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Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Asthenic type symptoms
  • Low fevers
  • Septic conditions of the blood
  • Malarial poisoning
  • Extreme prostration
  • Indescribable sick feeling
  • Great muscular soreness
  • Putrid phenomena
  • Offensive secretions
  • Epidemic influenza
  • Chronic intestinal toxemias of children
  • Fetid stools
  • Fetid eructations
  • Intermittent pulse
  • Wild, wandering feeling
  • Inability to think
  • Mental confusion
  • Ideas confused
  • Illusion of divided personality
  • Thinks he is broken or double
  • Delirium
  • Wandering
  • Muttering
  • Perfect indifference
  • Falls asleep while being spoken to
  • Melancholia
  • Stupor
  • Confused, swimming feeling
  • Vertigo
  • Pressure at root of nose
  • Skin of forehead feels tight
  • Feels too large, heavy, numb
  • Soreness of eyeballs
  • Brain feels sore
  • Early deafness in typhoid conditions
  • Eyelids heavy
  • Besotted look
  • Dark red face
  • Pain at root of nose
  • Muscles of jaw rigid
  • Taste flat, bitter
  • Teeth and gums sore, ulcerated
  • Fetid breath
  • Tongue feels burned
  • Yellowish-brown tongue
  • Red and shining edges of tongue
  • Dry and brown tongue in center
  • Cracked and sore tongue
  • Can swallow liquids only
  • Solid food gags
  • Dark redness of tonsils and soft palate
  • Constriction, contraction of esophagus
  • Great difficulty in swallowing solid food
  • Painless sore throat
  • Offensive discharge
  • Contraction at cardiac orifice
  • Vomiting due to spasm of esophagus
  • Gastric fever
  • No appetite
  • Constant desire for water
  • Sinking feeling at stomach
  • Pain in epigastric region
  • Feeling of hard substance in stomach
  • All stomach symptoms worse from beer
  • Cardiac orifice contracted convulsively
  • Ulcerative inflammation of stomach and bowels
  • Right side of abdomen markedly affected
  • Distended and rumbling abdomen
  • Soreness over region of gall-bladder
  • Diarrhea
  • Very offensive, thin, dark, bloody stools
  • Soreness of abdomen, in region of liver
  • Dysentery of old people
  • Threatened miscarriage from mental depression, shock, watching, low fevers
  • Menses too early, too profuse
  • Lochia acrid, fetid
  • Puerperal fever
  • Lungs feel compressed
  • Breathing difficult
  • Fears going to sleep
  • Nightmare
  • Sense of suffocation
  • Constriction of chest
  • Neck tired
  • Stiffness and pain
  • Aching and drawing in arms and legs
  • Pain in sacrum
  • Pain around hips and legs
  • Sore and bruised back and extremities
  • Decubitus
  • Sleepless and restless
  • Frightful dreams
  • Cannot get herself together
  • Feels scattered about bed
  • Falls asleep while answering a question
  • Livid spots all over body and limbs
  • Burning and heat in skin
  • Putrid ulcers
  • Chill
  • Rheumatic pains
  • Soreness all over body
  • Heat all over, with occasional chills
  • Adynamic fevers
  • Typhus fever
  • Shipboard fever

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Threatened abortion
  • Apoplexy
  • Appendicitis
  • Biliousness
  • Brain softening
  • Cancer
  • Consumption
  • Diphtheria
  • Dysentery
  • Enteric fever
  • Eye affections
  • Gall-bladder affections
  • Gastric fever
  • Headache bilious
  • Hectic fever
  • Hysteria
  • Influenza
  • Mumps
  • Oesophagus stricture
  • Plague
  • Relapsing fever
  • Sewer gas-poisoning
  • Shivering
  • Stomatitis
  • Tabes mesenterica
  • Tinea capitis
  • Tongue ulcerated
  • Typhus
  • Variola
  • Worms
  • Stupor
  • Falls asleep while being spoken to
  • Confused as if drunk
  • Cannot keep his mind together
  • Wild wandering feeling
  • Illusion that the body is double
  • Limbs separated and conversing with each other
  • Cannot sleep because body seems scattered about
  • Cannot collect pieces
  • Dull heavy sensation in head with drowsiness
  • Heavy eyelids
  • Head feels large
