Homeopathic Materia Medica

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

Symptoms appear in the morning; forenoon; afternoon; evening; night; before midnight; after midnight. Aversion to the open air and sensitive to drafts. The open air aggravates many symptoms. Asleep feeling in single parts. Dread of bathing and worse from bathing. Cold in general makes the symptoms worse; worse from cold air; worse from becoming cold; worse from cold, wet weather. It has been a useful remedy in many kinds of convulsions; clonic; epileptic; epileptiform; internal. Worse after eating and from exertion. Fainting spells. Worse from cold food, fat food, cold drinks. Formication in many parts. Sensation of fullness. Easy bleeding of any part; blood dark and clotted. Heaviness external and internal. Induration of many tissues; in glands; in muscles. Inflammation and the results of induration; infiltration following inflammation; hepatization after pneumonia (Calc-s.) Marked lassitude. Desire to lie down. Complaints from lifting and straining of muscles and joints. Lying makes many symptoms worse; worse after lying; worse lying in bed; worse lying on the right side; worse lying on the painful side; better lying on the painless side. Worse before and during menses; worse from motion. Increased mucous discharges viscid and milk white. The pains are biting, bruised, burning, cutting, jerking, pinching, pressing, stitching. Stitching pains, outward, transversely in glands, in muscles. Tearing downward in muscles. Twinging and ulcerative pains.

Paralysis one-sided; of organs. Pulse full, hard, intermittent, irregular, slow; small, soft. General pulsation. Marked relaxation of muscles. Rising from sitting increases or brings on symptoms. Rubbing ameliorates symptoms. Sensitive to pain. Complaints one-sided; either side; mostly left-side. Complaints worse while sitting. Sluggish patients; feeble reaction; slow repair; slow convalescence. Swelling of parts; of glands. Feeling of tension in muscles. Aggravation from touch. Twitching of muscles. Warmth of bed makes some symptoms worse. Weakness of the whole body; in the morning; in the evening; after acute catarrhal diseases; from walking. Worse in wet weather.

Irritability and anger in the evening; anxiety: in the evening; about trifles. She has a delusion that she must not eat. Discontented and discouraged. Dullness of mind. Mental excitement. Fear that some evil will come to him. It has been used with benefit in imbecility. Indifference to all pleasure. Insanity and irresolution. Loathing of life. Moaning, mania. Obstinate. Restlessness. Sadness. Silent. Inclination to sit in complete silence. Talking in sleep. Unconsciousness in advanced states of brain and meningeal diseases. Vertigo; when rising or stooping; when walking.

Constriction of the scalp. Dandruff, copious, white. Eczema. Heaviness of the head; of the forehead; in the occiput with aching in trachea and hard cough; in the occiput as if full of lead; in occiput as if head would sink backwards; in occiput with hard cough. Sensation of looseness of the brain. Sensation of movements in the head. Pain in the head in the morning on walking; in the afternoon; evening; in cold air; in the open air; worse from binding up the hair; worse after eating; paroxysmal; worse from pressure; worse from stooping; worse from touch; worse walking; worse walking in the open air; worse from wine; better from wrapping up the head. Pain in the forehead. Pain in occiput, like a weight holds head fast to pillow (like Opium). Pain in the sides of head; temples; boring, bruised, burning in forehead; cutting; gnawing in occiput; jerking. Pressing pain in whole head; in forehead, outward; in occiput; in temples, outward. Shooting pain in head; in occiput. Stitching pain in head; worse stooping; in forehead; in occiput; in side of head; in temples. Stunning pains in head. Tearing pains in the head; in the forehead; in the occiput and sides of occiput; in sides of head; in the temples; in the vertex. Perspiration on the head. Pulsation in the head. Shocks in the head.

Catarrhal discharges with milk-white mucus or greenish or yellow purulent. Inflammation of the conjunctiva with thickening; pustulas; of the cornea. Burning in the eyes; in the canthi. Pressing. Pain as if sand in the eyes. Stitching pain in eyes. Photophobia. Protrusion of the eyes. Redness in the evening with pain. Staring. Swollen lids. Twitching inner canthi. Vesicles on the cornea. Vision dim. Double vision. Lights before the eyes when coughing or sneezing.

