental exertion.

The remedy is useful when patients feel better from stooping.

It is also useful acute rheumatic carditis.

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COFFEA CRUDA.

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This remedy is derived from the un-roasted coffee bean.

This remedy stimulates the functional activity of all organs, increasing the nervous and vascular activity.

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It is a useful remedy to combat the bad effects of sudden emotions, surprises and joys.

It is a short and superficial remedy useful in tall, lean stooping persons who are dark complexioned, over-sensitive with an acute sense of touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste.

It is useful when the person has an unusual activity of the body and the mind. The mind of these patients is gay and easily excited. The person is full of ideas and quick to act. There is tossing about in anguish.

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It is useful when there is a violent, irregular palpitation after excessive joy or surprise.

It is a useful remedy in restlessness and nervous irritation.

This remedy suits persons with great nervous agitation and restlessness with intolerance to pain.

This remedy is said to suit persons who weep with delight, and have alternating bouts of laughing and crying.

It is a useful remedy when subjects are prone to headaches from over-exertion, thinking or talking. The headaches are one-sided and it feels as if a nail were being driven into the brain, as if the brain were being torn apart or as if the brain was being dashed about. The headache is worse in open air.

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It is useful when the uric acid levels are increased causing an irritation of the kidneys.

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This remedy is very valuable whenever there is a toothache, temporarily relieved by holding ice water in the mouth, but the toothache returns when the water becomes warm.

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It is a useful remedy in dysmenorrhoea with a hypersensitive vagina and vulva.

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It is useful when the sleep is disturbed. The patient sleeps till 3 am and then is disturbed by dreams and is sleepless due to an overactive mind.

This remedy is also said to be useful in ailments, worse from the use of narcotic medicines.

This remedy is suited to persons who are worse after excessive emotions, narcotics and strong odors.

It is suited to persons who feel better in the warmth, after lying down or after holding ice in the mouth.
TIPS FROM THE MASTERS…

COFFEA will remove the severest pains, which drive the patients, which drive the patients almost frantic; then cry, tremble, do not know what to do; the pain is indescribable; it is momentarily relieved by holding cold water in the mouth.

Dr. C. G. Raue, M.D.

In insomnia during pregnancy, without any other ailment, a dose of COFFEA or BELLADONNA will often bring back sleep.
Dr. Jahr.

During labor, the patient sometimes gets into a state of extreme nervous erethism that convulsion seem imminent; to allay this, no remedy is more efficacious than COFFEA.
Dr. H. Farrington, M.D.

Some useful Homeopathic remedies – Part 47.

COCCULUS INDICUS.

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It is derived from the climbing shrub called as Cocculus, belonging to the natural order of Menispermaceae.

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It is a very good remedy for Motion sickness, and acts as a prophylactic it taken two days before the trip in the 30th potency.

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It is useful to combat the bad effects of lack of sleep.

It is a useful drug to combat the bad effects of continued worry, anxiety, anger and grief.

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It is useful in vomiting of pregnancy with vertigo.

It is useful in cases of indigestion, where the mere smell of the food causes nausea in the patient.

This remedy suits persons who have motion sickness and who get nausea with the very thought or smell of food, persons who have ailments coming on after the lack of sleep. It is also useful in vomiting in pregnancy.
I find this remedy is excellent, both as a prophylactic as well as therapeutic remedy for Motion sickness.