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Homeopathic Treatment
for Gulf War Syndrome and Illnesses©

Copyright 1997, Erika North Price

Causes * lllnesses, Symptoms and Disorders
Homeopathic Remedies for GWI/GWS:
Anthracinum * Apis mellifica * Arsenicum album * Aurum metallicum * Botulinum 
Cadmium sulphuricum * Cantharis * Causticum * Ledum palustre * Phosphorus * Pyrogenium

Radium Bromatum * Sulphur * Thuja Occidentalis * Uranium Nitricum

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Self-treatment with carefully chosen remedies which are taken properly can help those with GWI/GWS.  
But GWI/GWS is very complex and should be treated professionally. Go to the Treatment Contact Page.

As a classical homeopath, I cannot consult about the homeopathic remedies for Gulf War Illnesses without discussing the true causes and symptoms of GWS. Homeopathic prescribing is most dependent on the individual symptoms of each sufferer, and so it is a most viable method of treatment for the very diverse symptoms of GWS, but finding the causes of GWS is important for prescribing too.

GWS causes many illnesses which are real and terrifying. It can be both lethal and moderately contagious. It can be communicable through casual and intimate contact of bodily fluids from sexual exchange and by airborne contact by coughing and perspiration, making for secondary infectees. GWS is not imagined as the U.S. Dept of Defense has alleged for the past 5 years while refusing proper medical care and benefits to the vets and their families. To date GWS affects well over 160,000 of the Gulf War veterans. This ever-growing statistic does not include the secondary infectees: the wives, children, other family members, friends or associates who are sick, disabled, dying or dead.

Whole families are now ill. Their babies are being born with severe congenital defects and deformities, including being born with one or more missing limbs, missing an eye or ear or organs, and blood disorders. Sixty seven percent of babies born to Gulf War vets are affected, and over half of all babies born in Iraq since the war are affected. Even their pets are coming down with the GWS illnesses and dying. Iraq is also reporting alarmingly high increases in rare and unknown diseases, primarily in their children. Kuwait is also affected, as are the British veterans of the Gulf War.

At the end of the Gulf War, in March of 1991, the Pentagon hailed the war as a virtually bloodless victory-- for the U.S. But it may take decades and generations before the true casualty count is known.

Symptoms began immediately in some cases, but mostly they have appeared 6 months to 6 years after the time of exposure. They can get progressively worse until the victim is partially or completely disabled.

Causes, as known thus far:

  • Sarin a deadly nerve agent, same as used in the Tokyo subway attacks.
  • Mustard gas, a blistering agent that can burn flesh and lungs.
  • Fallout of biological agents released during and after allied bombings of Iraqi chemical warfare munitions facilities.
  • Anthrax and Botulinum toxoid vaccines and several other experimental vaccines, all forcibly administered to US troops as guinea pigs. (There are remedies of these listed below.)
  • Vets were also exposed to at least 21 potential reproductive toxicants possibly harmful to them and their future children.
  • Pyridostigmine bromide, an anti-nerve agent pre-treatment drug forcibly administered to the US soldiers; it's use in conjunction with Deet insecticide repellant may have been noxious.
  • Fifteen Germ warfare agents such as mycoplasma fermentans and incognitus which infects human cells and damages them.
  • Last but not least, and this one has remained mostly hidden from public knowledge: Depleted Uranium (DU) in the American and British weapons and armor used in the Gulf War. Troops and the civilian population were exposed to weapons made from radioactive depleted uranium. DU is the most deadly cause of GWS. It consists of deadly radioactive nuclear waste and it is capable of causing almost all of the symptoms of the Gulf War illnesses.

DU was used in warfare for the first time in Operation Desert Storm. It was the Pentagon's first live field test of armor-piercing bullets, tank shells, and tank armor made of this deadly radioactive nuclear waste. Because of DU's ability to penetrate steel, it has become a popular weapon with the brass. When fired, a DU shell combusts on impact, and as much as 70% of the material is released and turns into an aerosol of radioactive uranium particles. It becomes an irradiating powder in the air. It travels in the wind or becomes mixed with dust and dirt. It can be inhaled and ingested and it can be trapped in the lungs or kidneys.

'Depleted' Uranium is a cleverly deceptive term for the radioactive by-product of the uranium enrichment process. 'Depleted' does not mean non-radioactive. Depleted uranium is radioactive, with a half life of 4.4 billion years.  It now contaminates battlefields, military bases, proving grounds, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who handled it, and the innocent victims of war. DU remains imbedded in soil, water, and bodily fluids long after its use, where millions can come into contact with it. When these highly toxic uranium particles enter the body, they become lodged in major organs or bones, affecting the bone marrow and producing DNA damage.

The causes of GWS, when they are viewed objectively instead of through the haze of diversion and disinformation that are served up by the government and the corporate media, prove that the Pentagon's brass knowingly used their own soldiers as disposable guinea pigs and cannon fodder, and they should be liable for such behavior. ( Documention can be found in many press articles and on the Internet.)

How the combination of these toxic and radioactive materials affect the immune system is not yet known, but the symptoms tell a lot.

The many illnesses, symptoms and disorders of GWS

These include many autoimmune symptoms and disorders; severe and chronic fatigue; chronic vomiting and diarrhea and other gastrointestinal illnesses; chronic fevers; skin sores and rashes including ones that look like giant ring worm; muscle and joint pain; severe weight loss (a wasting away); immuno-suppressant disorders similar to AIDS; heart problems, irregular heart beat; shortness of breath; headaches; bleeding and hemorrhaging; nasal congestion; twitching; oral ulcerations, blisters on the lips; swollen lymph nodes; multiple chemical sensitivities; severe muscle and joint pain and aches; chronic and severe headaches; hemorrhaging from any orifice; urinary tract infections, urinary urgency, incontinence, and other urinary and bladder and kidney disorders; nerve damage; numbness and tingling; partial paralysis; swollen lymph nodes; drooling; excessive sweating; cramping; diverticulitis; convulsions, loss of consciousness and coma; bizarre tumors and often brain stem tumors, and various radiation-caused cancers; lymphomas; leukemia; cervical cancer; severe sleep disorders, including insomnia for days at a time, night sweats; respiratory infections; an inability to function physically and mentally; neurologic and neuropsychological symptoms; Hodgkin's Disease; lymphomas; leukemia; tumors and various radiation caused cancers; Graves' Disease of the thyroid; microorganism infections; strange sensations that a body part is missing or as splashed with hot water or in ice; Multiple Sclerosis; Lou Gehrig's Disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and Guillain-Barr Syndrome-like symptoms. The female partners of affected G.I.'s and female G.I.'s are also developing ovarian cysts and tumors, cervical cancer, herpes, chlamydia; and a great number of other symptoms. Anxiety or nervousness are common, as are severe depression, deep sadness, memory loss, confusion, difficult concentration, personality changes, mood swings, irritability, violent angry rages, the need to calm down by self medicating with alcohol or drugs; and many are suicidal.


