E B Nash's trio remedies in materia medica

1. Dr. Rubina Subhani
Department of Practice of Medicine
PG Part I
SKHMCH, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu
TRIO
REMEDIES
NASH’S

2. RESTLESSNESS
ARS ALB
ACONITE
RHUS TOX

3. ARS ALB
ü RESTLESS BOTH MENTALLY AND
PHYSICALLY
ü MENTALLY RESTLESS, BUT
PHYSICALLY WEAK TO MOVE
ü CANNOT REST IN ONE PLACE
ü WANTS TO BE MOVED FROM ONE
BED TO ANOTHER
ü GREATER THE SUFFERING GREATER
THE ANGUISH
ü RESTLESSNESS AND FEAR OF
DEATH
ü EVERY MOVEMENT IS FOLLOWED
BY EXHAUSTION
BUT

4. ACONITE
Ø MENTALLY RESTLESS
Ø MORE AT NIGHT
Ø DUE TO ANXIETY, WORRY AND FEAR
Ø SHE MOANS AND LAMENTS,
SHOUTS SCREAMS, NOT KNOWING

5. RHUS TOX
ü PHYSICALLY RESTLESS
ü HAS TO KEEP MOVING
CONSTANTLY WHICH RELIEVES THE
PAIN.

6. FLATULENCE
CINCHONA CARBO VEG LYCOPODIUM

7. CINCHONA/CHINA
v WHOLE ABDOMEN
ENORMOUSLY
DISTENDED
v DESIRE TO BELCH
v BELCHING - NO RELIEF
OR ONLY
TEMPORARILY RELIEF

8. CARBO VEG Ø WEAK DIGESTION,
SIMPLEST FOOD DISGREES
Ø EXCESSIVE ACCUMULATION
OF GAS IN STOMACH AND
INTESTINES
Ø SENSATION AS IF STOMACH
WOULD BURST
Ø ERRUCTATIONS GIVE TEMP
RELIEF

9. LYCOPODIUM Ø CONSTANT FERMENTATION
OF GAS IN ABDOMEN.
Ø EXCESSIVE
ACCUMULATION OF GASES.
Ø RUMBLING IN THE
ABDOMEN- LOWER ABD.
Ø FULLNESS - NOT RELIEVED
BY BELCHING OR FLATUS

10. DELIRIUM
HYOCYMUS
BELL
STRAM

11. BELLDONNA VIOLENT
DELIRIUM
DISPOSITION TO
BITE, STRIKE
AND TEAR
THINGS
BREAKS INTO
FITS OF
LAUGHTER AND
GNASHES THE
TEETH
WANTS TO BITE
AND STRIKE
ATTENDANTS,
TRIES TO
ESCAPE

12. HYOSCYAMUS - MIDWAY BETWEEN BELLADONNA AND
STRAMONIUM
• DELIRIUM TREMENS, WITH RESTLESSNESS , JUMP OUT OF BED, TRIES TO ESCAPE.
• THINKS HE IS IN WRONG PLACE
• TALKS TO IMAGINARY THINGS
• HAS NO WANTS AND MAKES NO COMPLAINT.

13. STRAMONIUM
• DELIRIUM IS MORE FURIOUS, MANIA MORE ACUTE
• CONGESTION - HYOS < STRAM < BELL

14. THIRSTLESS
APIS AETHUSA
PULSATILLA

15. APIS
• THIRSTLESSNESS IN ANASARCA, ASCITES
• COMP WITH ACETIC ACID - THIRST IN DROPSY, DIABETES- INSATIABLE THIRST
BUT NO THIRST IN FEVER.
THIRST IN FEVER
THIRSTLESS IN
ANASARCA, ASCITES

16. AETHUSA
• COMPLETE ABSENCE OF THIRST

17. PULSATILLA
• GREAT DRYNESS OF MOUTH IN THE MORNING, WITHOUT THIRST.
• COMP WITH- INTENSE THIRST ALONG WITH TONGUE LOOKS MOIST AND
SALIVA IS PROFUSE - MERCURIUS.

18. CONVULSIONS
CAUSTICUM
CICUTA
VIROSA
CUPRUM
METTALICUM

20. CICUTA
VIROSA

22. CUPRUM
METTALICUM

23. BURNING
SULPHUR
ARS ALB
PHOSPHORUS

24. SULPHUR
vON VERTEX- SENSATION OF BURNING, SMARTING IN EYES
vIN FACE WITHOUT REDNESS
vBURNING IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE BODY
vCONSTANT HEAT ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD, VERTEX.
vWITH BURNING IN SOLES AND PALMS AT NIGHT.
vWANTS TO FIND A COOL PLACE FOR THEM, PUTS THEM OUT OF BED TO COOL THEM OFF.
( COMP - MEDORRHINUM : BURNING OF HANDS AND FEET, WANTS THEM COVERED AND
FANNED. )

25. ARS ALB
• BURNING PAINS, THE AFFECTED PARTS BURN LIKE FIRE, AS IF HOT COALS
WERE APPLIED TO THE PARTS.
• > HEAT, HOT DRINKS AND HOT APPLICATION.
• GREAT THIRST FOR COLD WATER, DRINKS OFTEN BUT LITTLE AT A TIME.

26. PHOSPHORUS
• BURNING IN SPOTS ALONG THE SPINE.
• INTENSE HEAT RUNNING UP THE BACK, PALMS, HANDS, IN CHEST AND LUNGS, EVERY
ORGAN AND TISSUE OF THE BODY.
• THIRST FOR ICE AND COLD WATER.

27. CLIMACTERIC
LACHESIS SEPIA
SULPHUR

28. LACHESIS
• CLIMACTERIC AILMENTS, HEMORRHOIDS, HEMORRHAGE, HOT
FLUSHES AND HOT PERSPIRATION, BURNING VERTEX HEADACHE
ESPECIALLY AT OR AFTER MENOPAUSE.

