Formica Anhang
[ABChomeopathy]
General:
An Arthritic medicine. Gout and articular rheumatism; pains < motion;
> pressure. Right side most affected. Chronic gout and stiffness in joints.
Acute outbursts of gouty poisons, especially when assuming the neuralgic forms.
Tuberculosis, carcinoma, and lupus; chronic nephritis. Complaints from
overlifting. Apoplectic diseases.
Has a marked deterrent influence on the formation of polypi.
<: cold and cold washing/dampness, before a snowstorm;
>: warmth/pressure/rubbing/combing hair;
Mind:
Symptoms follow intense emotions; bad news
Excitement after bad news
Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition
ecstatic; exhilaration
mirth, hilarity, liveliness, etc.
morose
unhappy; dwells on past disagreeable occurrences
Insecure, uncertain, scared
Fear (evening)
Forgetful (in evening)
weakness of memory
Restless, nervous; night
Vertigo:
Morning (in bed)
While eating
During headache
On rising
After rising
Sitting
While writing
Head:
Brain feels too heavy and large
Sensation as if a bubble burst in forehead
Forgetful in the evening
Exhilarated
Coryza and Stopped-up feeling in nose
Rheumatic iritis
Nasal polypi.
Sensation of head bubbling; as if bubble bursting in forehead
Coldness; back of head (occiput); right side
Congestion (see pulsation) (fullness)
Expanded sensation (see swollen); brain feels large
Hot
Headache (with cracking in left ear)
Heaviness (see pain; pressing)
Pain, headache (((<<< many >>>)))
Scalp
Hair; falling
Pain, headache; combing the hair
Skin and scalp; itching
Eyes:
Coldness
Cornea (transparent part of eye); spots and specks, on cornea
triangular growth
Heaviness; lids
Inflammation [arthritic (gouty and rheumatic)]
Itching; outer
Pain (((<<< many >>>)))
Twitching; lids; right
Ulceration; cornea (transparent part of eye)
Vision:
Dim/Foggy
Ears:
Ringing and buzzing
Cracking in left ear with headache
Parts around ear feel swollen
Polypi.
Coldness; behind right ear
Itching [in ear (l.)]
Noises in ear [buzzing/cracking/ringing]
Pain (((<<< many >>>)))
Swelling; about the ear
Hearing: Impaired
Face:
Heat
Lips; excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed); corners of mouth
Paralysis (l.)
Stiffness, muscles; lower jaw
Nose: Catarrh
Skin or lining of nose; polyp (growth up nose)
Discharge
Running or blocked nose (coryza); running, wet
Sneezing
Mouth
Gums and teeth
Teeth
sensation of elongated teeth
pain – l./afternoon
Tongue
Pain
sore; tongue; back part
stitching, sudden, sharp; tongue; tip
Taste: offensive
Throat:
Sensation of coldness; as from peppermint
Inflammation; left
Irritation; larynx
Mucus: in larynx (ejected with difficulty)
Pain: l./morning/swallowing (difficult)/on swallowing/sore
extending to ears
External throat
goitre
itching
pain; burning; sides
left
pain; pressing; sides
pain; sudden, sharp; sides
Chest: Breast; milk; absent
Constriction, tension; during cough
Heart – palpitations (afternoon)
Movements in and of chest
Fluttering (in afternoon/during headache)
Pain – r. side/afternoon/sore, bruised in arm pit/stitching, sudden,
sharp; breast; nipple; left/r.
Skin
itching morning (in arm pit)
itching; nipples
Respiration:
Hoarseness, with dry, sore throat; cough worse at night, with aching in
forehead and constrictive pain in chest; pleuritic pains.
Pain - breathing deeply (In sides)/stitching, sudden, sharp; sides;
breathing deeply
Cough:
At night; hysterical attack of cough, followed by crying
Dry cough
Sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing
coughing); from irritation in air passages; in larynx
Movement
Tedious
Tight
Violent
Skin:
Red, itching and burning
Nettle-rash
Nodes around joints
Profuse sweat without relief.
Itching; scratching
Out-breaks on skin; leprosy
Back and Neck:
Neck:
Pain (evening) when looking up/on moving head/travelling/ext. upward/as
though the back would break/neck as if broken/neck; as if it would break in two/<
l.
