Homeopathic Materia Medica

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (Kent's New Remedies), James Tyler Kent

Morning, afternoon, evening, night, after midnight. The patient feels better in the open air. Anaemia in a marked degree. General physical anxiety; chlorosis; choreic twitching of the muscles; constantly taking cold; congestion of organs and glands; external and internal dropsy. Symptoms are worse after eating. Emaciation. Markedly worse from exertion. Fainting in anaemic patients. Haemorrhagia from many parts. Induration of glands. Lack of physical irritability. Lying down and lying in bed increases many symptoms. Sensation as of lying in a cramped position. Worse before, during and after menses. Motion increases many symptoms; desire to move. Catarrhal condition of all mucous membranes. Orgasm of blood even when quiet; pulsation in body and limbs; on waking from sleep; fast pulse. Many symptoms are worse from touch. The glands are swollen. Walking aggravates many symptoms. Worse from warmth and warm clothing. Weakness from slight exertion; during menses; from walking.

Very irritable and easily angered. Anxiety and aversion to company. Dullness of mind and concentration difficult, worse when reading; confusion of mind in the evening; over-conscientious about small matters; very excitable; hysterical conduct and hilarity; changeable mood; indifference; irresolution; sadness. Restless at night; starting from sleep. Stupefaction. Weeping. Vertigo while walking.

Heat and hyperaemia of the head; heaviness of the head; worse in a warm room; better in the open air; in the forehead. Itching of the scalp. Pain in the head in the morning; in the afternoon; better in the open air and worse in the house; worse coughing; with coryza; worse from the pressure of the hat; compelled to lie down; better lying; before menses; worse moving the head; better from pressure of the hand; pulsating; worse when reading; worse from smoking; worse from walking; worse from writing; worse in a warm room. Pain in the forehead; worse on the right side, in the evening; better in the open air; better when standing in a draft; worse from coughing, from pressure of the hat, when reading, when writing, from motion, in a warm room, from smoking, above the eyes; above the left eye extending to the top of head. Pain in the occiput; in the sides of head; worse on left side, in temples, in vertex. Cutting pain from bridge of the nose to the occiput. Pressing pain in forehead; worse in right side; worse in a warm room; in temples; in vertex. Sharp pain from below the eyes up through to vertex. Stitching pain in head; in temples. Tearing pain in head. Pulsation in head; forehead; temples.

Inflammation of the conjunctiva, with copious pus when forcibly opened; conjunctiva bluish-red; itching of eyes; lachrymation. Pain in eyes from light; aching, burning of lids; cutting, as from sand; stitching. Photophobia. Protrusion of eyes; exophthalmic goitre. Redness of eyes; bluish-red, of lids; swollen lids. Weak eyes. The eyes are jaundiced. A cloud of sparks before the eyes after breakfast.

Noises in the ears; humming, ringing, roaring. Cutting pain in ears. Hearing impaired.

Catarrh of the nose; morning; post-nasal discharge bloody, copious; crusts; excoriating, greenish, purulent, thick, watery, yellow. Fluent coryza, worse in the morning, with copious mucus from larynx. Sensation of dryness in nose. Epistaxis on blowing nose; from coughing. Obstruction of nose; morning, night; better after blowing; cutting pain in root of nose extending to occiput. Sneezing at night. The nose is swollen; ulceration in nose.

The face is pale, earthy, even chlorotic; red; circumscribed redness; sallow; sickly; yellow. Eczema and vesicles on the face; expression sickly. Countenance Hippocratic; swollen, puffed, bloated face; swollen submaxillary glands.

Bleeding gums. Coated thick, yellow tongue. Dryness in the mouth and throat; burning tongue; salivation; taste bad in the morning; bitter, insipid, metallic, offensive, putrid, like peppermint, sour, sweetish. Pain in the teeth.

Scraping of mucus from throat and nose; viscid mucus. Food seems to push up to throat as though it had not been swallowed; reversed action of oesophagus. Burning and pressing in the throat. Tickling and scraping throat and larynx. Swollen cervical glands. Exophthalmic goitre.

