Boericke's Materia Medica
- active congestion
- furious excitement
- perverted special senses
- twitching
- convulsions
- pain
- hot, red skin
- flushed face
- glaring eyes
- throbbing carotids
- excited mental state
- hyperesthesia of all senses
- delirium
- restless sleep
- convulsive movements
- dryness of mouth
- aversion to water
- neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly
- heat
- redness
- throbbing
- burning
- epileptic spasms followed by nausea and vomiting
- no thirst
- anxiety
- fear
- violence of attack
- suddenness of onset
- lives in a world of his own
- engrossed by specters and visions
- oblivious to surrounding realities
- visual hallucinations
- sees monsters
- hideous faces
- furious
- rages
- bites
- strikes
- desire to escape
- loss of consciousness
- disinclined to talk
- perversity, with tears
- acuteness of all senses
- changeableness
- vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards
- sensitive to least contact
- much throbbing and heat
- palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing
- fullness, especially in forehead, also occiput, and temples
- headache from suppressed catarrhal flow
- sudden outcries
- pain worse light, noise, jar, lying down and in afternoon
- better by pressure and semi-erect posture
- boring of head into pillow
- drawn backward and rolls from side to side
- constant moaning
- hair splits
- dry hair
- hair comes out
- headache worse on right side and when lying down
- red face
- bluish-red face
- hot face
- swollen face
- shining face
- convulsive motion of muscles of face
- swelling of upper lip
- facial neuralgia with twitching muscles
- throbbing deep in eyes on lying down
- pupils dilated
- eyes feel swollen
- protruding eyes
- staring eyes
- brilliant eyes
- conjunctiva red
- dry eyes
- burning eyes
- photophobia
- shooting in eyes
- exophthalmus
- ocular illusions
- fiery appearance
- diplopia
- squinting
- spasms of lids
- sensation as if eyes were half closed
- eyelids swollen
- fundus congested
- tearing pain in middle and external ear
- humming noises
- membrana tympani bulges and injected
- parotid gland swollen
- sensitive to loud tones
- hearing very acute
- otitis media
- pain causes delirium
- child cries out in sleep
- throbbing and beating pain deep in ear, synchronous with heart beat
- hematoma auris
- acute and sub-acute conditions of Eustachian tube
- autophony-hearing one's voice in ear
- imaginary odors
- tingling in tip of nose
- red nose
- swollen nose
- bleeding of nose, with red face
- coryza
- mucus mixed with blood
- dry mouth
- throbbing pain in teeth
- gumboil
- tongue red on edges
- strawberry tongue
- grinding of teeth
- tongue swollen
- painful tongue
- stammering
- dry throat
- as if glazed throat
- angry-looking congestion of throat
- red throat
- worse on right side
- tonsils enlarged
- throat feels constricted
- difficult deglutition
- worse, liquids
- sensation of a lump in throat
- esophagus dry
- esophagus feels contracted
- spasms in throat
- continual inclination to swallow
- scraping sensation in throat
- muscles of deglutition very sensitive
- hypertrophy of mucous membrane
- loss of appetite
- averse to meat and milk
- spasmodic pain in epigastrium
- constriction
- pain runs to spine
- nausea
- vomiting
- great thirst for cold water
- spasms of stomach
- empty retching
- abhorrence of liquids
- spasmodic hiccough
- dread of drinking
- uncontrollable vomiting
- distended abdomen
- hot abdomen
- transverse colon protrudes like a pad
- tender abdomen
- swollen abdomen
- pain as if clutched by a hand
- worse, jar, pressure
- cutting pain across abdomen
- stitches in left side of abdomen, when coughing, sneezing, or touching it
- extreme sensitiveness to touch, bed-clothes, etc
- thin stools
- green stools
- dysenteric stools
- in lumps like chalk stools
- shuddering during stool
- stinging pain in rectum
- spasmodic stricture in rectum
- piles more sensitive with backache
- prolapsus ani
- retention of urine
- acute urinary infections
- sensation of motion in bladder as of a worm
- urine scanty, with tenesmus
- dark urine
- turbid urine
- loaded with phosphates urine
- vesical region sensitive
- incontinence
- continuous dropping of urine
- frequent urination
- profuse urination
- hematuria where no pathological condition can be found
- prostatic hypertrophy
- testicles hard
- drawn up testicles
- inflamed testicles
- nocturnal sweat of genitals
- flow of prostatic fluid
- desire diminished
- sensitive forcing downwards, as if all the viscera would protrude at genitals
- dryness and heat of vagina
- dragging around loins
- pain in sacrum
- menses increased
- bright red menses
- too early menses
- too profuse menses
- hemorrhage hot
- cutting pain from hip to hip
- menses and lochia very offensive and hot
- labor-pains come and go suddenly
- mastitis pain
- throbbing mastitis
- redness mastitis
