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Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Abdomen, distended
  • Acne
  • Angina pectoris
  • Biliousness
  • Cholerine
  • Chorea
  • Colds
  • Colic
  • Constipation
  • Cough
  • Cramps
  • Diarrha
  • Dysentery
  • Dysmenorrha
  • Dyspepsia
  • Enteralgia
  • Flatulence
  • Gall-bladder, affections of
  • Gastralgia
  • Hmorrhoids
  • Headache
  • Knee, pain in
  • Legs, pain in
  • Liver, disorders of
  • Lumbago
  • Mind, affections of
  • Neuralgia
  • Paronychia
  • Parotitis
  • Pregnancy, pyrosis of
  • Renal colic
  • Rheumatism
  • Sciatica
  • Side, pain in
  • Spinal irritation
  • Spleen, pain in
  • Smell, disordered
  • Spermatorrha
  • Tea, effects of
  • Toothache
  • Whitlow
  • Pains radiate upwards and downwards
  • Frequent sharp, darting pains from one part to another
  • Pains spread, especially from abdomen to distant parts
  • Great faintness at stomach
  • Morning diarrha
  • Pains < at meals
  • Pains > moving about
  • Cannot sit still
  • Seminal emissions (passive) with weakness of knees
  • Strong-smelling perspiration of the genitals
  • Constant excitement with strong and frequent erections day and night
  • Amorous dreams with emissions
  • Relaxed genitals
  • Absence of desire
  • Emissions without erections
  • Uterine colic
  • After-pains
  • Gastric disorders during pregnancy and the menses
  • Throat symptoms resemble the initial stage of a cold when it has attacked the fauces and before it has spread to the nose or chest
  • As if top of head was lifted off
  • As if temples were in a vice
  • As if head tied with a band (also neck)
  • As if sticks, &c., in eyes
  • As if hot air streamed out of them
  • As if tongue burnt
  • As if a stone were in stomach
  • In small spot in abdomen sensation as if drawn forcibly upward and backward to spine
  • Calls things by wrong names
  • Writes down r. arm or leg when he means l.
  • Aversion to company
  • Irritable
  • Feels cross and troubled
  • Great depression of spirits
  • Vertigo and dizziness
  • Goes to r. while walking
  • Inclined to fall backward
  • Faintness < sitting up in bed
  • Numbness < lying down
  • Vertigo from onanism
  • Vertigo with heat in head
  • Sharp pains in r. side of forehead extending to ears
  • A remittent pain < by pressure
  • Fulness in head speedily followed by spasmodic pains in abdomen
  • Head feels as if tied with a band
  • Headache in vertex and down to both shoulders
  • Dull pain in head and temples
  • Pain in forehead, extending into nose, with nausea and coryza
  • Pain as if lifted up in forehead and temples
  • Digging, cutting pain in the temples
  • In occiput
  • Over eye
  • Eyes weak, sore, and smarting
  • (r. <)
  • Seems as if hot air streamed out, evening
  • Agglutination of the lids mornings
  • Sharp pain from r. eye to occiput
  • Feeling as of a round or large smooth substance, or as if dust, sticks, or lashes in eye
  • Lachrymation, hot tears, eyes fill in open air, smarting, wants to keep lids closed
  • Dull, pressing pains in front of both ears
  • Sharp pain in front and behind the ears
  • Small balls of wax drop out of r. ear almost daily
  • Both ears feel suddenly stopped up and are sore to touch
  • Pains in ears, < blowing nose or coughing (8 a.m.)
  • Itching in internal ears (< r.)
  • Irritation of nasal passages with much sneezing
  • Dry, or watery discharge
  • Discharge of bright-red blood from l. nostril
  • Followed by a dark clot
  • While sitting writing
  • Soreness of the nostrils
  • Frequent or constant bad smell in the nose
  • Like bilious-fever patients
  • Any bad smell remains in nose a long time
  • Dull, grinding, drawing, digging, or sharp darting pains at angle of l. lower jaw
  • Spasmodic closing of jaws, biting tongue when neither eating nor drinking
  • Little pimples with black heads
  • Lips dry
  • Commissures sore
  • Heavy brown coating on the tongue mornings
  • Sides of tongue sore as if burnt
  • Tip of tongue sore
  • Mouth very dry, bitter, and clammy in the morning (on waking 4 a.m.)
