Boericke's Materia Medica
- Persistent nausea
- Vomiting
- Indigestion from rich food
- Catching cold in warm, moist weather
- Bright-red and profuse hemorrhages
- Irritability
- Contemptuousness
- Feeling of crushed skull bones
- Pain extending from head to teeth and root of tongue
- Inflamed, red eyes
- Pain through eyeballs
- Profuse lachrymation
- Dim cornea
- Eye strain from near vision
- Changing vision
- Nausea from looking at moving objects
- Blue rings around eyes
- Periodical orbital neuralgia
- Photophobia
- Smarting eyelids
- Coryza with stoppage of nose
- Epistaxis
- Clean tongue
- Moist mouth with much saliva
- Pale, twitching face
- Vomiting food, bile, blood, mucus
- Relaxed stomach
- Hiccough
- Amebic dysentery with tenesmus
- Pain during straining that causes nausea
- Cutting, clutching abdominal pain, worse around the navel
- Rigid body
- Stools pitch-like, green as grass, like frothy molasses
- Griping at navel
- Dysenteric, slimy stools
- Profuse, bright, gushing uterine hemorrhage with nausea
- Vomiting during pregnancy
- Pain from navel to uterus
- Early and profuse menses
- Dyspnea
- Constant constriction in chest
- Asthma
- Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of breathing
- Continued sneezing
- Coryza
- Wheezing cough
- Incessant and violent cough with every breath
- Chest feels full of phlegm, but does not yield to coughing
- Bubbling rales
- Suffocative cough
- Child becomes stiff and blue in the face
- Whooping-cough with nosebleed and bleeding from mouth
- Bleeding from lungs with nausea
- Feeling of constriction
- Rattling cough
- Croup
- Hemoptysis from slightest exertion
- Hoarseness, especially at end of a cold
- Complete aphonia
- Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine
- Slightest chill with much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnea
- Relapses from improper diet
- Sleep with eyes half open
- Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep
- Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other
- Pale, lax skin
- Blue around eyes
- Miliary rash
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Anmia
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- Catarrh
- Cholera
- Consumption
- Convulsions
- Cough
- Deafness
- Diarrha
- Dysentery
- Enteric fever
- Eyes, affections of
- Gall-stone colic
- Gastric Ulcer
- Hmatemesis
- Hmorrhage
- Hmorrhoids
- Hysteria
- Intermittent fever
- Menstruation, disorders of
- Opium habit
- Pregnancy, disorders of
- Remittent fever
- Salivation
- Tetanus
- Toothache
- Vomiting
- Whooping-cough
- Worm-fever
- Yellow-fever
- Constant nausea
- Feeling as if stomach were hanging down relaxed
- Disgust at stomach for food
- Empty vomiting
- Vomiting of bile
- Vomiting of blood
- Moroseness and contempt for everything
- Disdainful humour
- Crying and screaming
- Full of desires they know not for what
- Nausea through all the stages
- Stages completely mixed up short chill, followed by long fever
- Bone pains
- Pains as if bones were all torn to pieces
- Dry, spasmodic, constricted, asthmatic cough
- Violent degree of dyspna, with wheezing and great weight, and anxiety about the precordia
- Threatened suffocation from accumulation of mucus
- Spasmodic rigidity
- Child loses breath, turns pale, stiff, and blue; strangling with gagging and vomiting of mucus; bleeding from nose or mouth
- Mental depression with tissue irritability
- Bright red blood flow
- Threatened abortion; often with a sharp pain around the umbilicus, which runs downward to the uterus, with constant nausea and discharge of bright red blood
- Discharge of blood before the proper period
- Metrorrhagia, often after confinement, which is heralded by a low pulse, nausea, &c.; there is a steady flow of bright red blood, which may soak through the bed to the floor, or may run over the foot of the bed
- Menstruation too early and too profuse
- Deficient labour pains, and with the pains there is a great deal of suffering, but no good is accomplished, the suffering is caused by the above-named pain about the umbilicus, moving to the uterus
- Pains run from above down; some from left to right (cutting pain in abdomen)
- Headache as if bruised, all through the bones of the head and down into the root of the tongue
- Brain feels bruised, pain piercing to roots of teeth
- Sick headache originating in the stomach, the nausea preceding the headache and persisting all through
