Boericke's Materia Medica
- Thin
- Spare
- Quick
- Active
- Nervous
- Irritable
- Mental strain
- Sedentary life
- Indulgence in stimulants
- Coffee
- Wine
- Tobacco
- Digestive disturbances
- Portal congestion
- Hypochondrical states
- Convulsions with consciousness
- Zealous fiery temperament
- Easily chilled
- Avoids open air
- Irritable
- Sensitive to impressions
- Ugly
- Malicious
- Cannot bear noises
- Cannot bear odors
- Cannot bear light
- Does not want to be touched
- Time passes too slowly
- Disposed to reproach others
- Sullen
- Fault-finding
- Headache in occiput
- Headache over eyes
- Vertigo
- Brain feels turning in a circle
- Oversensitiveness
- Momentary loss of consciousness
- Intoxicated feeling
- Pressing pain on vertex
- Scalp sensitive
- Frontal headache
- Congestive headache
- Hemorrhoids
- Feels distended
- Feels sore within
- Photophobia
- Smarting dry sensation in inner canthi
- Infra-orbital neuralgia
- Watering of eyes
- Optic nerve atrophy
- Paresis of ocular muscles
- Orbital twitching radiating towards occiput
- Optic neuritis
- Itching in ear through Eustachian tube
- Auditory canal dry
- Auditory canal sensitive
- Otalgia
- Hyperesthesia of auditory nerves
- Loud sounds are painful
- Loud sounds cause anger
- Stuffed up nose
- Stuffy colds
- Snuffles
- Odors produce fainting
- Coryza
- Fluent in daytime
- Stuffed up at night and outdoors
- Alternating nostrils
- Bleeding in morning
- Acrid discharge
- Jaws contracted
- Small aphthous ulcers
- Bloody saliva
- Tongue clean in first half
- Posterior tongue covered with deep fur
- White tongue
- Yellow tongue
- Cracked edges of tongue
- Teeth ache
- Gums swollen
- Gums white
- Gums bleeding
- Rough throat
- Scraped feeling throat
- Tickling throat after waking
- Sensation of roughness in throat
- Sensation of tightness in throat
- Sensation of tension in throat
- Pharynx constricted
- Uvula swollen
- Stitches into ear
- Sour taste
- Nausea in the morning
- Nausea after eating
- Weight in stomach
- Pain in stomach
- Flatulence
- Pyrosis
- Sour eructations
- Bitter eructations
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Much retching
- Ravenous hunger
- Sensitive stomach to pressure
- Epigastrium bloated
- Pressure as of a stone
- Desire for stimulants
- Dyspepsia from coffee
- Difficult belching of gas
- Wants to vomit but cannot
- Bruised soreness of abdominal walls
- Flatulent distension
- Spasmodic colic
- Colic from uncovering
- Liver engorged
- Stitches in liver
- Soreness in liver
- Colic with upward pressure
- Short breath
- Desire for stool with colic
- Weakness of abdominal ring region
- Strangulated hernia
- Forcing in lower abdomen towards genitals
- Umbilical hernia of infants
- Constipation
- Frequent ineffectual urging
- Incomplete stool
- Unsatisfactory stool
- Feeling as if part remained unexpelled
- Constriction of rectum
- Irregular peristaltic action
- Frequent ineffectual desire
- Small quantities of stool
- Alternate constipation and diarrhea
- Urging to stool felt throughout abdomen
- Itching hemorrhoids
- Blind hemorrhoids
- Painful hemorrhoids
- Diarrhea after a debauch
- Frequent small evacuations
- Scanty stool
- Dysentery
- Stools relieve pains temporarily
- Constant uneasiness in rectum
- Diarrhea with jaundice
- Irritable bladder
- Spasmodic sphincter
- Frequent calls to urinate
- Little urine
- Hematuria
- Ineffectual urging to urinate
- Spasmodic urination
- Strangury
- Renal colic extending to genitals
- Dribbling urine
- Itching in urethra
- Pain in neck of bladder
- Easily excited desire
- Emissions from high living
- Bad effects of sexual excesses
- Constrictive pain in testicles
- Orchitis
- Spermatorrhea
- Dreams
- Backache
- Burning in spine
- Weakness
- Irritability
- Menses too early
- Menses last too long
- Irregular menses
- Black blood
- Faint spells
- Prolapsus uteri
- Dysmenorrhea
- Pain in sacrum
- Constant urging to stool
- Inefficient labor-pains
- Pains extend to rectum
- Desire for stool during labor
- Frequent urination during labor
- Desire too strong
- Metrorrhagia
- Sensation as if bowels wanted to move
- Catarrhal hoarseness
- Scraping in throat
- Spasmodic constriction
- Asthma
- Fullness in stomach
- Cough
- Sensation as if something were torn loose in chest
- Shallow respiration
- Oppressed breathing
- Tight dry hacking cough
- Bloody expectoration
- Cough brings on bursting headache
- Cough brings on bruised pain in epigastric region
- Backache in lumbar region
- Burning in spine
- Cervico-brachial neuralgia
