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Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

Insensibility of nervous system
Depression
Drowsy stupor
Painlessness
Torpor
General sluggishness
Lack of vital reaction
Sopor
Painless complaints
Heavy, stupid sleep
Stertorous breathing
Sweaty skin
Dark, mahogany-brown face
Serous apoplexy
Venous, passive congestion
Want of sensitiveness to medicines
Reappearance and aggravation from becoming heated
Lessens voluntary movements
Contracts pupils
Depresses higher intellectual powers
Lessens self-control
Lessens power of concentration
Stimulates the imagination
Checks all secretions except that of the skin
Want of susceptibility to remedies
Diseases that originate from fright
Patient wants nothing
Complete loss of consciousness
Apoplectic state
Frightful fancies
Daring, gay, bright
Unable to understand or appreciate his sufferings
Thinks he is not at home
Delirious talking, with wide open eyes
Vertigo
Lightness of head in old people
Dull, heavy, stupid head
Delirium
Vertigo after fright
Pain in back of head
Great weight in back of head
Bursting feeling in head
Complete insensibility
No mental grasp for anything
Paralysis of brain
Half-closed eyes
Dilated pupils
Insensible pupils
Contracted pupils
Ptosis
Staring glassy eyes
Red face
Bloated face
Swollen face
Dark suffused face
Hot face
Looks intoxicated
Looks besotted
Spasmodic facial twitching
Especially corners of mouth
Veins of face distended
Hanging down of lower jaw
Distorted face
Dry mouth
Black tongue
Paralyzed tongue
Bloody froth in mouth
Intense thirst
Blubbering op lips
Difficult articulation
Difficult swallowing
Vomiting
Colic
Convulsions
Fecal vomiting
Incarcerated hernia
Hungry
No desire to eat
Hard abdomen
Bloated abdomen
Tympanitic abdomen
Lead colic
Urging to stool
Discharge of hard feces
Obstinate constipation
No desire to go to stool
Round, hard, black balls stool
Feces protrude and recede
Spasmodic retention of feces in small intestines
Stools involuntary, black, offensive, frothy
Violent pain in rectum
Pain in rectum as if pressed asunder
Slow to start urine
Feeble stream urine
Retained urine
Involuntary urine
Loss of power of bladder
Loss of sensibility of bladder
Suppressed menses from fright
Cessation of labor-pains with coma between paroxysms
Threatened abortion from fright
Suppression of lochia from fright
Sopor
Horrible labor-like pains in uterus
Urging to stool
Breathing stops on going to sleep
Hoarse
Deep snoring
Rattling breathing
Stertorous breathing
Difficult respiration
Intermittent respiration
Deep respiration
Unequal respiration
Heat in chest
Burning about heart
Cough
Dyspna
Blue face
Bloody expectoration
Great drowsiness
Falls into a heavy stupid sleep
Profound coma
Loss of breath on falling asleep
Coma vigil
Picking at bedclothes
Very sleepy, but cannot go to sleep
Distant noise keeps him awake
Child dreams of cats
Child dreams of dogs
Child dreams of black forms
Bed feels so hot cannot lie on it
Pleasant dreams
Fantastic dreams
Amorous dreams
Shaking chill
Heat with sleep
Heat with sweat
Thirst only during heat
Pulse full and slow
Heat extending over body
Hot perspiration
Fever characterized by stupor
Fever characterized by snoring respiration
Fever characterized by twitching of limbs
Fever characterized by intense thirst
Fever characterized by sleepiness
General low temperature with inclination to stupor
Opisthotonos
Swollen veins of neck
Painless paralysis
Twitching of limbs
Numbness
Jerks as if flexors were overacting
Convulsions
Convulsions worse from glare of light
Coldness of limbs
Hot skin
Damp skin
Sweating skin
Constant desire to uncover
Hot perspiration over whole body except lower limbs
Worse from heat
Worse during sleep
Worse after sleep
Better from cold things
Better from constant walking

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

After-pains
Apoplexy
Bladder, paralysis of
Brain, affections of
Cancer
Catalepsy
Chilblains
Colic
Constipation
Diabetes mellitus
Dreams
Dysmenia
Epilepsy
Fear, effects of
Ftus, movements of, excessive
Hernia, incarcerated
Hystero-epilepsy
Ileus
Intestines, obstruction of
Labour pains, abnormal
Lead colic
Marasmus
Measles
Melancholia
Meningitis
Paralysis
Puerperal convulsions
Sighing
Sleep, abnormal
Snoring
Starting
Sunstroke
Tympanitis
Urmia
Urine, suppression of
Urine, retention of
Uterus, inertia of
Veins, fulness of
Whooping-cough
Unconsciousness
Muscular relaxation
