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Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

  • nervous and hysterical phenomena
  • excitable women and children
  • complaints of the hypochondriac
  • great nervous excitability
  • exaltation
  • hysterical contractures
  • trembling
  • palpitation
  • sense of levitation
  • paroxysmal respiration
  • stitching pains
  • tension in the limbs
  • jerking
  • twitching
  • globus hystericus
  • sensation of something warm rising from the stomach causing paroxysmal suffocation
  • all the nerves are in a fret
  • oversensitiveness of all the senses
  • great nervous restlessness
  • fainting easily
  • slight exertion brings on symptoms
  • complaints change about
  • pains wander from place to place
  • numerous nondescript nervous manifestations
  • spinal irritation when there is amelioration by motion and aggravation by much exertion
  • exertion brings on headache
  • stitching pains all over the body during rest
  • ecstatic or hysterical mental state
  • rapid changes in disposition and ideas
  • mental symptoms come on at night
  • sees images, animals and men
  • extreme activity tension, excitement, passes from one subject to another
  • erroneous ideas
  • thinks she is someone else, moves to the edge of the bed to make room
  • imagines animals lying near her which she fears she may hurt
  • fear in the evening in the dark
  • symptoms aggravated in the dark
  • great sadness and irritability
  • morose, easily exasperated
  • vertigo when stooping
  • feels light as if floating in air
  • violent nervous headaches in evening during rest, ameliorated by motion
  • stupefying pains in head
  • stitching, tearing pain
  • sensation of great coldness in head
  • headache from exposure to the heat and light of the sun
  • aggravated in the open air and from a draft
  • pain in forehead and through the eyes
  • tension and constriction of the scalp
  • icy coldness in vertex
  • wild look in the eyes
  • flashes of light before the eyes in the dark
  • pressure in the eyes in the morning
  • smarting in eyes
  • vision very sharp
  • hearing acute
  • jerking pains
  • hissing and ringing in ears
  • face red and hot in open air
  • stitching in face and teeth
  • sudden jerking pain in face
  • twitching in the muscles and drawing pain in face
  • neuralgia of face aggravated during rest
  • thickly coated tongue
  • rancid taste
  • flat taste in mouth on waking
  • sensation as if a thread were hanging down the throat with salivation and vomiting
  • voracious hunger with nausea
  • symptoms aggravated when stomach is empty, ameliorated after breakfast
  • complaints from fasting
  • eructations, like spoiled eggs, morning
  • eructation of rancid fluid
  • nausea, faintness, body icy cold
  • child vomits as soon as it nurses after mother has been angry
  • child vomits curdled milk in lumps
  • distended abdomen
  • cutting pain in abdomen
  • colic
  • cramps in hysterical women, in evening in bed and after dinner
  • watery diarrhoea with curds in infants
  • greenish papescent stool and blood with cramp in abdomen and tenesmus, in children
  • worms in the stool
  • prolapsus of the anus when straining to pass urine
  • copious frequent urination in nervous women
  • sediment of urine red and white
  • menses late and scanty
  • choking in throat pit on Inspirations grow less deep and more rapid until they cease; then she catches her breath by a sobbing effort, in spells
  • paroxysmal respiration in hysterical and very nervous women
  • globus hystericus
  • jerking stitching pain in chest
  • oppression of the chest with lump in the throat
  • stitching in right side of chest and liver
  • stitching in heart with pulse quick, small and weak
  • pain in small of back during rest, ameliorated by walking
  • rheumatic pains in scapulae
  • rheumatic pains in all the limbs, aggravated during rest after previous exertion, ameliorated walking
  • drawing, jerking of limbs, and twitching of muscles during rest
  • heaviness in limbs, drawing, feels as though must move the limbs but cannot
  • darting pains in arms and shoulders
  • drawing in the muscles with stitching pains in arms
  • hysterical contractures in hands and arms
  • crampy darting, tearing, like an electric shock, repeatedly through the humerus, intensely painful
  • cramp in biceps when writing
  • pain along the sciatic when standing, ameliorated walking
  • tearing pain in thigh upward to hip
  • tearing in calf when crossing limbs
  • tearing in muscles of thighs during rest
  • violent drawing, jerking pains in lower limbs during rest
  • drawing in thighs, legs and tendo-Achillis when sitting, ameliorated walking
  • pain in ankles after exertion, ascending stairs, ameliorated walking
  • drawing in tarsal joints when sitting
  • pain in heel during rest
  • violent drawing, jerking pains in lower limbs and hip, aggravated standing
  • hysterical cramps in lower limbs, calves and feet
  • sleepless before midnight
  • cramps in hands and feet prevent sleep
  • vivid dreams
  • symptoms aggravated on waking

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