The Concordance Repertory – of the more characteristic symptoms of the Materia Medica – By William D. Gentry, M. D.

The
Concordance Repertory
of the more characteristic symptoms of the Materia Medica
By William D. Gentry, M. D.
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CHAPTER : GENERALITIES AND KEY NOTES *****

Labor-like :-

Pains :-

Acon.,
Bell., Caul., Cimic., Puls., Sabad.

Lacerated :-

Surfaces :-

Canth.

Lacerating :-

Darting and lacerating in whole body afternoon and
evening :-

Ind.

Darting, lacerating pains or lacerating with
pressure :-

Chin.

Drawing lacerating pains here and there in muscles of
whole body when sitting :-

Staph.

Intermittent, pulsative or pressive, darting or
lacerating pains from within outward transferred from different parts, and
relieved in hysterical patients by touching parts :-

Asaf.

Lancinating or darting pains :-

Berb.

Pains :-

Nicc.

Whole sides of body no which patient lies is painful as
if lacerating with chilliness on uncovering :-

Sil.

Lacerations :-

When intolerable excruciating pains shows nerves are
severely involved :-

Hyper.

Lameness :-

Great lassitude, prostration and lameness :-

Cinnb.

Heaviness and lameness :-

Æsc.

Lassitude lameness and soreness with stiffness,
heaviness numbness and torpor :-

Berb.

Rheumatic, wandering pains with lameness :-

Meph.

Lamenting :-

Moaning and lamenting from pains :-

Cham.

Lancinating :-

Induration swelling and inflammation of glands, with
lancinating cutting burning pains :-

Carb-an.

Inflammatory swelling, with burning lancinating
pains :-

Ars.

Lacerating, lancinating or darting pains :-

Berb.

Languid :-

Tired feeling :-

Dios.

Usually tired yet knows no reason for it :-

Helon.

Trembling weakness ; languid and restless ;
easily fatigued :-

Gels.

Weak and languid feeling :-

As after long and severe illness :-

Asc-c.

No desire to do anything :-

Bapt.

Languor :-

Dullness and languor, with sensation of heaviness
through whole body :-

Chen-v.

Great debility and lassitude, languor and faintness,
weariness and indolence :-

Chel.

Great debility ; languor with painful feeling of
weight and sensitiveness in all limbs :-

Agar.

Great :-

Rumx.

And disinclination to physical and mental
exertion :-

Aspar.

And prostration :-

Grat.

And weariness, indolence and prostration, especially in
lower limbs :-

Ind.

Especially in morning :-

Ambr.

Of whole body :-

Rhus-t.

Wants to lie down :-

Bapt.

With inclination to sit or lie down and be
alone :-

Nux-v.

With staggering gait or trembling of body :-

Mag-s.

With trembling and violent thirst :-

Hyper.

With weakness of knees and drowsiness :-

Nux-m.

Great weakness and languor and :-

Raph.,
Ter.

Great prostration, languor and drowsiness :-

Æth.

Fatigue, torpor :-

Naja.

Lassitude :-

Exhaustion :-

Aran.

And debility :-

Bov.

Prostration and desire to yawn and stretch :-

Puls.

Lassitude torpor, languor not disposed to move or make
any mental exertion :-

Sang.

Mental and physical lassitude and languor :-

Chin.

Numbness debility languor fainting :-

Cedr.

Tremulousness languor and debility :-

Brom.

Weakness debility languor lassitude :-

Alum.,
Am-c., Anac., Ars., Bar-c., Calc., Carb-v., Caust., Chin., Con., Cupr.,
Dig., Ferr., Hyos., Iod., Kali-c., Laur., Lyc., Mag-c., Mur-ac., Nit-ac.,
Nux-m., Nux-v., Olnd., Petr., Ph-ac., Rhus-t., Ruta, Sec., Sep., Stann.,
Ther., Verat.

Lardaceous :-

Ulcers, burning like fire, and pain often during sleep,
discharging copious bloody pus or ichor with blue, black lardaceous
bases :-

Ars.

Large :-

Sensation in whole body as if everything were too
large :-

Apis.

Laryngeal :-

Anæmia in laryngeal phthisis :-

Mang.

Larynx (See section on Larynx.) :-

Loss of sensibility over body and in fauces, larynx,
urethra, etc :-

Kali-br.

Lassitude :-

(Am-c.),
Fl-ac.

