Boericke's Materia Medica
- Extreme sensitiveness to cold
- Debility
- Lack of reaction
- Scrofulous patients
- Secretions have a filthy smell
- Profuse sweating
- Cardiac weakness
- Skin symptoms very prominent
- Easy perspiration when walking
- Offensive discharges
- Hopelessness
- Despair of recovery
- Melancholy
- Religious
- Suicidal tendency
- Awakens at night with pain as from blow on head
- Chronic headaches
- Hungry during headaches
- Vertigo
- Hammering pain
- Brain feels too large
- Dull, pressive pain in occiput
- Humid eruption on scalp
- Hair matted
- Hair dry
- Eyes agglutinated
- Blepharitis
- Chronic ophthalmia
- Edges of lids red
- Secretion acrid
- Obstinate rhagades at corners of mouth
- Tongue ulcerated
- Gums ulcerated
- Tough mucus of foul taste adheres to soft palate
- Dry coryza
- Stoppage of nose
- Chronic catarrh
- Dropping from posterior nares
- Acne rosacea
- Raw, red, oozing scabs around ears
- Sore pain behind ears
- Herpes from temples over ears to cheeks
- Offensive discharge from eczema around ears
- Intolerable itching of ears
- Chronic otorrha
- Most fetid pus from ears, brownish, offensive
- Swelling of upper lip
- Pale face
- Delicate face
- Humid eruption on face
- Sickly face
- Tonsils greatly swollen
- Painful swallowing
- Pain in ears during swallowing
- Profuse, offensive saliva
- Tough mucus in throat
- Recurring quinsy
- Hawking up of cheesy, pea-like balls of disgusting smell and taste
- Eructations like bad eggs
- Very hungry always
- Must have something to eat in the middle of the night
- Nausea
- Vomiting of pregnancy
- Pain in abdomen after eating
- Mucous stool
- Bloody stool
- Excessively fetid stool
- Dark fluid stool
- Hard, difficult stool
- Blood from rectum
- Burning piles
- Constipation of infants
- Leucorrha fetid
- Lumpy leucorrhea
- Backache with leucorrhea
- Debility with leucorrhea
- Mamm swollen
- Mamm painful
- Pimples oozing an acrid fluid that burns and excoriates the glands
- Asthma
- Dyspna
- Dry, hard cough
- Great weakness in chest
- Feeling of ulceration under sternum
- Pain in chest
- Cough returns every winter, from suppressed eruption
- Hay-fever returning irregularly every year
- Weakness of joints
- Eruption around finger-nails
- Fetid foot-sweats
- Dirty, dingy skin
- Dry, lusterless, rough hair
- Intolerable itching of skin
- Herpetic eruptions, especially on scalp and bends of joints
- Itching worse from warmth of bed
- Enlarged glands
- Sebaceous glands secrete excessively
- Oily skin
- Indolent ulcers, slow to heal
- Eczema behind ears
- Crusty eruptions all over
- Urticaria after every exertion
- Pustules near finger-nails
- Profuse, offensive perspiration
- Night-sweats
- Sleepless from intolerable itching
- Easily startled
Allen's Keynotes
- especially adapted to the psoric constitution
- in chronic cases when well selected remedies fail to relieve or permanently improve (in acute diseases, sulph.)
- when sulphur seems indicated by fails to act
- lack of reaction after severe acute diseases
- appetite will not return
- children are pale, delicate, sickly
- sick babies will not sleep day or night, but worry, fret cry
- child is good, plays all day
- restless, troublesome, screaming all night (rev. of lyc.)
- great weakness and debility
- from loss of animal fluids
- remaining after acute diseases
- independent of or without any organic lesion, or apparent cause
- body has a filthy smell, even after bathing
- the whole body painful, easily sprained and injured
- great sensitiveness to cold air or change of weather
- wears a fur cap, overcoat or shawl even in hottest summer weather
- stormy weather he feels acutely
- feels restless for days before or during a thunderstorm
- dry scaly eruptions disappear in summer, return in winter
- ailments
- from suppressed itch or other skin diseases, when sulphur fails to relieve
- sever, from even slight emotions
- feels unusually well day before attack
- extremely psoric patients
- nervous, restless, easily startled
- all excretions - diarrhoea, leucorrhoea, menses, perspiration - have a carrion-like odor
- anxious, full of fear
- evil forebodings
- religious melancholy
- very depressed, sad suicidal thoughts
- despairs of salvation , of recovery
- despondent
- fears he will die
- that he will fail in business
- during climaxis
- making his own life and that of those about him intolerable
- driven to despair with excessive itching
- headache
- preceded, by flickering before eyes, by dimness of vision or blindness (lac d., kali bi.)
- by spots or rings
- headache
- always hungry during
- >while eating
- from suppressed eruptions, or suppressed menses
- better nosebleed
- hair, dry, lustreless, tangles easily, glues together
- plica polonica
- scalp
- dry, scaly or moist, fetid, suppurating eruptions
- oozing a sticky, offensive fluid
- intense photophobia, with inflamed lids
- cannot open the eyes
- lies with face buried in pillow
- ears
- humid scurfs and soreness on and behind ears
- oozing and offensive viscid fluid
- otorrhoea
- thin, ichorous, horribly fetid discharge, like decayed meat
- chronic, after measles or scarlatina
- acne
- all forms, simplex, rosacea
- acute attack but eradicate the tendency
- hawks up cheesy balls, size of pea, of disgusting taste and carrion-like odor (kali m.)
- diarrhoea
- sudden, imperative (aloe, sulph.)
- stool watery, dark brown, fetid
- smells like carrion
- involuntary, lying down and keeping arms stretched far apart (rev. of ars.)
- despondent, thinks he will die
- cough returns every winter
- hay fever
- appearing regularly every year the same day of the month
- with an asthmatic, psoric or eczematous history
- patient should be treated the previous winter to eradicate the diathesis and prevent summer attack
- cough
- after suppressed itch, or eczema
- chronic, of years' duration
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