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Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Allen's Keynotes

  • persons of scrofulous diathesis, with dark or black hair and eyes
  • a low cachetic condition, with profound debility and great emaciation
  • great weakness and loss of breath on going upstairs
  • great weakness and loss of breath during menses
  • ravenous hunger; eats freely and well, yet loses flesh all the time
  • empty eructations from morning to nigh, as if every particle of food was turned into air
  • suffers from hunger, must eat every few hours
  • anxious and worried if he does not eat
  • feels > while eating or after eating, when stomach is full
  • itching: low down in the lungs, behind the sternum, causing cough; extends through bronchi to nasal cavity
  • hypertrophy and induration of glandular tissue - thyroid, mammae, ovaries, testes, uterus, prostate or other glands
  • breasts may dwindle and become flabby
  • hard goitre, in dark haired persons
  • hard goitre feels > after eating
  • palpitation, worse from least exertion
  • sensation as if the heart was squeezed together; as if grasped with an iron hand
  • leucorrhoea: acrid, corrosive, staining and corroding the linen; most abundant at time of menses
  • cancerous degeneration of the cervix; cutting pains in abdomen and haemorrhage at every stool
  • constipation, with ineffectual urging > by drinking cold milk
  • croup: membranous, hoarse, dry cough, worse in warm, wet weather; with wheezing and sawing respiration
  • child grasps at larynx
  • face pale and cold, especially in fleshy children
  • < warmth; wrapping up the head

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