Homeopathic Remedies for GWI/GWS
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Anthracinum [anthrax nosode]
Illnesses from Anthrax Toxoid Vaccine and septic and malignant inflammations of connective or cellular tissue, mucous membranes, glands and skin, with sepsis, abscess, enormous swellings, burning and intolerable pain. Weakness and exhaustion of extremities. Extreme collapse with difficulty swallowing and breathing, asphyxia, loss of consciousness, and death in bleeding cases. Organs are enlarged, swollen or engorged. Severe pains in limbs and joints. Eruptions and abscesses are black or dark-red and are very painful. Enormous swelling of inflamed parts. Intolerable burning pains. Restless and unrefreshing sleep or comatose sleep.

  • Abscesses: are blackish or dark-red, terribly painful, and resolve slowly even after days of discharging of pus, sepsis, enormous swelling; malignant appearance.
  • Fever: with thirst, diminished appetite, dilated pupils, ringing in ears, great weakness, delirium, diarrhea, sweat all over, pain in limbs and joints.
  • Headache: as if hot smoke was passing through head; with chill; dizziness; swelling of head.
  • Hemorrhage: thick, black tar-like, from any orifice; blood does not coagulate.
  • Skin: the succession of boils and boil-like eruptions and terrible burning and painful carbuncles (deep interconnected boils), that produce blackish or dark-red abscesses; septic inflammation, malignant pustules and ulcers, ulcerations and abscesses with pus; gangrene; black or blue blisters; bubo (lymph gland swelling especially armpit and groin areas); smallpox; crusty oozing eruption; sloughing (shedding of dead layers of skin) whitlows and ulcers; insect stings; foul secretions; whitlows that are malignant and burning; black palm vesicles that may be large; black blister eruptions on the thigh; knee blister eruption; gangrenous ulcers that are horribly offensive..
  • Thirst: excessive, but can hardly swallow; with fever.
  • Vomiting: with nausea, followed by painless diarrhea, bellyache with pressure and burning, and collapse; bile and slimy masses.
  • Modalities:
    Worse from <
    Eggs; before menses; sex; opening mouth.
    Better from > Discharges; weeping.

    Disposition:
    An emotional wound that is deeply concealed in unrealized silent grief. They are emotionally dead with deep retention and restriction of their feelings. Their depression is expressed more as a physical debility with chill and pain in limbs. They accept their suffering state as a natural way of life, and never talk about their trauma of the past, nor do they seem to even recognize it. There is confusion and lack of awareness. Sex is a dead issue for them and there may be aversion to sex. Anxiety is felt particularly in the chest area overlying the heart. They think they feel death approaching. There is dullness as if from narcotics. In extremes they may howl like an animal, and run about biting.

    Thirsty. No appetite. Desires sweets and chocolate. Aversion to eggs.

    Antidoted by: APIS, ARS, CAMPH, CARB-AC, CARB-V, KREOS, LACH, PULS, RHUS-T, SAL-AC, SIL; coffee.


Apis mellifica [honey-bee]
It is an excellent first aid remedy for illness caused by Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and allergic reactions when skin is bright pink, burning, itching, stinging, with swelling, puffiness and edema. It is the homeopathic Anti-inflammatory and Anti-histamine.

  • Allergic reaction: when skin is bright pink, burning, itching, stinging, with swelling, puffiness and edema; hives; anaphylactic shock; to chemicals, antibiotics; worse for heat and touch.
  • Allergic Sore Throat: due to allergy: back of throat bright red, swollen uvula, pain burning stinging.
  • Bladder Cystitis: sudden onset with frequent desire to urinate with burning pain and soreness while urinating, especially last drops; pressing bladder pain, urging painful; burning pressing bladder pain; burning pain in neck of bladder before and during urination; worse after sleep, and 4-6 p.m.
  • Cancer: to relieve pain of cancer, with burning, stinging, swelling of right breast, tongue, lower eyelids, and open tumors.
  • Cysts: of the breast, ovaries, and of any kind that develop very rapidly and are very large.
  • Edema: primarily caused by an allergen; internal and external, with swelling and pale white shinning; with joint and extremity pains; without thirst; foot swelling with sweating.
  • Eye Inflammations: allergic condition with swelling around eyes, lids swollen (full of liquid), shiny, red, excessive tearing; burning, stinging; sudden piercing pains; conjunctivitis; trachoma; better for cold applications, worse for heat and bright light.
  • Hives/Urticaria: burning and swelling of lips and eyelids, worse for warmth; nodular eruption on face and extremities; in asthmatic trouble, change of air and weather; during chill, fever perspiration; livid/bluish; worse at night and heat.
  • Swelling: lips, tongue, ears, eyes, skin; swollen external genitalia of males and females; with inflammation.

Modalities:
Worse from <
Heat and warmth of any kind, in closed heated rooms, hot baths, saunas; touch/pressure; right-side; sexual excess or frustration; midnight; after sleeping.
Better from > Cold, cold applications or bath; uncovering; open air; movement; sitting erect; lying on right-side.

Disposition:
They can pretend and seem to be happy when they actually feel wretched. Misfortune can make them laugh instead of cry because they feel awkward with the emotions. They are awkward and clumsy, knocking things over, tripping and falling usually from rushing. They can be constantly busy, with buzzy energy. They tend to walk fast, as if rushing. They can be fidgety, fussy and bumpy. There can be shrieking because of the sudden intensity of symptoms (as in stung by a bee).

Allergic. Lack of thirst generally. Flying dreams.

Antidoted by: LACH, LED, IP, NAT-M, PLAN, URT-U.
It Antidotes: CANTH, CHIN, DIG, IOD, NAT-P.
Incompatible: RHUS-T; onions, sweet oils.
Acute of: NAT-M, BAR-C (if lymph or glands swollen.)


Arsenicum album [arsenous acid]
A very important remedy for chemical warfare of any kind. Illnesses caused by chemical warfare including: Radiation sickness, Pesticides and Chemicals. Multiple chemicals sensitivities. Allergies. Exhaustion, collapse and great weakness. Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea with burning pain in stomach with chillness, thirst and restlessness, and other gastrointestinal problems. Pain which feels burning. Degenerative changes causing deterioration of the physical and/or mental state. Ailments from anxiety and financial loss. Lou Gehrig's Disease. A major homeopathic polycrest for many acute and chronic disorders, acting particularly on the chest and alimentary tract with burning pain, chilliness, diarrhea or breathlessness. Predisposition to cancer, anxiety, depression.

  • Anxiety: with despair, restlessness and many fears of being alone, of death, a friend has met with an accident, robbers, vague and unaccountable, narrow places, after vexation, and during heat; free floating anxiety, worse at night in bed; fearful with desire to hide; anxiety as if guilty of a crime; as if they have not done their duty and if anything is expected of them; anxiety can come on during fever, chill, in bed, from sedentary employment, from sufferings, and when alone; anxiety can be felt in abdomen; concerns about health and their symptoms causes stress; prone to obsessive-compulsive disorders.
  • Alcoholism: from anxiety, fear and weakness of disposition.
  • Allergy and Hypersensitivity: prone to allergies; to pesticides, chemicals, allopathic drugs, antibiotics; extremely sensitive to inimical elements in the external environment including air pollution; to specific foods allergies especially milk, wheat, sugar, ice cream, with hypoglycemia; to odors with acute sense of smell; anaphylaxis reaction. Hay fever with burning eyes, tears light sensitive; nasal discharge thin watery burning; throat burning, asthma, fears suffocation; restless, worried, exhausted by symptoms.
  • Asthma: spasmatic and periodic attacks, coming on during sleep, after midnight, which causes them to spring up from bed; in elderly people; after anger or vexation; from change of weather; after suppressed eruptions; unable to lie down for fear of suffocation; worse from taking cold mid-summer, night, 2 a.m., lying down in afternoon, and better for sitting up or bending foreword.
  • Dengue Fever: with exhaustion from least exertion, fever, and to prevent or treat the scalded-like rashes.
  • Depression: when depressed they are very restless, blame themselves, loathe and are annoyed with the depression and with everyone and everything; in fussy nervous people who are more worried about the past then the future; sadness cannot be consoled; great restlessness, driven from one place to another, changing beds at night, tossing and turning all night; thinks of jumping from a window (but fear of death usually prevents suicide); worse when alone, and from midnight to 3 a.m.
  • Diarrhea: after eating or drinking; from tainted food, especially meat, poultry or too much fruit, ice cream or icy drinks when hot; heat in stomach; burning sensation when expelling stool, better for heat; with extreme weakness and coldness of extremities;
  • Edema: internal and external with swelling of skin and extremity pain; with thirst; feet swell with sweating.
  • Eyes: burning and tearing; puffy around eyes; eyelids and margins dry and scaly; iritis (inflammation of the iris); intense sensitivity to light (photophobia); better from warmth.
  • Exhaustion: too weak to move, and excessive from any exertion; better for lying still; also with emaciation.
  • Hodgkin's Disease: with fever.
  • Indigestion: with sensation of a stone weight in stomach, with retching and vomiting, heartburn after eating especially very late at night, worse from fruit, cold drinks, ice cream, acidic foods, and better from sips of water and warmth.
  • Post Traumatic Stress: much anxiety and "fear of the universe," as a dangerous place with despair and hopelessness; fearful: of being disabled, of germs and contamination, of catching a contagious disease, of AIDS, of being left alone and solitude; obsessed with their condition and unknowingly attached to it; anxiety of conscience with remorse. ailments from fear with anxiety; fear of killing or desire to kill; insane anxiety caused by fright or fear, or from grief, persecution mania, and religiousness; oversensitive to mental impressions; desire to escape and jumps out of bed suddenly.
  • Skin: Rash of sudden onset, worse from heat. Ance rosacea with violet papules on nose, worse in spring. Eczema is chronic with itching, burning and skin swells.Psoriasis in chronic cases where the skin is dry, rough and thickened; scaly, flakes off a fine white powder; hot and burning skin; burning itch; better for warmth, and worse for cold and scratching. Hives with wth burning, anxiety and restlessness, also from eating shellfish.
  • Vision: foggy, while reading; sparks during headache and vertigo; flickering; green floaters; blue sparks; objects seem gray; white points and spots; horizontal hemiopia and upper sector of vision lost.
  • Ulcers: gastric and duodenal; with burning pain in stomach immediately after eating; nausea and vomiting; inability to digest food; loss of appetite.

Modalities:
Worse from < cold, drafts, wet weather, seashore; lying down, on back if having palpitations; cold food and drink, alcohol, sight and smell of food, after food, spoiled fish, watery fruit and vegetable diet, milk, wheat, sugar, ice cream, alcohol, coffee, vinegar; when alone; at or after midnight, 12-2 a.m., 1-3 a.m. and (when they may wake sweaty and thirsty), 2-3 am, 3 p.m., twilight; right-side; exertion; vaults and cellars.
Better from > external heat, hot applications, warmth, hot drinks, elevated head, open air; talking and conversation esp. about problems; morning; 11 a.m., 1-2 p.m.; motion.

Disposition:
Physical insecurity pervades this type, with an intense concern about their health. They fear and hate being ill, but also enjoy talking about it. Changing doctors and trying every therapy, usually finds them dissatisfied. Often obsessed with their digestive and eliminative systems, they abhor being constipated. There is a great concern with rigorous health diets and will follow them religiously. They are perfectionists, or always seeking perfection, aspiring to more than most can attain, both compulsive and driven. The driven over-doer of anything worth doing, they immerse themselves in work as most important. Famous for their meticulous attention to, and liking for, detail and accuracy, they tend to be efficient and they get things done. Their anxiety can be used to fill an emotional vacuum. Anal-retentive, they are orderly, tidy and obstinate, resisting, refusing, and hold fear in. They are so punctual with fear and even nightmares of being late, that they will start out early to avoid lateness and arrive early. They are also upset if made to wait, and have a passion for tight schedules. They can be prone to obsessive-compulsive disorders.

Chilly. Craves heat. Thirsty for sips. Sallow pale, almost alabaster complexion. Dry, rough skin.

Antidoted by: BELL, CAMPH, CARB-V, CHIN, CHIN-S, FERR, HEP, IOD, IP, KALI-BI, LACH, MERC, NUX-M, NUX-V, OP, SAMB, PULS, VERAT.
It Antidotes: ARG-N, CARB-AN, CARB-V, CHIN, FERR, GRAPH, HEP, HYPER, IOD, IP, KALI-BI, LACH, MAG-C, MAG-M, MERC, NAT-C, NAT-M, NUX-V, PHOS, PLB, SAMB, STRY, TAB, VERAT.
Incompatible: honey, cane juice. Compatible and intercurrent with: ARN, BAR-C, CAUST.


Aurum metallicum [metallic gold]
Depression caused by Gulf War Syndrome: Aurum is wonderful remedy to avoid or carefully replace anti-depressant drugs when the disposition fits. Many Anti-depressants such as Prozac and Zoloft are being prescribed by M.D.'s for the depression, grief and desperation which affects most sufferers of GWS because their lives are in ruin. They are very ill and being told it's all in their heads. Many can no longer function or work. Death and suicide is high among these vets, and the numbers are part of the cover-up. Depression, sadness, grief, and the trauma of all of the losses incured lead to suicidal tendencies, which are worse from pain, and impotency. They feel surrounded by a dark black cloud and alone, a failure and forsaken, having fallen from grace because of their losses. Self-condemnation and self-reproach about what has not been achieved and a sense of worthlessness, is followed by self-destructive attitudes. Ailments from violence. Multiple Sclerosis and spinal degeneration. Alcoholism. General weakness. Paralysis with madness. Insomnia.

