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Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Allen's Keynotes

  • nervous, irritable, sanguine temperament; persons of a psoric diathesis
  • light complexion; find, dry, skin; pale face; weakly, with lax muscles
  • deficient nutrition from imperfect assimilation; oversensitive, physically and mentally
  • scrofulous, rachitic children with large heads; open fontanelles and sutures; much sweating about the head which must be kept warm by external covering; distended abdomen; weak ankles; slow in learning to walk
  • great weariness and debility; wants to lie down
  • nervous debility; exhaustion with erythism; from hard work and close confinement; may be overcome by force of will
  • restless, fidgety, starts at least noise
  • anxious, yielding, fainthearted
  • mental labor very difficult; reading and writing fatigue, cannot bear to think
  • ailments caused by suppressed foot-sweat
  • exposing the head or back to any slight draught of air
  • bad effects of vaccination, especially abscesses and convulsions
  • chest complaints of stonecutters with total loss of strength
  • want of vital heat, always chilly, even when taking active exercise
  • inflammation, swelling and suppuration of glands, cervical, axillary, parotid, mammary, inguinal, sebaceous; malignant, gangrenous
  • suppurative process - soft tissue, periosteum or bone - maturing abscesses when desired or reducing excessive suppuration
  • children are obstinate, headstrong, cry when spoken kindly to
  • vertigo: spinal, ascending form back of neck to head; as if one would fall forward, from looking up
  • chronic sick headaches, since some severe disease of youth; ascending from nape of neck to the vertex, as if coming from the spine and locating in one eye, especially the right; draught of air or uncovering the head; pressure and wrapping up warmly; profuse urination
  • constipation: always before and during menses; difficult, as from inactivity of rectum; with great straining, as if rectum was paralyzed; when partly expelled, recedes again
  • faeces in ano alternates with chest symptoms
  • discharge of blood from vagina every time the child takes the breast
  • nipple is drawn in like a funnel
  • night walking; gets up while asleep, walks about and lies down again
  • unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates
  • crippled nails on fingers and toes
  • takes cold from exposure of feet
  • sweat of hands, toes, feet and axillae; offensive
  • intolerable, sour, carrion-like odor of the feet, without perspiration, every evening
  • fistula lachymalis
  • ingrowing toe-nails
  • panaritium
  • blood boils
  • carbuncles
  • ulcers of all kinds
  • fistulae, painful, offensive, high spongy edges, proud flesh in them
  • fissura ani
  • great pain after stool
  • desire to be magnetized, which
  • expulsion of foreign bodies from the tissues; fish bones, needles, bone splinters

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