SPIGELIA

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Adenoids
  • Amaurosis
  • Angina pectoris
  • Ciliary neuralgia
  • Cold
  • Constipation
  • Depression of spirits
  • Diaphragm, stitches in
  • Exophthalmic gotre
  • Eyes, pains in
  • Gastric catarrh
  • Glaucoma
  • Headache
  • Heart, affections of
  • Hernia, inguinal
  • Iritis
  • Jaw-joint, pain in
  • Neuralgia
  • Otalgia
  • Post-nasal catarrh
  • Prostatorrha
  • Pterygium
  • Rectum, cancer of
  • Rheumatism
  • Scarlatina
  • Sigmoid flexure, cancer of
  • Stammering
  • Strabismus
  • Tinnitus
  • Tobacco habit
  • Toothache
  • Worms
  • Sadness and discouragement
  • Agitation and anxiety, with restless care concerning the future
  • Timidity
  • Afraid of pointed things, pins, &c
  • Sits as if lost in thought, stares at a single point
  • Moroseness, to the extent of suicidal mania
  • Great dejection in evening
  • Weakness of memory
  • Absence of ideas
  • Difficulty of thinking
  • Unfitness for intellectual labour
  • Head confused, as from intoxication or dizziness
  • Giddiness when looking downwards
  • Vertigo, to such an extent as to fall down when walking, standing, or looking down
  • Vertigo, with nausea
  • Headache, on shaking head, with vertigo, and sensation of heaviness
  • Neuralgic pains flying from one part to another
  • Headache beginning in cerebellum, morning, spreading over l. side of head, causing violent and pulsating pain in t. temple and over l. eye, with stitches in left eye
  • Painfulness of cerebellum with stiffness of neck
  • Stitches in l. side of head and out of l. eye
  • Headache like a heaviness
  • Fine burrowing-tearing pains in brain, esp. violent in l. parietal bone
  • Sharp shaking just behind and above r. frontal eminence
  • Pressive pain in r. side of head involving r. eye, morning in bed
  • Stitches like electric sparks in head
  • Pains in head < by slightest movement, by least noise, and by opening mouth
  • Painful tenderness of the occiput, with sensation of numbness and stiffness in nape of neck
  • Periodical headaches
  • Pressing asunder in head, esp. in r. temple
  • Pressure in head, compressive or expansive
  • Sensation of a tight band around head
  • Pain, as if head about to burst, when coughing and speaking loud
  • Tearing, digging, or boring headache from within to without, in forehead, vertex, or cerebellum
  • Sensation of soreness in forehead and vertex
  • Tearing in forehead in paroxysms, with fixed eyes
  • Pulsative lancinations in forehead, with noise as of hammering before the ears
  • Commotions and blows in head, while walking in open air
  • Shaking in brain at every step, and at every movement of head
  • Burning pain in exterior of forehead and temples as far as eyes
  • Tension in scalp
  • Painful tenderness of scalp when touched
  • Head feels too large
  • Neuralgia of eyes, esp. where there is great soreness, and can scarcely bear a touch
  • Affections of the eyeball
  • Affections of eyelids
  • Affections of optic nerve
  • Dilated pupils
  • Ocular illusions
  • On shutting eyes a sea of fire appears
  • Illusion as if hairs or feathers on lashes
  • Impending amaurosis
  • Pains in eyes, deeply seated in sockets
  • Aching (pressure) in the eyeballs, esp. when turning them
  • Pains in the eyes during movement, as if eyeballs were too large
  • Digging, boring, and shootings in eyes, penetrating into head
  • Pains as if needles thrust into r. eyeball
  • Tingling in eyes
  • Itching in r. eyeball, returning after rubbing
  • Dry heat and burning sensation in eyes, which forces them to close
  • Redness of sclerotica, with injection of blood-vessels
  • Inflammation of eyes and of cornea
  • Inflammation and ulceration of lids, with smarting pain as from excoriation
  • Eyes confused and dull
  • Profuse lachrymation
  • Acrid, smarting tears
  • Great sensitiveness of eyes to light
  • Hanging down of lids as from paralysis
  • Sensation as of a hard substance under r. upper lid
  • Violent burrowing stitch in middle of eye and in inner canthus that does not prevent vision, but presses upper lid down
  • Upper lids feel hard and immovable
  • Pain as if l. orbit were pressed from above downward