Closure of the eustachian tubes. Discharge from ears of milk-white mucus. Dry catarrh of the middle ear; the ears are hot. Stitching in the ears. Noises: buzzing; cracking on blowing nose and on swallowing; humming; reverberations; ringing; roaring; singing; snapping; tickling; whizzing. Pain in the ear; behind the ear; drawing; pressing; stitching; stitching behind the ear; tearing: tearing behind the ear. Pulsation behind the ear. Tingling in the ears. Twitching. Hearing acute; for noise; for voices; impaired.

Nasal catarrh; discharge copious; excoriating; purulent; thick; white; milk-white; viscid; yellow; posterior nares. Coryza; with cough; fluent, dry; thick and milk-white discharge. Dryness in the nose. Epistaxis in the afternoon; evening. Itching in the nose. The nose is obstructed with mucus. Frequent sneezing.

Epithelioma of the lips and lupus of the face. The face is bluish; pale; red. Dryness of the lips. Eruptions on the face; cheeks; lips; around the mouth; pimples. Suffering, sickly expression. Flashes of heat in the face. The face is hot. Pain in the face; worse in the right side; drawing; stitching; tearing. Paralysis of the face. Perspiration. Sunken face. Painful, swollen face; lips; glands of jaw. Tension. Twitching. Ulceration of face; lips.

Aphthae in the mouth of children and nursing mothers. Bleeding gums. Gum boils. The tongue is red or white. Dry mouth and tongue. Heat in the mouth. Inflammation of gums and tongue. Mapped tongue. Milk-white mucus in the mouth. Odor from the mouth offensive, even putrid. Burning mouth and tongue. Sore gums and tongue. Scorbutic gums. Salivation. Speech wanting. Swollen gums and tongue. Taste: bad, bitter; metallic; putrid; saltish; sour; sweetish. Ulceration of mouth and tongue; syphilitic. Vesicles in the mouth. Teeth on edge and become loose. Pain in the teeth; stitching.

The throat is dry and red and there is choking. Heat in the throat and much mucus. Inflammation of throat; tonsils; chronic. White exudate in the throat; gray patches. It has many times cured diphtheria. Mucus; viscid; thick; milk-white; covers pharynx; adherent. Pain in throat; on swallowing; burning; pressing; rawness; sore. Scraping in the throat. Swallowing very difficult. Swollen throat; tonsils; uvula, oedematous; parotid gland. Ulceration of the throat.

Anxiety of the stomach. The appetite is diminished or entirely lost or it is increased, even ravenous, after eating. Aversion to food; to meat. Constriction of the stomach. Emptiness not ameliorated by eating. Eructations after eating; ineffectual; bitter; empty; of food; sour; water-brash. Flashes of heat; heartburn, and sensation of fullness. Weight in stomach worse at night. Hiccough. Inflammation of the stomach. Loathing of food. Nausea after fats and rich food. Nausea and shivering. Pain in the stomach; aching; burning; cutting; pressing with emptiness; sore to touch; stitching. Tension. Thirst extreme; during chill. Vomiting: bile; blood; food; mucus, milk-white and dark green; morning diarrhoea with vomiting white mucus; sudden; incessant.

Distension in abdomen after eating. Emptiness. Ascites. Enlarged spleen. Flatulence: in day time; afternoon; night; prevents sleep. Fullness; after eating. Pain in abdomen; night; colic; griping with diarrhoea; during diarrhoea; after eating; as if menses would appear; before and during stool; in hypochondria, especially the right; burning in right hypochondrium. Cramping in abdomen; before stool; in hypogastrium with diarrhoea. Cutting in abdomen; in umbilical region. Pressing in hypochondria; in right better by passing flatus. Sore bruised abdomen; in right hypochondrium; in inguinal region. Rumbling before stool. Tension in abdomen.