Bodily and mental :-

Caust.,
Chin., Con., Nat-m., Ph-ac., Seneg.

Emaciation lassitude debility :-

Gamb.

Great debility and lassitude languor and faintness,
weariness and indolence :-

Chel.

Great debility lassitude :-

When walking in morning :-

Chel.

And trembling while standing up and without
moving :-

Merc-c.

Great fatigue and lassitude :-

Casc.

General feeling of discomfort, lassitude and
malaise :-

Card-m.

Great heaviness and lassitude :-

Ran-b.

Great lassitude and debility after eating, talking or
walking in open air :-

Act-sp.

Great lassitude and feeling of weariness ; becomes
tired easily :-

Ham.

Great lassitude and heaviness :-

Sabin.

Great lassitude and prostration :-

Brach.

Great lassitude and weakness :-

Daph.

Great lassitude prostration and lameness :-

Cinnb.

Great lassitude with sensation as if sweat would break
out all over :-

Croc.

Great weakness and lassitude :-

Ambr.,
(Ars.), (Chin.).

Languor, lassitude and debility :-

Bov.

Languor lassitude, exhaustion :-

Aran.

And depression :-

Apis,
Cist.

And sluggishness of whole body :-

Arn.

Exhaustion and debility after severe illness :-

Ant-c.

Faintness and constant yawning :-

Asar.

Lameness and soreness, with stiffness, heaviness
numbness and torpor :-

Berb.

Torpor languor ; not disposed to move or make any
mental exertion :-

Sang.

When walking :-

Stram.

With perspiration after least exercise :-

Coc-c.

Mental and physical lassitude and languor :-

Chin.

Trembling, with feeling of lassitude :-

Apis.

Tremulous :-

Alum.,
(Sulph.).

Weariness and lassitude :-

Benz-ac.

Weakness debility, languor lassitude :-

Alum.,
Am-c., Anac., Ars., Bar-c., Calc., Carb-v., Caust., Chin., Con., Cupr.,
Dig., Ferr., Hyos., Iod., Kali-c., Laur., Lyc., Mag-c., Mur-ac., Nit-ac.,
Nux-m., Nux-v., Olnd., Petr., Ph-ac., Rhus-t., Ruta, Sec., Sep., Stann.,
Ther., Verat.

Laughing :-

Worse from singing and laughing :-

Phos.

Laxness :-

Flaccidity and laxness with weakened condition of
muscular structures :-

Mag-c.

And weakness of whole muscular system, with emaciation
weakness of digestion and coldness of extremities :-

Ferr.

Laziness :-

Heaviness and indolence ; laziness obliging
patient to lie down :-

Sabin.

And dread of motion :-

Nux-v.

With slowness :-

Asar.

Leaned :-

Feeling when walking as if leaned forward and to left
side :-

Asc-c.

Learning :-

Children slow in learning to walk :-

(Calc.),
(Calc-p.), Sil.

Left :-

Anxiety when lying on left side at night :-

Phos.

Better lying on left side :-

Cina,
Nat-c., Pall.

Feeling as if divided into halves, as if left side did
not belong to patient :-

Sil.

Feeling when walking as if leaned forward and to left
side :-

Asc-c.

Lies on left side :-

Spong.

Or on back, with left hand under head ; cannot lie
on right side or back :-

Acon.,
(Nux-v.).

Numb prickling paralytic feeling over whole body more
on left side :-

Bapt.

Pains suddenly change location :-

Puls.

Appear 1st on left later on right side :-

Benz-ac.

Rheumatic pains, 1st in left side, then in
right :-

Lach.

Sensation of numbness, with great weakness and coldness
in whole left side of body :-

Elaps.

Soreness of whole left side of body :-

Ind.

Symptoms in sick generally appear 1st on left later on
right side, and from below upwards :-

Benz-ac.

Worse lying on back or left side :-

Phos.

Worse when on left side :-

Acon.,
Chin., Cinnb., Lyc., Phos., Puls.

Worse when lying down especially on left side :-

Puls.

Legs (See section on Lower Extremities.) :-

General debility with sensation of heaviness
legs :-

Petr.

Paralytic feeling in arms, legs and spine :-

Æsc.

Lepra :-

Alum.,
Ars., Sep., Sil., Sulph.

Lethargy :-

Drowsiness, torpor :-

Nux-m.

And listlessness, with utter dejection of mind :-

Am-c.

Liability (See Tendency.) :-

To take cold :-

Con.,
Graph.