Stiffness; neck
Back:
Pain – in lumbar (lower half of back)/morning/in bed (after rising)/in
hips/in attachment of muscles/in sacrum (= base of spine)/during movement/walking/
Pressing/in lumbar (lower half of back); morning; after rising/stitching,
sudden, sharp, shooting/lumbar (lower half of back)
Skin; itching; shoulder blades
Abdomen:
Stomach; Constant pressure at the cardiac end of the stomach, and a
burning pain there
Pain shift from stomach to vertex
Gas cannot be passed.
Abdomen and Stool.
Pain in bowels before stool, with shuddering chilliness
Constriction in the anus
Drawing pain around navel before stool.
Sensation as if diarrhoea would come on
Enlarged; rear of abdomen (mesenteries)
Heat
Noises from abdomen [rumbling (morning; on waking)/before stool/during
stool]
Pain – r./as if diarrhoea would come on/women during period/before stool/region
of hip; crest of hip/liver/jarring/in spleen/cramping, griping; during period/
sudden, sharp (sticking, etc.); behind lower ribs/on breathing in deeply/sudden,
sharp (sticking, etc.); liver.
Skin:
Itching (groin region)
Sense of weakness; during stool
Bladder; paralysis
Stomach:
appetite; increased (hunger in general); evening; 21 h.
burping, belching; fluid
pain; cramping, griping, constricting; evening
Flatus
In the morning, difficult passages of small quantities of flatus;
afterwards diarrhoea-like urging in the rectum
Nausea (morning/at night/during headache)
Nausea, with headache, and vomiting of a yellowish bitter mucus
Vomiting [morning (on waking)/late morning 9 h. during headache/coughing/headache/on
waking/bitter/during headache/mucus; morning on waking/yellow/with headache]
Rectum, Anus, Stool:
Rectum: Constriction, contraction, closure, etc.
after stool
Diarrhoea
daytime only
morning; waking with urging
night; 4 a.m.
in children
after eating
Sensation as before diarrhoea
Flatulence; offensive
Heat; during stool
Pain
pressing (pressure)
urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing; during diarrhoea
urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing; during stool
Urging, desire to stool (see pain
urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing); during stool
urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing); after stool
Worm; tape worm (flat worm)
Stool
Like balls
Hard
Pasty, mushy
Small (see long and narrow)
Soft
White
Genitals:
Urine:
Bloody, albuminous, with much urging; quantities of urates.
Copious
Male Organs:
itching; scrotum
jerking in penis
thick emission from penis
swelling; penis; hot
swelling; penis; foreskin
Sexual; Seminal emissions; weakness
Slothful to venery.”
As if asleep (on walking up stairs)
erections; incomplete
during sexual intercourse
erections; while riding
erections; after urinating
numbness
ejaculation; incomplete
prostate gland; jerking in region of prostate gland
prostate gland; quivering, nervous
prostate gland; twitching
Female Organs:
sexual intercourse; desire increased
Menses – period (bright-red/frequent(pale/scanty)
Extremities, limbs:
Rheumatic pains; stiff and contracted joints
Muscles feel strained and torn from their attachment
Weakness of lower extremities
Paraplegia
Pain in hips
Rheuma comes on with suddenness and restlessness
sweat does not relieve
Relief after midnight and from rubbing.
Arthritic nodules
Coldness; lower limbs; foot
Contraction of muscles and tendons; joints
Cramps - hip; 3 h./during period/at night/foot/sole/sole;
Hands and feet; nails; flaking off
Heat in hand
Inflammation; upper limbs; skin erysipelas (inflamed from infection,
deep red colour)
Movements and positions; lameness
Numbness (see tingling); upper limbs; travelling [in hand on waking]
Pain (((<<< many >>>)))
Paralysis (lower limbs)
Perspiration; foot; suppressed
Restlessness
lower limbs; hip, while sitting
lower limbs; thigh
while sitting
Skin
itching; upper limbs
itching; upper limbs; afternoon
itching; hand; palm
afternoon
out-break on skin; rash
out-break on skin; upper limbs; rash
out-break on skin; hand; palm; rash
suppurating (producing pus); fingers; nails (see felon); under
Stiffness; joints
Swollen; upper limbs
Tingling, prickling, asleep (see numbness); hand
hand
morning
hand; while riding
fingers
Weakness; leg
FEVER AND CHILL
Fever and chill
At certain time of day or night; from 20 h.
