THE MATERIA MEDICA



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.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica