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 *****

Mad :-

Does foolish things ; behaves like one mad :-

Hyos.

Magnetism :-

Susceptible to nervous stimuli, to magnetism :-

Sil.

Malaise :-

Par.,
Psor.

Complete :-

Anthro.

General feeling of discomfort, lassitude and
malaise :-

Card-m.

Drowsiness ; general feeling of distress :-

Still.

Faintness and prostration :-

Eucal.

Weary, drowsy malaise :-

Helon.

Malignant :-

Gangrenous inflammations :-

Sil.

Malnutrition :-

Patient flabby weak and sluggish ; has profuse
sweats and discharges, with cold damp extremities :-

Calc.

Mammæ (See section on Mammæ.) :-

Atrophy of glands, especially testes and mammæ :-

Kali-i.

Marasmus :-

Ars.

Child wrinkles and looks like little dried-up old
man :-

(Arg-n.),
Op.

Meals :-

Worse after meals :-

Nat-c.

Medicine :-

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

Nux-v.

Menses (See section on Menstruation.) :-

Ill-effects from suppression of menses :-

Puls.

Worse during and after menses :-

Graph.

Worse during menses :-

Cimic.,
Hyos.

Menstruation :-

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

Ferr.

Mental (See section on Mind.) :-

Alteration of mental and bodily symptoms :-

Croc.,
Plat.

Bodily and mental lassitude :-

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

Dwarfish defective mental and physical growth :-

Bar-c.

General debility and impaired mental energy with great
drowsiness :-

Corn.

Great languor and disinclination to physical and mental
exertion :-

Aspar.

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

Cocc.,
(Nux-v.)

And physical lassitude and languor :-

Chin.

Dullness and physical depression :-

Am-br.

Nervous and physical weakness :-

Bar-c.

Physical excitement through mental exaltation :-

Coff.

Worse after mental excitement :-

Cist.

Worse from mental activity :-

Phys.

Worse from mental exertion :-

Colch.,
Nux-v., (Sep.)

Mesmerized :-

Debility ; patients want to be mesmerized ;
they are starving without vital energy :-

Calc-p.

Metastasis :-

Internal organs :-

Colch.

Midnight :-

Better at night, before midnight :-

Ars.,
Cann-s., Dros., Ferr., Kali-c., Kali-n., Mag-c.

Worse after midnight and during day :-

Anac.

Worse at night before midnight :-

Ant-t.,
Cact., Carb-v., Led., Lyc., Mur-ac., Puls., Ran-s., Sabad., Spong.

Worse in morning or from evening till midnight :-

Anac.

Milk :-

Intolerance of :-

Æth.

Worse from milk :-

(Æth.),
Calc.

Mind (See section on Mind.) :-

Any attempt of brain-workers to use mind brings on
headache :-

Pic-ac.

Better from exertion of mind :-

Croc.,
Nit-ac.

Great weakness of mind and body in old people :-

Bar-c.

Lethargy and listlessness, with utter dejection of
mind :-

Am-c.

Worse from exertion of mind :-

Calc.,
Ign., Nux-v., Sep.

Misers :-

Old misers, with wrinkled faces :-

Lyc.

Moaning :-

And lamenting from pains :-

Cham.

Restless tossing about and moaning in children with
sore throat :-

Lach.

Moist :-

Takes cold easily from exposure, but especially in warm
moist air :-

Ham.

Worse from warm moist or south wind :-

Ip.

Moon :-

Worse about new moon :-

(Caust.),
Sil.

Worse during full moon :-

Alum.,
Graph., Kali-n., Sabad., Sulph.

Worse during new moon :-

Alum.,
Am-c., Calc., Caust., Cupr., Daph., Sep., Sil.

Worse near or during full moon :-

Calc.

Worse when moon is decreasing :-

Alum.,
Dulc., Thuj.

Morbid :-

Sensitiveness of all nerves, with morbid sensation of
general weakness :-

Chin.

Morning :-

Bloating of body in morning :-

Nat-c.

Coldness of whole body in morning after rising :-

Lach.

Faint anxious and weak ; pale in morning :-

Ars.

Feeling of discomfort in whole body in morning after
rising disappearing on moving about :-

Puls.

Great debility and lassitude when walking in
morning :-

Chel.

Great languor especially in morning :-

Ambr.

Great physical and mental exhaustion in morning :-

Lach.

Great weakness and prostration especially in
morning :-

Ph-ac.

Greater weariness in morning after rising than in
evening on going to bed :-

Nux-v.

Inclination to stretch in morning :-

Calc.

Nausea and fainting in morning when getting up, or when
rising up in bed, or from slightest motion :-

(Acon.),
Bry.

Sick and faint in morning in bed :-

Con.

Stiffness in morning :-

Am-c.

Time of action :-

Fl-ac.

Whole body relaxed and limber in morning :-

Nat-c.

Worse in morning :-

Acon.,
Am-m., Ang., Ant-c., Bry., Calc., Chel., Croc., Dros., Eup-per., Guai.,
Ip., Kali-n., Meny., Nat-m., Nux-v., Phos., Ran-b., Squil., Valer., Verat.

From 4 to 10 o’clock :-

Abrot.

Or from evening till midnight :-

Anac.

Motion :-

Aimless hurry and desire to be constantly in
motion :-

Lil-t.

Better during motion in open air :-

Gamb.

Better from continued motion :-

Iris.

Better from motion :-

Agar.,
Ars., Brom., Calad., Fl-ac., Kali-i., Kreos., Mag-m., Nat-c., Nat-s.,
Plat., Ruta, Samb., Sulph.

Especially walking :-

Con.

Better from pressure, touch or motion :-

Arn.

Cannot bear a downward motion as in swing, rocking
chair or running down stairs ; even seen water running or pendulum of
clock moving causes dizziness :-

Bor.

Circulation excited by every motion of body :-

Nat-m.

Feeling as if all joints were broken, swelled, or
dislocated at every motion :-

Par.

Laziness and dread of motion :-

Nux-v.

Loss of voluntary motion and of senses :-

Stram.

Nausea and fainting in morning when getting up or when
rising up in bed or from slightest motion :-

(Acon.),
Bry.

Neuralgic pains, causing restlessness relieved by
motion :-

Abrot.

Paralytic pains in all joints during motion as if
bruised :-

Arn.

Pains characterized by great intensity are worse during
rest and can frequently either be entirely suppressed by rubbing and
pressure or by motion :-

Ind.

Sensitiveness of whole body :-

Plat.

Ant of all joints on motion ; bruised pain over
whole body :-

Arn.

Shuns all motion and dreads exercise :-

Caps.

Slight motion causes palpitation of heart and
sweat :-

Nit-ac.

Slightest motion after a fall extorts cries :-

Hyper.

Stiffness in different parts on motion and on
touch :-

Bry.

Trembling ; weakness on motion :-

Anac.

Very anxious ; restless, with forebodings ;
sometimes definite anticipation of time of death ; drawing, tearing
or tingling pains ; symptoms aggravated at night, also by warmth and
motion :-

Acon.

Worse from motion :-

Æsc.,
Aloe, Alum., Apoc., Bry., Calc-p., Camph., Cann-s., Chel., Cimic., Cist.,
Cocc., Coff., Colch., Euphr., Ferr., Glon., Led., Merc-c., Mez., Mosch.,
Nat-m., Nux-v., Pall., Par., Phyt., Ran-b., Sabin., Sang., Sec., Sil.,
Spig., Stann., Still., Verat.

And exertion :-

Pall.

Only pains in joints not pains in other part of
body :-

Led.

Mountain :-

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

Coca.

Mouse :-

Sensation of creeping like mouse :-

Alum.,
Laur., Nux-v.

In limbs :-

Calc.,
Sulph.

Move :-

Better after commencing to move :-

Rhus-t.

Burdensome to move even a limb :-

Cycl.

Despairs of being cured and is very restless and
exhausted, and very weak on attempting to move :-

Ars.

