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Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

Collapse
extreme coldness
blueness
weakness
post-operative shock
cold sweat on forehead
pale face
rapid feeble pulse
vomiting
purging
cramps in extremities
profuse violent retching
surgical shock
excessive dryness of mucous surfaces
Coprophagia
violent mania alternates with silence and refusal to talk
Melancholy
stupor
mania
Sits in a stupid manner
notices nothing
Sullen indifference
Frenzy of excitement
shrieks
curses
Puerperal mania
Aimless wandering from home
Delusions of impending misfortunes
Mania with desire to cut and tear things
Attacks of pain with delirium driving to madness
Cursing howling all night
Contracted features
Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex
Headache with nausea vomiting diarrhea pale face
Neck too weak to hold head up
Eyes surrounded by dark rings
Staring
eyes turned upwards without luster
Lachrymation with redness
Lids dry heavy
Features sunken
Icy coldness of tip of nose and face
Nose grows more pointed
Tearing in cheeks temples and eyes
Face very pale blue collapsed cold
Tongue pale cold
cool sensation as from peppermint in mouth
Dry mouth in center not relieved by water
Salty saliva
Toothache teeth feel heavy as if filled with lead
Voracious appetite
Thirst for cold water but is vomited as soon as swallowed
Averse to warm food
Hiccough
Copious vomiting and nausea aggravated by drinking and least motion
Craves fruit juicy and cold things ice salt
Anguish in pit of stomach
Great weakness after vomiting
Gastric irritability with chronic vomiting of food
Sinking and empty feeling in abdomen
Cold feeling in stomach and abdomen
Pain in abdomen preceding stool
Cramps knotting abdomen and legs
Sensation as if hernia would protrude
Abdomen sensitive to pressure
abdomen swollen with terrible colic
Constipation from inactivity of rectum with heat and headache
Constipation of babies and when produced by very cold weather
Stools large with much straining until exhausted with cold sweat
Diarrhea very painful watery copious and forcibly evacuated followed by great prostration
Evacuations of cholera morbus and true cholera when vomiting accompanies the purging
Hoarse weak voice
Rattling in chest
Much mucus in bronchial tubes that cannot be coughed up
Coarse rales
Chronic bronchitis in the aged
Loud barking stomach cough followed by eructation of gas worse warm room
Hollow cough tickling low down with blue face
Cough comes on from drinking especially cold water urine escapes when coughing
Cough on entering warm room from cold air
Palpitation with anxiety and rapid audible respiration
Pulse irregular feeble
Tobacco heart from chewing
Intermittent action of heart in feeble persons with some hepatic obstruction
Menses too early profuse and exhausting
Dysmenorrhea with coldness purging cold sweat
Faints from least exertion
Sexual mania precedes menses
Soreness and tenderness of joints
Sciatica pains like electric flashes
Cramps in calves
Neuralgia in brachial plexus arms feel swollen cold paralytic
Skin blue cold clammy inelastic cold as death
Cold sweat
Wrinkling of skin of hands and feet
Chill with extreme coldness and thirst

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Amenorrha
Anmia
Anasarca
Angina pectoris
Apoplexy
Asthma
Bronchitis
Cholera asiatica
Cholerine
Colic
Collapse
Constipation
Coprophagia
Cramps
Debility
Diaphragm affections
Diarrha
Dysmenorrha
Emphysema
Epilepsy
Fainting
Gastric catarrh
General paralysis
Headache
Sick headache
Nervous headache
Hernia
Hydrocephaloid
Hysteria
Influenza
Intermittent fever
Intussusception
Labour constipation after
Lips cracked
Liver hypermia
Lock-jaw
Lungs dema
Mania
Measles
Mendacity
Melancholia
Meningitis
Menstruation nausea before
Menstruation diarrha before
Neuralgia palpebralis
Nyctalopia
sophagus stricture
Peritonitis
Pernicious fevers
Plica polonica
Pneumonia
Pregnancy imaginary
Ptosis
Pymia
Rheumatism
Salivation
Scarlatina
Sleep whining
Spleen swollen
Sternum
Throat
Toothache
Typhoid fever
Vertigo
Water-brash
Whooping-cough
Yellow fever
Copious stools
Copious vomiting
Copious urine
Copious salivation
Copious sweat
Rapid sinking of forces
Complete prostration
Cold sweat
Cold breath
Skin blue
Skin purple
Skin cold
Skin wrinkled
Face hippocratic
Nose pointed
Hands icy cold
Face and legs icy cold
Coldness of the whole body
Cold feeling in abdomen
Coldness as of a piece of ice on vertex
