– Tarkas P. and Ajit Kulkarni.
Wild Indigo
Region
BLOOD
Mucous Membranes
G.-T.
G.-U.
B.- P.
Liver. Gall bladder
Throat
R. or l. side
Worse
Depressing factors
Sun. Summer
(Hot sun in)
Autumn (Rhus-t.)
Hot. Wet. Foggy
Vagaries of nature
Old age
Overwork; fatigue
BAD: air, water,
food, odors
Meats
Emotions: shock,
bad news
DRUGS: Anti-typhoid
serum, barbiturates,
anaesthetics, cough
mixtures, narcotics,
beer, chloramphenicol
Night-watching,
reveling
2,3,10,10-11,11 am, 3, 6 pm
Mercury.
Bites and Stings
Hot sponge
In room. Also open air
On awaking
Motion. Pressure
Depleting factors
emissions, sweat
pregnancy, nursing
Better
Cold
Rest (some
symptoms)
Uncovering
Lying on painless side
Sore. Infective. Toxic. Broken-down
Lymphatic. Scorbutic. Phthisical. Cachectic
A toxic state through and through from vital depression/insufficiency. Toxemia ` Adynamia ` Hyperemia `Helcoia / Pyemia. Labours under the influence of an intense, rapidly acting, systemic (sometimes viral) infection, poison, drug or a sting which first exalts and then depresses the sensibilities, ending in disorganizing the blood and moving towards a low, typhoid state, or malignancy, with a rapid pace (Crot-h.). Slow incubation, but a rapid onset of desperate symptoms (e.g. vomiting, diarrhea, ulcers, exhaustion). Temperature rises but slowly, yet degeneration rapid. Indolent ulcers (also).
Infections : Viral. Bacterial. Zymoses. Generally not Streptococcal. Infections sneaking into a low battered state of the economy. Tubercular tendency the cause of such infections. Influenza. Diphtheria. Typhoid. Paratyphoid. Diphtheria and typhoid carriers.
Weakness : Depressed, prostrated, fagged. Vehemently sick. Feels as if sinking away. Lowered vitality from depressing and / or depleting factors (Kali-ph.). Indescribable sick feeling all over. Asthenia: feels weak and tremulous as if going into a serious affection or as when recovering from a severe illness. Feels as an old rag. A ready victim to infections. Uneasy feeling in the entire body, but more specially in the lower limbs. Early extreme prostration (but later than in Echin.); slides down in bed. Also afebrile adynamia (as in Cur.). A deathly, sinking feeling (like Cupr.). Hence an energizer par excellence (of Psor. cadre). Also a restorative (like Cur.). A lifeless body with a restless mind (like Ars.). Frequent fainting spells.Great muscular tiredness.
Restlessness : Wants to continually move from place to place (but (>) rest also).
Soreness : Sore and bruised, as if pounded all over the body, any pressure intolerable. Achings. Yet later stages painless and insensible (Ant-t.).Sometimes painless throughout (as in throat affections); or pain vanishes as fever comes on.Painlessness of complaints is also a sign of old age. Painless : sore throat, dysentery, paralysis.
Hemorrhagic tendency : Eyes, gums, vomit, stool, urine, menorrhagia.
Blood : Toxic; sepsis (acute); scorbutic (chronic). Like Echin. congestion of all organs in the cranium (Hyos.); of mucous membrances. Early malignancy. Putrid phenomena; tendency to putrescence (like Sec.). Commencing destruction of tissues. Disposition of the fluids to decompose, early stage (like Cur., Echin.; later stage Carb-ac.; later still Crot-h.). Presents certain aspects of subacute snake-poisonings (see Mind, Throat, Alimentary tract).Disposition to ulceration with a tendency to putrefaction. Cancers, cancerous ulcerations.
Mucous Membranes : Congestion of all organs situated in the cranium esp. the m.m. (Gels. has of cord also). Catarrhal inflammations and ulcerations ( throat, mouth, intestines (not much respiratory)). Excretions sluggish, slackened, scanty. Exudations: dark, brown, acrid, fetid. All discharges offensive (fetor, stool, sputum). Brown (sordes on teeth, tongue, stripe down centre of tongue, stool, menses).
Purulent : Stool, urine, (sputum).
Glands : Buboes; tabes mesenterica.
Nerves : Through Gels. connected with Arg-n. Numb, tingling / prickling and paralytic feeling in whole body; of extremities; of l.; thrilling through hands and feet somewhat like going to sleep or want of circulation.
Paralyses. Toxic P. Painless paralysis. Hemiplegia(l.); apoplectic. L. arm numb and lame.
Injuries : Bites and Stings.
Reaction : Epistaxis; sweating.
Some features 1. Great aversion to open air (Pyro. not Gel.); but opens windows in fever.
2. Aversion to all exertion mental or physical.
3. Sinking sensation : in stomach; in lungs; of life.
Mind: Sluggish mental operations. Indisposed to think, or want of power to think; mind seems weak, inability to control it or to fix it on anything; don’t care to do anything. Brain fag (Zinc.). Imbecility. Ideas confused; after barbiturates. Stupor; in midst of an answer. Unconsciousness (typhus).
An undefined wild feeling; later a bewildered feeling. A peculiar feeling in brain (Chlf.). “Mind cannot be confined.” Looks intoxicated: dull, drowsy, dizzy (like Gels.), confused, staggering, swimming. Wandering (rambling) delirium, as soon as eyes are closed. Thinks his body broken up and scattered about and must collect the pieces together; one part of body talking to another part.
Perfect indifference, no complaint, wants nothing, says he feels well (Pyro. from euphorbia); does not like to talk about cases esp. incurables; worse when thinking about his pains.
Select Particulars
Head : Depressed sensorium. Confused, as if drunk. Feels receding in inner cave or sinking down deep within himself.
Vertigo with feeling of weakness, esp. in knees and legs; as if swimming (Carb-ac.); with nausea; with confusion; with paralysis of eyelids; () standing, in cold air, opening windows. Fears going to sleep on account of (nightmare and) sense of suffocation / smothering. Lungs feel tight and compressed, oppressed in a warm or closed room, while coughing. On lying down difficult breathing often not due to constriction of chest ( as in Ars. ) but from want of power in lungs. Bronchial asthma.
Cough (