Identification of important homoeopathic drugs

• Acalypha indica
• Aconitum napellus
• Allium cepa
• Ocimum sanctum

Homoeopathic remedy

• Acalypha indica 
• Agnus castus 
• Allium cepa.
• Alumen
• Aloe socotrina 
• Antimonium tartarricum 
• Arnica montana
• Arsenicum album
• Aurum metallicum 
• Azadirachta indica
• Corallium rubrum
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• Cuprum metallicum
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• Rumex crispus

CUPRUM METALLICUM

Synonym: Copper

Source: It is a metal which is easily available.

Proved by: Hahnemann

Description

• Metallic copper is one of the most important remedies where the diseased conditions 'Strike in' on account of the non-appearance or suppressions of eruptions and the discharges.
• It affects the nerves of the cerebrospinal axis and muscles causing spasmodic effects, cramps, convulsions, start in the knees toes or fingers and radiate over the whole body, violent, contractive, and intermitting pain, are some of the more marked expressions of the action of cuprum; and its curative range therefore includes tonic and clonic spasms, convulsions, and epileptic attacks.
• Epileptiform convulsions, nervous trembling, tottering, and falling unconscious without a scream; frothing from the mouth; followed by a headache.
• In epilepsy, aura begins at knees, ascends to hypogastrium; then unconsciousness, foaming, and falling.
• Audible gurgling of drink passing from the esophagus.
• Brain affections, convulsions etc, from suppressed eruptions, or during dentition.
• The pains are increased by movement and touch.
• Complaints begin on left side.
• Chorea from fright; periodical.
• Nausea greater than in any other remedy.

Mind

• Nervous, Uneasy.
• Mental dullness slowness.
• Fear of society shuns everybody.
• Afraid of everybody who approach him.
• Loquacious; then melancholy; with spells of fear of death.
• Fixed ideas, malicious and morose.
• Uses words not intended.
• Mania; violent behavior, bites; beats; tears the things.
• Fearful.
• Empty feeling.
• Weeps violently.
• Convulsive laughter.
• Delirium; cold sweat.
• Confusion.

Head

• Purple, red swelling of head, with convulsions.
• Bruised pain in brain and eyes on turning them.
• Empty feeling with pain.
• Can not hold head erect or bores into the pillow; meningitis.
• Sensation as if water were poured over the head with headache.
• Headache after epilepsy.
• Giddiness accompanies many ailments, head falls forward on chest.
• Shakes the head from side to side.

Eyes

• Loss of vision before the convulsion.
• Aching over eyes.
• Fixed, stary, sunken, glistening turned upward.
• Quick rolling of eyeballs, with closed eyes.
• Lids spasmodically closed.
• Twitching of lids and photophobia; asthma.

Face

• Distorted, pale bluish, with blue lips.
• Sunken pinched Icy cold.
• Contraction of jaws, with foam at mouth.

Nose

• Sensation of violent congestion of blood to nose (Melilot).

Mouth

• Firmly closed or open with tongue darting in and out like a snake (in convulsions).
• Grinds the teeth.
• Strong metallic, slimy taste, with flow of saliva.
• Loss of speech; stammering; paralysis of the tongue.
• Froth from mouth.
• Food tastes like clear water.

Throat

• Unable to talk on account of spasms of throat.
• Gurgling noise when swallowing fluids.

Stomach

• Desire for cold drinks.
• Hiccough preceding the spasms.
• Nausea, periodical attacks of vomiting.
• Vomiting relieved by drinking cold water; with colic, diarrhœa, spasms. Strong metallic taste (Rhus).

Abdomen

• Tense contracted hot and tender to touch
• Frightful colic with contraction of the abdomen.
• Neuralgia of abdominal viscera.
• Colic, violent and intermittent.
• Intussusception; with faecal vomiting.
• Diarrhoea; profuse; spurting out; of green water.
• Cholera; summer diarrhoea in children.
• Round; tape thread worms.
• Constipation with great heat of body.
• Spasmodic movements of abdominal muscles.
• Cirrhosis of liver.

Stool

• Black, painful, bloody, with tenesmus and weakness.
• Cholera; with cramps in abdomen and calves.

