Radium Bromide

COMMON NAME:

      BROMIDE OF RADIUM.

Symptoms

      General lassitude and tired feeling; wants to lie down and rest (Gelsemium, Acid phosphoricum., Stann.) (C.).

Vivid dreams of fire (Anacardium, Hepar, Laur., Magnesia carb., Mag-M., Sulphur) (B.).

Frontal headache (Bryonia, Nux vomica, Sepia) (Br.).

Vertigo, with pain in the back of head (Cocc., Nux vomica, Petroleum) (C.).

Itching all over the body (Psorinum, Sulphur) (Br.).

Dry, bran-like scaly eruptions (Arsenicum) (C.).

ECZEMATOUS ERUPTIONS (Anacardium, Rhus toxicodendron, Tuberculinum) (C.).

BURNING OF THE SKIN, AS IF AFIRE (Arsenicum, Sulphur) (Br.).

Psoriasis (Kali-Arsenicum, Sepia, Sulphur) (Br.).

Arthritis with aching pains, worse at night (Mercurius, Rhus toxicodendron) (Br.).

Gout (Benz-Ac., Colchicum, Lycopodium) (B.).

ULCERS AND CANCERS (Arsenicum, Carb-An., Acid nitricum, Silicea) (Br.).

Apprehensive and depressed (Kali-P.) (C.).

Fear of being along in the dark (Arsenicum, Phosphorus, Stramonium) (Br.).

Metallic taste in the mouth (Cocc., Mercurius, Natrum carbonicum, Rhus toxicodendron, Seneg.) (C.).

Tongue bluish white, thick, feels swollen (C.).

Empty feeling in the stomach (Carb-An., Sepia, Sulphur) (Br.).

Aversion to sweets (Graphites) (Br.)

Bleeding of gas (Carbo vegetabilis, Lycopodium, Nux-M., Puls) (C.).

Much flatulence Aloe, Carbo vegetabilis, Lycopodium, Nat-S., Pulsatilla, Sulphur) (C.)

Pruritus ani and piles (Aloe., Nux vomica, Sulphur) (Br.).

Craving for, and relief in, open air Argentum nitricum, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla(C.).

Diabetes mellitus (Acid phosphoricum., Sulphur) (Bl.).

AGGRAVATION:

      ON rising after lying down; after eating; from- motion and at night.

AMELIORATION:

      In open air; from continued motion; and on lying down.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Similar to: Arsenicum, Bromium, Carb-An., Ferr-P., Gelsemium, Graphites, Kali-Arsenicum, Kali-P., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Rhus toxicodendron, Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur, Tuberculinum, and Urt-U.

ANTIDOTES: Rhus toxicodendron, Rhus-V. and Tell.

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)