  • Numb feeling of head and face
  • Bruised headache
  • Soreness as if in brain
  • Bruised feeling in occiput
  • Heavy feeling at base of brain with drawing in cervical muscles
  • Frontal headache with pressure at root of nose
  • Neck is tired
  • Cannot hold head easy in any position
  • Eyes cannot bear light
  • Eyes burn
  • Eyes are weak
  • Eyes are painful on reading
  • Weight on eyes
  • Eyeballs sore
  • Eyeballs lame on moving
  • Blear-eyed
  • Lids partially paralysed
  • Illusion of smell as of burnt feathers
  • Pain in left parotid gland
  • Flat bitter taste
  • Tongue swollen
  • Tongue feels numb
  • Speech difficult
  • Tongue coated whitish yellow
  • Tongue feels burnt or scalded
  • Tongue dry parched brown centre
  • Tongue cracked
  • Tongue ulcerated
  • Canker sores in mouth
  • Ulcerations
  • Sore-mouth of sucklings
  • Painlessness in the sore throat
  • Putrid painless dark ulcers
  • Oesophagus feels constricted down to stomach
  • Can only swallow liquids
  • Convulsive contraction of oesophagus and cardiac orifice with regurgitation of food
  • Nausea
  • Retching
  • Vomiting
  • Sinking gone feeling
  • Pain in liver
  • Pain in gall-bladder
  • Pain in spleen
  • Pain in right iliac region
  • Pain in groins
  • Glands swollen
  • Soreness of abdominal muscles
  • Soreness of right iliac region
  • Fetid exhausting diarrhoea
  • Dysentery in autumn or hot weather
  • Worms
  • Urine high-coloured
  • Urine scanty
  • Urine alkaline
  • Urine fetid
  • Orchitis
  • Squeezed pain in testes
  • Threatened miscarriage from mental depression
  • Threatened miscarriage from shock of bad news
  • Threatened miscarriage from watching
  • Threatened miscarriage from fasting
  • Threatened miscarriage from low fever
  • Dreadful sinking at the stomach
  • Fetid breath
  • Lumbar backache
  • Feels as if lying on a board
  • Pain in sacrum
  • Weakness of lower limbs
  • Left foot much prickling and numbness
  • Numbness
  • Soreness
  • Hysteria with prostration
  • Hysteria with numbness
  • Hysteria with fear of paralysis
  • Wanted to die
  • Rubbed hands continually
  • Restlessness
  • Bed feels hard
  • Excessive drowsiness
  • Worse on waking
  • Worse walking
  • Worse open air
  • Worse cold wind
  • Worse autumn or hot weather
  • Indisposed to think
  • Want of power
  • Mind seems weak
  • Gloomy unhappy state of mind
  • Body feels scattered about
  • Tosses around to get the pieces together
  • Mind wanders as soon as the eyes are closed
  • Mentally restless but too lifeless to move
  • Inability to memorise
  • Worse when thinking of pains in various parts of body
  • Vertigo
  • Weak feeling of entire system
  • Especially lower limbs and knees
  • Vertigo with paralysis of eyelids
  • Peculiar feeling in head never felt except during fever
  • Peculiar feeling in head excitement of brain such as precedes delirium
  • Dull heavy pressive headache
  • Frontal headache with pressure at root of nose
  • Frontal headache with feeling of fulness
  • Frontal headache with feeling of tightness of whole head
  • Head feels large and heavy with numbness of head and face
  • Sharp darts of pain in supraorbital nerve at foramen
  • Frequent sharp pains by spells in right and left temple
  • Soreness in the brain worse on stooping
  • Top of head feels as if it would fly off
  • Dull bruised feeling in occiput
  • Skin of forehead feels tight
  • Scalp feels sore
  • Sensation as if head swelling
  • Neck feels so tired she cannot hold her head easy in any position
  • Cannot bear light eyes burn but do not water
  • Feeling as if eyes would be pressed into head eyeballs feel sore
  • Great confusion of sight
  • Cannot place anything until after looking at it a few seconds
  • Everything appears to move
  • Severe pains in eyes on reading compelling to stop
  • Bloated feeling of eyes
  • Glistening eyes
  • Disposition to have eyes half closed
  • Partial paralysis of lids
