PHYSOSTIGMA

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Astigmatism
  • Bathing, effects of
  • Blepharospasm
  • Chorea
  • Ciliary spasm
  • Climacteric
  • Constipation
  • Coccygodynia
  • Dentition
  • Diarrha
  • Dyspepsia
  • Epilepsy
  • Eyes, affections of
  • Injuries of eyes
  • Strain of eyes
  • General paralysis
  • Glaucoma
  • Hmorrhoids
  • Headache
  • Heart, affections of
  • Hemiplegia (l.)
  • Herpes, preputialis
  • Hiccough
  • Hysteria
  • Iris, prolapsed
  • Leucorrha
  • Levitation
  • Locomotor ataxy
  • Myopia
  • Navel, inflammation of
  • Paralysis, local
  • Paralysis, agitans
  • Paralysis, spinal
  • Paraplegia
  • Progressive muscular atrophy
  • Prostration
  • Prostration, muscular
  • Sleeplessness
  • Spinal irritation
  • Spinal sclerosis
  • Stiff neck
  • Tetanus
  • Throat, sore
  • Throat, fish-bone sensation
  • Water, effects of
  • Wounds
  • Uncommon mental activity
  • Foolish actions
  • Exhilarated in morning, gloomy towards noon
  • Nothing was right, too many things in room, continually counting them
  • Irritable
  • Nervous, cannot endure pain
  • Exhaustion, cannot remember anything
  • Disinclined to work
  • Difficult thinking, cannot concentrate the mind
  • Vertigo, on moving, with fainting and musc volitantes
  • Vertigo, with nausea
  • Vertigo, in evening, if people stepped in front of tier in the doorway
  • Vertigo, at night
  • Vertigo, when reading
  • Vertigo, on getting up after dinner
  • Vertigo, when walking
  • Vertigo, on descending stairs, with dim vision and unsteady gait
  • Vertigo, wavering in brain
  • Vertigo, as if drunk
  • Vertigo, with sensation of wavering in brain
  • Confusion and dizziness
  • Dull, heavy, oppressive headache
  • Intolerable pain over both eyes
  • Head drooping listlessly
  • Darting pain in various parts, < motion
  • Aching in morning with epistaxis l. side
  • Bruised pain in brain all day, < a heavy step
  • Bruised pain in brain all day, < l. temple, with general fatigue and sensitiveness to cold or change of temperature
  • Pressure encircling head, with sleepiness
  • Constriction as from a bandage or tight cap pressed down as far as temples
  • Severe, dull, frontal headache, esp. in the morning
  • Darting pain in forehead, < motion, and in temples
  • Sharp pain in supra-orbital region, running off towards nose
  • Pain over r. eye, in morning on waking, by noon pain in whole cerebrum, fulness of blood-vessels of brain, and contracted feeling in forehead, which extended to eyelids, causing an effort to open or close them
  • Pain in l. side at 10 a.m., with heat in abdomen and nausea, the pain is heavy at 11, pain over whole head from 4 till 10 p.m., with nausea and general sweat, headache next day with lame, bruised feeling in region of kidneys
  • Pain in temples, showing from r. temple to 2nd bicuspid
  • In evening sound of the organ caused headache, < forehead and temples
  • One-sided headache with fear of opening eyes lest it should < the pain
  • Inability to stop thinking with headache
  • Sensation of rush of blood to frontal and temporal regions
  • Sharp, shooting pains in temples
  • Throbbing of temporal and carotid arteries, heart beats felt in head on lying down
  • Intense, painful pressure in vertex and both temples, the pressure in vertex extending over to occiput
  • Eyes inflamed, first r., then l., sclerotic dry, red, and swollen, eyeballs pain and smart, lids feel sore
  • Eyes bloodshot all the forenoon, with burning in them
  • Pain on attempting to use binocular vision, as in reading, so that one eye must be closed, > by a weak concave glass
  • Pressure, with musc volitantes, dark and light long worms or snakes, also tremulous vision
  • Bright marks when looking at an object, dark yellowish spots covering one or two letters when reading
  • Sharp, shooting pains, and drawing, twisting sensation in eyes
  • Eyes sore and painful when moved from side to side
  • Pain deep in, over top of eyeball, running up from inner canthus to r. frontal eminence, then down obliquely outward into temple
  • Sharp stitches in r. eyeball, > by motion in open air
  • The muscularis internus seems not to do its work rightly, and the axis of the eyes differs in each, eyes feel weak, with lachrymation
  • Eyes convulsed
  • Sight blurred, hazy, or misty, film over eyes, objects mixed, after which dull pain over the eyes and between the eyes
  • Aching in posterior part of orbit, extending back into the brain, < on reading, causing nausea
  • Lids (esp. l.) heavy, cannot bear to raise them, twitching of lids (upper, < l.)