- Constrictive and contusive headaches seated in left parietal region, coming on every day at 11 a.m., increasing gradually until the pain became intolerable, then decreasing in the same manner
- Granulations of the lids
- Subacute inflammation of the cornea, with intense pain and great photophobia
- Pustular conjunctivitis, especially in children
- Inflammation with tearing pain and gushing of tears
- Violent neuralgia of eyeballs, shooting in the head, with gushes of tears, nausea, &c
- Gall-stone colic
- External chilliness with internal heat
- Cannot endure the least noise
- Cries and howling (of children)
- Anxiety and fear of death
- Moroseness, with contempt for everything
- Disdainful humour
- Desire for a number of things, without knowing exactly which
- Irritability, and disposition to be angry
- Ailments from mortification or vexation, with indignation
- Impatience
- Slowness of conception
- Vertigo when walking, and when turning round, with tottering and staggering
- Pain, as of a bruise, in all the bones of the head, as far as the root of the tongue (with nausea and vomiting)
- Headache as of a bruise of the brain and skull, which pierces through all the cranial bones into roots of teeth, with nausea
- As if brain compressed
- Attacks of headache, with nausea and vomiting
- Tearing in the forehead, excited or aggravated by being touched
- Lancinating headache, with heaviness of the head
- Stitches in the vertex (or forehead)
- Painful pressure on the forehead
- Pain in the occiput and nape of the neck
- Hydrocephaloid
- Eyes red and inflamed
- Neuralgia of eyes, esp. r., extended to nose and mouth; in evening biting and pressure in eyes; he was awakened between 2 and 3 a.m. by tearing pains in eyes, esp. r., radiating to forehead and driving him out of bed, < from strong light, accompanied by chilliness, heat, sweat
- Eyelids closed, painful expression of face; the pillow was soaked with tears which flowed freely on opening r. eye
- Twitching of l. upper lid with three black spots before sight on lifting lid
- Scrofulous ophthalmia, pain in forehead and temples, photophobia and corneal ulceration
- Conjunctiva rose-coloured; cornea opaque; sight gone from r. eye, could not read, evening, from being dazzled by candle-light, which appeared multiplied five or six times; next morning fiery iridescent rings before l. eye, which had been less affected
- Humour in the corners of the eyes
- Trembling of the eyelids
- Twitching of the eyelids
- Hardened mucus in the external canthi
- Pupils dilated
- Confused sight
- Coldness and chilliness of the ears (during the febrile heat)
- Epistaxis
- Loss of smell
- Coryza, with stoppage of the nose
- Pale, earthy, or yellowish colour of the face, which is bloated, with livid circles round the eyes
- Convulsive startings of the muscles of the face
- Lips covered with small aphth and eruptions
- Rash in the face
- Fine branny eruption on face, with or without irritation
- Pityriasis
- Pain, as from excoriation, in the lips
- Convulsive startings of the lips
- Redness of the skin round the mouth
- Odontalgia by fits, as if a tooth were being extracted
- Toothache > while eating; < afternoon and night
- Toothache < by day; pain every few minutes with a jerk radiating into r. temple and nose, as if tooth being extracted
- Painful sensibility of all parts of the mouth
- Smarting in mouth and on (margins of) tongue
- Copious secretion of saliva
- Constantly obliged to swallow saliva
- Saliva runs from mouth on lying down
- Tongue: clean; white or yellow; pale
- Sore throat, during deglutition, as from swelling of the pharynx
- Difficult deglutition, as from paralysis of the tongue and of the gullet
- Spasmodic contractive sensation in the throat
- Fauces, stinging, rough, sore, and dry
- Insipid and clammy, or bitter taste, esp. in the morning
- Sweetish taste, as of blood in the mouth
- Desire only for delicacies and things sweetened with sugar
- Want of appetite; the stomach feels relaxed
- Bad effects from eating pork, veal, &c
- Gastric catarrh from indigestible food, or from ice-cold things
- Adipsia
- Beer has an insipid taste
- Tobacco smoke is nauseous, and causes vomiting
- Great repugnance and dislike to all food
- Water-brash
- Nausea, as if proceeding from the stomach, with copious salivation, violent itching in the skin, and empty risings
- Retching, esp. after drinking anything cold, or after smoking
- Vomiting of drink, and of undigested food; or else of bilious, greenish, or acid, or mucous, gelatinous matter, sometimes immediately after a meal
