Boericke's Materia Medica
- Heat and burning skin
- Itching skin
- Worse by heat of bed
- Inertia
- Relaxation of fiber
- Feebleness
- Ebullitions of heat
- Dislike of water
- Dry and hard hair
- Dry and hard skin
- Red orifices
- Sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am
- Cat-nap sleep
- Uncomfortable standing
- Dirty
- Filthy
- Prone to skin affections
- Aversion to being washed
- Complaints that relapse
- General offensive character of discharge
- General offensive character of exhalations
- Very red lips
- Very red face
- Flushing easily
- Forgetful
- Difficult thinking
- Delusions
- Thinks rags beautiful things
- Thinks he is immensely wealthy
- Busy all the time
- Childish peevishness in grown people
- Irritable
- Affections vitiated
- Very selfish
- No regard for others
- Religious melancholy
- Averse to business
- Lazy
- Imagining giving wrong things to people
- Imagining causing their death
- Irritable
- Depressed
- Thin
- Weak
- Good appetite
- Constant heat on top of head
- Heaviness and fullness in head
- Pressure in temples
- Beating headache
- Worse stooping
- Vertigo
- Sick headache recurring periodically
- Tinea capitis
- Dry scalp
- Falling of hair
- Worse washing hair
- Itching scalp
- Scratching causes burning
- Burning ulceration of margin of lids
- Halo around lamp-light
- Heat and burning in eyes
- Black motes before eyes
- First stage of ulceration of cornea
- Chronic ophthalmia
- Much burning in eyes
- Much itching in eyes
- Parenchymatous keratitis
- Cornea like ground glass
- Whizzing in ears
- Bad effects from suppression of an otorrha
- Oversensitive to odors
- Deafness
- Exceedingly sensitive hearing
- Catarrhal deafness
- Herpes across the nose
- Nose stuffed indoors
- Imaginary foul smells
- Al red and scabby
- Chronic dry catarrh
- Dry scabs in nose
- Readily bleeding nose
- Polypus
- Adenoids
- Lips dry
- Lips bright red
- Lips burning
- Bitter taste in morning
- Jerks through teeth
- Swelling of gums
- Throbbing pain in gums
- Tongue white
- Red tip of tongue
- Red borders of tongue
- Pressure in throat as from a lump
- Pressure in throat as from splinter
- Pressure in throat as of a hair
- Burning throat
- Redness of throat
- Dryness of throat
- Ball seems to rise and close pharynx
- Complete loss of appetite
- Excessive appetite
- Putrid eructation
- Food tastes too salty
- Drinks much
- Eats little
- Milk disagrees
- Great desire for sweets
- Great acidity
- Sour eructation
- Burning in stomach
- Painful stomach
- Weight-like pressure in stomach
- Very weak about 11 am
- Very faint about 11 am
- Must have something to eat
- Nausea during gestation
- Water fills the patient up
- Very sensitive abdomen to pressure
- Internal feeling of rawness in abdomen
- Internal feeling of soreness in abdomen
- Movements as of something alive in abdomen
- Pain and soreness over liver
- Colic after drinking
- Itching anus
- Burning anus
- Piles dependent upon abdominal plethora
- Frequent urge to defecate
- Unsuccessful urge to defecate
- Hard stool
- Knotty stool
- Insufficient stool
- Child afraid to defecate because of pain
- Redness around anus
- Itching around anus
- Morning diarrha
- Painless diarrha
- Drives out of bed
- Prolapsus recti
- Hmorrhoids oozing
- Hmorrhoids belching
- Frequent micturition
- Especially frequent micturition at night
- Enuresis
- Especially enuresis in scrofulous children
- Especially enuresis in untidy children
- Burning in urethra during micturition
- Lasts long after micturition
- Mucus in urine
- Pus in urine
- Parts sore over which urine passes
- Must hurry to urinate
- Sudden call to urinate
- Great quantities of colorless urine
- Stitches in penis
- Involuntary emissions
- Itching of genitals when going to bed
- Organs cold
- Organs relaxed
- Organs powerless
- Pudenda itches
- Vagina burns
- Much offensive perspiration
- Menses too late
- Menses short
- Menses scanty
- Menses difficult
- Menses thick
- Menses black
- Menses acrid
- Menses make parts sore
- Menses preceded by headache
- Menses suddenly stopped
- Leucorrha burning
- Leucorrha excoriating
- Nipples cracked
- Nipples smart
- Nipples burn
- Oppression in chest
- Burning sensation in chest
- Difficult respiration
- Wants windows open
- Aphonia
- Heat throughout chest
- Red spots all over chest
- Brown spots all over chest
- Loose cough
- Worse talking
- Worse morning
- Greenish expectoration
- Purulent expectoration
- Sweetish expectoration
- Much rattling of mucus
- Chest feels heavy
- Stitches in chest
- Heart feels too large
- Palpitating pleuritic exudations
- Stitching pains shooting through to the back
- Worse lying on back
- Worse breathing deeply
- Flushes of heat in chest rising to head
- Oppression as of a load on chest
- Dyspna in middle of night
- Relieved by sitting up
- Pulse more rapid in morning than in evening
- Drawing pain between shoulders
- Stiffness of nape
- Sensation as if vertebr glided over each other
- Trembling of hands
- Hot hands
- Sweaty hands
