Condensed Materia Medica

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Mind

Low-spirited.
Fear of approaching illness.
Easily vexed.
Cannot fix his mind on his studies.
Dulness of mental faculties.

Inner Head

Dull throbbing or shooting in right side of forehead; nausea; worse toward evening; from rest, from cold air, or coughing; better from moderate motion.
Tired headache, from mental exhaustion.
Sick headache, eighth day. Begins with blurred vision.

Outer Head

Shooting in the temples, mostly the right, with constrictive feeling of the scalp.

Eyes

Redness of the conjunctiva, as from a cold; eyes feel dull, with the neuralgia; burning in the internal canthus, with effusion of tears.

Nose

Constant sneezing; sharp pains in centre of temples; tickling cough; light, mushy stools.

Face

Neuralgia involving supra and infra-orbital, superior maxillary and inferior dental nerves; begins after breakfast every morning, with a stupid, stunning headache; copious urine; disposition to stool; burning at the anus.
Sunken eyes with blueness around.

Tongue, etc

Loss of taste; flat taste.
Tongue feels as if scalded; greasy feeling on arising in morning.

Mouth

Burning in mouth and fauces, as if on fire.
Ulcers on the mucous lining of the cheeks.
Salivation after diphtheria, with swelling of the parotids.
Saliva taste greasy, slimy.

Desires and Aversions

Loss of taste and appetite.

Eating and Drinking

Headache after breakfast; aching in the stomach before breakfast and after a cold drink.
Milk sours and is vomited.

Nausea and Vomiting

Eructations tasteless, or of sour food.
Nausea and vomiting of sour fluid that excoriates throat; sour vomit with the headache.
Vomiting: of food, an hour after eating; of bile, with great heat and sweat.

Stomach

Great burning distress in epigastrium; can hardly endure it.
Colicky pains every few minutes, in the epigastrium.
Shocks of pain in the umbilical region up to epigastrium; nausea, straining and belching of wind.
Inflammation, burning distress in pancreas, sweetish vomit.

Hypochondria

Cutting in the region of the liver.
Pain in right hypochondriac region; worse from motion.
Pains above the crest of the ilium, right side, then left.

Abdomen

Colicky pains, intermittent about the navel, before each spell of vomiting or purging.

Stool, etc

Stool: thin, watery, tinged with bile, copious, in a continuous stream; green, undigested; mushy, pappy with fetid flatus; bloody mucus, with great straining; burning in anus and rectum after stool; black, with fever, hot sweat, white tongue, severe headache, despondency; yellow, watery, corrosive.

Urine

Scanty, red; burning the length of the urethra after passing it; clear, profuse.

Male Sexual Organs

Nocturnal emissions, with amorous dreams; coldness and itching of the parts.

Pregnancy

Morning sickness, vomit sour or bitter.

Larynx

Dry, tickling cough, smarting burning in throat.

Cough

Short, dry cough, from tickling in the larynx.

Lungs

Pain in left side of chest as if the ribs were pressing against the lungs.

Upper Limbs

Pains shift about rapidly in phalanges and metacarpal bones.

Lower limbs

Sciatica, sudden shooting, causing lameness; feels as if (left) was wrenched; pain and lameness extend to popliteal space; worse from moderate, better from violent motion.

Limbs in General

Shifting pains in right hip, both knees (worse right) and in right foot especially, and first joint of great toe.

Position, etc

Motion: 3, 18, 33, 34.

Nerves

Faint, weak knees, trembling; sunken eyes; after protracted or severe sero-bilious stools, as in summer diarrhœa.

Time

Morning: 8, 11, 15, 24. Evening: 3. Night: 22, 46. 3 A.M.: 20. Day: 3.

Temperature and Weather

Cold air: 3, 13. When covered: 40.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chills, with sleepiness.
Heat followed by chill, with cold hands and feet.
Chills over the whole body, even when well covered; fever with muttering delirium and bilious diarrhœa.
Skin hot; dry, black stool.
Sweat all over, particularly on the groin.

Attacks

Every morning: 8. Every eighth day: 3.

Sides

Right: 3, 4, 28, 34, 36. Right to left: 10. Below upwards: 17, 24.

Tissues

Excites the secretion of the glands; salivary, pancreatic, intestinal, etc.
Acts powerfully on gastro-intestinal mucous membrane.

Skin

Pustular eruption on scalp, face, around mouth.
Irregular patches on knees, elbows and body, with shining scales, the edges slightly raised.
Herpes zoster on the right side of the body.
Fine eruption, showing black points after scratching, great itching at night.