HELODERMA

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Benumbing paralysis
  • Paralysis agitans
  • Locomotor ataxia
  • Great coldness
  • Arctic coldness
  • Colic waves from occiput to feet or ascending
  • Depressed mood
  • Sensation as if would fall to right side
  • Cold band around head
  • Cold pressure within the skull
  • Eyelids heavy
  • Pain beginning in right ear, extending round back of head to left ear
  • Cold crawling feeling in face
  • Facial muscles feel tight
  • Tongue cold, tender, and dry
  • Very thirsty
  • Swallowing difficult
  • Breath cold
  • Cold feeling in lungs
  • Cold feeling in heart
  • Slow labored thumping of heart
  • Coldness across scapul
  • Burning along spine
  • Numbness
  • Trembling
  • Cyanosis of hands
  • Coldness in extremities
  • Sensation as if walking on sponge
  • Sensation as if feet were swollen
  • Staggering gait
  • Cock's gait
  • Lifts feet higher than usual when walking
  • Puts down heel hard when walking
  • Feet cold as ice or burn
  • Stretching relieves pains in muscles and limbs
  • Internal coldness, as if frozen to death
  • Cold rings around body
  • Cold waves
  • Cold spots
  • Temperature subnormal

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Brain, base of, affected
  • Cerebro-spinal meningitis
  • Coldness
  • Headache
  • Heart failure
  • Locomotor ataxy
  • Neuralgia
  • Numbness
  • Paralysis
  • Paralysis agitans
  • No inclination for exertion in any way
  • Unable to confine his mind to any object
  • Difficulty in remembering the spelling of simple words
  • In spite of very severe symptoms, not alarmed
  • Passively indifferent
  • Depressed
  • Feels very blue
  • Vertigo and weakness when moving quickly
  • Dizziness, with inclination to fall backward
  • Giddiness and cold pressure from within skull
  • Sensation of heat in head
  • Heat on vertex
  • Headache over r. eyebrow
  • Pressure in head and scalp
  • Pressure in skull as if too full
  • Mind clear all the same
  • Soreness and stiffness in occiput, extending down neck
  • Sore spot in various parts of head
  • Intense pain over l. eyebrow, through eye to base of brain and down back
  • Very violent headache over r. temporal bone, as if a tumour forming and pressing within skull, whole r. side affected, producing numbness down l. side of body
  • Aching at base of brain
  • Sharp, digging pains
  • Benumbed feeling all over head
  • Burning feeling in brain
  • Head hot and full as if not room enough in skull
  • Throbbing on top of head
  • Head sore and bruised
  • Sensation of band around head
  • Cold band around head
  • Sensation as if scalp was drawn tight over skull
  • Bores head in pillow
  • Awakened suddenly with a jerking in head
  • Central part of frontal bone so queer as to awaken him
  • Itching of eyelids
  • Lachrymation
  • Weight of eyelids, difficult to keep them open
  • Sight improved
  • Astigmatism removed
  • Pressure behind l. ear
  • Pressure in ear from within outward
  • Copious flow of wax (more l.)
  • Ears dry and scurfy
  • Ringing in ear like night-bell
  • L. nostril sore
  • Ulcerated
  • Dry, itching scurfs in nostrils
  • Severe attack of sneezing
  • A severe chill all down back
  • Fluent discharge
  • Sensation of heat in face
  • Flushes of heat
  • Cold, crawling feeling from temple down r. cheek
  • From r. upper jaw to cheek
  • Sensation as if pricked with points of ice
  • Sensation as if facial muscles were drawn tight over bones
  • Stiffness of jaw
  • Dryness of lips
  • Soreness of mouth
  • Very thirsty
  • Tongue tender and dry
  • Tongue swollen (lasting for three months after bite)
  • Dryness
  • Parched sensation in throat
  • Tingling
  • Soreness of throat and tenderness to outside touch
  • Stinging, sore feeling in r. tonsil
  • Acid burning in stomach
  • Immoderate thirst
  • Gurgling in region of spleen
  • Sharp shooting pain in bowels, more on l. side
  • Pain across pubic bones, extending down into l. testicle
  • Stitching pains in bowels (as if filled with pins)
  • Woke in night with very hard pain in bowels, l. hypogastric region
  • Rumbling in bowels
  • Feeling as if waist-band too tight
  • Loose, copious stool, lumpy, preceded by stitches in abdomen
  • Stool loose, mushy, with considerable flatus
  • Bowels torpid
  • Stool soft, dark, difficult to expel
  • Hmorrhoids swollen, itch and bleed
  • Stitch-like pain in r. kidney while sitting
  • As if being drawn together
  • Followed by prickling in fingers
  • Bladder irritable
  • Frequent urging to pass urine
  • Dreamed of urinating in bed but did not
  • Awoke and passed a large quantity very clear and bright
  • Tenderness in urethra, with sensation of discharge
  • Urine not as free as usual, muddy
  • Intermittent flow
  • As if obstructed by calculus