- Vomiting of blood
- Vomiting, with sweat, heat, fetid breath, and thirst
- Vomiting with diarrha
- Vomiting on stooping
- Vomiting of black matter, like pitch
- Sensation of excessive uneasiness in the stomach and epigastrium
- Horrid, indescribable pain and sick feeling in the stomach
- Sensation, as if the stomach were empty and flaccid
- Swelling in the region of the stomach
- Pinching round the epigastrium and in the region of the hypochondria
- Pressure on the stomach with vomiting
- Cutting and pinching in the abdomen (as from a hand, each finger sharply pressing into intestines), < in the highest degree by movement, > by repose
- Pinching pain in both hypochondria, and in region of pit of stomach
- Pain, as from excoriation in the abdomen
- Colic, with agitation, tossing, and cries (in children)
- Colic, with cramp-like pains
- Incisive pains, in the umbilical region, with shuddering
- Flatulent colic, with frequent diarrhic stools
- Colic of strangulated hernia
- Loose evacuations, like matter in a state of fermentation (like yeast)
- Obstinate diarrha
- Loose evacuations, greenish, or yellow- (lemon-) coloured, of a putrid smell, or sanguineous, bilious, and mucous
- Stools: grassy-green; of white mucus
- Loose serous evacuations
- Diarrha, with nausea, colic (and vomiting)
- Autumnal diarrha; much griping about the navel
- Diarrha of children inclining to dysentery
- Dysenteric evacuations, with white flocks, and followed by tenesmus
- Evacuation of black matter like pitch
- Hmorrhoids bleed profusely
- Itching of anus
- Turbid urine, with sediment like brick-dust
- Red and scanty urine
- Unsuccessful urging to urinate
- Sanguineous urine, with pains in the region of the bladder, and of the navel, burning sensation in the urethra, inclination to vomit, and pain in the loins and in the pit of the stomach
- Discharge of pus from the urethra, with biting pain
- Troublesome sensation, as of bearing down towards the genital parts, and towards the anus
- Menstruation too early and too profuse
- Metrorrhagia, with discharge of bright red and coagulated blood, with oppressed breathing
- Steady flow of bright red blood after confinement
- In labour and threatened miscarriage pains fly from l. to r., with nausea
- Catamenia premature, and too thick
- Stitches from navel to uterus
- Cough, esp. at night, with painful shocks in the head and stomach, and with loathing, retching, and vomiting
- Cough catching the breath, even to suffocation; during the attacks the child gets quite stiff, its face blue
- Rattling noise in the bronchial tubes when drawing breath
- Dry cough, excited by a contractive tickling in the larynx (particularly in the upper part), extending to the extremity of the bronchia, esp. when lying on l. side
- Cough, which resembles whooping-cough, with bleeding from the nose and mouth, and vomiting of food
- Cough, with spitting of blood, provoked by the least effort
- Spasmodic cough, dry, shaking, with fits of suffocation, stiffness of the body, and bluish face
- Cough as from vapour of sulphur, with expectoration of blood with mucus in the morning
- Suffocative cough in the evening; continuous cough with perspiration on the forehead, shocks in the head, retching and vomiting
- Anxious and short respiration
- Quick, anxious breathing
- The breath smells fetid
- Suffocative attacks in the room; > in the open air
- Whooping-cough; every fresh attack sets in with a long-drawn, difficult, howling, sighing inspiration
- Spasmodic asthma, with contraction of the larynx, and panting respiration
- Sighing respiration
- Oppression of the chest, and shortness of breath, as if dust had been inhaled
- Loss of breath on the least movement
- Spasms in the chest
- Pain, as of excoriation in the chest
- Palpitation of the heart
- Red itching spots on the chest, with burning after scratching
- Swelling and suppuration in the throat-pit
- Cramp pain between the scapul during motion
- Tetanic stiffness and bending of the back, backwards or forwards
- Coldness of one hand while the other is hot
- Convulsive startings of the legs and of the feet (not in the upper limbs)
- Pain, as from dislocation, in the hip-joint, when sitting
- Nocturnal cramps in the muscles of the thigh, with lumps in the thighs
- Violent itching in the calves of the legs
- Ulcers, with black bases on the legs, and on the foot
- Pain, as from a bruise, in all the bones
- Tingling in the joints, as when numbed
- Fits of uneasiness, with dislike to all food, and excessive and sudden debility
- Nausea, with almost all ailments
- Bleeding from different organs; hmorrhages from all the orifices of the body (bright red)
- Too great sensibility to cold and to heat
- Tetanus; spasms and convulsions of different kinds; sometimes with bending backwards of the head, and distortion of the features; or with loss of consciousness; face pale and bloated, eyes half closed, convulsive movements of the muscles of the face, lips, eyelids, and limbs, at times with cries, inclination to vomit, and rattling of mucus in the chest
- Dropsy of internal parts
- Chlorosis, menses scanty; skin and mucous surfaces pale, anmic
- Excessive emaciation
- Miliary eruptions, violent itching in the skin (of the thighs and of the arms)
- Sleeplessness
- Sleep, with the eyes half open
- Agitated sleep, with groans
- During sleep, starting of the limbs
- Frightful dreams, with frequent starts and terror during sleep
- Pulse very frequent, but at times scarcely perceptible
- Shuddering, with coldness in the limbs and in the face
- Chill of short duration and soon changing to heat
- Coldness, esp. in the hands and feet, with cold and copious perspiration on those parts
- External chilliness with internal heat
- Aggravation of the shivering from external heat
- Internal chilliness, as if under the skin, < from heat
- Before the shiverings, uneasiness, stretching, and lassitude, with cold sweat on the forehead, or coldness, or shivering, in the ears
- Sudden heat in a room, with sweat and vertigo
- Thirst during the shivering or coldness
- Fever, manifesting itself by much shivering, with little heat, or by much heat with little shivering; or with nausea, vomiting, and other gastric symptoms, tongue clean or loaded, and constrictive oppression of the chest
- Fever in the evening, with great inquietude, dry and troublesome heat, burning in the palms of the hands, and nocturnal sweat
- After a short chill dry heat, with parchment-like skin
- During the heat no thirst
- Perspiration smelling sour (with turbid urine)
- Intermittent fever; nausea and vomiting predominate; slight chills are followed by much heat, with thirst and no subsequent perspiration, consequent upon the abuse of quinine; slight chilliness without thirst, afterwards violent heat, with thirst, nausea and vomiting, dyspna, stitches in the chest, finally copious perspiration
- Damp coldness of the hands and feet
Allen's Keynotes
- adapted to cases where the gastric symptoms predominate
- tongue clean or slightly coated
- all diseases with constant and continual nausea
- nausea with profuse saliva
- vomiting of white glairy mucus in large quantities without relief
- sleepy after vomiting
- nausea worse from stooping
- nausea from the primary effects of tobacco
- nausea of pregnancy
- stomach feels relaxed as if hanging down
- clutching squeezing griping in stomach as from a hand each finger sharply pressing into intestines
- stomach symptoms worse from motion
- flatulent cutting colic about umbilicus
- stool grassy-green
- stool of white mucus
- stool bloody
- stool fermented foamy slimy like frothy molasses
- autumnal dysentry during cold nights after hot days
- asiatic cholera first symptoms where nausea and vomiting predominate
- haemorrhage active or passive bright-red from all the orifices of the body
- uterine haemorrhage profuse clotted
- heavy oppressed breathing during haemorrhage
- stitches from navel to uterus
- cutting pains across abdomen from left to right
- cough dry spasmodic constricted asthmatic
- difficult breathing from least exercise
- violent dyspnoea with wheezing and anxiety about the stomach
- whooping-cough where child loses breath turns pale stiff and blue
- strangling with gagging and vomiting of mucus
- bleeding from nose or mouth during whooping-cough
- cough with rattling of mucus in bronchi when inspiring
- threatened suffocation from mucus
- pains as if bones were all torn to pieces
- intermittent fever in beginning of irregular cases
- intermittent fever with nausea or from gastric disturbance
- intermittent fever after abuse of or suppression from quinine
- intermittent dyspepsia every other day at same hour
- fever with persistent nausea
- oversensitive to heat and cold
- worse in winter and dry weather
- worse from warm moist south winds
- worse from slightest motion
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