With great sensitiveness to cold air :-

Bell.

Easily :-

Petr.

Lie :-

Can lie only on right side :-

Phos.
(Reverse :- Merc.)

Cannot lie on right side :-

Merc.
(Reverse :- Phos.)

Great languor, with inclination to sit or lie down and
be alone :-

Nux-v.

Tendency to lie with head low :-

Absin.

Lie down :-

Debility and weakness ; must lie down :-

Am-c.

Desire to lie down during day :-

Cann-i.

Exhaustion from slightest exertion ; must lie
down :-

Ars.

Extreme weakness and prostration ; must sit or lie
down constantly :-

(Sil.),
Stann.

Frequent exhaustion ; debility ; must lie
down :-

Kali-c.

Great inclination to lie down especially after
eating :-

Lach.

Great languor wants to lie down :-

Bapt.

Great prostration wants to lie down all the
time :-

Abies-c.

Heaviness and indolence ; laziness, obliging
patient to lie down :-

Sabin.

Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep strength
suddenly fails :-

Sel.

Must lie down close eyes, and seems as if the patient
is being rocked :-

Calad.

Prostration ; so weak almost constantly obliged to
lie down :-

Nit-ac.,
(Sil.)

Weary tired, bruised sore ; great weakness ;
must lie down yet bed feels too hard :-

Arn.

Lies :-

All parts of body on which patient lies are painful as
if bruised :-

Ruta.

Child lies on abdomen and spasmodically thrusts breach
up :-

Cupr.

On back with :-

Knees drawn up :-

Merc-c.

Limbs drawn up :-

Hell.

On left side :-

Spong.

Or on back with left hand under head ; cannot lie
on right side or back :-

Acon.,
(Nux-v.)

Numbness of parts on which patient lies :-

Chin.

Parts on which patient lies ache, as if sore :-

Nux-m.

Whole side of body on which patient lies is painful as
if lacerated, with chilliness on uncovering :-

Sil.

Parts upon which patient lies feel bruised :-

Caust.

Life :-

Very weak and indifferent to affairs of life :-

Ph-ac.

Lift :-

Easily strained, cannot lift anything :-

Calc.,
(Con.), (Rhus-t.)

Lifting :-

Easily sprained from lifting even small weights :-

Carb-an.

Worse from lifting :-

Calc.,
Carb-an., Carb-v., Graph., Hyper., Lyc., Rhus-t.

Ligaments :-

Pains in ligaments tendons and synovial
membranes ; worse at rest and on beginning to move, and better from
continued motion :-

Rhus-t.

Weakness of all joints, especially of ligaments :-

Acon.

Light :-

Anæmia with chlorosis ; defective
menstruation ; poverty of blood after hæmorrhages, deficiency of
light, air or suitable food, or after exhausting diseases :-

Ferr.

And airy feeling ; legs feel as if floating in
air :-

Stict.

Over-sensitiveness to external impressions such as
odors, light noise or music, slightest current of air ; every
harmless word offends ; even suitable medicine aggravates :-

Nux-v.

Worse from artificial light :-

Calc-p.

Worse from light :-

Calc.,
Con., Euphr., Graph., Phos., Sang.

Lightness :-

Feeling of great lightness of body :-

Mez.

Great lightness while climbing a mountain without any
respiratory trouble :-

Coca.

Heaviness alternating with sensation of
lightness :-

Nux-v.

Sensation of :-

In body :-

Asar.,
Coff., Lact., Nat-m., Petr.

When walking :-

Thuj.

Lightning-like :-

Neuralgic lightning-like pains :-

Mag-c.

Sudden lightning-like dull jerkings in different parts
of body :-

Daph.

Limb :-

Worse from letting limb hang down :-

(Puls.),
Sabin.

Worse letting limbs hang down :-

(Puls.),
Thuj.

Limber :-

Whole body relaxed and limber in morning :-

Nat-c.

Limbs :-

Bruised, sore feeling all over, as from a fall or
blow :-

Arn.,
Bad., Led.

Worse in limbs or joints :-

Ruta.

Constant restless movements of limbs and whole
body :-

Stram.

Fainting with coldness of limbs :-

Acon.,
Calc., Coloc., Verat.

Fainting with numbness of limbs :-

Arn.,
Nat-m.

Feeling of weakness and trembling of all limbs :-

Hyper.

Great languor and weariness indolence and prostration,
especially in lower limbs :-

Ind.