  • Eye Problems: extreme photophobia; hemiopia with horizontal vision loss, the upper or lower half of objects are invisible; glaucoma; everything looks blue; double vision.
  • Halitosis: horrible odor from the mouth and nose; odor of old cheese; taste foul, bitter, putrid, sweetish or milky; excessive salivation; and gingivitis of girls at puberty who are gloomy or depressed.
  • Insomnia: tired but cannot sleep from chronic depression and mental activity which prevents sleep; sleep disturbed by sexual excitement; restless sleep with anxious or frightful dreams, wakes screaming and frightened; sobbing loudly in sleep; frequent waking and restless sleep.
  • Nose Problems: chronic inflammation of nasal bones; necrosis decay with fetid discharge of pus, blood and horrible odor; ulcerated, painful, swollen, obstructed; boring pains are worse at night; cancer of antrum (sinus cavity); sensitive smells; red knobby tip of nose.
  • Testicle Disorders: pain, neuralgia, swelling, and hardening; chronic induration; enlargment of the right testicle; pressing pain of right testes; soreness in evening 6-11 p.m.; tension of testes; atrophy and undeveloped in boys; hydrocele of children; flow of prostatic fluid with flaccidity of the penis.
  • Vertigo: as if spinning in a circle when stooping, or rising after stooping but then better; staggering as if drunk when walking in open air, feels as if one would fall to the left or is swaying to the left and must lie down; sensation as if a currant of air is rushing through the head when cold; head feels full, giddy and hot; with headache; from motion.

Modalities:
Worse from <
Emotions; failure; night; waking; right-side; cold weather, cloudy, winter; getting cold; from sunset to sunrise, night; noise.
Better from > Heat, warmth, cool open air, cool bathing; walking in open air; evenings; music; moonlight.

Disposition:
Sadness, depression, despair, despondency and disappointment is their plague. A heavy weight (like gold metal) is carried within their psyche. When depressed they feel surrounded by a dark black cloud with a deep sense of hopelessness. They are prone to seasonal depressions which are worse in the darkness of winter and when the sun doesn't shine. They have a deep feeling of having "fallen from grace", as a result of their unrealized aspirations and there are losses and failures. When depressed, thay are inflexible and can't see any possibilty for changing their life. They want to die, and may talk and think cheerfully of death and suicide as a way out. Death as the solution to their suffering is very appealing and freeing to them. Financial loss or a business failure is a loss of their "golden touch: and can overwhelm their sense of self-worth.

Right-sided symptoms. Chilly.

Antidoted by: BELL, CHIN, COCC, COFF, CUPR, MERC, PULS, SPIG, SOL-N.
It antidotes: MERC, SPIG, KALI-I.


Botulinum [toxin of bacillus botulinum]
Illnesses from Botulinum Toxoid Vaccine with symptoms of: ptosis (drooping upper eyelid); double and blurred vision; cramping stomach pain; severe constipation; difficulty swallowing and breathing, choking sensation; weakness and uncertainty in walking, "blind staggers"; dizziness; thickening of speech; weakness of facial muscles causing mask-like facial expression; and symptoms of food poisoning and botulism.


Cadmium sulphuricum [cadmic sulphate]
Illness from radiation sickness, chemical and toxic poisoning, lead poisoning, vaccinations. Chronic fatigue with extreme prostration, great weakness and exhaustion. Cancer. Formication of the skin and deeper tissues. Asleep sensation or like ants crawling in the extremities deep in the muscles and the skin. Hyperaesthesia or anesthesia. Numbness of parts; the nose, one hand. Paralyzed parts are sometimes painful. Crawling in paralyzed parts.

  • Cancer: if you have cancer with burning prostration and vomiting CADM-S will relieve these symptoms for weeks; a great palliative for gastric irritation of cancer.
  • Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy: to antidote the severe side effects of these cancer therapies which can cause persistent vomiting [30c, which may cause patient to throw up soon after remedy and then feels much better]; lifts spirits of cancer sufferer in general; intense or violent nausea, retching; black vomit; many of these patients die because they cannot eat but this remedy will save them.

Modalities:
Worse from <
Walking, motion; carrying; after sleep; open air; stimulants.
Better from > Rest; eating.

Disposition:
There is a dread of work; aversion to doing everything mental and physical. Wants to be perfectly quiet; part of it is a state of indolence, part of it is an aversion to motion. Don't speak to me; don't bother me; let me be in peace; with anxiety.


Cantharis [spanish fly]
Illnesses from inflamatories with inflammation and burns with raw, burning, scalding pain. Cystitis and Urinary Track Infection: with intolerable constant frequent urge to urinate in small amounts; painful urging to urinate with burning, cutting and scalding pain in bladder and extending to urethra; urine scalds; burning pain before and during urination; aching after urine; acute and chronic inflammation with constant and intolerable urge to urinate in small amounts; cutting pain in bladder after urination extending to kidney. Skin: blisters and blister-like eruptions, burns, scalds. Burning, raw pain in general. Burns: pain of, with raw, burning, scalding.

  • Blisters: to prevent before they form if friction is probable cause.
  • Kidney Stones: pain like a knife stabbing in all directions, burning pain in bladder and intolerable urge to urinate.

Modalities:
Worse from <
Urinating- before, during and after; drinking cold water or coffee; sound of water; right-side; touch, approach; bright objects.
Better from > Rubbing; warmth; belching, farting; cold applications; alcohol, wine.

Disposition:
Anxious and restlessness, anger and irritability, ending in rage. Sexual mania, excitement during pains. Attempts to do something constantly, but accomplishes nothing. Hydrophobia.

Antidoted by: ACON, APIS, BELL, CAMPH, PULS, SULPH, SYMPH.
Incompatible: COFF; oil, coffee.
It antidotes: BELL, CAMPH, CARB-V; vinegar, alcohol.


Carbo vegetabilis [vegetable charcoal]
Illness, collapse and weakness from poisons, carbon monoxide, shock, stress and injury, blood loss, surgery, alcohol, fish (especially spoiled), vegetables, ice-water, salt, salted meats, butter. Persons who have never recovered from effects of some previous illness or injury. Mental and physical weakness, lassitude, sluggishness. Difficulty thinking and they may feel anxious and restless especially at night. There is sudden circulatory collapse with loss of fluids, blood stagnation, weak pulse, and external icy coldness and cold breath. There can be oozing of blood from the mucous membranes, and exhausting sweats. They may suffer respiratory difficulties in breathing. People who have never fully recovered from the effects of some previous illness.

  • Anesthesia: for the bad effects of general anesthesia during surgery where the lack of oxygen causes problems. [30c, 3 doses within 2 days.]

