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Have you started Merc Cor 30 ,if so how is the improvement?

Merc cor to be continued and feed back every three days.

Start Nat Phos 6x in addition to what you are taking, 5 tabs three times a day.Mucus and number of stools ?

since when have you started taking nat phos,you did not tell any thing about the number of stools and mucus,what are you having in your diet?is there any alcohol intake.?when you pen ddown the problems dont be selective but it should be with reference to all the symptoms.

then start taking nat phos and then only you should give your feed back.

dont worry about the quantity,it is the quality which matters.

if you are not doing any physicals then reduce the intake of chapatis to three per meal,and start going for a five km walk daily.

since you have managed to control your motions, start having one liter of water as soon as you wake up and at about seven in the evening.

half an hr before lunch and dinner have a glass of water.

don't have water with or after meals.

hope you have reduced your diet and are walking 5 km per day.

continue nat phos and a feed back after 4 days.

leave the medicines you were having,and start taking,Mag phos 6x and kali phos 6x ,five tabs three times a day.

feed back every two days.

HAVE YOU STARTED TAKING THE MEDICINES I PRESCRIBED IE MP & KP.IF NO IMPROVEMENT THEN ANSWER THE U/M QSTNS



1 Let modesty not prevent a full statement.

2. The success of the prescription depends largely upon your ability to describe your symptoms

3. Whatever is not as it should be is a symptom and must be recorded.

4 Check out these undermentioned threads for describing your symptoms.
http://www.abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/385334/
http://www.abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/385266/
Please answer the following questions

in a descriptive manner after careful analysis
and recollection of previous experiences and happenings to select proper medicine.

Patient ID or Name : Sex: Age:
Height : Weight : Country :
1. Describe your main suffering? (Describe symptoms)
2. What other physical/mental sufferings in past, you had ?
3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical
sufferings?
4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst?
5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?
6. Which time of the day you are worst?
7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which
ameliorate the same?
8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of
place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)?
9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable
Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.
- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times?
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc?
- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
weeping, talking to one self etc?
- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your
husband / wife?
11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions?
13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?
14. How if your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?
15. Is there any kind of food which your body can’t stand?
16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or
Limbs?
17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?
18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?
20. How do you think you are different from others, if at all?
21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you
have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
22. Nature of work, what do you do for living?
23. What major diseases are running in your family?
24. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance
25. Attached here your photographs of the affected area. (if required/optional)
26. (ONLY FOR FEMALES)
Please answer the following questions:
(Please give details of your past menstruation if you have attained menopause.)
- Are the periods early, regular or late in general? How long do they last?
- Do you suffer from any kind of physical or mental discomfort before, during or after
the periods?
- Is the flow scanty, normal or excessive?
- Is the blood thick bright red or pale watery?
- Do you notice any clots in the flow?
27. Any special points you feel necessary to mention

kindly pen down the symptoms after taking the prescribed medicines and not just for the heck of it.

MOUTH AND TONGUE
- State whether the trouble is with tongue or mouth, and what part of mouth. Sores? Give the location, colour and size of the sores. Whether depressed or elevated.
- For pain in the sores, see section 5 and report.
- Is mouth or tongue dry or moist? Much or little saliva? Character, colour, appearance and
Any peculiarity of the saliva?
- Thirst (See Section
- Is the breath bad or foul? When does foul breath occur and what is it like?
- Any bad taste? When does it occur and what is it like?
- Any peculiar taste?
- Any peculiar sensation? See Section3.
- Is the tongue moist or dry.?
- What is the coating on the tongue, its colour & appearance? What part of the tongue is coated? Is there any peculiarity about the coating?
- How are the edges of the tongue? How is the lip? How is the back part?
- Does the tongue show imprint of the teeth? Can you put it out of the mouth easily? When putting it turn to one side or tremble?
- Any swelling or soreness under the tongue?
- Give direction of any cracks or fissure on the tongue
THROAT

- Are you a subject of throat troubles?
- Have you had diphtheria Croup or sore throat?
- Have you had the throat/Tonsils cut or lanced or have you used gargles?
- Have you pain in the throat is there pain on swallowing solid food, drinks or saliva? (Empty swallowing) Is the pain during or after swallowing?
- Have you any sensation or peculiar feeling about the throat?- Have you a desire to keep swallowing?
- At what time or from what cause do throat troubles come on?
- On which side of the throat is the trouble? Upper/Lower part of the throat?
- Is there mucus causing hawking? When do you have to hawk the most? What causes the hawking?
- Do colds usually affect the throat?
- is there any rattling in the throat?
- What is the colour, appearance and condition of the throat?
- For swelling on the outer throat or neck (see section31)
- Is you voice clear? State what may be wrong with it.
- What is the effect of talking or singing on the voice?
- Is the voice low, high or hoarse?
- Is the voice certain in speaking?
- Are you hoarse much of the time? Is hoarseness painful? When does it come out, What is the cause?
EATING & DRINKING

- Have you a craving for any special article or food? (Not only a desire, but a feeling that you must have it.) Name the article.
- Any aversion to any special article or food name it.?
- Are you hungry most of the time or at any special time?
- Is hunger or craving for food excessive?
- Have you no desire for food?
- Do you have hunger with aversions to eating? Do you eat without hunger?
- Does the food taste good or it has a natural taste?
- How do you feel before eating?
- Bad effect from eating much or less?
- Do you desire much/less food at a time?
- Is there any special food that disagrees?
- Do you desire solid or liquid food?
- Do you crave for, what you don,t know?

