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 *****
Rain :-
Worse from getting wet in rain :-
Calc-p.
Rapid :-
Anæmia or chlorosis with too rapid growth :-
Phos.
Emaciation, with great loss of flesh, cold sweat and
debility :-Ars.
Rapidly :-
Pains appear and disappear suddenly, rapidly,
quickly :-(Bell.),
Kali-bi.
Raw :-
Mucous membranes dry, swollen, burning and raw :-
Æsc.
And sore pain in whole body, internally and
externally :-Canth.
Rays :-
Ill-effects from exposure to sun’s rays or to
heat :-Glon.
Reaction :-
Exhaustion with defective reaction :-
Am-c.
Slow :-
(Caps.),
(Carb-v.), Laur.
Tardy reaction after debilitating illness :-
Caps.
Want of :-
Laur.,
Mosch., Op., Sulph.
Want of vital reaction :-
Op.
Reading :-
Aloud or talking produces great exhaustion :-
(Cocc.),
Stram.
Worse from reading :-
Calc.,
Cocc., Nat-m., Sil.
Reappear :-
All pains reappear when thinking about them :-
(Bar-c.),
Ox-ac.
Pains 1st attack one part then reappear in
another :-Kali-bi.
Recovery :-
Great debility after loss of fluids or severe illness,
especially typhus, if patient is hopeless or despairs of recovery :-Psor.
Red :-
Fainting with paleness of cheeks, which are red when
lying :-Acon.,
Lach.
Old cicatrices become red around edges and itch
violently :-Fl-ac.
Or purple swelling following course of
lymphatic :-Bufo.
Scars become blood red or blue and are painful :-
Sul-ac.
Redness :-
Itching, burning and redness of parts, as if
frozen :-Agar.
Pain with thirst and redness of cheeks ; fainting
congestion of blood to head :-Acon.
Scarlet redness of whole body :-
(Bell.),
Croc.
Red parts :-
Become white :-
Bor.,
Ferr., Hell., Merc., Valer.
Anæmia :-
(Ferr.),
Hell.
Reduced :-
Extreme, rapid emaciation ; is reduced almost to a
skeleton :-Phos.
Great emaciation ; weight reduced 70
pounds :-Hydr.
Reflex :-
Irritation during dentition :-
Podo.
Pain :-
Dios.,
(Puls.).
Regular :-
Pains and uneasiness return at regular hours :-
Ars.,
(Cedr.).
Regularity :-
Intermittent neuralgia ; pains return with great
regularity :-Chin-s.
Relapse :-
Easy to relapse during convalescence :-
Calc.
Relaxation :-
Tab.
Complete relaxation and prostration :-
Gels.
Debility, with heaviness and relaxation of body :-
Sabad.
General relaxation with no inclination to do
anything :-Berb.
Great weakness and relaxation of all physical and
mental powers after exertion or after long talking :-Nat-m.
Muscular relaxation and emaciation :-
Lach.
With weakness over whole body :-
Aml-n.
Weakness and complete muscular relaxation ; feels
too weak to stretch out hand or do anything :-Lob.
Relaxed :-
Fibers :-
Caps.
Whole body relaxed and limber in morning :-
Nat-c.
Relief :-
Worse from lying obliged to sit up in bed even at night
in order to find relief :-Nat-m.
Relieved :-
Drawing pains relieved when at rest :-
Bry.,
Sabad.
Intermittent, pulsative or pressive, darting or
lacerating pains from within outward, transferred from different parts and
relieved by touching parts in hysterical patients :-Asaf.
Neuralgic pains causing restlessness, relieved by
motion :-Abrot.
Pains particularly intolerable at night, disappearing
or are relieved when sitting :-Acon.
Pains relieved by warmth :-
Sep.
Rending :-
Jerking rending darting pains :-
Am-m.,
Chin.
Tearing pains :-
Agar.,
Am-m., Aur., Calc., Cann-s., Carb-v., Caust., Cham., Chin., Cocc., Colch.,
Coloc., Dulc., Euphr., Ferr., Hell., Kali-c., Kali-n., Led., Lyc., Merc.,
Mez., Mur-ac., Nit-ac., Nux-v., Ph-ac., Phos., Plb., Puls., Rhus-t.,
Sars., Sec., Sil., Spig., Staph., Stront., Sulph., Valer., Zinc.
In inner parts :-
Bell.,
Con., Lyc., Puls., Sil.
