Boericke's Materia Medica
- hiccough
- trismus
- tetanus
- convulsions
- bending of head backwards
- bending of neck backwards
- bending of spine backwards
- violent action
- frightful distortions
- violent strange desires
- sensation of internal chill
- moaning
- howling
- does absurd things
- marked action on the skin
- delirium with singing
- delirium with dancing
- delirium with funny gestures
- everything appears strange
- everything appears terrible
- confounds present with the past
- feels like a child
- stupid feeling
- melancholy with indifference
- mistrustful
- epilepsy
- moaning and whining during epilepsy
- vivid dreams
- head turned to one side
- head twisted to one side
- cerebro-spinal meningitis
- cervical muscles contracted
- vertigo with gastralgia
- vertigo with muscular spasms
- sudden violent shocks through head
- stares persistently at objects
- convulsions from concussion of brain
- thick yellow scabs on head
- head symptoms relieved by emission of flatus
- when reading letters disappear
- pupils dilated
- insensible strabismus
- objects recede
- objects approach
- objects seem double
- eyes stare
- pupils get behind upper lids as head inclines
- effects of exposure to snow
- spasmodic affections of eyes
- spasmodic affections of eye appendages
- strabismus periodic
- strabismus spasmodic after a fall
- strabismus spasmodic after a blow
- difficult hearing
- sudden detonations in ears on swallowing
- hemorrhage from ears
- pustules which run together forming thick yellow scabs on face
- pustules which run together forming thick yellow scabs on head
- pustules which run together forming thick yellow scabs on corners of mouth
- pustules which run together forming thick yellow scabs on chin
- burning pain on face
- red face
- trismus
- disposition to grind teeth
- dry throat
- throat feels as if grown together
- spasms of esophagus
- cannot swallow
- effects on esophagus from swallowing sharp piece of bone
- thirst
- burning pressure in stomach
- throbbing in pit of stomach
- pit of stomach raised to size of fist
- desire for unnatural things like coal
- indigestion with insensibility
- indigestion with frothing at mouth
- flatulence with anxiety
- flatulence with crossness
- rumbling in abdomen
- distended abdomen
- painful abdomen
- colic with convulsions
- diarrhea in morning
- irresistible desire to urinate with diarrhea
- itching in rectum
- chest feels tight
- can hardly breathe
- tonic spasm in pectoral muscles
- heat in chest
- spasms and cramps in muscles of nape of neck
- spasmodic drawing backward of head
- curved limbs cannot be straightened
- straight limbs cannot be bent
- back bent backward like an arch
- jerking in coccyx during menses
- tearing in coccyx during menses
- eczema no itching
- exudation forms into a hard lemon-colored crust
- suppressed eruption causes brain disease
- elevated eruptions as large as peas
- chronic impetigo
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Bladder, paralysis of
- Cancer
- Catalepsy
- Cerebro-spinal meningitis
- Coccygodynia
- Concussions
- Convulsions
- Eczema
- Epilepsy
- Epithelioma
- Eyes, inflammation of
- Face, eruption on
- Hiccough
- Hysteria
- Impetigo
- Meningitis
- Myelitis
- Numbness
- sophagus, stricture of
- Paralysis
- Psoriasis
- Puerperal convulsions
- Screaming
- Strabismus
- Stuttering
- Tetanus
- Trismus
- Waking, weeping on
- Worm complaints
- Twitching and spasmodic jerks
- Bending the head backward
- Opisthotonos
- Violent spasms
- Moans and howls
- Great agitation
- Makes gesticulations
- Odd motions
- Strange desires, as to eat coal
- Head turned or twisted to one side
- Falls and the effects of concussions
- Utter prostration follows the convulsive attacks
- Sudden rigidity
- Violent distortions
- Jerking of the left arm all day
- Tremor when touched
- Trembling palpitation
- Convergent strabismus
- Soporous sleep
- Weeps on being roused
- Distorts facial muscles
- Stares vacantly
- Pupils dilated
- Shocks from head down body
- Face bluish
- Froths at mouth
- Jaws locked
- Bites tongue
- Hungry immediately after a meal
- Tearing, jerking in coccyx
- Eruption of pustules which run together with yellowish honey-coloured scabs
- Eczema capitis
- Epithelioma, growths covered with honey-coloured scabs
- Strange desires, as desire to eat coal
- Anxiety, and great tendency to be deeply affected by mournful stories
- Groans, complaints, and howling
- Discontent and ill-humour
- Suspicion and mistrust, with misanthropy
- Disposition to be frightened
- Mania, with dancing, laughing, and ridiculous gestures
- Heat of the body and longing for wine
- Forgets his own name
- Dementia
- Giddiness and absence of mind
- He confounds the present with the past
