by Erika North Price, DIHom, DHM

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:
< 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.
> 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.

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 performers 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. Tall. Chilly, cold feet and legs. Thirsty for cold drinks. Often hungry with a desire for salt and ice cream. Left-side. Low blood pressure.

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:
< Cold, damp; sitting; moving eyes.
> 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:
< Getting up; warmth of bed; 3 a.m., 4 a.m., 7 a.m., 11 a.m., noon, night; washing, shaving; smoking; stretching.
> 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.

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