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Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Spasmodic affections
  • cramps
  • convulsions beginning in fingers and toes
  • violent contractive and intermittent pain
  • tonic and clonic spasms
  • epileptic attacks
  • chorea brought on by fright
  • nausea greater than in any other remedy
  • aura begins at knees ascending to hypogastrium then unconsciousness foaming and falling
  • symptoms appear periodically and in groups
  • complaints begin in left side
  • tape worm
  • excessive vomiting
  • stupor
  • pains increased by movement and touch
  • fixed ideas
  • malicious and morose
  • uses words not intended
  • fearful
  • empty feeling
  • purple red swelling of head with convulsions
  • bruised pain in brain and eyes on turning them
  • meningitis
  • sensation as if water were poured over head
  • giddiness accompanies many ailments
  • head falls forward on chest
  • aching over eyes
  • fixed stary sunken glistening eyes turned upward
  • crossed eyes
  • quick rolling of eyeballs with closed eyes
  • distorted face
  • pale bluish face
  • blue lips
  • contraction of jaws with foam at mouth
  • sensation of violent congestion of blood to nose
  • strong metallic slimy taste with flow of saliva
  • constant protrusion and retraction of the tongue like a snake
  • paralysis of tongue
  • stammering speech
  • hiccough preceding the spasms
  • vomiting relieved by drinking cold water
  • colic
  • diarrhea
  • strong metallic taste
  • fluid descends with gurgling sound when drinking
  • craves cool drink
  • tense hot and tender abdomen to touch
  • contracted abdomen
  • neuralgia of abdominal viscera
  • violent and intermittent colic
  • intussusception
  • black painful bloody stool with tenesmus and weakness
  • cholera with cramps in abdomen and calves
  • menses too late protracted
  • cramps extending into chest before during or after suppression of menses
  • cramps from suppressed foot sweats
  • ebullition of blood
  • palpitation
  • chlorosis
  • after-pains
  • angina pectoris
  • slow pulse or hard full and quick pulse
  • precordial anxiety and pain
  • fatty degeneration of heart
  • cough as a gurgling sound better by drinking cold water
  • suffocative attacks worse 3 am
  • spasm and constriction of chest
  • spasmodic asthma alternating with spasmodic vomiting
  • whooping-cough better swallow water with vomiting and spasms and purple face
  • spasm of the glottis
  • dyspnea with epigastric uneasiness
  • spasmodic dyspnea before menstruation
  • angina with asthmatic symptoms and cramps
  • jerking twitching of muscles
  • coldness of hands
  • cramps in palms
  • great weariness of limbs
  • cramps in calves and soles
  • clenched thumbs
  • clonic spasms beginning in fingers and toes
  • bluish marbled skin
  • ulcers itching spots and pimples at the folds of joints
  • chronic psoriasis
  • lepra
  • profound sleep with shocks in body
  • constant rumbling in abdomen during sleep

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

  • convulsions
  • twitching of muscles
  • drawings in the fingers
  • clenching of thumbs
  • tonic contractions
  • thumbs drawn into palms
  • fingers close over thumbs violently
  • spasmodic condition in fingers, toes, extremities
  • limbs drawn up violently
  • clonic form with jerking and twitching
  • delirium
  • incoherent prattling
  • loss of memory
  • unconsciousness
  • eyes roll upwards and outwards or upwards and inwards
  • bleeding from nose
  • disturbed vision
  • spiteful, violent, weeping or shrieking during delirium
  • convulsions with a shriek
  • bellowing like a calf
  • spasms followed by appearances of death or ecstasy
  • convulsive conditions terminate in stasis
  • face livid or blue
  • finger nails discolored
  • eyes turned up in whooping cough
  • coughs until loses breath
  • insensibility
  • violent spasmodic action in breathing
  • spasmodic breathing
  • dyspnoea
  • rattling in chest
  • thumbs clenched and fingers cramped with dyspnoea
  • spasmodic condition in xiphoid appendix region
  • constriction in chest
  • feeling as if transfixed with a knife from xiphoid appendix to back
  • feeling of lump in stomach region
  • feeling of wind in stomach
  • voice affected
  • cracked and squeaking voice
  • face a picture of fear and anguish
  • cramps in limbs and muscles of chest
  • trembling and weakness
  • cramps in calves, soles of feet, toes and fingers at night
  • cramps prevent coition
  • painful menstruation with spasms commencing in fingers
  • tonic contractions like hysterical manifestations
  • violent dysmenorrhoea with delirium
  • turning up of the eyes
  • contortions of the face
  • epileptiform manifestations
  • epilepsy with contractions and jerkings of fingers and toes
  • falls with a shriek in epilepsy
  • passes urine and faeces during epileptic attack
  • epilepsy begins with violent constriction in chest
  • blindness during labor
  • labor pains cease
  • convulsions during labor commencing in fingers and toes
  • gushing, watery stools
  • copious vomiting
  • stomach and bowels emptied
  • blue all over
  • cold extremities
  • jerking of muscles
  • cramping of extremities, fingers and toes
  • spasms of the chest
  • mottled, blue in blotches
  • collapse
  • blue finger and toe nails, hands and feet
  • intense spasms
  • cries out with pain from contractions

Allen's Keynotes

  • spasms and cramps: symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups
  • mental and physical exhaustion from over-exertion of mind and loss of sleep
  • attacks of unconquerable anxiety
  • a strong, sweetish, metallic, copper taste in the mouth with flow of saliva
  • constant prostration and retraction of the tongue, like a snake
  • when drinking, the fluid descends with a gurgling sound
  • cholera morbus or asiatic cholera, with cramps in abdomen and calves of legs
  • bad effects of re-percussed eruptions, resulting in brain affections, spasms, convulsions, vomiting
  • bad effects of suppressed foot-sweat
  • convulsions, with blue face and clenched thumbs
  • cramps in the extremeties
  • pains, soles, calves with great weariness of limbs
  • clonic spasms, beginning in fingers and toes, and spreading over entire body
  • clonic spasms during pregnancy
  • puerperal convulsions
  • clonic spasms after fright or vexation
  • clonic spasms from metastasis from other organs to brain
  • paralysis of tongue
  • imperfect stammering speech
  • epilepsy: aura begins in knees and ascends
  • epilepsy < at night during sleep
  • epilepsy about new moon, at regular intervals menses
  • epilepsy from a fall or blow upon the head
  • epilepsy from getting wet
  • cough has a gurgling sound, as if water was being poured from a bottle
  • cough, > by drinking cold water
  • whooping cough: long-lasting, suffocating, spasmodic cough
  • whooping cough: unable to speak; breathless, blue face, rigid, stiff
  • whooping cough: three attacks successively
  • whooping cough: vomiting of solid food after regaining consciousness
  • whooping cough: cataleptic spasm with each paroxysm
  • after pains
  • sever, distressing, in calves and soles
  • < cold air; cold wind; at night; suppressed foot sweat or exanthema
  • > nausea, vomiting and cough, by a swallow of cold water

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