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Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Chronic rheumatic affections
  • Arthritic affections
  • Paralytic affections
  • Tearing pains in muscular and fibrous tissues
  • Deformities about the joints
  • Progressive loss of muscular strength
  • Tendinous contractures
  • Broken down seniles
  • Catarrhal affections of air passages
  • Restlessness at night
  • Tearing pains in joints and bones
  • Faint-like sinking of strength
  • Gradually appearing paralysis
  • Local paralysis
  • Vocal cords paralysis
  • Muscles of deglutition paralysis
  • Tongue paralysis
  • Eyelids paralysis
  • Face paralysis
  • Bladder paralysis
  • Extremities paralysis
  • Slow to walk
  • Dirty white sallow skin
  • Warts especially on face
  • Emaciation
  • Burning
  • Rawness
  • Soreness
  • Child does not want to go to bed alone
  • Least thing makes it cry
  • Sad
  • Hopeless
  • Intensely sympathetic
  • Ailments from long-lasting grief
  • Sudden emotions
  • Thinking of complaints aggravates
  • Hemorrhoids aggravated by thinking of complaints
  • Sensation of empty space between forehead and brain
  • Pain in right frontal eminence
  • Paralysis of right side of face
  • Pain in facial bones
  • Dental fistula
  • Pain in jaws with difficulty in opening mouth
  • Cataract with motor disturbances
  • Inflammation of eyelids
  • Ulceration of eyelids
  • Sparks before eyes
  • Dark spots before eyes
  • Ptosis
  • Vision impaired as if film were before eyes
  • Paralysis of ocular muscles after exposure to cold
  • Ringing in ears
  • Roaring in ears
  • Pulsating in ears
  • Deafness
  • Words re-echo
  • Steps re-echo
  • Chronic middle-ear catarrh
  • Accumulation of ear-wax
  • Coryza with hoarseness
  • Scaly nose
  • Nostrils ulcerated
  • Pimples on nose
  • Bites inside of cheek from chewing
  • Indistinct speech
  • Rheumatism of articulation of lower jaw
  • Gums bleed easily
  • Greasy taste
  • Aversion to sweets
  • Feels as if lime were burned in stomach
  • Worse after eating fresh meat
  • Smoked meat agrees
  • Sensation of ball rising in throat
  • Acid dyspepsia
  • Soft and small stool
  • Hard tough stool
  • Stool covered with mucus
  • Stool shines like grease
  • Small-shaped stool
  • Stool expelled with much straining
  • Stool expelled only on standing up
  • Pruritus
  • Partial paralysis of rectum
  • Rectum sore
  • Rectum burns
  • Fistula
  • Large piles
  • Involuntary urine when coughing
  • Involuntary urine when sneezing
  • Urine expelled very slowly
  • Urine retained
  • Involuntary urine during first sleep at night
  • Involuntary urine from slightest excitement
  • Retention after surgical operations
  • Loss of sensibility on passing urine
  • Uterine inertia during labor
  • Menses cease at night
  • Menses flow only during day
  • Leucorrhea at night with great weakness
  • Menses delayed
  • Menses late
  • Hoarseness with pain in chest
  • Aphonia
  • Larynx sore
  • Cough with raw soreness of chest
  • Expectoration scanty
  • Must be swallowed
  • Cough with pain in hip especially left worse in evening
  • Better drinking cold water
  • Worse warmth of bed
  • Sore streak down trachea
  • Mucus under sternum
  • Pain in chest with palpitation
  • Cannot lie down at night
  • Voice re-echoes
  • Own voice roars in ears and distresses
  • Difficulty of voice of singers and public speakers
  • Stiffness between shoulders
  • Dull pain in nape of neck
  • Left-sided sciatica with numbness
  • Paralysis of single parts of body
  • Dull tearing pain in hands and arms
  • Heaviness and weakness in extremities
  • Tearing joints
  • Unsteadiness of muscles of forearm and hand
  • Numbness in hands
  • Loss of sensation in hands
  • Contracted tendons
  • Weak ankles
  • Cannot walk without suffering
  • Rheumatic tearing in limbs better by warmth especially heat of bed
  • Burning in joints
  • Slow in learning to walk
  • Unsteady walking and easily falling
  • Restless legs at night
  • Cracking and tension in knees
  • Stiffness in hollow of knee
  • Itching on dorsum of feet
  • Soreness in folds of skin back of ears between thighs
  • Warts large jagged bleeding easily on tips of fingers and nose
  • Old burns that do not get well
  • Ill effects from burns
  • Pains of burns
  • Cicatrices freshen up
  • Old injuries reopen
  • Skin prone to intertrigo during dentition
  • Very drowsy
  • Can hardly keep awake
  • Nocturnal sleeplessness with dry heat
  • Inquietude

Allen's Keynotes

  • adapted to persons with dark hair and rigid fibre; weakly, psoric, with excessively yellow, sallow complexion
  • subject to affections of respiratory and urinary tracts
  • children with dark hair and eyes, delicate, sensitive, skin prone to intertigo during dentition
  • convulsions with eruption of teeth
  • disturbed functional activity of brain and spinal cord, from exhausting disease or severe mental shock, resulting in paralysis
  • rawness or soreness: of scalp, throat, respiratory tract, rectum, anus, urethra, vagina, uterus
  • melancholy mood: sad, hopeless; from care, grief, sorrow; with weeping
  • the least thing makes the child cry
  • intense sympathy for sufferings of others
  • ailments: from long-lasting grief and sorrow; from loss of sleep, night watching; from sudden emotions, fear, fright, joy; from anger or vexation; from suppressed eruptions
  • children slow in learning to walk
  • unsteady walking and easy falling of little children
  • constipation: frequent, ineffectual desire; stool passes better when person is standing; impeded by haemorrhoids; tough and shining, like grease; in children and nocturnal enuresis
  • urine involuntary: when coughing, sneezing, blowing the nose
  • cough: with rawness and soreness in chest; with inability to expectorate, sputa must be swallowed; relieved by swallow of cold water; on expiration
  • with pain in hips; remaining after pertusis; with expectoration chiefly at night
  • hoarseness with rawness, and aphonia worse in the morning
  • at night, unable to get an easy position or lie still a moment
  • must move constantly, but motion does not relieve
  • cannot cover too warmly, but warmth does not better
  • faint-like sinking of strength; weakness and trembling
  • cicatrices, especially burns, scalds, freshen up, become sore again; old injuries re-open
  • patients say \"they never have been well since that burn\"
  • menses: too early; too feeble; only during the day; cease on lying down
  • paralysis: of single parts; vocal organs, tongue, eyelids, face, extremities, bladder; generally, of right side
  • from exposure to cold wind or draft; after typhoid, typhus or diphtheria; gradually appearing
  • drooping of upper eyelids; cannot keep them open
  • rheumatic affections, with contraction of the flexors and stiffness of the joints; tension and shortening of muscles
  • warts: large, jagged, often pedunculated; bleeding easily; exuding moisture; small, all over the body; on eyelids, face; on the nose
  • patient improves for a time, then comes to a \"standstill\"
  • worse in clear, fine weather; coming from the air into a warm room; cold air, especially draft of cold air; on becoming cold; from getting wet or bathing
  • better in damp, wet weather; warm air

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