The appetite is variable; diminished, increased, insatiable, ravenous, wanting, without relish of food, easy satiety. Atonic condition of the stomach; aversion to food; to meat. Distension of stomach from gas. Eructations; bitter, after eating; empty, greasy, of food, rancid, sour, violent, waterbrash. Feels as though he had eaten too much, even after small meal. Flushes of heat in the stomach. Heartburn. Heaviness after eating. Loathing of food. Nausea after eating. Pain in stomach: after eating; burning; cramping, after eating; distress with nausea and headache; pressing after eating; soreness in pit of stomach with pinching in back behind stomach. Pulsating in stomach. Tension. Thirst in evening; strong thirst; extreme thirst. Vomiting; on coughing; after drinking; after eating; of blood; of food. A feeling as of a cord drawn, connecting anus and navel, with a cutting pain every time he straightens up from a bent position. Distension of abdomen after food or drink. Enlarged liver and spleen without fever. Flatulence. Fullness or "stuffed" feeling. Heat in abdomen. Pain in abdomen; after eating; during menses; in hypochondria; in inguinal region extending across hypogastrium; in liver; spleen; in umbilicus; cramping before stool; pricking in side of abdomen, worse raising arms and worse walking. Stitching in hypochondria and in inguinal region when walking; soreness in inguinal region when walking. Rumbling in abdomen before stool. Abdomen feels like a rubber ball when pressed; swollen abdomen.

Constipation; no stool for a week, alternating with diarrhoea; difficult stool, ineffectual straining. Constriction of anus. Diarrhoea; stool frequent; morning; after eating; bloody stool; mucus; watery. Flatus; external piles; itching of anus; sensation as though anus were compressed; as of worms in rectum; as though a screw were boring in anus; crawling in anus; pain in anus; burning after stool. Stitching during hard stool; tenesmus; urging after stool; stool bloody; brown, hard mucus, scanty, soft, watery.

Urination frequent, involuntary, with tenesmus. Pain in both kidneys but worse in left. Gonorrhoeal discharge from urethra; with itching crawling. Burning on urination. Sensation as if drops of urine remained in fossa navicularis and could not be forced out. Urine albuminous and of low specific gravity. It has cured where sugar was found in the urine. Urine; dark, red, copious and pale, scanty, white. Urine smells sweetish.

Erections troublesome and painful at night; wanting. Relaxed scrotum. Seminal emissions. Sexual desire increased. In the female it has been used to prevent abortion. Itching and soreness of the swollen vulva. It has cured dropsy of the ovaries. Leucorrhoea; acrid, hot, copious, like starch; before and after menses; thin and watery; menses absent, copious, too frequent or late, painful, suppressed. Metrorrhagia. Bearing down feeling in the pelvis; while sitting she feels something pushing up. It is a most useful remedy in prolapsus and displacements of all kinds.

Irritation and much mucus in the larynx and trachea. Pain in the larynx; burning. Tickling in the air passage. Hoarseness and aphonia.

Respiration asthmatic; difficult at night and on motion; rattling, short, suffocative, wheezing.

Cough in the morning, afternoon, evening, asthmatic, dry, during fever, from irritation in larynx and trachea, loose, from motion, short, spasmodic, from talking, from tickling in the air passages. Expectoration in the morning; bloody, copious, difficult, greenish, hawked, bloody mucus, offensive, purulent, tasting putrid, viscid, whitish, grayish-white, yellow.

Anxiety in chest and heart. Cancer of right breast was greatly benefited. Catarrh of chest. Congestion of chest and heart. Haemorrhagia of lungs and air passages. Inflammation of bronchial tubes; of lungs. Cardiac murmurs. Oppression of chest. Pain in chest during cough; in sides of chest; in right side, from heart to axilla; stitching on coughing. Palpitation at night; from least exertion; on motion; on rising up; on turning in bed; during sleep.

