Condensed Materia Medica.
By Constantine Hering.
Presented by .
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* [48]► Forgetfulness ; dim recollection of recent events.
► Weakness in the head, can scarcely think.
► Slow in thought.
► Dread of work.
► Hates work.
► Mood : changeable ; sad, with thoughts of death ;
sad and weeping ; forlorn ; depressed ; dejected.
► Full of fear in the morning.
► Solicitude concerning spiritual welfare.
► Great anxiety.
► Much inclined to grief.
► Hesitates at trifles.
► Timidity.
► Fretful.
► Ill humored.
► Easily vexed.
► Irritable.
► Child impudent, teasing, laughs at reprimands.
► Fidgety while sitting at work.
► Scientific labor fatigues him.
► Thoughts of many things at night prevent sleep.
► Ailments from grief.
► Attacks of dizziness, with inclination to fall forward ;
feels as if drunken when rising from bed in the morning.
► Dulness of the head.
► Rush of blood, with feeling of heat in the head.
► Vertigo ; on looking upwards, in the morning on awaking ;
in the evening, was obliged to lie down ; during and after stooping,
with inclination to fall forward ; venous stagnation.
► Frequently feels faint, with partial loss of senses.
► Desolate, empty feeling in the head.
► Beclouded feeling in the forehead.
► Forehead : pressure deep in ; drawing ;
tearing ; bursting.
► Stinging or stitching pains in the temples.
► Throbbing in the sides of the head.
► Pressive pain : in the vertex ; in the occiput.
► Tearing pain in one side of head, in teeth and glands of throat.
► Pain as if constricted with a cord, particularly in occiput.
► Pain from left temple down the side of the face to the shoulder ;
face distorted ; left corner of mouth drawn inward and downward.
► Lancinating pain in right temple.
► Violent headache, with nausea, during the menses.
► Scalp feels bruised.
► Sensation as if the skin of forehead were drawn into folds.
► Coldness of the scalp.
► Burning on the vertex in a small spot.
► Sweat on the head when walking in the open air.
► Itching on the scalp.
► Eczema capitis, of entire scalp, forming massive, dirty crusts,
which mat the hair together ; scabs sore to touch.
► Bald places on the head perfectly smooth and shining.
► Circumscribed bald spot on front of head covered with herpes.
► Porrigo decalvans.
► Hair falls out, even on the sides of the head.
► Intolerance of light ; with redness of the white
of the eye ; hyperæsthesia of eyes, with the vertigo.
► Shunning daylight usually more than gaslight ; photophobia.
► Light dazzles the eyes ; sunlight causing lancinating pains
in the eyes.
► Shortsightedness.
► Letters : appear double when writing ; run together when
reading ; sees fiery zigzags around the outside of the field of
vision, in the evening, with the eye open.
► Flickering before the eyes.
► Sees as through a mist ; everything turns black before the
eyes when stooping.
► Tiredness of the eyes.
► Pressing pain in the eyes, morning and evening.
► Drawing, extending from the eye up into the head.
► Stitches from the temple through the eye to inner canthus, on
looking at anything white or red, or at the sun.
► Smarting in the eyes, with heat in them.
► Burning and aching in eyes ; burning pain around the eyes.
► Ulcer on the cornea, with a few small vessels running into it ;
with moist fissured eczematous eruptions.
► Pustules on the cornea and conjunctiva, with much lachrymation.
► Pustule on the cornea, or reddish appearance, with white halo
around it ; the corners of lids raw and bleed easily.
► Arthritic ophthalmia, with contraction and irregularity of the
pupils.
► Lachrymation in the open air ; also chronic.
► Thin, acrid discharge from the eyes ; pus-like discharge from
the eyes.
► Internal canthus : itching ; burning ; stitches ;
sore.
► External canthus ; sore and fissured ; fissured and
bleed easily.
► Heat in the eyes and some pus in the canthi.
► Swelling of the eyelids and lachrymal gland.
► Heaviness of the eyelids ; cannot open his eyes.
► Lids : feel dry, rough with itching ; edges inflamed or
covered with scurf ; agglutinated night and morning ; œdematous.
► Left lower lid hangs down.
► Inverted lids (margins) ; wild hairs.
