Boericke's Materia Medica
- Tormented about her salvation
- Consolation aggravates
- Profound depression of spirits
- Constant inclination to weep
- Anxious
- Fears some organic and incurable disease
- Disposed to curse
- Strike
- Think obscene things
- Aimless, hurried manner
- Must keep busy
- Hot, dull, heavy head
- Faint in warm room
- Wild feeling in head
- Hyperesthesia of retina
- Pain extending back into head
- Lachrymation
- Impaired vision
- Myopic astigmia
- Flatulent stomach
- Nausea with sensation of lump in stomach
- Hungry
- Longs for meat
- Thirsty
- Drinks often and much and before severe symptoms
- Abdomen sore, distended
- Trembling sensation in abdomen
- Pressure downwards and backwards against rectum and anus worse standing better walking in open air
- Bearing down in lower part of abdomen
- Frequent urging
- Urine milky, scanty, hot
- Constant desire to defecate from pressure in rectum worse standing
- Pressure down the anus
- Early-morning urgent stool
- Dysentery mucus and blood with tenesmus especially in plethoric and nervous women at change of life
- Sensation as if heart were grasped in a vise
- Feels full to bursting
- Pulsations over whole body
- Palpitation
- Irregular pulse
- Very rapid pulse
- Pain in cardiac region with feeling of a load on chest
- Cold feeling about heart
- Suffocating feeling in a crowded and warm room
- Angina pectoris with pain in right arm
- Menses early, scanty, dark, clotted, offensive flow only when moving about
- Bearing down sensation with urgent desire for stool as though all organs would escape ceases when resting
- Congestion of uterus, prolapse, and anteversion
- Constant desire to support parts externally
- Pain in ovaries and down thighs
- Acrid, brown leucorrhea smarting in labia
- Sexual instinct awakened
- Bloated feeling in uterine region
- Sub-involution
- Pruritus pudendi
- Cannot walk on uneven ground
- Pain in back and spine with trembling but oftener in front of a pressing-down character
- Pricking in fingers
- Pain in right arm and hip
- Legs ache
- Cannot keep them still
- Pain in ankle joint
- Burning palms and soles
- Unrefreshing sleep with disagreeable dreams
- Unable to sleep with wild feeling in head
- Great heat and lassitude in afternoon with throbbing throughout body
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Angina pectoris
- Asthenopia
- Astigmatism
- Dementia
- Diarrhea
- Dysentery
- Eyes, affections of
- Fibroma
- Heart, affections of
- Palpitation of
- Hysteria
- Ovaries, affections of
- Dropsy of ovaries
- Pruritus vulvae
- Spinal irritation
- Urination, too frequent
- Uterus, affections of
- Displacements of uterus
- Subinvolution of uterus
- Increased activity
- Increased sexual instinct
- Sweetish nausea without inclination to vomit
- Abnormal fullness after eating ever so little
- Ill-humour
- Drowsiness
- Sleep with unpleasant dreams
- Bloating chiefly across hips in uterine region
- Darting pains in head and lower abdomen from ovaries down thighs
- Pressure in vagina
- Pain at top of sacrum extending to hips
- Crazy feeling with thoughts of suicide
- Head grows wild after being quiet for a short time
- Increased depressing weight over parting
- Knees ache
- Downward dragging from shoulders
- Downward dragging from thorax
- Downward dragging from left breast
- Downward dragging from epigastrium down to pelvis
- Downward dragging out at the vagina as if everything would be forced through
- Thin brown leucorrhea leaving a brown stain
- Downward pressure involving the rectum and bladder and loins
- Consciousness of the ovaries as distinct painful and burning spots with pains radiating from them down the thighs
- Menses came at regular times but flowed only as long as she kept moving
- Much hurried and driven, she knows not why
- Sudden fluttering sensation in heart less felt if she can busy herself very much
- Faintness accompanied the fluttering as though she could make no exertion but must sit still
- Sharp pain in apex of heart
- Burning pain from groin to groin
- Obscene thoughts
- Disposition to strike
- Disposition to swear
- Menses recurred after only two weeks' interval
- Pelvic distress affecting bladder, rectum, and back
- Intermittent heart action followed by a violent throb causing an involuntary catching of the breath
- Blood rushed up through the carotids to the head producing great heat and a crowded feeling of head and face
- Feeling of exhaustion as if the blood were pushed outward
- Blinding headache as if all the blood were pressing outward through every aperture
- Sensation as if a rubber band were stretched tightly from temple to temple
- Sensation as if a skullcap were crushing the head
- Sensation as if the brain was being pushed through eyes and ears
- Contractive pains at the heart as if grasped with a hand
- Intermittent heart pressure alternate spasm and relaxation
- Pain and numbness in the right arm along with the heart pain
- Alternation between heart pains and uterine or ovarian pains
- Wandering pains
- Flying pains
- Shooting pains
- Squeezing pains and relaxing
- Opening and shutting pains
- Burning pains
- Radiating pains
- Pains radiate from ovary to heart to left breast
- Pains radiate down legs especially left
- Pains radiate across to opposite ovary
- Pains radiate through left breast to back
- Pains radiate from ilium to ilium
- Pains radiate across sacrum
- Pulling-up sensation from the tip of the coccyx
- Sensation in the abdomen as if the contents were tied up in knots
- Backache
- Fever and sweat during the night
- Fear of dying
- Lump in centre of chest with nausea which could be moved down by empty swallowing
- Electric current sensation in fingers and hands
- Cool wind sensation blowing on lower extremities
- Left side most markedly affected
- Intense restlessness
- Nervous system irritable, weak, trembling
- Aimless hurry
- Walks to and fro
- Convulsive contractions of almost all muscles of body
- Feeling as if she would be crazy if she did not hold tightly upon herself
- Feeling as if she must scream
- Cannot walk on uneven ground
- Burning palms and soles
- Depression of spirits
- Inclination to weep
- Timidity
- Apprehensiveness
- Tormented about tier salvation with uterine complaints
- Constant hurried feeling, as of imperative duties and utter inability to perform them during sexual excitement
- Disposed to curse, to strike, to think of obscene things
- Does not wish to be alone, prefers society
- Very low-spirited
- Weeping with feeling of dread
- Crazy, wild feeling on top of head
- Thoughts of suicide
- Mistakes in speaking
- Uses wrong words
- Forgetful
- Desire for fine things
- Dissatisfied with tier own, envious of others
- Headache esp. if depending on uterine disorders
- Dull pain in forehead and fullness over the eyes
- Hot pain
- Blinding pain in forehead and temples
- Pressure outward in head
- Headache on waking
- Headache worse in open air
- Headache better at sunset
- Headache with heaviness as if too full of blood
- Blowing blood from nose
- Desire to support head with hands
- Neuralgia over l. eye to vertex
- Neuralgia in temples alternately l. and r.
- Pressure and crazy feeling in vertex
- Pain in occiput and over eyes
- Wild look
- Hypermetropia
- Presbyopia
- Vision dim
- Vision confused
- Disposition to cover eyes and press upon them
- Pains extending back into head from eyes
- Burning after reading and writing with weak feeling
- Blurred vision with heat in eyes and lids
- Muscae volitantes
- Neuralgia in r. ear
- Rushing sounds in ears after going to bed
- Rubbed her nose violently
- Discharge thin, clear from nose
- Discharge yellow mucus from nose
- Nose stopped
- Face l. flushed, with heat
- Pain in r. cheek-bone, with stoppage of r. nostril
- Pain in l. cheek extending into ear and temple
- Pain in r. jaw with feeling of elongation in teeth
- Darting pain from l. teeth to ear
- Tongue coated yellowish white in patches
- Mouth and throat feel coated on waking in the night
- Saliva abundant
- Taste bloody, afternoon
- Taste peculiar
- Taste foul > eating
- Enlargement cif r. tonsil, with exudation
- Soreness and dryness in throat
- Feeling of lump in throat, with pulsations when lying
- Appetite great esp. for meat
- Appetite great as if in back, extending to occiput and over vertex
- Desire for sour or sweet dainties, alternating with disgust for food
- Appetite lost
- Aversion to coffee
- Aversion to bread
- Thirst
- Eructations
- Hiccough
- Nausea < from tobacco
- Nausea with inability to vomit
- Nausea with pain in back
- Nausea with fulness in abdomen
- Nausea, with hawking of mucus
- Sensation of a lump in centre of chest
- Sensation of a hard body rolling around in stomach, > at night
- Vomiting of chyme and thin yellow mucus
- Vomiting finally bloody
- Hollow, empty sensation in stomach and bowels
- Faintness at epigastrium with tasteless eructations
- Distension of abdomen
- Rumbling
- Emission of flatus
- Dragging down of whole abdominal contents, extending even to organs of chest
- Must support the abdomen
- Bubbling in r. hypochondrium
- Lancinations from l. hypochondrium to crest of ilium
- Dragging downward and backward in abdomen
- Sensation as if diarrhea would come on
- Sensation of diarrhea passing off by urinating
- Trembling sensation in pelvis, extending down thighs
- Feeling as if menses coming on
- Grasping pains across hypogastrium > gentle rubbing with warm hand
- Pressure on rectum and bladder with almost constant desire to go to stool immediately
- Morning diarrhea in cases with prolapsus of uterus
- Morning diarrhea
- Stools loose, bilious
- Stools dark, offensive, very urgent, can't wait a moment
- Stool preceded by griping pains or great urging, with pressure in the rectum
- Stool followed by smarting, burning of anus and rectum
- Pressure on perineum
- Constipation hard and dark stools
- Constipation then heat in rectum and anus and pain in abdomen
- Frequent urination during day, with smarting in urethra
- Continuous pressure in bladder
- Constant desire to urinate, with scanty discharge
- Burning and smarting in urethra after urination
- Urine milky in morning
- Urine clear and white
- Urine like boiling oil
- Urine strong-smelling
- Urine phosphatic
- Urine copious
- Urine sediment white or red
- Testes swollen and tender to touch
- Testes sore in morning, and heavy
- Neuralgia in l. testes
- Desire increased
- Prostration from coitus, with irritability from suppression of desire
- Emission towards morning
- Bearing down, with sensation of heavy weight and pressure in uterine region, as if whole contents would press out through vagina
- Sharp pains in ovarian region
- Grasping pain in l. ovarian region and groin, with pain in right hip, extending into thigh
- Pains in ovaries extending into inside of thighs
- Pains in r. ovary and back
- Ovaries sore on pressure, < r. side
- Aching and burning pain in ovaries
- Feeling like live coals in ovaries
- Gnawing dragging in r. ovary < walking
- Severe neuralgic pain in uterus
- Could not bear touch in uterus
- Anteversion
- Retroversion
- Prolapsus
- Fundus of uterus low down, tilted against bladder, the os pressing upon rectum
- Bearing down in uterus, with pains in l. ovary and mamma
- Voluptuous itching in vagina, with feeling of fullness of parts
- Stinging in l. ovarian region
- Sexual desire increased
- Sexual desire ending in orgasm
- Sexual desire with hurried feeling
- Sexual desire > during physical effort
- Disposition to use obscene language
- Leucorrhea bright yellow, acrid, excoriating
- Leucorrhea leaving a brown stain
- Leucorrhea after menses
- Menses continue only when moving about, and cease when sitting or lying down
- Amenorrhea accompanied with cardiac distress
- Amenorrhea with ovarian pains of a burning or stinging character
- Amenorrhea if complicated with prolapsed or anteverted uterus
- Amenorrhea partial, the menses returning occasionally, or again remain absent for some time
- Menses freer than usual, relieving headache
- Sensation of dragging down from the shoulders and chest
- Feeling as if she wants to be held up
- Abdomen feels as if it must be supported
- Abdomen feels as if it must be held up with both hands
- Voice could not be controlled
- Dry, hacking cough evening, > in open air
- Oppression in chest
- Desire to take a long breath
- Frequent sighing
- Inhales forcibly in order to pull up thorax and clear the pelvis
- Tightness of chest
- Hot, congested feeling in chest
- Ebullition, must go into open air
- Constriction a hand-breadth below l. breast
- Constriction extending to r. side, > change of position, with sharp pain running to throat, clavicle, and axilla
- Sharp pains through r. lung < in open air
- Fine pains in r. chest, sometimes gnawing, with lameness and soreness of muscles and desire to stretch the parts
- Lameness extending through to r. scapula
- Pain under sternum towards middle lobe of r. lung
- Feeling of congestion of chest if desire to urinate is not attended to
- Pains sharp, sticking, cramping in or below l. breast, extending to scapula and side, < lying down and on l. side
- Dull, pressive pain in region of heart
- Pain in heart < when lying down at night
- Constant feeling of a load or weight in l. chest
- Sharp and quick pain in l. side of chest, with fluttering of heart
- Heart feels as if squeezed in a vice
- Heart alternately grasped and relaxed
