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POINTERS, MODALITIES &

EE COMPARISON OF
HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINES

by
A.N. Chatterji

B. JAIN PUBLISHERS (PVT.) LTD.

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First Edition: 1990

Reprint: 1993, J 999
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ABOUT THE BOOK

The present market is being flooded with Homoeopathic books. Yet it is expected that
this booklet shall have its need and importance.

The general public harps on his malady. He has no importance for his mental symptoms,
modalities or time of aggravation. The physician is too busy to spare any time in
questioning at random. He, therefore, takes recourse to Biochemy. This is alarming and
must be discouraged.

To help him, he must have some "Pointers" that will suggest him one or two medicines.
Slipshod practice will not do. Kent says, "Nux Vomica is given as a routine remedy
for loss of appetite, it will increase the appetite but do dangerous work to the
patient."

The suggested medicine has then to be confirmed by "Modalities" to get the totality. Kent
has again said, "Suppose the patient always avoided warm things and much clothing and
wanted the cold open air, and still have a dozen key-notes, you would find every time that
Calcarea would fail."

Lastly, the most important thing for the prescriber is to be thoroughly acquainted with
the "Comparison," the fine distinction between two medicines having a common group
of symptoms. For example, both Sabina and Pulsatilla have aggravation from warm air
and in a warm room and amelioration in the open fresh air and profuse menstrual flow.
However, you cannot give Pulsatilla for it will increase the flow.

Thus this booklet has been - divided into three parts— pointers, modalities and
comparison, which will help the prescriber to select the correct Homoeopathic medicine
instead of taking recourse to Biochemy.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter Subjects Page

1 POINTERS TO 5

HOMEOPATHIC DRUGS

2 MODALITIES OF 23

HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES

3 COMPARISON OF 45

HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES
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CHAPTER 1

ESSENTIALS POINTERS TO
HOMOEOPATHIC DRUGS
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ABOUT THE CHAPTER

A homoeopath has to depend on symptoms to treat his patients. The Indian patient,
however, hardly gives out his symptoms except that he has headache, cough, sciatica, and
so on. What causes aggravation or amelioration? He says he has not noted that. What time
is the trouble greatest? He says it is always the same. Is he a chilly or hot patient? He says
he is chilly in winter and hot in the summer. Thus the physician has to depend mostly on
what he himself observes.

He sees a child crying and whining and quietened only on being carried in the arms; the
child objects to being touched or looked at; a fat and flabby child-eating chalk or earth; a
cold and dying patient constantly being fanned on the face; a patient suffering from
eczema exuding thick honey-like gluey liquid; another suffering from vertigo or nausea
the moment he raises his head from the pillow or a child crying piteously from earache. In
such eases, his first thought comes over Chamomilla. Antim. Crud., Calcarea carb., Carbo
veg., Graphites. Bryonia or Pulsatilla respectively and he soon confirms his choice
through a few pointed questions.

The object of this Chapter is to supply to the busy homoeopath such essential pointers and
means of confirmation as will help him in the correct choice of medicine in the quickest
possible time.

A.N. Chatterji
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ACONITE
Rosy, chubby plethoric baby. Caused by exposure to dry cold wind or from fright.
Anxiety, restlessness, tosses about in agony, fever. Retention of urine in newborn.
Is it the first attack? Is there a fear of death?

ALOE SOCOTRINA
Every mouthful of food hurry him to stool. Is there insecurity of rectum passing flatus
with care?

ALUMINA
Strains even for a soft stool. Copious acrid leucorrhoea running down thighs. Hungry for
chalk, charcoal, cloves etc. Do potatoes disagree?

AMBRA GRISEA
Unable to press for a stool even before a nurse.

AMMONIUM CARBONICUM
Nosebleed while washing face or hands in morning.

ANACARDIUM
Cursing and swearing. Warts on palms (Nat-m). Do you fear as if pursued? Is there
amelioration from eating?

ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM
Tongue coated thickly white. Horn like excrescences from ends of fingers. Corns on
sensitive soles. Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at. Fingernails grow in splits.
Arc you sentimental in moonlight? Is there an aggravation from sour wine or vinegar?
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ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM
Coarse rattling of chest with inability to throw up mucus and great prostration. Rapping
of wings of nose.