- He thinks himself a young child
- Want of confidence in and dread of man, retires into solitude
- Vertigo, and staggering, to the extent of falling
- Giddiness, with falling forward
- Whirling vertigo on rising in the bed, with obscuration of sight
- Feeling as of intoxication
- Headache above the orbits
- Congestion of the brain with vomiting and purging
- Attacks of semi-lateral cephalalgia, with nausea
- Semi-lateral headache, as from congestion to the head
- Relieved when sitting erect
- Heaviness of the head with dizziness
- Compression from both sides of the head
- Stupefying pressure on the forehead
- Diminution of pain in the head on rising, and on passing flatus
- Affections of the brain, from concussion of the brain
- Headache, as from commotion of the brain
- Feeling of looseness of the brain, as if it were shaken in walking
- Severe headache in occiput, like a dull pressure
- Coryza
- Suppurating eruptions on the scalp, with burning pain
- Startings and spasmodic shocks in the head, with drawing backward of the head
- Staring at an object, the head inclines forward
- Frequently bent back again, with twitching, trembling, and tension in the neck while moving it
- Jerking and twitching of head
- Burning pain in the eyes
- Pupils either much contracted or dilated
- Suspension of the sight, with vertigo, on walking
- Look fixed, sometimes from a sort of absence of mind
- Wavering of all objects before the sight
- Iris-like circles round candle
- Mobility of the characters on reading
- Diplopia, or obscuration of the eyes
- Hardness of hearing
- The objects appear double and black
- Luminous and coloured circle around all objects
- Photophobia
- Nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids
- Twitching of the orbicularis muscle
- Sensation of excoriation, and pain, as of contusion, behind the ears
- Purulent eruption before, behind, and on the ears
- Discharge of blood from the ears
- Hearing indistinct
- Detonation in r. ear when swallowing
- Pains as of excoriation and of a bruise, in the (r.) ala nasi
- Scabs in the nostrils
- Yellowish discharge from the nose
- Obstruction of the nose, with abundant secretion of mucus
- Frequent sneezing, without coryza
- Pallor and coldness of the face, with coldness of the hands
- Cheeks pale, with eyes sunk, and surrounded by a livid circle
- Redness and swelling of the face and of the neck
- Eruption on the face, confluent, purulent, and of a deep red colour, with lenticular pimples on the forehead
- Burning scabs, with yellowish serum, on the upper lip, cheeks, and chin
- Thick, honey-coloured scurf on the chin, upper lip, and lower portion of the cheeks (milk crust)
- Burning soreness and oozing
- Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, and insatiable appetite
- Painful ulcer on the lips
- Painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands
- Disposition to grind the teeth
- Foam before and in the mouth
- Whitish pustules, painful on being touched, and ulcers on the edge of the tongue
- Swelling of the tongue
- White, painful, burning ulcers on the edges of the tongue
- Speech embarrassed, with convulsive movements of the head (from before backwards) and of the arms at every word that is uttered
- Throat dry
- Inability to swallow
- Stricture of sophagus
- Strangling on attempting to swallow
- Constriction after being hurt by swallowing a splinter of bone
- Want of appetite, caused by a sensation of dryness in the mouth
- Satiety, and aching in the stomach, after the first mouthful
- Great inclination to eat coal
- Continual hunger and appetite, even shortly after a meal
- Burning thirst, esp. during the cramps
- Colic, cuttings, pressure on the epigastrium, and drowsiness
- Violent and noisy hiccough
- Bitter and yellowish regurgitation on stooping
- Burning sensation in the throat
- Nausea in the morning and during a meal, sometimes with headache
- Vomiting of blood
- Vomiting, alternately with tonic spasms in the muscles of the chest, and convulsive movements of the eyes
- Burning pressure on the stomach and abdomen
- Pulsative pains in the epigastrium
- Oppression and anxiety in the epigastric region
- Swelling and throbbing in the pit of the stomach
- Colic, with convulsions (in children from worms)
- Cuttings, immediately after a meal, with drowsiness
- Pinchings and borborygmi in the abdomen
- Accumulation of flatus, with anguish and ill-humour
- Distension and painfulness of the abdomen
- Pain, as from ulceration in the groins
- Constipation
- Liquid and too frequent evacuations
- Itching in the rectum, with burning pain after friction
- Retention of urine
- Frequent micturition
- Involuntary urination as from paralysis of the bladder
- Testes drawn up
- Sore drawing pain in urethra as far as glans