Modalities:
Worse from <
Loss of fluids; warmth, warm room, warm-damp weather, getting overheated; motion; lying down; night, 4-5 p.m.; during and after eating, rich and fatty food, butter, milk, coffee, wine, shell fish, spoiled fish, poultry, icy drinks; pressure of cloths.
Better from > Open air, fanning, cool air; repose, lying down; belching; elevating feet.

Disposition: Lacks interest in anything; quick changes in mood. Lazy, sluggish, become easily embarrassed in company with easy flushing. Fear of the dark and public speaking. Anxiety with apprehension and uncertainty. Persons who have never recovered from effects of some previous illness or injury. Lack of reaction to homeopathic remedies. Sudden loss of memory.

Must have air and windows opened. Chilly. Blue pallor and lips. Extremities are blue and mottled.

Antidoted by: ARS, CAMPH, CANTH, COFF, LACH, NUX-V.
It Antidotes: ARS, BRY, CALAD, CALC-AR, CHIN, LACH, MERC, TARENT.
Incompatible: KREOS; glycerine, vegetable oils. Compatible: LYC, CIST.


Causticum [potash prep.-acris sine kali]
Ill affects of steroids/cortisone, burns, suppression of skin eruptions, fright, grief, and sorrow. Progressive weakness of muscular strength and gradual paralysis. Rawness or soreness of scalp, throat, respiratory tract, rectum, anus, urethra, vagina, uterus. Local paralysis of single organs or parts. They improve for a time, then comes to a standstill.

  • Bladder Incontinence: weakness of bladder sphincter; involuntary when coughing, sneezing, blowing the nose and laughing; bedwetting in first sleep.
  • Cystitis: burning pain in urethra, during urination, and after sex; numbness, sensation absent when urinating; urine with clotted blood.
  • Multiple Sclerosis (M.S.): gait is reeling, wavering, tottering, staggering, unsteady, and difficulty walking; awkwardness and trembling walking; when walking joints feel painfully tense; unsteadiness of muscles in forearm and hand.
  • Paralytic Weakness: with fatigue; of extremities, joints, upper limbs, wrist; paralysis of single parts or nerves; of the tongue with stammering; lips.
  • Paralysis: is local, of single organs or parts with loss of muscular strength and gradual weakening of muscles; stiff joints; from exhausting disease or severe mental shock; hemiplegia (one sided paralysis).
  • Vision: dark circles with points of light; white circles then green spots; dim in the morning on waking better from washing face, and worse rubbing eyes; double vision; looking upward and sideways to right; foggy at the beginning of incipient cataract; illusion of insects; sees sparks on winking.

Modalities:
Worse from <
Dry, cold winds, in fine clear weather, cold, cold air, cold draft, dry weather, dry cold air, change of weather, from warm to cold, exposure to wet, winter; bathing in cold water, getting wet; morning.
Better from > Damp and warmth weather, rain, warm air, wet weather, cloudy weather, cold weather, open air, warm air, heat, summer; cold drinks.

Disposition:
Fiery intense type. The true idealist with deep empathy for the suffering ones and deep felt sense of justice, and a highly analytical mind. Extremely rebellious idealism and can be disillusioned. Political immorality and exploitation outrages them. They may feel so upset and angry at the TV or radio news that they cannot indulge too often, but they may write many letters to newspapers and politicians to right social injustices. Dedicated to the truth and tends to be a loner since they are too intense and moral for most people. Their concern can also be worry and are anxious about others. Strong sense of social justice and compassion for others, and sympathetic.

Slim and wiry. Face angular, with deep facial creases.

Incompatible: COFF, PHOS; acids, coffee. Do not use with PHOS- Must not be used before or after PHOS, always disagrees.
Antidoted by: AM-M, ANT-T, ASAF, COFF, COLOC, DULC, GUAJ, NUX-V.
It antidotes: ANT-T, ASAF, CHIN, COLOC, EUPHR, GRAT, LYC, PLB; paralysis from lead poisoning (bad effects of holding type in mouth of compositors), and abuse of MERC or SULPH in scabies (itchy rough skin).
Compatible: MAG-C; MERC assists the action of.


Ledum Palustre [marsh tea, wild rosemary]
Illnesses from toxicity from vaccinations, after affects of steroid injections, ill effects of puncture wounds, insect or animals bites and stings, recent or chronic injuries and bruises, and ill effects of alcohol, and suppressed discharges. After affects of Steroid Injections. Arthritic and Rheumatic pain starts in lower limbs and moves upward; especially for small joints pain which are swollen, and stiff; nodes in the foot and heel, knees, skin over joints with purple puffiness; painful knots; pain starts in lower limbs and moves upward; especially small joints which are swollen, stiff, with weariness; painful tendons; painful soles can hardly walk; drawing pain in long bones; rheumatic right hip and left shoulder. Redness with swelling and throbbing pain. Puncture wounds, especially soles and palms; it prevents tetanus; needle and stab wounds; wounded parts become cold, puffed, pale, mottled.

  • Joints: painful, cold and edemic swelling; swollen ankles; easily sprained ankles; aching wrist especially in the evening while sitting; tumors of the wrist; drawing pain in joints after wine. Hip pain and disease in right hip joint; gouty pain; pain standing; pressing pain of hip and thigh bone, worse from motion.
  • Knee Pain and Stiffness: on beginning to move, while walking; rheumatic pain; with swelling and edema; pain extending to hip; tearing pain from warmth of bed; sore patella while walking; trembling knee while sitting; worse warmth, better cold applications.
  • Lumbago: aching pain and stiffness on motion from rising from a seat, from sitting and long after; weakness in lumbar region.

Modalities:
Worse from <
Heat, warm bed, stove; wearing too many clothes; movement, walking, motion of joints; alcohol, wine; evening, night; touch; injury; feather bed;
Better from > Ice cold applications and baths for ailments (especially soaking feet in cold water); cold dry weather, cold air; at rest; lying on face.

Disposition:
Optimistic and cheerful temperament. Desire for mental activity and ideas on closing eyes. Can be discontented especially in the daytime. Vehement anger. Desire for solitude, avoids company and can have a distaste for even friends at times. Some fear they will die if they go to sleep and anxiety of conscience in dreams.

Feels cold and chilly most of the time. Tends to look pale and delicate, or stout and robust with red face and enlarged pupils. Weakness and coldness with lowered resistance, but aggravated by heat.

Antidoted by: CAMPH, RHUS-T.
It antidotes: APIS, COLCH, HYPER.
Compatible: LYC.


