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Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

  • Tall, slim women with narrow pelvis and lax fibers and muscles
  • Inability to feel natural love
  • Lack of affection
  • Estrangement from loved ones
  • Coldness
  • Stoical state of mind
  • Excitability aggravated by noises, excitement, company
  • Extreme irritability of tissue and mind
  • Excitable suicidal patient
  • Melancholy
  • Taciturn
  • Answers questions in monosyllables
  • Absence of all joy
  • Inability to realize that things are real
  • No affection for the delightful things of life
  • Worse in company yet dreads to be alone
  • Spiteful
  • Vents spite on those she loves best
  • Peculiar sallowness
  • Waxy, anaemic appearance
  • Mottled with yellow
  • Yellow saddle across the nose and cheeks
  • Face covered with enormous freckles
  • Great brown patches as in pregnancy
  • Brown spots on the cheeks
  • Brown warts
  • Liver spots on the face, chest, and abdomen
  • Sallow and doughy skin
  • Muscles appear flabby
  • Stupid and dull
  • Thinks slowly
  • Forgetful
  • Puffed face
  • Anaemic
  • Pale lips and ears
  • Pale, sallow face
  • Fingers and hands become shriveled, sallow, waxy, bloodless
  • Progressing emaciation
  • Wrinkled skin
  • Prematurely old appearance
  • Constipation
  • Slow, difficult stool
  • Stool like sheep dung
  • Feeling of a lump in the rectum
  • Gnawing hunger, seldom satisfied
  • Prolapsus
  • Relaxation of internal parts
  • Wants a bandage to hold the parts up
  • Funneling sensation, better sitting down and crossing the limbs
  • Catarrhal tendency
  • Milky discharges from mucous membranes
  • Nausea and sometimes vomiting long after digestion
  • Vomits up food then a milky fluid
  • Morning vomiting
  • Whitish, milky discharges from the posterior nares
  • Excoriating, milky leucorrhoea
  • Thick, cheesy, offensive leucorrhoea
  • Thick, green and yellow discharges
  • Dry crusty formations on mucous membranes
  • Prolonged inveterate catarrh of the nose
  • Thick, green, and yellow crusts blown from the nose
  • Loss of taste and smell
  • Nausea from the smell of cooking food
  • Catarrh of the chest with thick, tenacious, yellow expectoration
  • Violent cough
  • Retching, gagging, vomiting
  • Dry cough and yet there is rattling
  • Whooping cough
  • Asthmatic cough with retching and loss of urine
  • Spasmodic dry cough in the evening until midnight
  • Tendency to produce herpetic eruptions about the genitals, lips and mouth
  • Ring-worm upon the face and body
  • Vesicular eruptions in the axilla, upon the tips of the elbows
  • Eruptions that pile up in great crusts on the elbows
  • Eruptions between the fingers
  • Moist eruptions that pour out a watery fluid, or thick, yellow, purulent fluid
  • Indurations will form on the lips and crack and bleed
  • Scaly eruption that looks like epithelioma
  • Lumps and lupoid formation on the skin, where there is infiltration
  • Hardness and purple color of skin
  • Hysterical diathesis
  • Breaks out in spells of weeping
  • Sad one minute, gentle, yielding
  • Disagreeable, excitable, obstinate the next
  • Says and does strange things, makes errors
  • No mental endurance
  • No affection for her family
  • Whole mind weak and disordered
  • Fear of ghosts

Allen's Keynotes

  • adapted to persons of dark hair, rigid fibre, but mild and easy disposition
  • diseases of women: especially those occurring during pregnancy, child- bed and lactation; or diseases attended with sudden prostration and sinking faintness; \"the washerwoman's remedy\"
  • complaints that are brought on by or aggravated after laundry work
  • pains extend from other parts to the back; are attended with shuddering
  • particularly sensitive to cold air, \"chills so easily;\" lack of vital heat, especially in chronic diseases
  • sensation of a ball in inner parts; during menses, pregnancy, lactation; with constipation, diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, leucorrhoea and all uterine affections
  • faints easily: after getting wet; from extremes of heat or cold; riding in a carriage; while kneeling at church
  • coldness of the vertex with headache
  • anxiety: with fear, flushes of heat over face and head; about real or imaginary friends; with uterine troubles
  • great sadness and weeping
  • dread of being alone; of men; of meeting friends; with uterine troubles
  • indifferent: even to one's family; to one's occupation; to those whom she loves best
  • greedy, miserly
  • indolent: does not want to do anything, either work or play; even an exertion to think
  • headache: in terrific shocks; at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow; in delicate, sensitive, hysterical women; pressing, bursting worse motion, stooping, mental labor, better by external pressure, continued hard motion
  • great falling of the hair, after chronic headaches or at the climacteric
  • yellowness: of the face; conjunctiva; yellow spots on the chest; a yellow saddle across the upper part of the cheeks and nose; a \"tell tale face\" of uterine ailments
  • all the coverings of the neck felt too tight and were constantly loosened
  • herpes circinatus in isolated spots on upper part of body
  • pot-belliness of mothers
  • painful sensation of emptiness, \"all-gone\" feeling in the epigastrium, relieved by eating
  • tongue foul, but becomes clear at each menstrual nisus, returns when flow ceases; swelling and cracking of lower lip
  • constipation: during pregnancy; stool hard, knotty, in balls, insufficient, difficult; pain in rectum during and long after stool; sense of weight or ball in anus, not better by stool
  • urine: deposits in a reddish clay-colored sediment which adheres to the vessel as if it has been burned on; fetid, so offensive must be removed from the room
  • enuresis: bed is wet almost as soon as the child goes to sleep; always during the first sleep
  • gleet: painless, yellowish, staining linen; meatus glued together in morning; obstinate, of long standing; sexual organs, weak and exhausted
  • violent stitches upward in the vagina; lancinating pains from the uterus to the umbilicus
  • prolapsus of uterus and vagina; pressure and bearing down as if everything would protrude from pelvis; must cross limbs tightly to \"sit close\" to prevent it; with oppression of breathing
  • irregular menses of nearly every form - early, late, scanty, profuse, amenorrhoea or menorrhagia - when associated with the above named symptoms
  • morning sickness of pregnancy: the sight or thought of food sickens; the smell of cooking food nauseates
  • dyspnoea: worse sitting, after sleep, in room, better dancing or walking rapidly
  • erythism; flushes of heat from least motion; with anxiety and faintness; followed by perspiration over whole body; climacteric; ascends, from pelvic organs
  • itching of skin; of various parts; of external genitalia; is better scratching; and is apt to change to burning
  • worse in afternoon or evening; from cold air or dry east wind; sexual excesses; at rest; sultry moist weather; before a thunderstorm
  • better warmth of bed, hot applications; violent exercise
  • many symptoms, especially those of head, heart and pelvis, are both worse and better by rest and exercise
  • it antidotes mental effects of overuse of tabacco, in patients of sedentary habits who suffer from over-mental exertion

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