Pain in the back during menses; in dorsal region; in lumbar region during menses; in sacrum; aching, as if broken, in lumbar region, at night; dull pain in dorsal region, each side of spine; extending through chest; stitching pain in back. Stiffness in back on rising from bed.

Cold hands and feet at night; cramps in feet. Heat of hands; heaviness of limbs; lower limbs; of feet. Numbness of fingers, legs, feet. Pain in the limbs; in the joints; gouty, rheumatic; rheumatic in upper limbs; rheumatic in right upper arm; in elbow, in hip, in thigh, in right tibia; rheumatic pain extending upward from back of left foot, in evening. Aching in the shoulder. Drawing pain in lower limbs; in the thighs; in tendons of back of right hand and left foot. Sore-bruised lower limbs, thighs, legs, stitching upper limbs and shoulder; tearing upper limbs and hips. Paralysis of upper limbs; sensation of paralysis of shoulder; in right arm in evening when writing. Restless feet. Dropsical swelling in lower limbs; legs and feet. Weakness of limbs, of lower limbs. Trembling and weakness in limbs on using hands and on walking.

Dreams anxious; confused; of dead people; of fighting; of previous events; fantastic; of robbers; nightmare; unpleasant; vivid. Dreams that he is from thirty to sixty feet tall. Restless sleep. Sleepiness morning and evening. Sleeplessness; frequent waking.

Chill at night; coldness in and better rising from bed; chilliness in evening followed by heat and sweat; shaking chill; warm room does not ameliorate the chill. Fever in the afternoon and evening with chilliness. Dry heat. Flushes of heat; internal heat, with chill. Intermittent fever with desire to uncover.

Perspiration in the morning; in afternoon; at night; in bed; clammy, cold, copious, on least exertion, worse on motion.

The skin burns or is cold; jaundiced; liver spots. Dry skin. Urticaria. Swollen skin.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

Iodide of Iron. Fe I2. Trituration of freshly prepared crystals. Solution.

Clinical.─Albuminuria. Alcohol, effects of. Amenorrhoea. Breast, tumour of. Bronchorrhoea. Cancer. Catarrh. Coryza. Diabetes. Dyspepsia. Exophthalmic goitre. Eyes, scrofulous inflammation of. Glands, enlargements of. Gonorrhoea. Heartburn. Kidneys, affections of. Leucorrhoea. Liver, enlarged. Nose, scrofulous inflammation of. Ovarian dropsy. Periostitis. Plethora. Pneumonia. Scoliosis. Scrofula. Spleen, enlarged. Tuberculosis. Uterus, prolapse of. Writer's cramp.

Characteristics.─The Iodide of Iron has had an independent proving. It corresponds more particularly to scrofulous affections, glandular enlargements, and tumours. A number of peculiar symptoms were felt in rectum and anus: As if anus were compressed; as if worms were in anus; as if something twisted round about in a circle; as if a cord were drawn connecting navel and anus; as if a screw were boring in anus. Fe. i. has a symptom somewhat like the Ferrum symptom: "as if something rolled into throat and closed it like a valve." With Fe. i. it is, "food seems to push up to throat as if it had not been swallowed." Lancinating or cutting pains are noted in eyes, ears, and root of nose to occiput. Sensation as if lying in a cramped position. P. C. Majumdar (Ind. Hom. Rev., v. 104) has used Fe. i. with success in cases of enlarged liver and spleen when unaccompanied by fever. (When fever is present Fe. ars. is the better remedy.) The leading symptoms are: "Feels as if she had eaten too much, a sort of upward pressure. Stuffed feeling in abdomen as if she could not lean forward; costiveness." These are very common symptoms in cases of enlarged spleen. "Sweet-smelling urine" appears to be a leading symptom of Fe. i. Berridge removed with it this train of symptoms: "Morning catarrh, hot and restless in bed, sweet smell of urine" (H. P., vi. 208). Motion and walking <. Most symptoms are < at night, and in the morning. Warmth <; open air >. Touch <. Suited to scrofulous or mercurial diathesis; to subjects of relaxed fibre (phthisis in third stage; bronchorrhoea, pneumonia).