Cold nose
Face cold and collapsed
Cold tongue
Cold sweat on forehead
Blueness of face and extremities
Heat and redness of face and hands
Delirium
Prolonged sleep
Fury
Tears clothing
Bites shoes
Swallows fragments
Cursing
Stamping
Wants to run away
Makes a great noise
Mental alienation
Religious mania
Sexual mania
Imagines she is pregnant
Imagines she will soon be delivered
Nymphomania
Puerperal mania
Mania for kissing everybody
Fainting from emotions
Fainting from the least exertion
Fainting from retching
Fainting from stool
Sinking feeling during hmorrhage
Extreme hunger
Craving for cold food
Craving for refreshing things
Thirst for ice-cold water
Greenish stools
Gushing stools
Stools mixed with flakes
Cutting colic
Cramps commencing in hands and feet
Cramps spreading all over
Prostrating stools
Stools after fright
Diarrhea < least movement
Vomiting
Cold sweat on forehead during stool
Prostration after stool
Violent vomiting with profuse diarrha
No desire for stool
Stools large
Stools hard
Stools in round black balls
Stools from inactive rectum
Frequent desire for stool felt in epigastrium
Painful stools of infants and children
Painful stools of women after confinement
Neuralgias accompanied by diarrha
Neuralgias accompanied by vomiting
Neuralgias accompanied by cold sweat
Neuralgias accompanied by fainting
Neuralgias accompanied by prostration
Prosopalgia
Severe nervous headaches
Sciatica
Dryness in nose
Dryness in mouth
Dryness in palate
Dryness in throat
Tickling deep in trachea
Tickling deep in bronchi
Cardiac debility
Pulse thread-like
Face red when lying down or sitting up
Face deadly pale
Hands cold and clammy
Tired of life
Fear to die
Amativeness
Haughtiness
Weak memory
Lost memory
Melancholy dejection
Sadness
Inclination to weep
Inconsolable affliction
Howlings
Cries on account of imaginary misfortunes
Head hangs down
Sits brooding in silence
Excessive anguish
Inquietude
Apprehension
Troubled conscience
Tendency to be frightened
Timidity
Deadly anguish
Discouragement
Despair
Hopelessness of life
Busy restlessness
Constant motion
Inclination for labour
Disposition to be angry
Palpitation of the heart
Loquaciousness
Rapid talk
Swearing
Inclination to run away
Tearing things
Conscious only as in a dream
Cannot bear to be left alone
Refuses to talk
Disposition to silence
Abusive language
Provocation
Voice weak
Voice scarcely audible
Disposition to converse about faults of others
Reproaches them
Continually accusing and scolding her husband
Does not speak the truth
Does not know herself what she is saying
Erroneous notions
Proud of his position
Imagines he is a hunter
Immoderate gaiety
Bite
Tear everything
Loss of ideas
Loss of sense
Wants to cut up everything
Unusually joyous mood
Mild delirium
Trembling excitement
Inclination to run from place to place
Extravagant actions
Haughty ideas
Actions
Ascribe to one's self diseases which are altogether imaginary
Thinks herself pregnant
Thinks that she will be delivered soon
Persistent raging
Great heat of body
Swallowing his own excrement
Paroxysms of amorous alienation
Paroxysms of religious alienation
Mental disorders
Lechery
Obscene talk
Confusion in head
Dulness of all the senses
Whirling vertigo
Intoxication
Dizziness
Cold sweats on forehead
Loss of vision
Sudden fainting
Fainting from opium eating
Fainting from abuse of tobacco
Fainting from abuse of alcohol
Fainting from turning in bed
Fainting from straining at stool
Fainting from slight wounds
Fainting from pains
Fainting from loss of fluids
Fainting from anxiety
Fainting from nausea
Fainting from convulsive twitchings
Fainting with lockjaw
Fainting with convulsion of eyes
Fits of headache
Paleness of face
Nausea
Vomiting of green mucus
Headache with painful stiffness of nape of neck
Headache with profuse flow of urine
Headache diuresis forms a crisis
Headache, by paroxysms
Headache, as if the brain were bruised or torn
Heaviness of the whole head
Pressive headache
Headache, often in vertex
Headache, or else semilateral
Headache, with pain in stomach
Violent headache
Headache which disappears on appearance of menses
During menses, with qualmishness
Evening headache
Headache with nausea and vomiting
Headache with indigestion
Sunken features
Constrictive pain in head
Constrictive pain in gullet
Incisive pain in vertex
Shaking in head
Jerking in arms
Blood rushes violently to head when stooping
Hypermia of brain from whooping-cough