Urinary

• Suppression of urine (in cholera); uremic.
• Passes clear watery urine during or after spasms.

Male

• Cramps in calves prevent coition especially old men or nervous young men.

Female

• Menses too late, protracted.
• Violent cramps in abdomen extending into the chest before or during menses; or from suppressions of the menses; convulsions before menses.
• Puerperal convulsions with open mouth and opisthotonos.
• Most distressing after- pains especially in women who had borne many children.
• Ebullition of blood; palpitation. Chlorosis. After-pains.

Respiration

• Cough as a gurgling sound, better by drinking cold water.
• Suffocative attacks, worse 3 am (Am c).
• Spasm and constriction of chest; spasmodic asthma, alternating with spasmodic vomiting.
• Whooping-cough, better, swallow water, with vomiting and spasms and purple face.
• Spasm of the glottis.
• Dyspnœa with epigastric uneasiness.
• Spasmodic dyspnœa before menstruation.
• Intermittent aphonia in professional singers.
• Angina with asthmatic symptoms and cramps (Clarke).

Heart

• Angina with asthmatic symptoms and cramps.
• Palpitation before menses.
• Pulse slow hard full and quick.

Back

• Paralysis of all the muscles up to the neck.

Extremities

• Jerking in hands and feet.
• Clenching of thumb in palms.
• Cramps in palms calves and soles.
• Great weariness of limbs.
• Joints contracted.
• Ankles painfully heavy.
• Knees; aura begins in; feel as if broken.
• Ankylosis of shoulder joint.
• Knees double up involuntary when walking bringing him down.

Skin

• Suppressed or undeveloped eruptions.
• Ulcers; itching spots and pimples at the folds of joints.
• Severe itching without eruptions.
• Yellow scaly eruptions (bend of elbow) Chronic psoriasis.
• Leprosy

Sleep

• Profound sleep; with shocks in the body.
• Constant rumbling in abdomen during sleep.

Fever

• Icy coldness of skin.
• Chilly.
• Sweat; cold clammy at night; sour smelling after convulsions.

Modalities

• Worse, before menses; from vomiting, contact.
• Better, during perspiration, drinking cold water.

Relationship

• Antidotes: Bell; Hepar; Camph. Copper is found in Dulcam, Staphisag, Conium and some other plants. Also in King-crab (Limulus).

Complementary

• Calc.

Dose

• Sixth to thirtieth potency.

CUPRUM METALLICUM

Synonym: Copper

Source: It is a metal which is easily available.

Proved by: Hahnemann

Description

• Metallic copper is one of the most important remedies where the diseased conditions 'Strike in' on account of the non-appearance or suppressions of eruptions and the discharges.
• It affects the nerves of the cerebrospinal axis and muscles causing spasmodic effects, cramps, convulsions, start in the knees toes or fingers and radiate over the whole body, violent, contractive, and intermitting pain, are some of the more marked expressions of the action of cuprum; and its curative range therefore includes tonic and clonic spasms, convulsions, and epileptic attacks.
• Epileptiform convulsions, nervous trembling, tottering, and falling unconscious without a scream; frothing from the mouth; followed by a headache.
• In epilepsy, aura begins at knees, ascends to hypogastrium; then unconsciousness, foaming, and falling.
• Audible gurgling of drink passing from the esophagus.
• Brain affections, convulsions etc, from suppressed eruptions, or during dentition.
• The pains are increased by movement and touch.
• Complaints begin on left side.
• Chorea from fright; periodical.
• Nausea greater than in any other remedy.

Mind

• Nervous, Uneasy.
• Mental dullness slowness.
• Fear of society shuns everybody.
• Afraid of everybody who approach him.
• Loquacious; then melancholy; with spells of fear of death.
• Fixed ideas, malicious and morose.
• Uses words not intended.
• Mania; violent behavior, bites; beats; tears the things.
• Fearful.
• Empty feeling.
• Weeps violently.
• Convulsive laughter.
• Delirium; cold sweat.
• Confusion.

Head

• Purple, red swelling of head, with convulsions.
• Bruised pain in brain and eyes on turning them.
• Empty feeling with pain.
• Can not hold head erect or bores into the pillow; meningitis.
• Sensation as if water were poured over the head with headache.
• Headache after epilepsy.
• Giddiness accompanies many ailments, head falls forward on chest.
• Shakes the head from side to side.

Eyes

• Loss of vision before the convulsion.
• Aching over eyes.
• Fixed, stary, sunken, glistening turned upward.
• Quick rolling of eyeballs, with closed eyes.
• Lids spasmodically closed.
• Twitching of lids and photophobia; asthma.

Face

• Distorted, pale bluish, with blue lips.
• Sunken pinched Icy cold.
• Contraction of jaws, with foam at mouth.

Nose

• Sensation of violent congestion of blood to nose (Melilot).

Mouth

• Firmly closed or open with tongue darting in and out like a snake (in convulsions).
• Grinds the teeth.
• Strong metallic, slimy taste, with flow of saliva.
• Loss of speech; stammering; paralysis of the tongue.
• Froth from mouth.
• Food tastes like clear water.

Throat

• Unable to talk on account of spasms of throat.
• Gurgling noise when swallowing fluids.

Stomach

• Desire for cold drinks.
• Hiccough preceding the spasms.
• Nausea, periodical attacks of vomiting.
• Vomiting relieved by drinking cold water; with colic, diarrhœa, spasms. Strong metallic taste (Rhus).

Abdomen

• Tense contracted hot and tender to touch
• Frightful colic with contraction of the abdomen.
• Neuralgia of abdominal viscera.
• Colic, violent and intermittent.
• Intussusception; with faecal vomiting.
• Diarrhoea; profuse; spurting out; of green water.
• Cholera; summer diarrhoea in children.
• Round; tape thread worms.
• Constipation with great heat of body.
• Spasmodic movements of abdominal muscles.
• Cirrhosis of liver.

Stool

• Black, painful, bloody, with tenesmus and weakness.
• Cholera; with cramps in abdomen and calves.

Urinary

• Suppression of urine (in cholera); uremic.
• Passes clear watery urine during or after spasms.

Male

• Cramps in calves prevent coition especially old men or nervous young men.

Female

• Menses too late, protracted.
• Violent cramps in abdomen extending into the chest before or during menses; or from suppressions of the menses; convulsions before menses.
• Puerperal convulsions with open mouth and opisthotonos.
• Most distressing after- pains especially in women who had borne many children.
• Ebullition of blood; palpitation. Chlorosis. After-pains.

Respiration

• Cough as a gurgling sound, better by drinking cold water.
• Suffocative attacks, worse 3 am (Am c).
• Spasm and constriction of chest; spasmodic asthma, alternating with spasmodic vomiting.
• Whooping-cough, better, swallow water, with vomiting and spasms and purple face.
• Spasm of the glottis.
• Dyspnœa with epigastric uneasiness.
• Spasmodic dyspnœa before menstruation.
• Intermittent aphonia in professional singers.
• Angina with asthmatic symptoms and cramps (Clarke).

Heart

• Angina with asthmatic symptoms and cramps.
• Palpitation before menses.
• Pulse slow hard full and quick.

Back

• Paralysis of all the muscles up to the neck.

Extremities

• Jerking in hands and feet.
• Clenching of thumb in palms.
• Cramps in palms calves and soles.
• Great weariness of limbs.
• Joints contracted.
• Ankles painfully heavy.
• Knees; aura begins in; feel as if broken.
• Ankylosis of shoulder joint.
• Knees double up involuntary when walking bringing him down.

Skin

• Suppressed or undeveloped eruptions.
• Ulcers; itching spots and pimples at the folds of joints.
• Severe itching without eruptions.
• Yellow scaly eruptions (bend of elbow) Chronic psoriasis.
• Leprosy

Sleep

• Profound sleep; with shocks in the body.
• Constant rumbling in abdomen during sleep.

Fever

• Icy coldness of skin.
• Chilly.
• Sweat; cold clammy at night; sour smelling after convulsions.

Modalities

• Worse, before menses; from vomiting, contact.
• Better, during perspiration, drinking cold water.

Relationship

• Antidotes: Bell; Hepar; Camph. Copper is found in Dulcam, Staphisag, Conium and some other plants. Also in King-crab (Limulus).