  • Mouth dry, but full of sticky mucus
  • No thirst
  • Soreness of gums and roof of mouth
  • Saliva runs out while asleep
  • Irritation, burning, and smarting in throat and fauces
  • Fauces rough, dry
  • Frequent inclination to swallow
  • But it causes nausea and shudderings
  • Belching gas, but throat so dry it prevents escape of gas
  • Constricted feeling as from something tight about neck
  • Makes breathing difficult
  • Itching in l. tonsil
  • Stitches in tonsil up to ear
  • Constricted feeling
  • Soreness and sharp aching pain in both parotid glands
  • Sour or bitter eructations
  • Belching of large quantities of tasteless wind momentarily relieving the distress at the stomach
  • Nausea
  • After eating: nausea, faintness, distress, burning at stomach
  • Dull, heavy pain > by belching
  • Tastes food eaten
  • > of symptoms
  • Faint, uneasy feeling at stomach
  • Headache < after dinner
  • Constant distress at stomach, with frequent sharp pains
  • Had to unfasten the clothing
  • Distressing pain at epigastrium relieved by raising sour, bitter wind
  • Burning at the stomach
  • Sharp, cramping pain in pit of stomach, followed by raising, belching, and gulping enormous quantities of tasteless wind, followed by hiccough and discharge of flatulence from the bowels
  • Sharp, cutting pains in epigastrium
  • Faintness at epigastrium
  • Sharp pain in l. hypochondrium
  • Dull, heavy, grinding pain in region of liver, worse evenings
  • Cutting pain in region of liver
  • (r. lobe)
  • Hard, dull pain in region of gall bladder
  • Constant distress in the umbilical and hypogastric regions, with severe cutting, colic-like pains every few minutes in stomach and small intestines
  • Griping, cramping pains in the umbilical region
  • Rumbling in the bowels, and passing large quantities of flatulence
  • Flatulence after meals
  • Wind colic, but with little or no hepatic derangement
  • Discharges of offensive flatus
  • Twisting and sharp cutting pains in the bowels
  • Bowels sore and tender on pressure
  • Pain in inguinal regions extending to the testicles
  • Itching in the rectum
  • Hmorrhoidal tumours as large as red cherries, with pain and distress in anus
  • After stool: prolapsus ani
  • Weak, faint feeling in abdomen
  • Colic
  • Frequent urgent desire for stool
  • Very offensive flatulence
  • Diarrha early in morning, driving out of bed
  • Just before and during a stool, severe pain in sacral region and bowels, of a writhing drawing character
  • The pains radiate upwards and downwards, until the whole body and extremities become involved in spasm
  • Very profuse, thin, yellow stool in the morning
  • Followed by a very weak, faint feeling, without relieving pain in bowels
  • Loose stools with much straining
  • Stools slimy
  • Dark-coloured
  • Bilious
  • Very offensive
  • Light mushy
  • During pregnancy, alternate constipation and relaxation
  • Writhing, with dry and crampy pains, with passing of renal calculus (r.)
  • Spasmodic stricture of urethra, with pain about navel > by pressure
  • Pressure on rectum, paroxysmal colic
  • Constant excitement of genital organs, with frequent erections
  • Genitals cold and relaxed
  • Strong-smelling perspiration on scrotum and pubes
  • Diminished sexual desire
  • Emission of semen during sleep
  • Dysmenorrha
  • Spasmodic uterine colic
  • Pains suddenly fly to distant parts
  • After-pains
  • False pains
  • Cramps in fingers and toes alternating with uterine pains
  • Hacking cough from irritation and tickling low down in the throat
  • Sharp cutting pain from l. axilla to nipple and down side deep in lung
  • Cough with pain in region of umbilicus and temples, brown tongue, weak knees
  • Dull, aching, or sharp cutting pains in both lungs, from front to back, or vice vers
  • Sharp pain in region of heart, arrests breathing
  • < lying l. side
  • Dull pain in back of neck
  • Stiff
  • Back lame in morning
  • Back in region of liver so lame it is almost impossible to turn in bed
  • > by motion
  • Severe backache
  • Sharp deep pain in lower portion of l. scapula, followed by sharp pain through centre of r. lung
  • Itching over r. scapula
  • Drawing pains in sacrum
  • In sacro-iliac joint
  • Spinal hypersthesia
  • Spinal cord feels bruised all the way up and down
  • Sharp pains in the back
  • Pain in l. shoulder
  • Grinding in elbows
  • Hard aching pains in bones of forearm, and in wrist and hands
  • Numbness of l. hand
  • Panaritium, early stage
  • Pain, pricking, sharp, agonising
  • Paronychia
  • Hard, dull, or tearing pains in the hip
  • Pain in r. leg from point of exit of sciatic nerve, felt only when moving the limb, or when sitting up
  • Knees lame, weak, and painful
  • Trembling
  • Hard, dull, or sharp pains in leg
  • Ankles weak and painful
  • Restless, trembling, faint feeling
  • Languid, tired feeling
  • Rheumatic pains < night and early morning
  • Chorea
  • With seminal emissions
  • Itching of various parts of the body and limbs
  • Panaritium, early when pains are sharp and agonising, or when pricking is felt
  • Nails brittle
  • Little pimples with black heads
  • Many symptoms are < after sleep
  • Bitter mouth
  • Pains in bowels
  • Hard beating of heart
  • Restless after 2 a.m.
  • Must move, yet it hurts, he is so sore
  • First sleep late
  • Wakes early

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