Hydrophobinum

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Hydrophobinum Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
GENERAL
  • Hering, in 1833, was the first to prove and to suggest the employment of this nosode in medicine.
  • Later, it became notorious from the experiments of Pasteur.
  • The pathogenesis of Lyss, is made up partly of symptoms observed in rabid animals and human patients, but chiefly of symptoms developed in the provings.
  • The remedy has been extensively used in practice, not only in cases of hydrophobia, but in many disorders in which the keynote symptoms have been present.
  • The effects of bites of non -rabid dogs have been removed by this nosode.
  • DysenteryIntestinal infection with severe bloody diarrheaInfection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces. with pain and tenesmusPainful urge to empty bladder or bowelsA distressing, constant, and ineffectual urge to evacuate the bowels or bladder, accompanied by pain. on hearing water running from a tap.
  • Copi ous viscid saliva.
  • Thirst with inability to swallow.
  • Suffocating feelings.
  • Sighing and sighing respiration.
  • Trembling or quivering sensation throughout the whole body.
  • Sensitiveness to breath of air, to bright objects, especially the surface of water, to sounds, and , most of all, to the sound of running water.
  • Convulsions brought on by dazzling light or sight of running water.
  • Thought of light or water is enough to bring on an aggravationWorsening of symptomsAn increase in severity or intensity of symptoms, often caused by environmental factors or after taking a remedy. or a convulsion.
  • Aching in bones.
  • Bluish discoloration of wounds.
  • Complaints fr om abnormal sexual desire.
  • Senses become over-acute.
  • Noticeable rapid speech and impatience.
  • Irritable, violent temper.
  • Cannot bear the heat of the sun.
  • Symptoms are better from sweating.
  • A number of cures of hydrophobia have been reported from forced per spirations, especially from prolonged and repeated use of the Turkish bath.
  • This is known as the Buisson treatment from Dr.
  • Buisson who originated it
MODALITIES ETC
  • Better gentle rubbing, bending backwards, steam or hot water bathing.
  • Worse glistening objects, dazzling or reflected light, mirrors.
  • Worse from sight or sound of running water, thinking of fluids, pouring water.
  • Worse from heat of sun, wind, drafts.
  • Worse stooping, riding in a carriage, mental exertion, bed news
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Compare: (1) Canth., Bell., Hyos. Stram., Lach., Nat -m. (2) Xanth. - said to be specific for
hydrophobia and is recommended for chronic cystitis in women.

MIND
  • Hyperactivity of the mind.
  • Hypersensitiveness of all senses.
  • Heightened awareness.
  • Empathetic to others pain.
  • Clairvoyance.
  • Emotions and bad news aggravate.
  • History of physical or sexual abuse.
  • Feelings of isolation and of being ridiculed or tormented.
  • Anxiety, restlessness, with great prostra tion.
  • Rapid speech.
  • Roams about Anxiety from hearing chu rch bells.
  • Indecision even in small matters.
  • Thoughts of something terrible going to happen come into his mind against his will.
  • Fear something bad will happen.
  • Feels he cannot physically endure his fears much longer.
  • Lyssophobia, fear of insanity.
  • Fear of driving, airplanes, injury, suffocation, choking, being bitten by dogs.
  • Fear of being alone.
  • Claustrophobia.
  • Agoraphobia.
  • Hydrophobia.
  • Fear of mirrors in room.
  • Fear during pregnancy.
  • Strange notions and apprehensions during pregnancy.
  • Worse thinking of water, fluids, brings on convulsions.
  • Irritability on hearing or see ing water.
  • The sight of water is intolerable.
  • Wants water but can't drink it.
  • Worse shin ing objects, mirrors.
  • Copper metal, if in his room, makes him restless and full of pains.
  • Never well since having a dog bite.
  • Weary and incapable of mental exertion.
  • Dullness and stupidity, at night restless ness.
  • Depressed, as if something would happen.
  • Felt as if she was going to die, as if she was going to sink away.
  • Loss of consciousness.
  • Ill-humor.
  • Irritable and critical.
  • Impatient.
  • Violent temper, impelled to do reckless things.
  • Rude, abusive, bites and strikes, bites or stabs himself.
  • Growls.