Pupils contracted
Turgid face
Bloated face
Red face
Bluish face
Stertorous breathing
Pulse slow and full
Deep sleep
Fantastic dreams
Frightful dreams
Delirium tremens
Severe headache
Nausea
Furred tongue
Loss of appetite
Excitement of circulation
Pulse fuller and quicker
Surface warm and flushed
Increased power of directing energies
Agreeable languor followed by sleep
Easily aroused from sleep
Slight headache and languor
Dryness of mouth
Slight nausea
Increased energy
More vivid imagination
More brilliant thoughts
Greater power of expression
Persistent vomiting
Distressing dreams
Irritability
Diarrhoea
Deathly paleness
Coldness of limbs and whole body
Cold perspiration
Timorous anxiety
Trembling and despair
Mucous stools
Transient vomiting
Short cough
Horrible labour-like pains in uterus
Sharp pain which caused vomiting
Desire to sit doubled up and keep warm
Cramps
Tetanus
Drowsiness
Inertia
Torpor
Absence of sensation
Absence of reaction
Painlessness
Complaining of nothing
Wanting nothing
Want of susceptibility
Trembling
Lack of vital reaction
Inertia of the intestines results in constipation
Inertia of the bladder results in retention
Inertia of the uterus, in suspension of the menses
All secretions are checked except that of the skin, which is excited
Sensation of obstruction which occurs in inner parts
Reversed peristalsis
Fcal vomiting
Involuntary and unconscious passage of urine and fces from paralysis of sphincters
Uterine inertia during labour
Excessive ftal movements
Asphyxia of the new-born
Deep red face
Great loquacity
Visions of animals starting out of various parts of the room
Constant expression of fright
Sleepy but cannot sleep
Sleepless with acuteness of hearing disturbed by sounds ordinarily not heard at all
Twitching trembling of head, hands, and arms
Spasms are ushered in with a loud shriek
Nervous and irritable
Tendency to start
Sweat as a concomitant
Hot and damp skin
Complaints appearing with perspiration
Sweltering perspiration
High temperature without distinct inflammatory process
Intense thirst
Great sleepiness
Swelling of body
Veins protrude
Complete unconsciousness
Moaning, crying, and tossing about
Seems frightened
Almost falls asleep again but wakens with a start
Screaming and keeping in motion one arm and one leg after waking
Raving, fighting crazy
Glistening eyes
Frenzy
Furious delirium
Errors of perception as to space and time
As if from smoke on the brain
As if flying or hovering in air
As if drunk
As if eyes too large for orbits
As if sand or dust in eyes
As if eyelids paralysed
As of a band round chest
As if intestines would be cut to pieces
As of a stone in abdomen
As if something was forced through a narrow space in abdomen
Rolling as of a hard body in right hypochondrium
As though anus closed
As if lower limbs severed from body
Marked arching of the back
Carelessness
Great anxiety and uneasiness
Inconstancy and fickleness
Strong tendency to take alarm
Timorous character
Rash and inconsiderate boldness
Tranquillity of mind
Agreeable reveries
Forgetfulness of sufferings
Stupidity and imbecility
Loss of consciousness
Great flow of ideas
Gaiety
Disposition to indulge in sublime and profound reflections
Vivid imagination
Exaltation of the mind
Increased courage
Stupefaction and dulness
Very easy comprehension
Illusions of the imagination
Mania
Fantastical ideas
Fixed ideas
Patient believes, contrary to fact, that he is not at home
Delirium with frightful visions, of mice, scorpions, &c
Desire to run away
Mendacity
Rambling speech
Loquacious delirium
Open eyes and red face
Furious delirium
Fright with fear
Heat in the head
Convulsions
Grief over insults
Drunkenness with stupor as from smoke on the brain
Eyes burning, hot and dry
Confusion in head
Sensation of heat in eyes
Necessity to shut them
Great confusion, dulness and heaviness of head
Making thought and writing difficult
Head bewildered, as after intoxication
Dizziness as during intoxication
Vertigo, on sitting up in bed, which compels the patient to lie down again
Vertigo, after a fright
Attacks resembling apoplectic fits, with vertigo, buzzing in ears, loss of consciousness, face red, hot, puffed, eyes red and half shut, pupils dilated and insensible, foam at mouth, convulsive movements of limbs, slow, stertorous respiration
Sleeplessness or sleep, with anxious dreams
Ebullition of blood
General heat
Nervous excitability
Laughter
Trembling speech
