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CCNM Homeopathy I Final

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Patient comes in experiencing acute FOOD POISONING, and TRAVELER'S DIARRHEA. They are vomiting frequently and easily, and feel quite anxious. They eventually get too weak to even continue vomiting.

a. Nox Vomica
b.Arsenicum album
c.Ipecac
d. Phosphorus
b.Arsenicum album
The ameliorations for this nausea remedy are WARM DRINKS, stomach ache, milk

a. Sepia
b.Phosphorus
c.veratrum album
d.Arsenicum album
d.Arsenicum album
The aggravations for this nausea remedy are 11am-3pm, midnight -3am, COLD DRINKS, ice cream, alcohol, smell or thought of food.

a. Sepia
b.Phosphorus
c.Arsenicum album
d.Nox Vomica
c.Arsenicum album
Nausea from CENTRAL CAUSES (not stomach)

a. Nox Vomica
b.Arsenicum album
c. Cocculus indicus
d. Phosphorus
c. Cocculus indicus
Stomach feels: EMPTY, BELCHING, FAINTNESS
CAR or SEASICKNESS, even watching moving objects

a. Cocculus indicus
b.Phosphorus
c.Arsenicum album
d.Nox Vomica
a. Cocculus indicus
The only amelioration for this remedy is SWALLOWING

a. Veratrum album
b.Arsenicum album
c. Cocculus indicus
d. Antimonium tartricum
c. Cocculus indicus
Aggravations for this remedy are MOTION, RISING UP from bed, afternoon, drinking, headache, becoming cold, odors (esp. food), sight of food, if constipated, and associated symptoms are vertigo

a. Cocculus indicus
b.Phosphorus
c.Arsenicum album
d.Nox Vomica
a. Cocculus indicus
HORRIBLE nausea.
HANGING DOWN sensation in stomach
UNRELIEVED even temporarily by vomiting
Empty, belching, RETCHING, COPIOUS SALIVA
Tongue is CLEAN & RED (despite nausea)
OFFENSIVE BREATH with N&V

a.Antimonium tartricum
b.Arsenicum album
c. Ipecac
d. Phosphorus
c. Ipecac
No ameliorations what so ever.

a. Cocculus indicus
b.Antimonium tartricum
c.Veratrum album
d.Ipecac
d.Ipecac
Aggravations include: HEMORRHAGE, esp. uterine, pregnancy, during labour, cough, asthma, headache, itching, suppressed eruptions

a. Sepia
b.Phosphorus
c. Ipecac
d.Arsenicum album
c. Ipecac
IRRITABLE and OVER-SENSITIVE
Nausea with CRAMPS & PAINFUL VOMITING
TIGHT CLOTHES unbearable
CONSTANT nausea
Vomit: bile, mucus, bitter, sour, smelly
Possible cause: pregnancy

a. Nox Vomica
b.Veratrum album
c.Arsenicum album
d.Tabacum
a. Nox Vomica
Aggravations for this nausea remedy are: ANGER and alcohol

a. Sepia
b.Antimonium tartricum
c. Ipecac
d.Nox Vomica
d.Nox Vomica
Craves COLD drinks, but vomits as soon as it becomes warm.

a.Cocculus indicus
b.Phosphorus
c.Veratrum album
d.Tabacum
b.Phosphorus
For side-effects of chemotherapy (ddx. Nux-v)
Vomit: milky white

a. Sepia
b.Arsenicum album
c. Ipecac
d.Nox Vomica
a. sepia
Aggravations for this acute nausea remedy:
MORNING, esp. before breakfast, MOTION or SEASICKNESS, ODORS,

a. Nox Vomica
b.Veratrum album
c.Arsenicum album
d.Sepia
d.Sepia
DEATHLY nausea
Patient appears GREEN or VERY PALE, COLD & CLAMMY
Motion Sickness

a. Cocculus indicus
b.Phosphorus
c.Arsenicum album
d.Tabacum
d.Tabacum
Ameliorations for this nausea remedy are OPEN AIR, uncovering belly, CLOSING THE EYES, SPITTING

a. Tabacum
b.Arsenicum album
c. Ipecac
d.Nox Vomica
a. Tabacum
SEVERE, sometimes PROJECTILE vomiting, often with diarrhea...simultaneous VOMITING & DIARRHEA

Vomit with COLD PERSPIRATION, esp. forehead
CHILLS, COLD breath, often COLLAPSE
CRAMPING/GRIPING pains

a. Nox Vomica
b.Veratrum album
c.Arsenicum album
d.Tabacum
b. Veratrum album
Eating provokes COUGHING which turns into RETCHING & vomiting...
DIFFICULT vomiting, patient works hard to produce emesis

Intermittent nausea
WEAKNESS, FAINTNESS, COLDNESS following vomiting

a. Antimonium tartricum
b.Phosphorus
c. Ipecac
d.Nox Vomica
a. Antimonium tartricum
Top Fever Remedy

a. Aconite
b.Ferrum-phos:
c. Mercurius solubilis:
d. Lachesis
a. Aconite
Sudden and severe onset, after 'getting a chill'.