  • Tendency to wink
  • Weakness of eyes
  • Difficulty in raising the eyelids, with painful sensation of stiffness
  • Contraction and involuntary movement of eyes
  • Squint
  • Convergent squint
  • Strabismus
  • Loss (momentary suspension) of sight
  • Presbyopia
  • Earache with an ichorous, scalding discharge
  • Hearing very sensitive
  • Noise in the ear as of something fluttering
  • Pain in margin of l. concha
  • Drawing in l. antitragus
  • Itching in r. concha
  • Pressive pains in r. ear
  • Otalgia, with pressive, troublesome pain, as if there were a plug in ear
  • Jerking tearing in ears
  • Squeezing, itching, and burning sensation in external ear
  • Itching in r. vesicle
  • Stoppage of ears, with or without dysecoia
  • Periodical deafness
  • Sensation of distant ringing in ears, with sensation as if the ear were loosely stopped or a thick mist were in front of it
  • Roaring, buzzing, and pulsation in ears
  • Noise of hammering before ears
  • Itching in nose, with tickling
  • Tickling on back of nose, as if lightly touched by hairs, or as if a gentle wind were blowing across it
  • Tingling, shooting, boring, smarting and itching in nose
  • Herpetic eruption on nose with pain, as from excoriation
  • Stoppage and dryness of anterior nose, with copious discharge of whitish and yellowish mucus from posterior nares
  • Frequent sneezing
  • Discharge of bloody mucus
  • White or yellow mucus is discharged from nose
  • Much mucus is discharged from mouth
  • Fluent coryza, which recurs frequently
  • Face pale and wan, with yellow circles round eyes
  • Redness of face
  • Perspiration on face
  • Cheeks and lips at one time a deep red, at another time pale
  • Burning in r. side of upper lip
  • Bloatedness of face, esp. after sleeping
  • Facial muscles seem distorted and swollen, morning on rising
  • Prosopalgia (mostly l.─sided)
  • Jerking tearings, burning sensation, and aching in region of Zygomatic process
  • Periodical neuralgia
  • Semilateral pains in face, with prcordial anxiety and great agitation
  • Exostosis of the temporal part of the orbit
  • Lips tense and burning
  • Small blackish pimples on upper lip
  • Pressive pain in angle of lower jaw, as if in the jaw or in the teeth, proceeding from the ear
  • Tearing in lower jaw, radiating to ear and about it as far as nape
  • Pain as if r. side of lower jaw would be torn out of its joint, only when chewing
  • Toothache (in evening) after customary smoke in evening
  • Toothache > by tobacco smoke
  • Pain, like pressing asunder, in the teeth, immediately after a meal, or at night, which does not permit continued lying down
  • Toothache so that he was unable to sleep at night
  • Jerking toothache, or with pulsative tearings, esp. in carious teeth
  • Toothache with prosopalgia, paleness and bloatedness of face, yellowish circles round eyes, palpitation of heart, shivering and agitation
  • Offensive exhalation from the mouth, noticed only by others
  • (Stinging) lancinating dryness in mouth on waking in morning
  • Much white, frothy saliva in mouth
  • White or yellow mucus in mouth and palate
  • Tongue cracked
  • Vesicles, with burning pain, on tongue and palate
  • Sore throat, with lancinations and swelling in palate
  • Discharge of mucus from fauces all day, most from posterior nares
  • Cervical glands swollen
  • Putrid, fetid taste
  • Anorexia, with violent thirst
  • Repugnance to tobacco-smoke and snuff
  • Dislike to coffee
  • Bulimy, sometimes with nausea and thirst
  • Risings after every meal
  • Sour risings
  • Nausea (in the morning) when fasting, with a sensation as if something were ascending from stomach into throat
  • Accumulation of mucus in the stomach
  • Pressure in stomach and scrobiculus as from a heavy body (as from a hard lump)
  • Lancinations in pit of stomach and diaphragm
  • Dull stitches, in pit of stomach
  • Inability to bear tight clothing round scrobiculus
  • Griping in abdomen, as if intestines constricted, with anxiety and difficult breathing
  • Abdomen hard, and painfully tight
  • Stitches in region of diaphragm, l. side, arresting breathing
  • Pressure in umbilical region, as by a hard body
