Drug pictures to role play
Tell the group of people to look for up to ten keynote symptoms of the
patient and write down notes as the case is being taken. Have someone who has
had some acting experience or someone who just wants to be an actor use these
symptoms to be the patient as you go around the room and let each person ask
non-leading questions about the case. The "patient" should try to
emphasize the bullets without just saying the words. After about twenty
questions, the "patient" should offer things that haven't been touched
on. After a few more clarifying questions the group should take a minute and
review their notes, underlining or rewriting the symptoms that they think are
the key symptoms. Compare their answers to the list below.
Pulsatilla
- quiet
- timid,
inward grief, silent peevishness
- mild
and yielding
- many
notions and whims, religious
- chilly
in a warm room
- ill-effects
of pork
- better
from the open air
- better
from slow movement
- headaches
- dreams
of cats
- sweat
on one side of the face
Nux
vomica - hypochondriac
- anxious,
zealous, fiery, hot temperament
- sweat
on one side of the face
- worse
in dry or windy weather
- exagerrated
sensitivity, irritability
- easily
scolds and abuses
- hasty
- feels
everything strongly
- fastidious
- stays
awake in bed for awhile and then sleeps in
- craves
fats
Sulphur
- intellectual
- skin
- boils, itching, dry rough skin
- stomach
feels empty about 11 am but wants no breakfast
- philosophical
inquiry, with no exercise
- uncut
hair, dirty face, untidy
- oversensitive
to odors, but will eat them
- periodicity
- hates
to take baths
- eats
anything, craves fat
- intolerant
of flannel on skin
- indisposed
to everything - couch potato
Lachesis
- talkative
- headaches
- very
blue and purple, veins, bruises
- aggravation
during or after sleep, afraid to go to sleep
- self-consciousness,
self-conceit, envy, hatred
- under
control of something
- feels
wicked, guilty, will go to hell, suspicion
- loquacity,
speeches in select phrases and jumps off to other subjects
- sensitive
to surrounding
- jealousy
and suspicion
