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Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

Respiratory organs affected
Cough
Croup
Heart affections
Tubercular diathesis
Fair complexion
Lax fiber
Swollen glands
Exhaustion
Heaviness of body after slight exertion
Orgasm of blood to chest, face
Anxiety
Difficult breathing
Fear
Every excitement increases cough
Rush of blood to head
Bursting headache
Headache worse in forehead
Watering eyes
Gummy or mucus discharge from eyes
Fluent coryza, alternating with stoppage
Dryness of nose
Chronic, dry, nasal catarrh
Tongue dry and brown
Tongue full of vesicles
Thyroid gland swollen
Stitches in throat
Dryness in throat
Burning in throat
Stinging in throat
Sore throat
Sore throat worse after eating sweet things
Tickling causes cough
Clears throat constantly
Excessive thirst
Great hunger
Cannot bear tight clothing around trunk
Hiccough
Swelling of spermatic cord and testicles, with pain and tenderness
Orchitis
Epididymitis
Heat in male parts
Before menses, pain in sacrum
Before menses, hunger
Before menses, palpitation
During menses, wakes with suffocative spells
Amenorrha, with asthma
Great dryness of all air-passages
Hoarseness
Larynx dry
Larynx burns
Larynx constricted
Cough dry, barking, croupy
Larynx sensitive to touch
Croup worse during inspiration
Croup worse before midnight
Respiration short, panting, difficult
Feeling of a plug in larynx
Cough abates after eating or drinking, especially warm drinks
Dry, chronic sympathetic cough
Organic heart disease
Irrepressible cough from a spot deep in chest, as if raw and sore
Chest weak; can scarcely talk
Laryngeal phthisis
Goitre, with suffocative spells
Bronchial catarrh, with wheezing, asthmatic cough, worse cold air, with profuse expectoration and suffocation
Bronchial catarrh worse lying with head low
Bronchial catarrh worse in hot room
Oppression and heat of chest
Sudden weakness
Rapid and violent palpitation, with dyspna
Cannot lie down
Feels best resting in horizontal position
Awakened suddenly after midnight with pain and suffocation
Is flushed, hot, and frightened to death
Valvular insufficiency
Angina pectoris
Faintness
Anxious sweat
Ebullition of blood
Veins distended
Surging of heart into chest, as if it would force out upward
Hypertrophy of heart, especially right, with asthmatic symptoms
Swelling and induration of glands
Exophthalmic
Cervical glands swollen with tensive pain on turning head
Cervical glands painful on pressure
Goitre
Itching
Measles
Awakes in a fright, and feels as if suffocating
Generally worse after sleep
Sleeps into and aggravation
Attacks of heat with anxiety
Heat and redness of face
Perspiration

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Aneurism
Angina pectoris
Asthma
Catalepsy
Chin affections
Clumsiness
Constipation
Cough
Croup
Diplopia
Exophthalmos
Fainting
Gotre
Exophthalmic gotre
Heart hypertrophy
Hernia
Jaw-joint pain
Laryngismus
Laryngitis
Myopia
Rheumatic fever
Rheumatism
Testicles inflammation
Tuberculosis
Varicosis
Whooping-cough
Worms
Dryness of mucous membrane
Dry asthma
Fear of suffocation and death
Contraction of larynx
Terrible sinking feeling
Larynx sensitive
Wakes in fright
Congestion of chest
Sudden weakness
Rawness in the chest
Lymphatics indurated
Thyroid indurated
Testes indurated
Blood involved
Veins involved
Protruding eyes
Right heart affected
Croupous deposit on heart valves
Frequent flashes of heat
Chill across the back
Heat except for thighs
Awakens smothering
Anxious look
Flushed face
Hard rapid breathing
Rheumatic fever with heart complications
Sense of suffocation
Violent loud cough
Great alarm
Agitation
Anxiety
Difficult respiration
Thickening of joints after rheumatic fever
Heaviness in testicles
Screw-like squeezing pain in cord
Screw-like squeezing pain in testicle
Timidity
Fear
Terror
As if head would fall to one side
As if tipsy
As if all her blood were mounting to head
As if skull would burst
As if hair were standing on end
Eyes as if twisted around
As if a battery of guns were discharged in ears
Stitches as if passing through tympanum
Nodule in concha as if it would gather and break
Jaw as if dislocated
As if eruption were to appear near chin
Left side of chin as if ulcerated
As if something had got jammed between teeth in chewing
As if gums and teeth were swollen
As if the latter being lifted
Outside of throat as if something were being pressed out
As of a plug in throat