Paralytic weakness of beginning to move :-

Euph.

Worse on beginning to move :-

Caps.,
Con., Euphr., Ferr., Lyc., Puls., Rhus-t.

Movement :-

Worse from movement :-

Ox-ac.

Worse on movement :-

Bell.,
Berb., Bry.

Movements :-

Constant restless movements of limbs and whole
body :-

Stram.

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

Arn.

Tremulous :-

Cic.

Moving :-

Better from moving :-

Dulc.

Bruised pain when moving :-

Ign.

Cannot bear a downward motion as in swing, rocking
chair or running down stairs ; even seeing water running or pendulum
of clock moving causes dizziness :-

Bor.

Great debility, lassitude and trembling while standing
up and without moving :-

Merc-c.

Jumping or moving like something alive in different
parts :-

Croc.,
Mosch.

Wants to be continually moving about :-

Helon.

Worse when moving :-

Kalm.

Mucous membrane :-

Catarrh of mucous membrane especially stomach :-

Abies-c.

Discharges from mucous membrane of touch stringy
mucus :-

Kali-bi.

Dryness and erosions of mucous membrane :-

Nat-m.

Dryness and inflammation of mucous membrane :-

Calad.

Dryness, with burning of mucous membrane :-

Ter.

Excoriation of mucous membrane :-

(Hydr.),
Kreos.

Follicular ulceration of mucous membrane :-

Kali-chl.

Increased secretions from glands and mucous
membrane :-

Iris.

Increased secretions of mucous membrane :-

Arg-m.,
Canth., Petr., Phos.

Increased secretions from mucous membrane, which are
tenacious and ropy :-

Hydr.,
(Kali-bi.).

Inflammation and increased secretion of mucous
membrane :-

Agn.,
All-c.

Inflammation deterioration, and sometimes gangrene of
mucous membrane :-

Agar.

Irritating inflammation and excessive secretion from
mucous membrane :-

Acet-ac.,
(Ars.), (Ferr.), (Iod.), (Nat-m.), (Phos.).

Irritation and inflammation of mucous membrane :-

Caps.

Irritation of mucous membrane :-

Apis.

Mucous membrane dry swollen, burning and raw :-

Æsc.

Mucous membrane loaded with mucus, causing defective
digestion :-

Ant-c.

Profuse flow of watery serum from mucous
membrane :-

Elat.

Secretions from mucous greatly increased :-

Am-m.

Ulceration of mucous membrane :-

Kali-i.

With tendency to putrescence :-

Bapt.

Mucus :-

Discharges from mucous membranes of touch stringy
mucus :-

Kali-bi.

Mucous membranes loaded with mucus causing defective
digestion :-

Ant-c.

Muscles :-

Feeling a if muscles were too short :-

Bov.

Increased ability to exercise muscles without
fatigue :-

(Coca),
Fl-ac.

Involuntary spasmodic alternate extension and
contraction of muscles :-

Lyc.

Jumping of muscles in different parts of body :-

Agar.

Soft and flabby :-

Calc.

Pains where tendons are connected with muscles or
bones, especially during action of muscles :-

Rhus-r.

Pricking or stinging in veins muscles or skin :-

Ham.

Spasmodic contractions of almost all muscles with
feeling as if would go crazy if did not hold tightly upon self (associated
with diseases of uterus.) :-

Lil-t.

Trembling and twitching of muscles and sensation of
constriction in different parts :-

Cact.

Twitching and trembling of muscles over whole
body :-

Kali-n.

Twitching of muscles in different parts of body :-

Ant-c.

Muscular :-

Involuntary, spasmodic, muscular contraction :-

Tab.

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

Ferr.

Pains in muscular portions of body ; composed of
pressure and bruised feeling :-

Verat.

Music :-

Lively music causes weeping :-

Kreos.,
Nat-s., Thuj.

Causes trembling :-

Nat-c.

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

Nux-v.

Worse from music :-

Nat-c.,
Ph-ac., Sep.

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