Constipation; stool difficult; from inactivity of the rectum. The stool is dry, hard, large, light colored, clay colored. Diarrhoea; painful; morning; evening; after fats. The stool is excoriating; bloody mucus; copious; green; offensive; watery; white mucus. Dysentery with slimy stool or pure blood. Flatus during diarrhoea. Formication of the anus. Haemorrhagia from rectum. Haemorrhoids; congested; external; large; sore; worse walking. Involuntary stools; when passing flatus. Itching of the anus; after stool. Pain in rectum and anus; during and after stool. Burning during and after stool. Pressing in the anus. Soreness; after stool. Tenesmus. Paralysis of the rectum. Urging with normal stool; constant.

Catarrh of the bladder with much mucus in the urine. Retention of urine. Urging to urinate; at night; constant; frequent; ineffectual. Urination dribbling; feeble stream; frequent, at night; involuntary at night; retarded. Must press long to start the urine. Inflammation of the kidneys. Pain in the kidneys. Suppression of urine. It has been used much in chronic gonorrhoea with gleety, milky discharge. It has cured violent chordee. Itching of the urethra. Burning and cutting during urination. Urine: albuminous; black; greenish black; bloody; burning; cloudy; dark; pale; red; copious at night; scanty; containing sugar; thick.

Inflammation of glans penis and testes. Indurated testes. Erections troublesome; violent. Stitching of the scrotum. Drawing pain in testes. Seminal emissions. Ulcers on the penis; chancres.

Leucorrhoea: excoriating; milky; white; viscid. Menses bright red; clotted; frequent; late; painful. Metrorrhagia. Labor-like pain.

Irritation of larynx; inflammation; dryness; croup. Mucus in the larynx; thick milky. Larynx sensitive to touch. Tickling in larynx. Hoarseness; voice finally lost. Respiration rapid; asthmatic; deep; difficult; rattling; snoring. Cough day and night; asthmatic; barking; from deep breathing; croupy; dry; hacking; after eating; harsh; from irritation in larynx and trachea; loose; paroxysmal; racking; short; violent; whooping cough. Expectoration: morning; bloody; mucus; white; gray; milk-white; yellow.

Catarrh of the chest and anxiety of the heart. Coldness in the region of the heart. Congestion and flashes of heat in chest. Constriction of the chest; of the heart; as from sulphur fumes. Haemorrhagia of the lungs. Hepatization of lungs after pneumonia. Inflammation of bronchial tubes; of lungs; pleura. Oppression of the chest. Pain in the chest; on respiration; sides of chest, on respiration; heart; cutting; pressing; soreness. Stitching on breathing; stitching in the heart. Violent palpitation.

Coldness in the back. Stitching of the back. Pain in the back; on breathing; better lying; while sitting; while standing; while walking. Pain between the scapulae. Pain in the lumbar region; better lying; while sitting and standing. Pain in the sacrum better lying. Pain in the coccyx. Aching in the back; lumbar region; sacrum. Burning in the back. Drawing pain in lumbar region; in sacrum. Lightning-like pains in small of back to feet, must get out of bed and sit up. Pressing pains in back; in lumbar region. Stitching pains in scapula; in sacrum.

Cold extremities; hands; feet. Cracking in joints and tendons of back of hand. Cramps in limbs; thighs; legs. Eruptions in limbs; pimples; vesicles. Heat of hands and feet: burning soles. Pains in the limbs; nightly; rheumatic worse from the warmth of bed; rheumatic in joints; rheumatic left shoulder and elbow. Drawing pains in wrists; thighs; knees; legs. Pressing pains in shoulders. Stitching pains in knees, in legs. Tearing pains in shoulders; hands; fingers; in thighs, worse from heat of bed; in knees; calf. Paralysis of one side; perspiration of feet; cold. Stiffness of knees. Swelling of legs and ankles; oedematous. Tension in knees; calf. Twitching in limbs; in thighs. Ulcers on legs, warts on hands. Weakness of the limbs; of thighs.