- Stitches in fossa navicularis with nightly emissions
- Pollutions without lascivious dreams
- Strictures (spasmodic) sometimes after gonorrha
- Menses delayed
- Spasmodic symptoms
- Tearing and drawing in coccyx during menses
- Painful tumours of mamm
- Hoarseness
- Difficult respiration, and want of breath
- Cough with copious expectoration
- Tightness in the chest
- Pressure on the chest, as from a weight, with difficulty of respiration
- Sensation in chest and throat as though something the size of a fist were lodged there
- Tonic spasms in the muscles of the chest, alternately with vomiting
- Heat in the chest
- Pain, as from a bruise, and from excoriation, in the lower extremity of the sternum
- Burning pain in the nipples
- Burning in the chest
- Trembling palpitation of heart
- Feels as if heart stopped beating
- Faint feeling therewith
- Tension, as from a wound, in the muscles of the neck, on bending the head back
- Swelling of the neck
- Tonic spasms of the cervical muscles
- Neuralgia of neck with tendency to draw head backwards and dull occipital headache
- Coccygodynia coming on for first time during catamenia, after parturition
- Spasmodic bending backwards of the back, like an arch
- Tension above the shoulder-blades
- Pain of ulceration in the shoulder-blades
- Great weakness in arms and legs after slight exertion
- Trembling in limbs
- Spasmodic contortions and fearful jerking of limbs
- Pain, as from a bruise, or of excoriation, in the joints of the shoulder, and in the forearms
- Sensation of heaviness and want of strength in the arms
- Jerking in the l. arm all day
- Startings and convulsive movements (involuntary) in the arms and in the fingers
- Deadness of the fingers
- The veins on the hands are enlarged
- Involuntary starting of the lower limbs, jerks and twitches
- Painful stiffness of the legs
- Trembling of the legs
- Yielding of the feet, when walking
- Pains, as from excoriation, or from a bruise, on various parts
- Shocks, as from electric sparks, in the head, the arms, and the legs
- General convulsions, and fits of epilepsy, sometimes with cries, paleness or yellow colour of the face, pressing together of the jaws, numbness and distortion of the limbs, suspension of respiration, and foam at the mouth
- After the fit, the body remains insensible, and, as it were, dead
- State of insensibility and immobility, with loss of consciousness and of strength
- Attacks of catalepsy, with relaxation of all the muscles, and absence of respiration
- Drawing pains in the limbs
- Affections of the r. side of the back
- Spasms during parturition
- Strictures after inflammation
- Burning itching over the whole body
- Purulent eruptions, with yellowish and burning scabs
- Lenticular pimples, of a deep red colour
- Long-lasting purulent eruptions, confluent, forming thick yellow crusts, with burning pain
- Sleeplessness and nocturnal sweat
- Half-sleep, with restless movements and confused dreams
- Frequent waking, with profuse sweat
- Vivid dreams of the events of the day
- Vivid dreams which cannot be recollected
- Pulse weak, slow, trembling
- Shivering, and perpetual desire to be near the fire
- The chilliness begins in the chest and extends down the legs and into the arms
- Coldness in the thighs, and in the arms, with fixedness of look
- Heat only internally
- Perspiration at night
- Worm fever with colic and convulsions
Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Convulsive tendency
- Increased irritability of the nervous system
- Convulsions from pressure on a part
- Convulsions extending from center to circumference
- Head, face, and eyes first affected in convulsions
- Aura in the stomach before convulsions
- Complaints spreading from the chest, especially from the heart
- Rigors and chills beginning in the chest
- Sensation of coldness about the heart
- Convulsions beginning about the head and throat and extending downward
- Tension throughout the body causing convulsions after excitement
- Violent convulsions from irritation in the throat or oesophagus
- Spasms caused by splinters in the skin or under the nails
- Symptoms resembling catalepsy
- Loss of recollection of events
- Does not recognize anyone but answers correctly when questioned
- No recollection of events afterward
- Cerebro-spinal irritant
- Head drawn back (opisthotonos)
- Limbs convulsed and rigid
- Traumatic tetanus lockjaw
- Epilepsy
- Epileptiform convulsions
- Convulsive movements with severe pains in the bowels
- Convulsions from disordered stomach or chill or fear or other mental conditions
- Extremely sensitive to touch
- Touch and drafts bring on convulsions
- Convulsions spread from above downwards
- Confusion of present with the past
- Imagines himself a young child
- Everything is confused and strange
- Does not know where he is
- Faces of old friends look strange
- House and familiar places look strange
- Voices sound strange
- Disturbed and confused senses of sight, smell, and other special senses
- Confusion as to himself, his age, and circumstances
- Childish behavior after cataleptic attacks
- Silly laughter, playing with toys, and other acts of childish behavior
- Feels as if he were in a strange place causing fear
- Thinks of the future with anxiety
- Mental torpor
- Loss of ideas and sensation extending over a certain period
- Memory a blank for hours or days with or without convulsions
- Strange desires (e.g., to eat coal and raw potatoes)
- Unable to distinguish between edible and inedible things
- Wants to be alone
- Dislike to society
- Singing, shouting, dancing
- Likes toys, jumps about like a child
- Lies in bed lamenting and wailing
- Great agitation
- Child grasps at one's clothing in a frightened manner
- Great horror in the countenance before convulsions
- No recollection of the horror after convulsions
- Anxiety and fear after the attack has begun, before convulsions
- Mild, gentle, placid, and yielding between convulsions
- Full of sadness, anxiety, and darkness out of convulsion
- Borrows trouble from the future
- Affected by sad stories
- Pessimistic
- Afraid of society, afraid of company
- Wants to be alone
- Suspicious and shuns people
- Despises others
- Over-estimation of himself
- Full of fear
- Fright will bring on convulsions
- Full of vertigo
- Things turn round in a circle
- Vertigo on walking
- Glassy eyes
- Complaints brought on from injuries to the skull, from blows on the head
- Pains in distant parts from injuries
- Drawing of the muscles and cramps
- Concussion of the brain and chronic injuries therefrom, especially spasms
- Semi-lateral headaches forcing the patient to sit still erect
- Headache as if the brain were loose on walking
- Head symptoms after injuries
- On going into a cerebro-spinal meningitis the patient sits in a chair talking as if nothing were wrong
- Falls over limp, he is put to bed
- knowing no one
- Semi-conscious state
- Head bent back in spasms
- Jerking back of the head
- Spasms begin in the head and go downward
- Violent shocks in the head, arms, and legs
- Head hot and extremities cold
- Sweat on the scalp when sleeping
- Child rolls head from side to side
- Hot head
- Convulsive action about the eyes
- Pupils dilated and insensible
- Patient lies fixed in one place, with staring, fixed, glassy, upturned eyes
- Strabismus
- Nose is sensitive to touch
- Troubles from shaving
- Eruptions in the whiskers
- Barber's itch
- Solid crop of eruptions all over the face wherever the whiskers grow
- Eruptions on the cheek like eczema
- Swelling of the submaxillary glands
- Erysipelatous eruptions
- Spasmodic throat troubles
- Spasm comes on after swallowing a fish bone or stick which lodges in the throat
- Injury, accompanied with violent choking, so that he cannot allow an examination to be made
- Cold sensation in the chest
- Spasms of the chest
- Feels as if the heart stopped beating
- Spasmodic symptoms of the back
- Opisthotonos
- All conditions of the limbs are of a spasmodic character
Allen's Keynotes
- women subject to epileptic and choreic convulsions; spasms of teething children, or from worms
- convulsions: violent, with frightful distortions of limbs and whole body; with loss of consciousness; opisthotonos; renewed from slightest touch, noise or jar
- puerperal convulsions: frequent suspension of breathing for a few moments, as if dead; upper part of the body most affected; continue after delivery
- epilepsy: with swelling of the stomach as from violent spasms of the diaphragm; screaming; red or bluish face; lockjaw, loss of consciousness and distortion of limbs; frequent during the night; recurring, first at short, then at long intervals
- when reading, the letters seem to turn, go up or down or disappear
- during dentition, grinding of teeth or gums; compression of the jaws as in lockjaw
- abnormal appetite for chalk and indigestible things; for coal or charcoal; child eats them with apparent relish
- suffer violent shocks through head, stomach, arms, legs, which cause jerkings of the parts; head hot
- injurious chronic effects from concussions of the brain and spine, especially spasms; trismus and tetanus from getting splinters into flesh
- pustules which run together, forming thick, yellow scabs, on head and face
- sycosis menti
- eczema: no itching; exudation forms into a hard lemon-colored crust
- brain disease from suppressed eruptions
- worse from tabacco smoke; touch
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