Desire (Craving)

(See also "EATS")

Sulphur

Wants to drink liquor all the time, morning till evening. Child eats discharges from the nose. Longing for brandy in pregnant women.

Phosphorus

Takes away desire for drinking liquor by removing irritation of stomach which causes abnormal appetite therefor.

Plumbum

It has a peculiar symptom that an individual will steal money in order to buy liquor, but the moment prohibition is withdrawn, the desire for drinking liquor disappears.

Acid Sulphuric

In order to take away craving for alcoholic drinks; a mixture of one part of Sulphuric Acid and three parts of alcohol may be prepared and given in doses often to fifteen drops three times daily for three to four weeks.

Tarentula H

Desire for eating ashes especially during pre­gnancy, and in dysmenorrhoea. Desire for eating sand.

Acid Nitric

Desire for eating chalk. Desire for fat, salt, lime and earth or plaster.

Alumina

Craving for starch, uncooked rice, clialk, charcoal, tea and coffee ground, acid and indigestible things. It has aversion to potatoes, meat and beer.

Cicuta Vir

Child puts coal into mouth, crunching swallo­wing with apparent relish. Wants to eat iaw potatoes. All this is due to the fact that he cannot distinguish between things fit or not fit to be eaten.

Quercus

Takes away bad effects of alcohol, tobacco, tea etc.

Strophanthus

Takes away craving for liquor. Give in mother tincture 5 to 10 drops a dose—twice daily.

Passiflora In

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Avena Sat

Takes away craving for morphia and opium. Give in mother tincture 5 to 10 drops a dose.

Phytolacca

Irresistible inclination to bite teeth and gums. Craving for smoked meat especially and other meat generally.

Manganum

Desire for always lying down in bed. He feels better by rest and his troubles and anxiety are aggrav­ated by movement.

Hepar Sulphur

Great desire for vinegar and pickles.

Hyoscyamus

Desire for work in insane persons.

Caladium

Antidote for tobacco and takes away the craving for it. Loss of memory, absent-mindedness and forgetfulness. Everything is done in great haste It also cures cysts on the eyes with the above symptoms.

Palladium

Desire to be flattered.

Lediim P

It takes away the craving for whisky.

Kali Bi

Longing for beer and for acid drinks.

Medorrhinum

Craving for salt, sweets, green fruit, ice, sour things, oranges.

Mercurius

Desire to eat cow-dung and the mud of ponds.

Sanicula

Irresistible desire to look behind.

Sepia

Desire for wine, vinegar and sweets.

Iodum

Desire for meat; for spirituous liquors.

Thlaspi B

Desire for butter milk.

Cyclamen

Craving for sardines.

Crotalus H

Craves for snow.

Stramonium

Violent desire to bite and tear things with his teeth. Great desire for acids. Better by vinegar.

Magnesia Carb

Inordinate craving for meat in children of T.B. diathesis.

Cistus Can

Craving for cheese with tendency to catch cold which would last for a long time, worse in winter. Love for acid food or fruits which cause pain and diarrhoea.

Allium Cepa

Desire for raw onions.

Conium

Likes to wear his best clothes, makes useless purchases, cares very little for things, wastes or ruins them.

Calcarea Carb

Desire for eggs, eats lime, slate pencils, chalk, clay, raw potatoes, sweets, ice cream etc.

Agaricus Emet

Sudden, violent longing for icy cold water during the worse attacks of anxiety which gives relief.

Calcarea Phos

Craves bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats; much flatulence, cholera infantum.

Argentum Nit

Desire for eating sugar and sweets which do not agree. Cannot take starch or egg etc. in any form without being sick.

Selenium

Longing for spirituous liquors, with almost irresistible maniacal desire.

Bufo

Desire for solitude in order to practise masturbation. Longs for solitude, yet dreads being alone.

Lycopodium

Craves for sweet things, for hot drinks. Hates coffee and meat.

Bryonia

Desire for something but he knows not what, You give a child one toy after the other but he will reject all.

Lac. Fel

Great'desire to eat paper.

Mezereum

Craving for fat, ham and for drinking milk.

Natrum Sulph

Desire far ice and icy cold water.

Antim  Tart

Desire  for acid  and  sour fruits which make * him  sick.  Stomach  trouble from vinegar, sour things, sour wines and sour fruits.

Veratrum Alb

Craving for eating his own stool and drinking his own unrine.

Coca

Longing for alcoholic liquors and tobacco; for the accustomed stimulants.

Arnica M

Longing for vinegar, especially in pregnant women.

Nux Vom.

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Lachesis.

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Pulsatilla

Longing for brandy. Try in the given order.

Causticum

Young girls burning with the desire of marrying.

Tabacum

Takes away craving for smoking. Give in 200 or 1000 dilution every week.

Carbo Veg

Longing for coffee, acids, sweet and salty things. Aversion to digestible things and the best of food.

Angustra Vera

Greatest craving for coffee.