Cortisol affects almost every organ and tissue in our body. It plays many important roles, for example:
- Regulating our body’s stress response.
- Helping controls our body’s use of fats, proteins and carbohydrates, or our metabolism.
- Suppressing inflammation.
- Regulating blood pressure.
- Regulating blood sugar.
- Helping controls our sleep-wake cycle.
Our body continuously monitors our cortisol levels to maintain steady levels (homeostasis). Higher-than-normal or lower-than-normal cortisol levels can be harmful to our health.
What is hormone?
Hormones are chemicals that coordinate different functions in our body by carrying messages through our blood to our organs, skin, muscles and other tissues. These signals tell our body what to do and when to do it.
Glucocorticoids are a type of steroid hormone. They suppress inflammation in all of our bodily tissues and control metabolism in our muscles, fat, liver and bones. Glucocorticoids also affect sleep-wake cycles.
Our adrenal glands, also known as suprarenal glands, are small, triangle-shaped glands that are located on top of each of your two kidneys: they’re a part of our endocrine system.
Is cortisol a stress hormone?
Cortisol is widely known as the “stress hormone.” However, it has many important effects and functions throughout our body aside from regulating our body’s stress response.
It’s also important for a doctor to remember that there are multiple different kinds of stress, for example:
- Acute stress: Acute stress happens when a person is in sudden danger within a short period of time. For example, barely avoiding a car accident or being chased by an animal etc are situations that cause acute stress.
- Chronic stress: Chronic (long-term) stress happens when a person experiences ongoing situations that cause frustration or anxiety. For example, having a difficult or frustrating job, problems in family or having a chronic illness can cause chronic stress.
- Traumatic stress: Traumatic stress happens when a person experiences a life-threatening event that induces fear and a feeling of helplessness. For example, experiencing an extreme weather event, such as a tornado, earthquake, flood, experiencing war or sexual assault etc can cause traumatic stress. In some cases, these events can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Our body releases cortisol when you experience any of these types of stress. 
Functions of cortisol
Almost all tissues in our body have glucocorticoid receptors. Because of this, cortisol can affect nearly every organ system in our body, for example:
- Nervous system.
- Immune system.
- Cardiovascular system.
- Respiratory system.
- Reproductive systems, both male and female.
- Musculoskeletal system.
- Integumentary system (skin, hair, nails, glands and nerves).
More specifically
Cortisol affects our body in the following ways:
Regulating our body’s stress response:
During times of stress, your body can release cortisol after releasing its “fight or flight” hormones, such as adrenaline, so we continue to stay on high alert. In addition, cortisol triggers the release of glucose from our liver for fast energy during those times of stress.
Regulating metabolism:
Cortisol helps control how our body uses fats, proteins and carbohydrates for energy.
Suppressing inflammation:
In short spurts, cortisol can boost our immunity by limiting inflammation. However, if a person has consistently high levels of cortisol, his/her body can get used to having too much cortisol in his/her blood, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system.
Regulating blood pressure:
The exact way in which cortisol regulates blood pressure in humans is regulating gland’s function especially pituitary gland, thyroid gland, pancreas and adrenal glandes (said Dr Qaisar Ahmed) (elevated levels of cortisol can cause high blood pressure, and lower-than-normal levels of cortisol can cause low blood pressure).
Increasing and regulating blood sugar:
Under normal circumstances, cortisol counterbalances the effect of insulin, a hormone our pancreas makes, to regulate our blood sugar. Cortisol raises blood sugar by releasing stored glucose, while insulin lowers blood sugar. Having chronically high cortisol levels can lead to persistent high blood sugar (hyperglycemia). This can cause Type 2 diabetes.
Helping controls our sleep-wake cycle:
Under regular circumstances, we have lower cortisol levels in the evening when we go to sleep and peak levels in the morning right before we wake up. This suggests that cortisol plays a significant role in the initiation of wakefulness and plays a part in our body’s circadian rhythm.
Optimum cortisol levels are necessary for maintaining almost all bodily functions said Dr Qaisar Ahmed.
How does our body control cortisol levels?
