Boericke's Materia Medica
- Aching in every muscle
- Stitching tearing pain worse by motion, better rest
- Stitching pains aggravated by motion
- Dry mucous membranes
- Irritable
- Vertigo from raising the head
- Pressive headache
- Dry parched lips, mouth
- Excessive thirst
- Bitter taste
- Sensitive epigastrium
- Feeling of a stone in the stomach
- Stools large, dry, hard
- Dry cough
- Rheumatic pains and swellings
- Dropsical effusions into synovial and serous membranes
- Dislike being carried or raised
- Physical weakness
- Apathy
- Delirium wants to go home, talks of business
- Vertigo nausea, faintness on rising, confusion
- Bursting, splitting headache as if everything would be pressed out
- Headache worse from motion, stooping, opening eyes
- Headache becomes seated in occiput
- Drawing in bones towards zygoma
- Headache worse on motion, even of eyeballs
- Frontal headache, frontal sinuses involved
- Frequent bleeding of nose when menses should appear
- Coryza with shooting and aching in the forehead
- Swelling of tip of nose feels as if it would ulcerate when touched
- Aural vertigo
- Roaring, buzzing in ears
- Pressing crushing, aching pain in eyes
- Glaucoma
- Sore eyes to touch and when moving them
- Lips parched, dry, cracked
- Dryness of mouth, tongue, and throat with excessive thirst
- Tongue coated yellowish, dark brown, heavily white in gastric derangement
- Burning in lower lip in old smokers
- Lip swollen, dry, black, and cracked
- Dryness of throat, sticking on swallowing, scraped and constricted
- Tough mucus in larynx and trachea, loosened only after much hawking
- Nausea and faintness when rising up
- Abnormal hunger, loss of taste
- Thirst for large draughts
- Vomiting of bile and water immediately after eating
- Stomach sensitive to touch
- Pressure in stomach after eating, as of a stone
- Soreness in stomach when coughing
- Dyspeptic ailments during summer heat
- Sensitiveness of epigastrium to touch
- Liver region swollen, sore, tensive
- Burning pain in abdomen, stitches, worse pressure, coughing, breathing
- Tenderness of abdominal walls
- Constipation stools hard, dry, as if burnt, seem too large
- Stools brown, thick, bloody worse in morning, from moving, in hot weather, after being heated, from cold drinks, every spell of hot weather
- Urine red, brown, like beer, scanty, hot
- Menses too early, too profuse worse from motion, with tearing pains in legs
- Suppressed menses with vicarious discharge or splitting headache
- Stitching pains in ovaries on taking a deep inspiration, very sensitive to touch
- Pain in right ovary as if torn, extending to thigh
- Milk fever
- Pain in breasts at menstrual period
- Breasts hot and painful hard
- Abscess of mamm
- Menstrual irregularities with gastric symptoms
- Ovaritis
- Intermenstrual pain with great abdominal and pelvic soreness
- Soreness in larynx and trachea
- Hoarseness worse in open air
- Dry, hacking cough from irritation in upper trachea
- Cough, dry, at night, must sit up, worse after eating or drinking, with vomiting, with stitches in chest, and expectoration of rust-colored sputa
- Frequent desire to take a long breath, must expand lungs
- Difficult, quick respiration worse every movement, caused by stitches in chest
- Cough with feeling as if chest would fly to pieces presses his head on sternum, must support chest
- Croupous and pleuro-pneumonia
- Expectoration brick shade, tough, and falls like lumps of jelly
- Heaviness beneath the sternum extending towards the right shoulder
- Cough worse by going into warm room
- Stitches in cardiac region
- Painful stiffness in nape of neck
- Stitches and stiffness in small of back
- Knees stiff and painful
- Hot swelling of feet
- Joints red, swollen, hot, with stitches and tearing worse on least movement
- Every spot is painful on pressure
- Constant motion of left arm and leg
- Skin yellow, pale, swollen, dropsical, hot and painful
- Seborrha
- Hair very greasy
- Drowsy starting when falling asleep
- Delirium busy with business matters and what he had read
- Pulse full, hard, tense, and quick
- Chill with external coldness, dry cough, stitches
- Internal heat
- Sour sweat after slight exertion
- Easy, profuse perspiration
- Rheumatic and typhoid marked by gastro-hepatic complications
Allen's Keynotes
- best adapted to persons of gouty or rheumatic diathesis; prone to so-called bilious attacks
- patients are irritable, inclined to be vehement and angry; dark or black hair, dark complexion, firm muscular fibre; dry, nervous, slender people
- pains: stitching, tearing, worse at night
- worse by motion, inspiration, coughing
- better by absolute rest, and lying on painful side
- excessive dryness of mucous membranes of entire body
- lips and tongue dry, parched, cracked
- stool, dry as if burnt
- cough, dry, hard, racking, with scanty expectoration
- urine, dark and scanty; great thirst
- vicarious menstruation; nosebleed when menses should appear
- blood spitting, or heamoptysis
- ailments from chagrin, mortification, anger
- violence, with chilliness and coldness
- after anger chilly, but with head hot and face red
- complaints: when warm weather sets in, after cold days
- from cold drinks or ice in hot weather
- after taking cold or getting hot in summer
- from chilling when overheated
- kicks the covers off
- from exposure to draft, cold wind
- suppressed discharges, of menses, milk or eruption of acute exanthema
- aggravation from any motion, and corresponding relief from absolute rest, either mental or physical
- desires things immediately which are not to be had, or which when offered are refused
- children dislike to be carried, or to be raised
- delirium: talks constantly about his business
- desire to get out of bed and go home
- constant motion on left arm and leg
- patient cannot sit up from nausea and faintness
- great thirst for large quantities at long intervals
- headache: when stooping, as if brain would burst through forehead
- from ironing
- on coughing
- in morning after rising or when first opening eyes
- commencing in the morning, gradually increasing until evening
- from constipation
- pressure as from stone at pit of the stomach, relieved by eructation
- constipation: inactive, no inclination
- stool large, hard, dark, dry, as if burnt
- on going to sea
- diarrhoea: during a spell of hot weather
- bilious, acrid with soreness of anus
- like dirty water
- of undigested food
- from cold drinks when overheated, from fruit or sour krout
- worse in morning, on moving, even a hand or foot
- mammae heavy, of a stony hardness
- pale but hard; hot and painful
- must support the breasts
- cough: dry, spasmodic, with gagging and vomiting
- with stitches in side of chest
- with headache, as if head would fly to pieces
- worse after eating, drinking, entering a warm room, deep inspiration
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