Phosphorus [phosphate rock]

Illness from radiation sickness and burns, and chemical poisoning. Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, especially those to strong odors and respiratory problems. There is improper oxidation and low blood pressure. The mucous membranes are irritated and inflamed. Hemorrhage: with profuse bleeding from any orifices of body (including nose, chest and bladder) and wounds; blood does not coagulate; wounds bleed freely; anemia after hemorrhage; spitting of blood, bright red, dark, streaked, uncoagulated. Chronic Diarrhea: which is exhausting but painless and that is watery, pouring out, involuntary, copious, grey, bluish, and green mucous and it can be bloody. Vomiting: with nausea, after eating, warm drinks, putting hands in warm water, warm rooms, constant, worse from too much salt. Acts on blood vessels and serum, spinal cord and bone. Lou Gehrig's Disease. Cancers, acute leukemia.

  • Anxiety: panic and free-floating anxiety attacks are not uncommon; fear of things like robbers, suffocation, disease, death, dark, at twilight and during thunder-storms; terrified in a room full of people if they cannot think of what to talk about; more anxious and fearful when alone.
  • Alcoholism: with sexual excesses, need for instant gratification and company, and craving particularly for wine; with hemorrhaging and nose bleeds.
  • Cough: upper respiratory ailments; congestion of lungs; early stages of bronchitis or pneumonia, with tightness in chest and dry hard painful cough; tickling dry cough; croup; racking; hoarseness; loss of voice; spasmatic; violent; expectoration copious, yellow; mucous, in morning; chronic catarrh with slight hemorrhage; nervous cough, worse around strangers; worse talking, active, lying left-side, evening, getting wet, cold air, change of temperature, laughing, morning, betterwalking in open air.
  • Eyes: atrophy of optic nerve; bleeding; cataract; cancer; itching; tearing; photophobia; tension; twitching lids.
  • Fainting: from the sight of blood; on excitement; from pain.
  • Hypoglycemia: with headache if hunger not appeased immediately, weakness from not eating; ailments from hunger and must eat even in the middle of the night.
  • Jaundice: with acute hepatitis; sore and enlarged liver.
  • Vision: veil before eyes; near-sighted (myopia); colors- black, specks, spots, objects seem gray, green halo of light, red halo; floating, spots; dazzling; dim better morning, after sex, distant objects, during headache; dim reading, during vertigo; objects seem distant; sees a sea of fire closing eyes; flashes; flickering; foggy; lightnings; loss of vision from fainting; sparks in the dark and on falling asleep; spots; weak.
  • Voice Loss: from prolonged taking. Laryngitis- with very painful larynx, worse speaking, evenings and cold air; rawness, sore; sore trachea; sensitive to pressure, touch, with constriction and irritation of larynx. Hoarseness- husky, rough, deep, nasal; chronic; from talking; worse in the evening; during coryza.
  • Ulcers: gastric and duodenal; vomiting of cold food and drink with blood, burning pains in pit of stomach and sour belching.

Modalities:
Worse from <
Left-side; lying on left or painful side, lying on back, stomach; electrical changes; cold (except headaches); putting hands in cold water, washing clothes, wet feet; twilight, during sunset, evening, dark; during thunder, stormy, sudden change of weather, drenching rains, winter; alone; ascending stairs; hair cut; music; odors, smell of food and flowers; touch; salt, milk, butter, spoiled fish, garlic; alcohol, iodine, anesthetic drugging.
Better from > Warmth, open air; cold bathing; sleeping, even short nap; eating; cold food and drinks; in the dark; rubbing, massage; sympathy; and lying on the right side; magnetism; eating; frozen food, wine.

NOTE:  Do NOT drink wine while taking Phosphorus (or you'll wish you hadn't!).

Disposition:
They are diffusion in essence, spreading outward emotionally without boundaries, drifting with the current. Living only for the present, most of their passions tend to be short lived and regretted afterward. They can be mentally spaced-out, a scattered consciousness often seen in these soft dreamy types. There is a hunger for recognition and a performer's temperament with a great imagination. With sparkling eyes and general effervescence, they are very friendly, open and generous. They are delicate, highly impressionable, trusting and emotionally vulnerable, making it difficult for them to protect themselves. Oversensitive to everything in their environment.

Complexion appears waxy and fine. Chilly, cold feet and legs. Thirsty for cold drinks. Often hungry with a desire for salt and ice cream. Left-sided symptoms. Low blood pressure.

Antidoted by: ARG-N, ARS, CALC, COFF, MEZ, NUX-V, SEP, TER.
Incompatible: CAUST & should not precede or follow CAUST; coffee, wine.
It Antidotes: BRY, CALC, CAMPH, IOD, MEZ, NAT-M, NUX-V, PETR, RUMX, STANN, TAB, TER; turpentine, chloroform.
Compatible: CIST, LYC, MAG-C. Chronic of: ALL-CEP.


Pyrogenium [artificial sepsin-from rotten meat]
Illnesses from sepsis- pathogenic microorganisms and/or their toxins, septic conditions and infections, bacterial poisoning, remote effects of hepatitis, diptheria, chronic malaria, sewer gas poisoning. Surgical infections, dissecting wounds. Blood-poisoning or absorption of pus. Typhoid fever. Ptomaine poisoning.

  • Fever: high fever temperature around 106; violent chill followed by heat and sweating; dry heat, marked aching of limbs, restlessness; with accelerated pulse out of all proportion to the height of the temperature or the severity of the other symptoms, slow pulse with high fever and fast pulse with low fever; the heart seems to feel the brunt of the attack and its action is greatly increased; heart becomes weak and muscles prostrated; feels hot as if he had a fever of 105 deg F, but was only 99 deg F; great heat with profuse how sweat, but sweating does not cause a fall in temperature; chill begins in back between scapulae, felt in bones with sweat, at night; frequent urination. Chronic complaints that date back to septic conditions (micro-organisms or their toxins). It occupies an important place in every case of blood-poisoning be it from diphtheria, typhoid, typhus or any other malignant disease to which human flesh is subject. Horrible offensiveness of all the discharges of the body: the breath, sweat, vomit, menstrual, lochia, stools, diarrhea, and other excretions, have dead putrefying smell.
  • Blood poisoning: with septic fever, the first remedy to be thought of in a case of septicemia from either childbirth or surgical or any other cause; intense restlessness; blood poisoning (when other indicated remedy doesn't work). Toxemia or septicaemia (pathogenic bacteria in bloodstream), whether after tooth extraction, in peritonitis, skin or urinary infection. Septic wounds, cuts, bites.
  • Heart: cardiac weakness from septic conditions; palpitations worse by motion; throbbing feeling in head and ears, preventing sleep; audible loud heartbeat.
  • Malaria: chronic; with high fevers and intense restlessness.
  • Miscarriage: septic miscarriages; after-effects of miscarriage.

Modalities:
Worse from <
Cold, damp; sitting; moving eyes.
Better from > Motion, changing position, hard rocking, walking; pressure, stretching; heat, hot, bath, drinks.

