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Formalinum

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Formalinum Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Tubercular Miasm The Tubercular miasm is a combination of Psora and Syphilis. It manifests as a susceptibility to respiratory illnesses, rapid weight loss, and a constant desire for mental and physical change.
🧠 General & Mental Health
GENERAL
  • Formica rufa causes many rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. and gouty pains appear sud denly and dart from place to place: left, then right, then left.
  • Pains are worse from motion, better pressure.
  • ArthritisJoint inflammation causing pain and stiffnessPainful inflammation and stiffness of the joints, often worsening with age. with sudden rheumatic or gouty pain s.
  • Chronic gout🩺 GoutClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and stiffness in joints.
  • Acute outbursts of gouty poisons, especially when assuming the neuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. forms.
  • The spinal cord is affected, paralyzes and spasms occurring.
  • It affects the liver, kidneys and right side.
  • Influence on theformation of polyps.
  • Tuberculosis🩺 TuberculosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
  • Carcinoma, cancer.
  • Apoplectic diseases🌿 DiseasesMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
  • LupusAutoimmune inflammatory diseaseA chronic autoimmune disease where the body's immune system attacks its own tissues and organs..
  • Chronic nephritisInflammation of the kidneysAn inflammatory condition of the kidneys, affecting their filtering units, which can cause pain, blood in urine, or swelling..
  • Atrophy of wounds.
  • Takes cold easily.
  • Clammy skin, disagreeable sweat during night, sweat without relief.
  • Chorea from checked foot sweat.
  • Complaints from over lifting.
  • COMMENTS-A plug of cotton wool soaked in a 20 percent solution of formaldehyde and applied for a few hours, will produce a necrotic slough, which must be scraped away before the next application, otherwise it hardens.
  • Formal., in hot water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. as vapor, is a most valuable therapeutic agent in whooping cou gh, tuberculosis and in catarrhalRelating to membrane inflammation and mucusRelating to catarrh, which is inflammation of mucous membranes with increased watery discharge. disorders of the upper air-passages.
  • Temperature-Chills in forenoon, fol lowed by long fever.
  • Bones ache during whole paroxysm.
  • During fever forgets where he was FlatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind..
  • Drawing pain around na vel before stools.
  • Dull pain in region of spleen.
  • Hardening of mesenteric glands
MODALITIES ETC
  • Better warmth.
  • Better pressure.
  • Better rubbing.
  • Better combing hair.
  • Better after midnight.
  • Worse motion.
  • Worse sitting.
  • Worse dampness.
  • Worse cold washing.
  • Worse cold.
  • Worse before snowstorms
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Ammonia water

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  • 1 Ammonium formaldehyde, known commercially as Cystogen. Dose, five to seven grains two to four times daily, dis solved in hot water aft er meals. Prevents the decomposition of urine in the bladder, kidneys and ureters. Turbid urine rendered clear and non -irritating, phosphatic deposits dissolved and growth of pyogenic bacteria arrested
  • 2 Also, Urotropin A diuretic and solvent of uric acid concretions, relieves cystitis associated with putrefaction. Three grains well diluted. When administered it invariably appears in the cerebro -spinal fluid and therefore advised in threatened meningeal infection. - Boericke. FORMICA RUFA (Red Ants) PHARMACY - form. Formica rufa. Red ants. Myrmexine. Contains formic acid. N. O. Hymenoptera. Tincture from crushed live ants. Contains formic acid. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies. CLINICAL-Arthritis. Braindisorders. Bruises. Chorea. Cough, Diarrhea. Dislocations. Dropsies. Eyes disorders. Facial, paralysis. Foot-sweat, checked. Gout. Hair, loss. Headaches. Nodes. Over-lifting, complaints from. Paralysis. Polyps. Rheumatism. Spinal, disorders. Spleen, pain. Stroke. Tapeworm. Throat, sore. Vision, disorders.
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MIND
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👁️ Head & Sensory Organs
VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Severe vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement.
HEAD
  • Brain feels too heavy and large.
  • As if bubbles bursting in forehead.
  • Headache with cracking in left ear.
  • Headache better after combing hair.
  • Vertigo.
  • Vertigo
EYES
  • Pain in the eyes on waking, better washing.
  • Rheumatic iritis.
  • Rheumatic ophthalmiaSevere eye inflammationInflammation of the eye, especially conjunctivitis..
  • Macule and ulcers on cornea.
  • Dim sight.
  • Flickering before eyes.
  • Pterygium.
  • Spasmodic twitching of up per eyelid
EARS
  • Ringing and buzzing.
  • Deafness.
  • Cracking in left ear with headache.
  • Polyps.
  • External sensitiveness of right ear and temple.
  • Parts around ear feel swollen
FACE
  • Entire left side of face and cheek feel as if paralyzed
🫁 Respiratory & Throat
MOUTH
  • PtyalismExcessive production of salivaAn abnormally large flow of saliva, also known as salivation, commonly seen in certain remedies., thick saliva.
  • Loss of taste
THROAT
  • Laryngismus stridulus
CHEST
  • Uneasy pain in region of heart.
  • Fluttering palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions..
  • Breasts-Violent penetrating pain in region of right nipple.
  • Lack of milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. in nursing women.
  • Causations-Complaints from over-lifting.
  • Checked foot-sweat.
  • Wounds.
  • Great li ability to take cold, consequences of cold and wet cold bathing, damp weather.
  • Chests-Pleuritic pains.
  • Coughs-Cough tedious and long-lasting, worse at night and worse motion.
  • Cough with aching in forehead and constrictive pain in chest.
  • Cough, mostly at night.
  • Violent attacks of cough with vomiting, day and night
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🥗 Digestive & Genitourinary
ABDOMEN
  • Food feels as if it were a ball in stomach.
  • Burning in mouth and stomach
GENITALS ETC
🦴 Musculoskeletal & Skin
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Rheumatic pains, stiff and con tracted joints.
  • RheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues. com es on with suddenness and restlessness.
  • Muscles feel strained and torn from their attach ment.🌿 Ment.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
  • Stiffness and contraction of joints.
  • Hard nodes around joints in and out.
  • Weakness of lower limbs.
  • ParaplegiaParalysis of the lower half of the bodyParalysis that affects all or part of the trunk, legs, and pelvic organs, usually due to spinal cord injury..
  • Pain in hips.
  • Itching in armpits in morning.
  • Hands numb
BACK AND NECK
  • Soreness in neck and up into head.
  • Severe pain in left side of neck while chewing.
  • Severe pain across sacrum and dorsum of each hand.
  • Affection of spinal cord
SKIN
  • Puckers skin like leather, wrinkles, scales off.
  • EczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches. in neighborhood of wound.
  • Damp sweat most marked on right upper extremity

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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