Generals:
Fatigue
Lethargic, tired
Sleep and dreams
Disturbed
Dreams
amorous
funerals
vivid
Falling asleep; sitting
Interrupted
Sleepiness, tiredness
morning
afternoon
evening
while sitting
before a storm
Sleeplessness, insomnia
night; first part of night
Not refreshing
Waking; early
Yawning
afternoon
1 p.m.
before stool
Convulsions
Convulsions
epileptic
Perspiration
From pains
Other symptoms worse while perspiring
Generalities
Morning
Open air
Bathing
Cold bathing
Constriction; of orifices
Eating and food
after breakfast
coffee
Faintness, fainting
Movement
movement of affected part
Pain
burning externally; bones
sore, bruised; externally
sore, bruised; morning
sudden, sharp; externally
Perspiration gives no relief
Pressure
Symptoms not symmetrical; right
Stretching
afternoon; 1 p.m.
Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); tendency to catch cold
cold, wet weather
Twitching; twitching, involuntary movements (chorea)
On waking
Walking
Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)
morning
evening
on waking
[Alta Vogel]
Formica rufa (Red Ant) Formica rufa, again, most probably classified
under the tubercular miasm:
- Ideas abundant, clearness of mind but their fatigue can lead to mental
passivity, confusion, and aversion to mental work
“Remarkable and unexpected activity of theMIND during the day, with
absence of the usual dullness and sleepiness (2nd day)” (Allen,
1879).
“Very active during the day” (Allen, 1879).
Mind: - MEMORY, general, active - forgetful (Murphy,
1993).
- Tend to be feverish, sweating a lot
“Aching of the bones, with a feverish state of the system, with fullness
and dullness of the head” (Allen, 1879).
“Feverish heat all over the body, most in the scalp” (Hahnemann Monthly,
1873).
Desires activity (Schroyens, 2001).
“He wants to be unique and not subject to Divine intention. He rejects
allowing his freedom of decision to be subject to Providence” (Neesgaard).
“Same happy state of mind and body, but easily depressed and by slight
causes this happy state was changed for a short time to despondency; sudden,
but momentary spells of unhappiness; everything looks dark (mentally)”
(Allen, 1879).
“An uneasy painful sensation in the hips and thighs, with a desire to
change often their position whilst sitting” (Allen, 1879).
“Bruised sensation; in left hip-joints, interfering with walking; in
hips at night in bed, causing him to change from side to side” (Allen, 1879).
“These pains may be more truly described as darting rather than wandering;
there is more rapid change than we think of in wandering” (Roberts, 1960).
MOOD - changeable (Schroyens, 2001).
ACTIVITY - desires activity (Schroyens, 2001). „An uneasy painful sensation in the hips and thighs, with a desire to change often their position whilst sitting“ (Allen, 1879). „Bruised sensation; in left hip-joints, interfering with walking; in hips at night in bed, causing him to change from side to side“ (Allen, 1879). „These pains may be more truly described as darting rather than wandering; there is more rapid change than we think of in wandering“ (Roberts, 1960). MEMORY, general, active forgetful (Murphy, 1993).
“While eating and chewing her food (closing the jaws), she had a severe
pain in the l. side of the neck ext. back of the head and particularly behind
the ear”
(Hahnemann monthly, 1873).
- Ideas abundant, clearness of mind but their fatigue can lead to mental passivity, confusion, and aversion to mental work „Remarkable and unexpected activity of the MIND during the day, with absence of the usual dullness and sleepiness (second day)“ (Allen, 1879). „Very active during the day“ (Allen, 1879).
Eye: “Right eye bloodshot and swollen, nearly
closed” (Morrison, 1879).
Rectum: CONSTRICTION - Internal - spasm of sphincter
of orifices (Schroyens, 2001).
Abdomen: „Nausea and vomiting, with oppression“ (Allen, 1879).
„Burning pain in stomach, with oppression and weight, pain in
epigastrium at 22 h., ext. from l. to r., then shifting to vertex, followed by
creeping down
back; as if something had lodged at cardiac end at 18 h.” (Allen, 1879).
Respiration: WHEEZING (Schroyens, 2001).
ASTHMATIC - nervous (Schroyens, 2001).
Chest: PAIN - respiration - deep (Schroyens, 2001).
CONSTRICTION - cough - during (Schroyens, 2001).
Diseases - TUBERCULOSIS, lungs (Murphy, 1993).
Lungs - TUBERCULOSIS, infection (Murphy, 1993).