  • Contracted sensation in lids with difficulty in opening them and lachrymation when wide open, difficulty in keeping l. eye open
  • Lids immovable
  • Tight feeling in ciliary region as if something were creeping about in it, with sharp pain, < reading
  • Contraction of pupils, in morning, by small and rapid jerks, with sensitiveness to light, then mydriasis, < morning, seeming to depend on fatigue of sphincter, which was > during day by reflex stimulus of light
  • Pupils dilated
  • Pupils contracted when asleep, dilated when aroused
  • Disturbed accommodation, approximation of far point (myopia) and also of near point (the accommodation recovers before the pupil)
  • Vision abnormally acute
  • Vision double
  • Vision dim and indistinct
  • Vision blurred, hazy, misty
  • (Lens dislocated by blow)
  • Sharp, shooting pains in the ears
  • Shooting in l. ear, in r.
  • Pain in r. ear when writing
  • Hammering in r. in evening, with feeling in external ear as from a hot wind
  • Painful pressure on tympani
  • Discomfort in r., with inclination to bore in with finger, after removal of wax some pain, with eructation a sudden pain from throat along Eustachian tube to middle ear
  • Crawling in l. ear
  • Fulness in ear
  • Stopped feeling in ear
  • Partial deafness of r.
  • Sensitive to every sound
  • Singing or tuning like escaping steam, at night after lying down
  • Hissing, buzzing, ringing in the ears
  • Fluent coryza, sneezing, burning, smarting, itching, and tingling of nostrils, nose stuffed and hot
  • Twitchings in nose and involuntary expansion of nostrils
  • Small boil inside r. nostril
  • Epistaxis while at supper
  • Smarting at end of nose, it feels as if burnt by hot liquid
  • Tension in skin of nose and forehead
  • Face pale, flushings of the face, heat
  • Neuralgic pain in r. side of face
  • Sensation of cramps or spasms in face extending to neck, with numbness of l. hand
  • Sensation of contraction of l. side of face, with numbness
  • Severe pain in r. upper jaw like toothache (though all teeth on that side had been extracted)
  • Numbness of lips
  • Dentition, nervous children with vacillating pupils who have trouble when nursing or taking food, pain in stomach as soon as they begin, but going off if they continue to nurse
  • Tongue sore on tip and rough
  • Smarting of end of tongue, feels as if burnt
  • Scalding sensation l. side of tongue
  • Tongue coated, more heavily at root
  • Numbness and tingling of tongue and lips, with constant desire to moisten them
  • Bad taste in mouth
  • Profuse salivation, thick, leathery saliva
  • Difficult speech
  • Power of speech retained long after inability to swallow
  • Sore throat, painful swallowing
  • Tonsils and soft palate dark red
  • Burning, scraping, raw feeling in throat
  • Tonsils enlarged, swollen, elongated uvula
  • Small ulcers, with yellow centres in pharynx
  • Feeling as of a fish-bone in throat, swallowing saliva very painful
  • Constriction of throat and dysphagia
  • Pain extending from throat to l. ear when swallowing
  • Feeling as if a ball were coming up in throat
  • Submaxillary gland tender and tumefied
  • Hunger but can find nothing to satisfy it, food has a flat taste
  • No appetite, disgust for food, tobacco, and coffee, and esp. for cold drinks
  • Tasteless eructations
  • Burning in stomach with hot eructations
  • Violent hiccough
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Prickling, sharp pains in stomach
  • Darting pains in stomach, with paralysed feeling of l. side