Dreams: amorous; anxious; of death; of previous events; frightful; of misfortune; pleasant; vexatious; vivid. Restless sleep. Sleepiness afternoon; evening; after dinner; after eating. Sleeplessness all night. Waking early.

Chill morning; afternoon; evening; in open air; in bed; chilliness in evening; external coldness; shaking chill. Fever evening in bed. Perspiration morning; night; midnight.

Burning or coldness of skin. Dryness of skin. Eruptions: eczema; herpes; pimples; scabby; scaly; white thin bran-like scales; vesicles. Jaundice. Erysipelas. Excoriation; intertrigo. Formication. Itching in evening in bed; night; burning; crawling; better by scratching; stinging. Ulcers burning; suppurating, warts.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

Kali chloratum. Chloride of Potassium. Potassic Chloride. K Cl. (Not to be confounded with Chlorate of Potash, Kali chloricum, KClO3). Trituration. Solution.

Clinical.─Acne. Aphthae. Bubo. Bunion. Burns. Cataract. Chilblains. Constipation. Croup. Cystitis. Diarrhoea. Diphtheria. Dropsy. Dysentery. Ear, affections of. Eczema. Embolism. Eustachian tubes, occlusion of. Eyes, affections of. Glands, swollen. Haemorrhoids. Heart, affections of. Hodgkin's disease. Ingrowing toenails. Jaundice. Joint, cracking of. Leucorrhoea. Mumps. Rheumatism. Scorbutus. Shingles. Small-pox. Sycosis. Tendons, creaking of. Vaccination, effects of. Warts.

Characteristics.─It is to Schüssler that we owe the introduction of this salt into homoeopathy. His account of it is this: "It is contained in nearly all the cells and is chemically related to fibrin. It will dissolve white or greyish-white secretions of the mucous membrane and plastic exudations." This gives the indication for it in catarrhs, in croupous and diphtheritic exudations, and in the second stage of inflammation of serous membranes when the exudation is plastic. "When the cells of the epidermis lose molecules of K. mur. in consequence of a morbid irritation, then the fibrin comes to the surface as a white or whitish-grey mass; when dried this forms a mealy covering. If the irritation has seized upon the tissues under the epidermis, then fibrin and serum are exuded, causing the affected spot on the epidermis to rise in blisters. Similar processes may take place in and below epithelial cells." These are practically the whole of the cardinal indications in which K. mur. has been prescribed. On these indications it has been extensively used by homoeopaths, but I am not aware of any proving having been made. Boericke and Dewey, in their standard work on the Tissue Remedies, give a schema of "guiding symptoms," but these consist in great part of names of pathological states. They contain, however, valuable indications, and I am indebted to these authors for my Schema. The conditions and symptoms most strongly emphasised are: Chronic catarrhal condition of middle ear. Closed Eustachian tubes. Snapping and noises in the ear. Greyish-white, dryish or slimy tongue. Haemorrhoids, bleeding, blood dark, fibrous, clotted. Diphtheria. Rheumatic fever with exudation and swelling around the joints. The symptoms are < by motion, and < by any fatty or rich food or pastry. < By warmth of bed (rheumatic symptoms). It is said to have cured cataract after Calc. fl. had helped. I have cured with it rheumatism affecting most left shoulder and elbow, < in morning on rising. K. mur. manifests the action of its two elements in about equal proportions. It compares closely with K. chlor., and it is quite possible that the proving of the latter will be available for both preparations, as Hering infers. Among the symptoms of K. chl. are: "Tendency to rush of blood to both eyes" and "Light before both eyes on coughing and sneezing." Boericke and Dewey give: "Protruded appearance of eyes, white tongue, croupy, hard cough, harsh barking." Hering gives: "Cough, stomachy, noisy, with protruded appearance of eyes." To which preparation this last belongs I cannot say; but in a case of mine K. mur. caused a severe aggravation of the following: "As if eyes would be forced out of head, with cough." I conclude, therefore, that "cough affecting the eyes" is common to K. chl. and K. mur. The great keynote of K. mur. is, whiteness─whiteness of secretions, exudations, eruptions of tissues. The next is, toughness─fibrinous exudations and discharges, too readily clotting blood-hence embolism, indurations, hard swellings. In H. R., xv. 341, is an incidental proving of K. mur. by "J. De W. C." I have included his symptoms and marked them "(C)." They are mostly in the throat.

