Boericke's Materia Medica
- Edema of skin and mucous membranes
- Swelling of parts
- Puffing up of various parts
- Red rosy hue
- Stinging pains
- Soreness
- Intolerance of heat
- Intolerance of slightest touch
- Afternoon aggravation
- Erysipelatous inflammations
- Dropsical effusions
- Anasarca
- Acute inflammation of kidneys
- Inflammation of perenchymatous tissues
- Serous inflammation with effusion
- Extreme sensitiveness to touch
- General soreness
- Constricted sensations
- Sensation of stiffness
- Sensation as of something torn off in the interior of the body
- Much prostration
- Apathy
- Indifference
- Unconsciousness
- Awkward
- Drops things readily
- Stupor with sudden sharp cries
- Startings
- Stupor alternating with erotic mania
- Sensation of dying
- Listless
- Cannot think clearly
- Jealous
- Fidgety
- Hard to please
- Sudden shrill piercing screams
- Whining
- Tearfulness
- Jealousy
- Fright
- Rage
- Vexation
- Grief
- Cannot concentrate mind when attempting to read or study
- Whole brain feels very tired
- Vertigo with sneezing
- Worse on lying or closing eyes
- Heat in head
- Throbbing pains in head
- Distensive pains in head
- Better on pressure in head
- Worse on motion in head
- Sudden stabbing pains in head
- Dull heavy sensation in occiput
- Occiput pain extending to neck
- Better on pressure in occiput
- Accompanied with sexual excitement
- Bores head into pillow
- Screams out
- Lids swollen
- Lids red
- Lids edematous
- Lids everted
- Lids inflamed
- Lids burn
- Lids sting
- Conjunctiva bright red
- Conjunctiva puffy
- Lachrymation hot
- Photophobia
- Sudden piercing pains in eyes
- Pain around orbits
- Serous exudation in eyes
- Edema in eyes
- Sharp pains in eyes
- Suppurative inflammation of eyes
- Keratitis with intense chemosis of ocular conjunctiva
- Staphyloma of cornea following suppurative inflammation
- Styes
- Prevents recurrence of styes
- External ear red
- External ear inflamed
- External ear sore
- Stinging pains in ears
- Coldness of tips of nose
- Nose red
- Nose swollen
- Nose inflamed
- Sharp pains in nose
- Face swollen
- Face red
- Face with piercing pain
- Face waxy
- Face pale
- Face edematous
- Erysipelas with stinging burning edema
- Erysipelas extends from right to left
- Tongue fiery red
- Tongue swollen
- Tongue sore
- Tongue raw
- Tongue with vesicles
- Scalding in mouth
- Scalding in throat
- Tongue feels scalded
- Tongue feels red hot
- Tongue trembling
- Gums swollen
- Lips swollen
- Lips swollen especially upper
- Membrane of mouth and throat glossy
- Membrane of mouth and throat as if varnished
- Mouth and throat red
- Mouth and throat shining
- Mouth and throat puffy like erysipelas
- Cancer of the tongue
- Throat constricted
- Throat stinging pains
- Uvula swollen
- Uvula sac-like
- Throat swollen inside and out
- Tonsils swollen
- Tonsils puffy
- Tonsils fiery red
- Ulcers on tonsils
- Fiery red margin around leathery membrane in throat
- Sensation of fishbone in throat
- Sore feeling in stomach
- Thirstless
- Vomiting of food
- Craving for milk
- Abdomen sore
- Abdomen bruised on pressure
- Abdomen tender when sneezing
- Abdomen extremely tender
- Dropsy of abdomen
- Peritonitis
- Swelling in right groin
- Involuntary stool on every motion
- Anus seems open
- Bloody stool
- Painless stool
- Anus feels raw
- Hemorrhoids with stinging pain after confinement
- Diarrhea watery
- Diarrhea yellow
- Cholera infantum type diarrhea
- Cannot urinate without a stool
- Dark fetid stool
- Worse stool after eating
- Constipation
- Feels as if something would break on straining
- Burning and soreness when urinating
- Suppressed urine
- Urine loaded with casts
- Frequent and involuntary urine
- Stinging pain in urine
- Strangury in urine
- Scanty urine
- High colored urine
- Incontinence of urine
- Last drops of urine burn and smart
