I have a few symptoms that I am hoping you can help me with.

I got sick last Christmas Eve's eve. Although I felt worse last year.

I feel as if I'm on the "border line". If I kick it out now, I will be fine. Otherwise I am in for a lot of misery.

The glands in my throat feel as if they are about to swell. Not painful.

My sinuses feel a bit swollen. No nasal discharge.

I am very cold.

Low back ache, but I think that is from sleeping too much last night.

I have had totally liquid stools for many days now. My stomach will feel heavy, as if perhaps constipated. Then I will have a BM; totally liquid, dark brown.

The last remedy I took was Thuja 1M, early November. One thing has totally fallen off my head, the other is about to go. I have noticed new skin tags forming, though; on my neck and upper body.

Any thoughts?

Hello mamma3

In case GM is busy, I took a look at your symptoms I took were:

Generals, periodicity, annually
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Extreme chilliness
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Stool watery, brown
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Back pain chill during

All of which are keynotes for Arsenicum.
Happily Arsenicum is an acute of Thuja.

I expect a single dose of Ars 200 will sort this out.

Have u tried taking aconite or bell???? (Arsenic is not indicated in dry colds as far as I know!). This is just for your feeling that u are about to get sick. U will need something else later....May be Arsenic!!!!!!

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Thanks guys for your replies! Will post back the results.

dr b , only Ars fits miasmatically [Syc], and the brown watery stool cannot be ignored.

Could be thuja owerworking, so ars is the choice now.

Welp, I took the ars as my MM mentioned craving coffee. And after swearing it off for 7 years, all of the sudden I can't live without my daily cafe mocha.

Hoping to feel better after a good night's rest!

Thanks again!

But Anna don't overlook the fact that mamma3 has taken thuja 1M just a few weeks back....It is very likely that thuja is still unwinding the case....woudn't it be better to not to give any other deep acting or miasmatic medicine which can interfere with the action of former remedy. It may give a wrong turn to the case. If an acute condition can be managed using not so long or deep acting medicines, esp. when another medicine is working in the background, woudn't it be better to do so??????

dr b, as a general principle, I think it's correct to give the simillimum when it can be found, not a routine prescription for the acute.
If to give something like Acon or Bell when it doesn't fit the characteristics either it would not work or it would suppress, because it doesn't take into account why the susceptibility occurred.
Treating a Syc case with Psor [Acon] or Psor/Tub [Bell] acute remedies wouldn't address the symptoms usefully.
All symptoms, acute or chronic, as Hahnemann and Kent said, are pointers to the case. Acute symptoms are gifts to the prescriber, signposts to the correct treatment. They are not merely to be suppressed, but can be used to further understanding of the case.

I agree with u in general as to what u have said above and I did not intended mamma3 to actually take aconite or bell only. I am myself not in favour of any routine prescription if the symptoms do not match. I even suggested in my first post that she may actually need something else. I thought mamma3 must be well acquainted with homeopathy and I put these medicines for her consideration without actually considering her totality.

But one question: Would u never prescribe a so-called anti-psoric or anti-tub medicine in a sycotic case even if the symptoms agree????

Any way I hope mamma3 stays fit on this christmas and ever after. And 'MERRY CHRISTMAS' to U and mamma3.

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