GRAND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MATERIA MEDICA
Aceticum acidum.
Cancer, diabetes, sickness in.
Phthisis, diarrhoea in.
Aconitum.
Pallor on rising.
Expression of patient fearful anxiety: “Shall I never get better?” [Heart and brain affections]
All-pervading fearfulness. Avoids excitement; many people- Exaggerated cautiousness.
Fearful of death, predicts the day he will diet.
All bad effects of fright.
All acute inflammations with restlessness, hot, dry skin.
Cannot bear the pain, not to be touched, nor to be covered; (sometimes cannot bear to be uncovered).
Pains insupportable with great fear and restlessness.
Pains neuralgic, gouty, rheumatic, inflammatory.
Thirst unquenchable with great restlessness.
Stout plethoric people, active haemorrhage in such Vertigo, faintness, pallor on sitting up.
Pain intolerable. Loss of affection for anyone.
Aloe
Movement of wind in descending colon (diarrhoea).
Noise as of explosion in heap and ears.
Ammonium muriaticum.
Throbbing in tonsils.
Anacardium orientale.
amel Entirely whilst eating
Agg After eating.
Antimonium tartaricum
Relaxation of all muscles and sphincters, with or without vomiting.
Apis.
Constrictive sensation in abdomen and chest: dares not move or strain at stool for fear something would give way.
Arum triphyllum.
Boring fingers into nose.
Baryta carbonica.
Hand trembles in company of strangers.
Agg In damp weather.
Belladonna.
Every cough causes pain in the womb (or hypogastrium)
Clutching pains (like Lyc).
Pains come and go suddenly, however long they remain.
In all internal viscera bearing-down pains (Sepia, Lilium tigrinum, Calcarea, Nx.m.).
III-effects of hair-cutting.
Takes cold with every draught of air, especially when uncovering the head.
Most inflammations and pains come and go suddenly.
After effects of anaesthetic vapours.
Bryonia.
Serous effusions.
Coarse feeders; Swinish; Gourmands (Epicures, Nux).
Agg Movement, any degree or amount of; the more the movement, the Agg the pain.
Agg Heat of bed. At night (cf. Mercurius, Sul.) amel Quiet of body or mind. Amel Lying on painful side (Bel. Agg).
Inflammatory and typhoid fevers.
Lips dry and cracked.
Everything tastes bitter.
Pressure at pit of stomach as if a stone wEre in it.
Goes off with eructations.
(Gastro-enteric and serous affections.)
Calcarea carbonica
Hands warm, soft, moist; or cold, Clammy, soft and moist. Soft, boneless hands.
Agg After bathing or medding with water (cf. Sul.).
Agg AFter midnight (sweat, cough-:-cough Amel putting shoulders back-iod. Agg). Agg Morning.
Agg Ascending.
Agg By heat or light of sun. (Headache: of. Aco., Glo., Na.c)
Feeling as if had on damp stocking; cannot get feet warm.
Stockings actually are damp.
Cheerful in evenings.
Much perspiration accompanies most complaints but does not Amel (Cf Mercurius
Calcarea phosphorica.
School headaches.(Cf. Nat.m.)
Capsicum
Burning pains Amel by heat.
Carbo animalis
Knife thrusts in liver region, especially from right to left. (cf.Lycopodium)
Causticum
No remedy has aggravation of anal symptoms so prominently.
(Guernsey. of., Sepia, Sul., Nux., Arsenicum, Mercurius, Nit ac., Graphites)
Stools pass more easily when standing.
Dark hair, rigid fibre.
Children totter and fall when walking.
Castoreum
Yawning constant in daytime, never sleepy.
First in all abdominal complaints
Windy colic in women.
Chamomilla
Agg by eructations of wind. (pains in stomach and abdomen).
Chelidonium
Pain (bruised aching) at inferior angle of right scapula)
Hours of aggravation generally four and five a.m.
China
Agg By slightest touch.
Amel By hard pressure, (Cf. Ignatia -Sul. has from Amel gentle pressure).
Terrible irritability.
Debility from;los of fluids.
Periodicity (of, Chi-sul., Arsenicum)
Cina
Pushes finger up nose. (Dysmenia)
Conium
Urine intermits.