  • Colic, with pinching pains, cuttings (from worms) in the umbilical region, with shivering, diarrha, and copious secretion of urine
  • Lancinations (stitches) in the abdomen
  • Tensive pain in the groins when touched
  • Grumbling and borborygmi in the abdomen
  • Painful pressure in lower abdomen, as if it would burst
  • Expulsion of fetid flatus
  • Frequent, urgent, and ineffectual want to evacuate
  • Soft, liquid fces
  • White stools daily
  • Nodular stool with violent pressure
  • Faints during stool
  • Hard, difficult evacuations, with much mucus
  • Discharge (of large lumps) of mucus from anus, without evacuation
  • Liquid diarrha of fcal matter and of mucus
  • Diarrha, with pinchings in abdomen and coldness in body
  • Discharge of fces with worms
  • Ejection of lumbrici and ascarides from rectum
  • Itching and sensation as if something were creeping in rectum and anus
  • Boring stitches in perinum
  • Urine, with whitish sediment
  • Frequent want to urinate, with profuse emission, even at night
  • Sudden and involuntary dribbling of urine, with burning sensation in anterior part of urethra
  • Discharge of prostatic fluid from the urethra
  • Tingling round glans penis
  • Semilateral swelling of glans
  • Erections, with lascivious ideas, without voluptuous excitement
  • Itching stitch in r. testicle and penis, from behind forward
  • Catarrh, with hoarseness, continual discharge of mucus from nose, dry heat without thirst, prominent eyes, distressing headache, and disposition to weep
  • Nocturnal catarrh, with cough
  • Cough in open air, with pain in chest as from excoriation
  • Dry cough, violent and hollow, caused by irritation low down in trachea, with respiration obstructed, even to suffocation
  • Short, dry cough causing soreness of chest
  • Shortness of breath, esp. when talking, with anxiety and redness of cheeks and lips
  • Dyspna when moving in bed
  • Danger of suffocation on least movement, and esp. on raising arms
  • Aching at the chest, with painful oppression
  • Contraction of chest, with anguish and obstructed respiration
  • Stitches in diaphragm with dyspna
  • Noise in the chest like that made by a spinning-wheel, esp. in region of heart
  • Pressure, burning or incisive sensation, pain, as from ulceration and tearing in chest, esp. on lifting arms
  • Cutting tearing beneath l. nipple, extending to region of scapul and upper arm
  • Sensation of trembling in thorax
  • Spasmodic sensation in chest, proceeding from pit of stomach and causing choking
  • Tensive lancinations in chest, esp. when drawing breath
  • Violent palpitation of heart, perceptible to sight and hearing, often with anxious oppression of chest
  • Sudden attack of suffocation, with palpitation of heart and anguish
  • Heavy aching in region of apex, with feeling as if a dull-pointed knife were slowly driven through it
  • Sensation in heart as if squeezed with hand; as if crushed
  • Lancinations in region of heart
  • Stitches in heart, sometimes synchronous with the pulse
  • Sensation of trembling in heart
  • The beatings of the heart do not correspond with those of the pulse
  • Pulse weak, irregular, trembling
  • Undulating movement of the heart
  • Needle-like stitches in upper dorsal vertebr
  • Needle-like stitches in r. scapula
  • Sensation in l. scapula as though blood were dripping through a valve, a kind of bubbling
  • Red pimples on neck, with pain as from excoriation when touched
  • Hard and painful swelling of glands of the neck
  • Pains in nape
  • Intermittent drawing in posterior cervical muscles and up to occiput
  • Sticking pain in r. side of neck
  • Itching of anus and coccyx
  • Pain in back as from a fracture, also during movement
  • Bruised feeling in spine, even during rest
  • Lancinations (stitches) in back, sometimes on drawing breath
  • Fatigue
  • Drawing, tearing, twitching pains in limbs and joints
  • Heaviness and trembling of arms
  • Easy numbing of arms and hands
  • Jerking of muscles of arms and forearms
  • Violent lancinations and shocks in bend of elbow and joints of hands and fingers
  • Spasmodic drawings and tearings in bones of hands
  • Hard nodosities in the palms, with burning itching
  • Hands of a pale yellow colour