Our body has an elaborate system to regulate our cortisol levels. Our hypothalamus is involved in hormonal regulation, our pituitary gland (located below our brain) regulates the production of cortisol in our other glands. When the levels of cortisol in our blood falls, our hypothalamus releases corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), which directs our pituitary gland to produce adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). ACTH then stimulates our other glands especially thyroid, spleen and adrenal glands to produce and release cortisol.
In order to have optimal levels of cortisol in our body, our hypothalamus, pituitary gland, spleen, thyroid and adrenal glands must all be functioning properly, said Dr Qaisar Ahmed. 
Symptoms of Cushing’s syndrome
The symptoms of Cushing’s syndrome include:
- Changes in sex drive.
- Diabetes.
- Excessive hair growth or balding.
- High blood pressure (hypertension).
- Purple stretch marks over the abdomen.
- Red, round face.
- Wounds that heal poorly.
- Easy bruising on the arms and legs.
- Weak muscles and thinner arms and legs.
- Stunted growth in children.
- Weight gain.
- Mood swings.
- Increased fracture risk and weaker bones.
- Increased risk of blood clots.
Symptoms of Addison’s disease
The symptoms of Addison’s disease include:
- Abdominal pain.
- Abnormal menstrual periods.
- Cravings for salty food, loss of appetite or unexplained weight loss.
- Dehydration.
- Irritability.
- Low blood glucose (hypoglycemia).
- Low blood pressure (hypotension).
- Muscle weakness, especially climbing stairs and combing hair.
- Nausea and vomiting or diarrhea.
- Patches of dark skin, darkening of lips, gums and palms.
What causes high levels of cortisol?
Experiencing abnormally high levels of cortisol (hypercortisolism) for an extended period of time is usually considered Cushing’s syndrome, which is a rare condition. Causes of higher-than-normal cortisol levels and Cushing’s syndrome include:
- Taking large amounts of corticosteroid medications, such as prednisone, prednisolone or dexamethasone, for treatment of other conditions.
- Tumors that produce adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). These are usually found in your pituitary gland. More rarely, neuroendocrine tumors in other parts of your body such as your lungs can cause high cortisol levels.
- Adrenal gland tumors or excessive growth of adrenal tissue (hyperplasia), hyperthyroidism, impaired spleen function etc. which cause excess production of cortisol.
What are the symptoms of high cortisol levels?
The symptoms of heigh levels of cortisol and Cushing’s syndrome depend on how elevated patient’s cortisol levels are. Common signs and symptoms of higher-than-normal cortisol levels include:
- Weight gain, especially in face and abdomen.
- Fatty deposits between shoulder blades.
- Wide, purple stretch marks on abdomen.
- Muscle weakness in upper arms and thighs.
- High blood sugar, which often turns into Type 2 diabetes.
- High blood pressure (hypertension).
- Excessive hair growth (hirsutism) in females.
- Weak bones (osteoporosis) and fractures.
What causes low levels of cortisol?
Having lower-than-normal cortisol levels (hypocortisolism) is considered one or more glands insufficiency. There are two types of glands insufficiency: primary and secondary. The causes of glands insufficiency include: 
- Primary adrenal insufficiency: Primary adrenal insufficiency is most commonly caused by an autoimmune reaction in which our immune system attacks healthy cells in our glands; for example, Addison’s disease, hypothyroidism etc. Our glands can also become damaged from an infection or blood loss to the tissues. All of these situations limit cortisol production.
- Secondary adrenal insufficiency: If a patient has an underactive pituitary gland (hypopituitarism) or a pituitary tumor, it can limit ACTH production. ACTH signals our adrenal glands to make cortisol, so limited ACTH results in limited cortisol production.
One can also have lower-than-normal cortisol levels after stopping treatment with corticosteroid drugs (steroid), especially if patient stop taking them very quickly after a long period of use.
What are the symptoms of low cortisol levels?
Symptoms of lower-than-normal cortisol levels, or adrenal insufficiency, include:
- Fatigue.
- Unintentional weight loss.
- Poor appetite.
- Hypotension (low blood pressure).