  • Cursing.
  • Insane ideas enter his head.
  • Thinks he is insulted, has suffered a wrong, that he is tormented.
  • Anger followed by remorse.
  • Compulsive disorders.
  • Ritualistic behav ior.
  • Excitement from hearing conversation.
  • Can't bear to hear others sing, or eat apples.
  • Does not hear or see persons around him.
  • Doesn't answer questions.
  • Ill-humor.
  • Growls.
  • Cursing.
VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. as if something was drawing around in a circle.
  • Vertigo as if she could not hold her head straight.
  • Vertigo with inclination to fall to right when stooping.
  • Vertigo with dim sight while walking and sitting.
  • Vertigo with chill and intolerable snappish headache.
  • Vertigo with nausea, cramps in abdomen.
  • Violent vertigo during morning.
  • Vertigo temporarily better by return of diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day..
  • Vision - Sees sparks.
  • Something moves to and fro before eyes while sewing.
  • Vanishing of sight.
  • Impaired vision with dilatationStretching or widening of a vessel or organThe state of being dilated or stretched beyond normal dimensions (e.g., dilatation of the heart). of pupils.
  • Couldn't read longer than a few minutes at a time, when she would see letters double.
  • COMMENTS - Lyss, is a close analog of many of the animal poisons, especially Lach.
  • Rabies (Bell., Stram., Canth.).
  • It has been used as a prophylactic to prevent the development of rabies.
  • Also, for the side ef fects of rabies shots.
  • For the effects of bites from non -rabid dogs, especially headaches.
  • Bluish discoloration of wounds (Lach).
  • Hydrophobia.
  • Gagging, panic attacks at the sound or thought of water.
  • Aggravated by shiny objects.
  • PhotophobiaExtreme sensitivity to lightAn abnormal intolerance to light, causing eye discomfort, squinting, or pain in bright environments..
  • Mania, delusions, hallucinations.
  • HyperesthesiaExtreme sensitivity to touch or painAn abnormal increase in sensitivity to sensory stimuli, such as touch, heat, cold, or pain..
  • Violent agitation and severe convulsions from air currents, approaching people, slightest touch, over hearing conversation.
  • Convulsions from the thought of fluids, drinking, swallowing.
  • Convulsions from dazzling or refle cted light from water or mirror (Stram.).
  • Can not bear heat of sun (Gels., Glon., Lach., Nat.).
  • Profuse salivation.
  • Saliva tough, ropy, viscid, frothy in mouth and throat, with con stant spitting (Hydr.).
  • Sore throat, constant desire to swallow (Lac-c., Mer.).
  • Difficulty in swallowing.
  • Spasm of esophagus from swallowing liquids, gagging when swallowing water.
  • Constant desire to urinate on seeing running water (Canth., Sulph.).
  • Urine scanty, cloudy, contains sugar.
  • Prolapsed uterus, many cases of years standing have been ctired.
  • LeucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection., profuse, running down the legs (Alum., Syph., Tub.).
  • Sensitiveness of vagina, rendering coition painful.
  • Complaints resulting from abnormal sexual desire (from abstinence, Con.).
  • Mental emotion or mortifying news always makes him worse (Gels)
HEAD
  • Headache from bite of dog, whether rabid or not, worse by noise of running water, bright light.
  • Chronic headaches from mental emotion or exertion.
  • Sharp pain above eyebrows.
  • Boring pain in forehead.
  • Maddening outward pressing pain in forehead, sensation as if head would burst.
  • Severe pressing in left side of head.
  • Headaches with general weariness.
  • Headaches with salivation.
  • Headaches alternating with hot flushes in face.
  • Rush of blood to head, while lying down.
  • Throws the head back when sneezing.
  • Very sensitive scalp.
  • Dry hair becomes oily.
EYES
  • Eyes are wild, rolling, staring and livid.
  • Dilatation of pupils.
  • Eyes bloodshot.
  • Eyes congested and painful.
  • Itching heat in eyes.
  • Burning of eyeballs.
  • Stinging pain in left eye.
  • Great weakness in eyes, without pain.
  • Sensitive to light.
  • Eyelids feel paralyzed on awaking.
  • Pain in small in spot over right eye brow, worse writing
EARS
  • Ears feel stiff.