► Styes on lower lid, with drawing pain -may prevent return.
► On both eyes hordeola and chalazion in all stages, also wens.
► Coldness over the eyes.
► Twitchings beneath the eyes.
► Music makes her weep.
► Reverberations in the ear, even his own words and every step.
► Hissing ; ringing ; rushing ; roaring ;
cracking ; or clucking sounds in the ears.
► Violent nocturnal roaring, ears feel stuffed at times (during the
full moon).
► Sounds as of rolling thunder before the ears.
► Cracking in the ear : when eating in the evening ; on
moving the jaw, but only in the morning while lying in bed ; when
sneezing.
► Snapping as if a skin were before the ears.
► At every step feels as if a valve in right ear opened and closed.
► Loss of hearing, with dryness of the ears.
► Acute pressure in the inner ear, like otalgia.
► Stitches in the ears.
► Distended capillaries on the membrane of right drum.
► Both tympana covered with a white
coating, but not perforated.
► Lining membrane of meatus red and excoriated.
► Thin, watery, offensive discharge from both ears.
► Gluey, sticky discharge at the external meatus.
► Pus runs out of the ear.
► Bad odor from the ear.
► Copper-colored nodes on the ears.
► Swelling of both ears, with moist eruption behind the ears.
► Eczema impetigenoides ; began as a moisture behind the left
ear, thence spread over the cheeks and neck.
► Behind the ears : fissures ; scabs.
► Sense of smell too acute ; cannot bear the smell
of flowers.
► Smell from the nose as from burned hair.
► Loss of smell : with dryness of nose ; with coryza.
► Nosebleed : in the evening, the afternoon preceding rush of
blood to the head and heat of the face ; at night ; in the
morning ; with running coryza.
► Bloody mucous discharge from the nose.
► Frequent discharge of thick yellowish, fetid mucus from the nose.
► Purulent, fetid secretion.
► Dryness of the nose.
► Sneezing : on opening the eyes ; either with dryness of
nose or running coryza.
► Stoppage of the nose, with secretion of tough badly-smelling
mucus.
► Coryza on getting cold.
► Excoriation of the nose.
► Mucus often forms hard masses or crusts, in coryza.
► Dry scabs in the nose, with sore, cracked and ulcerated nostrils.
► Swelling of the nose.
► Red nose, with black pores.
► Face : pale and haggard ; pale and bloated ;
chlorotic ; flushed.
► Erysipelas : of both sides of the face, with burning-stinging
pain ; of the cheeks, preceded by alternating chills and heat ;
of left cheek, after mal-application of Iodum
for sore of inner nose ; of face, from the smell of wood ;
commencing on right side and going to left.
► Hemiplegia facialis (several cases).
► Humid pimples on the face.
► Moist eczema on the face.
► Rhagades on the cheek, running like radii toward the corners of
the mouth ; an infiltrated spot on the cheek, is covered with dry
scales.
► Scabs on the face, skin dry, constipated large stools.
► Freckles.
► Hair of the whiskers or beard falls out.
► Painful nodules on the lower jaw.
► Upper lip : twitching ; stinging ; swollen ;
painful pimples.
► Corners of mouth ulcerated.
► Heaviness in the lower lip.
► Formication in the lips during the menses.
► Lips chapped.
► Swelling of the submaxillary glands painful to touch.
► Pressing pain in the teeth, worse from touch or biting.
► Drawing pain in the molars while walking in the wind.
► Tearing pain, worse by warmth ; renewed by going to bed.
► Stinging toothache after cold drink.
► Toothache, worse at night.
► Painful soreness on the inner side of the gums.
► Swelling of the gums and dryness of the mouth.
► Taste : sour ; salty ; bitter ;
like rotten eggs.
► Tongue sensitive.
► Tongue coated white.
► Whitish, painful ulcer on lower surface of the tongue.
► Rotten odor from the mouth and gums.
► Acid, foul odor.
► Breath smells like urine.
► Saliva increased, much spitting.
► Dryness of the mouth in the morning.
► Palate : feels sore ; and fauces somewhat
reddened.
► Violent catarrh of the fauces, with sensation as if tough food had
to pass over a lump in the throat.