Tests to check cortisol levels
A cortisol test is called:
- Free cortisol.
- Salivary cortisol.
- Urinary cortisol.
A doctor can measure cortisol levels through blood, urine or saliva tests. Results outside the normal range might indicate Cushing’s syndrome, Addison’s disease or a tumor.
A normal cortisol value in a blood sample taken at 8 a.m. is 5 to 25 mcg/dL. But results can vary widely, depending on the time of the test and the other factors that affect cortisol levels.
What are normal cortisol levels?
The level of cortisol in our blood, urine and saliva normally peaks in the early morning and declines throughout the day, reaching its lowest level around midnight. This pattern can change if a person work a night shift and sleep at different times of the day.
For most tests that measure cortisol levels in the blood, the normal ranges are:
- 6 a.m. to 8 a.m.: 10 to 20 micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dL).
- Around 4 p.m.: 3 to 10 mcg/dL.
Normal ranges can vary from lab to lab, time to time and person to person.
Further Tests
If patient’s results are low or high, doctor may order these tests:
- ACTH stimulation test: This assesses how patient’s adrenal glands respond after patient get a shot of artificial ACTH.
- Dexamethasone suppression test: This measures cortisol after patient takes dexamethasone, an artificially or lab manufactured version of cortisol.
- Imaging tests: An MRI or CT scan allows doctors to take pictures of patient’s glands and locate a possible tumor(s).
Homeopathic treatment for Cortisone abnormalities
Ammonium Carbonicum
Fat patients with weak heart. Pulsating forehead. Shocks through head. Burning of eyes. Photophobia. Forgetful, ill-humored. Eyestrain. Asthenopia. Hardness of hearing. Shocks through ears, eyes, and nose, when gnashing teeth, Cracking of jaw on chewing.
Tetters around mouth. Boils and pustules. Violent itching and burning blisters. Scarlet rash. Miliary rash. Malignant scarlatina. Faintly developed eruptions from defective vitality. Erysipelas in the aged, with brain symptoms. Eczema in the bends of extremities, between legs, about anus and genitals.
Tonsillitis, tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils. Diphtheria. Constipation. Weeping hemorrhoids. Frequent desire to urinate, involuntary at night. Tenesmus of bladder. Urine white, sandy, bloody, copious, turbid and fetid.
Itching, swelling and burning of pudendum. Burning leucorrhea. PCOs, PCODs, Menses too frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black; colicky pains, and hard, difficult stool, with fatigue, especially of thighs; yawning and chilliness. Tearing in joints pain/diseases. OA, RA, OP.
Natrum Muriaticum
Great debility: most weakness felt in the morning in bed. Coldness. Emaciation most notable in neck. Hyperthyroidism. Goiter. Addison’s disease. Diabetes. Cushing syndrome. Psychic causes of disease. Depressed, particularly in chronic diseases. Consolation aggravates. Irritable. Awkward, hasty. Wants to be alone to cry. Head throbs. Blinding headache. Chronic headache, semi-lateral, congestive, from sunrise to sunset, with pale face, nausea, vomiting; periodical; from eyestrains; menstrual. Sinus inflammation. Eyes muscles weak and stiff. Tinnitus.
Dry eruptions, especially on margin of hairy scalp and bends of joints. Fever blisters. Urticaria; itch and burn. Crusty eruptions. Warts. Eczema – raw, red, and inflamed. Alopecia. Hives, itching after exertion. Greasy skin.
Pain just after urinating. Increased, involuntary when walking, coughing, etc. Impotence with retarded emission.
Menses irregular; usually profuse. Vagina dry. Leucorrhea acrid, watery. Bearing-down pains.
Palms hot and perspiring. Arms and legs, but especially knees, feel weak. Lumbago. Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower extremities. Cracking in joints on motion. Coldness of legs with congestion to head.
Ignatia Amara
Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding. Melancholic, sad, tearful. Not communicative. Sighing and sobbing. Aftershocks, grief, disappointment. Head feels hollow, heavy; worse, stooping. Severe headache. Asthenopia, with spasms of lids and neuralgic pain about eyes. Flickering zig zags.
