Ears – Ears – Chapter 6 – REPERTORY OF HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.

Main

Caries, with :-

AUR.,
Calc., Calc-f.,
Nat-m., SIL.

Catarrhal :-

Irritating :-

Hydr.

With scrofulous
inflammation of eyes :-

Merc-d.

In scrofulous
children :-

Merc-d.

Chlorosis, in :-

Puls.

Cold, after, or as a
sequel to scarlet fever, measles, etc. :-

Puls.

Copious :-

Fl-ac.

In otitis media :-

Puls.

With rash :-

Lach.

Curdy :-

SIL.

Constant, watery,
curdy, ichorous, with pain after a fresh cold :-

Sil.

Diphtheria,
after :-

Sulph.

Dirty,
offensive :-

Sulph.

Exanthema, especially
after :-

Meny.

Excoriating :-

Calc-p.

Fetid :-

Bov.,
Carb-ac.,
Carb-v., Caust., Chin., Hydr., LYC.,
Meph., Nit-ac.,
Ol-j., PSOR.,
Sal-ac.,
SIL.

Caries of ossicula,
after scarlatina, with :-

AUR.

Corroding, thin :-

Sulph.

Glandular swelling,
with :-

Bar-m.

Like fish pickle,
causing vesicles :-

TELL.

Meningitis, in :-

Thuj.

Profuse, of a
penetrating odor, causing eruption, objects to having ears
washed :-

SULPH.

Profuse from right,
with deafness and ringing in ears

(since
measles 22 years ago) :-
Merc.

Right, from, with
deafness

(chronic
otorrhœa) :- Elaps.

Rotten, horribly
offensive, as if :-

PSOR.

Rotten cheese,
like :-

Bar-m.

Standing, of 4
years :-

Kali-s.

Syphilis, in :-

Merc.

Thick, dark :-

Puls.

Vulvæ, in
pruritus :-

Calc.

Filled with whitish,
pappy, fetid pus, or viscid discharge

(scrofulous) :-
Calc.

Flesh-colored
fluid :-

Carb-v.

Green :-

Hep.

Odorless :-

Lac-c.

Leaving, spot on
bed-linen, slight :-

Elaps.

Goitre, with :-

Calc.

Headache, with :-

PSOR.

Hemicrania,
after :-

Absin.

Ichorous :-

Carb-an.,
LYC.,
Nit-ac., PSOR.

Ichorous, profuse,
cadaverous smelling :-

Ars.

Itching, with
great :-

Crot-t.

Keratitis, in,
pustulosa :-

Sulph.

Left, from :-

Ferr.

Mattery :-

Kali-s.,
Merc.

Mattery, from
left :-

Ars.,
Gels.

Matter, thin :-

Sep.

Measles, after :-

Cact.,
Carb-v., Colch.,
Crot-h., Lyc.,
Meny., Nit-ac.,
Puls., Sulph.

Mercury, after abuse
of :-

Aur.,
HEP.,
Nit-ac., Sil.

Moisture :-

Graph.,
Merc.

Offensive :-

Zinc.

Behind :-

GRAPH.,
Petr.

Mucus :-

Of bloody

(suppuration
of middle ear) :-
SIL.

More, than pus :-

KALI-BI.

Of thick white :-

Kali-m.

Slimy, yellowish,
of :-

Kali-m.

Nose, with soreness of
inner, and crusts on upper lip, after abuse of mercury :-

SIL.

Periodic, after
scarlatina :-

PSOR.,
Sulph.

Periodical, every 7th
day :-

Sulph.

Purulent :-

All-c.,
Alumn., Am-c., Anan.,
Arund., Asaf.,
Bar-m., Bor.,
Bufo, Carb-v.,
Chin., Graph., HEP.,
Kali-bi., LYC.,
MERC., Nat-m.,
Nit-ac., PSOR.,
Puls., Sal-ac.,
Sil.,
Sulph.

Pus and blood :-

Tell.

Pus, bloody, canal
filled with white, cheesy, surrounding skin scurfy, irritated,
better by hot application, cannot bear cold :-

Hep.

Purulent :-

Fetid :-

Bov.,
Cist., Hep.,
Merc-c., Psor., Zinc.

Green, fetid :-

Merc.

