Reflexes and Experience - Test Your Knowledge
Reflexes
Question#1
Aranea Diadema is indicated on the following characteristic:
• Swelling and heaviness of the hands and forearms during the night or on awakening.
• Pins and needles of the fourth and fifth fingers (path of C8-T1)
What other medicines can we think of in front of these symptoms?
Question#2
Phosphorus is indicated in psoriasis of the palm of the feet.
What other medicines can be evoked in front of a fissured psoriasis lesion?
Question#3
An influenza-like fever with pains in the eyes makes you think of Eupatorium Perfoliatum.
Two other medicines of infectious states are also indicated on that symptom. Which ones?
Question#1
Baptisia: medicine of fever accompanied by diarrhea We find the sensation of increase in volume of certain body parts such as head and hands. Numbness and bruising sensation felt when pressing on muscular masses.
Bovista: Sensation of generalized increase in volume as well as sensation of having an enormous head. Numbness and pins and needles are felt in the extremities. Sensation of intense weakness also felt in hands and feet.
Question#2
Sepia: painless skin ulcerations, crevasses and fissures looking as if they were about to bleed.
Antimonium crudum: fissured and keratotic dermatosis found mainly of the soles of the feet.
Lycopodium: hyperkeratosis of the heels; bleeding can occur due to scratching because of the pruritis.
Nitricum acidum: fissures with straight edges and red bottom, responsible for stinging pains.
Question#3
Baptisia: infectious syndrome with digestive disorders, heaviness on the eyes and painful eyeballs, especially on movement.
Pyrogenium: acute infectious syndrome, food intoxication; sensation of pain, of stiffness, and of hypersensitivity of the eyeballs.