  • Heaviness and weight in stomach, as if undigested food were lying there
  • Hard pain in stomach
  • Griping in stomach
  • Emptiness and weakness in stomach
  • Sensation of nervousness and trembling in stomach
  • Soreness in region of stomach
  • Sensation at epigastrium as when large pieces of food are suddenly swallowed
  • Lancinating pains in hypochondria
  • Hard, sore pain in splenic region, descending to groin and across hypogastrium, < by motion
  • Soreness and pain at navel, which was found much inflamed
  • Severe pain in umbilical region
  • Pain and soreness in umbilical region
  • Stitches in l. side of abdomen
  • Much rumbling and distension in abdomen, with discharge of large quantities of flatus
  • Dull pain in transverse and descending colon
  • Colicky pains, with feeling as if diarrha would occur
  • Shooting pains in l. iliac region and down thigh
  • Sharp, cutting pains in lower part of abdomen
  • Dull pain in groins
  • Stools copious
  • Stools soft, thin
  • Stools watery
  • Stools yellowish
  • Stools bilious
  • Stools part natural, part black like tar
  • Stools lumpy, mixed with watery discharge
  • Stools dark and offensive
  • Constipation, from atony
  • Sphincter ani swollen and rigid, evacuation painful, rectum protruding, swollen and very sensitive
  • Tenesmus and burning, with diarrha, also tenesmus of bladder
  • Stool irregular and loose, anus sore and inclined to protrude, piles (absent for three years) return
  • Severe piles following childbirth
  • Bruised, sore feeling in region of kidneys
  • Bladder feels distended
  • Frequent desire to urinate, often ineffectual
  • Frequent and copious urination
  • Urine yellow
  • Urine high coloured
  • Urine strong-smelling
  • Urine clear
  • Urine muddy
  • Urine pale and copious
  • Frequent erections with but slight desire
  • Two emissions without dreams or excitement
  • Strong-smelling sweat about genitals, prepuce tender and swollen, many small vesicles on glans with burning itching
  • Leucorrha < exercising during day, esp. about 4 p.m., with inclination to sigh, sighing < when leucorrha is worse, dread of cold water
  • Menses irregular
  • Numbness of womb with pain in back
  • Condition like that produced by flooding after delivery
  • Metrorrhagia
  • Pain as if menses were coming on
  • Menstruation, with palpitation, congestion of the eyes, with tonic spasms, rigidity, sighing respiration, consciousness retained
  • Cough from tickling in throat
  • Slight constant inclination to cough from filling lungs
  • Laboured, sighing respiration, yawning
  • Stitches in the chest
  • Cannot fill l. lung as inspiration = dull pain at l. apex, > by pressure
  • Stitches under inferior angles of scapul during expiration
  • Heavy weight at chest
  • Twitches across pectoral muscles
  • Stitches in l. breast, and unable to draw long breath
  • Dull pain, uneasiness and distress about the heart
  • Violent palpitation of the heart, with feeling of pulsation through whole body
  • As the fresh, bracing air strikes me, a choking sensation with fluttering of heart
  • Heart's action irregular and tumultuous, when lying on l. side, > when lying on the back
  • Pulse variable
  • Pulse accelerated
  • Pulse small, frequent
  • Pulse slow, feeble, intermittent
  • Inclination to stretch out the neck
  • Pain at base of brain as if it were cutting off body from head, going through to back part of throat, which is stiff and sore
  • Stiffness in neck
  • On waking, pain in r. head and neck as if latter was stiff
  • While taking morning bath suddenly stiff neck (r.)