Chest: CONSTRICTION - cough during (Schroyens, 2001)
- Hectic activity, uses all its effort to change, to get out „An anaemic woman died from the effects of an ant-vapor-bath. she had great congestion of the head and chest; violent thirst, to quench it she received nothing but whiskey; a copious sweat, which would not make its appearance before, broke out; oppression, nausea and vomiting followed; she begged earnestly to be removed, then became unconscious, and, with rattling in the throat, she died in ¾ of an hour. Unusually rapid decomposition of the body took place; especially on the outer surface, which was full of large blisters filled with putrid liquor“ (Hahnemann monthly, 1873).
Limbs: PAIN - rheumatic with perspiration
(Schroyens, 2001).
“Chorea from checked foot sweat.
Clammy skin, disagreeable sweat during night, sweat without relief” (Murphy,
1993).
“There is much sweating, the lower limbs feel weak and restless”
(Vermeulen, 2000:699).
- Weakness in respiratory system, leading to frequent coughs, colds and
flu
Diseases - COLDS, tendency to catch (Murphy, 1993).
- Sensation of being caught, suffocated and compressed (a picture of a
man being trapped in a very narrow tunnel)
PAIN - rheumatic - perspiration with (Schroyens, 2001). „Chorea from checked foot sweat. Clammy skin, disagreeable sweat during night, sweat without relief“ (Murphy, 1993). „There is much sweating, the lower limbs feel weak and restless“ (Vermeulen, 2000: 699).
“Severe pain above the right elbow, inwardly on the inner side,
increasing in intensity in the direction of the upper arm” (Allen, 1879).
Fevers: TUBERCULOSIS, infection (Murphy, 1993).
Tends to be feverish, sweating a lot „Aching of the bones, with a feverish state of the system, with fullness and dullness of the head“ (Allen, 1879). „Feverish heat all over the body, most in the scalp“ (Hahnemann Monthly, 1873).
Sleep: POSITION - changed frequently (Schroyens, 2001).
„While eating and chewing her food, especially when closing the jaws, she had a severe pain in the left side of the neck, which extended into the back of the head and particularly behind the ear“ (Hahnemann monthly, 1873).
Generals: TUBERCULOSIS 8JOINTS9 (Schroyens, 2001).
The quantitative analysis of Formica revealed a high number of matches
indicating the tubercular miasm, such as activity (motion), freedom, change,
closed and intense: “Pain is felt in small spots, is < from movement
and when thinking about it, and > by warmth and pressure” (Vermeulen,
2000:701).
“Sudden rheumatism, mostly in joints, & restlessness; desires motion
though it aggravate the pain” (Vermeulen, 2000:700).
ACTIVITY (Schroyens, 2001).
- Burnt out, going towards total destruction
“An anaemic woman died from the effects of an ant-vapor-bath. she had
great congestion of the head and chest; violent thirst, to quench it she
received
nothing but whiskey; a copious sweat, which would not make its
appearance before, broke out; oppression, nausea and vomiting followed; she
begged
earnestly to be removed, then became unconscious, and, with rattling in
the throat, she died in three-quarters of an hour. Unusually rapid
decomposition
of the body took place; especially on the outer surface, filled with
full of large blisters with putrid ichor” (Hahnemannian
monthly, 1873).
- Pathologies of tuberculosis and asthma
“Tuberculosis, carcinoma, and lupus; chronic nephritis” (Boericke, 1927).
Formica rufa, again, most probably be classified under the tubercular miasm: - Weakness in respiratory system, leading to frequent coughs, colds and flu Diseases - COLDS, tendency to catch (Murphy, 1993). - Sensation of being caught, suffocated and compressed (a picture of a man being trapped in a very narrow tunnel) Diseases - TUBERCULOSIS, lungs (Murphy, 1993). Lungs - TUBERCULOSIS, infection (Murphy, 1993).
Fevers - TUBERCULOSIS, infection (Murphy, 1993).
Fevers - TUBERCULOSIS, infection (Joints) (Murphy, 1993).
SUDDEN manifestation (Schroyens, 2001). - Burnt out, going towards total destruction The quantitative analysis of Formica revealed a high number of matches indicating the tubercular miasm, such as activity (motion), freedom, change, closed and intense: „Pain is felt in small spots, is worse from movement and when thinking about it, and better by warmth and pressure“ (Vermeulen, 2000: 701). „Sudden rheumatism, mostly in joints, & restlessness; desires motion though it aggravate the pain“ (Vermeulen, 2000: 700). - Pathologies of tuberculosis and asthma „Tuberculosis, carcinoma, and lupus; chronic nephritis“ (Boericke, 1927). „Right eye bloodshot and swollen, nearly closed“ (Morrison, 1879). „Severe pain above the right elbow, inwardly on the inner side, increasing in intensity in the direction of the upper arm“ (Allen, 1879).
