Influenza

Question 1

sudden onset flu

• chilliness, throbbing pulses
• restlessness from anxiety

Answer 1

Aconitum

Question 2

acute flu with restlessness, thirst, anxiety

• chilliness, burning better heat
• profuse burning corrosive discharges
• sudden onset
• violent sneezing
• debility
• spasmodic cough with desire to vomit
• runny eyes with photophobia

Answer 2

Arsencium

Question 3

Acute flu with delirium, weakness and sleepiness

• hoarseness with very rapid pulse and palpitation
• seeks open window
• sense of suffocation
• constriction of chest
• low fever
• septic conditions
• great muscular soreness
• putrid pneumonia

Answer 3

Baptisia

Question 4

develops like gelsemium but without the sleepiness

• dull mentally, don’t want to be disturbed
• irritable if disturbed
• speaking annoys them
• distressed and dispondent
• worried about their condition, about their business
• difficult to please

Answer 4

Bryonia

Question 5

Collapse, icy coldness

• cold surface of body, tongue, breath
• congestive chill
• complete prostration of vital force, weak pulse
• chilly but desire to be uncovered
• first stage of a cold, with chilliness and sneezing
• pain is better while thinking about it

Answer 5

Camphora

Question 6

chilliness, anemic, weak

• worse of alternating days
• desire for limbs to stretch, move, but very weary
• sensitive to touch, motion and cold air

Answer 6

China

Question 7

-coryza with severe bone pain
-weak pulse, bones sore as if broken
-chill preceded by thirst
-very restless, can’t keep still but not relieved by motion
-hoarseness worse in the morning
-flu during warm mild weather
coated tongue
-great heat but no perspiration

Answer 7

Eupatorium

Question 8

• poor reaction after influenza
• can be used preventatively in the autumn
• mental dullness
• acute coryza
• influenza with latent TB infection

Answer 8

Influenzinum

note this is a nasal smear of a pt with influenza so contains several organisms

Question 9

• prostration, fatigue
• dizzy, drowsy, dull
• slow pulse, mental apathy
• muscular weakness, relaxation and lack of contraction
• sensitive to falling barometer (dampness brings on flu)
• no thirst
• worse in evening
• empty or oppression in pit of stomach
• acute flu that develops slowly

Answer 9

Gelsemium

Question 10

profuse, offensive sweat

• foul mouth
• offensive salivation
• no relief from sweating
• colds extend to chest

Answer 10

Mercurius

Question 11

Fever with violent pulsations and intense restlessness

• rapid pulse
• either high temp with slow pulse or the opposite
• very chilly
• headache with restlessness
• bed feels hard, feels bruised in low back and legs
• better beginning to move, so rocks or wriggles for relief
• copious clear urine with fever

Answer 11

Pyrogenium

Question 12

Stiff, lame and bruised on first moving
-better continued motion until they get weak and must rest
-illness from cold damp weather
-anxiety and fear worse at night
-restless, intense fever
-thirst
-weeps without knowing why
chilly better heat

Answer 12

Rhus Tox

Question 13

• flu in children that is indistinguishable from whooping cough
• spasmodic cough after flu and after whooping cough
• cough with every cold
• tickling behind sternum causes constant hacking cough
• worse lying down at night
• must sit up in bed
• burning soreness in R chest through to R shoulder

Answer 13

Sanguinaria

Question 14

-influenzal bronchitis
-symptoms similar to TB, debility, cough, poor appetite etc
-itchy ears and palms
acute cough thats irritating and tickling

Answer 14

Tuberculinum aviare