In outer parts :-
Acon.,
Ammc., Bry., Chin., Kali-c., Lyc., Sil., Sulph., Zinc.
Swelling of glands, with rending tearing pains :-
Ferr.
Renewed :-
Pains felt only when touching parts, are renewed
immediately after dinner, in evening after lying down and in morning
immediately after awaking :-Ign.
Repose :-
Better during repose :-
Colch.
Respiration :-
Uneasiness as if from suppressed respiration or in
consequence of a chill :-Acon.
Rest :-
Better during rest :-
Ant-c.,
Cann-i., Cham., Cimic., Sil.
Drawing pains relieved when at rest :-
Bry.,
Sabad.
Drawing pains when at rest :-
Mur-ac.,
Rhod., Rhus-t.
Great prostration ; desire to rest :-
Pic-ac.
Pains characterized by great intensity are worse during
rest and can frequently either be entirely suppressed by rubbing and
pressure or by motion :-Ind.
Pains disappear when walking and return immediately
when at rest :-Stann.
Paralytic weakness and soreness, especially when
sitting and at rest :-(Agar.),
Rhus-t.
Uneasiness of whole body during rest :-
Kreos.
Worse at rest :-
Arn.,
Colch., Dulc., Euph., Ferr., Fl-ac., Hyos., Iris, Kali-i., Kreos., Mag-m.,
Mur-ac., Ph-ac., Plat., Rhod., Rhus-t., Ruta, Sabad., Samb., Senec., Sep.,
Sulph.
Resting :-
Cannot bear pressure on any part ; could not rest
back against chair ; obliged to change position often ; feet
painful from resting on floor :-Bapt.
Restless :-
Constant restless movements of limbs and whole
body :-Stram.
Despairs of being crude and is very restless and
exhausted, and very weak on attempting to move :-Ars.
Cannot keep limbs still at night :-
Spig.
Cannot lie still a minute at night :-
Caust.
Cannot sit still ; must move about or otherwise be
occupied :-Kali-br.
Changing position often ; great anxiety :-
Ars.
Constantly changing position or throwing body to and
fro, forward and backward, especially hands and feet :-Bell.
Constantly wants to change position :-
Tab.
Fidgety ; starts at least noise :-
Sil.
Must walk slowly about :-
Ferr.
Nervous cannot sit still without great effort :-
Nat-ar.
Tossing about :-
And constant uneasiness :-
Cupr.
And moaning in children with sore throat :-
Lach.
Trembling faintness :-
Dios.
Uneasy changing position often :-
Cadm.
Trembling weakness ; languid and restless easily
fatigued :-Gels.
Very anxious ; restless, with forebodings ;
sometimes definite anticipations of time of death ; drawing, tearing
or tingling pains ; symptoms aggravated at night, also by warmth and
motion :-Acon.
Very restless, cannot keep still :-
Eup-per.
Very restless, throws body about :-
(Acon.),
(Ars.), Lachn.
When lying long becomes restless but change is painful
and it is very difficult to find new position which gives relief :-Nat-s.
Restlessness :-
Acon.,
Am-c., Anac., Ars., Asaf., Bapt., Bell., Hyos., Merc., Nux-v., Puls.,
Rhus-t., Sep., Sil., Staph., Stram., Sulph., Valer.
Excessive :-
(Acon.),
Ant-t., (Ars.), (Rhus-t.)
With tossing about shivering and anxiety accompanying
many symptoms :-Acon.
Extreme debility, prostration and restlessness :-
(Ars.),
Sec.
Great agitation and restlessness :-
Coff.
Great restlessness and uneasiness ; must
constantly change position especially at night :-Rhus-t.
Great restlessness ; constantly compelled to
change position :-Nicc.
Nervous restlessness, with rapid emaciation and
constant thirst for small quantities of water :-Ars.
Neuralgic pains, causing restlessness relieved by
motion :-Abrot.
Pulsations in whole body with restlessness delaying
sleep :-Ammc.
And debility :-
Apoc.
With chilliness ; has to move limbs
constantly :-Nat-m.
Tired feeling, with weariness and restlessness in
limbs :-Ind.
Return :-
Complaints return at precisely same hour :-
(Cedr.),
Ign.
Intermittent neuralgia ; pains return with great
regularity :-Chin-s.
Pains and uneasiness return at regular hours :-
Ars.,
(Cedr.).
Pains disappear when walking and return immediately
when at rest :-Stann.
