Boericke's Materia Medica
- Complaints due to living in damp houses, basements, cellars
- Worse in rainy weather
- Worse with water in any form
- Feels every change from dry to wet
- Cannot eat plants growing near water
- Cannot eat fish
- Feels best in warm, dry air
- Spinal meningitis
- Head symptoms from injuries to head
- Mental troubles from head injuries
- Return of skin affections every spring
- Tendency to warts
- Fingers and toes affected
- Chronic gout
- Lively music saddens
- Melancholy with periodical attacks of mania
- Suicidal tendency
- Must exercise restraint
- Inability to think
- Dislikes to speak
- Dislikes to be spoken to
- Occipital pain
- Piercing stitches in ears
- Vertigo relieved by sweat on head
- Bursting feeling on coughing
- Hot feeling on top of head
- Boring in right temple preceded by burning in stomach
- Ill-effects of falls and injuries to the head
- Mental troubles arising from head injuries
- Dreams of running water
- Sticking pain in ears
- Earache
- Lightning-like stitches in ears in damp weather
- Nasal catarrh with thick, yellow discharge
- Salty mucus
- Coryza
- Epistaxis
- Ethmoiditis
- Conjunctiva yellow
- Granular lids
- Photophobia
- Slimy, thick, tenacious, white mucus
- Bitter taste
- Blisters on palate
- Thick, yellow mucus drops from posterior nares
- Vomits sour
- Brown, bitter coating on tongue
- Yellow complexion
- Thirst for something cold
- Bilious vomiting
- Acid dyspepsia with heartburn
- Flatulence
- Duodenal catarrh
- Hepatitis
- Icterus
- Vomiting of bile
- Liver sore to touch with sharp, stitching pains
- Cannot bear tight clothing around waist
- Worse lying on left side
- Flatulency
- Wind colic in ascending colon
- Worse before breakfast
- Burning in abdomen and anus
- Bruised pain and urging to stool
- Diarrhea with yellow, watery stools
- Loose morning stools
- Worse after spell of wet weather
- Stools involuntary when passing flatus
- Great size of the fecal mass
- Urine loaded with bile
- Brisk-dust sediment in urine
- Excessive urine secretion
- Diabetes
- Nosebleed during menses which are acrid and profuse
- Burning in pharynx during menstruation
- Herpetic vulvitis
- Leucorrhea yellowish-green following gonorrhea in female
- Leucorrhea with hoarseness
- Condylomata
- Soft, fleshy excrescences
- Greenish discharges
- Gonorrhea with thick, greenish discharge
- Little pain with gonorrhea
- Dyspnea during damp weather
- Must hold chest when coughing
- Humid asthma
- Rattling in chest at 4 and 5 am
- Cough with thick ropy, greenish expectoration
- Chest feels all gone
- Constant desire to take deep, long breath
- Asthma in children
- Delayed resolution in pneumonia
- Springs up in bed the cough hurts so
- Holds painful side
- Pain through lower left chest
- Every fresh cold brings on attack of asthma
- Itching when undressing
- Violent pains in back of neck
- Pain at base of brain
- Piercing pain between scapulae
- Spinal meningitis
- Opisthotonos
- Swelling of axillary glands
- Inflammation around root of nails
- Burning in soles
- Edema of feet
- Itching between toes
- Gout
- Pain in limbs compels frequent change in position
- Run-arounds
- Pain in hip-joints
- Worse left hip
- Worse stooping
- Stiffness of knees
- Cracking of joints
- Rheumatism worse in damp cold weather
- Jaundiced skin
- Watery blisters
- Sycotic excrescences
- Wart-like red lumps all over body
Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Symptoms appear in the morning
- Symptoms appear in the evening
- Symptoms appear during the night, especially before midnight
- Some symptoms are better after breakfast
- Some symptoms are better during the daytime
- Some symptoms are better after midnight, except the sweat
- Complaints following neglected gonorrhea
- Symptoms and constitutional state worse in wet weather
- Useful in patients who live near waterways and have suffered long from malarial influences
- Useful as an antidote to the abuse of quinine
- Especially belongs to patients of the neuropathic and bilious constitution
- Extremely sensitive to the night air
- Suffers from universal catarrh and the discharges are generally greenish
- Cures dropsical conditions
- Sensitive to touch and pressure
- Oversensitive mentally and physically
- Very sensitive to pain
- Dull pains
- Sharp pains
- Pains all better from motion
- Bruised feeling all over
- Strong desire for open air
- Better while walking in the open air
- Sensitive to a warm room
- Sometimes sensitive to cold and must have warm clothing
- Feeling of fullness or distension in the head
- Feeling of fullness or distension in the ear
- Feeling of fullness or distension in the abdomen
- Feeling of fullness or distension in the veins generally
- Complaints all worse in the spring
- Complaints all worse in warm weather
- General physical restlessness
- Anxiety
- Marked weakness
- Trembling with internal pulsations
- Rapid heart
- Twitching of muscles
- Complaints from injuries of head and spine
- Symptoms all worse during rest
- Rheumatic complaints all over the body
- Compelled to lie on the back
- Convulsions from injuries of the head
- Sycotic conditions with a history of warts and condylomata
- Anxiety in the morning which passes off after breakfast
- Anxiety in the evening in bed
- Anxiety at night before midnight
- Anxiety during fever
- Anxiety about the future
- Anxiety and loathing of life with suicidal impulse, must use all self-control to prevent taking his life
- Cheerful after stool
- Music makes her sad
- Sadness in the morning, which passes off after breakfast
- Extremely irritable in the morning
- Violent anger which is followed by jaundice
- Aversion to company
- Dislikes to speak or to be spoken to
- Dullness of mind
- Excitability
- Mental exertion brings on mental symptoms
- Mental troubles come on from injuries of the head
- Fear of a crowd
- Fear of evil
- Fear of people
- Forgetful
- Easily frightened
- Hysterical
- Indifferent
- Indolent
- Insanity
- Oversensitive
- Suspicious
- Starting from fright or noise
- Starting in sleep
- Subject to vertigo
- Congestive headaches with fullness and heat
- Pressing outward in the head with pulsation
- Periodical headaches with vomiting bile
- The pains are worse when thinking of them
- Pains are better by pressure
- Pains are better in the open air
- Pains are better when lying
- Pulsation in the temples when walking
- Splitting pain in the vertex
- Heat of the vertex
- Headache in the morning on waking
- Mental exertion brings on headaches
- Sensation as of brain falling to side lain on
- Headache with intermittent fever
- Violent occipital headache with pain in the nape of the neck
- Headache from injuries of the head
- Itching of the scalp
- Formication of the scalp
- Eczema of the scalp with much moisture
- Photophobia
- Head complaints from looking into the light
- Lachrymation
- Dim vision
- Jaundiced eyes
- Inflamed eyes with many blisters
- Burning in the eyes morning and evening
- Greenish discharge from the eyes
- Lids stuck together in the morning
- Granular lids
- Scrofulous inflammation of the conjunctiva
- Redness, swelling and burning of the margins of the lids
- Heaviness of lids
- Pressing in eyes when using eyes
- Itching of the eyes in the morning
- Chirping in the ears in the evening
- Chirping in the ears during chill and fever
- Flapping sensation in the ears
- Ringing in the ears
- Pressing out feeling in the ears
- Earache as if something was forcing its way out
- Stitching pains in ears, worse entering warm room from cold air
- Stitching pains in ears in damp weather
- Earache
- Complaint worse on right side
- Heat in right ear in evening
- Catarrh of right ear
- Stopped sensation in right ear
- Purulent discharge from the ears
- Catarrhal discharge from nose, yellowish green
- Epistaxis before and during menses
- Epistaxis in afternoon and evening
- Dryness and burning in the nose
- Obstructed with mucus in the night
- Mucus drawn from posterior nares tasting salty
- Sneezing with fluent coryza and influenza
- Epidemic influenza
- Chunks of dried mucus blown from high up in nose
- Itching of the face with eczema
- Sickly expression
- Jaundiced skin
- Vesicles and pimples on the face
- Vesicles on the lower lip and around the mouth
- Pimples on the chin burning on touch
- The teeth become loose and fall out in sycotic constitution
- The gums separate from the teeth
- Pain in the teeth worse from warm things
- Pain in the teeth better from cold drinks and the cold air
- Gums red, ulcerate and burn
- Blisters on the gums
- The mouth is always slimy
- Much mucus forms in the mouth and throat
- Taste is bitter
- Tongue is heavily coated a dirty greenish brown
- Blisters on the tongue and roof of the mouth
- Burning in the roof of the mouth during menses
- Numbness in the mouth
- Salivation
- Chronic inflammation of the throat with copious viscid white mucus
- Dry sensation in throat
- Pain in throat on swallowing food
- Choking feeling in the throat when walking
- Often needed in goitre
- Great thirst in the evening
- Great thirst for very cold drinks
- Great thirst during chill and fever
- Aversion to bread and meat
- Qualmishness after farinaceous foods
- Hiccough after bread in evening
- Eructations of sour water
- Eructations of bitter fluid
- Nausea before breakfast
- Constant nausea
- Vomiting of sour or bitter fluid
- Vomiting of green bile with colic
- The stomach feels distended and heavy
- Pulsation in the stomach after breakfast
- Extreme cases of gastric, weakness with acidity
- Can digest only the simpler foods
- Digestion very slow