Irritating :-

Hydr.

From left, day and
night :-

Zinc.

Muco-purulent, from
right, glands enlarged

(eczema ;
scrofula ; goitre) :-
CALC.

Muco-purulent

(suppuration
of middle ear) :-
Calc.

Profuse, fetid :-

Sulph.

Fetid, with deafness
after scarlatina :-

Tell.

Fetid, itching :-

Merc.

Fetid, worse in
left :-

Sulph.

Fetid, after scarlatina
or abuse of mercury :-

Asaf.

Profuse :-

Bar-m.

Watery

(chronic
inflammation of eyes, and otorrhœa after vaccination) :-
Thuj.

Muco-purulent,
yellowish white, fetid, after measles 22 years ago :-

Merc.

Yellow liquid :-

Kali-c.

Scarlatina,
after :-

Asaf.,
Bar-m.,
Bell., Colch.,
Crot-h., Graph.,
Hep.,
Kali-bi., LYC.,
Merc., Nit-ac.,
PSOR.,
Puls.

Constant offensive,
sour-smelling, stench could not be removed by washing or
syringing :-

Sulph.

Scrofulous :-

Ant-c.,
Bar-m., Iod.,
SIL.

Serum, oozing of,
behind

(eczema) :-
Olnd.

Sticky :-

Graph.

Thin, yellow, after
inflammation :-

Kali-s.

Suppressed, effects
of :-

Elaps.,
PULS.,
Sulph., Zinc.

Thick :-

Hydr.

Thick, mucous :-

Hydr.

Thick, white, bloody,
fetid, from left :-

Ery-a.

Thin :-

PSOR.

Thin, fetid

(after
scarlatina or abuse of mercury) :-
Asaf.

Thin, watery, constant,
sometimes ichorous and curdy, from right, after scarlatina :-

Sil.

Vaccination,
after :-

Sil.,
Sulph., Thuj.

Warmth, worse
by :-

Merc.

Watery :-

Cist.,
Elaps., Kali-s., SIL.

Acrid, copious, from
left, after aching and throbbing in meatus :-

Tell.

Acrid, small,
occasionally

(ozæna) :-
Syph.

Excoriating :-

Tell.

1st left then
right :-

Merc.

Fetid, with deafness
after scarlatina :-

Graph.

Smelling like fish
pickle, causing vesicles wherever it touches :-

TELL.

Purulent, with
pain :-

Syph.

Trickling :-

Calc.

Yellow, after
suppression of measles :-

Puls.

Transparent, yellowish,
constantly oozed from meatus, which was obstructed by amber-like
crusts, discharge offensive, sometimes putrid, generally musty smell
like fish brine, pustules wherever discharge touched abraded surface
of ear or face :-

Tell.

Yellow :-

Elaps.

Bright, thick, very
offensive from right

(diphtheria,
chronic otorrhœa) :-
Lyc.

From left in chronic
diarrhœa :-

Nat-s.

Chronic, profuse,
fetid, worse at night :-

Merc.

From right :-

Æth.,
Ars.

Tenacious, so that it
may be drawn through perforation in strings

(perforated
tympani) :- KALI-BI.

Thick, fetid, after
scarlatina :-

Kali-bi.

Dragging

(See Drawing.) :-
Phos., Sep.

And tearing in left

(otalgia) :-
Guai.

In polypus auri :-

Anac.

Toothache, in :-

Caust.

Drawing

(See Dragging,
Rheumatic.) :-
Bar-c., Berb.,
Cham.

Behind, with stitches
from within :-

Kali-c.

Bones, in, in front of
right :-

Bar-c.

Cramp-like, in
outer :-

Olnd.

Cramp-like, especially
in right :-

Coc-c.

External, in :-

Spig.,
Tarax.

Intolerable, with a
sense as of something stopped up in ear, worse moving jaw and
masticating

(migraine) :-
Verb.

Right, under, lobe, as
if in periosteum, to cheek and lower maxilla :-

Arg-m.

Right, in :-

Cycl.,
Spong.

Left, in :-

Chel.

Left, in, extends
downward :-

Verb.

Left, in, rather
externally :-

Viol-o.

Left, sensation as if,
would be drawn inward :-

Verb.

Meatus, in left
external :-

Bism.