APIS MELLIFICA
Stinging burning and edema. Better from cold. Shrill cry in brain troubles. Swelling of
lower eyelids. Sting of the honey-bee.

ARSENICUM ALBUM
Anxiety, restlessness mostly mental, prostration. Aggravation between 12 to 2 A.M. or
P.M. Thirst for small quantity often. Burning, better by heat. Discharges offensive.
Periodicity. Everything placed in order.

ARGENTUM NITRICUM
Great flatulence and loud belching. Great desire for sugar. Anxiety, fear and diarrhoea
when about to meet an engagement. Green stool expelled with spluttering. Purulent
ophthalmia. Impulsive.

AURUM METALLICUM
Great grief with a tendency to commit suicide. Syphilitics with a flattened nose.

BARYTA CARBONICA
Child hides at the sight of strangers. Childish and foolish in-flamed tonsils. Suppressed
foot sweat.

BELLADONNA
Heat, redness, local inflammation with throbbing. Starts in sleep. Aggravated from
draft of air, uncovering the head, lying down, least jar, bending forward. Delirium. Pain
comes suddenly and goes away suddenly.
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BENZOIC ACID
Horribly offensive urine (Nitric acid. Sepia)

BORAX
Greenish stool with aphthous mouth. Starting at slightest noise. Child cries before
urinating. (Lyc., Sarsa.)

BRYONIA ALBA
Lips parched, dry and cracked. Stools hard and dry as if burnt. Nausea and faintness
when rising. Holds head or chest on coughing. Aggravation from motion and warmth and
better from rest and pressure.
CALCAREA ARSENICA
Chronic malaria with enlarged liver and spleen.

CALCAREA CARBONICA
Fat and flabby with deficient bones, bent legs, flat-footed, open fontanelle. Lymphatic
glands. Eats lime, chalk, earth etc. Profuse sweat on head. Chilly. Sour stool.

CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA
Stools green and spluttering. Headache of schoolgirls who are anaemic (Nat.-m.).

CANTHARIS
Burns - both locally and internally.

CAPSICUM
As if red pepper had bee applied to parts. Chill begins between shoulders and spreads, chill
after every drink. Pain in distant parts on coughing.
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CARBO VEGETABILIS
Nose cold, knees cold, cold sweat, wants to be fanned on the face. Numbness in the limb
lain on. Has never been well since she had measles, typhoid etc.

CAUSTICUM
Stool passes belter when standing. Gradually appearing paralysis of single parts. Urine
escapes involuntarily on coughing or sneezing. Appearance of fog before eyes. Warts.

CHAMOMILLA
Wants something new every minute. Is quietened only when carried in arms. Snappish.
One side of face red and hot, another side is pale. Coughs during sleep but does not wake
up. Great irritability.

CHELIDONIUM MAJUS
Pain under the lower inner angle of the right shoulder blade. Pressive pain in liver.

CHINA OFFICINALIS
Debility and other complaints after loss of blood, nursing, whites, seminal emission,
profuse suppuration or long continued diarrhoea. Stomach distended. Lienteric stool.

CINA
Does not like to be touched or looked at. Rubs his nose with the hands or on the pillows.
Very hungry. Grinds his teeth during sleep.

COCCULUS INDICUS
Vertigo, headache and nausea worse by riding in a carriage or boat. Sleeplessness from
nursing or night watching.
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COCCUS CACTI
Whooping cough—paroxysm ending in vomiting in ropy mucus hanging in long strings.

COFFEA CURDA
Joyful surprise. Cough and sleeplessness after measles.

COLCHICUM AUTUMN ALE

Smell of cooking food nauseates.

COLOCYNTHIS
Severe colic better by bending double. Colic from fit of anger.

CONIUM M A C U L A T U M
Vertigo on turning head sideways. Intermittent flow of urine. At every menstrual
period, breasts become large, sore and painful aggravated by least jar. Lumps or
swellings in the breast caused by blow or injury. Great indulgence in sex or excessive
abstemiousness. Sweats as soon as one sleeps.

CUPRUM
Cholera, meningitis, whooping cough, convulsion etc. with cramp and spasm. Spasm
begins by twitching in the fingers and toes and spreading from there becomes general.
Thumbs are clenched, and the fingers clamped, eyes rolled upwards. Convulsion from
suppression of measles (Zincum).

EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM
Chill 7 to 9 A.M. Vomiting of bile between chill and heat. Painful soreness in back,
wrists, calves etc.
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EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS
Measles with watery eyes and fluent coryza.

FERRUM METALLICUM
Cough with vomiting of food. Walking slowly about relieves (Puls.). Least emotion
causes a red flushed face. Hemorrhages in anaemia.

GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS
Weak, slow pulse of old age. Headache preceded by blindness and relieved by a profuse
flow of urine. Trembling of hands or lower extremities on moving.

GLONOIN
Sunstroke, throbbing headache rising from the neck. Can't bear anything on the head.

GRAPHITES
Eruption on the skin oozing out a thick, gluey fluid. Nails grow thick, cracked and out of
shape. Stool knotty and large united by mucous threads. Cracks in finger ends, nipples,
anus or between toes. Tendency to obesity. Hears better in noise.

HAMAMELIS VIRGINICA
Veins full, enlarged and sore to touch.

HEPAR SULPHUR
Cough when any part of the body becomes uncovered. Amelioration in damp weather.
Longs for acid things, slightest cause irritates. Urine falls perpendicularly. Aggravation
from dry cold air. Hastens discharge of pus.
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HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS
Stringy discharge from mucous surfaces. Infantile constipation. Weak, gone feeling in
stomach.

HYOSCYAMUS NIGER
Suspicious. Jealous. Uncovers or exposes himself. Typhoid pneumonia. Grasping at
flocks and picking of bedclothes. Cough worse lying. Twitching of muscles.

HYPERICUM PERFORATUM
Injury to nerves—from nails, rat bites etc.

IGNATIA AMARA
Emotional hysterical subjects. Paradoxes—sore throat better by swallowing, thirst
during chill, face red during chill, the longer he coughs lie more the irritation etc.
Changeable mood. Sharp pain shooting upward into rectum. Caused by grief, fright or
punishment.

IODIUM
Always hungry, better while eating. Goiter.

IPECACUANHA
Persistent nausea caused by eating pastry, ice-cream, fatty food etc. Whooping cough
turns blue and becomes rigid. Infantile pneumonia. Hemorrhage of bright red blood.
Intermittent fever. Stool— grass green, fermented or slimy with blood.

IRIS VERSICOLOR
Burning of alimentary canal. Sour vomiting. Headache with a blur before the eyes.
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JALAPA
Child good all day, screaming and restless at night.

KALI BICHROMICUM
Tough, stringy, adherent mucus. Pain in small spots. Ulcer deep as if cut with a punch.
Slugs and clinkers from the nose. Wandering pain, appearing and disappearing
suddenly.

KALI BROMATUM
Fidgety hands.

KALI CARBONICUM
Stitching pain in lower right chest. Bag like swelling in upper eyelids. Aggravation at 3
A.M. Sitting up and leaning forward relieves chest affections. Excessive flatulence.
Great knots below the ear behind the jaw.

KALI SULPHURICUM
Chronic of puis—green discharges, aggravation in evening and in warm room, better open
air, rheumatic pain in joints etc.

KALMIA LATIFOLIA
Right-sided neuralgia of face with numbness. Heart troubles of rheumatic origin.
Rheumatism from above downward and shifting suddenly.

KREOSOTUM
Corrosive leucorrhoea staining the linen yellow. Lochia after confinement. Teeth
decay almost as soon as they are born. Small wounds bleed profusely. Cholera
infantum from painful dentition. Vomiting of pregnancy. Bedwetting during first sleep.
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Sudden urging to urinate.

LAC CANINUM
Rheumatism, sore throat etc. travel from side to side. Mamme [breast] sore and tender,
can’t bear a'jar, get sore at every menstrual period.

LACHESIS
Climacteric period with heat on vertex. Purple colour of in-flamed spot. Cairplainis go
from left to right. Loquacity—changing from one topic to another. Aggravated after
sleep. Empty swallowing is more painful than swallowing of solids. Pressure
intolerable about throat and abdomen.

LEDUM PALUSTRE
Punctured wounds—rat bites, slings of mosquitoes. Parts cold to touch but not so
subjectively to patient. Black eye from a blow. Rheumatism travels from below
upward, aggravated at night in the heat of bed, better from colds; painful, sensitive
soles.