Dioscorea
Pain embracing umbilicus in area size of a dollar
Pains radiating from thence.
Neuralgias with pain in umbilicus.
Sinking at epigastrium; also with pyrosis.
Drosera
Cough Amel by holding hypochondria with the warm hand. (Amel warmth and support)-(Cf. wants to be held, Gel)
Dulcamara
Irritable bladder Agg in damp weather
Equisetum
Tongue cracked.
Ferrum
Agg Cold wet weather
Anaemic persons.
Delicate chloritic women.
Women with earthy complexions.
Those whose faces flush up or become fiery red on least emotion or exertion.
Terrible irritability (cf. Chi.).
Graphites
Anti-sycotic. Outlets affected.
Insensitiveness.
Pain as soon as the stomach is empty. Compels to eat.
Hepar
The exhibition of mercury; or Agg of Mercurius
Can’t bear to be uncovered. Agg by slightest touch, the slighter the worse (cf. Chi).
Phlegmon, acute inflammatory action, great soreness and sensitiveness.
Left side.
Ignatia
Amel External warmth; hugs fire. Chilly subject (cf. Arsenicum, Hep)
Flow of clear urine, especially at end of each headache.
Kali Bichromicum
Cough Agg in morning: touch tenaceous expectoration Agg after food.
Agg after food.
Obscuration of sight preceding headache; as the pain increases the sight clears.
Kali carbonicum
Stitches everywhere, especially connected with cough or urination.
Agg 2-5 a.m., especially 3-4 a.m.
Nags of water above eyes, in morning especially, (without general dropsy)-(under eyes, Ap., Arsenicum; above and under, Kali ars).
Fleshy people.
Kreasotum
Itching of eyelids the more he rubs the more he must.
Vomits food immediately after eating; or some hours after.
Lachesis
Agg On awaking (Sul., Na.m-Phos)
Tongue cannot be protruded beyond the teeth.
Tongue trembles when tried to be put out.
“Charred wheat straw” in stools, ulcers or haemorrhages.
Climacteric-most ailments of.
Can’t bear any pressure, not even of clothes, on uterine region, not from pain but from discomfort.
Uterine pains Amel by flow of blood from vagina.
Collapse, and utter prostration; calls out for open windows.
Lancinating pains of cancer (Scirrhinum).
Lachnanthes
Wryneck in diphtheria
Lacticum acidum
Rheumatism
Rheumatoid muscular or erratic pains accompanied with constant nausea; or nausea; or nausea; on awaking or after food or drink.
Lactuca virosa
Constant tightness of chest; load on chest (asthma).
Ledum
Pains ascending.
Rheumatic pains run upward (cf, Gelsemium, also from before backward in abdomen).
(Affected parts wither-cf. Pul).
Pains suddenly change locally.
Lycopodium
Feels as if a band round waist. Can’t bear the pressure of clothes.
Feels as if a hand were in entrails clutching them. (Bel. clutching).
The heart is heard and felt to heat in the head Palpitation from heat to head.
Urging to pass water but cannot. Constipation.
Fan-like motion of alae nasi, usually rapid, in cerebral, pectoral and abdominal complaints.
Desires fresh air, can’t bear stuffy room.
Agg In damp air. (Sul., pul. Amel in open air)
Amel Warm drinks. (Pho. Agg)
Frequent risings of heat from abdomen to head with burning of cheeks.
Little thirst when there is any, and it is for little and often.
Constipation when from home or on change of air.
Food returns into mouth after having been scarcely introduced into stomach.
Cannot endure strong smells
Melitagrinum
Itching Eruptions.
Natrum muriaticum
Great despondency, sadness (cf. Lyc)
Grief Agg buy consolation.
Dreams of robbers in room so vivid must have light to search room on waking
School headache (cf. Calcarea ph).
Natrum silico-fluoricum
Numbness and powerlessness. Lupus (Cooper).
Nitricum acidum
Psora, sycosis, syphilis.
Ulceration, general.
Warty growths.
Sensation of sharp splinter or bone sticking in, even from slightest touch, as of sheet ( In ulcers cf. Hepar, Sul., Argentumn)
Jerking pains in inner parts.
Sensation of band round bones.
Urine reddish. Pungent horse odour (cf. Benz. ac., Sep)
Bones of head, affections of (cf. Kali iod., Lues., Merc)
Nux moschata
Mouth parched on waking.