- Do you crave substantial food or dainties, candy, cakes, sweet things, sour things etc.?
- Is the appetite even or variable?
- Does the food satisfy you?
- Any troubles that always comes on after eating all you want or after a little food?
- Do you eat hastily or slowly?
- Do you have a sick stomach or vomiting after eating?
- Does eating aggravate other complaints?
- Are you sleepy after eating?
- Do you have pain anywhere after eating? (See section)
- Do you suddenly lose your appetite or relish for food while eating for any time?
- Are you very thirsty or thirst less do you wish to drink often or seldom? Do you want to drink much at a time or less? Any trouble that always comes after drinks?
- Do you crave any special drinks?
- Do you feel bad after drinking?
- Does drinking satisfy you? Do you use tea/coffee? How much?
- Do you use alcoholic or other liquors?
- Do you use much milk? Does milk agree?
- Do you have sick stomach/Vomiting after drinking?
- Does drinking aggravate other complaints?
- How does water or other drinks taste?
- Do the drinks make an audible sound when going down the tract?
NAUSEA, VOMITTING, ERUCATIONS ETC

(Note: - These terms stand for different things. It is necessary to make the distinction in writing your case.)
- Eructation (Belching of wind)
- It is frequent?
- When does it usually come?
- Does it last long at a time?
- What relives it? What makes it worse?
- Does it relieve the stomach, pain in any place? The throat or do you feel better generally after belching?
- Have you pain anywhere before or during belching?
- Is the amount of wind great or small? Does it come up easily or with difficulty?
- Is there any trouble that always accompanies it?
- Is there any bloating of the stomach or abdomen?
- Do you try to belch but can’t? Any nausea with it? Any taste with it? (Acid, like almonds. Like apples, bitter, greasy, foetid or foul, of food eaten, hot rancid, salty, sweeter etc.?
- Have you gagging? When & under what circumstance? Any accompanying troubles? How does it affect you?
- Have you any heart burns? (n uneasy, burning feeling in the stomach) Any accompanying troubles? How does it affect you?
- Have you at any time hiccoughing? When does it come on? How often? Any pain? Any accompanying troubles? How does it affect you? What relieves it?
- Have you at any time regurgitation of food (Spitting up food in small quantity without vomiting) Give particulars.
Nausea (Qualmishness, Squeamishness, Loathing, Sickness, at the stomach)

- Where is the Nausea located? Or from where does it seem to come? Does it come & go or is it constant when present?
- Does it always come on at a particular time? What seems to cause it?
- Is there any trouble or paid that always come before it or with it.? How does it affect you? Describe in your own words?
- Does it come on suddenly or gradually? What relives it? What makes it worse?
- Is there any faintness with it, fainting dizziness, paleness, weakness?
- Do you feel that vomit will relieve you?
- Is there simple Nausea, or do you feel deathly sick?
- Retching (To Make and effort, or straining to vomit without vomiting)
- What causes it? When does it come on? Does it cause pain anywhere? How does it affect you? (Consult Nausea & Vomiting)
- Vomiting (Emptying the stomach of its contacts, puking)
- Give a minute description of what you vomit as to the appearance, consistency, colour, taste, quantity etc.
- It is, acrid, like white of an egg, bilious, bitter, bitter, black, and bloody or blood, bluish brown, clayey, like coffee grounds, cold curdled, feecul, foetid, foul, fluids frothy, glary, greasy, and green, jelly like, milk, milky mucus, musty, of pus or matter like rice water, salty sweetness, watery white, of worms, yellow?
- Is it constant, copious, what you drink, what you eat, difficult, painful, periodic, spasmodic, violent, forcible, slow in coming, sudden coming on quickly?
- When does it come? After eating after, after drinking after chill, from choking, from coffee, from cold, with colic, in convulsions, with cough, with cramps, during teething with eructation’s, with eruptions on skin, after exercise, during expectoration, in fever, from pains, from colic, when hawking, with heat, with hiccough, lying down, rising up, sitting up, standing, from motion, in the morning when riding after sleep, from smoking, before stool, on stooping, with sunstroke, swallowing, with thrust, with weakness?
- Is there anything, any position, food or drink or application that aggravates the vomiting or relieves it?
- Are there any accompanying troubles? How does it affect you? Make a full statement of anything else that may occur to you regarding vomiting?
- Water Brash (Pain or hot feeling in the stomach with a rising of water in the mouth)
- When does it come on? What is the amount? What is the taste?
(STOOL, DIARRHOEA, CONSTIPATION)
- Stool (whether diarrhoea, dysentery, or constipation)