  • Itching of ear.
  • Itching in a small spot in upper part of both ears, better scratching.
  • Sharp pains passing into in ears.
  • Buzzing in right ear.
  • Conversation in vicinity of patient may throw him into a most violent agitation.
  • Hearing water poured out in next room makes him very irritable and nervous.
  • Clairaudient
FACE
  • Face pale and yellowish.
  • Bluish pimples on face.
  • Heat and redness of face sweats with sensation of heat with flushes.
  • Countenance changes its aspect frequently.
  • Quivering in face.
  • Facial muscles become contorted.
  • Spasms with froth before mouth.
  • Gnawing and crawling sensation in zygoma.
  • Lower jaw stiff and painful with inclination to yawn.
  • Jawbones feel stiff, sore, aching in lower jaw
MOUTH
  • Bitter taste in morning on awaking.
  • Sore mouth, feels as if there were lumps in it.
  • Feeling of coldness in mouth like essence of peppermint.
  • Saliva tough, ropy, viscid, frothy.
  • Constant spitting.
  • Froths at mouth.
  • Speech impeded from spasms of throat.
  • Feeling of general malaise.
  • Nose stiff.
  • Nose feels bruised.
  • Itching in nose all day.
  • Sneezing from tickling in nasal cavity.
  • Frequent sneezing, as if a coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge. would begin and from every little dust.
  • Coryza with tickling in roof of mouth.
  • Fluid nasal discharge.
  • Great sensibility to smell of tobacco.
  • Strong odors may start spasms
THROAT
  • Sore pain, constant desire to swallow.
  • Difficult swallowing, gagging when swallowing water from spasms.
  • Burning and stinging pain when swallowing water.
  • Slight redness of palate and throat with spasm of esophagus and difficult sp eech.
  • Sensation as if uvula were too long.
  • Cool ing sensation in esophagus.
  • Voice altered in tone tones much suppressed.
  • Hoarse, rough, harsh and weak voice.
  • Tongue large, pale and flabby.
  • Tongue coated with foam, with thin layer of yellowish whit e fur, in center.
  • Tongue dark red on sides.
  • Pricking sensation under tongue.
  • Cool feeling on tongue like after peppermint.
  • Pain or tickling in root of tongue.
  • Root of tongue as if swollen
CHEST
  • Burning, surging through chest.
  • Burning, stinging in left side of chest, with palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions..
  • Chest and abdomen feel expanded.
  • Chest as if beaten, in evening.
  • RheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. pains across chest when draw ing in a breath.
  • Weakness of chest.
  • Lump in right axilla.
  • Heat and burning in heart.
  • Violent pain in heart, as if it would burst or had needles running into it.
  • Sharp pains in heart while walking.
  • Dull pain in heart all day.
  • Heart pains with sighing.
  • Feels beating of pulse through whole body.
  • Heart palpitated violently and felt as if it was coming up into throat.
  • Palpitations causes anxiety.
  • Kidneys - Dull pressure in region of left kidney.
  • Flying pains in urinary organs, causes difficulty and heat in urination.
  • Desire to urinate on seeing running water, cannot urinate unless he hears water run.
  • Urine too scanty and high-colored.
  • Urine dark, brownish, with whitish sediment.
  • Profuse watery urine, in evening.
  • Spasmodic contraction of respira tory muscles.
  • Difficult breathing and spasmodic sensation in trachea.
  • DyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions. with flatulency, cough and rattl ing in chest.
  • Breathing held for a time.
  • Oppres sion in breathing, gasping, irregular and quite rapid.
  • Barking cough with gagging.
  • Sighing, groaning respira- tion from cardiac pain.
  • Frequent sighing and sobbing.
  • Voice altered in its tone
ABDOMEN
  • Aching pain with coldness in stomach.
  • Hiccough.
  • Gagging when he forcibly attempts to swallow water.
  • Nausea with giddiness, headache and pale face after diarrhea.
  • Nausea and vomiting, after diarrhea.
  • Nausea and vomiting of a foamy, mucus, dark-colored substance resembling coffee grounds.
  • Vomiting of food or fluid while drinking.
  • Vomiting at night in sleep.