  • Urine, specific gravity, 1010
  • Greenish yellow, fetid (like decaying fruit)
  • Erection
  • But felt too tired for coition
  • Coitus prolonged, with great enjoyment and large flow of semen
  • Intensely cold penis and testicle
  • Tip like a piece of ice
  • With gluey discharge
  • Pain and enlargement of l. testicle
  • Pain under pubes and along penis
  • Slight, hacking cough, with pain in l. scapula
  • Fulness in chest, requiring an effort to inflate the lungs
  • Oppressed for breath from least exertion
  • Sharp stitch through r. nipple to inside of r. arm
  • Cold feeling in r. lung
  • Pressure at heart
  • Coldness at heart as if being frozen to death
  • Cold from within outward
  • Twitches about heart as if difficult for blood to get in or out
  • Tingling around heart
  • Trembling and coldness around heart
  • Oppression around heart
  • Beating of heart felt all over body
  • Heart bounds as if it had not room, whole body vibrates
  • Sticking pains, shooting from l. to r.
  • Stitches in heart
  • Soreness in heart, more under l. nipple
  • Pulse, 56-72
  • Full and jerky
  • Stiff neck
  • Aching in bones of neck
  • Painfulness of upper neck
  • Coldness across scapul
  • Chill in back from base of brain to buttock
  • Pain in back
  • Intense pain in lumbar muscles awakening him (with stitches in intestines)
  • Aching in r. kidney
  • Stitch pain in r. kidney
  • Numbness of r. arm and hand with trembling
  • Tingling in arms and hands
  • Tingling in palm of l. hand and along fingers
  • Drawing in l. hand, followed by tingling and prickling
  • Pains in hands, if holding anything for some time
  • Trembling of hands
  • Hands blue, cracked, and rough
  • Numb feeling around and down l. thigh
  • Pain in l. thigh and calf as if bruised
  • Numb feeling down r. leg
  • Coldness extending from knee to calf
  • Coldness of legs and feet
  • Boring, sharp pain on tibia of r. leg
  • Sensation of tight band around l. ankle
  • Trembling of limbs
  • Jerking of limbs
  • Tingling and burning of feet as if recovering from being frozen
  • Burning in feet, preventing sleep, had to put them out of bed
  • Sensation as if walking on sponge or as if feet swollen
  • Staggering gait
  • Tendency to turn to the r. when walking
  • When walking lifts feet higher than usual and puts down heel hard
  • Startled easily
  • Trembling, tired feeling
  • Very weak and nervous
  • Fainting
  • Intense aching in bones and all parts of body
  • Trembling of l. side
  • Hands shaky
  • Trembling can be controlled by effort of will
  • Trembling along nerves, in limbs (mainly thighs and arms), when in bed, often strong enough to wake him
  • Sometimes when quietly reading trembling will seize him shaking body so as to prevent reading (or writing)
  • For a few seconds at a time
  • The poison goes like lightning through the system, causing agony from head to foot
  • Though paralysed, every muscle and bone is the seat of pain
  • Pains proceed from part bitten to head and back
  • Great emaciation and lingering death
  • A condition like galloping consumption
  • Limb affected shrivels
  • All secretions dried up
  • Stretching relieves pains in muscles and limbs
  • Stitch pains going from l. to r.
  • Numb sensations
  • Weak, giddy, making it difficult to stand
  • "Blind staggers"
  • The animal bitten turns round in a circle and dies in twenty minutes
  • Unable to balance myself
  • Movement does not increase the pain
  • Throbbing all over body
  • Startled, trembling condition on slight noise
  • Bone pains
  • Great swelling of bitten limb
  • Intense pain
  • Gangrene
  • Itching of skin as from insects
  • Skin of hands very rough, cracked
  • Drowsiness, but inability to sleep
  • Restless sleep
  • Awakens at 3 a.m.
  • Vivid dream about giving a lecture in spite of feeling prostrate
  • Dreamed of the lizard
  • Dreamed of urinating in bed, but did not
  • Awoke and passed a large quantity
  • (This dream with consequent free micturition was repeated two nights in succession.)
  • Dreams repeated the same night
  • Awakened from sleep by jerking in head
  • Trembling of limbs
  • Pain in lumbar muscles
  • Awakened by feeling a cold sensation creeping down body and legs
  • In a very cold, clammy sweat, lasting till morning
  • Internal coldness
  • As if being frozen from within outward
  • Cold waves ascend from feet, or go downward from base of brain
  • Severe chill ran down back
  • Cold rings around body
  • Sensitive to cold
  • Shrinks from exposure
  • Feeling of heat in head and face, some headache over r. eyebrow
  • Hot flushes and burnings in head and along spine
  • Feet very hot
  • Heat throughout body
  • Soon passing off, followed by arctic coldness
  • Cold, clammy sweat

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