Pulsative headache
Burning pain in brain
Sensation of a cold wind blowing through head
Headache as if brain were broken
Sensation of coldness and heat in the exterior of head
Crawling
Bristling sensation
Plica polonica
Coldness at vertex
Icy-cold feet
Nausea
Pressure when bending head backward
Sensation of warmth and coldness on head at same time
Head burning hot
Limbs alternately hot and cold
Head hot and covered with sweat
Cannot bear to be left alone
Scalp very sensitive, with headache
Sensation of soreness of the head
Neck too weak to hold head up
Pain in the eyes, as if the eyeballs were bruised
The eyeballs are turned upwards
Painful tearing in eyes
Painful compression in eyes
Permanent burning in eyes
Redness of eyes
Painful inflammation in eyes
Nocturnal sleeplessness
Eyes dull
Eyes clouded
Eyes yellowish
Eyes surrounded by blue rings
Eyes surrounded by black rings
Eyes fixed
Eyes watery
Eyes sunken
Eyes with loss of lustre
Eyes as if they were covered with albumen
Excessive dryness of eyelids
Profuse lachrymation
Incisive pains
Sensation of dryness in eyes
Sensation of dryness in lids
Agglutination of the eyelids during sleep
Trembling of upper eyelids
Paralysis of eyelids
Eyes convulsed
Eyes prominent
Pupils strongly contracted
Pupils perceptibly dilated
Diplopia
Sparks before eyes
Black spots before eyes
Shootings in ears
Pressure in ears
Constrictive sensations in ears
Alternate sensation of coldness and heat in ears
Deafness
Sensation as if a membrane were stretched over ear
Humming
Sensitiveness to noise
Roaring in ears
Nose grows more pointed
Nose seems longer
Icy coldness of nose
Inflammation in interior of nose
Contractive pain in nasal bone
Depressing pain in nasal bone
Nose-bleed
Smell of manure before nose
Smell of smoke before nose
Distressing sensation of dryness in nose
Violent sneezing
Frequent sneezing
Coryza
Hippocratic face
Wan face
Green circle round eyes
Bluish colour of face
Yellowish colour of face
Redness of one cheek
Alternate redness and paleness of face
Redness of face when lying down
Paleness when getting up
Burning heat, deep redness, and perspiration on face
Drawing and tensive pains in face, extending to, ear
Jerkings in muscles of face
Pinchings in muscles of face
Muscles of face, when masticating
Risus sardonicus
Pustules in face, with pain
Acne
Miliary eruption on cheeks
Bloatedness of face
Lips bluish
Lips hanging down
Lips dry
Lips black
Lips parched
Lips wrinkled
Lips pale
Lips cracked
Froth from mouth
Eruption on the commissures of the lips
Acne round the mouth
Acne round the chin
Cramp in the jaw
Pain and swelling of the submaxillary glands
Toothache with headache
Toothache with red, bloated face
Toothache with swelled face
Toothache with cold perspiration on forehead
Toothache with nausea
Toothache with vomiting
Toothache with painful weariness
Toothache with coldness of whole body
Toothache with prostration of strength
Toothache with internal heat
Toothache with insatiable thirst
Aching teeth
Sensation of extreme heaviness in teeth
Drawing pain during the mastication of soft food
Grinding of teeth
Looseness of teeth
Mouth dry
Mouth clammy
Burning in mouth
Burning in throat
Salivation
Acrid taste
Salt taste
Sensation of coldness in mouth
Sensation of burning in mouth
Inflammation of interior of mouth
Tongue dry
Tongue blackish
Tongue cracked
Tongue red
Tongue swollen
Tongue loaded with a yellow coating
Tongue cold
Tongue withered
Biting taste
Stammering
Loss of speech
Sensation of torpor
Great dryness in palate
Thirst
Sore throat
Constrictive pain
Contraction esp. during deglutition
Contraction of gullet
Pressive swelling
Swelling of the gullet
Danger of suffocation
Roughness in throat
Scraping in throat
Exophthalmic gotre
Insipidity of the saliva in the mouth
Bitter taste in mouth
Bilious taste in mouth
Water tastes bitter
Putrid taste in mouth
Manure taste in mouth
Herbaceous taste in mouth
Cooling taste in mouth
Sharp taste in mouth
Insatiable thirst
Craving for food
Bulimy
Ardent desire for acid things
Continued desire for acid things
Craves fruits
Craves gherkins
Craves citric acid
Craves salted things
Craves herrings
Craves sardines
Aversion to hot food
Immediate vomiting and diarrha after eating
Nausea, with hunger when eating
Pressure at the stomach when eating
Hiccough after a meal
Inclination to vomit after a meal
Regurgitation of bitter serum
> From eating meat
> From drinking milk
< From potatoes