Relations.─Compare: Alum. (anaemia, leucorrhoea, prolapsus uteri); Alumen (swollen vagina, prolapsus uteri); Cauloph. (prolapsus uteri and leucorrhoea from atony; fitful, crampy pains); Helon. (pruritus, prolapse, leucorrhoea, albuminuria); Hydrast. (debility and atony; tenacious, profuse leucorrhoea; palpitation); Graph. (chlorosis, leucorrhoea profuse, hot, watery); Iod. (red face, irritability; corroding leucorrhoea, marked): Kali bich. (stringy, albuminous leucorrhoea; stringy expectoration). Thyroidin (Palpitation; exophthalmic goitre). Fe. bro. (leucorrhoea, prolapsus uteri). Fe. ars. (enlarged liver and spleen).

SYMPTOMS.

2. Head.─Headache, a confused sensation with heaviness, < in warm room; by smoking; wearing hat; reading; writing; motion; > in open air; sitting or standing in a draught.─Sharp pain from below eye up through head to vertex.─Cutting from bridge of nose through the occiput.

3. Eyes.─Purulent inflammation and photophobia; glands swollen.─Exophthalmos after suppressed menses.─Trachoma.─Painful lancinations in eyes and ears.

4. Ears.─Roaring in ears.

5. Nose.─Nose stopped; freer towards noon.─Thick nose of scrofula.─Nose swollen with ulcers and crusts inside.─Profuse discharge of mucus from nose and frequent expectoration of mucus from larynx and trachea.─A chronic nasal catarrh becomes worse; discharge usually in mornings now lasts all day; blowing gives no relief discharge thick, yellow or green.

8. Mouth.─Taste: metallic bitter; flat, insipid; inky; pasty sharp, biting; bad in morning; of peppermint.─Tongue, thick yellow coat.─Burning of tongue and mouth; mucous membrane of mouth and throat uniform red, or dotted with fine dense bright red papular eruption.─Burning pain and prickling and swelling of mucous membrane.─Dryness of mouth and throat.

9. Throat.─Violent tickling and scraping in throat, with sensation as though he would suffocate; hawking of mucus and cough.─Rattling of mucus.─Food seems to push up to throat as if it had not been swallowed.

11. Stomach.─No appetite; no relish for smoking.─Great thirst.─Sour and bitter rising from stomach.─Rising up in throat of greasy, acrid, stinging taste.─Eructations, nausea, and vomiting.

12. Abdomen.─Tenderness at epigastrium; at same time pinching in back, over spine, directly behind epigastrium.─Fulness even after a little food, as if she had eaten too much, a sort of upward pressure; stuffed feeling as if she could not lean forward.─Stomach full of wind, every breath gives pain as from a weight in epigastrium.─On rising, or at night, when turning in bed, heart beats violently; with pains in epigastrium or lower end of sternum.─Dull pain under short ribs.─Abdomen swollen; bloated after food or drink; pushed up; food soon satisfies.─Rumbling with slight colic before stool.─Abdomen, when pressed, feels like a rubber ball.─Feeling as of a cord drawn connecting anus and navel, with cutting pain on straightening up from bent position.─Abdominal walls numb; if pinched feel sore long after.─Inguinal pain extending across hypogastrium, sides feels stiff as after a strain.─Feeling in sides, low down, as of needles pricking her; < raising arms and walking; inguinal region sore on walking.─Stitches in r. groin when walking.

