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Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Debility
  • Exhaustion
  • Restlessness
  • Nightly aggravation
  • Great exhaustion after slightest exertion
  • Irritable weakness
  • Burning pains
  • Unquenchable thirst
  • Burning relieved by heat
  • Seaside complaints
  • Injurious effects of fruits
  • Fear fright and worry
  • Green discharges
  • Alcoholism
  • Ptomaine poisoning
  • Stings
  • Dissecting wounds
  • Chewing tobacco
  • Ill effects from decayed food or animal matter
  • Putrid odor of discharges
  • Complaints that return annually
  • Anemia
  • Chlorosis
  • Degenerative changes
  • Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition
  • Malarial cachexia
  • Septic infections
  • Low vitality
  • Great anguish
  • Changes place continually
  • Fears of death
  • Fears of being left alone
  • Great fear with cold sweat
  • Thinks it useless to take medicine
  • Suicidal
  • Hallucinations of smell and sight
  • Despair drives him from place to place
  • Miserly
  • Malicious
  • Selfish
  • Lacks courage
  • General sensibility increased
  • Sensitive to disorder and confusion
  • Headaches relieved by cold
  • Other symptoms worse
  • Periodical burning pains
  • Restlessness
  • Cold skin
  • Hemicrania
  • Icy feeling of scalp
  • Great weakness
  • Sensitive head in open air
  • Delirium tremens
  • Cursing and raving
  • Vicious
  • Head is in constant motion
  • Scalp itches intolerably
  • Circular patches of bare spots
  • Rough dirty sensitive scalp
  • Scalp covered with dry scales
  • Nightly burning and itching of scalp
  • Dandruff
  • Scalp very sensitive
  • Cannot brush hair
  • Burning in eyes
  • Acrid lachrymation
  • Lids red ulcerated scabby scaly granulated
  • Edema around eyes
  • External inflammation
  • Extreme painfulness
  • Burning hot and excoriating lachrymation
  • Corneal ulceration
  • Intense photophobia
  • Better external warmth
  • Ciliary neuralgia
  • Fine burning pain
  • Skin within ears raw and burning
  • Thin excoriating offensive otorrhea
  • Roaring in ears during paroxysm of pain
  • Thin watery excoriating nasal discharge
  • Nose feels stopped up
  • Sneezing without relief
  • Hay-fever
  • Coryza
  • Worse in open air
  • Better indoors
  • Burning and bleeding nose
  • Acne of nose
  • Lupus
  • Swollen pale yellow cachectic sunken cold face
  • Face covered with sweat
  • Expression of agony
  • Tearing needle-like pains in face
  • Burning face
  • Lips black livid
  • Angry circumscribed flush of cheeks
  • Unhealthy easily-bleeding gums
  • Ulceration of mouth with dryness and burning heat
  • Epithelioma of lips
  • Tongue dry clean and red
  • Stitching and burning pain in tongue
  • Tongue ulcerated with blue color
  • Bloody saliva
  • Neuralgia of teeth
  • Teeth feel long and very sore
  • Worse toothache after midnight
  • Better toothache warmth
  • Metallic taste
  • Gulping up of burning water
  • Swollen edematous constricted burning throat
  • Unable to swallow
  • Diphtheritic membrane looks dry and wrinkled
  • Cannot bear the sight or smell of food
  • Great thirst
  • Drinks much but little at a time
  • Nausea retching vomiting after eating or drinking
  • Anxiety in pit of stomach
  • Burning pain in stomach
  • Craves acids and coffee
  • Heartburn
  • Gulping up of acid and bitter substances which seem to excoriate the throat
  • Long-lasting eructations
  • Vomiting of blood bile green mucus or brown-black mixed with blood
  • Stomach extremely irritable
  • Stomach seems raw as if torn
  • Gastralgia from slightest food or drink
  • Dyspepsia from vinegar acids ice-cream ice-water tobacco
  • Terrible fear and dyspnea with gastralgia
  • Faintness
  • Icy coldness
  • Great exhaustion
  • Malignant symptoms
  • Everything swallowed seems to lodge in the esophagus
  • Esophagus seems closed
  • Ill effects of vegetable diet melons and watery fruits generally
  • Craves milk
  • Gnawing burning pains in abdomen like coals of fire
  • Relieved by heat in abdomen
  • Liver and spleen enlarged and painful
  • Ascites
  • Anasarca
  • Abdomen swollen and painful
  • Pain as from a wound in abdomen on coughing
  • Painful spasmodic protrusion of rectum
  • Tenesmus
  • Burning pain and pressure in rectum and anus
  • Small offensive dark stool
  • Stool with much prostration
  • Stool worse at night
  • Stool worse after eating and drinking
  • Stool from chilling stomach alcoholic abuse spoiled meat
  • Dysentery dark bloody very offensive
  • Cholera with intense agony prostration and burning thirst
  • Body cold as ice
  • Hemorrhoids burn like fire
  • Relieved by heat hemorrhoids
  • Skin excoriated about anus
  • Scanty burning involuntary urine
  • Bladder as if paralyzed
  • Albuminous urine
  • Epithelial cells in urine
  • Cylindrical clots of fibrin and globules of pus and blood in urine
  • After urinating feeling of weakness in abdomen
  • Bright's disease
  • Diabetes
  • Menses too profuse and too soon
  • Burning in ovarian region
  • Leucorrhea acrid burning offensive thin
  • Pain as from red-hot wires
  • Worse least exertion female
  • Causes great fatigue female
  • Better in warm room female
  • Menorrhagia
  • Stitching pain in pelvis extending down the thigh
  • Unable to lie down
  • Fears suffocation
  • Air-passages constricted
  • Asthma worse midnight
  • Burning in chest
  • Suffocative catarrh
  • Cough worse after midnight
  • Cough worse lying on back
  • Expectoration scanty frothy
  • Darting pain through upper third of right lung
  • Wheezing respiration
  • Hemoptysis with pain between shoulders
  • Burning heat all over respiratory
  • Cough dry as from sulphur fumes
  • Cough after drinking
  • Palpitation
  • Pain heart
  • Dyspnea heart
  • Faintness heart
  • Irritable heart in smokers and tobacco-chewers
  • Pulse more rapid in morning
  • Dilatation heart
  • Cyanosis
  • Fatty degeneration heart
  • Angina pectoris with pain in neck and occiput
  • Weakness in small of back
  • Drawing in of shoulders
  • Pain and burning in back
  • Trembling extremities
  • Twitching extremities
  • Spasms extremities
  • Weakness extremities
  • Heaviness extremities
  • Uneasiness extremities
  • Cramps in calves
  • Swelling of feet
  • Sciatica
  • Burning pains extremities
  • Peripheral neuritis
  • Diabetic gangrene
  • Ulcers on heel
  • Paralysis of lower limbs with atrophy
  • Itching skin
  • Burning skin
  • Swellings skin
  • Edema skin
  • Eruption skin
  • Papular skin
  • Dry skin
  • Rough skin
  • Scaly skin
  • Worse cold and scratching skin
  • Malignant pustules
  • Ulcers with offensive discharge
  • Anthrax
  • Poisoned wounds
  • Urticaria with burning and restlessness
  • Psoriasis
  • Scirrhus
  • Icy coldness of body
  • Epithelioma of the skin
  • Gangrenous inflammations
  • Disturbed sleep
  • Anxious sleep
  • Restless sleep
  • Must have head raised by pillows
  • Suffocative fits during sleep
  • Sleeps with hands over head
  • Dreams are full of care and fear
  • Drowsy sleeping sickness
  • High temperature fever
  • Periodicity marked with adynamia
  • Septic fevers
  • Intermittent fever
  • Paroxysms incomplete with marked exhaustion
  • Hay-fever
  • Cold sweats
  • Typhoid fever
  • Complete exhaustion fever
  • Delirium fever
  • Worse after midnight fever
  • Great restlessness fever
  • Great heat about 3 am
  • Worse wet weather
  • Worse after midnight
  • Worse from cold
  • Worse cold drinks
  • Worse cold food
  • Worse seashore
  • Worse right side
  • Better from heat
  • Better from head elevated
  • Better warm drinks