Relations.─Antidoted by: Bell., Calc. s., Hydrast., Puls. It follows well: Calc. ph., Calc. fl., Fer. ph. Compare: K. chl.; in tough secretions, K. bi., K. ca., Hydrast.; in rheumatic affections, Bry., Rhus, Sul., Merc.; in Eustachian tube affections, Merc.; in inflammation of ear, Graph., K. bi., K. ca.; in < from fatty food, < from warmth, Puls. Compare also: Nat. mur., Nit. ac., Silic., Apis, Thuj.

Causation.─Vaccination. Sprains. Burns. Blows. Cuts. Rich food. Deranged internal functions.

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.─Patient imagines he must starve.

2. Head.─Headache with vomiting, hawking up of white milk-like mucus.─Sick-headache with white-coated tongue, vomiting of white phlegm arising from a sluggish liver, want of appetite, etc.─In meningitis Schüssler's second remedy.─Crusta lactea.─Dandruff.

3. Eyes.─Discharge of white mucus from the eyes, or yellow, greenish matter and yellow, purulent scabs.─Specks of matter on lids.─Superficial, flat ulcer of eye arising from a vesicle.─Blisters on cornea.─Feeling of sand in the eyes.─Parenchymatous keratitis.─Cataract.

4. Ears.─Chronic catarrhal conditions of middle ear.─Deafness or earache from congestion or swelling of middle ear or Eustachian tubes, with swelling of the glands, or cracking noises on blowing nose, or swallowing.─Deafness due to throat troubles, white tongue, etc.─Deafness from swelling of external ear.─Granular conditions of external meatus and membrana tympani.─Closed Eustachian tubes.─Seems to act more on Eustachian tube.─Snapping and noises in ear.

5. Nose.─Catarrh, phlegm white, thick.─Stuffy cold in head, whitish-grey tongue.─Vault of pharynx covered with adherent crusts.─Nose-bleed in afternoon.

6. Face.─Cheeks swollen and painful.─Faceache from swelling of face or gums.

8. Mouth.─Aphthae, thrush, white ulcers in mouths of little children or nursing mothers.─Swollen glands about jaw and neck.─Swelling of tongue.─Coating of tongue greyish white, dryish or slimy.─Mapped tongue.─Sensation as if a tumour growing on tongue (removed in a patient of mine).

9. Throat.─Tonsils excessively swollen; stringy, tough mucus; swallowing excessively painful, even water or the softest bread; must twist his neck to get it down (C.).─Mumps, swelling of the parotid glands.─Hawks up offensive, cheesy, small lumps.─Greyish patches or spots in throat.

11. Stomach.─Want of appetite.─Dyspepsia and indigestion, with a whitish-grey tongue, sick feeling after taking fat, pain and heavy feeling on r. side under shoulder.

12, 13. Abdomen and Stool.─Jaundice if caused by a chill resulting in catarrh of duodenum, stools light in colour.─Sluggish action or complete torpidity of liver, pain in r. side.─Constipation, light-coloured stools denoting want of bile, sluggish action of liver, or occurring in consequence of some primary disturbance, esp. where fat and pastry disagree.─Diarrhoea after fatty food, and in typhoid fever, with pale yellow, ochre, or clay-coloured stools, white or slimy stools.─Dysentery, purging, with slimy stools.─Haemorrhoids, bleeding, blood dark and thick, fibrinous, clotted.

14. Urinary Organs.─Acute cases of inflammation of bladder, in second stage, when swelling has set in and discharge is thick, white mucus.

