Tarentula hispana is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• hyperactivity
• restlessness
• restless leg syndrome
• ADHD
• problem children
• headaches
• migraines
• behaviour problems in children
• ADD
• autism
• spider bites
• Parkinson's disease
• boils
• carbuncles
• abscesses

Tabacum is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment for:

• nausea and vomiting with icy coldness
• morning sickness
• motion sickness
• pregnancy
• brain fog
• vertigo 
• Meniere's disease
• heartburn
• to quit smoking
• smoking cessation
• seasickness
• nausea and vomiting with icy coldness all over the body

 From Boericke:

(Tobacco) The symptomatology of Tabacum is exceedingly well marked. The nausea, giddiness, death-like pallor, vomiting, icy coldness, and sweat, with the intermittent pulse, are all most characteristic. Has marked antiseptic qualities, antidotal to cholera germs. Complete prostration of the entire muscular system. Collapse. Gastralgia, enteralgia, SEASICKNESS, cholera infantum; cold, but WANTS ABDOMEN UNCOVERED. Vigorous peristaltic activity, diarrhoea. Produces high tension and arteriosclerosis of the coronary arteries. Should prove the most homeopathic drug for angina pectoris, with coronaritis and high tension (Cartier). Constriction of throat, chest, bladder, rectum. Pallor, breathlessness, hard-cordlike pulse.

Mind
Sensation of excessive wretchedness. VERY DESPONDENT. Forgetful. Discontented.

Head
Vertigo ON OPENING EYES; sick headache, with deathly nausea; periodical. Tight feeling as from a band. Sudden pain, as if struck by a hammer. Nervous deafness. Secretion from eyes, nose and mouth increased.

Eyes
Dim sight; sees as through a veil; strabismus. Amaurosis; muscae volitantes. Central scotoma. Rapid blindness without lesion, followed by venous hyperaemia and atrophy of optic nerve.

Face
Pale, blue, pinched, sunken, collapsed, covered with cold sweat. (ARS.; VERAT.) Freckles. Throat. Nasopharyngitis and tracheitis, HEMMING, morning cough, sometimes with vomiting. Hoarseness of public speakers.

Stomach
Incessant nausea; worse, smell of tobacco smoke (PHOS.); vomiting on least motion, sometimes of fecal matter. DURING PREGNANCY WITH MUCH SPITTING. SEASICKNESS; TERRIBLE FAINT, SINKING FEELING AT PIT OF STOMACH. Sense of relaxation of stomach, with nausea. (IPEC) Gastralgia; pain from cardiac end extending to left arm.

Abdomen
Cold. WANTS ABDOMEN UNCOVERED. It lessens the nausea and vomiting. Painful distension. Incarcerated hernia.

Rectum
Constipation; rectum paralyzed, prolapsed. Diarrhoea, sudden, watery, with nausea and vomiting, prostration, and cold sweat; discharges look like sour milk, thick, curdled, watery. Rectal tenesmus.

Urinary
Renal colic; violent pain along ureter, left side.

Heart
Palpitation when lying on left side. Pulse intermits, feeble, imperceptible. Angina pectoris, pain in precordial region. Pain radiates from center of sternum. Tachycardia. Bradycardia. ACUTE DILATATION caused by shock or violent physical exertion (Royal).

Respiratory
Difficult, violent constriction of chest. Precordial oppression, with palpitation and pain between shoulders. Cough followed by hiccough. Cough dry, teasing, must take a swallow of cold water (CAUST.; PHOS.). Dyspoena, with tingling down left arm when lying on left side.

Extremities
Legs and hands icy cold; limbs tremble. Paralysis following apoplexy. (PLUMB.) Gait shuffling, unsteady. Feebleness of arms.

Sleep
Insomnia with dilated heart, with cold, clammy skin and anxiety.

Fever
Chills, with COLD SWEAT.

Modalities
WORSE, opening eyes; evening; extremes of heat and cold. BETTER, uncovering, open fresh air.

Relationship
Compare: HYDROBROMICACID; CAMPH.;VERAT.; ARS. Compare: NICOTINUM(Alternate tonic and clonic spasms, followed by general relaxation and trembling; nausea, cold sweat, and speedy collapse; head drawn back, contraction of eyelids and masseter muscles; muscles of neck and back rigid; hissing respiration from spasm of laryngeal and bronchial muscles). Antidote: Vinegar; sour apples. CAMPHOR in the physiological antagonist. ARS. (chewing tobacco); IGN.; (smoking); Sep. (neuralgia and dyspepsia); LYCOP. (impotency); NUX (bad taste due to tobacco); CALAD. and PLANTAG. (cause aversion to tobacco); PHOSPH. (tobacco heart, sexual weakness).

Dose
Third to thirtieth and higher potencies.