< From green vegetables
Risings with taste of food
Violent empty risings
Bitter risings
Sour risings
Frequent hiccough
Violent hiccough
Qualmishness
Salivation with closure of the jaws
Frequent nausea
Continued nausea
Extreme nausea
Retch
Strain with great violence
Great nausea before vomiting
Waterbrash
Violent vomiting
Great exhaustion
Want to lie down
Coldness of hands
Shuddering over whole body
General heat
Ebullition of blood
Heat in hands
Vomiting of food
Vomiting of froth
Vomiting of yellowish green mucus
Vomiting of white mucus
Vomiting of green vomit
Vomiting of mucus at night
Vomiting of black bile
Vomiting of blood
Diarrha with pressure in the scrobiculus
Painful contraction of abdomen, when vomiting
Pain in stomach
Burning thirst
Excessive sensibility in region of stomach
Gastralgia
Excessive anguish in pit of stomach
throws up quantity of wind
agonising pain sets in like knives cutting the bowels
attacks end by sighing
Painful distension of pit of stomach
Emptiness in stomach
Uneasiness in stomach
Cramp in stomach
Pressure in scrobiculus
Acute pains in stomach
Acute pains in epigastrium
Burning sensation in pit of stomach
Inflammation of stomach
Tensive pain in hypochondria
Shaking in spleen
Spleen swollen
Colic in umbilical region
Nocturnal pains in abdomen
Sleeplessness
Abdomen hard
Abdomen inflated
Cramps in abdomen
Colic in abdomen
Colic: cutting
Colic: griping
Colic: twisting
Cutting in abdomen
Burning sensation throughout abdomen
Cold feeling in abdomen
Pain in entrails
Inflammation of intestines
Flatulent colic
Noisy borborygmi in abdomen
Gurgling borborygmi in abdomen
Violent expulsion of flatus upwards
Violent expulsion of flatus downwards
Constipation
Hard fces
Unsuccessful urging to stool
Violent and painful diarrha
tension of abdomen
Complaints before stool
Complaints during stool
Complaints after stool
Copious evacuations
Rice-water stools with tonic cramps
Simultaneous purging
Simultaneous vomiting
Sudden vomiting and purging
Diarrha of acrid matter
Burning sensation in anus
Nocturnal diarrha
Loose blackish evacuations
Loose greenish evacuations
Loose brownish evacuations
Flaky green stools
Sanguineous evacuations
Sudden involuntary evacuation of liquid fces
Great lassitude
Shivering
shuddering
Paleness of face
Anxiety
Fear of apoplexy
Fainting during stool
Burning sensation in anus, during evacuation
Pain, as from excoriation in anus
Pressure towards anus, with blind hmorrhoids
Verminous symptoms
Retention of urine
Want to urinate, while bladder is empty
Pain as if urethra were constricted
Urine diminished
Urine yellow
Urine turbid
Flow of urine, with raging hunger
Thirst
Involuntary emission of urine
Acrid urine
Deep-coloured urine
Greenish urine
Dark red urine
Pressive pain in the bladder
Burning sensation when urinating
Excessive sensibility of the genital organs
Excoriation of prepuce
Drawings in testes
Catamenia premature
Catamenia profuse
Catamenia suppressed
epistaxis
perspiration
humming in ears
pains in all limbs
bluish colour of face
Sexual desire too strong
Suppressed catamenia, lochia
Nymphomania of lying-in women
Threatened abortion
During pregnancy wants to wander about the house
Haughty behavior
Painfulness of breasts
Respiration oppressed
Voice hollow
Voice weak
Suffocative constriction in larynx
tickling deeply seated in the bronchia
Easy expectoration
cough irritation referred to lowest part of sternum
Violent cough with continued risings
salivation cough in the evening
Dry burning cough
pain in side cough
Lancinations towards inguinal ring when coughing
Like whooping-cough cough
cough with copious expectoration
Lancinations
Obstructed respiration, often to the verge of suffocation
Shortness of breath on least movement
Dyspna and impeded respiration
Pressure at chest, esp. in region of sternum
Sensation of fulness in chest
Squeezing in chest
Spasmodic contraction of muscles of chest
stitches near nipples, which at last itch
Violent palpitation of heart
Great activity of arterial system
The blood runs like cold water through the veins
Rheumatic stiffness in nape
Paralytic weakness of the muscles of neck
Pain as of a fracture in loins
Drawing pressure in loins
Squeezing between shoulder-blades
Painful paralytic weakness in all limbs
Numbness, tingling
Stiffness of limbs
Trembling of limbs
electric sparks shooting in limbs
Pain as from fatigue
Nails blue from coldness
Pains in limbs resembling a bruise
Icy coldness of limbs
