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Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Intense neuralgias
  • Irritable
  • Easily angered
  • Copious menstruation
  • Sedentary habits
  • Tendency to corpulency
  • Neuralgic pains relieved by pressure
  • Cramps
  • Twitching
  • Shortening of muscles
  • Constrictions
  • Contractions
  • Cystospasm following operations on orifices
  • Urinous odor of perspiration
  • Agonizing pain in abdomen causing patient to bend double
  • Cutting sensations
  • Twisting sensations
  • Grinding sensations
  • Contracting sensations
  • Bruised sensations
  • Clamped with iron bands sensation
  • Extremely irritable mind
  • Becomes angry when questioned
  • Mortification caused by offense
  • Anger with indignation
  • Vertigo when turning head to the left
  • Lateral cutting headache
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Pains better pressure and heat
  • Soreness of scalp
  • Burning pains in head
  • Digging pains in head
  • Rending pains in head
  • Tearing pains in head
  • Frontal headache worse stooping
  • Frontal headache worse lying on back
  • Frontal headache worse moving eyelids
  • Eyes sharp boring pains better pressure
  • Sensation on stooping as if eye would fall out
  • Gouty affections of eyes
  • Violent pain in eyeballs which precede the development of glaucoma
  • Tearing shooting and swelling of face
  • Left side face great soreness get relief from pressure
  • Neuralgia with chilliness
  • Teeth seem too long
  • Sounds re-echo in ears
  • Pain in stomach always with pain of teeth or head
  • Very bitter taste
  • Tongue rough as from sand and feels scalded
  • Canine hunger
  • Feeling in stomach as if something would not yield
  • Drawing pain in stomach
  • Agonizing cutting pain in abdomen causing patient to bend over double and pressing on the abdomen
  • Sensation as if stones were being ground together in the abdomen and would burst
  • Intestines feel as if bruised
  • Colic with cramps in calves
  • Cutting in abdomen especially after anger
  • Each paroxysm is attended with general agitation and a chill over the cheeks ascending from the hypogastrium
  • Pain in small spot below navel
  • Dysenteric stool renewed each time by the least food or drink
  • Jelly-like stools
  • Musty odor stool
  • Distention abdomen
  • Boring pain in ovary
  • Must draw up double with great restlessness
  • Round small cystic tumors in ovaries or broad ligaments
  • Wants abdomen supported by pressure
  • Bearing-down cramps causing her to bend double
  • Intense burning along urethra during stool
  • Vesical catarrh discharge like fresh white of egg
  • Viscid urine
  • Fetid urine
  • Small quantities urine with frequent urging
  • Itching at orifice urine
  • Red hard crystals urine adhering firmly to vessel
  • Tenesmus of bladder
  • Pains on urinating over whole abdomen
  • Contraction of muscles extremities
  • All the limbs are drawn together
  • Pain in right deltoid
  • Cramp-like pain in hip lies on affected side
  • Pain from hip to knee
  • Spontaneous luxation of the hip-joints
  • Stiffness of joints and shortening of tendons
  • Sciatic pain left side drawing tearing better pressure and heat worse gentle touch
  • Pain down right thigh
  • Muscles and tendons feel too short thigh
  • Numbness with pains thigh
  • Pain in left knee joint

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Agonising pain in abdomen causing patient to bend over double
  • Relief obtained by motion
  • Pain aggravated by eating or drinking
  • Diarrha from grief, indignation or chagrin
  • Diabetes with milky, gelatinous, or colloid urine
  • Griping forcing the patient to bend double
  • Cramps in legs, uterus, and ovaries
  • Sensation as if clamped with iron bands
  • Dragging in uterus and vagina
  • Griping, cutting, tearing, and spasmodic pains in the body
  • Burning pains
  • Pulsations through the body
  • Sensation as of hard stones or potatoes in the body
  • Affections of right side generally
  • Pains accompanied by stiffness and retarded motion
  • Pains affecting joints aggravated by motion
  • Neuralgic pains relieved by rest
  • Abdominal pains relieved by violent exertion
  • Lying with head bent forward
  • Rheumatic pain in the limbs relieved by discharge of flatus
  • Touch aggravates, and pressure relieves many of the pains
  • Warmth relieves most pains
  • Aggravation in evening and night
  • Mental dejection with taciturnity
  • Aversion to talk
  • Disinclined to answer questions
  • Inclined to be angry and indignant