Periodical return of symptoms on alternate days or they
antepone :-Chin-s.
Returning :-
Wandering, aching pains only in small spots, returning
often :-Nux-m.
Rheumatic :-
Catarrhal rheumatic and other complaints, caused by
exposure to damp, cold weather :-Dulc.
Drawing, rheumatic pains in different parts of
body :-Bry.
And arthritic pains :-
Guai.
And gastric affections alternate :-
Kali-bi.
And gouty affections of joints and nerves, accompanied
by slight fever and great debility :-Ind.
Pains :-
All over body :-
Kalm.
1st in left side, then in right :-
Lach.
Wandering pains with lameness :-
Meph.
Spasmodic, rheumatic and paralytic affections :-
Ang.
Rheumatism :-
Tearing cutting wandering pain with rheumatism :-
Acon.
Riding :-
Better when riding in carriage :-
Nit-ac.
Better while riding :-
Graph.
Fainting from riding in carriage :-
Berb.
Worse after riding :-
Graph.
Worse from riding :-
Lyc.
In carriage :-
Iod.,
Nux-m.
Or ship :-
Petr.
Worse from walking or riding :-
Arg-n.
Worse riding in carriage :-
Arg-m.
Right :-
Better lying on right side :-
Am-m.,
Bry., Chel., Cinnb., Phos., Tarax.
Can lie only on right side :-
Phos.
(Reverse :- Merc.)
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.
Side more affected than left :-
Am-c.
Symptoms in sick generally appear 1st on left later on
right side, and from below upwards :-Benz-ac.
Worse lying on right side :-
Acon.,
Cina, Lyc., Mag-m., Merc.
Rigid :-
Body rigid stretched out stiff :-
Hyos.
Followed by spasmodic jerking of arms :-
Ip.
Rigidity :-
Feeling of numbness and rigidity in different parts of
the body :-Plat.
Rigors :-
Chilliness shivers or rigors over back and abdomen or
between shoulders and down back :-Acon.
Ringing :-
Fainting after loss of blood or other animal fluids,
with ringing in ears, cold skin cold perspiration :-Chin.
Rise :-
Giddy fluttering on walking ; must rise or
smother :-Kali-i.
Rising :-
Better on rising :-
Calc.,
Cham.
Body feels heavy and sore when rising from seat :-
Spig.
Bruised pain after rising :-
Carb-v.
Coldness of whole body in morning after rising :-
Lach.
Faint sensation on rising or after mental
exertion :-Calad.
Fainting after rising :-
Too early :-
Kreos.
Up from lying :-
Acon.,
Calad.
Fainting when rising :-
Bry.,
Op.
Greater weariness in morning after rising than in
evening on going to bed :-Nux-v.
Nausea and fainting in morning when getting up or when
rising up in bed or from slightest motion :-Acon.,
Bry.
Worse from rising in bed :-
Iod.
Worse on rising :-
Fl-ac.,
Op., Verat.
From lying down :-
Acon.,
(Bry.), (Dig.), (Op.).
From seat :-
Æth.,
Nit-ac., Phos.
Worse when sitting and after rising :-
Guai.
Rocked :-
Must lie down and close eyes, and sees as if patient is
being rocked :-Calad.
Rocking :-
Child better from fast rocking :-
(Acon.),
Cina.
Rocking chair :-
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.
Rolling :-
Sensation as of ball rolling in internal parts :-
Lach.
Room :-
Better room :-
Nux-m.
Fainting from heat of room :-
Kreos.,
Spig.
Faints on going into room full of company :-
Plb.
Worse in room :-
Plat.
Worse on entering a room from open air :-
Rhus-t.
Ropy :-
Increased secretions from mucous membranes, which are
tenacious and ropy :-Hydr.,
(Kali-bi.).
Roughness :-
Feeling of, in inner parts :-
Carb-v.,
Nux-v., Phos., Sulph.
Rub :-
Extreme sensitiveness, especially in children ;
would like to scratch or rub part, but it is too sensitive :-Coff.
Rubbing :-
Better from rubbing :-
Canth.,
Nat-c., Phos., Plb.
Worse from rubbing :-
Anac.
Run :-
Unusual buoyancy, enabling one to ascend great heights,
or run rapidly without sense of fatigue or loss of breath :-Coca.
Run-down :-
Feels wasted and worn out as if run-down :-
Pic-ac.
Running :-
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.
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