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adapted from Farrington's Comparative Materia Medica for colds, coryza, and catarrh
Sudden attack, quickly following exposure to dry, cold winds; dry, hot, burning and stopped up nose or fluent coryza with frequent sneezing and dropping of clear, hot water.
Any of the two states with most violent throbbing frontal headache, fever, muscles sore and painful on sneezing; better in cold room and open air.
From cold damp winds; acrid water drops constantly, burns like fire, excoriates the lips and wings of nose, sneezing with constantly increasing frequency with profuse non-burning watering of the eyes.
Splitting laryngeal cough.
Worse in a warm room and better in open air.
Arsenic sneezes in open air and has not the laryngeal symptoms of Allium .
Almost similar to Mercurius in its eye and nose symptoms but Mercurius has more distress in the frontal sinuses, has a tendency to perspire which gives no relief or even aggravates and the discharge though profuse is not almost as watery as with Allium and not as thick as with Pulsatilla
Similar to Allium in all respects with profuse bland nasal discharge and acrid, scalding tears which is reverse with Allium .
Similar to both Allium and Mercurius in its profuse, watery, scalding coryza with more or less sore throat; every little exposure to damp or even cool air starts the trouble with neuralgic pains in the cheeks involving the frontal sinuses and Antrum of Highmore.
Winter colds - thin, watery, excoriating discharge with dull throbbing frontal headache, sneezing which does not relieve and is worse going into open air.
Burning in the nose which remains stopped up in spite of fluent discharge.
Chilly patient worse from cold, except headache: relieved by warmth and wants to be near the fire all the time.
Similar to Ars. in the heat, burning, rawness and dryness of the nose but there is no discharge.
Preferable to Ars. when there is involvement of the lymphatic glands, and when worse in a warm room which is contrary to Arsenic (See under Ripe Cold).
Resembles Ars. almost entirely and is preferable when particularly worse in the forenoon and the patient breathes with mouth open at night.
Can only breath with mouth open.
Useful in winter colds when with all the Ars. symptoms there is frequent sneezing with nosebleed when blowing the nose, and much rawness down the throat and lungs, with aggravation towards morning, 3 A.M.
Sensitiveness to cold and better in warm room.
One nostril stopped up in the day and both at night.
The throat is swollen, so that patient cannot open the mouth; there is throbbing on the tonsils.
Incessant sneezing, burning in the eyes, excessive dryness of the nasal mucous membrane, constant need to blow but no discharge, stuffed feeling at the root of the nose with a dull frontal headache and a dry, hard, barking cough.
Atrophic Rhinitis.
Runny noses of children from cold, windy weather; the nose is stopped up with dropping of hot watery mucus; sneezing with dry, teasing cough which keep the child awake or may even occur during sleep.
Nose dry and obstructed; sniffles of infants; child starts up suddenly as if suffocating; lets go of the nipple when nursing, cannot breath, cannot expire. (Arum Triph.)
Initial stage, caused by dry cold weather or by sitting on cold steps or in cold places.
Sneezing, nose stuffed up at night and in open air but fluent in a warm room and during day, with scraping rawness in the throat, dullness or oppression in the frontal sinuses and watering of the eyes.
Alternate freeness and obstruction of the nose; worse in a warm room, better in open air (opposite of Arsenic)
Copious, acrid, burning, watery discharge with stinging in nose; rawness and burning in the nose and throat.
Spasmodic sneezing, with running nose, severe frontal pains, redness and watering of eyes.
Will often break up a cold.
Runny nose with stitching supra-orbital pain and hot stitches deep in eye-balls.
Complete stoppage of nose, breathes with open mouth and protrudes the tongue; frontal sinuses involved.
Slowly developing acute coryza days after an exposure to warm moist, relaxing weather : colds of mild winter in contra-distinction to cold of violent winter of Aconite or Belladonna , which follows quickly and develops rapidly and violently after the exposure.
Frequent sneezing with fluent excoriating coryza, sore throat, difficulty of swallowing from paretic state of muscles; dry, tickling cough; a feeling of hot water passing through the nostrils; relieved near the fire; general prostration and often neuralgia of the face.
Copious discharge from nose with redness and oedema of the throat, severe aching of the body, sneezing, dry cough, worse from evening till mid-night and from uncovering body; brought on from exposure to dampness, getting wet, etc. (also Dulcamara )
"Ripe cold" in which the discharges are green and bland, not in the least excoriating; bad smell in the nose, as of old catarrh.
If given in the beginning it usually spoils the case, for sneezing and excoriating discharges are not its characteristics.
Similar to Pulsatilla in every respect but it has spasmodic sneezing and aversion to open air.
Great dryness of the nose with headache just over the frontal sinuses, with some stomach and bowel symptoms peculiar to it.
Similar to Pulsatilla. The nose is obstructed, raw in both nares, and has a constant urge to blow the nose. Stringy discharges are more distinctly yellow and profuse than Kali Bich. which is also useful in "ripe cold" with ropy and stringy yellow discharges with a hard pain at the root of the nose, shooting pains in the malar bones and loss of smell.
Sneezes every time he goes into a cold, dry wind, with runny nose and then a thick, offensive discharge, smelling like old cheese.
Kali Sulph. simulates Hepar Sulph. in its alternating watery flow and offensive discharge which is not so much stringy as with Kali Bich. and is more like the greenish-yellow discharge of Puls. which it follows well.
Hepar comes in after partial relief by Mercurius .
Are both worse in a warm room like Pulsatilla with thick yellowish discharge and much pains at the root of the nose.
The Ars. Iod. discharge is excoriating and looks like thick, yellow honey. Both differ from Pulsatilla which has greenish-yellow and bland discharge.
Has weak or entire loss of smell with frequent hawking and difficult discharge of dry, yellowish-green mucus with pain at root of nose and a feeling as of a splinter when swallowing.
This last symptom is also to be found in Argent. Nit., Hepar., Nat. Mur. and Nitric Acid.
Blows out much thick, green mucus mixed with blood and pus.
It has also fluent runny nose in the open air and dry indoors.
There is often a history of vaccination which did not take.
1. The four major groups of cold remedies are based around which remedies?
2. The indications of when to use the four remedies are what? (Onset from what or during what time)
3. The indications of the nose discharge of the four remedies are what?
4. The indications of what makes the symptoms better of the four remedies are what?
5. What other key symptoms are there for the four remedies?
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Aconite |
Allium cepa |
Arsenicum |
Pulsatilla |
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Sudden, after dry cold winds. |
After cold damp winds. |
In winter. |
After cold has matured. |
| Nose discharge | Dry or runny. Burning. | Very runny. Burning. |
Runny. Burning. |
Bland, greenish. |
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Cold room, outside. |
Outside. |
Warmth. |
Outside, from walking. |
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Violent, painful. |
Coughing, sneezing, perspiring. |
Dull headache, sneezing. |
No sneezing or burning runny nose. |