  • Dull hearing
  • Delirium with almost complete deafness
  • Slight pain in left parotid gland
  • Dull pain at root of nose
  • Crampy sensation in nose
  • Sneezing
  • Feeling as after a severe cold
  • Slight bleeding from right nostril of bright red blood thick
  • Epistaxis of dark blood
  • Sensation of fulness in nose
  • Odema of affected parts of nose especially in choanae
  • Face flushed
  • Face dusky
  • Face hot
  • Face dark-red with a besotted expression
  • Muscles of jaw rigid
  • Sordes on the teeth and lips
  • Tongue yellow along the centre
  • Tongue first white with reddish papillae
  • Tongue followed by yellow-brown coating in centre edges dark-red and shining
  • Filthy taste with flow of saliva
  • Saliva rather abundant somewhat viscid tasting flat
  • Numb prickling sensation in tongue
  • Putrid ulcers of the buccal cavity with salivation
  • Mouth and tongue very dry in fevers
  • Putrid offensive faecal breath
  • Pain and soreness of fauces
  • Constrictive feeling in throat causing frequent efforts at deglutition
  • Throat feels swollen or full
  • Fauces dark-red
  • Dark putrid ulcers
  • Tonsils swollen
  • Parotids swollen
  • Absence of pain in throat
  • Great prostration
  • Difficult deglutition can only swallow water
  • Oesophagus feels as if constricted from above down to stomach
  • Constant desire for water with nausea and want of appetite
  • Great thirst
  • Loss of appetite averse to nourishment and stimulants
  • All symptoms worse from beer
  • At night frequent pain in the epigastric region worse from turning over which he had to do all the time
  • Full feeling in stomach
  • Heavy gnawing in stomach
  • Burning heat rising up to throat
  • Pains in stomach feeling there as of a hard substance
  • Pain in liver from right lateral ligament to gall-bladder can scarcely walk it so augments pain in gall-bladder
  • Constant severe pain over gall-bladder
  • Constant pain in stomach and liver worse walking hot sensation heavy aching in liver
  • Pain in liver region on going upstairs
  • Constant aching distress in stomach and umbilical region
  • Pain in region of spleen with darts of pain in body especially in carpus metacarpus and phalanges
  • Right iliac region sensitive
  • Fulness and distension of the abdomen
  • Abdominal muscles sore on pressure
  • Sharp rheumatic pains in groins lasting a short time but returning after short interval worse from walking
  • Glands of left groin swollen painful on walking
  • Frequent small thin dark offensive and acrid stools
  • Very fetid exhausting diarrhoea excoriating
  • Stool papescent with large quantities of mucus no pain
  • Dark-brown mucous and bloody stools with tenesmus and typhoid tendency
  • Dysentery rigors pains in limbs and small of back
  • Dysentery stools small all blood not very dark but thick tenesmus
  • Dysentery great prostration brown tongue low fever in autumn or in hot weather
  • Constipation severe with haemorrhoids in afternoon
  • Stricture from piles
  • Stitches in region of right kidney
  • Shooting in left kidney
  • Burning when urinating
  • Urine rather scanty dark-red colour
  • Light-green urine
  • Pressing pain in left testicle cramp as if squeezed
  • Menses too early and too profuse
  • Excites abortion
  • Lochia acrid fetid
  • Puerperal fever
  • Stomatitis materna
  • Aphonia
  • Larynx sore to touch painful swallowing or speaking
  • Awakes with great difficulty of breathing
  • The lungs feel tight and compressed must have fresh air
  • Constriction and oppression of the chest
  • Weight and oppression in precordial region with a feeling of unsatisfied breathing afternoon
  • Sharp pains in centre of sternum
  • Dull stitches in left nipple
  • Feeling of greatly increased compass and frequency of heart's pulsations seem to fill chest
  • Pulse at first accelerated afterward slow and faint
  • Neck tired sore down neck
  • Stiffness and lameness of cervical muscles worse on moving head