Felt as if he had bees in a great hollow in his head
Aching above r. frontal eminence when reading, with heat, then pinching in r. temple
Pressing pains in temples
Cold sweat on forehead
Headache, < by moving eyes
Headache, with pressive tension throughout head
Sensation as if brain were being torn
Great heaviness of head
Congestion to head, with strong pulsation
Eyelids hanging, as if paralysed
Sensation as if eyeballs were too large
Eyes red, inflamed
Quivering of eyes and lids
Eyes half open and are turned upwards
Staring look
Swelling of lower lids
Eyes fixed, half closed, convulsed, prominent, glassy
Pupils dilated (insensible to light), and immovable
Pupils contracted
Cloudiness of sight
Sensation of dust in eyes
Scintillations before eyes
Buzzing in ears
Tinkling in ears
Tinnitus like sea roaring, continual, coming at uncertain times for three or four days
Drowsiness
Epistaxis
Face pale, earthy, wan, with hollow eyes, and red spots on cheeks
Face deep red, sometimes brownish, hot and bloated
Bluish (purple) face
The face of a suckling was like that of an old man
Alternate paleness and redness of face
Swelling of veins in face and head
Relaxation of all the muscles of the face, the lower lip and jaw hang down
Trembling, shocks, and convulsive movements of the muscles of the face
Lips swollen
Twitching in corners of mouth
Disfigurement of mouth
Cramps in jaw
Lockjaw
Features distorted
Looseness of teeth
Dryness of mouth, with violent thirst
Copious salivation
Hmoptysis
Ulcers in mouth, and on tongue
Tongue purple
Tongue white
Black tongue
Paralysis of tongue
Difficult articulation
Voice weak, low, with inability to speak loud without great exertion
Dryness of throat
Swelling and movements in throat, with fits of obstructed deglutition and strangulation, which recur daily
Inability to swallow
Loss of appetite
Bitter taste in throat
Sour taste in throat
Violent thirst
Burning thirst, esp. for beer
Attacks of bulimy, with want of appetite and repugnance to all food
Slowness and weakness of digestion
Nausea, with inclination to vomit, and retching
Vomiting, with violent pains in stomach, and convulsions
Vomiting of blood
Vomiting of greenish matter
Vomiting of fcal matter
Vomiting of urine
Painful sensitiveness, and inflation of stomach and epigastrium
Constrictive pressure at stomach, with excessive anguish
Heaviness and pressure in stomach
Compression of diaphragm
Abdomen hard, and distended, as in tympanites
Incarcerated inguinal hernia
Inactivity of digestive organs
Intestines sluggish, strongest purgatives, lose their power
Distension, but no power to expel contents
Accumulation of much flatus, with rumbling in abdomen
Weight in abdomen, as of a load
Tension in hypogastrium, with pain on touch
Pressive pains in the abdomen, as if the intestines would be cut to pieces
Pulsation, pressure, heaviness, and pullings in abdomen
Constipation from inactivity of the intestines
Spasmodic retention of the fces, esp. in the small intestines
Constipation, sometimes of long standing
Confined bowels with bleeding, furred tongue and drowsiness
Offensive black fces
Frothy (whitish pasty) and liquid diarrha, with burning pain in anus, and violent tenesmus
Involuntary evacuations (of offensive Stool)
Involuntary stools after fright
Anus spasmodically closed during the colic, with difficult emission of flatus
Stool composed of hard, round, black balls; grey; crumbling
Cholera infantum, with stupor, snoring, convulsions
Evacuation obstructed from indurated fces
Retention of urine, as from inactivity of the bladder
Acute, spasmodic constriction of urethra, with passage of bloody urine
Scanty, deep-coloured (dark-brown) urine, with sediment like brick-dust
Emission of blood in urinating
Increased sexual desire, with frequent erections and pollutions
Amorous ecstasy
Diminished sexual desire, and impotence
Great excitement of sexual organs, with sexual desire and orgasm
Perfect loss of sexual desire from lack of nutrition
Softness of uterus with fetid discharge
Prolapsus uteri from fright
Severe labour-like pains in uterus
Bearing down with r. groin pain, bloated abdomen, apathetic and drowsy, confined bowels, menses too soon, aching all over
Menses: irregular; profuse; violent colic forcing her to bend over; urging to stool; suppressed
Mucous discharge
Fetid leucorrha
Suppressed, false, or spasmodic labour-pains
Puerperal spasm, during and after parturition with loss of consciousness and drowsiness or coma between the paroxysms
