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Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Hemorrhages black and stringy
  • Tingling in various parts
  • Chorea
  • Hysterical affections
  • Frequent and extreme changes in sensations
  • Frequent and extreme changes in mental conditions
  • Anger with violence followed by repentance
  • Laughing mania
  • Drowsiness and lassitude
  • Vacillating mind
  • Pleasant mania
  • Sings and laughs
  • Happy and affectionate then angry
  • Sudden changes from hilarity to melancholy
  • Vivid recollection from music heard
  • Throbbing pulsating head during climacteric
  • Head worse during menses
  • Appearance of electric sparks in eyes
  • Must wipe eyes as if mucus or water were in them
  • Feeling in eyes as after violent weeping
  • Sensation as if she had been looking through too sharp spectacles
  • Eyes feel as if in smoke
  • Pupils enlarged and react slowly
  • Lids heavy
  • Ciliary neuralgia
  • Pain from eyes to top of head
  • Sensation as if cold air was rushing through eye
  • Asthenopia with extreme photophobia
  • Threatened glaucoma
  • Embolism of arteria centralis retinal
  • Epistaxis
  • Dark stringy clotted nosebleed
  • Strings of dark blood hanging down the nose
  • Obstinate constipation due to portal stagnation
  • Constipation in infants
  • Crawling and stitches in anus
  • Sensation of something alive in abdomen
  • Sensation of something alive in stomach
  • Abdomen swollen
  • Feeling of something heavy in abdomen
  • Threatened abortion especially when hemorrhage is dark and stringy
  • Urging of blood to genitals
  • Menses dark viscid too frequent and copious black and slimy
  • Uterine hemorrhage clots with long strings
  • Uterine hemorrhage worse from least movement
  • Jerking pain in interior of left breast as if drawn toward back by means of thread
  • A bounding feeling as if something alive in right breast
  • Wheezy cough with frothy expectoration containing threads like fine twine
  • Cough worse lying down
  • Breath has offensive sickly smell
  • Feeling as if the uvula is elongated in hysterical patients
  • Sudden feeling of coldness in back as if cold water were thrown over him
  • Icy-cold extremities
  • Spasmodic contractions and twitchings of single set of muscles
  • Chorea and hysteria with great alterations of feeling
  • Whole upper extremity fall asleep
  • Cracking in hip-joint
  • Cracking in knees
  • Weakness in knees
  • Weakness in legs
  • Pain in ankles
  • Pain in soles

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Abortion, threatened
  • After-pains
  • Anger
  • Asthenopia
  • Blepharospasm
  • Brain, congestion of
  • Chorea
  • Dysmenia
  • Fainting
  • Gastric affections
  • Hmoptysis
  • Hmorrhages
  • Headache
  • Heart, affections of
  • Hysteria
  • Lachrymation
  • Laughter
  • Leucorrha
  • Mania
  • Menstruation, profuse
  • Metrorrhagia
  • Nose, bleeding of
  • Operations, effects of
  • Ophthalmia
  • Pregnancy, imaginary
  • Tumours
  • Ulceration
  • Wounds
  • Hmorrhage from various parts, blood black, viscid, clotting, forming long black strings
  • Sensation as if something alive were moving about in the abdomen or chest
  • Rapid alternation of mental conditions
  • Anger with violence rapidly followed by repentance
  • Laughter quickly followed by tears
  • Uncontrollable laughter
  • Hysterical laughter
  • Sensitive to music, involuntarily joins in on hearing any one sing
  • Stitches
  • Shocks
  • Throbbings
  • Broad thrusts
  • Cuttings
  • Jerkings
  • Twitchings of single sets of muscles
  • Warm sensation ascending to the heart, impeding breathing
  • Tingling, crawling, pricking and itching in the skin
  • Scarlet redness of the whole body, or scarlet spots on skin
  • Painful suppuration of bruised parts
  • Old cicatrised wounds re-open and suppurate
  • Lipoma and encephaloma of scalp
  • Tumours with ulceration and characteristic bleeding
  • Deafness
  • Ecchymoses
  • Sadness alternating with great gaiety and joyousness
  • Inclination to laugh, jest, and sing with excessive weakness
  • Loquacious
  • Sings involuntarily, and then laughs
  • Immoderate, improper laughter
  • Changeable disposition
  • Frolic-some and jesting mania
  • Paleness of face
  • Headache
  • Obscuration of the eyes
  • Abandonment of free will
  • Choleric passion and violence, frequently followed by prompt repentance
