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The little volume now presented to a long-suffering profession is merely a collection of symptoms, pathogenic and clinical, with which a student should become familiar by recitations in the class room before he enters seriously upon the study of the homeopathic materia medica. The perfect memorizing of these symptoms should constitute the materia medica work of the freshman year; this accomplished, the sophomore will enter upon more advanced study prepared to assimilate the better and to classify the more correctly additional and more important facts presented to him in the lecture room. By carrying this plan into the third and fourth year of the course - reiterating, adding, enlarging, explaining - the young graduate, thus instructed, will be better qualified for the selection of the indicated remedy than is the average graduate of to-day.
The brief outline, at the top of each remedy, of its sphere of usefulness in the sick-room is almost sure to interest and aid the beginner.
The regional index is prepared for quizzing, ready reference and comparative study on part of those who desire to do thorough work.
H. R. Arndt.
San Francisco,
Thanksgiving Day, 1903.
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Indicated in sthenic (overaction; high fever & strong pulse) conditions, inflammations, early effects of cold from draught, getting chilled, suppression of perspiration; effects of fright, menstrual suppression, or of intense excitement.
Hot face with cold hands and feet.
Great tension, anxiety, fear.
Fear of a crowd, of the future, of the seriousness of his illness; feels sure he will die.
Aggressive restlessness; tumbles about in bed, cannot lie still; sudden startings.
Pulse frequent, hard, wiry.
Great sensitiveness to noises of any sort.
Intolerance of pain; pain of a stitching character in various parts of the body.
Tingling and numbness in (left) face and in parts affected (neuralgia).
Everything tastes bitter, except water.
Intense thirst, relieved by drinking copiously of cold water.
Coldness and pressure in abdomen as from a stone.
Stools green, like chopped spinach.
Bruised pain in the back, as though beaten, with stiffness and numbness extending into the legs; the character of the pain makes him fear that his kidneys are affected.
Urine scanty, hot, with urethral burning and vesical tenesmus (ineffectual/ painful training).
Coryza: every inhalation of cold air causes a painful sense of coldness in the brain; pressive pain at root of nose.
Cough, dry, croupy; with labored breathing. Worse from going from warm into cold room.
Taste of blood in the mouth when coughing.
Hot feelings in lungs. Hawking, followed by bloody expectoration.
Burning heat in the body.
Heat and dryness of inflamed parts.
Worse in the warm room; in the evening; at night; from lying on the affected side; from tobacco smoke.
Better in the open air.
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Indicated in the treatment of haemorrhoids associated with severe backache; recommended for follicular inflammation of the posterior pharynx.
Despondent, irritable mood.
Heaviness and lameness in the back.
Constant dull backache; can hardly walk, stoop or rise.
Sensation of small sticks in the rectum.
Haemorrhoids, with itching and sense of dryness or fulness in the rectum.
Leucorrhoea, with lameness across back and hips, rendering walking difficult and painful.
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Indicated in gastro-intestinal diseases of children, with great nervous involvement, violence of all the symptoms and intolerance of milk.
Violence of all the symptoms.
Great heat, without thirst.
Profuse sweating; desires to be covered while sweating.
Linea nasalis; face expresses great anguish.
Remarkable intolerance of milk. As soon as swallowed, it is thrown up in heavy curds.
Diarrhoea, thin, yellow, greenish; stools contain masses of curdled milk. Stools preceded by colic; followed by exhaustion and drowsiness.
Vomiting with sweating and great anguish.
Drowsiness after vomiting or stool.
Worse in the middle of the afternoon; in the evening; during hot weather.
Better in the open air; when fussed with.
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Indicated in hysteria, chorea, spinal irritation and neurotic states generally, with jerking, trembling, itching.
Twitching of the eye-lids.
Twitching in the face, mouth, muscles of neck, abdomen, extremities.
Trembling of the hands; general trembling; gouty stiffness of the fingers.
Pain in the lumbar region, worse from sitting.
Itching of the toes and feet as though frost-bitten.
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Indicated in low dynamic states, with great prostration and with livid, purplish appearance of the skin. Has proved very valuable in malignant scarlet fever.
Child stupid, semi-conscious; does not understand; muttering delirium; stupor, restlessness.
Head burning hot, with fever and anxiety.
Face hot, dark livid, covered with livid rash.
Tongue dry, parched, cracked.