Complementary

• Calc.

Dose

• Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Homoeopathic pharmacy

Some important homoeopathic drugs with pictures

• Acalypha indica
• Aconitum napellus
• Allium cepa
• Ocimum sanctum

Valuable homoeopathic books

ALLEN, Henry Clay
          Keynotes (English)
          Key-notes trad. par le Dr R. Séror (Français)  ALLEN, Timothy Field           Allen's Clinical Hints (English)
          The Encyclopaedia of Pure Materia Medica (English)
          A primer of Materia Medica (English)
ANSHUTZ, Edward Pollock
          New, Old And Forgotten Remedies (English)
ARNDT, H. R.
          First Lessons in the Symptomatology of Leading Homœopathic Remedies (English)
BAUR, Jacques
          Cahiers du Groupement Hahnemannien 29ème série - 1992 (Français)
BIDWELL, Glen Irving
          How to use the repertory (English)
BITTINGER, B. F.
          Historic sketch of the monument erected in Washington City (English)
BOENNINGHAUSEN, Clemens Maria Franz Von
          Boenninghausen's Characteristics Materia Medica (English) par le Dr C.M. Boger
BOERICKE Oscar
           Repertory (English)
          Le répertoire Médical (Français)
BOERICKE, William
          Homoeopathic Materia Medica (English) BOGER, Cyrus Maxwell
          La Science et l'Art de Guérir Trad. Groupe Mercurius (Français)
          Studies in the Philosophy of Healing (English)
          General Analysis (English)
          General Analysis & Card index repertory (Français & English & Italien)
          Boenninghausen's Characteristics Materia Medica (English)
          Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica (English)
CAZALET, Serge           Homéopathie en Kinésiologie (Français)
CAZALET, Sylvain           Articles on Homeopathy (Français & English)
          The history of the London Homoeopathic Hospital (English)
          American Homeopathy in the World War (English)           Homeopathic remedies: An illustrated guide (Français & English)
C. G. H.           Cahiers du Groupement Hahnemannien 29ème série - 1992 (Français)
CLARKE, John Henry
          A Dictionnary of Practical Materia Medica (English)
          Gunpowder as a War Remedy (English)
          Hahnemann and Paracelsus (English)           Constitutional medicine (English)
          Homoeopathy explained (English)
          Cholera, diarrhoea and dysentery (English) CLOSE, Stuart M.
          The Genius of Homeopathy (English)
CURIE, Paul F.
          Practice of Homoeopathy (English) DAUCOURT, Valentin
          Une histoire de la médecine (Français) DAYRAUD, Valérie
          Biographies (English & Italian & Deutsch & Français) DEARBORN, Frederick M.
          American Homeopathy in the World War (English)
DEMANGEAT, Georges
          Recueil des publications : 71 articles (Français)
DYNAMIS, Ecole et Groupe
          Articles homéopathiques (Français)
E.H.H.D.S. - Ecole d'Homéopathie Hahnemannienne Dauphiné Savoie
          Recueil N° 26 - Homéopathie à Grenoble - Novembre 98 (Français)
          Site d'articles homéopathiques (Français)
GALLAVARDIN, Jean-Pierre           Les remèdes psychiatriques par le Dr Jean-Pierre Gallavardin (Français)
GLASGOW HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL
          The history of the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital (English) DEWEY, Willis Alonzo
          Essentials of Homoeopathic Materia Medica and Homoeopathic Pharmacy (English) GEBAUER, Gabriel Hernán
          Es la llamada "Ley de los semejantes" una ley científica? (Español)
          Una nueva teoria acerca de las ‘Diluciones homeopaticas’ (Español)
          La homeopatía, las enzimas y la información (Español)
          Investigación acerca del concepto de "Miasma Crónico (Español)
GUERNSEY, Henry Newell           Key-notes to the Materia Medica (English)
HAHNEMANN, Samuel
          Organon der Heilkunst, 6. Auflage (Deutsch)           Organon (English)
          Chronic Diseases (English)
          Pathogénésies réalisées par le Dr Samuel Hahnemann (Français) HERING, Constantine
         The Guiding Symptoms by C. Hering (English)
HOMÉOPATHE INTERNATIONAL
          Photothèque (Français & English)
HOMPATH
          500 articles
HORVILLEUR, Alain
          Homéopathie, la médecine de mes semblables (Français)
HUI BON HOA, Jacques
          Recueil des publications (Français)
HUTCHISON, John W.
          700 red lines symptoms Trad. par le Dr R. Séror (Français)
          Seven-hundred red line symptoms (English)
JONES, Stacy
          The Mnemonic Similiad (English)
JULIAN, Othon André           Pathogénésies du Dr O. A. Julian (Français)
KENT, James Tyler
          Kent's Repertory (English)           Kent's Materia Medica (Reversed Kent's Repertory) (English)
          Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (English)           New Remedies (English)
          Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy (English)
          Clinical Cases (English)
          Lesser Writings (English)
KOTOK, Alexander           The history of homeopathy in Russian Empire (English)
LABORIER, Bruno
          L'œuvre de Samuel Hahnemann: Étude de publications et  de ses journaux de malades. (Français)
LIPPE, Adolph Von
          Keynotes of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica (English)
MANTERO DE ASPE, Marcos           El ejercicio médico dela homeopatía en España a finales del siglo XX (Español)
MERCURIUS, Groupe
          La Science et l'Art de Guérir de C. M. Boger (trad. Française)
MORRELL, Peter
          Articles on homeopathy (English)
          The History of the London Homoeopathic Hospital (English)           The history of the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital (English)           British Homeopathy during two centuries (English)
NASH, Eugène Beauharnais
          Cent témoignages cliniques trad. par le Dr R. Séror (Français)           Regional Leaders (English)           Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics (English)           The testimony of the clinic (English)
          Leaders in Typhoid Fever (English) PATERSON, John
          The Bowel Nosodes (English)
RASACHAK, Bouachanh
          Répertoire d'homéopathie tropicale - B. Rasachak & P. Souk-Aloun (Français)
ROBERTS, Herbert Alfred           The principles and Art of Cure by Homœopathy (English)
SÉRET, Michel
          Photographies du Dr Michel Séret (Français & English) SEROR, Robert
          La M. M. Homéopathique Synthétique (Français)
          Répertoire des suppressions en Homéopathie (Français)
          Répertoire homéopathique et clinique dentaire (Français)
          Les 13 remèdes du Dr J. H. Clarke (Français & English)
          Key Notes au fort degré vérifiés cliniquement ou la recherche du diagnostic intuitif (Français)
          Biographies (Français)
          Voir Site du Docteur Robert Séror (Français & English)
SOUK-ALOUN, Phou ngeun
          Homéopathie, règles de prescription et méthodologie expérimentale (Français & English)
          L'Homéopathie et le Bouddhisme (Français) (en cours de réalisation)
          Répertoire d'homéopathie tropicale - B. Rasachak & P. Souk-Aloun (Français) TALCOTT, Selden Haines
          Mental diseases and their modern treatment (English)           Matière Médicale Homéopathique et Psychiatrique (Français)
THOURET, Georges
          Samuel Hahnemann, sa vie, ses idées (Français) VILLENEUVE, Eugène De
          Histoire de l'Hôpital Homéopathique Saint-Luc de Lyon (Français)
WOODS, H. Fergie
          Répertoire du Dr H. Fergie Woods Trad. par le Dr R. Séror (Français)