Allen's Keynotes

  • great prostration with rapid sinking of the vital forces
  • fainting
  • depressing melancholic despairing indifferent disposition
  • anxious fearful restless disposition full of anguish
  • irritable sensitive peevish easily vexed disposition
  • the greater the suffering the greater the anguish restlessness and fear of death
  • mentally restless but physically too weak to move
  • cannot rest in any place changing places continually
  • wants to be moved from one bed to another and lies now here now there
  • anxious fear of death
  • thinks it useless to take medicine is incurable is surely going to die
  • dread of death when alone or going to bed
  • attacks of anxiety at night driving out of bed worse after midnight
  • burning pains the affected parts burn like fire as if hot coals were applied to parts better by heat hot drinks hot applications
  • burning thirst without special desire to drink
  • the stomach does not seem to tolerate because it cannot assimilate cold water lies like a stone in the stomach
  • it is wanted but he cannot or dare not drink it
  • cannot bear the smell or sight of food
  • great thirst for cold water drinks often but little at a time
  • eats seldom but much
  • gastric derangements after cold fruits ice cream ice water sour beer bad sausage alcoholic drinks strong cheese
  • teething children are pale weak fretful and want to be carried rapidly
  • diarrhoea after eating or drinking
  • stool scanty dark-colored offensive and whether small or large followed by great prostration
  • haemorrhoids with stitching pain when walking or sitting not at stool preventing sitting or sleep
  • haemorrhoids burning pain worse by heat
  • haemorrhoids fissures make voiding urine difficult
  • breathing asthmatic must sit or bend forward
  • springs out of bed at night especially after twelve oclock unable to lie down for fear of suffocation
  • breathing attacks like croup instead of the usual urticaria
  • rapid emaciation with cold sweat and great debility
  • emaciation of affected parts
  • marasmus
  • anasarca skin pale waxy earth-colored
  • excessive exhaustion from least exertion
  • exhaustion is not felt by the patient while lying still when he moves he is surprised to find himself so weak
  • symptoms generally worse 1-2 p m 12-2 a m
  • skin dry and scaly
  • skin cold blue and wrinkled with cold clammy perspiration
  • skin like parchment
  • skin white and pasty
  • skin black vesicles and burning pain
  • bad effects from decayed food or animal matter whether by inoculation olfaction or ingestion
  • complaints return annually
  • ailments from chewing tobacco
  • ailments from alcoholism
  • ailments from sea bathing
  • ailments from sausage poisoning
  • ailments from dissecting wounds and anthrax poison
  • ailments from stings of venomous insects
  • worse after midnight 1 to 2 a m or p m
  • worse from cold cold drinks or food
  • worse when lying on affected side or with the head low
  • better from heat in general except headache which is temporarily better by cold bathing
  • burning pain better by heat

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