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Arsenicum Album   Acidum arsenicosum English: White arsenic, arsenious acid, Arsenic Trioxide French: Arsenic, Oxyde blanc d’arsenic, Acide arsenieux German: Arsenik, Arsenige Saure Mode of preparation: 5 centigrams are put into a vial with 4 grams of distilled water; the arsenic is dissolved by heating it, and water is added as it evaporates. Then 4 grams of alcohol are added to this and mixed well. One drop is then added from this preparation to one thousand drops of a mixture that is equal parts water and alcohol. Ten drops from this solution are added to a bottle containing ninety drops …

Arsenicum Iodatum Iodite of Arsenic Trituration; AsI3   The essential features Arsenicum Iodatum is a remedy that you will need in severe chronic conditions where the organs involved are in a precarious state. You will need it in cases of severe asthma with heart involvement. An important remedy in heart trouble, particularly with valvular problems, it should be thought of in cases with pleural exudations. Of the highest use in cancerous affections. Kent states that: “it has restrained the progress of cancer of the uterus in a notable manner; the burning and odor are removed and the ulceration is lessened. …

Arnica Montana ARNICA MONTANA: Doronicum plantaginis folio alternum, Doronicum oppositifolium, Doronicum Austriacum quantum Ptarmica montana English: Mountain arnica, Leopard’s bane, German Leopard’s bane, Mountain tobacco. French: Arnique des montagnes, Arnique, Arnica, Tabac des Vosges, Betoine des Montagnes. German: Arnika, Wohl-verleih, Woverley, Fallkraut, Luzianskraut. Italian: Arnica Dutch: Arnika, Val-kruid, Groot Luciaen-kruid Swedish: Fibler Spanish: Arnica, Tobaco de Montana Natural order: Corymbiferae, Compositae, Senecionidae. Family: Jussieu [vegetable substance] Syngenesia polygamia superflua. L. Mode of preparation: We use the roots, flowers and leaves. Before using the flowers we should clean them of the eggs [musca arnicae] of a peculiar parasitic insect which infests …

Apis Mellifica Apium virus. Honey-bee poison. N.O. Insecta Tinctures are made of the whole bee or of dilutions of the poison with alcohol.   The essential features Apis is a large remedy that has been but partially understood and little used, mainly because of a lack of appreciation of the inner nature of the remedy. Kent probably felt similarly when he said in his lecture on Apis: “We must be able to see in the general beginning of provings the disease which they resemble, for we do not always see the remedy in the advanced state. We see the disease …

Antimonium Crudum Native sulphide of Antimony SbS2   The essential features Antimonium crudum is a seldom-prescribed remedy which should be used more frequently in practice. The following is a description of the constitutional Antimonium crudum patient, the type of person who will in the course of his lifetime develop the symptomatology of this remedy. Antimonium crudum preferentially affects the emotional level. These patients display an unbalanced emotional state, the emotions vacillating between an extreme sentimentality, which is expressed, and a very closed, withdrawn state of moodiness and sulkiness. Antimonium crudum is one of the most emotional, most sentimental remedies of …

Antimonium Tartaricum Tartar Emetic 2[ K(SbO)C4H4O6 ] H2O Trituration and solutions   The essential features This remedy finds its primarily usefulness in severe cases and hospitalized cases; these cases may be classified according to the organ system principally affected: a. the respiratory system the digestive system the nervous system This remedy is most frequently of use in affections of the respiratory system (in contradistinction to Antimonium crudum where the main seat of trouble is the digestive system). Antimonium tartaricum is most effective for disorders of the lower respiratory tract – the trachea, bronchi, and lungs. Inflammations of the lower respiratory …

Anthracinum   The essential features Anthracinum is indicated in patients who suffer chronically from carbuncles, boils, hydradenitis, and tumors which tend to have a malignant appearance, a reddish-black color, and cause a burning sensation and extreme pain. In Anthracinum, ulceration takes place easily, with sloughing and excruciating burning pains. Cellular tissues become edematous and indurated. Anthracinum meets septic conditions with enormous swelling, intolerable burning pains, and with dark-red discoloration of the inflamed part. Generally in this remedy there is a tendency to easy suppuration and sepsis. For the most part, the central theme of Anthracinum is concentrated upon the intolerably …

Anhalonium lewinii Anhalonium Lewinii Lophophora williamsii Mescaline; “Mescal buttons” Peyote; Peyotl; Pellote Natural order: Cactaceae   The essential features This seldom-indicated remedy – at least in the past – will be much more frequently indicated in the future. Anhalonium activates specific areas of the brain which seem to be concerned with the higher and highest functions of this organ; it appears to affect what could be called the spiritual aspect, or, even better, the transcendental aspect of our existence. I believe that these functions, or rather, this capacity of the brain to apprehend new dimensions in understanding and achieving higher …

 Anacardium Orientale anacardium orientale Semecarpus anacardium English: Marking-nut tree, Malacca bean French: Anacarde, Anacardien, Anacarde a feuilles longues, Feve de Malac German: Elephantenlaus, Malakka-nuss, Elephantem Laeusebaum, Anakardiem baum Italian: Anacardos Dutch: Anacardienboom, Hartjes Spanish: Anacard Bengal: Belaluhi Natural order: Terebinthinaceae. Family Jussieu [vegetable substance] — Pentandria digynia, L. The name is derived from two Greek words, ana — without, and cardium — a heart, because the pulp of the fruit, instead of having the seed enclosed, has the nut growing out at the end of it. There was a discrepancy as to whether Anacardium was the nut of the Semecarpus …