Denotations & Old terminologies used in Homopathy - Similima

Bilious headaches Chronic recurring headaches with or without a preceding aura.
Sometimes referred to as “sick” headaches,
Bilious headache is linked to problems with the
Gall bladder or liver. Biliousness is “a symptom of
A disordered condition of the liver causing
Constipation, headache, loss of appetite, and
Vomiting of bile” related to excess of bile that
May be accompanied by fever.
Blenorrhoea See bronchorrhea
Blind staggers Disorder of livestock nervous system: a disorder of the nervous system in
livestock that results in a lurching gait and loss of voluntary movement. It may
be caused by a mineral deficiency or ingestion of a poisonous plant. Symptom of
several unrelated animal diseases, in which the affected animal walks with an
unsteady, staggering gait and seems to be blind. The many possible causes
include poisoning from ingesting plants containing a high level of selenium or
from ingesting grasses infected with the fungal disease known as ergot.
Magnesium or calcium deficiency may also cause…
Borborygmus Rumbling or gurgling noises produced by movement of gas in the alimentary
canal, audible at a distance.
Brachialgia Pain in the arm.
Bradypepsia Slowness of digestion.
Brain fag Brain tire, cerebral asthenia, encephalasthenia.exhaution of the mental faculties
through over work of an intellectual character.
Brights disease It a generic term embracing the varoius forms of organic kidney disease of
inflammatory origin, with resulting albuminuria and dropsythe acute and chronic
forms of diffuse nephritis constitutes this group.
Bromidrosis Bromhidrosis; osmidrosis; ozochrotia; fetid or foul smelling perspiration.
Bronchocele Struma or goitre.which is an enlargement of the thyroid gland,appears
lower,sometimes on one,some times on both sides of the neck.simple
enlargement or hypertrophy of this gland is according to porta,found only in
children and young persons,while in older person struma is always a
degeneration of this gland,consisting in formation of cysts,which contain a thick
,gummy,jelly like substance,of a yellow or brownish colour and which are known
under the name of colloids.the struma of new -born children is a simple
enlargement of either the entire gland or of one of its lobe and it causes
pressure upon the trachea and impedes the respiration.in severe cases it
produces death in a day or two.
Bronchorrhea Blenorrhoea of the bronchi.in the chronic forms of bronchitis in some cases
where the catarrhal inflammation is located in the larger bronchi, the
epectoration is of great abundance, and consist of a thin, sero-mucous
substance, mixed largely wit air bubbles.such abundant discharge from airtubes
is called blenorrhoea of the bronchi or bronchorrhoea.
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