Violent movements of the ftus
Troublesome hoarseness, as if caused by an accumulation of mucus in trachea, with great dryness in mouth, and white tongue
Rattling breathing
Respiration deep
Respiration unequal
Deep snoring breathing, with open mouth
Dry cough, with tickling and scraping in larynx
Laryngismus stridulus
Cough with profuse sweat on whole body
Weak and low voice
Violent, dry, hollow cough, < after repose
Cough during deglutition, or when taking an inspiration, with suspended respiration and blue colour of the face
Cough, with expectoration of blood, or of thick, frothy, mucus
Noisy, stertorous, and rattling inspiration
Continued and steady stertorous breathing
Difficult, slow, and intermittent respiration, as from paralysis of the lungs: pneumonia notha
Obstructed respiration and stifling, with great anguish
Spasmodic asthma
Fits of suffocation on making an effort to cough
Aching in chest, with shootings in sides during inspiration
Tension and constriction in chest
Heat and burning pain in chest, esp. in region of heart
Suffocative attacks during sleep like nightmare
Burning about heart
Pulsating arteries and swollen veins on neck
Palpitation after alarming events, fright, grief, sorrow, &c
Pain in cardiac region with great anxiety, trembling, sleeplessness, talkative delirium
Pulse: full, slow, quick, hard; irregular; imperceptible
Swelling of veins, and beating in arteries of neck
Bending backwards (spasmodically) of the back
Trembling of all the limbs, esp. arms and hands after fright
Spasmodic jerkings and numbness of limbs
Coldness of the extremities
Jerks and convulsive movements in arms
Paralysis of arms
Trembling of arms and hands
Distended veins on the hands
Chilblains on fingers
Swelling of veins of hands
Jerks and convulsive movements of legs
Weakness, torpor, and paralysis of legs
Heaviness and swelling of feet
Chilblains on toes
General insensibility of whole nervous system
Want of sensitiveness against the effects of medicines, with want of vital reaction
Great uneasiness in limbs
Trembling of limbs after fright
Trembling in whole body, with shocks, jerks in limbs, and general coldness
Convulsive fits, esp. in evening towards midnight, with sleep, involuntary movements of head and arms, with fists closed
Pupils dilated
Hardness of hearing
Hunger without desire to eat
Discharge of urine too scanty
Labour pains ceasing
Labour too weak
Apoplexy with stertorous breathing
Blackness of outer parts
Blueness of the whole skin or cyanosis
Feeling of numbness in the outer parts
Feeling of some kind of obstruction of inner parts
Pains like labour pains
Clonic spasms, esp. when the stertorous breathing lasts all the time between the spells
Black-blue swelling here and there over body
Epileptic convulsions at night, or in morning, with fits of suffocation, loss of consciousness and of sensibility, and violent movements of limbs
Relaxation of all muscles
Convulsions, with sudden loud cries
Convulsions and spasmodic motions, with foam at the mouth
Sensation of buzzing and vibration in whole body
Absence of pain during attacks
Excessive irritability of voluntary muscles, and diminished irritability of all the others
Persons, who take Opium in excess, become prematurely old
Rigidity of whole body
Paralysis without pain
Sensation of strength and vigour
Fainting and great weakness
General emaciation
Dropsical swelling of whole body
Aggravation and renewal of sufferings, when over-heated
Bed feels so hot she cannot lie on it
Skin bluish, with blue spots
Redness and continued itching of skin, with small, round, and colourless elevations
Erythema
Scarlatina-like eruptions
Furfuraceous desquamation, or else in large plaques
Desquamation of epidermis
Lethargy, with snoring and mouth open, eyes open and convulsed, face red, and puffed, jaw hanging, loss of consciousness, difficult, slow, or intermittent respiration, pulse slow, or even suppressed, and convulsive movement of muscles of face, corners of mouth, and limbs
Urgent inclination to sleep, with absolute inability to go to sleep
Incomplete sleep, without power to wake
Uneasy sleep, with anxious dreams
Sleeplessness with acuteness of hearing
Clocks striking and cocks crowing at a distance keep her awake
Sleeplessness, with anxious tossing, restlessness, and delirium
Stupefying, unrefreshing sleep
During sleep, picking of bedclothes
Groaning during sleep