As if he had drunk a great deal of luke-warm water
Relaxation of stomach
Relaxation of esophagus
Pit of stomach as if growing together
Stomach as if standing open
Of obstruction in abdomen
Of obstruction in trachea
As if something alive moving in abdomen
As if something alive beneath skin of abdomen
As if diarrhea would ensue
As of a plug in larynx
As if a stopper or valve were in larynx
As of a nail pressing in larynx
As if larynx and trachea were removed
As if she would suffocate
As if child could not get breath
As if breathing through a sponge
As if chest would burst
Chest as if sore and bloody
As of a large accumulation and weight at chest
As if a broad body armed with points were pressing upward
As if a weight were dragging down on chest
As if she had something hot inside chest
As if blood would burst out of chest
As if cervical glands were swelling
As if skin of neck were compressed between fingers
As if air were passing up and down thyroid and cervical glands
Thyroid gland as if hardened
As if everything were shaking and moving about in goitre
As if goitre were alive
As if a pointed instrument were thrust into scapula
As if bones of forearm were being pressed together
As if parts in and between wrists were weakened by decay
As if a muscle were too short in upper end of thigh
As if knees would give way
As if weight hanging on lower end of tibia
As of pins in heels
As if she were going to faint
As if everything were in flames
As if sweat would break out
Excitement of the nerves
Tendency to start
Twitching of muscles
Fever
Stiff without ability to move
Conscious but unable to act on her limbs
Clumsiness of body
Faint when losing her breath
Feeling of numbness of lower half of body
Cramp-like pains
Bitter taste in throat
Aversion to tobacco
Desire for dainties
Complaints extend downwards
Complaints extend from within out
Complaints extend from right to left
Disconsolate humor
Lachrymose humor
Tendency to be frightened
Combative humor
Boastful humor
Immoderate gaiety
Mischievous gaiety
Great inclination to sing
Mental obtuseness
Disinclination to intellectual labor
Incapacity for intellectual labor
Distraction of mind
Pert humor
Witty humor
Alternately gay
Alternately lachrymose
Alternately cross
Fancies appear on shutting eyes
Fretful
Anxious about her condition
Fears she will die of suffocation
Anxious sweat
Faintness
Pursued by frightful scene
Tormented by frightful scene
Anxious as from presentiment
Fright awakens
Satiety of life
Obstinacy
Vertigo
Giddiness
Nausea
Heaviness of head
Fulness of head
Dull semilateral headache
Lachrymation
Pressive headache
Compression
Pressing headache
Sharp stitches in temple
Sharp stitches extending to forehead
Pains in head as if it were about to split
Throbbing in head
Pulsation in head
Congestion of blood in head
Redness of face
Anxious look
Restless sleep
Disagreeable tenderness of exterior of head
Sensation as if hair were standing on end on vertex
Troublesome itching in scalp
Violent itching in scalp
Eyes dull
Eyes clouded
Puffing in lids
Eyes deeply sunk
Eyes protruding
Eyes staring
Maculae of cornea
Pressure in eyes
Shootings in eyes
Eyes burning
Eyes red
Eyes weeping
Agglutination of lids
Eruption of yellow scabies in eyebrows
Eruption painful to touch on l eyebrow
Pressive heaviness of lids
Contraction of lids in morning
Sees visions on closing eyes
Double vision
Otalgia
Contractive pain in ears
Pressure in ears
Ulceration of external ear
Pain in cartilages as from soreness
Boils on l ear painful to touch
Inflamed nodule in l concha
Red swelling of l helix
Heat in ears
Hard hearing
Dull ringing in ears
Epistaxis
Fluent coryza
Sneezing
Dry coryza
Nose stuffed up
Eruption on point of nose
Paleness of face
Dullness of eyes
Face bloated
Face red
Face bluish
Anxious expression
Heat on one side of face
Cold sweat on face
Swelling of cheeks
Itching in cheeks
Shootings in cheeks
Eruption on lips
Spasmodic pain in maxillary joints
Tension in articulation of l jaw
Stitches transversely through l upper jaw
Cramp-like pain from l jaw-joint to cheek
Swelling of the submaxillary glands
Tensive pain
Numbness in chin
Heat in chin
Sensation of bluntness in teeth
Sensation of looseness in teeth
Itching in teeth
Shootings in teeth
Heat in teeth
Swelling of gums
Pain during mastication
Mouth covered with vesicles
Tongue covered with vesicles
Burning pain in mouth
Burning pain in tongue
Shooting pain in mouth
Shooting pain in tongue