Great loss of power on walking, especially in limbs
with exhausting sweats :-

Calc.

Lies on back with limbs drawn up :-

Hell.

Lies and joints on which patient is lying feel painful
as if bruised :-

Rhus-t.

Prostration, with trembling in limbs :-

Manc.

Sensation of creeping, like a mouse in limbs :-

Calc.,
Sulph.

Tired feeling with weariness and restlessness in
limbs :-

Ind.

Trembling of whole body, alternating with convulsive
movements of limbs :-

Arn.

Line :-

Crawling over body, as from a fly from below upwards in
a straight line followed by numbness of parts :-

Euphr.

Linen :-

Sensibility of all nerves even imagination of some
person scratching slightly on linen or paper with finger nails :-

Asar.

Liquor :-

Worse from coffee, liquor and tobacco :-

Cann-i.

Listlessness :-

Debility of whole body with listlessness and heavy
head :-

Anthro.

Lethargy and listlessness with utter dejection of
mind :-

Am-c.

Lively :-

Music causes weeping :-

Kreos.,
Nat-s., Thuj.

Livid :-

Brown vesicles size of pea, all over body :-

Mill.

Living :-

Sensation as if something living were hopping and
jumping in various parts :-

Croc.

Location :-

Pains suddenly change location :-

Puls.

Appear 1st on left later on right side :-

Benz-ac.

Longing :-

For fresh air :-

(Lyc.),
Puls.

Looking :-

Better when looking fixedly at an object :-

Nat-c.

Worse on looking at anything :-

Lith-c.

Worse on looking fixedly at an object :-

Calc.,
Cina, Kali-c., Lyc., Nat-m., Rhod., Ruta, Seneg., Sil.

Loose :-

Cannot bear contact ; obliged to wear clothing
loose :-

Lach.

Pain as if contused or sprained, with sensation as if
flesh were loose on bones in consequence of blows :-

Ign.

Pain as if flesh were torn loose from bones, or as if
bones were being scraped :-

Rhus-t.

Looseness :-

Sensation of looseness of flesh :-

Bry.,
Nit-ac., Rhus-t., Sulph.

Lose :-

Children do not learn to walk lose ability to do
so :-

Calc-p.,
Sil.

Loss :-

Anæmia and debility from loss of fluids :-

Carb-v.,
(Chin.).

Asthenopia nervous deafness ; loss of
appetite ; flatulence and nervous hacking cough with irritable nerves
in anæmic nervous persons :-

Asar.

Chlorosis after great loss of blood :-

Ferr.

Emaciation and debility after loss of fluids :-

Lyc.

Emaciation and loss of appetite :-

Kali-i.

Fainting after loss of blood or other animal fluid,
with ringing in ears, cold skin, cold perspiration :-

Chin.

Feeling of great weakness as from loss of
fluids :-

Lachn.

Great debility after loss of fluids or severe illness,
especially typhus if patient is hopeless or despairs of recovery :-

Psor.

Great loss of power on walking especially in limbs with
exhausting sweats :-

Calc.

Great weakness and loss of breath on ascending
stairs :-

Iod.

Ill-effects from loss of sleep, night-watching and
mental excitement :-

Cocc.,
(Nux-v.).

Intoxication ending in entire loss of
consciousness :-

Agar.

Of energy :-

Ery-a.

Of flesh when living well :-

Nat-m.

Of power :-

Threatening paralysis :-

Arg-m.

With sensation as if narrow of bones had becomes stiff
and coagulated :-

Ang.

Of sensibility over body and in fauces, larynx,
urethra, etc :-

Kali-br.

Of strength :-

Fl-ac.

Of voluntary motion and of senses :-

Stram.

Numbness and loss of sensation :-

Kreos.

Rapid emaciation, with great loss of flesh, cold sweat
and debility :-

Ars.

Weakness and debility after loss of animal
fluids :-

Chin-s.

Weakness and prostration after loss of animal fluids or
after long and severe illness :-

Chin.

Worse from loss of sleep :-

Nux-v.

Love :-

Chlorosis in sensitive, nervous and hysterical women,
inclined to spasmodic and intermittent complaints, induced by mental
emotions, such as grief, fright or disappointed love :-

Ign.

Ill-effects from onanism or excessive sexual
indulgence, or grief, sorrow disappointed love :-

Ph-ac.

Unhappy love with jealousy :-

Hyos.,
Ign.