- Must situp in order to turn in bed
- Bruised pain below scapula
- Sitting is painful
- Arms and hands go to sleep
- Paresis of arms
- Shocks in arms
- Legs numb
- Legs feel paralyzed
- Cramps in calves
- Cramps in soles
- Partial paralysis
- Cracking in knee-joints during motion
- Drags feet when walking
- Sensation of sudden loss of power of arms and legs in the morning
- Cannot sleep after 3 am
- Awakes feeling wretchedly
- Drowsy after meals
- Drowsy in early evening
- Dreams full of bustle
- Dreams full of hurry
- Better after a short sleep
- Body burning hot
- Hot face
- Chilly
- Urticaria
- Gastric derangement
- Acne
- Skin red
- Skin blotchy
- Cold stage predominates
- Paroxysms anticipate in morning
- Excessive rigor
- Blueness of finger-nails
- Aching in limbs
- Aching in back
- Gastric symptoms
- Chilly
- Must be covered in every stage of fever
- Perspiration sour
- Perspiration only one side of body
- Chilliness on being uncovered
- Dry heat of the body
Allen's Keynotes
- adapted to thin, irritable, careful, zealous persons with dark hair and bilious or sanguine temperament
- quarrelsome, spiteful, malicious
- nervous and melancholic
- debauchers of a thin, irritable, nervous disposition
- prone to indigestion and haemorrhoids
- ardent character; of an irritable, impatient temperament, disposed to anger, spite or deception
- anxiety with irritability and inclination to commit suicide, but is afraid to die
- hypochondriac: literary, studious persons who are too much at home, suffer from want of exercise
- gastric, abdominal complaints and costiveness
- oversensitive to external impressions; to noise, odors, light or music
- trifling ailments are unbearable
- every harmless word offends
- very particular, careful, but inclined to become easily excited or angered
- irascible and tenacious
- bad effects of coffee, tobacco, alcoholic stimulants; highly spiced or seasoned food; over-eating
- bad effects of long continued mental over-exertion; sedentary habits; loss of sleep
- bad effects of aromatic or patent medicines; sitting on cold stones, especially in warm weather
- convulsions with consciousness; worse from anger, emotion, touch, or moving
- tingling, sticking, hard, aching pains; worse from motion and contact
- tendency to faint from odors, in the morning, after eating, or after every labor pain
- cannot keep from falling asleep in the evening while sitting or reading hours before bedtime
- wakes at 3 or 4 a.m
- falls into a dreamy sleep at daybreak from which he is hard to arouse, and then feels tired and weak
- snuffles of infants
- coryza, dry at night, fluent by day
- coryza worse in a warm room, better in cold air
- coryza from sitting in cold places or on stone steps
- sour, bitter eructations
- nausea and vomiting every morning with depression of spirits; after eating
- constant nausea; after eating; in morning; from smoking
- nausea feels if i could only vomit i would be so much better
- stomach pressure an hour or two after eating as from a stone
- pyrosis, tightness, must loosen clothing
- cannot use the mind for two or three hours after a meal
- sleepy after dinner
- gastric complaints from anxiety, worry, brandy, coffee, drugs, night watching, high living
- constipation with frequent unsuccessful desire, passing small quantities of faeces
- sensation as if not finished after stool
- frequent anxious, ineffectual desire, better for a time after stool
- frequent desire in morning after rising; after mental exertion
- alternate constipation and diarrhoea in persons who have taken purgatives all their lives
- menses too early, profuse, lasts too long; every two weeks; irregular; stopping and starting again
- violent, spasmodic labor pains; cause urging to stool or urinate
- labor pains worse in back; prefers a warm room
- strangulated hernia, especially umbilical
- backache: must sit up to turn over in bed
- lumbago; from sexual weakness or masturbation
- repugnance to cold or cold air
- chilly on least movement; from being uncovered
- must be covered in every stage of fever (chill, heat, or sweat)
- great heat, whole body burning hot, face red and hot, yet patient cannot move or uncover without being chilly
- worse morning; waking at 4 a.m
- worse from mental exertion
- worse after eating or over-eating
- worse from touch, noise, anger, spices, narcotics, dry weather; in cold air
- better in evening, while at rest
- better lying down, and in damp, wet weather
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