VERBASCUM

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Anus, itching of
  • Colic
  • Constipation
  • Cough
  • Deafness
  • Enuresis
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Neuralgia
  • Prosopalgia
  • Urine, incontinence of
  • Neuralgic pains of great intensity, pressing and lancinating, especially in facial bones, navel, and limbs
  • Deep, hollow, hoarse cough in sound like a trumpet
  • Night cough
  • Cough in children during sleep
  • Earache
  • Painful micturition
  • Tearing, stitching pain above left ear, downward and inward
  • Outer ear numb
  • Dulness of hearing left side
  • Heavy pressure in vertex
  • Shivers run up back and left side with the pain
  • Irritable and despondent
  • As if everything would press out at forehead
  • As if left ramus of jaw were pressed against upper jaw
  • As if temples were pinched and Crushed
  • As if ears were stopped up
  • As if nose and larynx were stopped up
  • As if something had fallen before ear
  • As if one were violently pressing on left malar bone
  • As of a crushing with tongs
  • Pressure as from a stone on umbilicus
  • As from needles from umbilical region to back
  • As if intestines were adherent to wall of abdomen and were being torn away
  • As of a twist around navel
  • As if a weight were hanging on lower extremities
  • As if cold water were poured over side of body from shoulder to thigh
  • Salt water collects in mouth
  • Apathy
  • Moroseness, ill-humour, and irascibility
  • Excessive gaiety, with laughter
  • Mental excitement, with voluptuous images
  • Weakness of memory
  • Distraction
  • A great concourse of ideas, and liveliness of imagination
  • Dulness and confusion in the head
  • Vertigo: when pressing one (l.) cheek while supporting the head; sudden, as from pressure on whole head
  • Headache, with a forcing outwards at forehead
  • Pressive, stupefying headache, principally in forehead; or semilateral, and mostly when passing from a warm into a cold temperature (and vice versa)
  • Heaviness of head, with dull pain
  • Pinching in temples
  • Deep, stupefying stitches in brain (pressing, slow stitch from behind forward through l. hemisphere of brain)
  • Stupefying shooting in temples (in r. temple when eating; < from pressure; extending into upper teeth of r. side)
  • Resonance in head, when walking
  • Pains in eyes, as from contraction of the sockets, with burning in eyes
  • Sight confused, as if directed through a veil
  • Tearing in ears, sometimes when eating, with lancinations
  • Sensation as if ear were drawn inwards
  • Deafness as from stoppage of ear
  • Sensation of a stoppage of ears (first l., then r., also of nose and larynx) when reading aloud; hearing unaffected
  • Numbness in l. ear
  • Sensation of stoppage of larynx and ears
  • Profuse coryza from frontal sinuses, with hot, burning, profuse lachrymation
  • Facial neuralgia (esp. caused and < by a change of temperature), generally with stupefying, pressive or tensive pains, principally in cheek-bones, and commencing from maxillary joint, < by clenching teeth, and by external pressure
  • Violent pressure in l. malar bone and zygoma
  • Stitches in l. zygomatic arch
  • Shootings in the cheek-bones, with dull pressure
  • Violent tension in integuments of chin, masseters, and throat
  • Toothache, with tearing pain in the molars
  • Pinching pressing pain on lower side of jaw
  • Copious accumulation of salt saliva in the mouth
  • Root of tongue brown, without bad taste, in morning and during forenoon
  • Tongue of a brownish yellow colour, loaded with viscid mucus in morning and after dinner
  • Very severe pain in throat on swallowing
  • Mawkish taste, with fetid breath
  • Hunger, without relish for food
  • Insatiable thirst
  • Regurgitation of insipid serum
  • Empty, or else bitter risings, with nausea
  • Frequent hiccough
  • Aching of stomach
  • Sensation of emptiness at pit of stomach, which disappears with a rumbling below l. ribs
  • Cuttings and shootings in l. hypochondrium
  • Incessant gurgling and rumbling beneath l. ribs
  • Inflation of the abdomen, violent and painful pressure on navel, as by a stone, < by bending double
  • Spasmodic constriction of the hypogastrium, towards the umbilical region
  • Pains in abdomen, which extend deeply downwards, with want to evacuate, and spasmodic contraction of anus
  • Pinchings and gripings in abdomen
  • Shootings in abdomen, principally in umbilical region, sometimes tearing and tending downwards
  • Sensation as if intestines had adhered to umbilical region, and were torn away
  • Fearful diarrhea; griping; much pain as if pierced with a lance through inside of l. ankle-joint; pain in both cheekbones and above eyebrows; menses came on early this time, and she has coughed a good deal
  • Suppressed evacuations
  • Feces hard, like sheep-dung, and expelled with effort
  • Frequent want to urinate, with profuse emission (afterwards scanty)
  • Enuresis nocturna; (obstinate, with seminal emissions
  • Pollutions without lewd dreams
  • Sensation of obstruction in the larynx and nose, with hoarseness when reading aloud; deep voice
  • Catarrh, with hoarseness and stuffed chest
  • Cough esp. in evening, and at night, when sleeping, generally rough and dry, or hollow and dull
  • Dry, hoarse cough < at night
  • Frequent attacks of deep, hollow, hoarse cough, with sound like a trumpet, caused by tickling in larynx and chest
  • The cough is lessened as soon as the patient succeeds in taking a breath
  • Shooting in chest, sometimes with oppression and obstructed respiration
  • Tension in chest, with lancinations in region of heart, in evening, after lying down
  • Stitches in the chest
  • Red nodosity near xiphoid cartilage, painful when pressed upon
  • Lancinations in the back and shoulder-blades
  • Sharp intermittent stitches in l. scapula
  • Fine persistent stitch in last dorsal vertebra
  • Between r. loin and spine deep, knife-like stitches quite intense in intestines
  • Backache < from pressure
  • Stitching in the limbs
  • Tearing pain in the shoulder, back of hand, and elbow
  • Spasmodic pressure in forearm, hand, and thumb
  • Tearing shootings in hand and fingers
  • Tensive pain in wrist
  • Wrenching pain in joint of hand
  • Stitches like a sprain (or paralysis), where carpal bone of thumb articulates with radius
  • Paralytic pain in joints of fingers
  • Excessive heaviness and lassitude in legs and feet, esp. when going up stairs
  • Cramp-like pain in muscles of r. thigh, while walking in open air
  • Spasmodic pressure in thighs, legs, and soles
  • Cramp-like pressure in sole of r. foot, while standing, disappears when walking
  • Trembling of knees
  • Dull lancinations in patella, bones of feet, and toes
  • Violent, intermittent, dull sticking in metatarsal bones of great and adjacent toes of l. foot during rest
  • Tearing along, legs
  • General indolence, and disposition to sleep, after rising in the morning
  • Stretching and frequent yawning
  • Hemorrhoids; affections of the inner navel region; obstruction from induration of stool
  • Darting pains in inner parts; want of perspiration
  • < When sitting; from change of temperature
  • > On rising from a sitting posture
  • Stinging pains in the limbs
  • Benumbing sensation with almost all the pain
  • Tearings, sometimes lancinating, in different parts (going downwards)
  • Tottering when walking
  • Strong disposition to sleep after a meal
  • Disturbed sleep, at night, with tossing
  • Short sleep at night, lasting only till 4 a.m., with anxious, frightful dreams of wars and dead bodies
  • Internal coldness of whole body, of hands and feet, perceptible also externally
  • Shuddering, esp. on one side of body, as if it were bathed in cold water

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