  • Lachrymose humour
  • Anxiety and inquietude, with an inclination to run away
  • Want of religious feeling
  • Disinclined to occupy oneself, even averse to visit his otherwise well-liked friends
  • Easy intoxication
  • Vertigo, which occasions falling, on turning the head quickly, with tottering of the knees
  • Headache, as from a draught of air, which is dissipated by walking in the open air
  • Compressive pain in the sinciput, aggravated by stooping, or lying on the back
  • Pressing pain in the forehead and root of the nose
  • Attacks of semi-lateral headache, drawing and cramp like, or pressive, with nausea and vomiting
  • Pain in the forehead and in the eyes, as if proceeding from the outside inwards
  • Headache with violent pains
  • Attacks of headache, followed by suffocation
  • Congestion in the head
  • Burning pain in the skin of the forehead, and the scalp
  • Heat in the head
  • Profuse perspiration on the head, itching, smelling like urine
  • Sensitive pressure in the eyes
  • Obscuration of the sight
  • Great white light at side of and below right eye
  • Shimmering circle with rays before right eye
  • Inflammation of the eyes
  • Burning and incisive pains, and shootings in the eyes
  • Eyes feel hard
  • Aching in upper and outer portions of right eyeball in evening
  • Smarting in eyes
  • Painfulness of eyeballs
  • Pressive feeling in orbits, towards root of nose
  • Painful pressure in eyeballs, especially on stooping
  • Pains in eyes, sharp cutting in right eyeball
  • Stitches as with knives in right eyeball, extending to root of nose
  • Pain as from pressure on both eyelids from above downward
  • External strabismus of right eye, with smarting lachrymation
  • Dryness
  • Burning
  • Smarting
  • Lachrymation
  • Discharge of acrid serum from the eyes
  • Warmth in right ear
  • Obstruction before left ear
  • Itching, sticking deep in ear, extending from Eustachian tube to tympanum
  • Crawling within ear
  • Difficult hearing; everything heard is accompanied by a roaring noise
  • Constant roaring and throbbing in both ears
  • Fluent coryza
  • Severe burning above the nose
  • Throbbing burrowing pain in nose extending from left side to root
  • Pale and wasted face, with downcast eyes
  • Tensive, tearing, burning or shooting pains in the face
  • Cramp-like sensation in the left malar bone, extending into left eye
  • Scabs on the face
  • Face of a deep red colour
  • Face puffed, with heat and redness of left cheek, and tearing pains
  • Pains in the teeth, as if the nerve were pulled or stretched
  • Pulsative pains in the teeth on left side
  • Burning at the tip of the tongue
  • Sensation as if the tongue had been scalded by some hot fluid
  • Roughness of the tongue
  • Tongue loaded with a white or yellow coating
  • Cramps in the gullet, with empty eructations and palpitations of the heart
  • Diminished appetite, without thirst
  • Strong desire for drink, with a sickly taste in the mouth
  • Constant nausea with risings
  • Bitter taste in the mouth, and of all food and drink
  • Colic and diarrha, however little is eaten
  • Pains in the stomach sometimes after a meal
  • Vomiting of food, or of greenish matter
  • Vomiting, with diarrha
  • Painful sensitiveness of the epigastrium to the touch
  • Violent pressure on the stomach (with sensation of hunger), and in the precordial region
  • Inflation of the abdomen, as from tympanitis
  • Feeling in the whole abdomen as if the intestines were being squeezed between stones
  • Cramp-like pain and constriction in the intestines
  • Excessively violent colic
  • Pain in the abdomen when walking
  • Colic, with cramps in the calves of the legs
  • Colic, as if from a chill
  • Colic after a meal
  • Pinching, and sensation of clawing in the abdomen
  • Cuttings and shootings in the abdomen
  • Great sensibility, soreness, and sensation of emptiness in the abdomen
  • Grumbling in the abdomen
  • Inguinal hernia
  • Constipation
  • Constipation, and evacuations retarded
  • Loose evacuations of a greenish yellow, frothy and of a sour smell, putrid or mouldy
  • Slimy diarrha
  • Sanguineous evacuations
  • Dysenterical evacuations, with colic
  • During the evacuation, contraction in the rectum
  • Painful swelling of the hmorrhoidal tumours of the anus, and of the rectum
  • Discharge of blood from the rectum, with stinging, burning pain in the small of the back and anus
  • Hmorrhage from the anus
  • Paralysis of the sphincter ani
  • Tenesmus of the bladder, with but small discharges
  • Diminished secretion of urine
