Boericke's Materia Medica
- Great nervous agitation and restlessness
- Extreme sensitiveness
- Neuralgia with great nervous excitability and intolerance of pain
- Unusual activity of mind and body
- Bad effects of sudden emotions, surprises, joy
- Nervous palpitation
- Skin hypersensitive
- Gaiety, easy comprehension, irritability, excited senses acute
- Impressionable especially to pleasurable impressions
- Full of ideas, quick to act
- Tossing about in anguish
- Tight pain in head worse from noise, smell, narcotics
- Brain feels torn to pieces
- Sensation as if nail were driven in head
- Worse in open air
- Sensitive hearing
- Dry heat of face with red cheeks
- Prosopalgia extending to molar teeth, ears, forehead, and scalp
- Toothache relieved by holding ice-water in the mouth
- Hasty eating and drinking
- Delicate taste
- Excessive hunger
- Intolerance of tight clothing
- After wine and liquor
- Menses too early and long lasting
- Dysmenorrha, large clots of black blood
- Hypersensitive vulva and vagina
- Voluptuous itching
- Wakeful, on a constant move
- Sleeps till 3 am, after which only dozing
- Wakes with a start, sleep disturbed by dreams
- Sleepless, on account mental activity; flow of ideas, with nervous excitability
- Disturbed by itching of anus
- Short, dry cough of measles in nervous, delicate children
- Violent irregular palpitation especially after excessive joy or surprise
- Rapid high tension pulse and urinary suppression
- Crural neuralgia, worse motion, afternoon and night, better by pressure
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Apoplexy
- Asthma
- Aural neuralgia
- Colic
- Convulsions
- Diarrha
- Ecstasy
- Excitement
- Headache
- Heart, hypersthesia of
- Hernia
- Hypersthesia
- Hysteria
- Intermittents
- Joy, ill-effects of
- Labour pains
- Metrorrhagia
- Neuralgia
- Over-sensitiveness
- Sciatica
- Shock
- Sleeplessness
- Toothache
- Exaltation of the senses
- Sight improved
- Hearing more acute
- Noises are intolerable
- Sense of smell heightened
- Pains are intolerable
- Fear of death
- Mental activities are exalted
- Sudden emotions produce dangerous symptoms
- Great sensitiveness to touch or contact
- Irritability
- Migraine
- Morning vomiting of glairy mucus
- Pain in the pit of the stomach
- Thickly-coated tongue
- Loss of appetite
- Nausea
- Painful acid eructations
- Pulse is slowed
- Insomnia
- Dreams of a terrifying nature
- Head too small sensation
- Something hard pressing on surface of brain sensation
- Head would burst and fly to pieces if she moved sensation
- Intestines were being cut sensation
- Body would burst sensation
- Tight pain
- Sensation of warmth
- Diarrha in housewives
- Symptoms > by warmth
- Symptoms < in open air
- Toothache warm drinks <, cold drinks >
- Touch <
- Slight passive movements are perceived as enormous
- Most symptoms are < at night
- Over-sensitiveness
- Weeping mood
- Great anguish
- Cannot be composed
- Trembles
- Sentimental ecstasy
- Excited imagination
- Increased power to think
- Excessive weeping and lamentations over trifles
- Pains seem insupportable
- Driving to despair
- Fright from sudden pleasant surprises
- Pains in the head, as if the brain were bruised
- As if the brain were torn or dashed to pieces
- Semi-lateral cephalalgia, as if a nail were driven into the parietal bone
- Vertex feels and hears a cracking, when sitting quietly
- Heaviness of the head
- Congestion in the head, esp. when speaking or after a pleasant surprise
- Eyes lively and red, with unusually clear sight
- Can read small writing more distinctly
- Excessive sensibility of hearing
- Musical sounds seem to be too loud, and too sharp
- Hardness of hearing, with buzzing in the ears
- Epistaxis, with heaviness of the head
- The sense of smell is more acute
- Heat of the face, with redness of the cheeks
- Successive pullings, and sharp pains in the teeth, with inquietude, anxiety and tears, esp. at night and after a meal
- Toothache, > by cold water
- Sore throat
- Great and painful sensibility, and swelling of the velum palati
- < when swallowing
- Taste of hazel nuts, or sweet almonds, in the mouth
- Tobacco-smoke appears particularly agreeable