Symphytum is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

•  episiotomies
• perineal tears after giving birth
• black eyes
• broken bones
• bone fractures
• eye injuries
• black eyes
• injuries to the bones

From Boericke:

(Comfrey-Knitbone) The root contains a crystalline solid, that stimulates the growth of epithelium on ulcerated surfaces. It may be administered internally in the treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers. Also in gastralgia, and externally in pruritus ani. Injuries to sinews, tendons and the periosteum. Acts on joints generally. Neuralgia of knee. Of great use in wounds penetrating to perineum and bones, AND IN NON-UNION OF FRACTURES; irritable stump after amputation, irritable bone at point of fracture. Psoas abscess. PRICKING POIN and soreness of periosteum.

Head
Pain in occiput, top and forehead; changing places. Pain comes down bone of nose. Inflammation of inferior maxillury bone, hard, red, swelling. Eye. PAIN IN EYE AFTERA BLOW OF AN OBTUSE BODY. For traumatic injuries of the eyes no remedy equals this.

Relationship
Compare: ARN.; CALC. PHOS.

Dose
Tincture. Externally as a dressing for sores and ulcers and pruritus ani.

Sulfur is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment:

• skin diseases with burning pains, and itching
• eczema with itchy, burning skin
• psoriasis
• acne
• diarrhea with burning pains in the anus
• pink eye
•  boils
• tonsillitis
• pneumonia

From Boericke:

(Sublimated Sulphur) This is the great Hahnemannian anti-psoric. Its action is centrifugal-from within outward-having an elective affinity for the skin, where it produces heat and BURNING, with itching; made worse by heat of bed. Inertia and relaxation of fiber; hence feebleness of tone characterizes its symptoms. EBULLITIONS OF HEAT, DISLIKE OF WATER, DRY AND HARD HAIR AND SKIN, RED ORIFICES, SINKING FEELING AT STOMACH ABOUT 11 a. m., AND CAT-NAP SLEEP; always indicate Sulphur homeopathically. STANDING is the worst position for sulphur patients, it is always uncomfortable. Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections. Aversion to being washed. WHEN CAREFULLY-SELECTED REMEDIES FAIL TO ACT, ESPECIALLY IN ACUTE DISEASES, it frequently arouses the reactionary powers of the organism. COMPLAINTS THAT RELAPSE. GENERAL OFFENSIVE CHARACTER OF DISCHARGE AND EXHALATIONS. Very red lips and face, flushing easily. Often great use in beginning the treatment of chronic cases and in finishing acute ones.

Mind
Very forgetful. Difficult thinking. Delusions; thinks rags beautiful things-that he is immensely wealthy. Busy all the time. Childish peevishness in grown people. Irritable. Affections vitiated; VERY SELFISH, no regard for others. Religious melancholy. Averse to business; loafs-too lazy to arouse himself. Imagining giving wrong things to people, causing their death. Sulphur subjects are nearly always irritable, depressed, thin and weak, even with good appetite.

Head
Constant HEAT ON TOP OF HEAD. (CUP. SULPH.; GRAPH.) Heaviness and fullness, pressure in temples. Beating headache; worse, stooping, and with vertigo. Sick headache recurring periodically. Tinea capitis, dry form. SCALP DRY, falling of hair; worse, washing. ITCHING; SCRATCHING CAUSES BURNING.

Eyes
BURNING ulceration of margin of lids. Halo around lamp-light. Heat and BURNING IN EYES. (ARS.; BELL.) Black motes before eyes. First stage of ulceration of cornea. Chronic ophthalmia, with much burning and itching. Parenchymatous keratitis. Cornea like ground glass.

Ears
Whizzing in ears. Bad effects from the suppression of an otorrhoea. Oversensitive to odors. Deafness, preceded by exceedingly sensitive hearing; catarrhal deafness.

Nose
Herpes across the nose. Nose stuffed indoors. Imaginary foul smells. ALX RED AND SCABBY. CHRONIC DRY CATARRH; DRY SCABS AND READILY BLEEDING. Polypus and adenoids.

Mouth
Lips dry, BRIGHT RED, burning. BITTER TOSTE in morning. Jerks through teeth. Swelling of gums; throbbing pain. Tongue white, with red tip and borders. Throat. Pressure as from a lump, as from a splinter, as of a hair. Burning, redness and dryness. Ball seems to rise and close pharynx.

Stomach
Complete ioss of, or excessive appetite. Putrid eructation. Food tastes too salty. Drinks much, eats little. MILK DISAGREES. Great desire for sweets. (ARG. NIT.) GREAT ACIDITY, sour eructation. Burning, painful, weight-like pressure. VERY WEAK AND FAINT ABOUT 11a. m.; must have something to eat. Nausea during gestation. Water fills the patient up.

Abdomen
Very sensitive to pressure; internal feeling of rawness and soreness. Movements as of something alive. (CROC; THUJ.) Pain and soreness over liver. Colic after drinking.