Twitching of facial muscles, and lips. Changes color when at rest. Mouth constantly full of saliva. Toothache; worse after drinking coffee and smoking. Feeling of a lump in throat. Tendency to choke, globus hystericus. Sore throat: stitches when not swallowing. Stitches between acts of swallowing. Stitches extend to ear. Tonsils inflamed, swollen, with small ulcers. Follicular tonsillitis.
Chronic constipation. Anal prolapsus. PCO, menses, black, too early, too profuse, or scanty. Excoriation, especially around vagina and mouth. Feminine sexual frigidity. Suppression from grief. Jerking of limbs. Pain in tendo-Achilles and calf. Ulcerative pain in soles.
Lycopodium Clavatum
Lycopodium is adapted more especially to ailments gradually developing, functional power weakening, with failures of the digestive powers, liver function is seriously disturbed. Atony. Malnutrition. Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with catarrhal tendencies; older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc; also precocious, weakly children. kidney affections, red sand in urine, backache, in renal region; worse before urination. Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases. Carcinoma. Cushing syndrome. Emaciation.
Debility in morning. Marked regulating influence upon the glandular (sebaceous) secretions. Pre-senility. Ascites, in liver disease. Lycopodium patient is thin, withered, full of gas and dry. Poor immune system; has poor circulation, cold extremities. Pains come and go suddenly. Sensitive to noise and odors. Melancholy. Extremely sensitive. Averse to undertaking new things. Day and/or night-blindness. Skin infections. Eating disorders, Indigestion.
UTIs, Infertility. Erectile dysfunctions. PCO and PCODs. Sciatica, Arthritis. Osteoarthritis. Osteopenia. Osteoporosis.
Pulsatilla
Wandering stitches about head; pains extend to face and teeth; vertigo. Frontal and supraorbital pains. Neuralgic pains. Hysteria. Coldness between shoulders; Hump between shoulders. Pressure on vertex. ENT infections. Skin infections. Indigestion, eating disorders, liver diseases, gallbladder diseases, pancreatitis. Polyuria, micturition. PCOs, PCODs. Prostate cancer. Tumors anywhere in the body. Lumbago. Extremities pain – muscular and/or bones/joints.
Graphitus
Best choice for patients with tendency to skin affections and constipation, fat, chilly, and costive, with delayed menstrual history, take cold easily. Patient impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands. Has a particular tendency to develop the skin phase of internal disorders. Eradicates tendency to erysipelas. Anemia with redness of face. Tendency to obesity. Swollen genitals. Gushing leucorrhea. Aids absorption of cicatricial tissue. Induration of tissue. Cushing syndrome. Cancer of pylorus. Duodenal ulcer. Ophthalmic diseases. Ear infections. Skin infections. GIT infections. PCOS, leucorrhea and other uterine infections, tumors, cancers.
Alumina
A very general condition corresponding to this drug is dryness of mucous membranes and skin, and tendency to paretic muscular states. Old people, with lack of vital heat, or prematurely old, with debility. Sluggish functions, heaviness, numbness, and staggering, and the characteristic constipation find an excellent remedy in Alumina. Disposition to colds in the head, and eructation in spare, dry, thin subjects. Delicate patients, addicted to artificial/nonorganic foods.
Throbbing headaches, object seems yellow. Tinnitus. ENT infections. Skin infections. Liver weakness. Severe constipation. Extremities thin while trunk fatty. Cancers. Tumors. Prostate cancer.
Silica Tera
Neurasthenic states, and increased susceptibility to nervous stimuli and exaggerated reflexes. Diseases of bones, caries and necrosis. Fibrotic conditions and scar-tissue. Tumors. Cancers. Organic changes in an organ. Periodical states; abscesses, quinsy, headaches, spasms, epilepsy. Keloid growth. Epilepsy. Infections of ENT. Infections of skin and bones/joints. GIT infections. UTIs. PCODs and uterine infections, tumors.