► Constant cramp in the throat causing him to retch, as if the food
would not go down.
► Nightly pains in the throat, like a plug.
► Ulcerative pain in the throat.
► Roughness and rawness in the throat.
► Hawking of phlegm.
► Throat seems full of gurgling mucus.
► Appetite : good ; excessive hunger, or no
appetite with much thirst, or with fulness of the abdomen.
► Desire for drink, without thirst.
► Aversion to : meat ; fish ; cooked food ;
salt.
► Worse when hungry.
► Must eat : 17, 26. After
eating : 17, 19, 40 ;
dinner : 37 ; boiled meat : 17.
After drinking : 40. Drinking warm milk : 17.
Cold drink : 10, 17.
► Hiccough after either one or all meals.
► Eructations : sour ; tasting of the food eaten ;
relieve the pressure in the stomach.
► Rancid heart-burn after dinner.
► Qualmishness : mornings and several hours after dinner.
► Nausea : and vertigo ; and sweat, with anxiety ;
like faintness, prevents sleep ; with spasm in the throat ; with
eructation ; with headache ; with inclination to vomit ;
and sour vomiting ; in the morning ; after eating.
► Vomiting : sour ; of food.
► Vomiting, purging, and icy-cold sweat, with headache.
► Sickening, painful feeling at the pit of stomach.
► Pressure in the pit of stomach, night and morning.
► Binding, constricting pain in gastric region.
► Sensation of lump in the stomach, with constant beating, as of two
hammers.
► Pain in stomach : necessitates eating ; better from warm
milk, worse from boiled meat, worse from cold drink.
► Nightly pinching pain in the stomach, and rooting pain in the
chest.
► Griping in the stomach, with flatulency.
► Fulness in the stomach and abdomen.
► Periodical gastralgia, with vomiting of the food immediately after
eating.
► Chronic gastritis with thirst, especially after the abuse of
alcoholic drinks.
► Chronic catarrh of stomach, with frequent eructations.
► Stitches in the right hypochondrium.
► Hardness in region of the liver.
► Stitches in the left hypochondrium.
► Burning in the left hypochondrium, internally, worse when lying on
it.
► Cannot bear tight clothing around the hypochondria.
► Cutting, bearing down pains in the hypochondria and hips.
► Cramp in the lower abdomen.
► Colic : immediately after eating.
► Griping, digging pains in the abdomen.
► Pain in the belly, in the left side, when lying on the right, and
vice versa.
► Pain below the navel, as if the intestines were torn.
► Stitches in the left side of the abdomen.
► Burning pains radiating through abdomen, in gastralgia.
► Abdomen distended, hard.
► Accumulation of serum in the abdominal cavity.
► Œdema of external abdomen.
► Itching of the abdomen.
► Large blisters on raised base, from navel to spine.
► Rumbling in the abdomen.
► Incarcerated flatus.
► Pain in the inguinal regions.
► Painful pressing toward the groin and anus.
► Herpetic eruption in the groins.
► Glandular swelling in the groins.
► Excessive discharge of flatus.
► Stools : rarely diarrhœic and then usually painless ;
purging and vomiting, with icy-cold sweat ; knotty, the lumps being
united by mucous threads ; sour-smelling ; thin, scalding, light
brown ; brown fluid, mixed with undigested substances, and very fetid ;
hard, lumpy, with blood and slime.
► Constipation : large, knotty feces ; chronic, with
hardness in region of liver ; with dryness of mucous membrane of
rectum and fissure of the anus.
► After stool there is some mucus remaining about the anus.
► Tapeworm.
► Fissura ani ; severe, sharp, cutting pain during stool,
followed by constriction and aching for several hours, worse at night.
► Protrusion of rectum, without urging to stool, as if
the anus were lame.
► Large hemorrhoidal tumors.
► Hemorrhoids, with pain on sitting down, or on taking a wide step,
as if split with a knife, also violent itching, and very sore to touch.
► Hemorrhoids of the rectum, with burning rhagades at the anus.
► Urging to urinate, with scanty discharge.
► Frequent urination at night.
► Urine : dark brown ; becomes turbid and deposits a white
or reddish sediment ; smells sour.
► Stitches or smarting in the urethra when urinating.
