Hello list,

can you help with a rubric/rubrics. I've used Cara and Synthesis to no avail. I can get seperate small rubrics but I'm trying to get one with them all in it.

Patient gets Dizzyness, followed by nausea and vomiting, followed by an intense desire to sleep and wakes up with a headache that is described as the pressure of a vise from the top of her head to under her chin (she demonstrated this by hand).

She can avoid the nausea and vomiting if she can get to her bed immediatly.

She has had this condition for a year and she herself believes it followed from a bout of pleurisy. This is a huge part of her life.

regards,

Donal

Hi Donal,

Do you mean to say you want to get on rubric that has all the patient's symptoms ?
look at vertigo > sleep with concomittants of nausea
If you have Boger's rep in your computer rep try that.
Then the vice like headache. Any standard mm will give the confirmation.

Regards
Venkat

Hi,

It is really not so important as to whether you are able to find such a
complex rubric.. (not likely imho) ...what you need is which REMEDY is homeopathic to these symptoms.

Should be quite easy to find Dizzyness, followed by nausea and vomiting ...possibly you can find this symptom with 'better by laying down' or sleep.

Work on this symptom - pressure of a vise from the top of her head to under her chin - ...so that you are able to describe it as fully as possible in the
language of the repertory. (location, sensation, modification -possibly you can see if extension from vertex to chin is appropriate &locatable in rep.)

If you can't find more complex rubrics such as the one you are hoping for, simply do the best you can with the rubrics you have, find the remedies which seem to suit those rubrics, then read up on the remedies until you fine what appears to be a close match (or if none, go back and get more case info, or tinker with the rubrics a bit)

best,

David Hartley www.holistiq.com

Dear Listees

I have a patient who has done very well on her constitution which is
staphysagria. But a residual problem keeps recurring, her TSH keeps going up, for no reason,currently it is 19. This in turn is causing a cardiac arrythmia,of a seious nature ,a self limiting VT. My question is, does anyone on this list have any experience using thyroidinum, or Thyroidan, I would appreciate any information.

Many thanks
Sue

rubric help -

dear sonal,
i would like you to take a look at lachesis. while you are looking at sleep amel, i am looking at sleeps into aggr. do a complete case taking.

dear sue
the remedy may not be the perfect simillimum.
dr manish agarwala

Quote:

Originally Posted by Donal McKenna can you help with a rubric/rubrics.

Greetings, a few ideas gleaned via search program looking just at never
well since pleurisy:

HTH
A

Choudhuri:
Veratrum viride is a remedy par excellence for congestion. The sensation of fullness, the dusky engorged appearance, buzzing in the ears, the feeling of oppression and constriction in chest and other organs of the body - point towards intense congestion. For this reason it has been used in cerebral congestion; the feeling in the head is as if it would burst open. This congestion may be the effect of extreme plethora, vascular irritation, alcoholism, teething or suppression of some natural discharge. The throbbing of the arteries, stupefaction, increased sensitiveness to sounds, buzzing noise in the ears, excitability, delirium, blood shot eyes, and thick speech are natural consequences of a great onrush of blood and congestion. This congestion may effect any part or organ of the body. On these indications Veratrum vir. becomes of use in congestive headache, apoplexy, acute inflammatory meningitis, eruptive headache, apoplexy, acute inflammatory meningitis, eruptive fevers, pneumonia, pleurisy, acute pelvic cellulitis, dysmenorrhoea, puerperal fever, mania, and in various others ailments of congestive origin. We will discuss the special indications of Veratrum viride, in these complaints later on. Here we are concerned with just the outline of the drug. One curious feature of the congestion of Verat. vir. is the concomitance of nausea and vomiting with the congestion. The patient complains of feeling sick and he often vomits during the attack. This keynote symptom enables us to differentiate Veratrum vir. from other remedies noted for great hyperarmia, such as Bell., Ferr. met., Gels., Glon., Lach., Melli., Phos. and Sang.

Suddenness is another feature that characterizes Veratrum vir. The patient is at her very best but all of a sudden there comes on an attack of fainting. Headache, prostration, nausea, and vomiting are all prominent by the suddenness of their onset. The peculiar appearance of the tongue gives us the third keynote of the remedy. It may be white or yellow, dry or moist bit there is the characteristic red streak down the middle of the tongue. Numerous cures have been effected on this symptom alone. On various occasions during my own practice, when I could not come to the similinum, when puzzled, worried, distracted I did not know what to do or what medicine to prescribe, this peculiar red band running longitudinally through the length of the tongue drew my attention to Verat. vir. and saved me from further embarrassment. The peculiar sensation of the tongue, as if scalded is a symptom of equal importance and should be carefully remembered. The mental symptoms of Verat. vir., are very characteristic. Stupefaction, confusion, loss of memory, and depression of spirit are prominently marked. It has been highly advocated in puerperal mania, on the symptoms of silence and suspicion. The patient is mortally afraid of being poisoned. She refuses to see her physician as he seems to terrify her. This antipathy and aversion towards the medicinal man to whom she was accustomed is almost a guiding symptom.