Eyes congested; pupils dilated.
Enlargement of parotid and cervical glands; sensitiveness of.
Throat swollen, painful, purplish; foul ulcers in the throat; frequent hawking of mucus.
Stools watery and offensive.
Skin of face and of entire body covered with livid, purplish eruption, disappearing on pressure, returning slowly.
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Indicated in coryza, with hoarseness, acrid discharge from the nose and harsh, splitting cough.
Catarrhal headache, chiefly frontal, worse in the warm room, toward evening.
Eyes sore, smarting, sensitive to light; lachrymation.
Sneezing when entering a warm room.
Copious, watery and exceedingly acrid nasal discharge.
Tickling in the larynx, with hacking cough upon inspiring cold air.
Tightness in the throat and oppressed breathing.
Violent cough, with the sensation as though the larynx would split to pieces; croupy cough.
Intense pain in the back of the neck.
Derangements of appetite incidental to having a cold, with strong craving for raw onions.
Worse in a warm room, in the evening.
Better in a cool room; in the open air.
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Indicated in intestinal disorders, haemorrhoids and conditions characterized by portal congestion.
Dull pressing headache above the eyes, with mental apathy.
Abdomen full, heavy, bloated.
Abdominal flatulency, copious, burning, pressing downward and causing more severe colicky pain.
Abdominal colic, relieved from passing (hot) flatus.
Sense of "insecurity" when passing flatus.
Loss of power of sphincter ani: must hurry to the closet.
Even solid stool passes almost unnoticed.
Stool watery, jelly-like, with great amount of flatus.
Severe griping pain before and during stool; stool followed by relief from pain and by great weakness.
Burning in the anus and rectum.
Worse early in the morning, desire for stool driving him out of bed; from eating and drinking; in hot, dry weather.
Better in the open air; from discharge of flatus; from local use of cold water.
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Indicated in persons of low vitality, of advanced years; in chronic nasal and post-nasal catarrh, with dryness of the mucous membrane; sore throat of public speakers; painter's colic. Dryness of the mucous membrane and inactivity of the rectum are characteristic.
Takes cold easily.
Throat raw, dry, rough, especially in the morning; scraping in the throat, obliging him to cough; frequent clearing of the throat.
Colic; worse from eating potato.
Loss of appetite; sour eructations, craving for starch, chalk and other indigestible things.
Constipation, with soreness and bleeding of the rectum.
Inactivity of the rectum; straining with soft stool.
Straining at stool in order to urinate.
Stool accumulates in the rectum because of lack of desire (and inability) to expel it.
Stools hard, knotty, covered with mucus, followed by bleeding and cutting pain in anus.
General dryness of the skin, with intolerable itching and scratching until the skin bleeds; on getting warm in bed.
Worse on alternate days; in the afternoon; in the warm room; from eating potatoes.
Better in the open air; from lying down.
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Indicated in affections of children and elderly people, nervous, of lymphatic temperament; particularly useful in the treatment of catarrhal affections, coughs, bronchitis, etc.
Very sensitive to the open air.
Great aversion to water.
Stoppage of nose at night; cannot breathe through the nose.
Nose bleeds easily; when washing the face; in the morning; from eating.
Ozaena, with copious discharge of bloody mucus.
Tip of nose looks red.
Cough of elderly people, rattling loose, yet difficult to raise anything; after much effort raises mucous, at times slightly tinged with specks of blood.
Night cough, worse at 3 or 4 o'clock a. m.; from tickling in the throat, as though there were dust in it.
Breathing oppressed; aggravated by slightest exertion and by entering a warm room.
Thick, red rash all over the body, like scarlet fever rash.
Burning, acrid leucorrhoea, watery; aversion to sexual intercourse.
Menses copious, black, too early, clotted, with sense of great exhaustion and chilliness.
Worse from cold; from being washed; on the right sided; from 3 to 4 a. m.
Better from lying on the affected side or on the stomach; in dry weather; from external pressure.
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Indicated chiefly in diseases of the respiratory organs, with much prostration; in fat, bloated persons of lax fibre and of indolent, sluggish habit. Body large and fat; leg, too thin (H. N. Guernsey). "Its periods of aggravation are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings; the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms in the evening " (Wm. Boericke).
Acrid, hot, watery, coryza, corroding the lips.