Anxious, vigilant, worried, alert, restless
Frozen, nightmare, anguish, terror

a. Aconite
b.Ferrum-phos:
c. Mercurius solubilis:
d. Hepar Sulph:
a. Aconite
Top remedy for strep throat and acute tonsillitis

a. Mercurius solubilis
b. Phytolacca
c. Belladonna
d. Lachesis
c. Belladonna
Sudden and strong onset
Pupils look unusual: glassy, wet, dilated, uneven
Dull, out of it, delirious, between dreaming and awake.
Throbbing, pounding, hot, exploding, pressure


a. Aconite
b.Ferrum-phos:
c. Belladonna
d. Phosphorus
c. Belladonna
For colds and sore throats that start GRADUALLY (almost unnoticeable).
Warmth and flushing, swollen feeling in mucus membranes
Often for children with fever but no characteristic symptoms.
Warm, funny feeling, flushed, low grade, fuzzy

a. Aconite
b.Ferrum-phos:
c. Belladonna
d. Lachesis
b.Ferrum-phos:
Top remedy for laryngitis: loss of voice

a. Phosphorus
b.Phytolacca
c. Belladonna
d. Mercurius solubilis
a. Phosphorus
Serious, infected, visible pockets of pus, ulceration
Infected smell 'sick breath', sweet or metallic taste

Coated or scalloped tongue, salivation
Swollen glands, tongue

Cannot get comfortable temperature, esp. night
Uncomfortable sweaty feeling
Poisoned, toxic, hypersensitive, cannot relax

a. Mercurius solubilis
b.Ferrum-phos:
c. Belladonna
d. Lachesis
a. Mercurius solubilis
Pressurized, stuffed up feeling extending to ears
Pain shoots to ears on swallowing
Swollen glands in neck around ears, often worse right side

a. Phytolacca
b. Ferrum-phos:
c. Hepar Sulph:
d. Lachesis
a. Phytolacca
Exquisitely sensitive, sharp, splintering, cutting, sticking pains
Hyper-sensitive, irritable, touchy—level of pain seems exaggerated
Extremely chilly, sensitive to moving air—wants to stay bundled up, warm and protected

a. Aconite
b.Ferrum-phos:
c. Belladonna
d. Hepar Sulph
d. Hepar Sulph:
SORE THROAT:
Left-sided or start on left side
Tension, ball sensation
Very sensitive to touch
Feels worse on waking esp. after sleeping in
Agitated, intense, talks fast, suspicious, jealous

a. Aconite
b.Spongia
c. Belladonna
d. Lachesis
d. Lachesis
Severely painful cough felt in whole head & chest
Must hold chest or even whole head with each cough
DRY cough with each movement or deep breath; fears to inspire

a. Bryonia
b. Ferrum-phos
c. Phosphorus
d.Antimonium tart
a. Bryonia
Irritating, tickling cough with scant, difficult expectoration, often with hoarseness
Feeling of MUCOUS in CHEST which makes him try to cough deeper to get it out

Expectoration: Sticky, greasy; Unable to raise mucous no matter how he tries, has to swallow it

a. Bryonia
b. Spongia
c. Causticum
d.Rumex crispus
c. Causticum
Rattling, productive cough often with sinusitis
Thick, sticky or stringy mucous expelled with difficulty

Worse at NIGHT, esp'ly 1-3AM, EATING, morning on rising, cold air; uncovering

a. Kali bichromicum
b. Ferrum-phos:
c. Causticum
d. Phosphorus
Kali bichromicum
Cough is worse at NIGHT, especially 2-4AM, morning, cold air or slightest draft; lying, exertion, deep inspiration, warm food

a. Spongia
b. Ferrum-phos:
c. Kali-carb
d.Antimonium tart
c. Kali-carb
Cough from allergy or asthma; loose, rattling, "juicy"

a. Pulsatilla
b. Ferrum-phos:
c. Causticum
d.Rumex crispus
a. Pulsatilla
Every cold ends in a cough and a chest infection
Dry, tickling, painful; burning in chest with cough


a. Bryonia
b. Phosphorus
c. Kali-carb
d.Spongia
b. Phosphorus
Main remedy for tickling, irritated coughs