Moaning (whining) during sleep
Terrific shocks in limbs, during sleep
Nightmare
Lascivious, frightful, and anxious dreams
Dreams and cannot be roused
Coma vigil
Pleasant, fantastic dreams
General coldness of skin, esp. of limbs
Coldness and rigidity of whole body
Chill and diminished animal heat, with stupor, and weak, scarcely perceptible pulse
Coldness only of limbs
Burning heat in body, with great redness of face, anxiety, delirium, and agitation
Pulse, generally full, slow and intermittent, or quick and hard
Absence of perspiration
Heat without perspiration
Very hot sweltering perspiration
Complaints concomitant to perspiration
Intermittent fever where the chilliness is followed by heat, with perspiration which may be hot and sweltering; where there is no chill, but the fever is accompanied by this perspiration
Patient may not feel cold all day, or may have only a little chill, and at night when in bed complain that the sheets feel so very hot
Fever, with lethargic sleep, snoring, convulsive movements of limbs, suppressed excretions, and hot perspiration (with quick and anxious breathing)
Heat with damp skin predominates, extending itself from head or stomach over the whole body
Heat with inclination to be uncovered
Perspiration of upper part of body, with dry heat of lower part
Intermittent fever; first shaking chill, afterwards heat with sleep, during which he perspires much
Falling asleep during cold stage and no thirst; during the hot stage thirst and general copious perspiration
Whole body burning, even when bathed in sweat
Fever, sometimes with loss of consciousness, or delirium

Allen's Keynotes

more information and order at remedia homeopathy especially adapted to children and old people
diseases of first and second childhood , persons with light hair, lax muscles, and want of bodily irritability
want of susceptability to remedies
lack of vital reaction, the well chosen remedy makes no impression (carbo v., laur., val.)
ailments
with insensibility and partial or complete paralysis
that originate from fright, bad effects of, the fear still remaining
from charcoal vapors
from inhaling gas
of drunkards
all complaints
with great sopor
painless, complains of nothing
wants nothing
spasms
of children, from approach of strangers
from nursing after fright of mother
from crying
eyes half open and upturned
screaming before or during a spasm (apis, hell.)
deep stetorous respiration both on inhalation and exhalation
delirium, constantly talking
eyes wide open, face red, puffed
or unconscious, eyes glassy, half-closed, face pale, deep coma
preceded by stupor
thinks she is not at home
this is continually in her mind
picking of bed clothes during sleep (while awake, bell., hyos.)
delirium tremens
in old emaciated persons
bloated face, stupor, eyes burning, hot, dry
with loud snoring
sleep
heavy, stupid
with stetorous breathing, red, face, eyes, half-closed, blood-shot
skin covered with hot sweat
after convulsions
sleepy, but cannot sleep , sleeplessness with acuteness of hearing, clock striking and cocks crowing at great distance keep her awake
loss of breath on falling asleep
bed feels so hot she cannot lie on it (bed feels hard, arn., bry., pyr.)
moves often in search of a cool place
must be uncovered
digestive organs inactive
peristaltic motion reversed or paralyzed
bowels seem closed
constipation
of children
of corpulent, good-natured women
from inaction or paresis, no desire
from lead poisoning
stool hard, round black balls
faeces protrude and recede
stool
involuntary, especially after fright
black and offensive
from paralysis of sphincter
urine
retained, with bladder full
retention, post-partum or from excessive use of tobacco
in nursing children, after passion of nurse
in fever or acute illness
paralysis of bladder or sphincter. (in stramonium we have suppression
while in the secretion is not diminished, the bladder is full but fullness is unrecognized.). renders the intestines so sluggish that the most active purgatives lose their power. - hering
persistent diarrhoea in those treated with large doses of the drug. - lippe
sudden retrocession of acute exanthema results in paralysis of brain or convulsions
marasmus
child with wrinkled skin, looks like a little dried up old man . &lt
during and after sleep (apis, lach.)
while perspiring
from warmth
stimulants. &gt
from cold
constant walking
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