Disposition:
Restlessness. Anxiety and irrational notions. Loquacious; Can talk and think faster than ever before; esp. during the fever; talks or whispers in sleep. Cannot tell whether dreaming while awake or asleep. Active brain, making speeches and writing articles at night. Irritable, delirium and confusion of mind about his body and limbs. After the fever the hallucination persists that he is very wealthy and has a large sum of money in the bank: "Delusion, that he is very wealthy."

Very sensitive to cold. Face is pale, cold and ashen, then flushed. Cheeks red and burning hot. Dry skin.


Radium Bromatum [Radium Bromide]
Illnesses from radium, radiation, ill effects of burns, and x-rays, with great muscular weakness. Severe aching pains all over, with restlessness, better moving about. Chronic rheumatic arthritis. Ailments and burns due to radium burns that take a long time to heal, with burning of skin, as if on fire; ulcers. Ulcers due to marked increase in the poly-morphonuclear neutrophils. Dermatitis caused by x-rays with itching, burning, swelling and redness. Itching all over the body. Rheumatism and gout. Wandering pains that come on suddenly. Tumors and skin cancers. Necrosis of bones. Lowered blood pressure. Late in appearance of symptoms.

Modalities:
Worse from <
Getting up; warmth of bed; 3 a.m., 4 a.m., 7 a.m., 11 a.m., noon, night; washing, shaving; smoking; stretching.
Better from > Lying down, after sleep; pressure; open air, cold air; continued motion; hot bath; wet-warm wet application; cold drinks, eating.

Disposition:
There is a great desire to be with people. Fear of being alone in the dark, and to have somebody near. Tired and irritable. Cranky and easily vexed. Apprehensive and depressed.

Antidotes: RHUS-V; TELL.


Sulphur [sublimated sulphur]
Illness from toxicity from vaccinations and chemicals, suppressions, alcohol, sun, bed-sores, over-exertion, falls, blows, sprains, reaching high, chills. Allergic and Hypersensitive tendencies to allopathic drugs especially antibiotics, cleanses system of previous allopathic drugging; chemicals. Unhealthy skin, fine, dry, hard looking, with tendency to skin diseases and red orifices. Burning skin and pains; hot feet. Skin diseases with itching and redness. Sulphur counteracts drug suppression of disease and the onset of tumors and cancer. It cleanses the system of chemicals and previous allopathic drugging, especially antibiotics. It is used To begin the cure of chronic disease. For complaints tend to improve and relapse continually and then remain stationary. A tendency to be Warm blooded and perspire easily. Allergic tendencies. Relapsing complaints which improve and relapse continually and then remain stationary. Counteract the onset of tumors and cancer, of skin, leukemia. Lou Gehrig's Disease.

  • Alcoholism: chronic; with early morning diarrhea and chronic problems, confusion, indigestion, skin problems; from idleness; desires beer, wine, whiskey, brandy.
  • Allergy and Hypersensitive: to allopathic drugs especially antibiotics, cleanses system of previous allopathic drugging; with candida infection; to chemicals.
  • Anxiety: with despair about death and poverty. Nervous, irritable and anxious about small matters. They are not easily reassured. This may come with fainting, profuse sweating and body odor; worse daytime, 11 a.m., better warmth, fresh air.
  • Colds: chronic and long lasting; sneezing with fluent thin discharge; thick yellow discharge, glue-like; one side stuffed up.
  • Cough: dry cough that returns periodically at night after the flu.
  • Headache: with dim vision during, and flickering in vision before and during headache; can be caused by scintillating scotomas of eyes; with hypoglycemia.
  • Hives/Urticaria: during fever, nodular, face, chest, back, extremities, upper limbs, hand, lower limbs foot; worse for warmth and exercise.
  • Hypoglycemia: headache if hunger not appeased immediately, ailments including weakness from not eating.
  • Insomnia: with sleepiness; from thoughts activity of mind and liveliness; after waking; before midnight, from 1-2 a.m., after 3-5 a.m.
  • Itching: voluptuous, biting, burning, crawling; can be without an eruption; dry, red, scaly, itchy patches; especially people often feels too hot; at night; in drunkards; scratches until raw; worse on becoming warm, in bed, at night, after baths, wet compresses or clothes, better scratching, cool open air.
  • Knee Pain and Stiffness: right knee; stiff after sitting, and rising from seat; swelling, white; painful rising from seat.
  • Lumbago: aching lumbar pain with soreness on rising up from a seat, drawing pain on rising; lumbar tension on rising up; pain extending to groin; worse walking, while sitting, and better walking bent.
  • Psoriasis: violent itching, scratching causes soreness and burning; scalp is dry and hot with intense itching; worse night, bathing, warmth, damp, spring; skin tends to be dry, scaly, terribly itchy skin, and burning in spots.
  • Rashes: on generally unhealthy skin; dry, scaly, burning, with itching especially from warmth; in evening, recurring in springtime and damp weather; excoriation especially in folds of skin; worse scratching and washing.
  • Sleep Problems: with sleepiness, while reading, while riding, when sitting after work; takes short naps during the day; can drop off to sleep in an instant anywhere, anytime, in any position; 2-3 p.m.; trouble sleeping at night; disturbed sleep; anxious dreams; prolonged sleep; restless; unrefreshed; wakeful frequent and in the early morning, waking 3-5 a.m.; waking at 5 a.m. with urging for stool.
  • Stye: upper lid near inner canthi, redness, burning, red margins of lids; recurring.

Modalities:
Worse from <
Heat, warmth, in a warm bed, intolerant of heat in any form, dislike of extreme cold, dread of bathing, warm room, wet weather, stormy weather; touch/pressure; lying on left-side, lying on back (chest pain); sneezing; standing, exertion, at rest, after long sleep; staying in one position, standing still, sustained effort; water and bathing; hunger, delay in eating; 11 a.m., morning, night; alcohol, milk; periodically.
Better from > Open air, must have windows open; dry warm weather; darkness; lying on the right side, lying on affected part; drawing up affected limbs, movement, scratching; motion, walking; after perspiring; sugar.

Disposition:
"The Common Denominator" of types, because of their contrast and extremes in personality types; the non-intellectual often laborer type who likes to work with their hands, or the philosopher, scientist, impulsive artist type; theoretical or living in the realm of imagination; selfish and greedy with love of money and possessions or generous and anti-materialistic; collector pack-rat hoarding or reluctant to be burdened by worldly goods; unconcerned with their appearance, disheveled messy or dirty, clumsy or highly clothes conscious (but some detail is shabby); likes chaos finding clutter and messy surroundings comforting or has a theoretical desire for neatness and is upset by dirt and chaos (but won't himself to clean it up). They tell you too much, more than you want or need to know. They are individualists and freedom is prized highly, including that of others.

Warm-blooded. Tends to be lean, weakly, with lax muscles and pale complexions. Perspires easily, with body odor.