CORALLIUM RUBRUM

Synonym: Red Coral

prover name: Attomyr and Melicher

Description

Red Coral contains calcium carbonate and iron oxide. It affects mucus membranes especially of respiratory organs.  The proving of coral develops much coryza and epistaxis, and even ulceration within the nostrils. It is to be thought of for whooping and spasmodic coughs, especially when the attack comes on with a very rapid cough, and the attacks follow so closely as to almost run into each other. Often preceded by sensation of smothering, followed by exhaustion. Congestion of face after dinner. Patient becomes purple in face. Violent parosyms of cough with bleeding from mouth and nose. Feeling as if cold air were streaming through skull and air-passages. One is too cold when uncovered and too hot when covered; relieved by artificial heat.

Mind

• Peevish inclined to scold and swear at his pains.

Head

• Feels very large; violent pain as if parietal bones were forced apart;
• Headache with severe pain in back of the eyeballs < inhaling cold air.
• Pain aggravated by breathing cold air through nose.
• Worse stooping.
• Eyes hot and painful.
• As if forehead were flattened.
• Head feels large empty hollow.
• As if cold air were blowing through when head is moved quietly or shaken.
• Hot and painful; bathed in tears on closing.

Nose

• Odors of smoke, onions, etc.
• Painful ulcer in nostrils.
• Post-nasal catarrh.
• Profuse secretion of mucus dropping through posterior nares;
• Air feels cold.
• Dry coryza; nose stopped up and ulcerated.
• Epistaxis.
• Causing frequent hawking.
• Air feels cold.

Face

• Grows purple and black with cough.

Mouth

• Food tastes like sawdust.
• Bread tastes like straw.
• Beer tastes sweet.
• Pain in articulation of left lower jaw.
• Craves salt.

Respiration

• Hawking of profuse mucus.
• Throat very sensitive, especially to air.
• Profuse, nasal catarrh.
• Inspired air feels cold. [Cistus.]
• Profuse secretion of mucus dropping through posterior nares.
• Almost continuous paroxysms of violent Dry, spasmodic, suffocative cough; very rapid cough, spasmodic cough; which begins with gasping for breath and accompanied by purple face and followed by vomiting of stringy mucus and by exhaustion.
• Cough with great sensitiveness of air-passages; feel cold on deep inspiration.
• Continuous hysterical cough.
• Feels suffocated and greatly exhausted after whooping-cough.

• Reverberating minute-gun cough.
• Cough as soon as he eats.
• Continuous hysterical cough; or cough when the patient gives an isolated cough at regular intervals throughout the whole day.
• Air passages feel cold on deep inspiration.

Skin

• Very red flat venereal ulcers on glans and under surface of prepuce.
• Psoriasis of palms and soles.
• Smooth spots of Coral-colored, then dark red spots, changing to copper-colored spots.

Sleep

• Sleeps with head under cover.

Male

• Ulcers on glans and inner prepuce, with yellow ichor.
• Emissions and weakened sexual power.
• Profuse perspiration of genitals.

Modalities

• Worse; inhaling air; change of air; eating; towards morning.

Relationship

• Complementary: Sulph.
• Compare: Bellad.; Droser.; Mephit.; Caust.

Dose

• Third to thirtieth attenuation.

Agaricus

agaricus1

Synonym: Amanita muscaria, bug or fly agric

Kingdom: Fungi

Subphylum: Agaricomycotina

Class: Agaricomycetes

Order: Agaricales

Family: Agaricaceae

Genus: Agaricus

Botanical name: amanita muscarius L

agaricus

Medicinal name: Agaricus muscarius

Description:

• Agaricus is a large and important genus of mushrooms containing both edible and poisonous species
• Pileus: 7-13cm broadglobose at first, then dumble in shape, convex. The surface of the cap is covered with white floccose scales.
• The stem is white, often yellowish with age, pithy and often hollow.

Ocimum sanctum

ocimum sanctum1

Synonyms: tulsi, Tulasi, Holy Basil, Kemangen.
Kingdom: Plantae

Order: Lamiales

Family: Lamiaceae

Genus: Ocimum

Species: O. tenuiflorum

Botanical name: Ocimum tenuiflorum L.

Medicinal name: Ocimum sanctum

ocimum sanctum

Parts used: whole plants excluding roots.

Habitat: The plant grows all over India

Description:
• Holy Basil is a tropical, much branched, annual herb
• Height 2to 4 feet.
• Hairy stems and simple opposite green leaves.
• Leaves 2-5cm, long, oblong or elliptic oblong, hairy on both surace
• It is cultivated for religious and medicinal purposes

ACALYPHA INDICA

Synonym: Indian Nettle, Indian Acalypha, three-seeded mercury

Prover name: Dr. P.C. Mazumder of Calcutta

Guiding symptoms:

• Acalypha indica is an infalliable remedy for haemorrages especially haemoptysis in our Materia medica.
• A drug having a marked action on the alimentary canal and respiratory organs.
• It is indicated in incipient phthisis, with bard, racking cough, bloody expectoration, arterial haemorrhage, but no febrile disturbance.
• Very weak in the morning, gains strength during day.
• Progressive emaciation.
• Morning aggravation.