  • Back and hips very stiff ache severely worse walking
  • Dull sacral pain compounded of a feeling as from a pressure and fatigue from long stooping soon extending round hips and down right leg
  • Wandering pains in all the limbs with dizziness
  • Drawing pains in arms and legs aching in the limbs
  • Constant twitching in left deltoid
  • Pain in left shoulder extending down arm
  • Pains in bones of arms and hands
  • Numbness of left hand and forearm with prickling
  • Soreness in front of thighs worse after sitting
  • Limbs weak and vacillating
  • Left foot numb prickles
  • Burning of top of right foot from toes to back of foot
  • Restless does not sleep quietly wants to be on the move
  • Great languor wants to lie down
  • Tired bruised sick feeling in all parts of the body
  • Weak and tremulous as if recovering from a severe illness
  • Great weakness especially in lower limbs
  • Prostration with disposition of fluids to decompose
  • Indescribable sick feeling all over
  • Numbness prickling and paralytic feeling over the whole body especially left side
  • Ulceration of mucous membranes especially of the mouth with tendency to putrescence
  • Discharges and exhalations fetid
  • Sensation all over the body as if bruised or beaten
  • Great burning and heat in skin worse in face
  • Livid spots over body and limbs
  • Eruption like measles or urticaria
  • Confluent small-pox tardy eruption
  • Foul gangrenous eating syphilitic sores
  • Delirious stupor
  • Sleeps well till 2 or 3 a.m. then restless till morning
  • Drowsy stupid tired feeling disposition to half close the eyes
  • Restless with frightful dreams
  • Wants to get out of bed
  • Cannot sleep limbs seem scattered about so
  • Chilly going into the open air
  • Chills over the back and lower limbs
  • Chilly with soreness of body
  • Whole surface hot and dry with occasional chills mostly up and down the back
  • On awaking 3 a.m. flashes of heat feeling as if sweat would break out
  • An uncomfortable burning all over surface especially face moves to cool part of bed finally rises opens window and washes
  • Typhoid and cerebral forms of fever
  • Beginning of typhus when the so-called nervous symptoms predominate causes sweat to break out and relieve
  • Typhus critical sweat on forehead and face
  • Fever originating from confinement on shipboard without good care or food
  • Fetid sweat

Allen's Keynotes

  • for the lymphatic temperament
  • great prostration, with disposition to decomposition of fluids
  • ulceration of mucous membranes
  • all exhalations and discharges fetid, especially in typhoid or other acute disease
  • breath, stool, urine, perspiration, ulcers fetid
  • aversion to mental exertion
  • indisposed, or want of power to think
  • perfect indifference, don\u0027t care to do anything
  • inability to fix the mind to work
  • stupor
  • falls asleep while being spoken to or in the midst of his answer
  • when spoken to, answers correctly, but delirium returns at once
  • tongue at first coated white with red papillae
  • tongue dry and yellow-brown in center
  • tongue later dry, cracked, ulcerated
  • face flushed, dusky, dark-red, with a stupid, besotted drunken expression
  • can swallow liquids only
  • least solid food gags
  • painless sore throat
  • tonsils, soft palate and parotids dark red, swollen
  • putrid, offensive discharge
  • dysentery of old people
  • diarrhoea of children, especially when very offensive
  • cannot go to sleep because she cannot get herself together
  • head or body feels scattered about the bed
  • tosses about to get the pieces together
  • thought she was three persons, could not keep them covered
  • in whatever position the patient lies, the parts rested upon feel sore and bruised
  • decubitus in typhoid
  • early stages of fever with malaise, nervousness, flushed face, drowsiness, and muscular soreness

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