Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Growing thin with symptoms of salt
- Salt in stool
- Inanition, a starving for salt
- Shiny skin
- Pale, waxy skin
- Greased skin appearance
- Wonderful prostration
- Emaciation
- Weakness
- Nervous prostration
- Nervous irritability
- Hysterical condition of mind and body
- Weeping alternating with laughing
- Irresistible laughing at unsuitable times
- Prolonged, spasmodic laughter
- Tearfulness
- Great sadness
- Joylessness
- Benumbed to impressions
- Easily takes on grief
- Grieves over nothing
- Unpleasant occurrences recalled to grieve over
- Consolation aggravates melancholy
- Consolation aggravates tearfulness
- Consolation sometimes brings on anger
- Appears to bid for sympathy and is mad when it is given
- Headache comes on with melancholy
- Walks the floor in rage
- Extremely forgetful
- Cannot cast up accounts
- Unable to meditate
- Forgets what she was going to say
- Loses the thread of what she is hearing or reading
- Great prostration of the mind
- Unrequited affection brings on complaints
- Unable to control affections and falls in love with a married man
- Falls in love with a coachman
- Aversion to bread
- Aversion to fats
- Aversion to rich things
- Greatly disturbed by excitement
- Extremely emotional
- Nervous economy in a state of fret and irritation
- Worse from noise
- Worse from slamming of a door
- Worse from ringing of a bell
- Worse from firing of a pistol
- Worse from music
- Stitching pains
- Electric-like shocks
- Convulsive jerkings of the limbs on falling asleep
- Twitchings
- Shooting pains
- Oversensitive to all sorts of influences
- Exitable
- Emotional
- Intense
- Complaints come on in warm room
- Worse in the house
- Wants open air
- Mental complaints better in open air
- Takes cold easily from sweating
- Generally better in the open air
- Worse on getting heated
- Worse by sufficient exertion to heat up
- Better by moderate exertion in the cold air
- Face is sickly looking
- Skin greasy
- Skin shiny
- Skin sallow
- Skin yellow
- Often chlorotic
- Covered with vesicular eruptions around the edges of the hair
- Vesicular eruptions around the ears
- Vesicular eruptions around the back of the neck
- Scaly eruptions
- Squamous eruptions
- Great itching
- Oozing a watery fluid
- Sometimes dry skin
- Exfoliation takes place
- A shining surface is left in the meatus
- Scales form and peel off leaving an oozing surface
- Watery vesicles form about the lips
- Watery vesicles form about the wings of the nose
- Watery vesicles form about the genitals
- Watery vesicles form about the anus
- Vesicular eruptions, white, oozing a watery fluid, come and go
- Skin looks waxy
- Skin dropsical
- Great emaciation
- Skin looking dry
- Skin withered
- Skin shrunken
- Infant looks like a little old man
- Down on the face
- Emaciation takes place from above downward
- Collar-bones become prominent
- Neck looks scrawny
- Hips remain plump and round
- Lower limbs remain plump and round
- Watery discharge from mucous membranes
- Thick whitish discharge from mucous membranes
- Marked coryza with a watery discharge
- Thick, white discharges
- Hawks out a thick, white discharge in the morning
- Gluey oozings from the eyes
- Thick, white, gluey discharge from the ears
- Leucorrhoea is white and thick
- Gonorrhoea discharge has existed a long time and become gleety
- Smarting in urethra only after urination
- Awful headaches
- Dreadful pains
- Bursting headaches
- Compressing headaches, as if in a vise
- Head feels as if the skull would be crushed in
- Pains are attended with hammering
- Pains are attended with throbbing
- Pain like little hammers in the head on beginning to move
- Hammering pains in the head on waking in the morning
- Pain comes on in the latter part of sleep
- Great nervousness during the first part of the night
- Falls asleep late
- Awakes with hammering in the head
- Headaches beginning at to or II A. M., lasting until 3 P. M. or evening
- Headaches are periodical
- Headaches every day
- Headaches every third day
- Headaches every fourth day
- Headaches of those living in malarial districts, > from sleep
- Patient must go to bed and be perfectly quiet
- Headaches > from sweating
- Headaches associated with intermittent fever
- During the chill it seemed as though the head would burst
- Delirious and drinks large quantities of cold water
- No relief to the head until after the sweat
- Sweating does not relieve headache
- Forehead is cold
- Forehead covered with a cold sweat
- Head covered warmly is better
- Better moving about in the open air
- Headache due to disturbance of vision
- Inability to focus rapidly enough
- Headache < from noise
- Headache involving the whole back of the head
- Headache even going down the spine
- Troubles following brain diseases
- Hydrocephalus
- Spinal troubles
- Great sensitiveness to pressure
- Irritable spine
- Vertebrae are sensitive
- Aching along the spine
- Coughing aggravates the pain in the spine