  • Alternate austerity and mildness of character
  • Forgetfulness and distraction
  • Quickness of memory
  • Stupefying cephalalgia, as during intoxication
  • Downcast eyes
  • Giddiness, as if intoxicated, in the forehead
  • Vertigo, with fainting
  • Confused vertigo on rising from a reclining posture
  • Vertigo when raising the head, with heat of the whole body
  • Cephalalgia above the eyes, with burning pain
  • Burning and aching in the eyes
  • Head heavy in the morning, with aching at the vertex
  • Drawing pain in the forehead, with nausea
  • Semi-lateral pulsation in the head and face
  • Blows in the forehead and the temples
  • Sensation of looseness of the brain, during movement
  • Itching in the eyelids
  • Tingling in the eyebrows
  • Pressure, pain as from excoriation, and sensation of burning in the eyes and eyelids
  • Sensation of swelling in the eyes, as from much weeping
  • Dryness of the eyes
  • Lachrymation on reading
  • Quantity of tears rush from the dim eyes as soon as he begins to read
  • Lachrymation in the room, not in the open air
  • Heating and lancinating pains in the eyes after surgical operations
  • Nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids
  • Visible quivering of the eyelids
  • Heaviness and cramp-like contractions of the eyelids
  • Nocturnal cramps in the eyelids
  • Constant winking of the eyes
  • Inclination to wipe the eyes, as if a pellicle of gum were drawn over them
  • Pupils dilated
  • Constant necessity to rub the eyes
  • Confused sight, as when looking through a veil
  • White paper seems of a pale rose colour when reading
  • Sparkling before the eyes
  • Sudden flashes like electric sparks
  • Otalgia, similar to a cramp
  • Tinkling in the ears, in the evening, after lying down
  • Buzzing in the ears with hardness of hearing
  • Epistaxis of black and viscid blood
  • Cold perspiration on the forehead
  • Occasional fainting
  • Violent and frequent sneezing
  • Face of an earthy colour
  • Redness and paleness, alternately, in the face
  • Circumscribed, burning red spots on the face
  • Burning heat in the face
  • Lips cracked and ulcerated
  • Pulsation on one side of the face
  • Scraping and roughness in the mouth
  • Accumulation of water in the mouth
  • Tongue moist, and charged with a white coating, with erection of the papill
  • Unusual warmth in the mouth
  • Sore throat as if caused by elongation of the uvula, or as if there were a plug in the throat
  • Scraping and roughness in the throat
  • Nauseating, acid, sweetish taste
  • Nausea, disappearing in the open air
  • Sweet or bitter taste in the bottom of the gullet
  • Constant thirst in the evening, with uneasiness in the abdomen after drinking
  • Absence of appetite, with sensation off fulness
  • Empty risings, while fasting in the morning
  • Pyrosis after eating with a good appetite
  • Heartburn after eating
  • Qualmishness, uneasiness, and sensation of oppression, in the epigastrium
  • Burning pain in the stomach
  • Borborygmi, and fermentation in the epigastrium
  • Great sinking sensation at epigastrium
  • Drawing in the pit of the stomach, back and forth, and up and down
  • Violent stitches in pit of stomach
  • Abdomen inflated, with sensation of fulness
  • Distension of the stomach and abdomen
  • Cramp-like pains in the abdomen
  • Pinchings in the abdomen after drinking
  • Pains in the abdomen from taking cold
  • Movements in the abdomen, stomach, pit of the stomach, arms, and other parts of the body, as of something alive hopping about
  • Shocks above l. hypochondrium
  • Sensation of heaviness in the inguinal region
  • Sensation of heaviness in the abdomen, with pressing towards the uterus
  • Itching and tingling in the anus
  • Creeping in the anus, as from ascarides
  • Obtuse shooting in the side, and above the anus
  • Stitches and itching at the anus
  • Excitement of the sexual desire
  • Sensation of something living and moving in the abdomen; abdomen swollen
  • Urging of blood towards the genital parts
  • Catamenia too frequent and copious
  • Catamenia painful
  • Metrorrhagia of black and slimy blood
  • Flow of blood, during the new and full moon
  • Hmorrhage from the uterus
  • Threatened abortion
  • Post-partum hmorrhage
  • Violent dry, shaking cough, much mitigated by passing the hand over the epigastrium
  • Cough, with spitting of blood