- Edema of labia
- Relieved edema of labia by cold water
- Soreness of female organs
- Stinging pains in female organs
- Ovaritis
- Worse in right ovary
- Menses suppressed
- Cerebral symptoms with menses
- Head symptoms with menses
- Especially in young girls
- Dysmenorrhea with severe ovarian pains
- Metrorrhagia profuse
- Heavy abdomen
- Faintness
- Stinging pain
- Sense of tightness
- Bearing-down as if menses were to appear
- Ovarian tumors
- Metritis with stinging pains
- Great tenderness over abdomen and uterine region
- Hoarseness
- Dyspnea
- Breathing hurried and difficult
- Edema of larynx
- Feels as if he could not draw another breath
- Suffocation
- Short dry cough
- Suprasternal cough
- Hydrothorax
- Edematous extremities
- Synovitis
- Felon in beginning
- Knee swollen
- Knee shiny
- Knee sensitive
- Knee sore
- Knee with stinging pain
- Feet swollen
- Feet stiff
- Feet feel too large
- Rheumatic pain in back and limbs
- Tired bruised feeling
- Numbness of hands
- Numbness of tips of fingers
- Hives with intolerable itching
- Edematous swellings
- Swellings after bites
- Skin sore
- Skin sensitive
- Skin stinging
- Erysipelas with sensitiveness and swelling
- Erysipelas with rosy hue
- Carbuncles with burning stinging pain
- Sudden puffing up of whole body
- Very drowsy
- Dreams full of care and toil
- Screams during sleep
- Sudden starting during sleep
- Afternoon chill with thirst
- Worse chill on motion
- Worse chill on heat
- External heat with smothering feeling
- Sweat slight with sleepiness
- Perspiration breaks out and dries up frequently
- Sleeps after the fever paroxysm
- After perspiration nettle rash
- Nettle rash with shuddering
- Worse on heat in any form
- Worse on touch
- Worse on pressure
- Worse late in afternoon
- Worse after sleeping
- Worse in closed and heated rooms
- Worse on right side
- Better in open air
- Better on uncovering
- Better on cold bathing
Allen's Keynotes
- adapted to the strumous constitution
- glands enlarged, indurated
- scirrhus or open cancer
- women, specially widows
- children and girls who, though generally careful, become awkward, and let things fall while handling them
- bad effects of acute exanthema imperfectly developed or suppressed
- measles
- scarlatina
- urticaria
- ailments from jealousy, fright, rage, vexation, bad news
- irritable
- nervous
- fidgety
- hard to please
- weeping disposition
- cannot help crying
- discouraged, despondent
- sudden shrill, piercing screams from children while waking or sleeping
- oedema
- bag-like, puffy swelling under the eyes
- oedema of the hands and feet, dropsy, without thirst
- extreme sensitiveness to touch
- pain: burning, stinging, sore
- pain suddenly migrating from one part to another
- thirstlessness: in anasarca
- thirstlessness: acites
- incontinence of urine, with great irritation of the parts
- can scarcely retain the urine a moment, and when passed scalds severely
- urine frequent, painful, scanty, bloody
- constipation: sensation in abdomen as if something tight would break if much effort were used
- diarrhoea: of drunkards
- diarrhoea in eruptive diseases, especially if eruption be suppressed
- diarrhoea involuntary from every motion, as though anus were wide open
- affects right side
- enlargement or dropsy of right ovary
- enlargement or dropsy of right testicle
- intermittent fever; chill 3 p. m., with thirst, always
- intermittent fever worse in warm room and from external heat
- worse after sleeping
- closed, especially warmed and heated rooms are intolerable
- worse from getting wet, but better from washing or moistening the part in cold water
- better in open air
- better from cold water or cold bathing
- better from uncovering
- pains better by coughing, walking or changing position
- better when sitting erect
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