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Puls
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Sep
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Etiology
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- Cooling. After getting your feet wet.
- After consuming pork, fatty foods, pastries, ice cream. Food too diverse.
- Before the storm.
- After drinking tea.
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- Anger and vexation, or annoyance. (Lyc ₳ Sep)
- Sepia patient is upset all the time.
- The blows and the falls.
- The shaking.
- The trauma.
- When the patient has lifted too much weight (dyspepsia).
- Snowy weather (esp slush).
- Tobacco (which causes neuralgia). Alcohol
- Laundry work
- Boiled eggs (Diarrhea).
- Fatty pork (like Puls)
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Time
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- Between 12-4
- Esp between 4 and 8 p.m. (Lyc)
- Remission of symptoms in the morning, until midday,
- After waking up agg
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- Afternoon until 4 a.m.
- 4 and 8 p.m
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Teprature
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- Puls is Hot/ Warm-blooded: Symptoms are agg by heat in all its forms,
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- Sepia is a cold remedy . His symptoms are aggravated by the cold and the patient is chilly.
- Sep is enhanced by the warmth of the bed.
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Weather
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- Both are very sensitive to humidity , changes in weather.
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- Sepia is also extremely sensitive to snowy weather , and to the new moon
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Outdoor
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- Cannot tolerates lack of oxygen. He sleeps with the windows open and, when driving, he always wants to roll down the windows.
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- Sepia can be worse in a warm room, often doing better there and showing aversion to fresh air
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Position
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- Both worse in the supine position . Pulsatilla is worse lying on the side but improved lying on the back .
- Puls is worsened by position changes (rarely improved).
- Puls agg by getting up after leaning forward (rarely improved).
- Puls agg by sitting.
- Pulsatilla agg by rising from a seat
- Pulsatilla agg or amel by bending the diseased part.
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- Sep is better lying on the side, but worse lying on the back
- Sep is improved by rolling over in bed
- Sep is always improved by standing up
- Sepia is improved by sitting
- Sepia is improved by rising from a seat
- Sep agg by bending the diseased part
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Movement
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- Both aggr at the start of movement and improved by continued movement
- Puls is enhanced by slow, gentle movement. (Kent).
- Both amel by mobilization of the diseased part . Puls sometimes agg
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- Sep amel by violent exercises
- Sepia always amel by mobilization of the diseased part
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Meal
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- Both worse after meals.
- Puls agg after just a few bites of food.
- Puls agg long after meals
- Both aggravated by pork, esp fatty pork
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- Sepia sometimes amel after meals
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Sleep
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- Sep amel by sleep and especially a short nap (Phos).
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Touch/ Pressure
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- Puls is mostly amel by pressure
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- Sep agg by touch, brushing the diseased part
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Flow
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- Puls (esp) and Sep amel by appearance or recovery of any shedding or rash
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Phenotype
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- Puls is quite bloated and appears healthy,
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- Sep is elongated and thin, with a narrow pelvis, not at all a woman's pelvis, which suggests difficulties in time of delivery.
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Venus circulation
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- Both remedies have a very significant action on venous circulation esp Puls (like Ham
- In a hot and poorly ventilated room, the veins become distended, Chest oppression.
- The fresh air amel, Slow walking amel.
- Varicose veins : Veins are distended in the extremities,
- Legs feel heavy, Pain agg by hanging the leg.
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Stasis:
- Digestive disorders (ptosis),
- Hemorrhoids (congestion of the portal system),
- Pelvic genital organs which are engorged (prolapse, bearing-down )
- Varicose veins.
- Numb. Calf cramps, The feet are frozen
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Mucous membranes and skin
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- Puls acts more on the mucous membranes, while
- All mucous membranes are affected: mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, bronchi, tongue, stomach, intestines, genitals and urinary organs.
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- Sep has more of its action on the skin
- The eruptions are more in Sep
- Itching always
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Eruption
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Often wet
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Often dry
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Itching
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Agg or not influenced by scratching
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Agg by scratching
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Skin color
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Purple coloring of the skin lesions. (Lach)
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Clothing contact
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- Puls cannot tolerate the contact of wool or being warmly dressed and is close to Sul
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- Sep cannot tolerate the contact of the collar at the neck and is close to Lach
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Secretions
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- Catarrh of the mucous membranes in both remedies.
- Thick, yellowish, greenish and non-irritating, with the exception of leucorrhoea which is irritating
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- Secretions are milky (very characteristic of Sepia) or yellowish, greenish and irritating
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GI
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Constant stool urging (Nux-v)
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Nose
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Coryza + Loss of smell
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Glands
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Hot and painful
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Painless
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Side
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Right lateral
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Left lateral
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