a. Pulsatilla
b. Ferrum-phos:
c. Causticum
d.Rumex crispus
d.Rumex crispus
Barking, croupy or irritated cough, often with constriction or tickling in larynx
Suffocative cough; cyanosis with cough
Burning in throat, larynx & chest with each cough

a. Spongia
b. Ferrum-phos:
c. Kali-carb
d.Rumex crispus
a. Spongia
Paroxysms of cough, SUFFOCATIVE or CHOKING
So painful must hold her chest or stomach to cough
Expectoration: Purulent, bitter or bloody expectoration


a. Pulsatilla
b. Ferrum-phos:
c. Causticum
d.Drosera
d.Drosera
Noisy, rattling, loose cough, as if chest is filled with mucous
Too weak to expel mucous
Worse at NIGHT, esp'ly 10pm until after midnight; anger, eating, yawning, lying flat

a. Antimonium tart
b. Spongia
c. Causticum
d.Rumex crispus
a. Antimonium tart
Lots of flatus, sputtering
-gurgling & rumbling before stool

diarrhea alt. constipation
-involuntary stool, esp. when passing flatus

a. Aloe Vera
b.Podophyllum
c. Lycopodium
D. Mercurius
a. Aloe Vera
-weakness, anxiety, restlessness
-food poisoning
-chronic diarrhea in alcoholics
-elderly with morning diarrhea

Stool is: Acrid & thin, burning, rice water, mucous, bloody

a. Chamomilla
b. Nux vomica
c. Arsenicum album
D. Mercurius
c. Arsenicum album
-painless but exhausting
-uncomfortable "open" sensation, as if "rectum loose"
-even slight dietary indiscretions cause diarrhea

Bright red blood, rice water stool, "like a fire hydrant", watery lumps of white mucous


a. Arsenicum album
b. Chamomilla
c. Nux vomica
D. Phosphorus
D. Phosphorus
-explosive with much flatus & sputtering
-marked cramps causing pt to bend double
-uneasy sensation where pt cannot tell if will have diarrhea or vomit

Watery, profuse

a. Aloe Vera
b.Podophyllum
c. Sulphur
D. Mercurius
b. Podophyllum
-every morning waking the patient at 5-6am
-burning or soreness of anus on passing stool

**Like rotten eggs, bloody, frothy, mucous, offensive**

a. Nux vomica
b.Podophyllum
c. Arsenicum album
D. Sulphur
D. Sulphur
Acute diarrhea in infants & small children
-great IRRITABILITY, restlessness, crying & complaining

Green or like chopped grass, hot, rotten-egg odor

a. Arsenicum album
b. Chamomilla
c. Lycopodium
D. Phosphorus
b. Chamomilla
Bloating, rumbling, fermentation with irregular diarrhea

Formed at the beginning, then soft and watery

aggr: anxiety, stage fright

a. Phosphorus
b.Podophyllum
c. Lycopodium
D. Mercurius
c. Lycopodium
Corrosive diarrhea with feeling she will "never get done"


a. Aloe Vera
b.Podophyllum
c. Sulphur
D. Mercurius
D. Mercurius
Mucousy green, sour, purulent, offensive, metallic odor stool

a. Chamomilla
b. Mercurius
c. Arsenicum album
D. Sulphur
b. Mercurius
-cramping & painful diarrhea relieved temporarily by stool
-marked urging & tenesmus; frequent ineffectual urges

a. Arsenicum album
b. Nux vomica
c. Lycopodium
D. Phosphorus
b. Nux vomica
Slimy, insufficient, bloody stool

Aggr: Morning, anger, stress, alcohol, cold or open air,

a. Phosphorus
b.Podophyllum
c. Lycopodium
D. Nux vomica
D. Nux vomica
-painless diarrhea & indigestion
-aching & tenesmus extending from anus along the sacrum

a. Aloe Vera
b.Pulsatilla
c. Sulphur
D. Mercurius
b.Pulsatilla
In children, exertion, overheating, warm room, fright, rich or fatty foods, pork, onions, fruit

"No 2 stools alik", slimy green, pasty, whitish

a. Phosphorus
b.Podophyllum
c. Pulsatilla
D. Mercurius
c. Pulsatilla
CHI stands for:

a. Characteristics, Hierarchy & Intensity of symptoms
b. Charting, Hierarchy, implementation
c. Characteristics, Hierarchy and implementation
d. Charting, hierarchy & intensity of symptoms
a. Characteristics, Hierarchy & Intensity of symptoms
C:

a. 0-4 (3=extremely common)
b 0-5 (5= extremely uncommon)
c. 0-10 (10 being extremely uncommon)
d. 0-5 (5= extremely common)
b 0-5 (5= extremely uncommon)
T or F, for H: mental emotional gets 2 points, physical general gets 1, and physical local gets 0
True!
T or F: Intensity value is measured 0-4
True!
T or F The 6 steps are in order

