Anacardium Orientale

▲   GENERAL

General

The Anacardium patient is found mostly among the neurasthenics; such have a type of nervous dyspepsia, relieved by food; Impaired memory, depression, and irritability; diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing). Syphilitic patients often suffer with these conditions. Intermittency of symptoms. Fear of examination in students. Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc. Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse. Sensation of a plug in various parts - eyes, rectum, bladder, etc.; also of a band. Empty feeling in stomach; Eating temporarily relieves all discomfort. This is a sure indication, often verified. Anacardium Orientale's skin symptoms are similar to Rhus Tox ^Rhus, and it has proved a valuable antidote to Poison-Oak.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, on application of hot water.

Better

BETTER, from eating, when lying on side, from rubbing.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Anacardium Occidentale ^{Anacardium occidentale} (cashew nut) (erysipelas, vesicular facial eruptions), anaesthetic variety of leprosy; warts, corns, ulcers, cracking of the skin on soles of feet). Rhus Tox ^Rhus.; Cypriped.; Chelidonium Majus ^Chelidonium.; Xerophyl. ’ Platinum Metallicum ^Platina follows well. Cereus serpentina (swearing).

Antidotes

Antidote: Grindeleia; Coffea Tosta ^Coffea; Juglans; Rhus Tox ^Rhus; Eucalyptus Globulus ^Eucalyptus.

▲   MIND

Mind

Fixed ideas

Hallucinations; Thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills

Anxiety when walking, as if pursued

Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with Tendency to use violent language

brain-fag

impaired memory

absent minded

very easily offended

Malicious; seems bent on wickedness

Lack of confidence in himself or others

Suspicious (Hyoscyamus Niger ^Hyos.)

Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead

Senile dementia

Absence of all moral restraint.

Aversions, dislikes; company

Behaviour

cruelty (see moral feeling, malicious)

mischievous

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

anger (see irritability and quarrelsome)

anger (see irritability and quarrelsome); violent

hatred

morose

unfeeling

unhappy; discontent, displeased, dissatisfied, etc.

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; difficulty concentrating

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish; morning

impaired thinking; imbecility

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety; with fear

lacking self confidence

Memory; forgetful; morning

Restlessness, nervousness

Talking, conversation

contrary (see obstinate, irritable)

obstinate

cursing

Contradiction of will

feel like having two wills

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo

▲   HEAD

Headache

Pressing pain, As from a plug; worse after mental exertion - in forehead; occiput, temples, vertex; Better during a meal

Pain, headache

temples

pressing (see bursting, pulling); top of head (vertex); like a plug

Scalp

Itching and little boils on scalp.

Skin and scalp; perspiration; scalp

▲   EYES

Eyes

Pressure Like a plug on upper orbit

Indistinct vision

Objects appear too far off.

Swellings

▲   EARS

Ear

Pressing in the ears as from a plug

Hard of hearing.

Pain; pressing

▲   FACE

Face

Blue rings around eyes

Face pale.

Skin

discoloration; pale

out-breaks on skin; rhus poisoning

▲   NOSE

Nose

Sense of smell perverted

Smell; diminished

Discharge

Frequent sneezing

Coryza with palpitation, especially in the aged.

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Painful vesicles; fetid odor

Lips

Burning around lips as from pepper.

Tongue

Tongue feels swollen, impeding speech and motion, with saliva in mouth

Taste

Taste

of food

flavourless

offensive

putrid

▲   THROAT

Throat

Scraping

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart; Palpitation, with weak memory, with coryza in the aged; stitches in heart region

Rheumatic pericarditis with double stitches.

Respiration

Pressure in chest, as from a dull plug

Oppression of chest, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into open air

Cough excited by talking, in children, after fit of temper

Cough after eating with vomiting of food and pain in occiput.

Difficult (dyspnea)

▲   COUGH

Cough

Night

▲   SKIN

Skin

Intense itching eczema, with mental irritability; vesicular eruption; Swelling, urticaria; eruption like that of Poison-Oak ( Xerophyl.; Grindel.; Croton.) Lichen planus; neurotic eczema

Warts on hands

Ulcer formation on forearm.

Inactivity

Itching; scratching

Numbness

▲   BACK AND NECK

Neck

Stiffness at nape of neck.

Stiffness; neck

Back

Dull pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight

Pain

stitching, sudden, sharp, shooting; dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades

stitching, sudden, sharp, shooting; dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades; left

tearing; dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades; left

Perspiration

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Weak digestion, with fullness and distention

Empty feeling in stomach

Eating relieves Anacardium Occidentale ^Anacardium Dyspepsia

Apt to choke when eating or drinking

Pain as if dull plug were pressed into intestines

Rumbling, pinching, and griping.

Noises from abdomen; rumbling

Pain; pressing; around navel

Perspiration

Stomach

pain; pressing; after eating

pain; sudden, sharp; on breathing

Eating

Swallows food and drinks hastily.

Vomiting

Eructation, nausea, vomiting

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Bowels inactive

Ineffectual desire; rectum seems powerless, as if plugged up; spasmodic constriction of sphincter ani; even soft stool passes with difficulty

Itching at anus; moisture from rectum

Hemorrhage during stool

Painful hemorrhoids.

Constipation

inactivity of rectum

ineffectual urging and straining

Urging, desire to stool (see pain; urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing); desire passes away with great effort

▲   GENITALS ETC

Genitals

Male; Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions without dreams

Prostatic discharge during stool.

Female; Leucorrhoea, with soreness and itching

Menses

Menses scanty.

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Neuralgia in thumb

Paralytic weakness

Knees feel paralyzed or bandaged

Cramps in calves

Pressure as from a plug in the glutei

Warts on palms of hands

Fingers swollen with vesicular eruption.

Cramps; calf; on walking

Dryness; hands

Movements and positions; twitching; leg

Pain

upper arm

hand; joints of hand

thigh

pulling; hand; joints of

pulling; leg; shin

pulling; leg; calf; cramp-like

pressing; upper arm

pressing; thigh; comes on suddenly

pressing; thigh; as with a plug

pressing; thigh; rhythmical

as if sprained; ankle

when stepping on left foot

Skin

itching; hand

itching; hand; palm

night

itching; hand; fingers

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Afternoon; after dinner

In the open air

Chilliness (see also whole body; temperature)

Internal

Trembling and shivering

In warmth; in warm room; not relieved in warm room, nor by a warm heater

Fever without chill; afternoon; 4 p.m.

While eating

After eating

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights

Anxious dreams.

Dreams

of dead people; dead bodies

fire

vivid

Generalities

Constriction; sensation of a band

Eating and food

eating

after eating

Lying down; lying on side

Numbness; externally

Pain

pressing; inward

sudden, sharp; muscles; tearing in muscles

tearing; muscles; cramp-like in muscles

Rubbing

Symptoms not symmetrical; symptoms on one side

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

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