  • Drawing on turning head
  • Rheumatic pains in l. neck and shoulder
  • Feeling of weakness passed down from occiput through back to lower limbs
  • Cramp-like stitches up and down spine, stiffness of l. neck
  • Chilly, creeping sensations up back, 7 p.m.
  • Back very weak, unable to stand erect
  • Dull pain in back
  • Backache (in renal region) kept him restless all night, no > in any position, passed copious colourless urine
  • Creeping numbness from back of head down spine
  • Cramp-like stitches up and down the spine
  • Pain under r. shoulder-blade
  • Dull, heavy pain in lumbar region, also over l. hip, extending to back
  • Pain in back between hips, with numbness of womb
  • Pain in (l.) sacral region, as if strained by lifting, < on motion
  • Contractive pain of anterior surface of coccyx, as if dysentery coming on
  • Limbs feel weary, as after great fatigue
  • (Pleasant) numbness in all the limbs, and paralytic feeling
  • Neuralgic pains in the limbs
  • Stiffness or bruised feeling in the joints
  • Staggering gait
  • Cold extremities
  • Wrists feel weak, dull aching pain in them
  • Sharp, shooting pain in l. shoulder
  • Itching of l. palm
  • Paroxysms of burning in palms
  • Hands feel cold, then hot and red
  • Pain in r. deltoid > only by violent motion
  • Numbness in l. arm
  • Sharp pain in l., then r. arm
  • Unsteadiness from knee downward when walking, esp. with eyes shut
  • Dragging pain in l. hip towards back
  • Thrusts with aching down l. thigh from iliac region
  • Stiffness in hip and knee
  • Cramp-like pain in l. (and r.) popliteal space
  • Sensation of a drawing cord behind leg and knee, impeding walking
  • Gnawing in l. tibia
  • Legs feel asleep
  • Numbness in l. foot
  • Indescribable torpidity as from opium
  • Great sense of fatigue and weariness, weakness
  • Convulsive twitchings
  • Constant fibrillary twitchings of the muscles
  • Violent trembling all over the body
  • Great prostration of the muscular system
  • Diminished reflex action
  • Omits bath on account of horror for cold water
  • Sore and stiff all over, as from a cold
  • Severe, sharp pains in various parts of the body
  • In nerves in front of body waves like tremblings going up and down, at back nerves paralysed and numbed with pain as when the nerve of a tooth is being killed
  • Stiff all over as after taking cold
  • Paralysed feeling in l. side
  • On raising foot in walking, momentary feeling as if he were floating upwards, and on foot touching ground an unpleasant feeling making a shuddering sensation pass all over him
  • Irresistible desire to sleep, soporific sleep
  • Restless sleep with dreams
  • During sleep mind so active was unaware he had been asleep
  • Falls asleep frequently, but awakes suddenly without relief, following night scarcely closed eyes in sleep, thoughts very active, an idea once started kept on with unusual persistence
  • Creeping, chilly sensation in back, yawning, every movement and draught = shuddering
  • Hands and feet cold
  • Cold, clammy skin
  • Heat in head and face, flushed and hot
  • Heat in face and down back with chilliness of legs
  • Dry burning in hands
  • Perspires very easily
  • Cold sweat in drops over whole body
  • Strong-smelling sweat around genitals
  • Copious sweat all over body

Allen's Keynotes

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  • cannot stop thinking
  • vision dim
  • from blur or film
  • objects mixed
  • pain after using eyes
  • floating black spots, flashes of light, twitching of lids and muscles of eyes
  • mystagmus
  • great prostration of muscular system
  • impaired locomotion
  • tremors or trembling of young persons from mental or physical disturbances
  • idiopathic or traumatic tetanus
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