(ANACARDIUM)
The Anacardium patient is found mostly among the neurasthenics; such have a type of nervous dyspepsia, relieved by food; impaired memory, depression, and irritability; diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing). Syphilitic patients often suffer with these conditions. Intermittency of symptoms. Fear of examination in students. Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc. Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse. Sensation of a plug in various parts-eyes, rectum, bladder, etc; also of a band. Empty feeling in stomach; eating temporarily relieves all discomfort. This is a sure indication, often verified. Its skin symptoms are similar to Rhus, and it has proved a valuable antidote to Poison-Oak.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Mind ailments: Fixed ideas. Hallucinations; thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills. Anxiety when walking, as if pursued. Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with tendency to use violent language. Brain-fag. Impaired memory. Absent mindedness. Very easily offended. Malicious; seems bent on wickedness. Lack of confidence in himself or others. Suspicious (Hyos). Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead. Senile dementia. Absence of all moral restraint.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Head ailments: Vertigo. Pressing pain, as from a plug; worse after mental exertion-in forehead; occiput, temples, vertex; better during a meal. Itching and little boils on scalp.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Eyes ailments: Pressure like a plug on upper orbit. Indistinct vision. Objects appear too far off.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Ears ailments: Pressing in the ears as from a plug. Hard of hearing.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Nose ailments: Frequent sneezing. Sense of smell perverted. Coryza with palpitation, especially in the aged.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Face ailments: Blue rings around eyes. Face pale.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Mouth ailments: Painful vesicles; fetid odor. Tongue feels swollen, impending speech and motion, with saliva in mouth. Burning around lips as from pepper.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Stomach ailments: Weak digestion, with fullness and distention. Empty feeling in stomach. Eructation, nausea, vomiting. Eating relieves the Anacardium dyspepsia. Apt to choke when eating or drinking. Swallows food and drinks hastily.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Abdomen ailments: Pain as if dull plug were pressed into intestines. Rumbling, pinching, and griping.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Rectum ailments: Bowels inactive. Ineffectual desire; rectum seems powerless, as if plugged up; spasmodic constriction of sphincter ani; even soft stool passes with difficulty. Itching at anus; moisture from rectum. Haemorrhage during stool. Painful haemorrhoids.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Male ailments: Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions without dreams. Prostatic discharge during stool.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Female ailments: Leucorrhoea, with soreness and itching. Menses scanty.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Respiratory ailments: Pressure in chest, as from a dull plug. Oppression of chest, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into open air. Cough excited by talking, in children, after fit of temper. Cough after eating with vomiting of food and pain in occiput.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Heart ailments: Palpitation, with weak memory, with coryza in the aged; stitches in heart region. Rheumatic pericarditis with double stitches.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Back ailments: Dull pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight. Stiffness at nape of neck.
Extremities:
Neuralgia in thumb. Paralytic weakness. Knees feel paralyzed or bandaged. Cramps in calves. Pressure as from a plug in the glutei. Warts on palms of hands. Fingers swollen with vesicular eruption.Anacardium orientale treatment for Sleep ailments: Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights. Anxious dreams.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Skin ailments: Intense itching, eczema, with mental irritability; vesicular eruption; swelling, urticaria; eruption like that of Poison-Oak (Xerophyl; Grindel; Croton). Lichen planus; neurotic eczema. Warts on hands. Ulcer formation on forearm.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Modalities ailments: Worse, on application of hot water. Better, from eating. When lying on side, from rubbing.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Relationship ailments: Antidote: Grindeleia; Coffea; Juglans; Rhus; Eucalyptus.
Anacardium orientale treatment for Compare ailments: Anacard occidentale (cashew nut) (erysipelas, vesicular facial eruptions), (anaesthetic variety of leprosy; warts, corns, ulcers, cracking of the skin on soles of feet). Rhus; Cypriped; Chelidon; Xerophyl.
Platina follows well. Cereus serpentina (swearing).
Anacardium orientale treatment for Dose ailments: Sixth to two hundredth potency.