Salivation
Speech difficult
Tongue dry
Tongue brownish
Vesicles on edge of tongue
Burning sensation in throat
Stinging in throat
Rawness in throat
Swelling in throat
Scraping in throat
Penetrating tickling in throat
Needle-like stitches above pit of throat
Sticking internally in throat
Thyroid gland swollen
Thyroid gland hard
Suffocative attacks at night
Stitching pains
Pressure in throat
Relaxed sensation in esophagus
Swelling in fauces
Swallowing difficult
Moving sensation in goitre
Diminished taste
Bitter taste
Sweetish taste in mouth
Moderate appetite
Speedy satiety
Increased appetite
Insatiable hunger
Desire for dainties
Thirst
Thirstlessness
Violent thirst after smoking
Tobacco smoke disagreeable
Fullness after a meal
Pains in abdomen after a meal
Risings
Cuttings in stomach
Tearings in stomach
Bitter risings
Sour regurgitations
Frequent hiccough
Nausea
Acidity in mouth
Craves dainties
Dyspeptic distress
Fullness of stomach
Vomiting after having partaken of milk
Relaxation of stomach
Aching in stomach
Aching in scrobiculus
Pressure of tight clothing on stomach is unbearable
Contractive pains in stomach
Stitches in region of stomach
Chill in pit of stomach
Craving at stomach before menses
Abdomen hard
Abdomen tight
Spasms in abdomen
Violent action of abdominal muscles
Viscera drawn up against diaphragm
Pain in l side of abdomen
Digging in abdomen
Choking in abdomen
Pain in abdomen instead of menses
Fine stitch externally in abdomen
Heat in abdomen
Gripings in abdomen
Rumbling in the abdomen
Pain as from a hernia in inguinal ring
Swelling and inflammation of l inguinal ring
Swelling of inguinal glands
Hard evacuations
Insufficient evacuations
Retarded evacuations
Loose evacuations
Whitish evacuations
Shootings in the anus
Tenesmus in the anus
Itching in anus
Smarting in anus
Pain as from excoriation in anus
Passage of ascarides from rectum
Tingling in rectum
Diurnal diarrhea with ascarides
Increased secretion of urine
Frequent want to urinate
Scanty emission of urine
Incontinence of urine
Small stream of urine
Frothy urine
Thick sediment in the urine
Whitish sediment in the urine
Greyish sediment in the urine
Yellow sediment in the urine
Spasmodic contraction in the testes
Hard swelling of the testes
Hard swelling of the spermatic cord
Pressive pain in the testes
Drawing stitches extending through glans
Voluptuous itching at point of glans
Pinching pain in testicles
Bruised pain in testicles
Squeezing pain in testicles
Stitches from testicles into spermatic cord
Heat in genitals
Heat in penis
Heat in scrotum
Heat in testes
Heat in cords
Sexual desire moderate
Absence of erections
Catamenia too early
Catamenia too profuse
Palpitation of the heart before the catamenia
Pain in back before the catamenia
Drawing in the thighs during the catamenia
Enlargement of ovaries
Induration of ovaries
Hoarseness
Voice cracked
Weak voice
Husky voice
Pain in larynx
Pressure in larynx
Sensation of obstruction in larynx
Impeded respiration
Roughness in throat
Dryness in throat
Burning pain in larynx
Burning pain in trachea
Cough proceeding from bottom of chest
Pain as from excoriation in chest
Burning sensation in chest
Cough with yellowish expectoration
Great dryness of larynx
Sensation in region of thyroid and cervical glands
Hollow cough
Dry cough
Barking cough
Whistling cough
Laryngeal cough
Croupy-sounding cough
Cough with expectoration of viscid mucus
Expectoration scanty
Expectoration of saltish mucus
Expectoration tenacious
Expectoration yellow
Expectoration indurated
Expectoration sour
Expectoration smelling like milk
Expectoration of yellow mucus in little lumps
Expectoration of cutaneous masses
Dry cough excited by tickling in larynx
Slow respiration
Deep respiration
Wheezing respiration
Whistling breathing
Sawing breathing
Anxious breathing
Mucous rale in trachea
Respiration quick
Respiration anxious
Respiration difficult
Fits of suffocation
Mucous rattling in chest
Short respiration
Panting respiration
Surging from heart into chest
Awakens from sleep with suffocative sensation
Fixed pain in bronchia
Lancinating pain in bronchia
Pressive pain in bronchia
Spasmodic pains in chest
Constrictive pains in chest
Pain in chest with dyspnea
Fulness in chest
Obstruction in chest
Shootings in chest
Burning sensation in chest
Rawness in chest
Soreness in chest
Ebullition of blood in chest
Congestions in chest
Obstructed respiration
Anguish
Nausea
Weakness
Syncope
Pains in region of heart