► Pain in the os coccygis while urinating.
► Uncontrollable sexual excitement ; violent
erections.
► Impotence, with dislike to coition.
► Want of proper sensation during coition.
► Almost involuntary emission, without erection.
► Nocturnal emissions, with flaccid penis.
► Dropsical swelling of the prepuce and scrotum.
► Hydrocele (left side), with herpetic eruption on scrotum.
► Great aversion to coitus.
► Tumor, size of an orange, right iliac fossa, also similar one in
left ; both hard, round, slightly movable, not painful to pressure,
not producing inconvenience from weight.
► Pains from left ovary through pelvis and down the thigh.
► Os uteri standing backwards, can only be reached with difficulty.
► Pain in the uterus when reaching high with the arms.
► Bearing down pain in the uterus to the back, with weakness and
sickness.
► Painful pressure towards the pudenda.
► Menses : too scanty and too pale ; too late, with
violent colic ; blood sometimes dark.
► During the menses : heat in abdomen ; urging, pressing
like labor-pains ; hoarseness ; lassitude and weakness.
► Copious leucorrhœa, before and after the menses.
► Profuse leucorrhœa, perfectly white, especially on rising from
the bed in the morning weakness of the back when walking or sitting.
► Leucorrhœal discharges occur in gushes
day or night.
► Vesicles or excoriations in the vagina.
► Vagina cold.
► Œdema of the pudenda.
► Excoriations in perineum, vulva and between thighs.
► Tendency to obesity.
► Nipples painful.
► Cancer of the mammæ, from old cicatrices, which had remained
after repeated abscesses.
► Hard cicatrices remaining after mammary
abscess.► Voice : not clear, in singing ; hoarseness in
the evening ; chronic hoarseness.
► Laryngeal region sensitive to touch.
► Soreness and roughness of larynx and tickling cough.
► Respiration has dry sound.
► Constriction of chest, as if about to suffocate, when falling
asleep.
► Suffocative attacks waken from sleep, generally after midnight,
has to jump out of bed, take hold of something, and must eat something.
► Cough : caused by deep inspiration ; with
strangling, red face, watery eyes, straining all over ; loose, from
tickling deep in the chest ; at night.
► Expectoration : salty ; day and evening.
► Cramps of the chest.
► Pains in the chest.
► Pain in the middle of the chest, with cough, scraping, rawness and
soreness.
► Stitching pains in the chest.
► Region of heart : constriction ; pressure ;
stitches.
► Sensation like an electric shock, from heart toward front of neck.
► Strong pulsation of the blood in the whole body, but especially
about the heart, increased by every motion.
► Palpitation of the heart : with anxiety ; with
nosebleed.
► Pulse full and hard, somewhat accelerated in the morning slow
during day and evening.
► Stinging in fleshy part of chest.
► Pimples on the chest.
► Pain in nape of neck.
► Stiffness of back of neck ; also, with headache.
► Seventh cervical vertebra sensitive, with burning pain ; anæmia.
► Eruption on the nape, dry, peeling in fine, mealy scales, without
itching.
► Unpainful swollen glands on side of neck.
► Contracting pains in the back.
► Weakness in back and loins on walking.
► Sacral pains, with sensation of crawling and stitching.
► Small of back aches, as if bruised or broken.
► Numb pain, from the sacrum down the legs.
► Pain in the os coccygis while urinating.
► Shoulder and neck painful.
► Rheumatic or burning pains especially in left shoulder.
► Burning pressure beneath the armpit.
► Jerking in the arms.
► Arms feel “asleep”.
► Right upper arm sore, tender and swollen.
► Herpes circinatus hard to the touch and wrinkled looking, itching
terribly, in bend of the elbow.
► Left hand becomes numb and like dead, with formication extending
up the arm.
► Cramp in the hand.
► Horny callosities in the hands.
► Pain in the thumb-joint, as if sprained.
► Gouty swelling of the fingers.
► Raw, moist places between the fingers.
► Finger-nails thick, exfoliate, or black and rough, matrix
inflamed, with soreness, throbbing and numbness ; no suppuration.
► Excoriation between the legs.
► Tearing, or bruised pains in the thighs.
► Numbness of the thighs.