29. SULPHUR
• HOT FLASHES DURING DAY
WITH WEAK, FAINT SPELLS
WITH LITTLE MOISTURE.

30. SEPIA
• ERYTHISM, FLUSHES OF HEAT FROM LEAST MOTION, WITH ANXIETY AND
FAINTNESS FOLLOWED BY PERSPIRATION OVER THE WHOLE BODY.
• CLIMACTERIC; ASCENDS FROM PELVIC ORGANS.

31. OFFENSIVENESS
KREOSOTUM MERC SOL BAPTISIA

32. KREOSOTUM
• LEUCORRHEA ACRID, CORROSIVE OFFENSIVE.
• LOCHIA - DARK BROWN, LUMPY, OFFENSIVE, ACRID
• ALMOST CEASES THEN FRESHENS UP AGAIN.

33. MERC SOL
• OTORRHOEA- BLOODY, OFFENSIVE DISCHARGE WITH STABBING, TEARING
PAIN < RT SIDE, NIGHT , LYING ON AFFECTED SIDE.

34. BAPTISIA
• ALL EXHALATIONS AND
DISCHARGES FETID, ESPECIALLY
IN TYPHOID OR OTHER ACUTE
DISEASE, BREATH, STOOL, URINE,
RESPIRATION AND ULCER.

35. OFFENSIVE URINE
BENZOIC
ACID
OFFENSIVE
URINE
NITRIC
ACID
SEPIA

36. BENZOIC ACID
• URINE DARK BROWN AND ODOUR HIGHLY INTENSIFIED.
• URINE OFFENSIVE AND OF A DEEP RED COLOR.

37. NITRIC ACID

38. SEPIA
• DEPOSITS A REDDISH DRY COLOURED SEDIMENT WHICH ADHES TO THE VESSELS
AS IF IT HAD BEEN BURNED ON.
• FETID, SO OFFENSIVE MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE ROOM.
• ENURESIS - BED WETTING ALWAYS DURING FIRST SLEEP.

39. PAIN
ACONITE CHAMOMILLA
COFFEE
CRUDA

40. ACONITE
• ACCORDING TO NASH , ACONITE IS ONE OF THE GREATEST PAIN REMEDIES.
• ACONITE ,PAINS ARE INTOLERABLE, THEY DRIVE HIM CRAZY.
• RESTLESS < NIGHT
• PAIN IS OFTEN ASSOCIATED WIT NUMBNESS ( PLATINA, CHAMOMILLA )

41. CHAMOMILLA
• INTOLERABLE PAIN WITH NUMBNESS OF AFFECTED PARTS ( PLATINA,
ACONITE ).
• THERE IS GREAT DEBILITY AS SOON AS PAIN BEGINS. < HEAT.
• SLEEPY BUT CANNOT SLEEP. ( BELL, STRAM, OPIUM ).

42. COFFEE
• GREAT SENSITIVENESS TO PAIN, SEEM ALMOST INSUPPORTABLE,
DRIVING PATIENT TO DESPAIR, TOSSING ABOUT IN ANGUISH.
• ( IN ACONITE, CHAMOMILLA AND NUX VOMICA THERE IS ALSO IRRITABILITY OF HIGH
DEGREE.
• BUT THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT ACONITE IS FEARFUL AND ANXIOUS, DREADS THINGS,
• CHAMO IS SPITEFUL AND UNCIVIL, NUX VOMICA IS SULLEN, KEEPS THE EYES SHUT,
DOES NOT WISH TO SPEAK OR HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH ANYONE )

43. WEAKNESS
ARS ALB
CARB VEG
MUR ACID

44. ARS ALB
• GREAT PROSTRATION IS
PERSISTENTLY, SINKING OF
STRENGTH OUT OF
PROPORTION TO A DEGREE OF
ILLNESS.

45. CARB VEG
• EXHAUSTED VITALITY FROM
LOSS OF VITAL FLUID.
• WEAK DIGESTION

46. MUR ACID
• IN TYPHOID, PROSTRATION IS
OUT OF PROPORTION TO
ILLNESS.
• GREAT DEBILITY, SLIDES DOWN
IN BED, EVEN THE LOWER JAW
HANGS DOWN .
• HIS EYES CLOSE AS SOON AS HE
SITS DOWN.

47. NYMPHOMANIA
MUREX
PURPURA
LIL TIG
PLATINA

48. MUREX PURPURA
• LEAST CONTACT OF PARTS
CAUSES VIOLENT SEXUAL
EXCITEMENT.
• VIOLENT EXCITEMET IN SEXUAL
ORGANS, EXCESSIVE DESIRE
FOR AN EMBRACE.

49. LILIUM TIG
• LISTLESS ( LACK OF ENERGY ), YET CANNOT SIT STILL
• RESTLESS, YET DOES NOT WANT TO WALK.
• MUST KEEP BUSY TO REPRESS SEXUAL DESIRE.
• NYMPHOMANIA, VIOLENT SEXUAL EXCITEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH
SPASMS, WITH PALPATION AND EXHAUSTION.

50. PLATINA
• NYMPHOMANIA, EXCESSIVE SEXUAL
DEVELOPMENT ESPECIALLY IN
VIRGINS.
• SEXUAL ORGANS EXCEEDINGLY
SENSITIVE, CANNOT BEAR THE
NAPKIN TO TOUCH HER.
• WILL GO INTO SPASMS FROM AN
EXAMINATION.
• VULVA PAINFULLY SENSITIVE DURING
COITUS.
• WILL FAINT DURING/CANNOT ENDURE
COITUS ( VAGINISMUS).