Carbo-v (P-Sankaran) (on NBWS grounds without so much regard for the
specifics of sx, but the basic collapse):
One of the finest indications for Carbo veg. is when a patient comes and reports that he has never been well since an attack of some infectious disease. Carbo veg. is considered almost a specific for asthma, originating from an attack of measles or whooping cough. One of my teachers used to repeatedly say that the expression of a patient "Never well since......" should always put Carbo veg. in one's mind whether it is after an attack of Pleurisy, or any acute infection of even an injury. He has treated numerous cases successfully with Carbo veg. on this indication, even when the existing symptomatology of the patient was not characterised by symptoms of Carbo veg. I found this a most valuable and practicable hint.

Vertigo/dizziness [par] nausea/vomiting [par] headache [sen] vise:
nat-m.
nat-m-
underwood: Brain and Nervous System. - Vertigo, as if everything turned in a circle, when walking.

>>>Periodical vertigo, with nausea, headache, as if a cold wind were blowing through the head.

Feeling of emptiness in the head. Chronic and sick headaches, cephalalgia of school girls who apply themselves too closely to their lessons. Headaches commencing in the morning and lasting until noon, or going off with the sun. Headache as if a thousand little hammers were beating upon the brain. Great fullness in the head as if it would split. Pain in and over the right eye, going off with the sun, cannot bear light of any kind.


>>>Pressing headache from both sides as if the head were in a vise.

Awakens every morning with a violent bursting headache. Pain like a nail driven into the left side of the head. Headache first on one side, then on the other. Almost constant dull headache. Headache from 12pm until 10am Burning on the vertex. Headache from sneezing and coughing, Hysteric affections, weakness, languor and fainting fits. Nervous Paroxysms. St. Vitus' dance, especially during full moon.

Hi,
You may consider the following :

[a1 - Arnica montana] - After twenty minutes he had a violent headache, vertigo, nausea, and vomiting;these lasted an hour, followed by drowsiness and deep sleep, [a50].

[a2 - Cyclamen europaeum - Stomach] - Vomiting; at night, with diarrhoea; then vertigo, dim vision and frontal headache; violent, then sleepiness; of a greenish liquid; of mucus; of food and mucus, with vertigo ; of mucus, then uneasy sleep interrupted by starting up and unpleasant dreams ; of watery mucus, then vertigo, so that she must lie down.

[cp1 - Melilotus alba] This plant is especially noted for its action upon the nervous system, producing a very severe headache with congestion of blood to the head, flushed face, and even sometimes epistaxis (Bell.). It rapidly relieves headaches of nervous origin, or resulting from cerebral oppression, and is quite useful in so - called" sick headache." Its chief constituent "coumarin," in large doses, causes nausea, vertigo, vomiting and great oppression, with sleepiness, confusion, severe pain in head, depression of heart's action and cold extremities.

[Apomorphinum hydrochloricum] Sudden and profuse vomiting with little or no antecedentia; reflex vomiting, usually from brain; heaviness of head or vertigo, roaring in ears, feeling of anxiety in praecordial region and pressure in chest; after vomiting prostration, desire to sleep, faintishness and fainting.

I guess that the order of appearance is not essential and it is enough if the remedy covers all the segments of the case though not in the same sequence.

I would also consider bell and ip as strong contenders atleast during the acute stage.

Rep chart worked out on Radar (Small remedies):sorry if it gets scrambled and doesn't make sense.

This analysis contains 170 remedies and 7 symptoms.

1 1234 1 STOMACH - NAUSEA - lying - amel.
34
2 1234 1 VERTIGO - ACCOMPANIED by - vomiting
51
3 1234 1 SLEEP - FALLING ASLEEP - vomiting - after
8
4 1234 1a E GENERALS - SLEEP - after sleep - agg.
111
5 1234 1a E HEAD - PAIN - sleep - after
119
6 1234 1 VERTIGO - LYING - down - necessary
35
7 1234 1 VERTIGO - LYING - while - amel.
40



crot-h. cocc. arn. olnd. ip. sabad. ant-t. nat-s. sil. sul-ac. op. chel.
174 149 142 134 125 125 120 120 119 119 116 110
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: - - 1 1 - 1 - - 1 - - -
2: 1 1 1 - 1 1 - 2 1 - - 2
3: - - - - 1 - 1 - - - - -
4: 2 2 2 1 - 2 - - - - 2 2
5: 1 2 1 - 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 -
6: 1 3 - - - - 1 1 2 2 1 1
7: 1 1 2 1 - - - - 1 1 1 -


hope this helps,
V.T.Yekkirala.

Donal,

I would suggest Sulphur 1M - three doses on first day and watch.

Sul. covers: vertigo, nausea, vomiting, sleepiness, headache, and pleurisy.

Jeff Tikari,
New Delhi

This is a ludicrous suggestion!

#1 - 3 doses of ANY remedy "on first day" might be thought a bit
EXCESSIVE

READ your Organon !

#2 - the person making such a suggestion without having ANY idea of the
client's individual sensitivity is being quite irresponsible IMHO.

#3 - the homeopath who is trying to solve the case is asking for RUBRIC
help -as opposed to off-the-cuff prescriptions of remedy & posology.

regards,

David Hartley www.holistiq.com
San Francisco EastBay

To each his own way of prescribing, Dave.
Don't imagine that you know everything!

Jeff T