Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Amelioration from motion
- desire for open air
- very sensitive to cold air
- wants to be covered during all stages of fever
- daily evening fevers
- symptoms recurring every twenty-one days
- sensation of heat and even sweat from eating and drinking warm things
- evening thirst
- violent neuralgic pains
- pains along the course of nerves
- pains so violent that he cannot keep still
- relieved by motion
- neuralgia in the night
- shooting pains
- tearing pains
- cutting pains
- varied eruptions upon the skin
- dry scaly eruptions
- dandruff-like eruptions upon the skin
- unhealthy hair
- unhealthy nails
- teeth and roots of the teeth affected
- toothache before and during menstruation
- toothache during pregnancy
- tearing pains in the left side of the face
- hollow teeth unusually sensitive and painful
- teeth so sensitive that they cannot be manipulated by the dentist
- sensitiveness of the teeth
- teeth feel too long
- marasmus
- loses flesh
- muscles become flabby
- child's muscles are flabby
- child will not thrive in spite of feeding and medicines
- emaciation
- back of the head begins to sink in
- atrophy of the cerebellum
- increased appetite for milk and meat and animal broths
- milk is not digested
- milk passes the bowel in the form of white potter's clay, or like putty
- stool is soft and of the consistency of putty
- sinking in of the back of the head
- occipital bone will sink in
- parietal bones jut out over it
- depression
- potter's clay stool
- sour smell
- perspiration is sour
- pungent odor
- inactivity of the rectum and anus
- paresis
- stool is large and hard
- great straining to expel
- stool is dry, hard and crumbling
- stool will remain partly expelled and then crumble, breaking up in many pieces
- green diarrhoeic stool
- green part floats upon the watery portion of the stool
- stool is often lumpy and liquid
- lumps lie in the bottom of the vessel
- green like the scum of the frog pond
- stools green, like scum on a frog pond
- sour stools
- frothy stools
- stools with white floating lumps
- bloody stools
- mucous stools
- face is pale, waxy, sickly and sallow
- sickly countenance
- muscles are lax
- tired and sweats upon little exertion
- disturbed in every change of the weather
- worse at the beginning of menstruation
- coryza every month before the monthly period
- violent craving for meat
- aversion to vegetable food
- grow thin and increasingly flabby
- muscles relaxed
- tendency to prolapsus
- walls of the abdomen have a tendency to fall down and to be relaxed
- rings favor the formation of hernia
- nerves are painful
- muscles are tired
- catarrhal state
- dry catarrh
- old ulcer will dry up and become shiny
- nose is dry
- eyeballs are so dry that the lids stick together
- difficult to open the eyes
- skin becomes dry and itches and burns
- tendency to dryness of the mucous membranes
- tendency to dryness of the skin
- inordinate appetite for meat in children
- sour stomach
- sour eructations
- food comes up sour
- nausea
- coming up in the throat of sour food
- pains in the stomach after eating an ordinary amount of food
- bloated after eating
- much flatulence after eating
- stomach digests the food slowly and it becomes sour
- losing flesh and craving for meat in those who are tubercular or in those that are from tubercular parents
- patients suffering from a dry cough
- dry cough before the evening chill
- little hacking cough
- cough, spasmodic at night from tickling in the larynx
- sleepiness during the day
- sleeplessness
Allen's Keynotes
- for persons, especially children, of irritable disposition, nervous temperament; lax fibre; sour smell of whole body
- whole body feels tired and painful especially the legs and feet; aching, restless
- spasmodic affections of stomach and intestines, increased secretion from mucous membranes
- unrefreshing sleep, more tired on rising than when retiring
- inordinate craving for meat in children of tuberculous parentage
- heartburn; sour, belching, eructations, taste and vomiting; of pregnancy
- neuralgic pains, lightning-like, < left side; insupportable during repose, must get up and walk
- toothache, during pregnancy < at night
- pain on vertex as if the hair were pulled
- menses preceded by sore throat, labor-like pain, cutting colic, backache, weakness, chilliness
- menses: flows only at night or when lying, ceases when walking; acrid, dark, pitch-like; difficult to wash off
- diarrhoea preceded by cutting, doubling-up colic; occurs regularly every three weeks
- stools green, frothy, like scum of a frog-pond; white, tallow-like masses are found floating in stool
- milk passes undigested in nursing children
- aggravation: change of temperature; every three weeks; rest; milk, during menses
- amelioration: warm air, but worse in warmth of bed
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