Soreness of the nose, as though ulcerated. Itching. Annoying sense of obstruction, with constant but unavailing efforts to get relief by blowing nose.
Hoarseness and burning of the larynx.
Throat swollen internally and externally, with fulness in the tonsils and difficulty of swallowing.
Sore spot behind uvula, better from eating.
Dry, hacking cough, loose in the afternoon, with rattling and copious raising of mucus.
Burning of small spots in the chest.
Icy coldness between the shoulders, not better from covering warmly.
Chronic congestion of the the liver.
Constipation of hard, crumbling stool, covered with mucus; after stool, smarting and soreness in the rectum.
Diarrhoea of green, mucous stools (occur also during menses).
Menstrual flow too early, profuse, dark, clotted, especially copious at night; the feet ache while menstruating.
Leucorrhoea like the white of egg, with colicky pain about the navel.
After urinating, brown, slimy discharge from the vagina.
Pain in the coccyx, as from a bruise, when sitting or lying down.
Worse from lying on the back, after eating, after cold drinks, in the morning, when getting up.
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Indicated chiefly in neurasthenia, hypochondriasis, neurotic conditions. Marked impairment of memory, disturbed mental condition, and special expressions of the neurotic state elsewhere, as in the digestion, with sensory disturbances, call for its use.
Impaired memory; forgets everything quickly; is greatly troubled by the loss of memory.
Tendency to use profane and vulgar language on every occasion.
Distrust of everybody; hypochondriasis; mental irresponsibility and fickleness of purpose.
Sensation as of a hoop or band around a part.
Sensation as though a plug were pressing in different parts of the body (head, eyes, ears, chest, abdomen, etc.).
Eats and drinks as though in a great hurry.
Headache, promptly, but only for a time, relieved by eating; better when lying down to go to sleep; worse from effort and motion.
Constipation; feets as though a plug in the rectum were preventing the expulsion of the stool.
Intense itching of the skin, eruption resembling that of poison oak.
Worse from lying on the side; from talking; from hot water; from rubbing and scratching.
Better from eating.
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Indicated in gastric disturbances of children who are inclined to get fat and are subject to skin troubles; often useful in rheumatic and gouty pains and in chronic diseases due to the suppression of an eruption.
Excessively irritable, fretful, sulky.
Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at; objects to being washed.
Face covered with pimples; cracks in the corners of the mouth; yellowish crusts on cheek and chin.
Tongue coated thick white, as though covered with milk or whitewashed.
Moist eruption on and behind ears.
Finger-nails split easily; horny growth under the nails.
Horny excrescences over the body.
Gums spongy; bleed easily.
Appetite abnormal; craves acids and pickles.
Constant belching of gas.
Diarrhoea, watery, slimy, windy; stools mixed with hard lumps.
Cough from tickling in the chest, worse from going into a warm room.
Thick, hard scabs over the body; on the chin; bleed when touched.
Skin covered with pimples and vesicles.
Soles of feet very sensitive; horny growths on the feet.
Worse in the evening; when heated; in the heat of the sun; from cold bathing.
Better in the cool, open air.
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Indicated chiefly in affections of the respiratory tract; in small-pox.
Great lassitude and drowsiness.
Sawing respiration.
Child anxious; clings to others; wants to be carried about; is touchy, does not allow itself to be handled.
Face pale, expressive of distress; distorted, cold, livid; twitching of the face.
Skin cold; covered with clammy, sticky perspiration.
Tongue thinly coated white, with red papillae, red, in streaks or dry in the median line.
Throat filled with mucus, making breathing difficult.
Cough with loud bubbling rales; rattling in throat and lungs.
Rattling of mucus; child seems choking to death; cannot relieve itself of the phlegm.
Cough excited by eating and by outbursts of temper. Often terminates in copious vomiting of mucus and prompt relief.
Pustules on the body, leaving a bluish-red mark; they develop slowly and are slow in passing through suppuration.
Worse in a warm room; from lying down at night, during damp cold; from change of weather.
Better from throwing up mucus; from expectorating; from sitting upright; from keeping still, in the cold, open air.
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Indicated in eruptive fevers, especially in scarlatina; in diphtheria; in inflammatory affections, particularly in those of erysipelatous tendency; in dropsies with absence of thirst and scanty urination; nephritis. Very important in the treatment of post-scarlatinal dropsy. Used in intermittent and other fevers; in ovarian diseases; in certain coughs, with much dyspnoea.