Meatus, in, like
otalgia :-

Sil.

Neck, to, and
shoulder :-

Nat-m.

Night, worse at, and in
change of weather, or from movement after being long seated :-

Sil.

Outward, from with
in :-

Con.

Pinching, behind left,
into lower jaw :-

Zinc.

Right, in :-

Caust.

Right, in, after
dinner :-

Ant-c.

Spasmodic :-

Ph-ac.

Teeth, from right
to :-

Calad.

Tensive, to
lobes :-

Cham.

Dry

(See
Wax.) :-
Arn., Aur.,
Carb-v.,
Colch.,
Iodof.

Auditory, in,
canal :-

Nux-v.,
Phos.

Auditory, in, canal, in
otitis media :-

Puls.

Deafness, with :-

Calc.,
Graph., Lach.

Dryness, or sensation
of :-

Petr.

Earwax, with
yellow :-

Carb-v.

Fever, in
typhoid :-

Sulph.

Meatus, in :-

Nux-v.

Meatus, in, at outer
portion :-

Sil.

Scratch, must :-

Cast-eq.

Dull feeling :-

Chen-v.,
Iod.

Dull
pain

(See Aching.) :-
Dulc.

Back, at, of, with
nervousness and depression :-

Crot-h.

Constant, in left,
caused by extension from inflamed tonsil :-

Ust.

Deafness, in :-

Caust.

Deep in right, wakes
during night, continues with depression of spirits for 3
days :-

Tell.

Right, in, seeming to
affect jaw socket, does not know whether tooth or ear aches :-

Xan.

Eruption

(See Boils,
Erysipelas ; also Eruption
Chapter 4 :
Outer Head.) :-
BAR-C.,
Calc., Caust.,
Sep.

Around right :-

Hyper.

Behind :-

Guare.,
Lyc., Merc.,
Sulph.

Behind, in scrofulous
ophthalmia :-

Bar-c.

Behind, exudes sticky
fluid :-

GRAPH.

Blisters, white, on a
red base, on right, discharging a watery fluid, later desquamation,
or pus and scabs form :-

Ptel.

Blisters, yellow,
around, with erysipelas of face :-

Camph.

Burning :-

Cic.

Chafing behind

(children) :-
Ars-s-f.

Cracks behind :-

Sep.

Crusty :-

Elaps.

Crusts around :-

Lach.

Crusty, burning,
inability to lie on ears :-

Anan.

Crusts, hardened, in
outer canal :-

All-s.

Crusts, greenish,
spread over half of head, with oozing of whitish thick
matter :-

Kali-bi.

Crusta lactea,
simulating, behind ears, oozing a fluid and breeding vermin :-

Olnd.

Crusts, a mass of, and
pus, on right, crusts extend behind auricle to occiput, upward upon
parietal bone, nearly to vertex, forward to right ear and over cheek
upon edge of region involved small vesicles filled with clear fluid,
which became yellow, then crusted, and pus flowed from beneath
crusts :-

Psor.

Crusts, outer
occasionally covered with thick :-

Lyc.

Desquamating :-

Left, a substance like
powdered starch :-

Com.

About auricles, caused
by profuse discharge of penetrating odor :-

Sulph.

Dry, offensive, easily
bleeding, burning, begins behind, pains and cracks, better
scratching :-

SULPH.

Dry, itchy, pimply
behind :-

Staph.

Eczema behind :-

CALC.

Eczema behind,
accompanied by abscesses affecting bones :-

PSOR.

Eczematous behind,
bleeds from scratching, after diphtheria :-

Sulph.

Eczema behind, with
formation of thick crusts :-

Tell.

Eczema with thick
crusts and fissures :-

LYC.

Eczema in front,
tending to affect eyelids :-

Ter.

Eczema covers both and
surrounding skin, hot and itching, constant oozing of watery
discharge :-

Kali-bi.

Eczematous, after any
severe exertion, with swelling :-

Psor.

Fissured, behind and
above, glutinous secretion scab cracking open, itching worse before
a storm :-

Graph.

Fissured behind and on,
exuding thick gluey secretion which mats hair :-

Hep.

Fissured, skin back of
each, at connection with side of head :-

Hydr.