- Fluttering or palpitation of heart
- Heart fluttering or palpitation > rubbing and pressure
- Intermittent heart
- After every intermission, violent throbbing, causing involuntary catching of breath and a rush of blood to head and crowded feeling in face
- Pain in heart is < by exercise, stooping, lying down at night, > in morning
- Sharp pain at apex of heart > by rest
- Pulse rapid
- Pulse small and weak
- Pulse irregular
- Pulse compressible
- Pain in nape with constriction
- Soreness in cervical and occipital muscles, < by thirst
- Pain between scapulae
- Sore in region of scapula
- Pain in lower dorsal vertebrae as if back would break
- Spine sore, with stiffness < in loins
- Shooting across loins
- Pain in sacrum < standing, with pressure downward in hypogastrium
- Pain between hips, not much > lying, with pressure downward at anus
- Dull pain in sacrum
- Sensation of pulling upward from tip of coccyx
- Limbs cold, clammy
- Burning in palms and soles all night, constant desire to find a cool place for them
- Out-pressing sensation in hands, arms, feet, and legs in early part of night
- Tearing from l. shoulder to hand
- Cramping pain in l. shoulder and mamma
- Trembling of l. arm with weakness
- Pain in r. arm and wrist with heart complaints
- Hand and arms, stiff, hot
- Hand and arms painful
- Trembling of hands
- Paralytic pricking in fingers and hands
- Cramp in fingers
- Stiffness of fingers almost like paralysis
- Difficult to guide pencil
- Pricking in tips of fingers and hands
- Electric current sensation, first in fingers of l. hand then of r.
- Electric current sensation running up arms
- Cold hands
- Cold perspiration on back of hands
- Staggering gait
- Extreme difficulty in walking straight
- Stitching pains from ilium to ilium or from pubes to sacrum
- Pain in r. hip extending down thigh
- Sensation as though cool wind blowing on lower limbs
- Trembling of knees, abdomen, back, and hands
- Legs ache, cannot keep them still
- Joints seem to lack synovial fluid
- Cramps in both legs and feet after stool in morning
- Cramp in toes
- Burning beginning in soles and palms, thence over body
- Pains severe, fleeting, quick, sharp, or circumscribed
- Coldness
- Cold perspiration
- Weak
- Faintness < in a warm room, or after being on feet a long time
- Restlessness
- Throbbing pulsations, as though the blood would burst through the veins
- Irritation of upper chest and arms and a fine rash about forehead and around borders of the hair, with much itching
- Skin of abdomen feels stiff and stretched
- Tingling, formication, burning itching of various parts
- Yawning
- Stretching
- Drowsy
- Slept soundly, but suddenly waked by desire to evacuate bladder
- Inability to sleep < before midnight
- Restless sleep
- Wild feeling in head
- Everything seems too hot
- Dull headache
- Palpitation
- Mammary pain
- Dreams frightful and labored
- Dreams unpleasant
- Dreams voluptuous
- Dreams half-awaking
- Intervals seem very long in dreams (of dead people)
- Chills run downwards
- Violent beating of heart
- Congestion to chest and burning heat all over
- Constriction about heart
- Chills from face downwards
- Chilly when in cool open air, yet otherwise >
- Great heat and lassitude in afternoon
- Throbbing all over
Allen's Keynotes
- tormented about her salvation, with ovarian or uterine complaints; consolation <
- wild, crazy feeling on vertex; confused ideas
- profound depression of spirits; can hardly avoid weeping
- disposed to curse, strike, to think obscene things
- listless, yet cannot sit still; must keep busy to repress sexual desire
- fears: being alone, insanity, heart disease; fears she is incurable; some impending calamity or disease
- bearing-down sensation; in abdomen and pelvis, as though all organs would escape; < supporting vulva with hand
- menses: early, scanty, dark, offensive; flow only when moving about; cease to flow when she ceases to walk
- weak and atonic condition of ovaries, uterus and pelvic tissues
- sensation as if heart was grasped in a vise; as if blood had all gone to the heart; feels full to bursting
- palpitation, fluttering; faint, hurried, anxious sensation about apex
- sharp pain in left chest awakens at night; pulse 150 to 170 per minute
- affects principally the left side of the body
- pains in small spots; constantly shifting
- constant desire to defecate and urinate (with prolapsus)
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