15. Male Sexual Organs.─Schüssler's principal remedy in gonorrhoea, and orchitis resulting from a suppression of same.─In bubo for the soft swelling, and in soft chancres Schüssler's chief remedy.─Gleet combined with eczema, visible or latent.

16. Female Sexual Organs.─Menstruation too late or suppressed, checked or too early, excessive discharge, dark-clotted or tough, black blood, like tar.─Leucorrhoea, discharge of milky-white mucus, thick, non-irritating, bland.─Pregnancy: morning sickness with vomiting of white phlegm.

17. Respiratory Organs.─Loss of voice, hoarseness from cold, tongue white.─Protruded appearance of eyes, white tongue, croupy, hard cough, harsh and barking.

19. Heart.─Palpitation from excessive flow of blood to heart in hypertrophic conditions.

21. Limbs in General.─Nightly rheumatic pains < from warmth of bed; lightning-like from small of back to feet; must get out of bed and sit up.─Puffiness of ankle-joints (C.).─Ulcers on extremities, fibrinous discharges; bunions.─Tenalgia crepitans, creaking of tendons on back of hand.

24. Generalities.─Schüssler's specific or chief remedy in epilepsy, esp. if occurring with or after suppression of eczema or other eruptions.─Tabes dorsalis.─Haemorrhages, dark, black clotted, or tough blood.─Effects of blows, cuts, and bruises, for the swelling.─Dropsy, arising from heart, liver, or kidney disease, from obstruction of bile ducts, from weakness of heart with palpitation.─Chief remedy in glandular swellings, follicular infiltrations.─Scrofulous enlargement of glands.─Scurvy, hard infiltrations.─Schüssler's second remedy in sprains.

25. Skin.─Acne; erythema; eczema and other eruptions on skin, with vesicles containing thick, white contents.─Albuminoid eczema, or other skin disease, arising after vaccination with bad vaccine lymph.─Eczema from suppressed or deranged uterine functions.─Dry flour-like scales on skin.─Obstinate eczema, crusta lactea, scurfy eruption on head and face of little children.─Burns of all degrees (externally also), blisters, etc.─Bunions, chilblains, eruptions connected with stomach or menstrual derangement.─Ingrowing toenails.─Warts on hands.

26. Sleep.─Somnolence.─Restless sleep; startled at least noise.

27. Fever.─Congestions and inflammations, second stage, of any organ or part of the body.─Catarrhal fever, great chilliness, the least cold air chills him through, has to sit close to fire to keep warm and is chilly.─Rheumatic fever; exudation and swelling around the joints.

Leaders In Homoeopathic Therapeutics, Eugene Beauharnais Nash

Is one of the so-called "Bio-chemic" remedies, or one of the twelve tissue remedies, claimed by Schuessler to be able to cure all the ills that flesh is heir to. It has not been proven enough to know half its real value. Clinical use in the potencies, ranging from the 3d to the 30th, has proven that it is a remedy of undoubted great value. It is of use in the second stage of inflammations or the stage of interstitial exudation in any part of the body, and here it is not, so far as yet known, attended with the danger of Kali hydroiodicum. If it had been used in the massive doses of the latter remedy, we might have had more deleterious results than we now know of. I have seen enlarged joints after acute rheumatism rapidly reduced to normal size under its action, sometimes after they had resisted other remedies a long time; but I do not know of any characteristic symptoms for its use in preference to other remedies. It is also a remedy for tonsillitis after the acute inflammatory symptoms have been checked by Aconite, Belladonna, or Ferrum phos. I have found it very efficacious in deafness from inflammation and closure of the Eustachian tube. I began using it in the 3d or 6th, but have better success with the 24th potency. A great many cases of chronic incurable deafness might have been cured by this remedy if used early. Mercurius dulcis may be mentioned in this connection, as it was not when we wrote of the Mercuries, as another remedy for these Eustachian troubles. Of course you would be apt to have some other mercurial symptoms which would perhaps enable you to choose between the two remedies. Kali mur. is likely to come into use more from a clinical introduction than from provings. That is what Hering used to call a remedy born by breech presentation. It is possible, but not right or natural.