Antidoted by: ACON, ARG-N, BRY, CAMPH, CHIN, FERR, HYDR, MERC, PETR, PULS, RHUS-T, SEP, SIL, THUJ.
Incompatible: RAN-B, tea.
It Antidotes: ACON, ALOES, ALUMN, BRY, CALC, CANTH, CHIN, COP, GUA, HYDR, IOD, MERC, NIT-AC, OLND, PHYT, RHUS-T, SEP, THUJ.
Compatible: CALC (before or during, but do no follow), CALC-P, CHAM, LYC, MANG, MED, NUX-V, SARS.


Thuja Occidentalis [arbor vitae]
Illness and toxicity from vaccinations, sulphur, mercury. Acute allergic reaction after the injection, ailments after vaccinations and has not been well since; atrophy of right arm after re-vaccination; causing insomnia, diarrhea, cough, conjunctivitis, headache, eruptions; loss of speech and an imbecile-like state. Headaches with pain as if pierced by a nail, left-sided; migraine; worse for stress, over-tiredness, and over-excitement. Insomnia is chronic; dreams of falling from a height, wakes at 4 am and stays awake.

  • Bladder Problems: cystitis with frequent urination with profuse flow; pain and burning felt near neck of bladder; inflammation of the urethra and swelling; incontinence, involuntary urine at night when coughing; feeble and split urine stream.
  • Cervical Erosion: and dysplasia; vagina very sensitive and can prevent sex.
  • Drug Abuse: general ill-health following long periods of drugging.
  • Fungal Infections: especially of toe nails; fungus/tinea versicolor; ringworm.
  • Genital Warts: male and female (H.P.V.) on penis, rectum, scrotum, vulva, uterus, vagina.
  • Guillain Barre Syndrome: onset after a vaccination; but no difficulty breathing; their joints give way while walking.
  • Headache: pain as if pierced by a nail, left-sided; pain accompanied by neuralgia and frequent urination; sinus headache- forehead, middle, frontal sinuses from chronic coryza; violent unbearable intense tearing or stabbing pains in the head which can affect the eyeball as well; migraine; worse for stress, over-tiredness, and over-excitement.
  • Ovarian Cysts: or fibroids of ovaries or uterus; worse left-side.
  • Ovaritis: painful inflammation of ovary, worse for left-side, and at every menstrual period.
  • Polyps: fleshy excrescences, soft and bleed easily; ears, vocal cords, larynx, cervix and uterus.
  • Warts: old, brown, painful, bleed, red, flat, indented, moist, large, jagged, soft; cauliflower on back of neck; on external throat and neck; on tongue; on nose; fig-warts on hands and feet or in anal and vulva areas.
  • Venereal Diseases: especially gonorrhea with scalding when urinating; suppressed gonorrhea and syphilis.

Modalities:
Worse from <
Afternoon, 3-5 p.m., night, 3 a.m.; cold, humidity, damp air, foggy weather, walking in wind; moonlight; extremities becoming cold; bed warmth and warm rooms; summer; vaccination; before and during menses; left-side, lying on left-side, one half of body, crosswise upper left and lower right; on closing eyes; music; after breakfast, eating fatty foods, onions, coffee, tobacco, apples, beer, pork, smell of food, narcotics, stimulants, tea.
Better from > Drawing up limbs; lying on affected side; scratching, touch, pressure; localized heat; sunlight; cold drinks; hot bathing; perspiration; stretching.

Disposition:
They are very secretive and closed to keep the deep, dark secret (skeleton in the closet) hidden. The hidden factor is subtle, because they keep it from themselves and others. Like a chameleon, they need to fit in and conform so they won't be found-out or judged by others. Self-protection is always expressed in some way, and they are elusive. They are always trying to please and may change depending on who they are with. It is a very guilt ridden remedy and they may use the word "guilty" a lot, and can feel guilty for no distinctive reason. This is an aspect of self-blame and shame. The shame isn't always clinically sexual, but somehow it always affects the sexuality or is sexually expressed. There is usually some history of abuse, suppression and manipulation and they feel frail and unsafe.

Thin and unhealthy looking. Face may be slightly puffy, pasty or greasy. Skin tends to warts, red moles, freckles. Perspires profusely all over the body, offensive and oily. Left-sided symptoms. Chilly.

Antidoted by: CAMPH, CHAM, COCC, MERC, NUX-V, PULS, SABIN, STAPH, SULPH.
Incompatible: tea, onion.
It Antidotes: ALL-C, COLCH, IOD, MERC, NUX-V, SULPH, VARIO.
Compatible: NAT-M.


Uranium Nitricum [Nitrate of Uranium]
Illnesses: from Depleted Uranium, uranium and radiation. Great emaciation with ravenous appetite, debility and general edema. Weakness and lassitude, on rising, daytime, after eating, during menses. Pain is generally burning internally, tearing away. Excessive thirst and appetite. Kidney and bladder ailments including diabetes. Dry mucous membranes and skin. Skin cancer; lupus exedens; discoloration from bruises; white vesicles on arms and legs with red areolae that itch and burn. Swelling of glands. Liver degeneration. Nausea, vomiting, with blood. Abdominal and stomach pain with sinking sensation; acidity; burning pain in stomach; gastric and duodenal ulcers; belching; indigestion; ascites (accumulation of a serous fluid of a watery nature in the peritoneal cavity which is the serous membrane lining of the abdominal cavity); sharp colic with tenesmus and raw feeling in rectum; enteritis and peritonitis with meteorism and great prostration. Sleepiness with extreme lethargy, especially when rising from bed, during menses; insomnia with restlessness, with heat and shivering, waking frequently; dreams are vivid, busy, and of fire. Male impotency with nightly emissions that are unconscious; can be complete without erections at all; genitals are cold, relaxed, sweaty. High blood pressure. Heat flushes.

  • Bladder and Kidneys: pain sore, tender; urging at 2 a.m.; urination frequent, worse daytime; urine incontinence and bedwetting, involuntary at night, with pain when trying to retain; kidney inflammation (nephritis); glycosuria, excretion of glucose in the urine as in diabetes; diabetes mellitus and insipidus; phosphaturia (phosphates in urine); containing casts and bile; acrid, milky; albuminous- consecutive to heart disease, in pregnancy; alkaline; dark or greenish color; copious, night, with headache; odor fishy, offensive; sediment flocculent, mucous, purulent; sugar.

Modalities:
Worse from <
Night; left-side; walking (headache); sleep, after sleep; getting up; during menses.
Better from > Open air; deep breathing; continued motion; hot bath; lying down; pressure.

Disposition:
They suffer ill humor that is fretful, peevish, and morose and they do not feel well all day. They feel confusion after sleeping, and general sluggishness with difficulty thinking and aversion to work. There is restlessness in general, which is worse at night. There can be despondency dejection depression and sadness. They can feel stupefied as if intoxicated, and comatose.

Perspiration odor is sweetish.


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