Staphysagria
Nervous affections with marked irritability, diseases of the Genito-urinary tract and skin. Impetuous, violent outbursts of passion, hypochondriacal, sad. Very sensitive as to what others say about her. Dwells on sexual matters; prefers solitude. Peevish. Brain feels squeezed. Sensation of something in forehead. Tumors. ENT infections. Eating disorders. Self-abuse. Spermaturia. PCOs and uterine infection and tumors. Skin infections.
Dulcamara
Dulcamara has a specific relation also to the skin, glands, and digestive organs, mucous membranes secreting more profusely while the skin is inactive. The rheumatic troubles. One-sided spasms with speechlessness. Paralysis of single parts. Congestive headache, with neuralgia and dry nose. Constant ENT infections. Skin infections. Indigestion. UTi; Anuria, Micturition, Polyuria etc. PCOS along with skin diseases. Bones and/joints infections; Muscular weakness.
Causticum
Manifests its action mainly in chronic rheumatic, arthritic and paralytic affections, indicated by the tearing, drawing pains in the muscular and fibrous tissues, with deformities about the joints, progressive loss of muscular strength, tendinous contractures. Broken down senile. In catarrhal affections of the air passages. Restlessness at night, with tearing pains in joints and bones, and faint-like sinking of strength. This weakness progresses until we have gradually appeared paralysis. Local paralysis, vocal cords, muscles of deglutition, of tongue, eyelids, face, bladder and extremities. Children are slow to walk. The skin is of a dirty white sallow, with warts, especially on the face. Emaciation due to disease, worry, etc, and of long standing. Burning, rawness, and soreness.
Arsenicum Album
A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Debility, exhaustion, and restlessness, irritable weakness. Burning pains, burning headaches. Anemia and chlorosis. Degenerative changes. Gradual loss of weight. Septic infections and low vitality. Skin infections, skin ulcers. UT infections. Joints and bone diseases. ENT infections. GIT infections. UTI and analyzation. Extremities. Trembling, twitching, spasms, weakness, heaviness, uneasiness. Cramps in calves. Swelling of feet. Sciatica. Burning pains. Peripheral neuritis. Diabetic gangrene. Paralysis of lower limbs with atrophy.
Carbo Animalis
Seems to be especially adapted to scrofulous and venous constitutions, old people, and after debilitating disease, with feeble circulation and lowered vitality. Glands are indurated, veins distended, skin blue. Stitch remaining after pleurisy. Easily strained from lifting. Weakness of nursing women. Ulceration and decomposition. All its secretions are offensive. Causes local congestions without heat. Brain tumors. Severe headaches. Weak digestion. PCOs and tumors. Skin infections. Joints pain, weakness. Coccyx pain and burning. Fatty liver. Paralysis of interosseous muscles of feet and hands.
Ferrum Picricum
Warts and epithelial growths; corns with yellowish discoloration. Senile hypertrophy of the prostate. Epistaxis. Chronic deafness and tinnitus due to gout. Meatus dry. Locomotor ataxia. Pseudo leukemia. ENT infection. Joints weakness, joints pains. Urinary tract infections.
Natrum Sulphuricum
Melancholy, with periodical attacks of mania. Suicidal tendency. Occipital pain. Piercing stitches in ears. Vertigo; relieved by sweat on head. Bursting feeling on coughing. Hot feeling on top of head. ENT infection. Photophobia. Gallbladder infection. Diabetes. Herpetic uvulitis. Leucorrhea and other uterine infections and tumors. Lumbago. Bones and joints pains, infections.
Natrum Carbonicum
All the Natrum stimulate cellular activity and increase oxidation and metabolism. Severe headaches. ENT infections. Skin infections, freckles. GIT – eating disorders. Uterine weakness, tumors and infections. Old sprains. Severe weakness of limbs. Easy dislocation and spraining of ankles. Joints diseases and infections.
Plumbum Metallicum
Mental depression. Fear of being assassinated. Quiet melancholy. Slow perception; loss of memory; amnesic aphasia. Hallucinations and delusions. Intellectual apathy. Memory impaired. Paretic dementia. Weakness or loss of memory. Slow of perception; increasing apathy. Unable to find proper word while talking. Coma. Imbecility. Dementia. Mania. Delirium; alternating with colic. Fury. Frantic delirium (bites, strikes).