Drowsy by day.
Drowsiness between pains.
Agg in damp weather, the damper the Agg
Nux vomica
Antiperiodic. Haemorrhages occurring at a certain hour every day. (Uterine, especially 3 a.m.)
Waking 3 a.m. Lies awake till daylight. Falls into a dreamy sleep from which it is hard to be aroused. Feels tired and averse to rise. (Cf. Sul-Difficult falling asleep and difficult waking.)
Every pain causes desire for stool.
Oxalicum acidum
Pains which are Agg when thinking of them.
Palladium
Pain in right ovary Amel by pressure.
Profuse menses followed by leucorrhoea.
Phosphoricum acidum.
Bad news, effects of. (Gelsemium)
Phosphorus
Sensation as if anus were open.
Agg Lying left side-almost all affections-cough. sleep palpitation (cf. Pulsatilla, pleurodynia chiefly).
Tall slender persons (cf. Sul., with inclination to stoop).
Agg And Amel before midnight. In twilight fancies himself in pieces and can’t get the bits together (cf. Bap)
Fearfulness, imagines something creeping out of every corner.
Great depression at twilight.
Sad yet laughs. Laughs at serious things (cf. Anac)
Glazed tongue (cf. Lach-red and glazed.)
Cough entering cold air from warm room (cf. Carb v)
Cold legs and feat (cf. Sul
Coldness in cavities.
Platina
Antisycotic
Psorinum
Convalescence from all zymotic diseases. Feeling of great weakness after fevers.
Pulsatilla
Agg Lying on left side (pleurodynia chiefly). (cf. Phos)
Fever with thirstlessness. (cf. Sabadilla.)
Affected part withers. (cf. Ledum)
Rhus
Antirheumatic.
Agg From Rest. (Bry Amel).
Agg Rising from a sear or beginning to move. (cf. Lycopodium)
Agg Before a storm: before rain; in damp weather.
Agg From getting wet, especially when heated.
Bad effects of lifting or strain, especially raising arms high up to lift things. (cf Phosphorus)
Restlessness, can’t be long in one position.
Bad effects of bathing, either in fresh or salt water, (cf. Calc)
Sanicula
Wants to lie on something hard.
Scirrhinum
Lancinating pains of cancer (cf. Lachesis)
Secale
Cold skin, but desires to be uncovered
Fullness or weight, as if from a foreign body in rectum not Amel by stool.
Supper Amel all symptoms except dryness of throat.
Silica.
Suppuration, especially when there is tendency of the pus to burrow
Thin serous pus.
Intolerance of least draught of air (headache). (cf. Na.c.)
Caries. Fistula, Perforating ulcers.
The swollen breast itches (scirrhus).
Fistular abscess. Cold abscess, whether proceeding from bone, gland or cellular tissue.
Phlegmon. Acute inflammatory action. Great soreness and sensitiveness. (Hep)
Vaccination, ailments after.
Eruptions on hairy parts and tip of nose.
Stramonium
Must have light, can’t sleep without light in bedroom.
Jerks head forward of pillow.
Strontium
Amel By light.
Sulphur.
Hard, dry, horny hands.
Life-taking pains.
All pains seem to go to rectum; or to center in the semi-lunar ganglion.
Agg On awaking (Lach)
Tall slender person (cf. Calc)
Poor breakfast eater. (Sepia, supper Amel; Na-m., hunger for supper)
Sulphuricum acidum.
Flushing and colliquative sweating, especially at menopause.
Tellurium.
Ringworm; especially of body.
Theridion
Agg By noise (vomiting, headache)
Thuja
Patient feels cannot go on existing any longer. Sensation as if whole body very thin and delicate : as if she couldn’t resist the least attack; as if the continuity of the body would be dissolved.
Polypi. Naevi (Lycopodium Rad.) Condylomata. Warts Sweat only on uncovered parts.
Fixed ideas, “made of glass” “Has a living (croaking) animal inside him.”
Loath to be touched (Insane women).
Music causes weeping and trembling of feet.
Neuralgia from checked eruptions or gonorrhoea.
Sycosis and Syphilis.
Zincum
Cracking in sacral region: while walking.