LILIUM TIGRINUM
As if the pelvic contents would pass out through the vagina (Sepia). Hurried feeling. As if
heart were held by an iron band.

LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM
Wrinkled forehead. Premature old age. Flapping of wings of nose. Always belching.
Right-sided, complaints go from right to left. Aggravated 4 to 8 P.M. Weeps at the
slightest joy. Worse from visitors. Red sand in urine. Dryness of vagina.
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MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA
All kinds of pain, except burning, relieved by heat. Cramping pain. Colic of infants.
MERCURIUS
Profuse perspiration without relief. Gums swollen, spongy and bleeding with offensive
odour of mouth, Saliva during sleep. Aggravated at night in warmth of bed. Never get done
feeling in dysentery. Swollen and suppurating tonsils.

NATRUM MURIATTCUM
Craves salt and salty things. Warts on palm. Aggravation 10 to 11 A.M. Consolation
aggravates weeping. Anaemia with bursting headache, especially after menses. Headache
of schoolgirls. Palpitation aggravated lying on left side. Dry and cracked lips and anus.
Back pain better lying on something hard. Bearing down in women. Late learning to walk
and talk. Can urinate only when alone.

NATRUM SULPHURICUM
Aggravation in damp weather—diarrhoea, asthma. Loose cough with pain through
the left chest. Stool with emission of loud flatus. Mental effect from injury to head.

NITRICUM A C I D U M
Pricking pain. Great pain even after soft stool. Amelioration after riding in a carriage.
Offensive urine. Condylomata. Cracks-corners of mouth, anus bright red blood in
typhoid and, hemorrhoids; chronic diarrhoea.

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Unconquerable sleep. Dry mouth, tongue sticks to the roof of mouth, yet no thirst.
Abdomen distended after meal.

NUX VOMICA
Frequent desire for stool, passes a little at a time, better after stool. Easily excited,
malicious person of sedentary occupation. Chilliness even during high fever, least
uncovering brings on chilliness. Convulsion with consciousness, deficient labour pain,
extending to rectum, with desire for stool or frequent urination. Backache with
hemorrhoids. Aggravates from coffee, alcoholic drinks, debauchery, business
anxiety, sedentary habit, insufficient sleep and too high living. Also, from mental
exertion, anger, open-air, after eating, from masturbation etc.

OLEANDER
Diarrhoea—undigested stool passing with the least emission of, flatus.

OPIUM
Stupid comatose sleep with rattling, stertorous breathing. No response to light, touch,
noise or pain. Stool hard black balls.

PETROLEUM
Eczema during winter. Hands chap, crack and bleed. Seasickness. Cracking in joints.
Nausea aggravated by riding in a carriage.

PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM
Stupefied with grief. Onanism or excessive coition. Growing too fast or is overtaxed
mentally or physically. Headache of schoolgirls with eye strain. Rumbling and gurgling
in abdomen.

PHOSPHORUS
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Tall, slender phthisic patients. Aggravated by lying on left side. Vertigo of the aged.
Deafness to human voice. Afraid when alone, in darkness and in thunderstorm.
Haemonhagic. Must eat often. Likes to be magnetized. Takes too much of salt. Burning in
palms of hand and between shoulders. Sexy. Thirst for cold water.
PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA
Great desire to bite the teeth or gums together. Breasts hard, greatly swollen, hot and
painful or even suppurating. Lumps or tumours in breast. Sciatica.

PLATINA METALLICUM
Overestimation of one's self. Pain increases gradually and decreases gradually.
Nymphomania in virgins.

PODOPHYLLUM
Stools—profuse, offensive, aggravated in the morning, in hot weather, during dentition and
coming out like a shot. Great loquacity during fever. Prolapses of rectum and uterus.
Presses gums during dentition.

PULSATILLA
Mild, gentle, yielding disposition, sandy hair, blue eyes, weeping easily. Stomach
disordered from cakes, pastry, rich food, fat, pork etc. Changeableness—now irritable,
now pleasant; menses flow, stop and flow again; stools changing colour; wandering
pains shift rapidly. Thick, bland and yellowish-green discharges—expectoration,
leucorrhoea, otorrhoea etc. Better in cold and aggravated from warmth. Better moving
slowly about. Delayed menses of young girls. Metastasis of mumps to mamme or
testicles or of gonorrhoea to testicles. Tying uprightly relieves headache. Measles.

