MEPHITIS

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Asthma
  • Blindness
  • Choking, easy
  • Cold, sensitiveness to
  • Eyes, affections of
  • Laryngismus
  • Sight, weak
  • Whooping-cough
  • Choking while eating or drinking
  • Cough on reading aloud, while talking, and after drinking
  • Lower ribs painful to touch or pressure
  • Spasmodic cough with a crowing sound
  • Very violent cough, coming on spasmodically, and seeming as though each spell would terminate life
  • Nervous exhaustion
  • Catarrh is slight
  • Whoop decided
  • Suffocative feeling
  • Cannot exhale
  • Vomits food sometimes hours after eating
  • Constant hacking cough during conversation
  • Coughs after reading aloud, or drinking any fluid
  • Cough spasmodic, hollow, hoarse
  • Rush of warmth it causes to various parts
  • Enables patients to endure extreme cold
  • Makes them less chilly in cold weather
  • Washing in ice-water is pleasant
  • Awakens at night with congestion to legs
  • Legs uneasy as if they would become insensible
  • Fidgety feet
  • A short sleep seems to refresh
  • Weak sight
  • As of fire thrown into eye
  • Sensation on opening the lids as of breaking glass
  • Rest and lying down <
  • Sitting up and motion >
  • Night and daybreak <
  • Warm stove > colic from cold
  • Cold washing >
  • Ice-water < asthma
  • Touch <
  • Ill-humour about trifles or imaginary troubles
  • Unfitness for intellectual labour
  • Too lively an imagination
  • Excessive loquacity
  • Excitement, with heat in head
  • Dejection, with painful muscles
  • Indolence, with desire to stretch
  • Vertigo on stooping suddenly, when seated, when moving the head, when turning in bed, or in the evening
  • Confused dulness in the head, as if it had grown larger, accompanied by ill-humour and nausea
  • Violent headache, with sensation of fulness, as if caused by a weight or by pressure, esp. in the occiput
  • Violent pain in head as if a fulness were pressing upwards
  • Sensation in (back of head) various parts, as if the finger were pressed into them
  • Pain above eyes
  • Headache from motion of a carriage, or else in evening
  • Lancination in eyes like the pricking of needles
  • Pains in eyes on turning them (in certain directions), as if some foreign body were in them, or as if they were much fatigued
  • Heat, burning, and aching in eyes, esp. morning and evening
  • Aching (pressing) of eyelids, and burning on margins, as if a stye were forming
  • Injection of veins in sclerotica
  • Redness of conjunctiva, as from ecchymosis
  • Myopia
  • Confusion of letters when reading (they become blurred, he is unable to discern them, they run together)
  • Inability to read small print
  • Nocturnal blindness
  • While the sight is weak there are generally pains in eyes or head
  • Eyes affected principally in evening
  • Tearing in the ears, or in the jaw and teeth
  • Otalgia
  • Itching heat, redness, blisters, and erysipelas in the external part of the (r.) ear
  • Dryness of the nose
  • Epistaxis
  • Prolonged inclination to sneeze
  • Fluent coryza, with pain, as from excoriation in the chest
  • Pains in teeth which are carious (molars), esp. in lower jaw
  • Sudden shocks in roots of teeth
  • Drawing and tearing in teeth
  • Nausea, with scraping in throat (emptiness in stomach), and sensation as if the head were swollen, when fasting
  • Sobbing eructations
  • Risings, > by discharge of flatus
  • Tendency to choke, when drinking and speaking
  • Troublesome and ineffectual want to hawk
  • Metallic (coppery) taste
  • Desire for salted food
  • Hunger, alternating with absence of appetite
  • Absence of appetite in morning, and also repugnance to tobacco-smoke
  • Painful weariness, and desire to sleep after a meal
  • Pains in hypochondria
  • Rheumatic pains in r. side (pressure), or pains as from flatulency (in l. side)
  • Aching (in region of liver) in stomach, with colic
  • Sensation of emptiness in stomach and nausea
  • Colic, as from diarrha, but without evacuation
  • Aching and movements in abdomen, as if caused by a chill, with sensation of coldness, trembling, and want to urinate, relieved when near fire
  • Pains in abdomen in evening
  • Evacuations infrequent, but liquid
  • Diarrha
  • Frequent want to make water, esp. at night, with emission of clear urine
  • The urine becomes turbid (in morning), and deposits a sediment, in evening, after an attack of fever
  • Itching in scrotum
  • Heat in genital organs
  • Excoriation of genital organs, in females, and swelling of labia majora
  • Cough when reading aloud, when speaking, and after a fit of choking whilst drinking (liability to have something get into larynx)
  • Cough in morning, with expectoration proceeding from catarrh
  • Mucus expelled by a fit of coughing every morning
  • Catarrhal sufferings
  • Pains in (l.) ribs, when touched, but esp. when coughing and sneezing
  • Cough with fluent coryza and soreness in chest
  • Pain, as from excoriation, in back part of ribs, and in chest, when taking a deep inspiration, and when moving the back
  • Rattling cough every morning
  • Whooping-cough, < at night and after lying down; with convulsions; with complete suffocative feeling, he cannot exhale; vomiting of all food some hours after eating, bloated face
  • Pains in chest (on last l. short rib) when touching and pressing on it; but esp. when coughing and sneezing
  • Asthma, as from inhaling vapour of sulphur; of drunkards; during sleep
  • Pains in (r.) side of neck
  • Tension in muscles of nape
  • Pain, and a sort of paralysis, in back and in all limbs
  • Lancination in spine during motion
  • Contusive pains in loins in morning
  • Rheumatic pains in arms, with paralytic drawings, > by movement
  • Uneasiness in (l.) arm, which is, as it were, insensible
  • Trembling in arm on resting upon it
  • Jerking in hand
  • Distressing sensation in first phalanx of finger, which renders it needful to stretch and crack it
  • Drawing and rheumatic pains in thighs, hip, and foot, but chiefly in leg
  • Contusive pains in knee
  • Cramp-like and sudden pain in (l.) foot, which causes patient to hop
  • Uneasiness in legs, as if they were about to go to sleep
  • Lancinations in foot
  • Pain in heel, resembling gout
  • Pricking or sensation of pinching in great toe (as if it were being pinched off)
  • Burning in little toe
  • Constant pains and burning in corns
  • Rheumatic pains
  • Shifting pains, with want to urinate
  • Occasionally a sensation as if struck by electric sparks
  • Convulsions
  • Sensation of paralysis, esp. during the pains
  • Great dejection and lassitude, during which the muscles are painful when touched or exercised
  • Internal agitation of whole body, with sensation of unspeakable uneasiness
  • Slight quivering of the nerves, as far as interior of bones, causing a good deal of anxiety
  • Many symptoms manifest themselves in morning
  • Great inclination to sleep, so great that patient will fall asleep even when in company
  • Diurnal sleepiness, with sound sleep at night
  • Frequent yawning, which causes tears to flow
  • Very vivid dreams, the recollection of which is retained
  • Dreams of fire, water, distressing losses, of spitting of blood, &c
  • Nightmare
  • Waking at night, with rush of blood to, and heat in limbs (lower legs)
  • Somnolent heaviness in morning, with burning in eyes and tearing in limbs; greatly > by a change of position
  • Frequent and early waking, often with a feeling of good health
  • Coldness in evening, with want to make water, and colic, as if preceding diarrha
  • Heat in head, in genital organs and in legs, at night
  • Increased heat, esp. in morning, with skin less sensitive to cold and cold water
  • Washing with cold water is found very agreeable

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