- Complaints of the liver; congested, enlarged, sore liver
- Pain in the liver from lying on the right side
- Dragging in the right hypochondrium when lying on the left side
- Soreness and itching in the liver when walking
- Sharp pains in the liver on deep inspiration
- The liver is disturbed by mental exertion and anger
- The liver seems to manufacture an excess of bile
- Perverted viscid bile that readily forms gall stones
- Sensitive to clothing over the hypochondria
- Headache followed by vomiting of bile for several years
- Face purple
- Heat ameliorates the pain
- Pain begins in right eye, spreads over the forehead with a dragging feeling in back of head
- Pain in sacrum extends to thighs, aggravated on right side
- Nervous, easily startled, apprehensive
- Intensely fastidious
- Had gall stone colic three months ago
- Cold feet
- Headache at menstrual period for sixteen years
- Menstrual flow thick, clotted, dark, lasts one day
- Stool, light color when sick, darker when in better health
- Must restrain herself or she will commit suicide
- Slow pulse at times
- Tired all the time
- Fissured tongue
- Pain in region of gall bladder
- Gall stone colic
- Came on after indigestion
- Dull aching in that region
- Must walk about the room, not ameliorated in any position
- Only once has stool become light colored
- Pain in region of kidneys also through pelvic region and legs with a cloudy condition of the urine
- Dribbling of few drops of urine after urination
- Dull heavy pain in right side behind the lower ribs, continuous pain
- Pain extends up right side as far as nipple
- Stabbing pains in breast
- Pain in duodenum aggravated after eating
- Diarrhoea; stool watery, sometimes chalky
- Enlarged liver
- Clawing feeling in gall bladder
- Sinking spells after stool
- Cold spells
- Vertigo, stooping, lying or walking
- Spells of rapid beating of heart
- Mental depression
- Thirstless
- Temperature sub-normal
- Sensitive to jarring abdomen
- Flatulence and rumbling in abdomen
- Cold legs to knees
- Cold hands
- Much belching, aggravated after meals
- Sensitive to weather changes
- Nervous and sleepless before a storm
- Sore dragging feeling in the liver
- Bowels sluggish
- Slow digestion
- Heaviness of arms and legs
- Chilliness down the back
- Unable to lie on right side with comfort
- Urine copious
- Strong urine
- Late going to sleep
- Distress in the abdomen relieved by displacing flatus
- Emptiness relieved by passing flatus and by eructations
- Cramps and many pains from obstructed flatus
- Pain and distension in the ascending colon from flatus
- Pain in the region of the caecum
- Pain and tenderness cases in the whole abdomen
Allen's Keynotes
- ailments which are worse by, or which depend upon, dampness of weather, damp houses, or cellars
- patient feels every change from dry to wet
- cannot tolerate sea air
- cannot eat plants that thrive near water
- constitution in which gonorrhoeal poison is most pernicious
- recovers slowly from every sickness
- every spring, skin affections reappear
- inability to think
- sad, gloomy, irritable
- worse in mornings
- dislikes to speak or be spoken to
- depressed
- lively music makes her sad
- satiety of life
- must use great self-control to prevent shooting himself
- mental traumatism
- mental effects from injuries to head
- chronic brain effects of blows or falls
- granular lids like small blisters
- green pus and terrible photophobia
- gonorrhoeal or sycotic eye affections
- nosebleed during menses
- toothache relieved by cold water or cool air
- dirty, greenish-gray or brown coating on tongue
- desire to take a deep breath during damp, cloudy weather
- humid asthma in children
- asthma with every change to wet weather
- asthma with every fresh cold
- asthma always worse in damp, rainy weather
- sputa green, greenish, and copious
- sycotic pneumonia
- pneumonia in lower lobe of left lung
- great soreness of chest
- during cough, has to sit up in bed and hold the chest with both hands
- sudden, urging, gushing diarrhoea with much flatus
- diarrhoea occurs on first rising and standing on the feet
- diarrhoea after a spell of wet weather
- diarrhoea common in those living or working in basements
- greenish-yellow, painless, thick discharge in gonorrhoea
- chronic or suppressed gonorrhoea
- spinal meningitis with violent crushing gnawing pains at base of brain
- head drawn back in spinal meningitis
- spasms with mental irritability and delirium
- violent congestion of blood to head
- opisthotonos
- worse in damp basements or dwellings
- worse in damp weather
- worse from rest
- worse from lying
- better in dry weather
- better from pressure
- better from sitting up during cough
- better from changing position
- better in open air
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