- Sensation of immoderate hunger, with rapid, hurried eating
- Thirst increased, esp. at night, it wakens him
- Bilious vomiting
- Cramps in the stomach, with pressive, shooting pains
- Anxiety and oppression in the region of the epigastrium
- The clothes are oppressive
- Colic, as if the stomach had been overloaded, as if the abdomen would burst
- Cannot suffer the clothes to be tight on the abdomen
- Pressure in the abdomen as from incarcerated flatulence
- Abdominal pains which induce despair, esp. in women
- Fces soft, with frequent evacuation
- Diarrha, also during dentition
- Abundant emission of urine, esp. towards midnight
- Great excitement of sexual desire, with flaccidity or strong irritation of the genital parts
- Without emission of semen, and with dry heat of the body
- Immoderate irritation of the sexual parts of females, with voluptuous itching, great secretion of mucus, and frequent flow of blood
- Metrorrhagia
- Labour and after-pains insupportably painful
- Short, jerking, dry cough, with great irritation in the larynx, and anxious tossings
- Oppression of the chest
- Obliged to take short inspirations
- The breathing heaves the chest visibly
- Night cough (cough with measles)
- Fits of suffocation
- Palpitation of heart
- Violent, irregular, with trembling of limbs
- Nervous palpitation
- Palpitation after excessive joy, surprise
- Trembling of the hands, while grasping anything
- Cramp-like contractions of the fingers
- Cramps in the calf of the leg, on bending the knee
- Cramps in the soles of the feet on bending the instep
- Trembling of the feet
- Painful sensitiveness of the parts affected
- Great flexibility of the muscles, and activity of the whole body
- Mental and physical excitability
- Aversion to the open air, with uneasiness and aggravation of the symptoms during a walk in the open air
- Twitching of the limbs
- Convulsions, with grinding of the teeth, and coldness in the limbs
- Violent shivering, with feverish increase of bodily heat
- Fever with inconsolable anguish
- Shuddering with colic and violent agitation
- Pains are felt intensely, driving to despair, and inclination to weep
- Tears, howls, cries, tossing and discouragement, esp. during the paroxysm of pain
- Cries of children
- Anxiety of heart and of conscience, with apprehensions
- He feels unusually well
- Vivacity and excessive loquacity
- Vivacity and elevation of the imagination, with acuteness of the intellectual faculties
- Eruptions (measles), with over excitability and weeping
- Sleeplessness, from over-excitability of mind and body (sleeplessness of lying-in women)
- Sleeplessness from excitement of the imagination, flow of ideas, and fantastic visions
- Inclination to lie down and to shut the eyes, without being able to sleep
- Chilliness increased by every movement
- Internal chilliness, with external heat of the face and body
- Chills running down the back
- Dry heat in the evening after going to bed, with chilliness in the back
- Nightly, dry heat, with delirium
- Perspiration on the face, with internal chilliness
Allen's Keynotes
- tall, lean, stooping persons, dark complexion, sanguine choleric temperament
- oversensitiveness; all the senses more acute, sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch
- unusual activity of mind and body
- full of ideas; quick to act, no sleep on this account
- ailments: the bad effects of sudden emotions or pleasurable surprises; weeping from delight; alternate laughing and weeping
- pains are felt intensely; seem almost insupportable, driving patient to despair; tossing about in anguish
- sleepless, wide-awake condition; impossible to close the eyes; physical excitement through mental exaltation
- headache: from over-mental exertion, thinking, talking; one-sided, as from a nail driven into the brain; as if brain were torn or dashed to pieces; worse in open air
- hasty eating and drinking
- toothache: intermittent, jerking, relieved by holding ice-water in the mouth, but returns when water becomes warm
- worse from sudden mental emotion; excessive joy; cold, open air; narcotic medicines
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