Paralytic pain, as of a fracture in arms
Jerking in arms
Constant sensation of numbness in arms
Trembling of arms
Dry tetters on hands
The hands go to sleep and feel like dead
Paralysis in hip-joint
Paralytic pain, as of a fracture in legs
Arthritic tearing and drawing in legs and feet
Constant sensation of numbness in legs
Tension in tendons of ham
Pain, as of a fracture in knees
Heaviness in knees
Extreme and painful heaviness in knees
Violent cramps in calves
Violent cramps in feet
Rapid swelling of feet
Trembling of feet
Lancinations toes
Stinging in toes when standing
Painful gout in feet
Lancinations, and pain as from excoriation, in the corns of the feet
Paroxysms of pain
Drawing pain in limbs
Pressive pain, as of a fracture, in limbs, muscles, and bones
Relaxation of muscles
Continuous weakness and trembling
Tetanic stiffness of the body
Attack of spasm
clenching of jaws
convulsive jerking of eyes and eyelids
spasms
Tottering gait
General emaciation
Skin flabby and without elasticity
Whitish colour of the skin
Skin anmic
Skin cyanotic
miliary eruption
Nettle-rash
Dry eruption
itching in the heat
burning after being scratched
Sleep long
Dreams of being bitten by a dog
Dreams of being hunted of robbers
frightened awakening
fixed idea that the dream is true
Dreams of quarrels
frightful dreams
followed by vomiting of a very tenacious, green mucus
Sleep with the arms passed over the head
Yawning
Moaning during sleep
Whining during sleep
Drowsy insensibility
Sleep with thirst and diuresis
General coldness of whole body
cold, clammy perspiration
Coldness of single parts
Shuddering
Shivering
Thirst for cold water
Coldness over the back
Fever, with external coldness
The blood runs like cold water through the veins

Allen's Keynotes

for children and old people; the extremes of life
persons who are habitually cold and deficient in vital reaction
young people of a nervous sanguine temperament
adapted to diseases with rapid sinking of the vital forces; complete prostration; collapse
cold perspiration on the forehead with nearly all complaints
cannot bear to be left alone; yet persistently refuses to talk
thinks she is pregnant or will soon be delivered
mania with desire to cut and tear everything, especially clother
mania with lewd, lascivious talk, amorous or religious
attacks of fainting from least exertion
excessive weakness
sinking feeling during haemorrhage
sensation of a lump of ice on vertex, with chilliness
sensation as of heat and cold at same time on scalp
sensation as if brain were torn to pieces
face: pale, blue, collapsed; features sunkden, hippocratic
face: red while lying, becomes pale on rising up
thirst: intense, unquenchable, for large quantities of very cold water and acid drinks; wants everything cold
craving for acids or refreshing things
ice coldness: of face, tip of nose, feet, legs, hands, arms, and many other parts
cold feeling in abdomen
violent vomiting with profuse diarrhoea
vomiting: excessive with nausea and great prostration
vomiting: < by drinking
vomiting: by least motion
vomiting: great weakness after
cutting pain in abdomen as from knives
cholera: vomiting and purging; stool, profuse, watery, gushing, prostrating; after fright
diarrhoea: frequent, greenish, watery, gushing: mixed with flakes
diarrhoea: cutting colic, with cramps commencing in hands and feet and spreading all over; prostrating, after fright
diarrhoea: < least movement
diarrhoea: with vomiting, cold sweat on forehead during and prostration after
constipation: no desire; stool large, hard
constipation: in round, black balls
constipation: from inactive rectum
constipation: frequent desire felt in epigastrium
constipation: painful, of infants and children
dysmenorrhoea: with vomiting and purging, or exhausting diarrhoea with cold sweat
dysmenorrhoea: is so weak can scarcely stand for two days at each menstrual nisus
bad effects of opium eating, tabacco chewing
pains in the limbs during wet weather, getting worse from warmth of bed, better by continued walking
in congestive or pernicious intermittent fever, with extreme coldness, thirst, face cold and collapsed; skin cold and clammy, great prostration; cold sweat on forehead and deathly pallor on face
< from least motion; after drinking; before and during menses; during stool; when perspiring; after fright
often removes bad effects of excessive use of alcohol and tabacco

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