Allium Sativum

▲   GENERAL

General

Allium Sativum acts directly on intestinal mucous membrane increasing peristalsis. Colitis, with pathological flora. Has vaso-dilatory properties. Arterial hypotension begins usually in 30 to 45 minutes after twenty to forty drops of the tincture.

Adapted to fleshy subjects with dyspepsia and catarrhal affections. High livers. Patients who eat a great deal more, Especially meat, than they drink. Pain in hip, pain in psoas and iliac muscles. pulmonary tuberculosis.

Cough and expectoration diminishes, temperature becomes normal, weight is gained, and sleep becomes regular. Hemoptysis.

Dose

Third to sixth potency. In tuberculosis, dose, four to six grammes in moderate state of dessication daily, in divided doses.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Capsicum Annuum ^Capsicum; Arsenicum Album ^Arsenic; Senega ^Senega; Kali Nitricum ^Kali-n.

Complementary

Complementary: Arsenicum Album ^Arsenic.

Antidotes

Antidote: Lycopodium ^Lycopod.

▲   MIND

Mind

Behaviour; attempts to escape

Desires, wants; company

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

impatience

sensitive, oversensitive; to moral impressions

unhappy; sadness, mental depression; when alone

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting); in sleep

Intellectual faculties; thoughts wandering

Insecure, uncertain, scared

fear; of being alone (see company)

fear; of death

fear; of taking too much medicine

fear; poison; of being poisoned

Restlessness, nervousness; when alone

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

On exertion of vision

From looking at.; looking steadily

In women; during period

On rising; from a seat

▲   HEAD

Head

Heavy; pulsation in temples; catarrhal deafness.

Pulsating; temples

Headache

Heaviness (see pain; pressing); after period

Pain, headache

morning

night; about midnight

in women; when menstrual flow begins

back of head (occiput)

morning

morning; in bed; lying on back

Scalp

Skin and scalp; powdery flaking skin

▲   EYES

Eyes

Lids; stuck together

Heaviness

Inflammation

of catarrh from cold; night

of catarrh from cold; when trying to read

Tears

night

acrid smell (strong and sharp)

▲   EARS

Ear

Noises in ear; humming

Skin; out-breaks on skin; in ear canal; powdery flaking skin

Ear wax; hardened

Hearing

Lost, deafness; left

▲   FACE

Face

Lips; dryness

Pain; stinging

Skin

discoloration; pale

discoloration; red; during chill

spots (see outbreaks)

▲   NOSE

Nose

Discharge from nose; offensive smelling; from ulcer or disease of nasal bones

Pain

pressing; root

stitching, sudden, sharp; wings; junction of wings, with face

left side

Discharge

Running or blocked nose (coryza)

dry

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Odour (halitosis, bad breath); offensive; during cough

Thrush (whitish flakes)

Gums and teeth

Swelling; gums

Gums; teeth detached from gums; scurvy-like

Teeth

pain; late morning

pain; comes on suddenly (see intermittent)

pain; pulling

when reading

pain; jerking

molars; upper, right side

pain; pressing; transitory jerking in upper molars and jaws, right side, in afternoon

Saliva

Much sweetish saliva after meals and at night

Salivation

after eating

Tongue

Sensation of a hair on tongue or throat.

Discoloration; tongue; white

Dryness; tongue; night

Sensation of hair in mouth; tongue

Taste

Saliva; sweet (see taste)

Taste; bad

▲   THROAT

Throat

Larynx (voice box); scraping, clearing

Catarrh

Sensation of coldness

Dryness; larynx

Feels hot; larynx

Inflammation

Irritation; in air passages

Mucus; morning

Pain

rawness; larynx

sore; larynx

Ulcers

Voice; rough

▲   CHEST

Chest

Sensation of emptiness

Oppressed feeling; during sleep

Pain

sides

cutting (sudden sharp pain); sides

stitching, sudden, sharp

Respiration

Constant rattling of mucus in bronchi

Cough in the morning after leaving bedroom, with mucous expectoration, which is tenacious and difficult to raise

Sensitive to cold air

Dilated bronchi, with fetid expectoration

Darting pain in chest.