  • Abundant discharge of urine of a bright colour, during the pains
  • Urine of a faint flesh colour, with a white-brown flocculent, transparent sediment
  • Fetid urine, which soon becomes thick, gelatinous, and glutinous
  • Itching at the orifice of the urethra, with desire to urinate
  • Burning in the urethra after micturition
  • Sensation as if everything were flowing towards the genital parts
  • Excitement of sexual desire, as in priapism
  • Complete impotence
  • Retraction of the prepuce behind the glans
  • Cramp-like pain in left ovary; in uterus
  • Ovarian cyst, paroxysm of acute pain in abdomen, sacrum, and hip
  • Metritis
  • Metrorrhagia
  • Suppressed catamenia, with cramping pains
  • Stitches in the ovaries
  • Lochia suppressed; puerperal fever after vexation
  • Painful nodosities in the mamm
  • Small dry cough, excited by irritation in the larynx, or by tobacco smoke
  • Constriction in the larynx
  • Fits of asthma at night
  • Oppression of the chest
  • Palpitation of the heart
  • Stitches in cardiac region
  • Tension in the neck and shoulder-blades
  • Drawing pains in the back, as if the muscles were stretched
  • Great weakness in the back
  • Congestion and suppuration of the axillary glands; subsultus of muscles
  • Bruise-like pain in the joint of the shoulder
  • Aching, pressive, and shooting pain in the arms
  • Cramp-like pain in the hands
  • Pulling in the tendons of the thumbs
  • Pain in the coxo-femoral joint, as if it were fastened with an iron clasp, the pelvis and sacral region, with pains extending from the lumbar region to the legs
  • Tensive lancination, in the lumbar region and of the hips
  • Pain in the right thigh while walking
  • Want of flexibility in the knee
  • Cramps in the legs
  • Shootings in the legs
  • Stitches in the knee-joints
  • Sensation of coldness in the knees
  • Great heaviness and trembling of the legs
  • The feet go to sleep
  • Swelling of the feet
  • Tearing in the soles of the feet during repose
  • Semi-lateral pains
  • Painful cramps, and cramp-like contractions, in the internal or external parts
  • Sensation as though stones were being ground together in the abdomen, working upon the soft parts
  • Contraction of the tendons in some parts only, or throughout the body
  • Twitching of the muscles
  • Stiffness in all the joints
  • Tearing shootings, traversing the whole body longitudinally
  • Physical depression while walking in the open air
  • Fainting, with coldness of the external parts
  • Swelling of various parts, with oppression of breathing
  • Pulsations through the body
  • Burning pains
  • Troublesome itching
  • Desquamation of the skin over the whole body
  • Carbuncles, with continuous burning pain
  • Small ulcers, with itching and burning
  • Eruptions which resemble scabies
  • Skin hot and dry
  • Disturbed sleep at night
  • Sleepiness, alternately with delirium, with the eyes open
  • Sleeplessness following a fit of indigestion
  • Very wakeful and sleepless
  • Lying on the back when asleep, with one hand under the occiput
  • Frequent vivid and lascivious dreams
  • Cold and shivering, with heat in the face, without thirst
  • Coldness of the hands and soles of the feet, while the rest of the body is warm
  • Pulse hard, full and quick
  • Strong pulsation in the arteries
  • External dry heat
  • Internal heat, with attacks of flushes of heat
  • Nocturnal sweat, of the smell of urine, on the head, hands, legs, and feet, causing itching of the skin
  • Perspiration principally on the head and on the extremities

Allen's Keynotes

  • agonizing pain in abdomen causing patient to bend double, with restlessness, twisting and turning to obtain relief; better by hard pressure
  • pains: are worse after eating or drinking; compel patient to bend double
  • menses, suppressed by chagrin, colic pains
  • exteremely irritable, impatient; becomes angry or offended on being questioned
  • irritable; throws things out of his hands
  • affections from anger, with indignation - colic, vomiting, diarrhoea and suppression of menses
  • vertigo: when quickly turning head, especially to the left, as if he would fall; from stimulants
  • sciatica: crampy pain in hip, as though screwd in a vise; lies upon affected side
  • shooting pain, like lightening-shocks, down the whole limb, left hip, left thigh, left knee, into popliteal fossa
  • worse from anger and indignation; mortification caused by offense; cheese worse colic
  • better from doubling up; hard pressure

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