Anxiety in region of heart
Constricting pain in cardiac region
Stinging pain in cardiac region
Pressing pain in cardiac region
Palpitation of heart
Suffocation
Violent gasping respiration
Pain in heart
Rheumatic affections of valves of heart
Fibrous deposit on valves
Violent palpitation of heart
Awakens him after midnight with a sense of suffocation
Loud cough
Great alarm
Agitation
Anxiety
Difficult respiration
Pulse full
Pulse hard
Pulse frequent
Painful tension in muscles of neck
Painful rigidity in muscles of neck
Neck cold in evening
Back of neck snaps on stooping
Goitre large
Goitre hard
Goitre with pressure
Goitre with tingling
Goitre with shootings
Cramps in the muscles of neck
Coldness in back
Sacrum sore before menses
Sensation of numbness in loins
Sensation of numbness in buttocks
Drawing pain in loins
Tearing pain in loins
Pressive pain in loins
Painful weariness in arms
Painful weariness in legs
Jerking of muscles about l shoulder-joint
Heaviness of forearms
Heaviness of hands
Trembling of forearms
Trembling of hands
Drawings in forearms
Drawings in joints of hands
Large blisters in the forearm
Swelling of hands
Stiffness of fingers
Redness in joints of fingers
Swelling in joints of fingers
Tension when they are bent
Numbness in points of fingers
Cramp-like pain in ball of (r) thumb
Nates numb
Nates cold
Thighs numb
Thighs cold
Jerking of muscles of buttocks
The thighs are spasmodically drawn forward
The thighs are spasmodically drawn backward
Irritation of both legs
Restlessness of both legs
Tearing in tibia
Rigidity of legs
Drawing in legs
Tearing in legs
Drawing in feet
Tearing in feet
Uncomfortable feeling of the clothes
They being an oppression
They being an annoyance
Growing pains
Darting pains
Itching no better from scratching
Troubles in general of any kind appearing in the sexual organs
Phthisis pulmonalis
Stinging pain in limbs
Painful sensitiveness of body to touch
Chilliness on the parts touched
Tingling running through whole body
Sensation of torpor in lower part of body
Heaviness when walking in open air
Heaviness of the body
Extreme exhaustion
Heaviness of the body after slight exertion
Orgasm of blood in chest
Heat of face
Vessels hard
Vessels distended
Great anxiety
Difficult breathing
Fits of anguish
Swelling of the glands
Induration of the glands
Itching shootings in the skin
Sensation of something creeping over the skin
Redness of the part when it has been scratched
Heat of the part when it has been scratched
Red spot on the skin
Blotches on the skin
Itching eruptions
Miliary eruptions
Tetters
Sleepy
Yawning
Sleeplessness
Fantastic dreams
Delirium on going to sleep
Sad dreams
Anxious dreams
Frightful dreams
Awakens towards morning from a jerk upwards from the larynx
Sour mucus
Salty mucus
Pulse quick
Frequent shiverings
Violent heat
Dry heat
Burning heat all over the body
Anxious heat
Weeping
Inconsolable mood
Cool perspiration on the face
Morning sweat over the whole body
Flushes of heat
Feverish heat
Skin dry
Skin hot
Continued thirst
Headache
Delirium
Nocturnal perspiration

Allen's Keynotes

tubercular diathesis
diseases of children and women; light hair, lax fibre, fair complexion
swelling and induration of glands; goitre
awakens in fright and feels as if suffocating; as if had to breathe through a sponge
every mental excitement or increases the cough
worse after sleep or sleeps into
sore throat, after eating sweet things
thyroid gland swollen even with chin: with suffocative paroxysms at night
goitre
great dryness of mucous membranes of air passages - throat, larynx, trachea, bronchi - \"dry as a horn\"
cough: dry, barking, croupy; rasping, ringing, wheezing, whistling; everything is perfectly dry, no mucous rale
cough: dry, sibilant, like a saw driven through a pine board; sweets, cold drinks, smoking, lying with head low, dry cold winds; reading, singing, talking, swallowing; eating or drinking warm things
croup: anxious, wheezing, during inspiration; before midnight
palpitation: violent with pain and gasping respiration; awakened suddenly after midnight with suffocation and great anxiety; valvular insufficiency; before and during menses
angina pectoris; contracting pain, heat, faintness, suffocation, anxiety and sweat; after midnight
spermatic cord swollen, painful; testicles swollen, bruised, squeezed; after suppressed gonorrhoea or maltreated orchitis

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