Boericke's Materia Medica
- Coryza
- Hay-fever like symptoms
- Chilliness
- Sensitive to cold
- Ascarides with reflex symptoms
- Nymphomania
- Convulsive symptoms
- Children's diarrhea with constant cutting pains
- Nervous
- Timid
- Easily startled
- Erroneous notions about himself
- Imagines he is very sick
- Parts are shrunken
- She is pregnant
- She has cancer
- Delirium during intermittents
- Vertigo with sensation as though all things were turning around each other
- Blackness before eyes
- Sensation of fainting
- Dullness and oppression
- Over-sensitiveness to odors
- Thinking produces headache
- Sleeplessness
- Eyelids red
- Burning eyelids
- Lachrymation
- Difficult hearing
- Spasmodic sneezing
- Running nose
- Severe frontal pains
- Redness of eyes
- Sore throat begins on left side
- Much tough phlegm
- Sensation of a skin hanging loosely in throat
- Must swallow loose skin sensation
- Empty swallowing most painful
- Dry fauces and throat
- Sensation of a lump in throat
- Constant necessity to swallow
- Chronic sore throat worse from cold air
- Tongue as if burnt
- Spasmodic pain in stomach
- Dry cough
- Difficult breathing
- No thirst
- Loathing for strong food
- Canine appetite for sweets
- Canine appetite for farinaceous food
- Pyrosis
- Copious salivation
- Cold empty feeling in stomach
- Desire for hot things
- Sweetish taste
- Menses too late
- Menses come by fits and starts
- Chill predominates from below upwards
- Heat in head
- Heat in face
- Hands icy cold
- Feet icy cold
- Cracking of skin under and beneath toe
- Inflammation under toe-nails
- Dry skin like parchment
- Horny deformed thickened nails
- Hot burning creeping crawling sensation
- Itching in anus
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Coryza
- Debility
- Diphtheria
- Dyspepsia of pregnancy
- Earache
- Epistaxis
- Hay asthma
- Headache
- Head-lice
- Imaginary diseases
- Influenza
- Intermittents
- Mania
- Melancholia
- Neuralgia
- Oesophagus stricture of
- Rheumatism
- Tapeworm
- Throat sore
- Toothache
- Uvula elongated
- Vertigo
- Worms
- Uneasiness and anguish with great agitation
- Disposition to be frightened
- Startled by noises
- Hysteric paroxysms after fright
- Ill-humour and passion
- Dislike to labour
- Rage
- Difficulty in thinking
- Thinking headache
- Delusions of the imagination with respect to oneself; the body seems to be collapsed, like that of a corpse, the stomach to be eaten away &c
- Imaginary diseases
- Vertigo with nausea greater by supporting head
- Vertigo as if things were turning around him
- Vertigo as if all things were turning round each other
- Vertigo in morning after rising
- Vertigo had to rest his head on the table the whole afternoon to keep off the fainting
- Vertigo more sitting than standing
- Vertigo when going to bed
- Vertigo with fainting and cloudiness of eyes on rising from a seat
- Headache with vertigo greater while eyes are fixed steadfastly on an object and while patient is thinking of one subject
- Headache as if a thread had been drawn from middle of forehead to occiput above temples leaving a burning sensation behind
- Stupefying headache with coryza itching and burning of scalp and general heat of whole body less in forenoon
- Headache begins in right side whence it extends more and more to left
- Corrosive burning point on top of head
- Headache with tensive pain especially during intellectual labour
- Headache especially after every walk; after eating
- Hemicrania with tænia
- Pressive and stupefying headache in forehead and temples
- Painful heaviness of head
- Boring pains in head after taking exercise
- Pulsative and painful throbbing in head
- Burning tingling and pricking in forehead and scalp as from lice
- Burning crawling itching on hairy scalp and forehead greater from scratching less from getting into a sweat when walking
- Forehead covered with cold sweat
- Burning smarting in eyes
- Pressure on eyeballs especially when looking up
- Redness of margins of eyelids
- Lachrymation especially during exercise in open air, when looking at anything bright, when coughing yawning and on feeling the slightest pain in other parts
- Weakness of sight
- Otalgia with troublesome pressure
- Otalgia with snapping as of electric sparks before ears
- Tickling in ears
- Itching at anus alternately with itching at meatus auditorius externus
- Burning itching and shootings in tips of ears
- Deafness as if there were a band over ears
- Humming gurgling and detonation in ears
- Boring in parotids
- Itching tingling in nose and contractive smarting
- Epistaxis
- Great sensibility to smell of garlic
- Sensitive dryness of upper part of nose
- Violent spasmodic sneezing shaking the abdomen then lachrymation
- Obstruction of nostrils alternately
- Fluent coryza with altered features and bewildered head influenza; hay-fever
- Great masses of white and transparent mucus are blown from nose without coryza
- Bright red blood comes from posterior nares and is expectorated
- Heat of face with fiery redness especially after drinking wine
- Blue circles round the eyes
- Marbled and herpetic skin on the face, burning sensation, pain as from excoriation, pricking and itching tingling in lips
- Beating and jerking in muscles of left upper jaw with itching
- Boring in lower jaw and submaxillary glands