PYROGENIUM
Septic fever or poisoning (Ars., Anthra). Tongue smooth as if varnished.

RHUS TOXICODENDRON
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Left-sided. Red triangular tip of tongue. Aggravation when quiet or on beginning to

move, lifting or straining or severe muscular exercise, getting wet when perspiring. Better
from continued motion and warmth. Cough during chill. Putting hand from under the bed
cover brings on cough. Typhoid. Mumps, vesicular eruption.
RUMEX CRISPUS
Cough from inspiring cold air, with stitching pain through the left lung just below left
nipple. Itching when undressing to go to bed (Nats., Oleander).

RUTA GRAVEOLENS
Eye strain from close study, sewing etc. Prolapses of rectum. Bruises of periosteum.

SAB1NA
Hemorrhage in menorrhagia, abortion or after labour with pain from back to pubes.
Threatened abortion in the third month.

SAMBUCUS NIGRA
Obstruction of nose in children at night.

SANGUINARIA C A N A D E N S I S
Headache arising from back of head and settling over the right eye with nausea and
vomiting. Patient wants to be quiet and in darkness. Rheumatic pain in right arm and
shoulder, worse at night in bed cannot raise the arm. Circumscribed redness of cheeks.

SECALE CORNUTUM
Feeble, thin, cachectic women of lax muscular fiber subject to passive hemorrhage. Weak
labour pain in such women. Great coldness of the surface yet the patient cannot bear to be
covered. Formication.
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SELENIUM
Prostatic fluid oozes at stool. Stool of very large size. Great desire for tea and spirituous
liquor.
SEPIA
Yellow saddle across upper part of cheeks and nose and yellow spots on face. Child wets
bed during its first sleep. Bearing down sensation in pelvic region. Hemicrania.
Indifference to loved ones. Feeling of emptiness in stomach.

SILICEA
Sweaty headed children with big belly and defective assimilation. Sensitive to cold air
must cover the head. Worse at new moon. Offensive fool sweat, stool partly protrudes,
then slips back. Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies. Desires to be magnetized.

SPIGELIA
Headache—begins at the occiput and sets over the left eye, aggravated by noise or jar.
Headache increases with the rising of the sun and decreases with its going down. Ciliary
neuralgia. Violent palpitation.
SPONGIA TOSTA
Cough sounding like a saw driven through a pine board waking out of sleep, with anxiety
and difficult respiration. Goiter.

STAPHISAGRIA
Clean cut after surgical operation. Unmerited insult and sexual excess. Throws things in
anger. Colic. Teeth turning black. Styes. Itching relieved by scratching at one place
immediately appears in another.

STRAMONIUM
Delirious— singing, laughing, praying or throwing himself crosswise or rolled up like a
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ball. Jerks head suddenly from pillow. Loquacious. Desire light and company.

SULPHURIC ACID
Aphthous mouth. Child smells sour. Black and blue spots in the skin.

SULPHUR
Great unwashed. Child eats discharges from nose or smells filthy—smelling genitals.
Ragged philosopher. State of disorder and untidiness. Lean and stoop shouldered.
Worse standing quiet. Burning in vertex, palms and soles of feet. Morning diarrhoea
drives him out of bed. Orifices red. Hungry at 11 A.M.

SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE
When broken bones refuse to knit (Calc. phos.). Great pain in eyeball from a blow.

THUJA OCCIDENTALS

Bad effects following vaccination. Warts and sycotic excrescences. Nails brittle distorted
and crumbling. White dandruff. Hair falling. Tells she is under the influence of superior
power.

TUBERCULINUM

Cosmopolitan wants to travel. Persons with a history of tuberculosis in the family.

Ailments affecting one organ then another—beginning suddenly, ceasing suddenly.

VERATRUM ALBUM

Collapse, with general coldness and cold sweat especially on forehead in cholera,
pneumonia or typhoid. In cholera, stools are profuse and like rice water. Mania with desire
to cut and tear clothes. Loquacious (Stram).
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VIBURNUM OPULUS

Dysmenorrhoea—pain beginning in the back and going around to loins and uterus ending
in cramps there.

ZINCUM METALLICLIM

Fidgety feeling in lower limbs. Twitching and jerking of muscles. Aggravation from
stimulants. Inability to hold out the rash in eruptive diseases.