Rectum
Itching and burning of anus; piles dependent upon abdominal plethora. Frequent, unsuccessful desire; hard, knotty, insufficient. Child afraid on account of pain. REDNESS AROUND THE ANUS, with itching. MORNING DIARRHMA, PAINLESS, DRIVES OUT OF BED, with prolapsus recti. Hemorrhoids, oozing and belching. Urine. Frequent micturition, especially at night. ENURESIS, especially in scrofulous, untidy children. Burning in urethra during micturition, lasts long after. Mucus and pus in urine; PARTS SORE OVER WHICH IT PASSES. MUST HURRY, sudden call to urinate. GREAT QUANTITIES OF COLORLESS URINE.

Male
Stitches in penis. Involuntary emissions. Itching of genitals when going to bed. Organs cold, relaxed and powerless.

Female
Pudenda ITCHES. VAGINA BURNS. Much offensive perspiration. Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, ACRID, MAKING PARTS SORE. Menses preceded by headache or suddenly stopped. Leucorrhoea, burning, excoriating. Nipples cracked; smart and burn.

Respiratory
Oppression and burning sensation in chest. DIFFICULT RESPIRATION; WANTS WINDOWS OPEN. Aphonia. Heat, throughout chest. Red, brown spots all over chest. Loose cough; worse talking, morning, greenish, purulent, sweetish expectoration. MUCH RATTLING OF MUCUS. Chest feels heavy; stitches, with heart feeling too large and palpitating. PLEURITIC EXUDATIONS. Use Tinctura sulphuris. Stitching pains shooting through to the back, worse lying on back or breathing deeply. Flushes of heat in chest rising to head. OPPRESSION, AS OF A LOAD ON CHEST. DYSPNOEA in middle of night, relieved by sitting up. PULSE MORE RAPID IN MORNING than in evening.

Back
Drawing pain between shoulders. Stiffness of nape. Sensation as if vertebra glided over each other

Extremities
Trembling of hands. HOT; SWEATY HANDS. Rheumatic pain in left shoulder. Heaviness; paretic feeling. Rheumatic gout, with itching. BURNING IN SOLES AND HANDS AT NIGHT. Sweat in armpits, smelling like garlic. Drawing and tearing in arms and hands. Stiffness of knees and ankles. Cannot walk erect; STOOP-SHOULDERED. Ganglion.

Sleep
Talks, jerks, and twitches during sleep. Vivid dreams. Wakes up singing. Wakes frequently, and becomes wide awake suddenly. CATNAPS; slightest noise awakens. Cannot sleep between 2 and 5 a. m.

Fever
FREQUENT FLASHES OF HEAT. VIOLENT EBULLITIONS OF HEAT THROUGHOUT ENTIRE BODY. Dry skin and great thirst. Night sweat, on nape and occiput. Perspiration of single parts. Disgusting sweats. Remittent type.

Skin
DRY, SCALY, UNHEALTHY; EVERY LITTLE INJURY SUPPURATES. Freckles. ITCHING, BURNING; WORSE SCRATCHING AND WASHING. Pimply eruption, pustules, rhagades, hang-nails. Excoriation, especially in folds. (LYC) Feeling of a band around bones. Skin affections after local medication. PRURITUS, especially from warmth, in evening, often recurs in spring-time, in damp weather.

Modalities
WORSE, at rest, when standing, WARMTH IN BED, washing, bathing, in morning, 11 a. m., night, from alcoholic stimulants, periodically. BETTER, DRY, WARM WEATHER, lying on right side, from drawing up affected limbs.

Relationship
Complementary: ALOE; PSORIN.; ACON.; PYRARARA (a fish caught in the Amazon, clinically used for various skin affections). Lepra, tuberculides, syphilides, varicosities, etc. Compare: ACON. (Sulph. often follows in acute diseases); MERC. and CALCAREAare frequently useful AFTER Sulphur, not before. Lyc; Sep.; Sars.; Puls.; SULPHUR HYDROGENISATUM (delirium, mania, asphyxia); SULPHUR LEREBINLHINATUM(chronic rheumatic arthritis; chorea); TANNIC ACID (Nasal haemorrhage; elongated uvula; gargle; constipation). MAGNES. ARTIFLCIALIS (great hunger in evening, profuse sweat on face, bruised pain in joints, rectal constriction after stool).MAGNETIS POLUS ARTICUS (anxious, COLDNESS OF EYES AS IF A PIECE OF ICE LAY IN ORBIT, increased flow of saliva, constipation, sopor, trembling, abdominal flatulence). MAGNETIS POLUS AUSTRALIS (dryness of lids, easy dislocation of ankle, INGROWING TOE-NAILS, aching in patella, shooting in soles). Compare in adenoids: AGRAPHIS.

Dose
Acts in all potencies from the lowest to the highest. Some of the best results are obtained from the higher, and not too frequent doses. The twelfth potency is a good one to begin treatment with, going higher or lower according to the susceptibility of the patient. In chronic diseases, 200th and upward. In TORPID eruptions the LOWESTpotencies.