- Rheumatic pain in left shoulder
- Heaviness in extremities
- Paretic feeling in extremities
- Rheumatic gout
- Itching extremities
- Burning in soles at night
- Burning in hands at night
- Sweat in armpits smelling like garlic
- Drawing in arms
- Tearing in arms
- Drawing in hands
- Tearing in hands
- Stiffness of knees
- Stiffness of ankles
- Cannot walk erect
- Stoop-shouldered
- Ganglion
- Talks during sleep
- Jerks during sleep
- Twitches during sleep
- Vivid dreams
- Wakes up singing
- Wakes frequently
- Becomes wide awake suddenly
- Catnaps
- Slightest noise awakens
- Cannot sleep between 2 am and 5 am
- Frequent flashes of heat
- Violent ebullitions of heat throughout entire body
- Dry skin
- Great thirst
- Night sweat on nape
- Night sweat on occiput
- Perspiration of single parts
- Disgusting sweats
- Remittent type fever
- Dry skin
- Scaly skin
- Unhealthy skin
- Every little injury suppurates
- Freckles
- Itching skin
- Burning skin
- Worse scratching
- Worse washing
- Pimply eruption
- Pustules
- Rhagades
- Hang-nails
- Excoriation especially in folds
- Feeling of a band around bones
- Skin affections after local medication
- Pruritus especially from warmth
- Pruritus in evening
- Pruritus often recurs in spring-time
- Pruritus in damp weather
Allen's Keynotes
- scrofulous diathesis, subject to venous congestion; especially of portal system
- nervous temperament, quick motioned, quick tempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes
- lean, stoop-shouldered persons who walk and sit stooping; walk stooping like old men
- standing is the worst position; cannot stand; every standing position is uncomfortable
- dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections
- aversion to being washed; always after a bath
- too lazy to rouse himself; too unhappy to live
- children: cannot bear to be washed or bathed; emaciated, big-bellied; restless, hot, kick off the clothes at night; have worms
- when carefully selected remedies fail to produce a favorable effect, it frequently serves to rouse the reactive powers of the system; clears up the case
- scrofulous, psoric, chronic diseases that result from suppressed eruptions
- complaints that are continually relapsing; patient seems to get almost well when the disease returns again and again
- congestion to single parts; eyes, nose, chest, abdomen, ovaries, arms, legs, or any organ of the body marking the onset of tumors or malignant growths, especially at climacteric
- sensation of burning: on vertex; smarting in eyes; in face, without redness; of vesicles in mouth; dryness of throat, first right then left; in stomach; in rectum; in anus, and itching piles, and scalding urine; like fire in ripples; in chest, rising to face; of skin of whole body, with hot flushes; in spots, between scapulae
- sick headache every week or every two weeks; prostrating, weakening; with hot vertex and cold feet
- constant heat on vertex; cold feet in daytime with burning soles at night, wants to find a cool place for them; puts them out of bed to cool off; cramps in calves and soles at night
- hot flushes during the day, with weak, faint spells passing off with a little moisture
- bright redness of lips as if the blood would burst through
- weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in the stomach about 11 a. m.; cannot wait for lunch; frequent weak, faint spells during the day
- diarrhoea: after midnight; painless; driving out of bed early in the morning; as if the bowels were too weak to retain their contents
- constipation: stools hard, knotty, dry as if burnt; large, painful, child is afraid to have the stool on account of pain, or pain compels child to desist on first effort; alternating with diarrhoea
- discharge both of urine and faeces is painful to parts over which it passes; passes large quantities of colorless urine; parts round anus red, excoriated; all the orifices of the body are very red; all discharges acrid, excoriating whenever they touch
- menses: too early, profuse, protracted
- menorrhagia, has not been well since her last miscarriage
- boils: coming in crops in various parts of the body, or a single boil is succeeded by another as soon as first is healed
- skin: itching, voluptuous; scratching >; scratching causes burning; from heat of bed; soreness in folds
- skin affections that have been treated by medicated soaps and washes; haemorrhoids, that have been treated with ointments
- facilitate absorption of serous or inflammatory exudates in brain, pleura, lungs, joints
- chronic alcoholism; dropsy and other ailments of drunkards; \"they reform,\" but are continually relapsing
- nightly suffocative attacks, wants the doors and windows open; becomes suddenly wide awake at night; drowsy in afternoon after sunset, wakefulness the whole night
- happy dreams, wakes up singing
- everything looks pretty which the patient takes a fancy to; even rags seem beautiful
- movement in abdomen as of a child
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