- Cracking of the articulation of the jaw on opening mouth wide
- Toothache with drawing and pulsative pain
- Shooting pains in molars
- Caries of teeth
- Gums bluish
- Pricking in gums
- Sensation in mouth and on tongue as if they were burnt and excoriated
- Cannot bear anything hot in mouth
- Tongue feels sore as if full of blisters
- Pricking soreness in tip of tongue
- Tip of the tongue bluish
- Tongue loaded with a thick yellowish coating more in middle and at back
- Dryness of the mouth without thirst
- Copious accumulation of sweetish saliva in the mouth
- Jelly-like saliva
- Pain in the throat as if caused by a plug or an internal swelling during deglutition and at other times
- Constantly obliged to swallow with pain in mouth and behind larynx as if something lodged there with scratching roughness hawks constantly less morning and during and after eating
- Sensation of a skin hanging loosely in throat must swallow over it; as if uvula were down
- Much tough phlegm in throat must hawk
- Feeling of constriction in the throat in fauces as from an astringent drink
- Can swallow warm food more easily in sore throat
- Pressure and burning sensation in throat during deglutition and at other times
- Dryness in throat
- Roughness and scraping in throat with continued want to swallow or to hawk
- Inflammation of uvula
- Taste bitter or of a sickly sweetness
- Violent thirst for cold water, milk or beer also in morning
- Hunger with dislike to all food especially meat, coffee wine and acids
- Bulimy especially in morning and evening principally for honey pastry and farinaceous food
- Thirstlessness or thirst only in evening for cold water
- Craves hot things hot tea in sore throat
- Risings generally empty and sometimes with shuddering
- Painful and imperfect risings
- Pyrosis
- Corrosive burning pain in stomach and oesophagus when walking
- Coldness in stomach
- Empty feeling in stomach
- Nausea with inclination to vomit often with shuddering greater by eating
- Nausea with constant spitting of insipid water
- Nausea retching and feeling of worm in oesophagus
- Vomiting of lumbrici
- Softness uneasiness and coldness in stomach
- Digging in epigastric region with pains as from excoriation as if a sore spot were pressed below pit of stomach when pressing upon it and on inspiration
- A frequent sudden sensation of obstructed respiration in scrobiculus with anxiety
- Sensation of heat in scrobiculus and burning in stomach
- Pressive scraping in hepatic region
- Digging drawing in liver with pain as from excoriation when pressing upon it
- Sensation of heat in hepatic region
- Colicky pain in abdomen as if caused by worms or from actual worms
- Constriction in abdomen
- Turning and twisting through whole abdomen as from a lump
- Cuttings as by knives
- Colic with sensation as if a ball were moving and turning through abdomen cries out oh! my bowels they go like a wheel with violent urging to stool and borborygmus from worms
- Violent shootings in sides of abdomen which force the patient to bend double
- Boring digging and rolling in abdomen
- Rumbling in abdomen as if empty
- Croaking as of frogs in abdomen
- Sensation of coldness or burning in abdomen
- Spasmodic contraction of muscles of abdomen of left side with burning pain he bent double on left side
- Red spots and specks on abdomen
- Constipation
- Broken hard scanty stools
- Very difficult stools with much burning in abdomen and sensation as if something alive in abdomen
- Urgent want to evacuate with scanty evacuation
- Loose brown or fermented fèces mixed with mucus and blood floating on the water
- Pinchings tearing and tingling in rectum
- Crawling in rectum and anus as from ascarides
- Itching of anus, violent burning after scratching
- Itching of anus, alternating with itching of nose or ear
- Discharges of worms lumbrici tapeworm
- Urgent want to urinate especially in evening with tenesmus and scanty emission
- Increased secretion of urine
- Turbid thick urine like clay-water
- Burning in urethra when urinating
- Digging and pressive pain in testes
- Diminished sexual desire
- Tensive and painful erections without desire for coition
- Pollutions with flaccidity of penis
- Catamenia retarded but profuse and of longer duration flow by fits and starts painful hearing down a few days previous
- Cutting pain as from knives in ovary ovaritis
- Nymphomania from ascarides
- Hot breath
- Hoarse rough voice
- Hawking up of bright red blood which comes from the nasal fossæ
- Short dry cough also at night provoked by a scraping in throat
- Cough dry with perspiration and water in the eyes
- Cough with vomiting shootings in vertex and pain in stomach
- Dull cough sometimes with hämoptysis
- Cough immediately on lying down
- Cough with expectoration and lancinations in chest
- Respiration obstructed as if there were a stone in the chest
- Short difficult respiration
- Wheezing respiration
- Pressure on the chest
- Burning sensation in the chest
- Pain from right sometimes left shoulder into chest as if circulation of blood arrested by a tight bandage not greater by unfastening dress less in open air
- Shootings in sides of chest especially when drawing breath and coughing which disturbs the sleep at night and does not permit lying on the side
- Inflammation of pleura
- Red spots and points on chest
- Palpitation of heart with pulsation throughout body
- Contusive pain in back and loins especially when seated
- Burning-tingling stinging sensation between scapulæ
- Stitches in rapid succession in right side of back
- Weariness and heaviness in all the limbs less towards evening obliging her to lie down
- Coldness of the limbs
- Painful drawings in limbs as if in marrow of bones with inclination to stretch limbs greater by repose
- Painful sensation of paralysis of the limbs especially in knees
- Convulsive movements of arms
- Trembling of arms and hands
- Red spots bands and points on arms and hands
- Pricking lancinations in forearms
- Dryness of skin of hands
- Distortion of fingers
- Yellow spots on fingers
- Desquamation of skin round nails
- Shootings in thighs and knees
- Weakness and flexion of knees
- Tearing and tension in calves of legs also at night
- Heaviness of feet
- Swelling of feet with painful sensibility of soles
- Profuse perspiration on soles
- Intermittent complaints which come every week or two weeks or four weeks apart
- Especially suited for children who are disposed to worms; worms discharged with stool, whether lumbrici or tapeworms
- Sweetish taste
- No thirst during chill; heat often internal
- Troubles appearing on the right side; on toenails
- Sensation of knocking, throbbing, or pulsation in the outer parts; great sleepiness in the forenoon
- Less in forenoon; before midnight; from cold in general; while resting
- Greater from moving; while swallowing something; while getting warm; from warmth in general
- Many complaints appear, especially during the new and full moon
- Pricking pressive and dull lancinations in different parts
- Tingling in the limbs
- Twitchings convulsive tremblings or catalepsy from worms
- Nervous diseases from worms or deeply seated abdominal irritation
- Great debility in intermittents paralytic debility in pleuritis
- Convulsions
- Heaviness of tread and of movements generally
- Lassitude and heaviness in all limbs less evening or towards noon at which times the pains in the limbs are also less
- In general, less at same hour every day
- Pains in the bones as if caused by some one cutting and scraping inside with a knife especially in the joint less by touch greater by a quick movement of the part affected
- The patient feels better when lying down than when walking or standing; in the open air
- Several symptoms appear first on the right and then on the left side
- Great sensibility to cold air which less the uneasiness and pains
- Parchment-like dryness of skin
- Tingling and burning shootings under skin
- Red bands spots and points in different parts of skin appearing with greatest intensity in cold air
- Great inclination to sleep during day with continued yawning and stretching
- Sleep retarded by a multitude of thoughts
- Imperfect sleep in evening with mental fatigue from wandering thoughts
- Agitated and unrefreshing sleep at night with anxious dreams
- In the morning he starts up from his sleep as from a fright
- Pulse small but spasmodic
- Sensation as if the circulation were suspended
- Chilliness in evening always at same hour; frequently not followed by heat; the chills run up the body
- Heat principally in head and face often interrupted by chilliness always returning at same hour
- Fever without thirst manifested only by chilliness with intermittent heat which is more perceptible in the face and hands than in other parts of body
- Hot perspiration in face with coldness of rest of body
- Intermittent fever which returns at same hour; chill, then thirst, then thirst with headache
- Shivering or external coldness and trembling of limbs without shivering and with more violent thirst or complete adipsia afterwards heat with moderate thirst accompanied or followed by perspiration
- In the morning hours perspiration
- During the shivering pain in upper ribs dry spasmodic cough and tearing in all the limbs and bones
- Delirium yawning and stretching during the heat
- Sleep during the perspiration
- Quotidian tertian quartan fever at regular intervals with anorexia pressive inflation of stomach pains in chest cough shivering weakness and thirst between the shiverings and the heat
- Thirst only between hot and cold stage
- Fever where the gastric symptoms prevail with dry convulsive cough in cold stage quartan ague
- During the apyrexia painful weariness of the limbs without any other symptom
Allen's Keynotes
- suited to persons of light hair, fair complexion with a weak, relaxed muscular system
- worm affections of children
- nervous diseases; twitching, convulsive tremblings, catalepsy; from worms
- illusions: that he is sick; parts shrunken; that she is pregnant when merely distended from flatus; that she has some horrible throat disease that will be fatal
- delirium during intermittents
- sneezing: in spasmodic paroxysms; followed by lachrymation; copious watery coryza; face hot and eyelids red and burning
- diphtheria, tonsillitis; can swallow warm food more easily; stitches and most symptoms, especially of throat, go from left to right
- sensation of a skin hanging loosely in throat; must swallow over it
- headache: from too much thinking, too close application of attention; from worms
- dryness of fauces and throat
- parchment-like dryness of skin
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