  • Disagreeably smelling breath
  • Difficulty of respiration
  • Inclination to breathe deeply
  • Oppression of the chest
  • Sensation from the vapour of sulphur in the throat
  • Shootings in the chest and esp. in the sides
  • Movements, as if something alive were hopping in the chest
  • Shocks in the chest, which suspend respiration
  • Jerking pains in interior of l. breast
  • Sensation of heat, which ascends to the heart
  • Anxiety and difficulty of respiration
  • Sensation of heaviness at the heart
  • Sensation of great emptiness in precordial region
  • Drawing in precordial region extending to stomach
  • Stitches beneath heart
  • Frequent palpitation
  • Anxiety at heart, with sense of weakness extending thence through abdomen to soles of feet
  • Sensation of stiffness in the neck during movement
  • External swelling of the neck
  • Pulling in the loins, with pains in the groins
  • Sensation of coldness in the back
  • Pain in the shoulder-joint, on moving the arms
  • Numbness of the arms and of the hands, with immobility
  • Digging pulling in the forearms
  • Heaviness and pain, as from a bruise in the forearms
  • Burning pricking, and tension in the tips of the fingers
  • Chilblains in the hands, and in the fingers
  • Sensation of weakness in the thighs, when seated
  • Violent cracking of the hip-joint, of the knee-joint
  • Nocturnal tearing in the leg, with uneasiness in that part
  • Pain, as from a bruise, in the calves of the legs
  • Fatigue in the soles of the feet, with burning pain and tingling
  • Chilblains on the toes
  • Movements, as of something alive in various parts of the body
  • Tingling in different parts of the body
  • Convulsive attacks, like chorea
  • Sensation of relaxation and bending in the joints
  • Numbness of some of the limbs, at night
  • Amelioration of symptoms in the open air
  • Ebullition of blood
  • Discharge of a black viscid blood from different organs
  • Heaviness and failing of the limbs, after light exercise
  • Striking alternation of the most opposite, physical, and mental symptoms
  • Symptoms generally appear on the l. side
  • Excessive general weakness, with fainting fits, during movement
  • Desire for open air
  • Great depression in the morning
  • Trembling of all the limbs
  • Pricking, crawling, burning, and tingling in skin
  • Red colour of the body
  • Suppuration, painful, of old wounds
  • Continuous yawning and desire to sleep
  • Great inclination to sleep in the day
  • Sings while sleeping
  • Drowsiness, with eyes dull and glassy
  • Cries, and starts, while sleeping
  • Frightful, or gay and pleasant dreams
  • Pulse accelerated, feverish
  • Chill in the afternoon, growing worse in the evening
  • Chilliness extending from the back into the legs, with trembling
  • Thirst during the chill and heat
  • Chilliness, only of the back part of the body
  • Flushes of internal heat, with pricking and tingling of the skin
  • Heat, mostly of the head and face, with paleness of the cheeks and thirst
  • Perspiration very little, and only at night
  • Cold and debilitating perspiration
  • Perspiration only on the lower part of the body

Allen's Keynotes

  • frequent and extreme changes in sensations; sudden, from the greatest hilarity to the deepest despondency
  • excessively happy, affectionate, wants to kiss everybody; next moment in a rage
  • haemorrhage from any part, blood black, viscid, clotted, forming into long black strings hanging from the bleeding surface
  • headache; during climacteric, throbbing, pulsating, worse during two or three days of accustomed menstrual flow; nervous or menstrual headache before, during, or after flow
  • eyes: sensation, as if room were filled with smoke; as if had been weeping; as of cold wind blowing across the eyes; closing lids tightly gives better
  • nosebleed: black, tenacious, stringy, every drop can be turned into a thread; with cold sweat in large drops on forehead
  • in children who develop too rapidly
  • dysmenorrhoea: flow black; stringy, clotted
  • sensation as if something alive were moving in the stomach, abdomen, uterus, arms or other parts of the body; with nausea and faintness
  • chorea and hysteria with great hilarity, singing and dancing; alternating with melancholy and rage
  • spasmodic contractions and twitchings of single sets of muscles

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