Particularis:

Respiratory symptoms:

• Acalypha indica is employed in the beginning of phthisis associated with hard, dry and severe cough followed by bloody expectoration.
• Expectoration of pure bright red and not profuse blood comes on in morning and dark clotted in afternoon.
• Cough most violent at night.
• There is dullness of chest percussion and severe pain in chest with progressive emaciation.
• Constant and severe pain in chest.
• Night sweet and evening rise of temperature.
• Pulse soft and compressible.
• Burning in pharynx, esophagus, and stomach.
• It is indicated in incipient phthisis with hard, racking cough, bloody expectoration, arterial hemorrhage but no febrile disturbance
• Worse in morning and at night.

Gastrointestinal symptom:

• Burning in intestines.
• Sensation of weight in stomach.
• Spluttering diarrhoea with forcible expulsion of noisy flatus, bearing down
• Pains and tenesmus.
• Rumbling distention, and griping pain in abdomen.
• Rectal haemorrhage; worse in morning.

Skin of Acalypha:

• Jaundice.

• Itching and circumscribed furuncle-like swellings.

Modalities:

• Worse; in morning.

Relationship:

• Compare: Millefol; Phosphor; Acetic acid; Kali nit.

Dose:

• Third to sixth potency.

Acalypha indica

Synonym: Muktajhuri, Swetbasanta, Indian Nettle, Indian Acalypha, three-seeded mercury
 

acalypha indica

 Kingdom: Plantae

Order: Malpighiales

Family: Euphorbiaceae

Genus: Acalypha

Species: A. indica

Botanical name: Acalypha indica L.

Medicinal name: Acalypha indica

Parts: Plant, Leaf, Root

Habitat: tropical Africa and South Africa, in India and Sri Lanka, as well as in Yemen and Pakistan.

Description:

• One simple herb that is used for treating diseases
• The leaves are serrated at edges and look deep green oval to round in shape.
• The root spreads wide and do not go deep which makes it easy to pull it out.
• Weed grows fast after rains and finishes its lifecycle before the hot April and May.

Advantages of Homeopathy

Homeopathy is the treatment of disease with a highly diluted substance that is able to provoke similar signs and symptoms in a healthy body (treatment by similar).This system of healing is gaining popularity all over the world. The system is curative, not suppressive with many advantages.  Main advantages of homeopathy are given bellow:

• Safe and Non-toxic. Homeopathic medicines are safe, gentle and without side effects when taken under the directions of a qualified practitioner.
• Homoeopathy improves the body’s resistance and immunity. It stimulates body’s own healing mechanism to counter the manifesting disorders.
• Homoeopathic medicines are administered in minute doses that act gently and stimulate the body’s self-healing response.
• Homeopathic medicines work, but never suppress, even in treating inflammation or pain.
• Homeopathic medicines are safe without any harmful ingredients. homeopathic drugs are derived from nature and natural therefore more suitable for the human body. These medicines are based on natural ingredients.
• Homeopathic remedies are natural, prepared from extremely small quantities of herbs, minerals and animal products.
• These medicine do not suppress the pain, rather it strengthens the immune system and treats the cause of the disease.
• Homeopathy is completely safe. Homeopathic remedies are safe even for newborn children, chemically sensitive, and pregnant women.
• Homeopathic treatment is also cost effective as compared to other forms. This treatment does not involve large expenditures. Besides, they can also complement allopathic medicines in many cases.
• Highly effective: Homeopathic medicines are very effective in treating diseases, particularly, the chronic diseases.
• Homoeopathy gives long lasting to permanent cure.
• Homoeopathy treats the patient as a whole and not just the disease.
• In most of the cases homoeopathy can avoid surgery.
• Homoeopathy is very effective in various allergic disorders in addition to other diseases of all kinds. Homoeopathy is equally effective and safe to human beings, animals and birds.
• Homoeopathy is a boon in the hands of qualified doctors (Classical Homœopaths) who strictly follow the rules and instructions laid down by Dr. S. Hahnemann in his book "Organon of Medicine". Mixopathy has no place in homœopathy.
• Homoeopathy is founded upon the steadfast pillars of truth and will ever more be so.
• Homoeopathic treatment is given to correct the root cause of the illness.
• Homoeopathic remedies are all natural medicines. Some are herbs, some minerals or other natural substances. They are prepared by a special process of step by step dilution and succusion (shaking) which makes them capable of effecting in a much deeper way than the remedy could without this process.** Homœopathy uses only natural substances in minute doses.
• Homoeopathic treatment is ideal to optimize the body’s natural defenses against microbes. With the appropriate homœopathic treatment, people recover from infectious diseases, even the most serious ones, gently and rapidly.
• Homoeopathy works in harmony with the immune system, unlike Allopathic Drugs which suppress and destroy the immune system.
• Homœopathic remedies are not addictive – once relief is felt, patient should stop taking them.
• Homeopathy treats all symptoms: mental emotional, general and physical.
• Homeopathy can be used for maintenance of health, by taking constitutional treatment.
• They are easy to take and pleasant to taste.No bitter pills or painful injections.
• Homeopathic medicines are proven and experimented on healthy people, not on animals.
• Homoeopathy enhances Health rather than Diminishes Illness
• Homoeopathy ensures long-term benefits and gives long lasting to permanent cure.
• No complicated procedures for taking the medicines.
• Cost effective – Homeopathic medicines are remarkably inexpensive compared to regular medications
• Homoeopathic treatment is ideal to optimize the body’s natural defenses against microbes.
• Homoeopathy works in harmony with the immune system, unlike Allopathic Drugs which suppress and destroy the immune system.
• Homoeopathic remedies are not addictive – once relief is felt, patient should stop taking them.
• Anti-viral, anti-allergic: Homeopathy has treatment with non-drowsy medicines for allergic hay fever, viral warts, cold etc.
• Anti-septic – some homeopathic medicines act as anti-septic. After surgery the use of homeopathic remedy gives an anti-septic effect, wound healing etc.
• Surgery avoidance: In some cases, we can avoid surgery by in certain case like tonsillitis, adenoid enlargement, PCOD, Uterine fibroid, renal calculi, hemorrhoids etc.
• Cost-effective: Homeopathic medicines are cheap compared to allopathic medicines and can be used by all. It is the most economic form of healthcare treatment.
• Prophylactic treatment: We can use these medicines as preventive medicines for several ailments such as chicken-pox, measles, travel sickness etc.
• Homeopathic remedies are not addictive. Once relief is felt, you should stop taking them. If no relief is felt, you are probably taking the wrong remedy.
• Chronic diseases which at best can only be palliated by conventional medicine, can be effectively dealt with through homeopathy
• Homeopathy is a holistic science, which cures and heals, rather than just alleviating the symptoms of the disease, and takes into consideration the minutest details of the suffering person. In order to do this, a homeopathic physician needs to spend a substantial amount of time with the patient and understand several aspects about him and his life.
• Deep healing. Homeopathy goes to the root of the problem and corrects imbalances, moving the individual toward a better state of health.
• Patient-friendly and convenient. The doctor-patient relationship is vital in Homeopathy, where the homeopath becomes a friend, philosopher, and guide to the patient, a healer as well as a preserver of good health

Natural history of disease

• The term natural history of disease signifies the way in which a disease evolves over time from the earliest stage of its prepathogenesis phase to its termination as recovery, disability or death, in absence of treatment of presentation.
• Each disease has its own its own unique natural history which is not necessarily the same in all individuals . However the natural history of disease comprises two phases-

1. prepathogenesis phase: This is the period preliminary to the onset of disease in man. Agent, host and environment-this three factors interact during this phase and disease occurs.
2. pathogenesis phase: It begins with the entry of the disease agent in the human host. Usually there may be incubation period between the entry of the disease agent and onset of clinical sign and symptoms.

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Sources of disease agent

• Living source:
1. Human being e.g. patient, carrer etc.
2. Animals, e.g. all kinds of birds, insects etc.
3. Plant kingdom

• Non living source:

All the inanimate objects in the environment may be the source of cause of disease, such as-

1. Foods and drink
2. Vehicles of food