Furuncles in
meatus :-

Crot-h.,
MERC.,
PIC-AC., SULPH.

Granular, on mucous
membrane :-

Hydr.

Herpes behind :-

Graph.,
Sep.

Herpetic, in and
around :-

Olnd.

Herpetic, behind, worse
from heat, which causes burning :-

Con.

Herpetic, behind and on
lobes

(impetigo
capitis) :- Caust.

Herpes, dry, with white
scales :-

Teucr.

Herpes, worse evening
and in open air, better in warmth :-

Kreos.

Herpes, itching of old,
behind :-

Mag-m.

Itch, resembling,
behind ears in children :-

Arund.

Lobes, on :-

Bar-c.

Moist, dampness :-

Calc.

Behind, in scrofulous
otorrhœa :-

Ant-c.

On external, in
scrofulous otorrhœa :-

Ant-c.

Itching, behind :-

Mez.

Itching, fetid,
scratching changes place of itching, but increases oozing :-

Staph.

Behind right :-

Calc.

Nodosities size of hemp
seed, painful to touch :-

Berb.

Nodules, inflamed,
covered with a scab, painful to touch, in left concha, close to
entrance of meatus auditorius, tensive pains, creeping as if it
would gather and break :-

Spong.

Oozing :-

Chronic, moist, fetid,
behind :-

Vinc.

Behind :-

Mez.

External :-

Psor.

Behind, in scrofulous
ophthalmia :-

Rhus-t.

Pimples :-

Calc-p.

In front :-

Berb.

Behind, itching :-

Pall.

Causes heat, burning,
redness, swelling of left outer :-

Kreos.

Behind left :-

Calad.

Forming scurfs, itching
when getting warm in bed :-

Mur-ac.

Dark red painful, in
left :-

Camph.

On top of right :-

Calc-s.

A row of sore, on helix
of right :-

Ind.

On scalp behind,
sensitive to touch :-

Calad.

Acutely sore, behind
and above left :-

Pall.

Behind changing into
ulcer, having characteristics of sycotic ulcer of Celsus :-

# Aster.

On and behind
concha :-

Psor.

Behind left :-

Psor.

Painless, in ear,
small :-

Cast-eq.

Small, wherever pus
touched, better by hot application, cannot bear cold :-

Hep.

Meatus covered with
small, eruption, extending inward :-

# Carb-ac.

After
vaccination :-

Sulph.

Rash about :-

Ars.

Red, as if covered with
scarlet rash :-

Vesp.

Scabby, with
amaurosis :-

Psor.

Scabs behind :-

Bar-c.,
GRAPH.,
SIL.

Scabbing, thin,
cream-like :-

Nat-p.

Scab, burning, itching,
on ear lobe :-

Sars.

Scabby,
external :-

Psor.

Scab, moist, behind,
with dry tetter on back of head

(a
child) :- Psor.

Scabs on tragus :-

Puls.

Scabs, covered
with :-

Hydr.

Scabs, cartilaginous
portion dry, parchment-like and covered with small scales :-

Petr.

Scurf :-

Hyper.,
PSOR.

Scurf behind :-

Aur-m.

Scurf on right :-

Cinnb.

Scurf, humid,
behind :-

PSOR.

Scurfs, humid,
suppurating, in and behind :-

LYC.

Scurfs, thick
oozing :-

Bov.

Scurf, small, yellow,
on concha :-

Iod.

Soreness behind,
spreading rapidly, exudes offensive smelling serum, painful when
washed :-

Sep.

Soreness of whole
external, with abundant yellow fetid discharge :-

Psor.

Soreness, humid,
behind :-

PSOR.

Spots, irregular,
behind :-

Cocc.

Spots, leprous,
coppery, annular :-

Graph.

Spots, large moist,
behind :-

Psor.

Spots, red,
behind :-

Berb.,
Cocc.

With fine blisters,
behind :-

Tell.

Around, burning like
nettles :-

Chel.

Suppurating on and
around :-

Cic.

Tetter, humid, with
swelling of cervical glands, and livid gray complexion :-

Kreos.

On left, gathers every
2 weeks and discharges a yellow greenish pus

(tinea
capitis) :- Iris.

Tetters on and around,
extending into external meatus :-

Cist.

