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Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • rheumatic diathesis
  • functional pain
  • altered secretions
  • deposits of solid earthy matter in tissues
  • rheumatism begins in feet and travels upward
  • eruption like poison-oak
  • antidotal to poison-oak
  • stings of insects
  • lack of animal heat
  • heat of bed intolerable
  • punctured wounds
  • cold wounded parts
  • tetanus with twitching of muscles near wound
  • vertigo when walking with tendency to fall to one side
  • distress when head is covered
  • nosebleed
  • aching in eyes
  • extravasation of blood in lids
  • extravasation of blood in conjunctiva
  • extravasation of blood in aqueous
  • extravasation of blood in vitreous
  • contused wounds
  • cataract with gout
  • red pimples on forehead and cheeks
  • stinging when touched
  • crusty eruption around nose and mouth
  • dry retching with eructation
  • musty taste with catarrhal affection
  • burning in nose
  • cough with bloody expectoration
  • dyspnea
  • chest feels constricted
  • suffocative arrest of breathing
  • pain along trachea
  • bronchitis with emphysema of aged
  • oppressive constriction of chest
  • tickling in larynx
  • spasmodic cough
  • hemoptysis alternating with rheumatism
  • chest hurts when touched
  • whooping-cough
  • spasmodic double inspiration with sobbing
  • anal fissures
  • hemorrhoidal pain
  • gouty pains shoot all through the foot and limb
  • gouty pains in joints especially small joints
  • swollen hot pale joints
  • throbbing in right shoulder
  • pressure in shoulder worse motion
  • cracking in joints worse warmth of bed
  • gouty nodosities
  • ball of great toe swollen
  • rheumatism begins in lower limbs and ascends
  • ankles swollen
  • soles painful can hardly step on them
  • easy spraining of ankle
  • coldness
  • want of animal heat
  • sensation as of cold water over parts
  • general coldness with heat of face
  • acne on forehead
  • sticking pain in acne
  • eczema facial
  • itching of feet and ankles worse scratching and warmth of bed
  • ecchymosis
  • long discoloration after injuries
  • carbuncles
  • antidote to rhus poisoning

Allen's Keynotes

  • adapted to the rheumatic, gouty diathesis; constitutions abused by alcohol
  • lack of animal or vital heat; the wounded parts especially are cold to touch
  • contusions of eye and lids, especially if much extravasation of blood; ecchymosis of lids and conjunctiva
  • punctured wounds by sharp pointed instruments, as awls, nails; rat bites, stings of insects, especially mosquitoes
  • long-remaining discoloration after injuries: \"black and blue\" places become green
  • rheumatism or gout; begins in lower limbs and ascends
  • joints become the seat of nodosities and \"gout stones\" which are painful
  • affects left shoulder and right hip-joint
  • pains are sticking, tearing, throbbing; rheumatic pains are < by motion
  • rheumatic pains: < at night, by warmth of bed and bed-covering; > only when holding feet in ice-water
  • swelling: of feet, up to knees; of ankle with unbearable pain when walking, as from a sprain or false step
  • ball of great toe swollen, painful; in heels as if bruised
  • intense itching of feet and ankles; < from scratching and warmth of bed
  • red pimples or tubercles on forehead and cheeks, as in brandy drinkers, stinging when touched

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