Head: Delirium alternating with colic. Pain as if a ball rose from throat to brain. Heaviness of head. Hair very dry. Tinnitus. Dizziness to the extent of failing senseless. Tearing in forehead and temples. Lancinating headache. Congestion of blood to head, with pulsation and heat. Violent pains in integuments of skull from occiput to forehead. Occasional sudden diminution of hearing. Loss of smell.
Bloated Ness of face. Semi lateral swelling of face. Paralysis of lower two branches of facial nerve. Hippocratic face. Boring in lower jaw. Exfoliation (painless) of lips. Cramps in jaw. Lockjaw.
Eyes: Pupils contracted. Yellow. Optic nerve inflamed. Intraocular, suppurative inflammation. Paralysis of upper eyelids. Glaucoma, especially if secondary to spinal lesion. Optic neuritis, central scotoma. Sudden loss of sight after fainting. Hypopyon. Myopia. Diplopia. Blindness, as from amaurosis. Optic neuritis.
Convulsive movements of arms and hands. Weakness and painful paralysis of arms and hands. Painful sensation of paralysis in lower extremities. Numbness of legs and feet
Carboneum Sulphuratum
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Hallucinations. Headache and dizziness. Noises in head. Senselessness of lips/tongue etc. Optic neuritis. Vision greatly impaired. Color-blindness. Hearing impaired. Tinnitus atrium. Meniere’s disease. Numbness of arms and hands.
Baryta Carbonica
Loss of memory, mental weakness. Irresolute. Vertigo; stitches, when standing in the sun, extending through head. Brain feels as if loose. Hair falls out. Confusion. Wens.
Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils. Photophobia. Gauze before eyes. Cataracts. Pressure in brain under vertex, towards occiput. with stiffness of neck. Digging in the head, with a sensation of looseness of the brain. Numbness in skin of forehead to root of nose. Aching and burning pain in the eyes. Specks flying about, and black spots before the eyes. Sparks before the eyes in the dark. Dazzling of the eyes by the light.
Ears: Hardness of hearing. Crackling noise. Nocturnal pulsation in the ears. Glands around ears painful and swollen. Reverberation on blowing nose. Tinkling and roaring in the ears. Cracking in the ears on swallowing, on sneezing, and on walking quickly. Tearing in bone in front of ear.
Trembling of the hand when writing. Tension in the legs, as if the tendons were too short. Inquietude and trembling in the legs and feet, with paralytic weakness, or tension, as if from contraction of the tendons, in different parts. Paralysis and palsy of aged persons. Shakings and starlings of some of the limbs, and of the whole body.
Thuja Occidentalis
Acts on skin, blood, gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, and brain. Its relation to the production of pathological vegetations condylomas, warty excrescences, spongy tumors is very important. Moist mucous tubercles. Bleeding fungus growths. Naevus. Excess of vinosity. Headache as if pierced by a nail. Ciliary neuralgia. Tarsal tumors. Limbs feel as if made of wood or glass. Muscular twitching, weakness and trembling.
Hydrastis
Cancer. Chancroids. Headache. Severe frontal headache. Taste, disordered. Throat, deafness. Throat, sore. Tongue affections.
Calcarea Carbonicum
Headache, with cold hands and feet. Icy coldness in and on the head. Epilepsy. Hydrocephalus. Hypochondriasis. Paralysis. Attacks of semi-lateral headache, with risings and nausea. Sudden attacks of paralytic weakness in the arms. Tingling in the fingers, as when they are asleep. Frequent paralytic weakness in the fingers. Heavy movement of the fingers. Contraction of the fingers. Panaras. Cramps and contractions of the limbs.
Argentum Nitricum
Addison’s disease. Cushing syndrome. Anemia. Chancre. Dyspepsia. Epilepsy. Locomotor ataxy. Neuralgia. Ophthalmia neonatorum. Paralysis. Prostate enlargement. Dullness, mental confusion, dizziness, tendency to fall sideways. Momentarily blind with mental confusion; buzzing in ears, nausea, trembling. Digging up, incisive motion, through the l. hemisphere of the brain. Pressing boring pains, in small spots; in bones. Hemicrania; epileptiform; periodic; boring pain. Paralytic heaviness and debility.
