{"id":1119,"remedy_name":"Piper Methysticum","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Kava-Kava is an intoxi cant which produces liveliness and inclina tion to do more work \nwithout fatigue. Silent and drowsy intoxication, with incoherent dreams, loss of muscular power.  \nNervous system strung up to its highest tension. Trembling. Uneasiness and weakness during day with timidity \nand apprehension. Weakness in morning, better rising and moving around. Want of tone and life in all functions \ntowards night. \nDizziness and vertigo, better on closing eyes. Full forehead, \u201csolid with pain,\u201d shifting to occiput and cervical \nspine, where it became a compression, extending as a constricting sensation to stomach and chest. Marked \nand persistent sensation of enlargement of head. \nAll the symptoms, especially pains are temporarily better by dive rting attention, changing position or topic. \nArthritis defor mans. Emaciation and decrepitude. Colic with flatulence. Urinary and skin symptoms have \nbeen verified.","modalities":"Better moving, open air. Better by turning mind to another topic, changing position. Vertigo better \nclosing eyes. Worse reading and thinking. Worse in open air, motion, walking. Going down stairs causes \nsymptoms to rush up. Sour belchings worse before meals. Burning in urethra worse urinating.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Mental symptoms, excitement or depression, and the headache, better by diversion of m ind. \nAmelioration of pains by diverting the attention.  Restless desire to change position. Intoxication with \nfantastic ideas and desire to skip about, although he cannot for a moment hold himself on his legs.  \nExaltation of mind. Very sensitive. Men tal tension. Lively and inclined to work. Faculties sharpened, capable \nof working more without fatigue or brain-fag. Lazy and drowsy. Want of vigor, timid, apprehensive. Mental symptoms, excitement or depression, and the headache, better by diversion of m ind. \nAmelioration of pains by diverting the attention.  Restless desire to change position. Intoxication with \nfantastic ideas and desire to skip about, although he cannot for a moment hold himself on his legs.  \nExaltation of mind. Very sensitive. Men tal tension. Lively and inclined to work. Faculties sharpened, capable \nof working more without fatigue or brain-fag. Lazy and drowsy. Want of vigor, timid, apprehensive.","Vertigo":"From 5 to 9 p.m. very dizzy, swimming sensation and faintness. Vertigo in morning in bed with frontal \npressure. \nCOMMENTS - W. N. Griswold proved the third and second dilutions and developed a large number of nervous, \nmental and brain symptoms, among which are some which have proved to be keynotes. The mental symptoms \nof Pip-m. or the \u201cIntoxicating Pepper\u201d are the most interesting feature of the drug's action.  \nFeeling of buoyancy, as if every nerve was strung up to the highest pitch, feels he can work without fatigue, \nquickly followed by a feeling of tired brain and over-sensitiveness to all external impression. \nGriswold cured a case having burning in chest, better by diverting mind, and three cases having \u201cAgonizing \npain with tossing, twisting and writhing, patient driven irresistibly to change position, which generally gives little \nor no better.\u201d These cures were with the lx or tinctures. \nSkinner gave fractional doses of tincture in water to a highly excitable young girl. She had severe toothache \nand earache and had worn out her family by the incessant day and night attendance she required. \nThe pains were dragging, heavy, worse at night in bed and after or when eating,  \nforgets all about her pains if amused with anything, but directly she is tired of it she exclaims \u2018Oh. my tooth or \near!' \u201d \nShe had \u201cAgonizing pain with tossing, twisting and writhing, irresistibly driven to change position.\u201d The patient \nslept well that night the first time for a fortnight and had no more pain. The remaining swelling was removed \nby Puls. 200c. \nSkinner also reported the case of Miss R., 20, who had a toothache in a decayed molar, better if attention is \ndiverted by anything, is diverted by anything sufficiently exciting. When pain is at all violent she has no rest in \nany position, must keep continually changing it. Pip -m. 500c (F. C.) was given and there was relief very soon \nafter the first dose. A few doses completely removed the pain. \nFarrington said convulsions simulating catalepsy are produced. Cerna, as a result of his investigations, found \nPip-m. a general and local anesthetic. It diminishes reflex action by its action on the cord and kills by paralyzing \nrespiration. \nCerna illustrated its relationship to Cub. by citing cases of gonorrhea, acute and chronic cystitis, gleet, \nprostatorrhea, vaginitis, cured with it.","Head":"Brain tired in morning on waking, better getting on feet. Heaviness of head. Feeling as though the head \nwere enlarged even to bursting. Headache with pressure in upper part of orbits with sleepiness.  \nKidneys - Chordee. Cystitis. Burning in urethra during urination, gonorrhea and gleet. Urine increased, scanty \nin morning. Urine nearly neutral, hot and over-acid at night. Brain tired in morning on waking, better getting on feet. Heaviness of head. Feeling as though the head \nwere enlarged even to bursting. Headache with pressure in upper part of orbits with sleepiness.  \nKidneys - Chordee. Cystitis. Burning in urethra during urination, gonorrhea and gleet. Urine increased, scanty \nin morning. Urine nearly neutral, hot and over-acid at night.","Eyes":"Conjunctivae red. Pain along right optic nerve when reading. Pain deep in left eye as if ball would be \npressed out. Dizzy blindness when dressing","Ears":"Singular pressure in lobules of pinna of left ear.","Face":"Pressure outward in face at 7 p.m.","Mouth":"Burning in whole mouth followed by numbness. Dryness of mouth on waking from afternoon nap with \n \n \nsweat (on a hot day). Salivation. Taste is nauseous, sweet, then piquant and sharp, pappy , everything \ntasteless, lost to food, but ravenous haste in eating. Taste and relish to food not as usual, at noon, but appetite \nusually good.","Chest":"Constriction of chest and stomach, extending from base of brain. Heaviness behind upper part of \nsternum, as from wind that cannot be belched out.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Warmth in stomach. Crampy pain, better pressure against edge of table. Sour belchings, worse an \nhour before meals. \nTeeth - Teeth deep yellow. Teeth sensitive to cold water, cold air, brushing, \nTongue - Tongue feels as if covered with velvet or fur at night. Burning on tongue. Appetite is formidable, but not able to eat much.","Urinary & Genital":"Shooting in penis. Pain in right testicle. Erection in afternoon, at night after an emission. Emission early \nin morning without dreams. Amorousness.","Extremities":"Numbness of the lower limbs. Weakness, as if unable to stand. Heavi ness of legs when walking. \nSticking in left knee at 4 p.m. when walking. Pain in right arm. Numbness of right elbo w. Pain in right wrist, \nworse writing. Weakness of left hand. Hands feel paralyzed. Pain in the thumb joint.","Neck & Back":"Pain in back only felt on pressure. \nSoreness about second dorsal vertebra.","Skin":"Dryness, especially where it is thick, as on hands and feet with scales, cracks and ulcers. Ichthyosis. \nLeprosy. Scaly. Fall of scales leaves white spots, which often ulcerate.","Sleep":"Difficult falling asleep. Sleepless. Sleepiness at 10 p.m., soon afterwards irresistible liveliness and \nwakefulness. Restless sleep last part of night. Stupid sleep. Heavy sleep with disturbing but u nremembered \ndreams. Dreams are curious, nonsensical, wild, amorous of traveling by rail, active, vivid, last part of night of \na fire, heard the engines and firemen."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}