Asthma attack; periodic

Difficult (dyspnea)

afternoon

with cough

from pressure on breast bone

▲   COUGH

Cough

Morning

after rising

In cold air

In open air

Cough from deep down

seems to come from the stomach

Dry cough

from eating

from smoking

From eating (including certain foods)

Eating

Hard cough; while smoking

Hollow

Sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing); from irritation in air passages

Comes on suddenly; while smoking

Smoking

When stooping

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage)

Difficult

Mucous

morning

Noticeable smell; offensive smell

Containing pus

Noticeable taste; putrid

Thick

ropy

and sticky

Watery; thin

▲   SKIN

Skin

Like insects crawling on skin

Itching; perspiring parts

Loss of feeling

▲   BACK AND NECK

Neck

Pain

neck

pulling; neck

Back

morning

lumbar (lower half of back)

sacrum (base of spine)

aching

cutting; morning

cutting; lumbar (lower half of back)

cutting; sacrum (base of spine)

morning

stitching, sudden, sharp, shooting

dorsal (shoulder level); under shoulder blades

Skin

out-breaks on skin; herpes

itching

shoulder blades; between them

Weakness (tired feeling, in spine); lumbar (lower half of back)

lumbar (lower half of back); child does not learn to walk

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Voracious appetite

Lest change in diet causes trouble

Constipation, with constant dull pains in bowels

Tongue pale red papillae.

Heaviness

lower part of abdomen

lower part of abdomen; after eating

Noises from abdomen

rumbling; morning

rumbling; morning; on waking

Pain

tearing; at every step

twisting; around navel

Bladder

ulceration

ulceration; caused by stones forming in body

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); constant

with swollen bladder, passing only a few drops

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); only a few drops pass until the next stool, when it flows freely

urination; dribbling (by drops)

night; then free with stool

urination; painful or difficult urination

urination; involuntary, incontinence; in aged people; men with enlarged prostate

Kidneys; pain; region of

Stomach

desires, cravings; butter

emptiness, weak feeling, faintness, hungry feeling

burping, belching; after eating

burping, belching; strong and sharp (acrid); after eating

heartburn

heaviness, weight, oppression (see fullness)

indigestion; after bad water

sensation of lump; stone

pain; burning

pain; piercing, stabbing

pain; pressing

pain; sore, bruised, beaten (tenderness)

thirst

extreme

Eructation

Burning eructations

Nausea

Stomach

nausea

Vomiting

vomiting; during heat

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Diarrhoea

after certain foods or drinks

change of food

from least change in diet

Urging, desire to stool (see pain; urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing); before stool

Worm; resembling an earthworm

Stool

Soft

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Albuminous (white, thick)

Colour

brown; dark

dark

white

Copious

Scanty

Sediment

brown; dark

copious

Sugar in urine

Urethra

Urethra (urinary part of genitals); pain; burning

Male

Male; pain; burning; penis; head (glans)

Female

Eruption in vagina and on breasts and vulva during menses.

Female

pain; burning; vagina

pain; burning; vagina; during period

Genitals

Pain in swelling of breasts

Menses

out-breaks on skin; pimples; during period

period; strong and sharp (acrid), wearing away skin

period; frequent

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Contraction of muscles and tendons; upper limbs

Heaviness; lower limbs

Movements and positions; twitching; during heat

Pain

elbow

when bending arm

hip

crossing limbs

hip; on movement

hip; rheumatic

burning; hand; palm

burning; foot; sole

as if sprained; ankle

as if sprained; toes; joints

tearing; hip

tearing; foot

Paralysis; forearm; sensation of paralysis

Perspiration; hand; palm

Shocks

foot

foot; during sleep

Skin

discoloration; hand; red; spots

discoloration; ankle; itching skin disease (eczema, psoriasis, herpes, etc.)

out-break on skin; hand; desquamating (peeling in scales)

out-break on skin; thigh; boils

Stiffness; foot

Tension, tightness; elbow

Tingling, prickling, asleep (see numbness); foot

Weakness

lower limbs

knee

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Alternating with chills

evening

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Dreams

anxious

continued after waking

frightful

rapid transit from place to place

storms

water

Restless

Sleepiness, tiredness; after eating

Waking; frequent

Perspiration

Afternoon

Strong and sharp (acrid)

Odour; offensive

Generalities

Formication (like insects crawling around); external parts

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); cold, wet weather

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

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