Tetter-like roughness,
behind or below :-

Merc.

Tubercles, small flat,
behind :-

Bar-c.

Vesicles, small,
quickly filling with a yellow lymph, painful, like sores, to touch,
drying up after a few days, behind right :-

Psor.

Vesicular on membrana,
suppurating and perforating :-

Tell.

Exuding a yellow watery
serum :-

Rhus-v.

Water-soaked, ear
looked as if

(after
scarlatina) :- Tell.

Erysipelas :-

(See Eruption,
Erysipelas, Chapter 4 :
Outer Head.)

In broken down or
hæmorrhagic constitutions :-

Crot-h.

With itching, heat,
redness and blisters :-

Meph.

Begins at right, and
spreads over face :-

Sulph.

Excoriated

(See Discharge
excoriating, Eruption, Rawness.) :-
Merc.

With profuse discharge
of serous fluid :-

Kali-bi.

Meatus :-

# Carb-ac.

By offensive discharge

(otitis
media) :- Lyc.

Excrescences,
fungus :-

Merc.

Feeling, want of, in
internal meatus :-

Mur-ac.

Fissures,
behind :-

GRAPH.,
Hep., Hydr.,
Sulph.

In eczema,
intertrigo :-

Petr.

Foreign body, sensation
of a :-

Phos.

As of dirt or spongy
substance, which swells up :-

Anan.

Obstructing right,
causing deafness :-

Astac.

Formication :-

(See Numbness,
Tingling.)

In concha :-

Arg-m.

In left
external :-

Arund.

Frost
bite

(See Skin
Chilblains, Chapter 46 :
Skin.) :- AGAR.,
Crot-h., PETR.

Fulness

(See Congestion,
Heaviness, Pressing.) :-
Æsc.,
Arum-d., Cann-i., Crot-h.,
Eup-pur.,
Glon., Lac-c.,
Merc., Nat-p.

Behind ears :-

Ther.

Deafness, with, and
crackling when blowing nose or swallowing :-

Mang.

Meningitis, in :-

Arg-n.,
Glon.

Right, fulness
in :-

Ars-s-f.,
Ars-s-r., Com.

Right, in, when
eating :-

Nat-c.

Right, in middle, later
in left :-

Arum-d.

Glands :-

(See Lower
jaw glands, Chapter 9 :
Lower Face ; also Neck
glands, Chapter 31 :
Neck and Back.)

Inflammation of :-

Bell.

Pains into :-

Kali-bi.

Painful glandular
enlargement in front of tragus :-

Iod.

Right, a lump under,
with sharp pain :-

Samb.

Swelling under, also
inflammatory :-

Merc.

Gnawing, as if
something were :-

Led.

Granulation :-

(See
Eruption, Polypus.)

Hæmorrhage
(See Burning,
Congestion, Inflammation.) :-
Arn., Arund.,
Chin.,
Cic., Crot-h., Elaps.,
Ham., LACH.,
Op., PHOS.,
Puls.

Arterial blood gushes
from :-

Elaps.

Cough, during :-

Bell.

External, of :-

Bufo.

Left bleeding
readily :-

Ery-a.

Left, 1st, then
right :-

Merc.

Meatus, profuse,
provoked by slightest touch on, by finger

(after
scarlatina) :- Tell.

Meningitis, in
cerebro-spinal :-

Rhus-t.

Menses, in place
of :-

Bry.,
Phos.

Oozes, blood,
from :-

CROT-H.

Red, bright, from
left :-

Arund.

Right, of, also
nosebleed which clears head :-

Ham.

Surface bleeds easily

(eczema,
intertrigo, etc.) :-
Petr.

Suppuration, after
prolonged :-

Chin.

Touch,
from slightest :- Hep.

Heat
(See Burning,
Congestion, Inflammation.) :-
Anan.,
Ang., Ars., Astac.,
Bell.,
Calc., Calc-p., Cham., Cic., Elaps., Hyper.,
Ign.,
Lyc., Lyss.,
Manc., Nat-m.,
Spong., Zing.

Heaviness

(See Congestion,
Fulness, Pressing.) :-
Glon.

During menses :-

Crot-h.

Hollow, sensation as
if, and wide inside :-

Aur-m.

Hyperæsthesia :-

Valer.

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