Cicuta Virosa
Cancer. Catalepsy. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Coccygodynia. Concussions. Convulsions. Eczema. Epilepsy. Paralysis. Dementia. Giddiness and absence of mind. Giddiness with falling. Pupils either much contracted or dilated. Suspension of the sight. The objects appear double and black. Stratings and convulsive movements (involuntary) in the arms and in the fingers. Deadness of the fingers. Attacks of catalepsy, with relaxation of all the muscles, and absence of respiration. Tetanus.
Belladonna
Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system. Vertigo with falling. Palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing. Convulsive motion of muscles of face. Photophobia; shooting in eyes. Exophthalmos. Ocular illusions; fiery appearance. Diplopia, vanishing of sight and great debility.
Conium Maculatum
Headache, stupefying, with nausea and vomiting. Photophobia. Paralysis of ocular muscles. Cushing syndrome. Crawling/tingling in the arms and in the hands. Extremities are heavy, weary, paralyzed; trembling; bands unsteady; fingers and toes numb. Muscular weakness, especially of lower extremities. Perspiration of hands. Putting feet on chair relieves pain.
Kalium Iodatum
Violent headache. Brain feels enlarged. Hard nodes, with severe pain. Facial neuralgia. Lancinating pain in upper jaw.
Arsenicum Bromatum
Glandular tumors and indurations, carcinoma, locomotor ataxia.
Hydrastis Canadensis
Cancer. Chancroids. Dull, heavy frontal headache over eyes. Profuse secretion of tears; smarting and burning of eyes and lids. Roaring in the ears like machinery. Otorrhea, thick mucus discharge (fetid). Partial stoppage of Eustachian tube. Throat deafness. Muscles greatly weakened. Scrofulous and cancerous cachexia. Cushing syndrome. Cancers hard, adherent, skin mottled, puckered, cutting like knives in mammae.
Iodum
Appetite, disordered. Atrophy. Brain, atrophy of. Breasts, affections of. Cancer. Chilblains. Chyluria. Constipation. Consumption. Coryza. Cough. Croup. Debility. Diabetes. Diarrhea. Diphtheria. Emaciation. Enteric fever. Galactorrhea. Goiter Hemorrhoids. Headaches. dizziness. Cushing syndrome. Vertigo; throbbing in the head and all over the body. Vertigo with red face, palpitation, hysteria, nervousness. Headache, in hot air. Pain, as from a bruise, in the brain, with want of strength in the body, as from paralysis. Acute pressive pains in the forehead. Headache, as if a tape or band were tightly drawn around the head.
Watery white swelling of the eyelids. Dirty yellowish color of the sclerotic. Protrusion of the balls. Lachrymation. Convulsive movements and quivering of the eyes; of the (lower) eyelids. Weak sight. Dimness of vision. Diplopia. Sparks and scintillations before the eyes.
Buzzing in the ears. Hardness of hearing. Sensibility to noise.
Cadmium Sulphuratum
Corneal opacity. Eyes, affections of. Facial paralysis. Indigestion. Meningitis. Nasal polypus. Constriction; stitches; pulsation. Hammering in the head, preceding vomiting. Headache with restlessness, icy coldness of body, epistaxis, constriction in throat, thirst, nausea, vomiting. Cushing syndrome.
Night-blindness. Scrofulous inflammation. Opacity of cornea. Hot tears. Swellings of lids. Hollow eyes; blue circles.
Sounds echo in head. Nose ulcerative or cancerous smell (ozaena). Spasmodic movements of upper lip. Facial paralysis from cold air-crawling sensation-chronic eruption on forehead, nose, and round mouth. Swelling of lips.
Dr. Sayyad Qaisar Ahmed (MD {Ukraine}, DHMS), Abdominal Surgeries, Oncological surgeries, Gastroenterologist, Specialist Homeopathic Medicines.