Character of stool, acrid, with air bubbles, balls, beaded, bilous bloody, burning the parts, as if burnt, chalky, changeable, chopped, clayey, coffee grounds, crumbling, curdled, diarrhoeic, difficult to expel, die, dysenteric, fatty, ecal, fermented, dfetid, or four, flaky, flat, fluid, foamy, forcibly expelled, forthy, glassy, like glue, granular, greasy, green scum, gritty, gushing out, hard, full of holes, hot, insufficient, involuntary, irregular, jelly like, knotty, too large in size, lientric (with undigested food), liquid, long, loose, lumpy, membranous, mixed, mucus, narrow in form noisy (dust wind): odourless, oily, painful, pasty, like pea soup, periodic (at stated time other each morning) pouring out profuse, purulent (like matter), recedes( slips back) retain, retarded like rice water, rough, like cooked sago, sandy, scaly, scanty like scrapings f intestines, sheep dung, shreddy, slender in size, slow, small in form, soapy, soft, passes better when standing, passes better wheeling back, starchy, square, sticky, stringy, sudden in explosions, watery, white, with worms.

- Colour of stool : Ash coloured, Black, bluish, brown, changeable, dark, green, grey, liver colour reddish, variegated, yellow, white.
- When do you have stool? After noon, when coughing, after drinking, after eating, frequent, morning, on motion, from least movement, at night, at noon, before or during urinations, after washing.
- What trouble before stool? For paid refer sections 5. For other troubles locate and describe minutely. Chilliness, colic, faint feeling, fainting, flatulence (Gas in bowels), when passing wind, heat, pilescome down, lazy, nausea, sweat, tenesums( pressing down in rectum), thirst, trembling, urging to stool (more that natural), vertigo, dizziness, vomiting.

- What trouble during stool? For pain see section 5. For any other trouble locate and describe minutely. Anxiety, bleeding, breathing affected, chill, coldness, colic, disagreeable sensation, fainting, flatulence (Gas in bowels), paining wind, heat, piles come down, hander, nausea, nervousness, loss of fluids from private parts, sleepy straining at stool, sweat bad taste, thirst, tenesums (involuntary straining), urinations, vertigo, vomiting, weakness.

- What trouble after stool? (Same as during stool).

Constipation: - See stool in this section.
- To what extent and when are you constipated?
- Are there any troubles that come on during or accompany the constipation? Describe all and locate.
- Do you feel better or worse during constipation?
- How often do you have a stool?
- Have you any desire for stool?
- Has does it affect the mind, the disposition, the head, the breathing?
- How long have you been costive?
- Has it followed any sickness, other troubles or physic?
- Is it habitual or temporary?
- Does it always come on before or during any trouble or time?
- Is the child teething?
- Have you taken many pills?
- Have you in digestion?
- Much mind in the bowels?
- The piles - Liver or spleen trouble?
- A bad taste?
- Sore mouth? Nausea?
- Any skin disease? (Section 31).
- Vertigo or dizziness? Vomiting?
- What kind of appetite? What kind of thirst (section 14)?
Diarrhoea:- See stool in section.
- is it painful, painless? For pain see section 5. Consult section 6. Most of the questions under constipation suitable for diarrhoea. Attach sheet.
- What aggravates or ameliorates the diarrhoea? - What seem to cause it? Acids, bathing, from cold, after drinking, during or after eating, exertion or work, riding, during sleep, after vaccination, after washing, any kind of weather, stage fright?
- Does it come on at any particular time of the year, month day or night?
- Does it alternate with constipation?
- It is chronic?
- Is the child teething?
- Does it weaken much?
- Do you lose flesh?

- Have you fever?
Dysentery (Bloody Flux) :- Same question as under stool and diarrhoea.
- Describe more minutely the quantity of blood and mucus, and the character of tensemus (Involuntary pressing down in bowels).

1 nux vom 200 one dose at night half an hr before dinner.

2, sulphur 200 one dose early morning,empty stomach.

3.day 3-calc carb 200 one dose at night.

4 day 4.one dose of lycopodium 200 half an hr before lunch.

repeat steps 2,3&4 after a week and give a feed back.

kali phos to continue.

follow the other steps in totality and then report.

i have advised for a diet control.if you feel that by taking medicines only you will be cured of the stomach problems then it is a myth.i have earlier on advised you to follow a strict diet regime which you are not adhering to.finish the second cycle of medicines,less nux and then give a feed back.