  • Distension of abdomen, every evening.
  • Rigidity of muscles of abdomen.
  • Swelling of inguinal glands.
  • Soreness in whole of lower abdomen.
  • Pressing pain in right side, near last ribs with breathing in hypochondria after quick walking.
  • Throbbing pains.
  • Tearing pain from left hypochondriac region to right.
  • Shooting pains in right side of abdomen.
  • Drawing pain below navel.
  • Colicky pain in abdomen.
  • Voracious appetite, swallowed wheat without chewing.
  • Inability to take solid food or it is consumed with greatest difficulty.
  • Excessive desire for salt.
  • Craves chocolate.
  • Strange notions, desires or cravings during pregnancy.
  • Wants water but can't drink it, aversion to water.
  • Warm drinks, such as milk, soups and wine, are more easily taken than water.
  • Aversion to apples, fat food.
  • Worse after mutton.
  • Exce ssive sensibility to smell of tobacco
GENITALS ETC
  • Burning and itching on corona glandis.
  • Strong erections, without sexual excitement or thoughts.
  • Complaints from abnormal sexual desire.
  • Painful erection of penis and frequent seminal emissions.
  • Semen is discharged too late or not at all during sex.
  • Pain in testicles after sex.
  • At rophy of testicles.
  • Scrotum tightly drawn up.
  • Hydrocele.
  • Discharge of prostatic fluid, smelling salty and musty.
  • Menses frequent, protracted, dark, and at times fetid.
  • Menses with hemorrhoidsPiles or swollen veins in the rectumSwollen, inflamed blood vessels around the anus or lower rectum, causing pain, itching, or bleeding., pulsations in anus and weakness of back.
  • Menses with prolapsed uterus.
  • Severe leucorrhea with pains in back and lower part of bowels, sore vagina.
  • Slimy leucorrhea, profuse, running down the legs.
  • White discharge like leucor rhea, weakening.
  • Uterine sensitiveness, conscious of womb (Helon.).
  • Uterus prolapsed.
  • Uterine displacements.
  • Any change of position that would tilt or rotate os uterus would cause much pain.
  • Sharp pain in uterus, shooting down to labia.
  • Pain in left ovarian region.
  • Vagina sensitive, rendering sex painful (Berb.).
  • Since childbirth, more pain with sex and a dislike to it
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • All muscles feel bruised in morn ing.
  • Drawing in back and limbs.
  • Severe twitching in arms and legs, resembling chorea.
  • Weight and heaviness of legs and shoulders.
  • Weakness in arms.
  • Cramp in ar ms.
  • Left hip aches in bone.
  • Along left sciatic nerve a dull pain.
  • Weakness in legs when going up stairs
BACK AND NECK
  • Great weakness in back, as if it would split andfall apart.
  • Back extremely sore, as if beaten.
  • Severe backache with numbness of hands.
  • Shooting pains through small of back.
  • Weakness in back, during copious menses.
  • Considerable pain in lower part of back with soreness felt through to pubic region.
  • Stiffness in joints of back.
  • Hyperesthesia of skin along vertebral co lumn.
  • Pressing in neck and up back of head.
  • Backaches with head aches.
  • Pain in neck better bending head backwards.
  • Stiff neck with shooting pains.
  • Muscles of neck contract spasmodically.
  • Sternocleidomastoid muscle on each side stands out like a thick cord.
  • Breasts - Both breasts swollen when waking in morning.
  • Causations - Ill effects of dog bites, rabies vaccinations
SKIN
  • Biting, itching in various parts of body, worse by scratching.
  • Itching as soon as beginning to get warm in bed.
  • Malignant ulcersfrom bite of a dog.
  • Bluish discoloration of bitten place (Lach.).
  • Dark, livid -marks where inoculations were made.
  • Pustules.
  • Cancerous sores
SLEEP
  • Inclination to yawn and stretch, with stiffness of lower jaw.
  • Yawns frequently without sleepiness, especially when listening to others.
  • Ins omnia, sleepless in spite of narcotics.
  • Sleeplessness from excitement or despair.
  • Starting in sleep.
  • Dreams of dogs, of high places, of insane asylums, churches.
  • On waking, is morose and inclined to be angry

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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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