- Walking makes pain in spine worse
- Pain in spine better from lying on something hard
- Pain in spine better from pressing the back up against something hard
- Sit with a pillow pressed against back
- Sit with hand pressed against back
- Menstrual troubles with hard object under the spine
- General nervous trembling pervades the body
- Jerking of the muscles
- Trembling of the limbs
- Inability to keep the limbs still
- Stomach distended with flatus
- After eating there is a lump in the stomach
- Food takes a long time to digest
- Worse from eating
- Whitish, slimy mucus is vomited attended with relief
- Great thirst for cold water
- Sometimes there is relief from drinking
- Sometimes the thirst is unquenchable
- Fullness in the region of the liver
- Stitching, tearing pains in liver
- Bowels are distended with gas
- Slowing down of the action of the bowels
- Stool being very difficult
- Stool in hard, agglomerated lumps
- Slowing down of the action of the bladder
- Must wait before the urine will start
- Urine comes slowly dribbles
- Not much force in the flow of urine
- After urination there is a sensation as if more urine remained in the bladder
- If anyone is present he cannot pass urine
- Cannot pass urine in a public place
- Continued urging to urinate
- Must pass the urine often
- Troublesome menstruation
- Menses too scanty
- Menses too free
- Menses too late
- Menses too soon
Allen's Keynotes
- for the anaemic and cachectic, whether from loss of vital fluids—profuse menses, seminal losses—or mental affections
- great emaciation
- losing flesh while living well
- throat and neck of child emaciate rapidly during summer complaint
- great liability to take cold
- child cross when spoken to
- crying from slightest cause
- gets into a passion about trifles, especially when consoled
- awkward, hasty, drops things from nervous weakness
- marked disposition to weep
- sad weeping mood without cause
- consolation from others aggravates her troubles
- anaemic headache of school girls
- headache from sunrise to sunset
- left-sided clavus headache
- headache as if bursting
- headache with red face, nausea, and vomiting before, during, and after menses
- headache as though a thousand little hammers were knocking in the brain during fever
- headache relieved by perspiration
- headache beginning with blindness
- headache with zig-zag dazzling, like lightning in eyes
- throbbing headache from eye strain
- lachrymation with tears streaming down the face whenever he coughs
- hay fever with squirming sensation in the nostril, as of a small worm
- hay fever brought on by exposure to hot sun or intense summer heat
- sensation as of a hair on the tongue
- mapped tongue, with red insular patches
- tongue like ringworm on sides
- heavy, difficult speech
- children slow in learning to walk
- constipation with sensation of contraction of anus
- anus torn, bleeding, smarting after stool
- stool dry, hard, difficult, crumbling
- stitches in rectum
- involuntary stool, knows not whether flatus or faeces escape
- involuntary urine when walking, coughing, laughing
- has to wait a long while for urine to pass if others are present
- cutting in urethra after urinating
- seminal emission soon after coition, with increased desire
- weakness of organs with retarded emission during an embrace
- impotence, spinal irritation, paralysis after sexual excesses
- pressing, pushing towards genitals every morning
- must sit down to prevent prolapsus
- hair falls out when touched in nursing women
- fluttering of the heart, with a weak, faint feeling, worse lying down
- heart pulsates shake the body
- face oily, shiny, as if greased
- hangnails: skin around the nails dry and cracked
- herpes about anus and on borders of hair at nape of neck
- herpes in bend of knees
- warts on palms of hands
- warts sore to touch
- raw, red, inflamed eczema, especially in edges of hair
- eczema worse from eating too much salt, at seashore, or from ocean voyage
- urticaria over whole body, especially after violent exercise
- painful contractions of the hamstrings
- dreams of robbers in the house
- on waking from dreams of robbers, will not believe to the contrary until search is made
- dreams of burning thirst
- fever blisters, like pearls about the lips
- lips dry, sore, and cracked, ulcerated
- intermittent fever paroxysm at 10 or 11 a.m
- headache with unconsciousness during chill and heat of fever
- sweat relieves fever pains
- bad effects of anger, acid food, bread, quinine, excessive use of salt, silver nitrate, grief, fright, vexation, mortification, or reserved displeasure
- craving for salt
- great aversion to bread
- worse at 10 or 11 a.m
- worse at the seashore or from sea air
- worse from heat of sun or stove
- worse from mental exertion, talking, writing, reading
- worse lying down
- better in the open air
- better from cold bathing
- better from going without regular meals
- better from lying on right side
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