 Streptococcinum is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• fevers
• strep throat
• infections
• GBS in pregnancy
• GBS positive women during pregnancy
• fever of unknown origin
• sore throats

 Stramonium is a homepathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• bedwetting
• children with night terrors
• nightmares
• anxiety
• ADHD
• sunstroke
• stammering
• anxiety
• tremors
• epilepsy
• children with sleeping problems
• fear of the dark
• claustrophobia
• convulsions
• headache

From Boericke:

(Thorn-apple) The entire force of this drug seems to be expended on the brain, though the skin and throat show some disturbance. Suppressed secretions and excretions. Sensation as if limbs were separated from body. Delirium tremens. Absence of pain and muscular mobility especially of muscles of expression and of locomotion. Gyratory and graceful motions. Parkinsonism.

Mind
DEVOUT, EARNEST, BESEECHING AND CEASELESS TALKING. Loquacious, garrulous, laughing, singing, swearing, praying, rhyming. Sees ghosts, hears voices, talks with spirits. Rapid changes from joy to sadness. Violent and lewd. Delusions about his identity; thinks himself tall, double, a part missing. Religious mania. Cannot bear solitude or darkness; MUST HAVE LIGHT AND COMPANY. Sight of water or anything glittering brings on spasms. Delirium, with desire to escape. (BELL.; BRY.; RHUS.)

Head
RAISES HEAD FREQUENTLY FROM THE PILLOW. Pain in forehead and over eyebrows, beginning at 9 a. m.; worse until noon. Boring pain, preceded by obscure vision. Rush of blood to head; staggers, with tendency to fall forward and to the left. Auditory hallucinations.

Eyes
Seem prominent, STARING WIDE OPEN; pupils dilated. Loss of vision; complains that it is dark, AND CALLS FOR LIGHT. SMALL OBJECTS LOOK LARGE. Parts of the body seem enormously swollen. Strabismus. All objects look black.

Face
Hot, red; circumscribed redness of cheeks. Blood rushes to face; distorted. EXPRESSION OF TERROR. Pale face.

Mouth
Dry; dribbling of viscid saliva. Aversion to water. STAMMERING. Risus sardonicus. Cannot swallow on account of spasm. Chewing motion.

Stomach
Food tastes like straw. Violent thirst. Vomiting of mucus and GREEN bile. Urine.SUPPRESSION, bladder empty.

Male
SEXUAL ERETHISM, with indecent speech and action. Hands constantly kept on genitals.

Female
METRORRHAGIA, with LOQUACITY, SINGING, praying. Puerperal mania, with characteristic mental symptoms and profuse sweatings. Convulsions after labor.

Sleep
Awakens terrified; screams with fright. Deep snoring sleep. Sleepy, but cannot sleep. (BELL.)

Extremities
GRACEFUL, RHYTHMIC MOTIONS. Convulsions of upper extremities and of isolated groups of muscles. CHOREA; spasms partial, constantly changing. VIOLENT PAIN IN LEFT HIP. Trembling, twitching of tendons, staggering gait.

Skin
Shining red flash. EFFECTS OF SUPPRESSED ERUPTION IN SCARLATINA, with delirium, etc.

Fever
Profuse sweat, which does not relieve. Violent fever.

Modalities
WORSE, in dark room, when alone, looking at bright or shining objects, after sleep, on swallowing. BETTER, from bright light, company, warmth.

Relationship
Compare especially: HYOSCY. and BELLAD. It has less fever than BELLAD., but more than HYOS. It causes more functional excitement of the brain, but never approaches the true inflammatory condition of BELLAD. Antidotes: BELLAD.; TABAC.; NUX.

Dose
Thirtieth potency and lower.

Sticta pulmonaria is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• throat infections
• colds and flus
• coughs
• bronchitis
• allergies
• post nasal drip 
• nasal congestion
• stuffy nose

From Boericke: 

(Lungwort) Offers a set of symptoms like coryza, bronchial catarrh and influenza, together with nervous and RHEUMATIC disturbances. There is a general feeling of dullness and malaise, as when a cold is coming on; dull, heavy pressure in forehead, catarrhal conjunctivitis, etc. RHEUMATIC STIFFNESS OF NECK.

Mind
FEELS AS IF FLOATING IN AIR. (DATURA ARBOREA.; LAC. CAN.) Confusion of ideas; PATIENT MUST TALK.

Head
Dull headache, with dull heavy pressure in forehead and ROOT OF NOSE. CATARRHAL HEADACHE BEFORE DISCHARGE APPEARS. Burning in eyes and soreness of balls. Sensation as if scalp were too small. Burning in eyelids.

Nose
FEELING OF FULLNESS AT THE ROOT OF THE NOSE. (NUX.) Atrophic rhinitis. (CALC. FLUOR.) DRYNESS OF NASAL MEMBRANE. CONSTANT NEED TO BLOW THE NOSE, BUT NO DISCHARGE. Dry scabs, especially in evening and night. HAY-FEVER; incessant sneezing. (SABAD.) Female. Scanty flow of milk.