Stinging pains, like bee stings, followed by burning, changing from place to place; painful to touch.
Boils and swellings, with stinging pain.
Tired, as if bruised all over.
Bag-like swelling under the eyes.
Oedematous swelling in different parts of the body.
Enlargement and induration of glands with stinging pain.
Tongue feels raw, sore, scalded; red and hot at the tip.
Dropsy without thirst; scanty urine.
Great dyspnoea, as if every breath would be the last.
Deep ulceration in the throat, with erysipelatous or oedematous borders.
Painful, scanty urination, with burning before and during micturition.
Fever without thirst.
Irritation in supra-sternal fossa, provoking cough.
Tickling in the little spot on the posterior pharynx, exciting cough which stops as soon as a bit of mucus is raised.
Severe concussive cough; it painfully jars the head, so he must bend the head back and hold it to relieve the severity of the shock.
Diarrhoea of yellow-green stools, in the morning, with abdominal soreness.
Enlargement and burning-stinging pain in the ovaries, especially right.
Bearing down as if menses would appear, followed by scanty discharge of black mucus.
Chill from 3 to 5 o'clock p. m.; it runs down the back and is worse in in a warm room and near the stove.
Worse on the right side; after sleeping; in a hot, close room; from getting drenched; at night, toward morning.
Better in the open air; form bathing parts in cold water; from uncovering; during the day, when sitting up.
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Indicated in all forms of dropsy, with inactivity of the kidneys, strangury, and irritability of the stomach.
Dropsy with great thirst; drinking causes distress in the stomach and vomiting.
Irritability of the stomach; sickening feeling and sinking at the stomach; oppression, rendering breathing difficult.
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Indicated in affections of the larynx, chiefly catarrhal inflammation, hoarseness, cough, and in affections of the joints.
Neuralgic headache, recurring daily, left sided, temporal; vertigo.
Hoarseness and aphonia, in professional singers.
Cough, excited by laughing.
Raw spot over the supra-sternal fossa.
Weakness of the (left) chest.
Rawness and soreness in the upper larynx when coughing; not felt when swallowing.
Viscid, jelly-like mucus in the larynx, coughed up in the morning.
Easy expectoration of substance looking like boiled starch.
Bruised, drawing pains in the joints.
Worse when sitting still; from abuse of mercury; from touch or pressure; from using the voice.
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Indicated in chronic hoarseness of singers; in gastric ailments characterized by much gastric flatulency and noisy belching of gas; diarrhoea; spinal diseases; trembling and weakness of legs; neurasthenia; chorea; hysteria; affections of the eyes, with burning heat, photophobia, copious muco-purulent discharge; early stage of gonorrhoea.
Face aged, withered, bluish.
Pains increase and decrease gradually.
Always in a hurry.
Great longing for fresh air.
Great desire for sweets.
Apprehension and dread of meeting people, of being in a crowd. Going to some public entertainment brings on diarrhoea.
Erroneous perception; as to time, minutes seem hours; as to gait, a slow gait seems fast.
Feeling as though the affected parts were expanding.
Headache, relieved by tightly bandaging the head, with creeping, crawling sensation in the scalp.
Great heat in the eyes; it dries up the eyelashes.
Ophthalmia, with soreness and swelling of the lids, photophobia, heat in the eye, purulent discharge, agglutination of the lids in the morning. Ophthalmia neonatorum.
Itching in the nose, rubbing brings on bleeding.
Coughing when singing a high note; chronic hoarseness.
Ulcerative pain in the throat, with sensation as of a splinter in the throat.
Gastralgia; pain confined to a small spot between xyphoid cartilage and umbilicus, with sensitiveness to pressure, radiating into the back, shoulders, hypochondria.
Pain in the stomach, relieved by pressure with the clinched fist.
Excessive gastric flatulency; seems as though stomach would burst; gas belched up with great difficulty and much noise.
Diarrhoea, green like spinach, in flakes, as soon as he drinks or eats sweets.
Ulcerative soreness in the middle of the urethra as from a splinter. When passing the last drops of urine, cutting pain from the posterior urethra to anus.
Unsteadiness in walking and standing, seemingly from weakness and unreliability of the legs.
Worse from cold food; from sweets; from mental exertion; at night.
Better in the open air; when the wind blows in his face; from belching up of gas.
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