Low :-

Tendency to lie with head low :-

Absin.

Worse from lying with head low :-

Ars.,
Calc.

Worse while on left side with head low :-

Calc.

Lumpy :-

Hæmorrhages ; blood lumpy and coagulates
easily :-

Ferr.

Lungs (See section on Chest.) :-

Congestive condition of head and lungs with palpitation
of heart :-

Ind.

Lying :-

Anxiety when lying on left side ant night :-

Phos.

Better from lying on left side :-

Nat-c.

Better from lying on painful side :-

Sep.

Better from lying with head high :-

Ars.

Better lying on left side :-

Cina.

Better lying on painless side :-

Fl-ac.,
Nux-m.

Better lying on right side :-

Cinnb.,
Phos.

Better when lying on back :-

Bry.,
Stann.

Or on painful side :-

Ign.

Better when lying on left side :-

Pall.

Better when lying on painful side :-

Bar-c.,
Bry., Calc., Cham., Coloc., Puls.

Better when lying on right side :-

Am-m.,
Bry., Chel., Tarax.

Better when lying on side :-

Nux-v.

Better when lying quiet :-

Sang.

Better while lying upon back :-

Puls.

Better when sitting or lying :-

Verat.

Fainting after rising up from lying :-

Acon.,
Calad.

Fainting when lying on side :-

Lyc.,
Sil.

Fainting with paleness of cheeks, which are red when
lying :-

Acon.,
Lach.

Limbs and joints on which patient is lying feel painful
as if bruised :-

Rhus-t.

Pains come on when lying on back and are relieved by
turning to one or the other side, or by lying on affected side :-

Puls.

Parts on which one is lying go to sleep :-

Rhus-t.

Sensation as if lying on a board :-

(Arn.),
Bapt.

When lying long becomes restless, but change is painful
and it is very difficult to find new position which gives relief :-

Nat-s.

Worse fro lying obliged to sit up in bed even at night
in order to find relief :-

Nat-m.

Worse from lying on back :-

Arg-m.

Worse from lying on painless side :-

Kali-c.

Worse from lying with head low :-

Ars.

Worse lying on back or left side :-

Phos.

Worse lying on left side :-

Chin.,
Cinnb.

Worse lying on right side :-

Acon.,
Cina, Lyc.

Worse lying on painful side :-

Iod.

Worse when lying on back :-

Nux-v.,
Phos.

Worse when lying on left side :-

Acon.,
Lyc., Phos., Puls.

Worse when lying on painful side :-

Bar-c.,
Hep., Iod., Nux-m., Ruta, Sil.

Worse when lying on right side :-

Mag-m.,
Merc.

Worse when lying on side :-

Acon.,
Anac., Calc., Carb-an., Kali-c., Lyc., Stram.

Worse while lying in bed :-

Plb.

Lying down :-

Better after lying down :-

Kali-n.

Better when lying down :-

Bry.,
Calc-p., Canth., Chel., Dig., Ip., Nit-ac., Nux-v., Pall., Phyt., Sabad.,
Spong.

Fainting after lying down :-

Calad.

Vibratory sensation through whole body when lying
down :-

Clem.

Worse after lying down :-

Caust.,
Ign., Ip., Led., Phos., Sulph.

Worse from lying down :-

Anac.,
Cist.

Worse lying down :-

Lith-c.,
Nicc., Rumx.

Worse on rising from lying down :-

Acon.,
(Bry.), (Dig.), (Op.).

Worse while lying down :-

Ant-t.,
Arn., Ars., Aur., Caps., Caust., Cham., Con., Dros., Euphr., Ferr.,
Lachn., Lyc., Meny., Plat., Puls., Rhus-t., Sil.

Especially on left side :-

Puls.

Lymph :-

Exudations after inflammation, with effusion of
lymph :-

Kali-chl.

Lymphatic :-

Swellings :-

Berb.

With suppuration :-

Sil.

Tumors :-

Sec.

Tardy development of bones, with lymphatic
enlargements :-

Calc.

Lymphatic glands :-

Inflammation of lymphatic glands :-

Merc-c.

Painless swelling of lymphatic glands :-

Sep.

Swelling, induration or suppuration of lymphatic
glands, with burning pains :-

Carb-v.

Lymphatic vessels :-

Inflammation of lymphatic vessels :-

Cupr.,
Merc-c.

Lymphatics :-

Red or purple swelling following course of
lymphatics :-

Bufo.

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