Abdomen
Diarrhoea; stools profuse, frothy; worse, morning. Urine increased, with soreness and aching in bladder.

Respiratory
Throat raw; dropping of mucus posteriorly. DRY, HACKING COUGH DURING NIGHT; WORSE, INSPIRATION. Tracheitis, facilitates expectoration. Loose cough in morning. Pain through chest from sternum to spinal column. Cough after measles (SANG.); WORSE TOWARDS EVENING AND WHEN TIRED. PULSATION FROM RIGHT SIDE OF SLERMIM DOWN TO ABDOMEN.

Extremities
Rheumatic pain in right shoulder joint, deltoid, and biceps. Swelling, heat, redness of joints. SPOT OF INFLAMMATION AND REDNESS OVER AFFECTED JOINT. Pain severe and drawing. Chorea-like spasms; legs feel floating in air. HOUSEMAID'S KNEE. (RHUS; KALI HYD.; SLAG.) Shooting pains in knees. Joints and neighboring muscles red, swollen, painful. Rheumatic pains precede catarrhal symptoms. Modalities.WORSE, sudden changes of temperature. Relationship. Compare: DATURA ARBOREA-BOUGMANCIA CANDIDA (cannot concentrate thoughts; brain floats in thousands of problems and grand ideas. Floating sensation as if ideas were floating outside of brain. Headache, heartburn. Burning sensation around cardiac end of stomach, extending to oesophagus with sense of constriction. Heat and fullness over liver region.) CETRARIA-Iceland Moss (chronic diarrhoea, phthisis, bloody expectoration. Is used as a decoction and boiled with milk as an expectorant and nutrient in bronchorrhoea, catarrh, etc.) Also compare: ERYNG.; DROS.; STILLING.; RUMEX; SAMBUC. 

Dose
Tincture, to sixth potency.

Staphysagria is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• styes
• chalazion
• urinary tract infections
• honeymoon cystitis
• bladder infections
• pain during sex
• colic
• sciatica
• pain from incisions
• pains after surgeries
• colitis

 From Boericke:

(Stavesacre) Nervous affections with marked irritability, diseases of the genito-urinary tract and skin, most frequently give symptoms calling for this drug. Acts on teeth and alveolar periosteum. Ill effects of anger and insults. SEXUAL SINS AND EXCESSES. VERY SENSITIVE. Lacerated tissues. Pain and nervousness after extraction of teeth. Sphincters lacerated or stretched.

Mind
Impetuous, VIOLENT OUTBURSTS OF PASSION, hypochondriacal, sad. VERY SENSITIVE as to what others say about her. Dwells on sexual matters; prefers solitude. Peevish. Child cries for many things, and refuses them when offered.

Head
Stupefying headache; passes off with yawning. Brain feels squeezed. Sensation of a ball of lead in forehead. Itching eruption above and behind ears. (OLEAND.)

Eyes
Heat in eyeballs, dims spectacles. RECURRENT STYES. CHALAZOE. (PLATANUS.) Eyes sunken, with blue rings. Margin of lids itch. Affections of angles of eye, particularly the inner. Lacerated or incised wounds of cornea. Bursting pain in eyeballs of syphilitic iritis. Throat. STITCHES FLYING TO THE EAR ON SWALLOWING, ESPECIALLY LEFT.

Mouth
Toothache during menses. TEETH BLACK AND CRUMBLING. Salivation, spongy gums, bleed easily. (MERC; KREOS.) Submaxillary glands swollen. After eating feels sleepy. Pyorrhoea. (PLANTAGO.)

Stomach
Flabby and weak. Desire for stimulants. Stomach feels relaxed. CRAVING FOR TOBACCO. Canine hunger, even when stomach is full. Nausea after abdominal operations.

Abdomen
Colic after anger. Hot flatus. Swollen abdomen in children, with much flatus. Colic, with pelvic tenesmus. SEVERE PAIN FOLLOWING AN ABDOMINAL OPERATION. Incarcerated flatus. Diarrhoea after drinking cold water, with tenesmus. CONSTIPATION (2 drops tincture night and morning), haemorrhoids, with enlarged prostate.

Male
Especially after self-abuse; persistent dwelling on sexual subjects. Spermatorrhoea, with sunken features; guilty look; emissions, with backache and weakness and sexual neurasthenia. Dyspnoea after coition.

Female
PARTS VERY SENSITIVE, worse sitting down. (BERB.; KREOS.) IRRITABLE BLADDER IN YOUNG MARRIED WOMEN. Leucorrhoea. Prolapsus, with sinking in the abdomen; aching around the hips.

Urinary
CYSTOCELE (locally and internally). Cystitis in lying-in patients. Ineffectual urging to urinate in NEWLY MARRIED women. Pressure upon bladder; feels as if it did not empty. SENSATION AS IF A DROP OF URINE WERE ROLLING CONTINUOUSLY ALONG THE CHANNEL. Burning in urethra during micturition. Prostatic troubles; frequent urination, burning in urethra WHEN NOT URINATING. (THUJA; SABAL; FERR. PIC) Urging and pain AFTER urinating. Pain after lithotomy.

Skin
Eczema of head, ears, face, and body; thick scabs, dry, and itch violently; SCRATCHING CHANGES LOCATION OF ITCHING. Fig-warts pedunculated. (THUJA.) Arthritic nodes. Inflammation of phalanges. Night-sweats.

Extremities
Muscles, especially of calves, feel bruised. BACKACHE; WORSE IN MORNING BEFORE RISING. Extremities feel beaten and painful. Joints stiff. CRURAL NEURALGIA. Dull aching of nates extending to hip-joint and small of back.

Modalities
Worse, anger, indignation, grief, mortification, loss of fluids, onanism, sexual excesses, tobacco; least touch on affected parts. BETTER, after breakfast, warmth, rest at night.

Relationship
Inimical: RANUNC. BULB. Complementary: CAUST.; COLOCY. Compare: FERRUM PYROPHOS. (tarsal cysts); COLOCY.; CAUST.; IGN.; PHOS. AC; CALAD. Antidote: CAMPH.

Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.

Spongea tosta is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

•  croup
• whooping cough
• anxiety with problems breathing/difficult breathing
• asthma
• bronchitis
• goiter
• hard swellings
• hard glands
• thyroid enlargement/induration
• chronic cough
• dry cough

From Boericke:

(Roasted Sponge) A remedy especially marked in the symptoms of the respiratory organs, cough, croup, etc. Heart affections and often indicated for the tubercular diathesis. Children with fair complexion, lax fiber; swollen glands. EXHAUSTION AND HEAVINESS OF THE BODY AFTER SLIGHT EXERTION, WITH ORGASM OF BLOOD TO CHEST, FACE. ANXIETY AND DIFFICULT BREATHING.

Mind
Anxiety and fear. Every excitement increases the cough.

Head
Rush of blood; bursting headache; worse, forehead.

Eyes
Watering; gummy or mucus discharge.

Nose
Fluent coryza, alternating with stoppage. Dryness; chronic, dry, nasal catarrh.

Mouth
Tongue dry and brown; full of vesicles. Throat. Thyroid gland swollen. Stitches and dryness. Burning and stinging. Sore throat; worse after eating sweet things. Tickling causes cough. Clears throat constantly.

Stomach
Excessive thirst, GREAT HUNGER. Cannot bear tight clothing around trunk. Hiccough.

Male
SWELLING OF SPERMATIC CORD AND TESTICLES, WITH PAIN AND TENDERNESS. ORCHITIS. Epididymitis. Heat in parts.

Female
Before menses, pain in sacrum, hunger, PALPITATION. DURING MENSES, wakes with suffocative spells. (CUPR.; IOD.; LACH.) Amenorrhea, with asthma. (Puls.)

Respiratory
Great dryness of all air-passages. HOARSENESS; LARYNX DRY, BURNS, CONSTRICTED. Cough, DRY, BARKING, CROUPY; larynx sensitive to touch. CROUP; WORSE, DURING INSPIRATION AND BEFORE MIDNIGHT. Respiration short, panting, DIFFICULT; FEELING OF A PLUG IN LARYNX. COUGH ABATES AFTER EATING OR DRINKING, especially warm drinks. The dry, chronic sympathetic cough or organic heart disease is relieved by Spongia. (NAJA.) Irrepressible cough from a spot deep in chest, as if raw and sore. Chest weak; can scarcely talk. Laryngeal phthisis. Goitre, with suffocative spells. Bronchial catarrh, with wheezing, asthmatic cough, worse cold air, with profuse expectoration and suffocation; worse, lying with head low and in hot room. Oppression and heat of chest, with sudden weakness.

Heart
Rapid and violent palpitation, with dyspnoea; cannot lie down; also feels best resting in horizontal position. AWAKENED SUDDENLY AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH PAIN AND SUFFOCATION; is flushed, hot, and frightened to death. (ACON.) Valvular insufficiency. Angina pectoris; faintness, and anxious sweat. Ebullition of blood, veins distended. SURGING OF HEART INTO CHEST, AS IF IT WOULD FORCE OUT UPWARD. Hypertrophy of heart, especially right, with asthmatic symptoms.

Skin
SWELLING AND INDURATION OF GLANDS; also exophthalmic; cervical glands swollen with tensive pain on turning head, painful on pressure; goitre. Itching; measles.

Sleep
AWAKES IN A FRIGHT, AND FEELS AS IF SUFFOCATING. Generally worse after sleep, or sleeps into an aggravation. (LACH.)

Fever
ATTACKS OF HEAT WITH ANXIETY; heat and redness of face and perspiration.

Modalities
WORSE, ascending, wind, before midnight. BETTER, descending, lying with head low.

Relationship
Compare: ACON.; HEP.; BROM.; LACH.; MERC, PROT.; IOD. (Goitre.)

Dose
Second trituration, or tincture to third potency.

 Staphylococcinum is  a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• skin infections
• bacterial infections
• impetigo
• acne
• abscesses
• furuncles
• carbuncles
• cellulitis

Silica is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• abscesses
• ulcers
• ingrown nails
• styes
• splinters
• blocked tear ducts
• dry, brittle hair
• dry, brittle nails
• eczema
• psoriasis
• constipation
• keloids
• scars

From Boericke:

(Silica. Pure Flint) Imperfect assimilation and consequent defective nutrition. It goes further and produces neurasthenic states in consequence, and increased susceptibility to nervous stimuli and exaggerated reflexes. Diseases of bones, caries and necrosis. Silica can stimulate the organism to re-absorb fibrotic conditions and scar-tissue. In phthisis must be used with care, for here it may cause the absorption of scar-tissue, liberate the disease, walled in, to new activities. (J. Weir.) Organic changes; it is deep and slow in action. Periodical states; abscesses, quinsy, headaches, spasms, epilepsy, feeling of coldness before an attack. Keloid growth. Scrofulous, rachitic children, with large head, open fontanelles and sutures, distended abdomen, slow in walking. ILL EFFECTS OF VACCINATION. SUPPURATIVE PROCESSES. It is related to all fistulous burrowings. Ripens abscesses since it promotes suppuration. Silica patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold, worse in winter. Lack of vital heat. Prostration of mind and body. Great sensitiveness to taking cold. INTOLERANCE OF ALCOHOLIC STIMULANTS. Ailments attended with PUS FORMATION. Epilepsy. WANT OF GRIT, moral or physical.

Mind
Yielding, FAINT-HEARTED, ANXIOUS. Nervous and excitable. SENSITIVE to all impressions. Brain-fag. Obstinate, headstrong children. Abstracted. Fixed ideas; thinks only of PINS, fears them, searches and counts them.

Head
Aches from fasting. Vertigo from looking up; BETTER, WRAPPING UP WARMLY; WHEN LYING ON LEFT SIDE. (MAGNES. MUR.; STRONTIA.) PROFUSE SWEAT OF HEAD, offensive, and extends to neck. Pain begins at occiput, and spreads over head and settles over eyes. Swelling in the glabella.

Eyes
Angles of eyes affected. SWELLING OF LACHRYMAL DUCT. Aversion to light, especially daylight; it produces dazzling, sharp pain through eyes; eyes tender to touch; worse when closed. Vision confused; letters run together on reading. STYES. Iritis and irido-choroiditis, with pus in anterior chamber. PERFORATING or sloughing ulcer of cornea. Abscess in cornea after traumatic injury. Cataract in office workers. After-effects of keratitis and ulcus comae, clearing the opacity. Use 30th potency for months.

Ears
Fetid discharge. Caries of mastoid. Loud pistol-like report. Sensitive to noise. ROARING IN EARS.

Nose
Itching at point of nose. Dry, hard crusts form, BLEEDING WHEN LOOSENED. Nasal bones sensitive. Sneezing in morning. Obstructed and loss of smell. Perforation of septum.

Face
Skin cracked on margin of lips. Eruption en chin. Facial neuralgia, throbbing, tearing, face red; worse, cold damp.

Mouth
SENSATION OF A HAIR ON TONGUE. Gums sensitive to cold air. Boils on gums. Abscess at root of teeth. Pyorrhoea. (MERC, COR.) Sensitive to cold water. Throat. Periodical quinsy. PRICKING AS OF A PIN IN TONSIL. Colds settle in throat. PAROTID GLANDS SWOLLEN. (BELL.; RHUS; CALC.) Stinging pain on swallowing. Hard, cold swelling of cervical glands.

Stomach
Disgust for meat and WARM FOOD. On swallowing food, it easily gets into posterior nares. Want of appetite; thirst excessive. Sour eructations after eating. (SEPIA; CALC) Pit of stomach painful to pressure. Vomiting after drinking. (ARS.; VERAL.)

Abdomen
Pain or painful cold feeling in abdomen, better external heat. Hard, bloated. Colic; cutting pain, with constipation; yellow hands and blue nails. Much rumbling in bowels. Inguinal glands swollen and painful. Hepatic abscess.

Rectum
Feels paralyzed. FISTULA IN ANO. (BERB.; LACH.) Fissures and haemorrhoids, PAINFUL, WITH SPASM OF SPHINCTER. STOOL COMES DOWN WITH DIFFICULTY; WHEN PARTLY EXPELLED, RECEDES AGAIN. Great straining; rectum stings; closes upon stool. Faeces remain a long time in rectum. CONSTIPATION ALWAYS BEFORE AND DURING MENSES; with irritable sphincter ani. Diarrhoea of cadaverous odor.

Urinary
Bloody, involuntary, with red or yellow sediment. Prostatic fluid discharged when straining at stool. Nocturnal enuresis in children with worms.

Male
Burning and soreness of genitals, with eruption on inner surface of thighs. Chronic gonorrhoea, with thick, fetid discharge. Elephantiasis of scrotum. Sexual erethism; nocturnal emissions. Hydrocele.

Female
A milky (CALC; PULS.; SEP.), acrid leucorrhoea, during urination. Itching of vulva and vagina; very sensitive. Discharge of blood between menstrual periods. Increased menses, with paroxysms of ICY COLDNESS OVER WHOLE BODY. Nipples very sore; ulcerated easily; drawn in. Fistulous ulcers of breast. (PHOS.) Abscess of labia. Discharge of blood from vagina every time child is nursed. Vaginal cysts. (LYC; PULS.; RHOD.) Hard lumps in breast. (CONIUM.)

Respiratory
Colds fail to yield; sputum persistently mucopurulent and profuse. Slow recovery after pneumonia. Cough and sore throat, with expectoration of little granules like shot, which, when broken, smell very offensive. Cough with expectoration in day, bloody or purulent. Stitches in chest through to back. VIOLENT COUGH IVHEN LYING DOWN, WITH THICK, YELLOW LUMPY EXPECTORATION; suppurative stage of expectoration. (BALS. PERU.)

Back
Weak spine; very susceptible to draughts on back. Pain in coccyx. Spinal irritation after injuries to spine; diseases of bones of spine. Potts' disease.

Sleep
NIGHT-WALKING; gets up while asleep. Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head. Frequent starts in sleep. Anxious dreams. Excessive gaping.

Extremities
Sciatica, pains through hips, legs and feet. Cramp in calves and soles. Loss of power in legs. Tremulous hands when using them. Paralytic weakness of forearm. AFFECTIONS OF FINGER NAILS, especially if white spots on nails. Ingrowing toe-nails. ICY COLD AND SWEATY FEET. THE PARTS LAIN ON GO TO SLEEP. OFFENSIVE SWEAT ON FEET, hands, and axillae. Sensation in tips of fingers, as if suppurating. Panaritium. Pain in knee, as if tightly bound. Calves tense and contracted. Pain beneath toes. Soles sore. (RUTA.) SORENESS IN FEET FROM INSTEP THROUGH TO THE SOLE. SUPPURATES.

Skin
FELONS, ABSCESSES, BOILS, OLD FISTULOUS ULCERS. Delicate, pale, waxy. Cracks at end of fingers. Painless swelling of glands. Rose-colored blotches. Scars suddenly become painful. Pus offensive. PROMOTES EXPULSION OF FOREIGN BODIES FROM TISSUES. Every little injury suppurates. Long lasting suppuration and fistulous tracts. Dry finger tips. Eruptions itch only in daytime and evening. CRIPPLED NAILS. Indurated tumors. Abscesses of joints. After impure vaccination. Bursa. Lepra, nodes, and coppery spots. KELOID GROWTHS.

Fever
Chilliness; very sensitive to cold air. Creeping, shivering over the whole body. Cold extremities, even in a warm room. Sweat at night; worse towards morning. SUFFERING PARTS FEEL COLD.

Modalities
WORSE, new moon, in morning, from washing, during menses, uncovering, lying down, damp, lying on left side, cold. BETTER, warmth, wrapping up head, summer; in wet or humid weather.

Relationship
Complementary: THUJA; SANIC.; PULS.; FLUOR. AC. Mercurius and Silica do not follow each other well. Compare: BLACK GUNPOWDER 3x. (Abscesses, boils, carbuncles, limb purple. Wounds that refuse to heal; accident from bad food or water. - Clarke.), HEP.; KALI PHOS.; PIC. AC.; CALC.; PHOS.; TABASHEER; NATRUM SILICUM (tumors, haemophilia, arthritis; dose, three drops three times daily, in milk); FERRUM CYANATUM (epilepsy; neuroses, with irritable weakness and hyper-sensitiveness, especially of a periodical character). SILIEA MARINA-Sea-sand-(Silica and Natrum mur. symptoms. INFLAMED GLANDS and commencing suppuration. Constipation. Use for some time 3x trit.) VITRUM-CROWN GLASS-(Potts' disease, after Silica, necrosis, discharge thin, watery, fetid. Much pain, fine GRINDING and GRATINGlike grit.) ARUNDO DONAX (acts on excretory and generative organs; suppuration, especially chronic, and where the ulceration is fistulous, especially in long bones. Itching eruption on chest, upper extremities and behind eard).

Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency. The 200th and higher of unquestioned activity. In malignant affections, the lowest potencies needed at times.