► Stiff feeling in hollow of knee, as if tendons were too short.
► Bruised pain in the knees.
► Tetters in the hollow of the knees.
► Cramp in the calves.
► Restlessness in the legs.
► Heaviness of the legs.
► Great œdema of the limbs, chiefly the lower, which are very
large, with profuse, constant watery exudation from the skin below the
knees, epidermis exfoliated.
► Ulcers on lower limbs, with acrid pus, dryness of skin and
constipation.
► Stitches in the heel, when putting it down.
► Weakness of feet, cannot walk.
► Callous ulcers of the feet.
► Stiffness and contraction of the toes.
► Gouty tearing in the toes.
► Ulcers ; or spreading blisters on the toes.
► Thick and crippled toe-nails.
► Drawing pains in the limbs.
► Tearing : in the feet and hands ; in all the limbs.
► Startings of the hands and feet.
► Heaviness in limbs.
► Limbs go “to sleep”.
► Hands and feet : either hot or cold.
► Stiffness on first beginning to move.
► Motion : 29, 40. Stepping :
20, 33. Walking : 31.
Walking in open air : 4 ; in the wind : 10.
Rising from bed : 23. Must jump from bed : 26.
Sitting : 1, 20. Stooping : 2,
5. Must lie down : 2, 27.
Lying : 19. Lying in bed : 6.
Lying on affected side : 18. Reaching high : 23.
► Cataleptic condition, conscious, but without power to
move or speak.
► Tremulous sensation through the whole body.
► Tired feeling.
► Lassitude.
► Weakness.
► Exhaustion.
► Prostration.
► Constant yawning.
► Excessively tired and sleepy.
► Sleepiness : during the day, must lie down ; after
dinner.
► Light slumber at night.
► Wandering fancies at night.
► Nightly pains felt in sleep.
► Cannot go to sleep till late.
► Sleeplessness.
► Starting in sleep.
► Dreams : vivid ; anxious ; frightening ;
horrible ; vexatious.
► Morning : 1, 2, 5,
6, 7, 12, 16,
17, 23, 29, 40.
Afternoon : 7, 16. Evening : 2,
5, 6, 7, 25,
33, 40. Night : 1,
5, 7, 10, 13,
17, 20, 21, 22,
27, 37, 40. After
midnight : 26. Day : 37. Day
or night : 23. Day and evening : 27,
29.
► Takes cold easily.
► Warmth : 10. In bed : 33.
Open air : 4, 5, 40.
► Chilliness in the morning, in bed.
► Chill and chilliness, most in the evening.
► Chill worse after meals, better after drinking, better in open
air.
► Heat evening and night ; also, with restlessness.
► Sweats from the slightest motion.
► Profuse night-sweat.
► Sweat, often on front of body only.
► Sweat stains yellow, is sour and offensive smelling, and
frequently cold.
► Entire inability to sweat.
► Full moon : 6.
► Right : 3, 6, 18,
19, 32. Left : 3,
5, 6, 8, 18,
19, 22, 32, 33.
Right to left : 8, 23.
► Great sensitiveness of internal parts.
► Cramp-like sensations of various parts.
► Numbness of various parts.
► Burning pain in an old cicatrix.
► Emaciation of suffering parts.
► Swelling and induration of the glands.
► Œdematous complaints.
► Touch : 9, 10, 20,
25, 32. Pressure : 18,
23.
► Itching over various parts of body.
► Violent itching and burning, with eruptions.
► Eczema, with profuse serous exudations, in blondes inclined to
obesity ; also alternating with internal affections.
► Itching blotches on various parts of the body, from which oozes a
watery, sticky fluid.
► Skin is not inclined to heal, ulcerates readily.
► Old ulcers, with fetid pus, proud flesh, itching, stinging.
► Old scars from ulcers.
► Skin dry, inclined to crack.
► See : 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 19,
20, 22, 23, 30,
31, 32, 33.
► Complementary : Arsen.,
Caustic., Ferrum, Hepar.
► Graphit. is antidoted by Acon.
(for the cough), Arsen. (for the
grief), Nux vom.
► Graphit. antidotes : Arsen.,
Iodum, Rhus tox.
► Graphit. follows well after Lycop.
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