1. Perceive/identity: signs & symptoms, pathology & disposition
2. Repertorize patients symptoms
3. Valorize (assign a value) case symptoms (CHI)
4. Identify the top remedies which best cover the totality of the case and read about them in materia medica
5. Choose your Remedy
6. Choose your posology
False. You vaolirze (CHI) first, and then repertorize your patients symptoms
Which of the following is INCORRECT when there is no reaction to a remedy:

a. Possible too low a potency
b. Possibly wrong remedy
c. Possibly lifestyle factors are inhibiting amelioration with the remedy
d. Life force is not matched to the remedy
d. Life force is not matched to the remedy
Which of the following are correct in terms of initial Improvement: then return of symptoms to baseline

a.Possibly too low potency
b.Remedy is close but not similimum
c.Patient has returned to old habits
d.May need to increase frequency and potency
all of them!
Quick Aggravation followed by improvement:

a. Likely to have long lasting improvements
b. lower the potency
c. wrong remedy
d. remedy is close but not a similimum
a. Likely to have long lasting improvements
Long Continued aggravation followed by improvement

a. Posology is too high for vitality
b. Eventually patient will respond
c. remedy is close but not a similimum
d. A and C
d. A and C
Long-time improvement, then sudden aggravation:

a.May need to lower dose
b.Stop taking remedy: and watch for aggravation to go away
c.May need a new remedy: and re-evaluate for new symptoms
d. all of the above
d. all of the above
Seniority of Remedy:

a. How long the remedy has been used to treat this symptom
b. is in blue or red bold font
c. how well the remedy works for your px
d. a and b
d. a and b
What is the purpose of CHI?

a. Reliable rubric
b. to prolong your process of choosing a remedy
c. to understand your patient better
a. Reliable rubric
When doing a patient intake

a. record every word the patient says in their own language
b. ask vague questions
c. ask specific questions
d. a and b
d. a and b
what are the 3 chronic miasims?
a. Psora
b. Sycosis
c. Syphilis
d. Lycapodium
a b and c :)
Derived from scabies, leprosy or psoriasis from ancestors or childhood which were suppressed

a. Psora
b. Sycosis
c. Syphilis
a. Psora
Mental: extreme highs and lows, stress constant anxiety, insecurity, anxiety about the future but always having hope

a. Psora
b. Sycosis
c. Syphilis
a. Psora
Depth, pace and perception (rhythm): I have to struggle continuously, but there is hope. If I make the effort, I can do it. It is within my capacity.

a. Psora
b. Sycosis
c. Syphilis
a. Psora
Derm: dry, itching, without pus or discharge

a. Psora
b. Sycosis
c. Syphilis
a. Psora
T or F If primary symptoms are removed without addressing the underlying miasm, sooner or later the secondary symptoms will erupt elsewhere in the body.
True!
Derm: patterns of accumulations: warts, moles, fibroids, cysts (hiding things)

a. Psora
b. Sycosis
c. Syphilis
b. Sycosis
I have a fixed weakness within me that cannot be changed. I cannot let others see my weakness, so I must cover it up. Embarrassment

a. Psora
b. Sycosis
c. Syphilis
b. Sycosis
Not life threatening: but shameful and embarrassing

Diseases are fixed and intractable: they do not go away, but they do not progress


a. Psora
b. Sycosis
c. Syphilis
b. Sycosis
"The situation is hopeless. Task is beyond capacity
No point in trying. Self-destruction"

a. Psora
b. Sycosis
c. Syphilis
c. Syphilis
Derm: ulcers, boils, fistulas, discharge: deep infection that create a lot of destruction

a. Psora
b. Sycosis
c. Syphilis
c. Syphilis
Advanced stage of pathology: cancer, insanity, addiction, heart attacks, suicide attempts
Responds to illness or life situation as if under death sentence

a. Psora
b. Sycosis
c. Syphilis
c. Syphilis
"Derangement of the vital force that predates and is more fundamental than the patients current illness"

a. Psora
b. Sycosis
c. Syphilis
d. all miasms
d. all miasims
Miasms...

a. are inherited by parents, Genetics...
b. are contagious, suppressed and then come back
c. everyone has them!
d. never go away
e. can be active or dormant
f. all of the above
f. all of the above
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