- streaks radiate from nipple in mastitis
- breasts feel heavy
- hard breasts
- red breasts
- tumors of breast
- pain worse lying down in breast tumors
- badly smelling hemorrhages
- hot gushes of blood
- diminished lochia
- drying in nose
- drying in fauces
- drying in larynx
- drying in trachea
- tickling cough
- short cough
- dry cough
- worse at night
- larynx feels sore
- respiration oppressed
- quick respiration
- unequal respiration
- cheyne-stokes respiration
- hoarse
- loss of voice
- painless hoarseness
- cough with pain in left hip
- barking cough
- whooping cough
- with pain in stomach before attack
- with expectoration of blood
- stitches in chest when coughing
- larynx very painful
- larynx feels as if a foreign body were in it, with cough
- high, piping voice
- moaning at every breath
- violent palpitation
- reverberating in head, with labored breathing
- palpitation from least exertion
- throbbing all through body
- dichrotism
- heart seemed too large
- rapid pulse
- weakened pulse
- shooting pains along limbs
- joints swollen
- red joints
- shining joints
- with red streaks radiating joints
- tottering gait
- shifting rheumatic pains
- phlegmasia alba dolens
- jerking limbs
- spasms of limbs
- involuntary limping
- cold extremities
- stiff neck
- swelling of glands of neck
- pain in nape, as if it would break
- pressure on dorsal region most painful
- lumbago, with pain in hips and thighs
- dry skin
- hot skin
- swollen skin
- sensitive skin
- burns scarlet skin
- smooth skin
- eruption like scarlatina, suddenly spreading
- erythema
- pustules on face
- glands swollen
- tender glands
- red glands
- boils
- acne rosacea
- suppurative wounds
- alternate redness and paleness of the skin
- indurations after inflammations
- erysipelas
- a high feverish state with comparative absence of toxemia
- burning heat
- pungent heat
- steaming heat
- feet icy cold
- superficial blood-vessels, distended
- perspiration dry only on head
- no thirst with fever
- restless sleep
- crying out in sleep
- gritting of teeth in sleep
- kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels
- screams out in sleep
- sleeplessness, with drowsiness
- starting when closing the eyes or during sleep
- sleeps with hands under head
Allen's Keynotes
- adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitutions
- persons who are lively and entertaining when well, but violent and often delerious when sick
- women and children with light hair and blue eyes, find complexion, delicate skin
- sensitive, nervous, threatened with convulsions
- tuberculous patients
- great liability to take cold
- sensitive to drafts of air, especially when uncovering the head
- from having the hair cut
- tonsils become inflamed after riding in a cold wind
- quick sensation and motion
- eyes snap and move quickly
- pains come suddenly, last indefinitely and cease suddenly
- pains usually in short attacks
- cause redness of face and eyes
- fulness of head and throbbing of carotids
- imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, and various insects
- black animals, dogs, wolves
- fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them
- hallucinations
- violent delirium
- disposition to bite, spit, strike and tear things
- breaks into fits of laughter and gnashes the teeth
- wants to bite and strike the attendants
- tries to escape
- head hot and painful
- face flushed
- eyes wild, staring, pupils dilated
- pulse full and bounding, globular, like buckshot striking the finger
- mucous membrane of mouth dry
- stool tardy and urine suppressed
- sleepy; but cannot sleep
- convulsions during teething, with fever; come on suddenly, head hot, feet cold
- rush of blood to head and face
- headache, congestive, with red face, throbbing of brain and carotids; < from slight noise, jar, motion, light, lying down, least exertion; > pressure, tight bandaging, wrapping up, during menses
- boring the head into the pillow
- vertigo when stooping, or when rising after stooping; on every change of position
- abdomen tender, distended < by least jar, even of the bed; obliged to walk with great care for fear of a jar
- pain in right ileo-coecal region, < by slightest touch, even of the bed- cover
- the transverse colon protrudes like a pad
- skin: of a uniform, smooth, shining scarlet redness; dry, hot, burning; imparts a burning sensation to examining had; the true sydenham scarlet fever, where eruption is perfectly smooth and truly scarlet
- pressing downwards as if the contents of abdomen would issue from the vulva; > standing and sitting erect; worse mornings
- < from touch, motion, noise, draught of air, looking at bright, shining objects
- < after 3 p. m.
- < night, after midnight
- < while drinking
- < uncovering the head
- < summer sun
- < lying down
- > rest
- > standing or sitting erect
- > warm room
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