  • Contraction of fingers
  • Purulent pimples on fingers
  • Pain, as of a fracture, tension and shootings in thighs
  • Stitches in the joints of the legs and feet and in the thigh
  • Violent lancinations in knee on bending it
  • Painful stiffness in knee-joint
  • Lancinating shocks in joints of feet
  • Excrescences, like warts, on toes
  • Very violent neuralgia, followed by an extreme soreness
  • Boring pains
  • Pains as if parts were pushed or pressed asunder, or as if they would burst
  • Sensation of extension in size
  • Feeling as of a lump in the inner parts
  • Darting pains in inner and outer parts
  • Arthritic, shooting, or tearing pains in the limbs
  • Stinging pain in the limbs and principally in the joints
  • Tearing in the vicinity of the joints, as if the bone were scraped
  • Heaviness and soreness in the body when rising from a seat
  • Sensitiveness of body to touch, with chilliness of the parts touched
  • Great weakness, esp. mornings
  • Heaviness and sensation in limbs as if fractured
  • Convulsions
  • Lassitude, esp. after slight exercise, and in open air
  • Syncope, esp. when making an effort to evacuate, or in a warm room
  • Great sensitiveness to cold air
  • Great liability to suffer from a chill
  • Pale, wrinkled skin of body
  • Painful sensibility of entire skin when touched
  • Painful glandular swellings
  • Red pimples, with pain, as from excoriation, when touched
  • Strong disposition to sleep by day, and also in morning or evening
  • Sleep at night, unrefreshing, agitated, with uneasiness in limbs
  • Heavy, stupefying sleep
  • Confused dreams, which cause him to awake wearied
  • Pulse irregular, generally strong, but slow
  • Trembling pulse
  • Frequent shiverings, esp. in morning or during slight exercise
  • Chill, frequently returning at the same hour in the morning
  • Chill, alternating with heat or perspiration
  • Chilliness on some part of the body, on others heat
  • The chill extends from the chest
  • Frequent heat, sometimes transient
  • Heat, esp. in back
  • Heat in face and on hands, with chill in back
  • Thirst for beer during the heat (with flushes of heat at night)
  • At night putrid perspiration with heat at same time
  • Clammy perspiration
  • Cold perspiration

Allen's Keynotes

  • anaemic debilitated subjects of rheumatic diathesis
  • scrofulous children afflicted with ascarides and lumbrici
  • light hair; pale, thin, bloated, weak; wrinkled, yellow, earthy skin
  • body painfully sensitive to touch; part touched feels chilly; touch sends shudder through the whole frame
  • afraid of sharp, pointed things, pins, needles, etc
  • rheumatic affections of heart; systolic blowing at apex
  • aneurism
  • nervous headache; periodical, beginning in morning at base of brain, spreading over the head and locating in eye, orbit and temple of left side; pain, pulsating, violent, throbbing
  • headache; at sunrise, at its height at noon, declines till sunset
  • intolerable, pressive pain in eyeballs; could not turn the eyes without turning the whole body; worse, especially on making a false step
  • sensation: as if eyes were too large for the orbits; sensitive to touch; as if a band around head
  • copious offensive mucus from posterior nares, drops into throat, causing choking at night
  • sharp, stabbing, sticking pains through eyeballs back into the head; from cold, damp, rainy weather
  • prosopalgia: periodical, left-sided, orbit, eyes, malar bone, teeth; from morning until sunset; pain tearing, burning, cheek dark red; during cold, rainy weather; from tea
  • toothache from tobacco smoking; only on lying down and while eating; worse from cold air and water; returns from thinking about it
  • scirrhus of sigmoid or rectum, atrocious unbearable pain
  • dyspnoea: must lie on right side with head high; pains in chest are stitching, needle-like
  • chest affections with stitching pains synchronous with pulse, from motion, cold, wet weather
  • palpitation: violent, visible and audible; from least motion; when bending forward; systolic blowing at apex
  • stammering, repeats first syllable three or four times; with abdominal ailments; with helminthiasis

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