13. Stool and Anus.─Bowels not moved for a week, then stools loose; may have two movements: first costive, second sudden and loose (thin, light yellow), preceded by griping.─Small, hard stool, with sticking and pain as from constriction in anus on passage of faeces through it; stool hard.─Feeling in rectum and esp. in anus as if compressed; constriction, as if worms were in it; stool easy and painless.─Peculiar feeling in rectum and anus as if something twisted and turned about in a circle, and something like drops of water flowed down, and as if a screw were boring upward and downward.─Urging to stool with much pain in abdomen (drawings from above navel down r. side), followed by small, yellowish-brown, somewhat hard stool, in the morning.─Frequent ineffectual urging.

14. Urinary Organs.─Pain in both kidneys, esp. l.─A feeling in fossa navicularis as if water remained in it and could not be forced out any farther, in the morning.─Urine dark-coloured, depositing thick white sediment; urine scalds.─Frequent and profuse emission of light-coloured urine, having a sweetish smell, and slight milky sediment.─Albuminuria with oedema; in hard drinkers.

15. Male Sexual Organs.─Erections at night, with violent pain and burning in urethra; unable to urinate; tenesmus in neck of bladder.─Prickling itching in urethra, esp. fore part, with frequent urging to urinate, but very little flow.─Crawling tickling in urethra and rectum.

16. Female Sexual Organs.─Hysterical attacks; great debility; leucorrhoea, anorexia; finally dropsy of r. ovary; menses scanty, preceded by pain in r. breast and followed by profuse leucorrhoea; three weeks after beginning treatment, sudden loss of consciousness and discharge of two quarts of yellowish fluid from vagina, after which swelling subsided and health was entirely restored.─Constant bearing-down as if something was coming away; when sitting feels as if pushing something up.─Retroversio uteri; sensation of pressure and protrusion of rectum on standing.─Prolapse; inversion; antiversion.─Amenorrhoea.─Itching, soreness, and swelling of vulva and vagina.─Leucorrhoea like boiled starch; when bowels move the discharge is stringy.

17. Respiratory Organs.─Shortness of breath; obliged to take a deep breath, with sensation of oppression of chest, and a pressure beneath sternum.─Short, hacking cough, with yellowish-white, rather thick expectoration and at times pain in chest.─Expectoration of greyish-white, rather tenacious mucus drawn out in threads.─Haemoptysis.

18. Chest.─Sudden sharp sticking pain extending from l. nipple outward to arm; < by pressure; frequently returned during afternoon and evening.─Scirrhous tumour near r. nipple, small and painless at first, increasing with sharp, lancinating pains from breast to axilla, sensitive to touch (cured).

19. Heart.─Running up stairs causes violent palpitation and pain on top of head.─Heart-beat so violent, it awoke her from sleep, throbbing all over.─Heart beats quickly and seems to force the blood violently through whole body.─Blood-vessels throb all over, even when quiet.

20. Neck and Back.─Sides of neck sore when touched or on moving.─Small of back as if broken; felt only at night; as if lying in a cramped position.─Dull pain in back on each side about six inches above kidneys, extending through chest.─Painful sensation in back and kidneys and lower portion of spine, starting from lumbar vertebrae.

21. Limbs.─Weakness and bruised sensation in all the limbs, with aversion to moving about.─Periostitis of fingers and toes.─Painful drawing in tendons and back of r. hand and l. foot.

22. Upper Limbs.─Rheumatic, bruised, paralysed feeling in r. upper arm and shoulder.─R. arm weary and as if paralysed, has to stop writing in evening.

23. Lower Limbs.─Rheumatic pain extending upward from back of l. foot to pelvis in evening.─R. tibia painful.

25. Skin.─Short-lasting eruptions like urticaria, eczema, and lichen.

26. Sleep.─Sleep restless; frequent waking; many dreams of long past events; easy erections.─Frequent waking with excessive urging to stool and pain on micturition.─Dreams of thieves and fighting with them.─Dreams that he has grown very large, thirty feet high, and everything about is small and insignificant; the bedstead was too small and short frequent starting in sleep, and waking with a feeling as though paralysed.

27. Fever.─Coldness in a warm room about noon heat 3 to 4 p.m.