LAUROCERASUS

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

Spasmodic tickling cough, especially in cardiac patients
Lack of reaction, especially in chest and heart affections
Drink rolls audibly through esophagus and intestines
General coldness, not ameliorated by warmth
Violent pain in stomach with loss of speech
Spasm of facial muscles and esophagus
Asphyxia neonatorum
Coldness
Chills and heat alternate
Thirst, with dry mouth in afternoon
Cyanosis and dyspnea, worse sitting up
Patient puts hands on heart
Cough, with valvular disease
Exercise causes pain around heart
Tickling, dry cough
Dyspnea
Constriction of chest
Cough, with copious, jelly-like, or bloody expectoration
Small and feeble pulse
Threatening paralysis of lungs
Gasping for breath
Clutches at heart
Mitral regurgitation
Clutching at heart and palpitation
Cyanosis neonatorum
Spells of deep sleep, with snoring and stertorous breathing
Toe and finger nails become knotty
Skin blue
Sprained pains in hips, thighs and heels
Cold, clammy feet and legs
Clubbing of fingers
Veins of hands distended

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Apoplexy, threatened
Asphyxia, neonatorum
Asthma
Cholera
Cholera infantum
Chorea
Climacteric sufferings
Convulsions
Cough
Cramps
Cyanosis
Diarrha
Dysmenorrha
Epilepsy
Heart, affections of
Liver, affections of
Metrorrhagia
Palpitation
Pneumonia, typhoid
Tetanus
Tumours
Whooping-cough
Coldness
Blueness
Epileptiform convulsions
Dry, tickling cough
Cough with jelly-like expectoration dotted with bloody points
Cyanosis of new-born infant and of heart disease
Gasping without really breathing
Twitching of muscles of the face
Clubbing of fingers
Lack of reactive power
Low vitality
Long-lasting faints
Face pale, blue
Surface cold
Prostrate before getting up in morning
Difficulty in opening eyes
Attacks of indigestion
Pains across lower abdomen
Gnawing pain in lower abdomen
Looseness of stool
Fluids roll audibly into stomach
Eruption is livid
Skin is long in regaining its colour after pressure
Suffocative spells about the heart
Gasping for breath
Internal coldness and external heat
Cold tongue
Heat of single parts
Warmth on centre of forehead, then a coldness as from a draught of air
Left chest most affected
Constricted sensations in gullet
Constricted sensations in rectum
Fatigue pervades the whole system
Painful condition of the hard and indurated tissue of the parts affected
Pain much > by sleep
Tendency to oozing of blood
Blood is generally bright and mixed with gelatinous clots
Pains start from the lower part of the spine and extend either round the pelvis or up to the head
Sense of suffocation
Sick feeling
Drowsiness
Great desire to sleep
Sleeplessness
Digestion is weak
Bowels confined
Low-spirited with flatulence
Burning in chest after food
Constant tired, sick feeling
Entire frame enfeebled
Inclined to loss of flesh
Hmorrhages that are small in quantity and bright in colour
Flatus is audible and gurgling and rolls about the upper abdomen
Constant jerks
Cannot keep still
Coolness of forehead as from draught of air
Weight on top of head
As if brain loose and falling into forehead when stooping
As if a heavy lump falling from abdomen to small of back
As if a veil before eyes
As if nose stopped
As if flies and spiders crawling over skin
As if tongue, mouth, and throat were burnt
As if abscess in region of liver would burst
As if lungs could not be sufficiently expanded
As if lungs pressed against spine
As if mucous membranes were dry
Stitches
Stiffness
Pressure
Extremely nervous, excitable condition accompanying ailments
Diarrha as of green mucus
Suffocative spells about heart
Dry, harassing cough of phthisis
Spasmodic cough of later stages of whooping-cough
Patient is much prostrated and has nervous spasmodic symptoms
Cough with valvular heart disease
Cough incessant, especially on lying down
Fluttering in heart
Gasping with cough
Alternation of chill, fever, and sweat in phthisis
Coughs continuously when lying down
Bending head forward > pressure in nape
Compelled to bend forward by contractive pain in groins
Suffocating spells about heart compel him to lie down
When she attempts to rise from recumbent posture, sensation of heavy lump falling from pit of stomach to back
Stooping <
Sitting < gasping
Feet to go to sleep
Crossing legs = feet to go to sleep
Motion < cough; = gasping
After dinner: Hunger; irresistible drowsiness
< Evening and night
Coldness in forehead and vertex is > in open air
Vertigo, and pressure in nape are <
External warmth does not > coldness
Approaching stove = nausea; cold
Being touched by water = burning between fingers
Mental dejection
Great anxiety, apprehension, and agitation
Repugnance to intellectual labour
Mental promptitude and precipitation
Inability to collect one's ideas
Weakness of memory
Fear and anxiety about imaginary evils
Intellectual incapacity
Mental dulness (insensibility) and loss of consciousness, with loss of speech and motion
Irritable, talks too much
Pains in shoulders and arms to tips of fingers
Loses the power to hold things in her hands
Intoxication
Stupefaction, with falling down, and loss of consciousness
Feeling of intoxication and vertigo, with drowsiness
Vertigo, on rising from a stooping posture, or on getting up from a seat, with what appears to be a veil before the sight, or with a sensation as if all objects were turning round
Vertigo < in the open air
Stupefying pain in the whole head
Stupefying headache, with a feeling of weight, and sensation, on stooping, as if the brain fell forwards and struck against the cranium
Brain feels contracted and painful
Stitches in head
Itching of hairy scalp
Very violent pressive headache in a room
Constant feeling of coldness in head
Sensation of coldness in forehead and vertex, as if a cold wind were blowing on it, descending through neck to back; < in room, > in open air
Feeling as if ice lay on vertex
Congestion in the head, with heat and throbbing
Pulsation in head, with heat or with coldness
Headache disappears, with a sensation of coldness in vertex, forehead, in nape of neck, extending to loins
Headache in r. temple
Burning pain in eyes
Dryness of eyes
Eyes widely open, or half-closed, convulsed, prominent, and fixed
Pupils dilated, and immovable
Darkness before the eyes; obscuration of sight
Eyes distorted
All objects appear larger than they really are
Hardness of hearing
Tingling in ears
Itching in ears
Nose feels stopped up; no air passes through
Coryza with sore throat
Sunken face
Countenance pale, sallow, and grey
Face wan, or bloated and swollen
Distortion of the features
Cramps in the jaws
Twitching in muscles of face
Eruption round mouth
Titillation in the face, as if flies and spiders were crawling over the skin
Lock-jaw
Painful sensations in the under jaw and lower teeth
Mouth dry and clammy
Froth at the mouth
Sensation of coldness on tongue
Loss of speech
Dry and rough tongue
White and dry tongue
Tongue feels cold, or burnt and numb
Swelling and stiffness of l. side of tongue
Sore throat with painful sensation, as if it were drawn downwards, during deglutition and at other times
Cramps in pharynx and sophagus
Audible gulping when drinking
Deglutition is hindered or obstructed
Contraction of sophagus when drinking
Drink rolls audibly through sophagus and intestines
Dull sticking pain as from a lump in throat, which extends to l. side of back
Sensation of swelling in pharynx
Sensation of coldness, or heat and burning pain in throat, and in bottom of palate
Sweetish, or acrid and irritating taste
Ardent thirst, with dryness of mouth
Entire loss of appetite, with clean tongue
Want of appetite, with repugnance to all food
Excessive craving
Sinking between meals, husky voice, brings up phlegm streaked with blood
Violent risings, either empty, or having taste of food
Excessive disgust, nausea, and vomiting, even of food
Hiccough
Bitter eructations
Violent pain in stomach, with loss of speech
Burning in stomach and abdomen, or coldness
Contractive pain in region of stomach, and cutting pain in abdomen
Vomiting of black matter
Aching of stomach
Pains in stomach, sufficiently violent to cause fainting
Great anguish in precordial region
Sensation of coldness, or burning in stomach, and in epigastrium
Inflammation of stomach
Weak digestion with confined bowels
Sticking pains in liver with pressure
Distension of region of liver, with pains, as from subcutaneous ulceration
Induration of liver
Atrophic nutmeg liver
Colic below navel, with incisive pain in intestines
Sensation of swelling, of size of a walnut, in l. side of abdomen
Cuttings, cramps, and contractions in abdomen
Sensation of coldness, or heat and burning in abdomen
Inflammation of intestines
Pains in l. intestine
Flatulent colic
Borborygmi, rumbling, and grumbling in abdomen and in stomach
Pinching in umbilical region
Flatulence pressure outward at perinum; pressing on bladder
Pressure and tension beneath both Poupart's ligaments as if a part would press through
Contractive pains in groins; compelled to bend up for two hours
Sharp stitches in groins
Constipation
Hard and tenacious evacuations, with straining
Ineffectual urging to stool, with emission of wind only
Diarrha, with tenesmus, incisive and burning pains in anus
Diarrha of green, slimy matter, with contraction in groins
Involuntary stools
Paralysis of sphincter ani
Cramp in rectum extends upwards from anus
Fine sticking in rectum after urging to stool
A stitch as with an awl in rectum during stool, which shoots from above downwards, and is followed by discharge of some pasty fces
Three tearings in succession in rectum
Constriction of the rectum
Itching or crawling in rectum as from worms
No stool or urine is discharged
Retention of urine
Pale yellow, watery urine
Frothy, acrid urine
Thick, reddish sediment in urine
Involuntary emission of urine
Paralysis of bladder
Pain in region of stomach during emission of urine
Increased sexual desire
Gangrene of genital parts
Sticking pain above r. pubis, extending along spermatic cord, while lying and on moving about
Voluptuous itching beneath prepuce with desire for coition
Catamenia too early and too abundant blood thin
Nightly tearing in vertex
Menorrhagia, blood dark, in large clots, during climaxis
Metrorrhagia in tumour case
Tearing in head, odontalgia, and cuttings, during catamenia
Severe pain in sacral region extending to pubis with dizziness and dimness of vision; cold extremities; cold tongue; great melancholy
Dysmenorrha; colic first day, headache second day all over head, with or without sick feeling
Relieves the pain of uterine and rectal cancer
Attacks of suffocation, with palpitation and a sort of gasping for breath; must lie down sometimes to find relief
Burning and stinging in and below mamm
Needle-like stitches in and beneath l. breast
Creeping or moving stitches in female breast, whereby the skin becomes sensitive to touch lasting a long time
Hoarseness, roughness, and scraping in throat and pharynx
Deep bass voice
Spasmodic constriction of the trachea
Little short cough, excited by a tickling and scraping in throat
Abundant gelatinous expectoration, with small specks of blood
Persistent cough in phthisis trachealis
Slow, weak, anxious respiration
Rattling, stertorous respiration
Obstruction to respiration in region of stomach
Asthmatic respiration as if lungs were incapable of being sufficiently dilated, or as if they were paralysed
Pressure on chest
Constriction of chest, with oppression
Burning and stitches in chest
In pulmonic affections, where the patient coughs and spits a great amount of phlegm, which is sprinkled over and through with distinct dots of blood
Affections of l. chest
Breast-scirrhus swells up suddenly, looks dark and angry, with shooting pains
Pains in region of heart
Slow and irregular beating of heart
The patient puts his hand to his heart, as if there was some trouble there; this may result from running a short distance, which puts him completely out of breath; going upstairs, walking, any exercise may bring, this on
Painful stiffness in l. side of neck and nape
Compressed feeling in shoulders and nape, as well as in arms and back, with sudden palpitation which wakes her up at night
Pressure in nape
Spinal irritation; pain down back every four hours, darting up to head and chest and causing a feeling of suffocation, with constant sick feeling and drowsiness
Sensation of a heavy lump falling from just above umbilicus to small of back
Painful stiffness in small of back, when writing
Stitches in r. side of small of back
Severe pain in sacral region extending to pubis
Burning in coccyx
Acute drawings and shootings in shoulders and in arms
Pressure on r. shoulder or in the joint
In r. shoulder, pains as from lameness and stitches
Stitch in both elbows
Pain, as if sprained, in r. wrist-joint
Burning sensation in hands, with swelling of the veins
Trembling of hands
Skin dry and rough between the fingers, with burning when touched with water
Acute drawings and shootings in knees
Pain, as if sprained in l. hip-joint
Sticking in l. knee
The feet go to sleep (when crossing legs or sitting)
Ulcerated pains in lower part of heels
Stiffness of feet after rising from a seat
Numbness of feet
Weak, anmic, emaciated girls
Weak, apathetic, lies in bed in morning
Suffocation, sickness, drowsiness
Convulsive and spasmodic jerks, by fits
Internal inflammation
Trembling, esp. of hands and feet, during exercise in open air
Sudden weakness, with excessive nervous dejection
Apoplexy, and paralysis of limbs
Painless paralysis of the limbs
Fainting fits
Drawing and tearing pains in limbs
Pinching with sensation of tearing
Coldness of inner parts; heat of single part; internal chilliness and external heat
Want of vital energy, and of reaction
Sense of fatigue in whole body
Epileptic convulsions, with foaming at mouth, which is tightly closed
Tetanus
Painlessness of the ailments
Pulse small
Skin turns blue; toe- and finger-nails become knobby
Symptoms < in evening
> at night, and in open air
> from sleep
Frequent yawning, often accompanied by shuddering, with cutis anserina
Insurmountable inclination to sleep during day and early in evening
Deep snoring sleep
Soporous condition
Somnolence, sometimes like coma vigil
Sleeplessness from over-excitement, and sudden heat
Troublesome and agitated dreams
Chilliness and febrile shivering, which are removed neither by heat of fire, nor by that of bed
Shuddering, with cutis anserina, followed by burning heat
Chilliness and heat in alternation
Heat running down the back
Perspiration during the heat and continuing all night
Perspiration after eating
Coldness over whole body, but esp. in feet, principally in open air
Want of natural heat
Pulse feeble, slow, and irregular, often imperceptible, again more rapid, seldom full and hard

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