DESIRE (Craving)

(See also "EATS")

Sulphur: Wants to drink liquor all the time, morning till evening. Child eats discharge 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It has a peculiar symptom that an individual will steal money in order to buy liquor, but the moment prohibition is withdrawn, the desire for drinking liquor disappears.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 of ten 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, chalk, charcoal, tea and coffee ground, acid and indigestible things. He has aversion to potatoes, meat and beer.

Cicuta Vir: Child puts coal into mouth, crunching, swallowing with apparent relish. Wants to eat raw 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:
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.

Ledum 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, and 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.

Thlapi 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 practice 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 for 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 urine.

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

Arnica M: Longing for vinegar, especially in pregnant women.

Nux Vom:

Lachesis:

Pulsatilla:

Longing for brandy. Try in the given order.

Causticum: Young girls burning with the desire of marrying.

Tabacum: Takes away craving for smoking. Given 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.

Lechechis: Craving for milk.