- Hectic activity, uses all its effort to change, to get out
[Elisabeth Mandl]
Die Rote Waldameise lebt in Sozialverbänden, die bis 80 Jahre alt werden und nahezu l Million Tiere umfassen können. Die Mehrzahl der Tiere sind ungeflügelte, 5-8 mm lange „Arbeiterinnen" (= nicht voll entwickelte Weibchen). Ihnen obliegen Brutpflege, Nestbau und Nahrungssuche. Die Nahrung besteht aus pflanzlichen und tierischen Bestandteilen.
Ameisen orientieren sich an ihrer eigenen Duftspur. Bei Angriff wehren sich die Tiere, indem sie mit den Kiefern Wunden beißen und aus einer Giftdrüse am Hinterleib einen feinen Giftstrahl in die Bißwunde spritzen.
In einem Ameisenhaufen gibt es außer den Arbeiterinnen noch mehrere Weibchen (Königinnen) und zur Fortpflanzungszeit auch geflügelte Männchen. Die Weibchen werfen nach der Kopulation die Flügel ab, die Männchen sterben.
In der Homöopathie verwendet: Gift der Giftdrüsen.
Stoffliches: Das Drüsensekret enthält Ameisensäure und andere organische Stoffe (derzeit noch nicht ausreichend von der Ameisensäurewirkung unterschieden).
Wirkungsrichtung: allgemeines Umstimmungsmittel bei allergischen Reaktionslagen.
Haut, Nerven, Gelenke, Magen, Darm, Lunge.
Indikation: arthritisch-rheumatische Diathese. Erkrankungen des Bewegungsapparates:
Muskeln, Sehnen, periphere Nerven. Aponeurosen, Allergien,
Heufieber, Bronchialasthma, chronisches Ekzem, Psoriasis, chronische Albuminurie.
Arzneimittelbild:
1. Geist und Gemüt: schwach, matt, erschöpft. Wechsel zwischen Heiterkeit und gesteigerter Arbeitslust und Niedergeschlagenheit. Kummervoll, deprimiert, verweilt bei längst vergangenen Unannehmlichkeiten, fürchtet, ein Unglück stünde bevor. Gedächtnisschwäche. V: abends.
2. Leib: Reizung der Haut und der Schleimhäute. Drückende Kopf schmerzen, „Als ob eine Blase in der Stirn geplatzt sei", in den Hinterkopf ausstrahlend. Auffallende Gedächtnisschwäche, Gedankenverwirrung,
Schwindel und Übelkeit. Häufiges Gähnen und Strecken, Arbeitsunlust.
Nase verstopft, trocken, Nasenpolypen; im Rachen Schleimabsonderung.
Stechende Schmerzen in Augen und Ohren, Ohrgeräusche, Schwerhörigkeit und Taubheit. Hals rau, Heiserkeit und Husten.
<: nachts/bei Bewegung; Verlangt frischer Luft. Atemnot.
Asthmaartige Zustände, Stechen in der Brust. Zahnfleisch entzündet,
Schlucken erschwert, Stechen in den Verdauungsorganen; saures Aufstoßen,
Übelkeit, Erbrechen. Durst. Blähungen mit Kollern im Darm.
>: Abgehen von Winden;
Plötzliche, stinkende Durchfälle. <: morgens/nach den Mahlzeiten/feuchte Kälte. >: Wärme; Zittern und Frösteln.
Drückende Schmerzen in den Harnorganen und im Darm. Häufiger Harndrang und Tenesmus. Urin stinkend, blutig, eiweißhaltig und reich an Uraten.
Abwärtspressen in der Gebärmutter, schwache Regel. In den Gliedern Wechsel zwischen Kraft und auffallender Muskelschwäche (Beine). Plötzlich auftretende Muskel- und Gelenksschmerz.
Bewegungsdrang + <. Wie gelähmt. Druckempfindlichkeit an den Nervenaustrittsstellen. Rheumatoide Schmerzen in allen Teilen des Bewegungsapparates mit großer Unruhe. Beschwerden wandern von
R. nach l. und verschwinden l. nach r. <: Kälte/Kalt-Baden/Nässe/vor Schneefall/vom Sitzen aufstehend/nachts; >: Druck/Reiben/nach Mitternacht;
Jucken und Brennen der Haut an wechselnden Stellen.
Haarausfall. Scharfe Ausdünstung (Schenkelbeugen). Reichlich Schweiß.
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum