The Concordance Repertory – of the more characteristic symptoms of the Materia Medica – By William D. Gentry, M. D.

The
Concordance Repertory
of the more characteristic symptoms of the Materia Medica
By William D. Gentry, M. D.
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CHAPTER : GENERALITIES AND KEY NOTES *****

Abandon :-

Victim seeks solitude to abandon himself to
onanism :-

Bufo.

Abdomen (See section on Abdomen.) :-

Child lies on abdomen and spasmodically thrusts breach
up :-

Cupr.

Chilliness shivers or rigors over back and abdomen, or
between shoulders and down back :-

Acon.

Congestion of blood to head, chest, and especially to
abdomen :-

Aloe.

During fever or pains in abdomen, patient covers up,
but afterwards skin becomes comes cold and patient uncovers :-

Camph.

Faintness with sensations of emptiness in abdomen after
stool :-

Podo.

Sensation as if hot water were poured from chest into
abdomen :-

Sang.

Soreness about abdomen, sides and back :-

Nat-s.

Throbbing in bloodvessels of whole body :-

Glon.,
Sep.

Especially in abdomen :-

Sel.

Ability :-

Children do not learn to walk ; lose ability to do
so :-

Calc-p.,
(Sil.)

Increased ability to exercise muscles without
fatigue :-

(Coca),
Fl-ac.

Abscesses :-

Tendency to formation of abscesses :-

Hep.

Ache :-

Parts on which patient lies ache as if sore :-

Nux-m.

Aching :-

Stitching, with burning aching pains :-

All-c.

Tired all over as if had walked a great distance, with
aching in limbs ; can stand only with difficulty :-

Lac-ac.

Wandering aching pains, only in small spots, returning
often :-

Nux-m.

Acids :-

Worse from :-

Merc-c.

Acuteness :-

Increased acuteness of all senses :-

Caps.

Irritability and acuteness of senses :-

Bell.

Nervous trembling, with great acuteness of
senses :-

Cupr.

Unnatural acuteness of senses :-

Cham.

Affected :-

Is less affected by excessive heat in summer or cold in
winter :-

Fl-ac.

Pains come on when lying on back, and are relieved by
turning to one or other side, or by lying on affected side :-

Puls.

Affections :-

After a cold :-

Acon.,
Bell., Cham., Coff., Dulc., Ip., Meny., Nit-ac., Nux-v.

Afternoon :-

Darting and lacerating in whole body afternoon and
evening :-

Ind.

Worse in afternoon :-

Alum.,
Am-c., Anac., Ant-c., Asaf., Canth., Chel., Laur., Lyc., Mosch., Nit-ac.,
Sars., Thuj.

Ages :-

Exaggeration of duration of time and extent of
space ; seconds seem ages, a few rods an immense distance :-

Cann-i.

Aggravated (See Worse.) :-

Very anxious, restless, with foreboding ;
sometimes definite anticipations of time of death drawing, tearing or
tingling pains ; symptoms aggravated at night also by warmth and
motion :-

Acon.

Aggravates :-

Over-sensitiveness to external impressions, such as
odors light noise or music, slight current of air ; every harmless
word offends ; even suitable medicine aggravates :-

Nux-v.

Agitation :-

Fainting with agitation of chest :-

Acon.,
Bell.

Great agitation and restlessness :-

Coff.

Air :-

Better in cold air :-

Asar.,
Iod., Puls.

Light and airy feeling ; legs feel as if floating
in air :-

Stict.

Longing for fresh air :-

Puls.,
(Lyc.)

Sensitiveness to :-

Cist.

Sensitiveness to cold air :-

Am-c.,
Calc., Caust., Cham., Cocc., Coff., Phos., Sabad., Sep.

Sensitiveness to warm air :-

Cocc.

Takes cold easily from exposure, but especially in
warm, moist air :-

Ham.

Worse in cold air :-

Ars.,
Aur., Camph., Caust., Dulc., Hell., Hep., Kali-c., Mosch., Nux-m., Nux-v.,
Rhus-t., Sabad., Stront.

Worse in draft on air :-

Graph.,
(China), (Nux-v.), (Selen.)

Worse in dry cold air :-

Asar.,
Caust., Hep., Nux-v.

Worse in wet cod air :-

Am-c.,
Dulc., Nux-m., Rhus-t.

Airy :-

Light and airy feeling legs feel as if floating in
air :-

Stict.

Alæ nasi :-

Deep furrows in forehead or face, with flabby fan-like
motion of alæ nasi :-

Lyc.

Alive :-

Feeling as of something alive in glands :-

Spong.

Jumping or moving like something alive in different
parts :-

Croc.,
Mosch.

Sensation as of something alive in different parts of
body :-

Croc.

Alone :-

Great languor, with inclination to sit or lie down and
be alone :-

Nux-v.

Worse when alone :-

Phos.,
Stram.

Alternate :-

Periodical returns of symptoms on alternate days or
they antepone :-

Chin-s.

Rheumatic and gastric affections alternate :-

Kali-bi.

Worse on alternate days :-

Alum.

Alternating :-

Contraction of single parts alternating with
extension :-

Lyc.

Convulsions alternating with oppressed
breathing :-

Ign.

Heaviness alternating with sensation of
lightness :-

Nux-v.

Trembling of whole body alternating with convulsive
movements of limbs :-

Arn.

Alternation :-

Of contrary complaints :-

Croc.,
Ign., Plat., Puls.

Of mental and bodily symptoms :-

Croc.,
Plat.

Anæmia :-

Calc-p.,
Ign., Plb.

And debility from loss of fluids :-

Carb-v.,
(China).

And emaciation :-

Chlol.

In laryngeal phthisis :-

Mang.

Or atrophy from prolonged hæmorrhage :-

Helon.

Or chlorosis, with too rapid growth :-

Phos.

With chlorosis ; defective menstruation ;
poverty of blood after hæmorrhages deficiency of light air or suitable
food or after exhausting diseases :-

Ferr.

With great irritability ; skin watery and milky
white :-

Kali-c.

General anæmia with œdematous feet :-

Arg-m.

Red parts become white anæmia :-

Hell.,
(Ferr.).

Anæsthesia :-

Or excessive hyperæsthesia :-

Plb.

General anæsthesia or general hyperæsthesia :-

Absin.

Anasarca :-

Colch.,
Hell., Samb.

And dropsical affections :-

Acet-ac.,
(Ars.).

Complete, without thirst, with very pale clear,
wax-like appearance :-

Apis.

General :-

(Apis),
(Apoc.), (Ars.), Merc-c.

With pale waxy or earth-colored skin and great
thirst :-

Ars.

General inclination to dropsical effusions and anasarca
with stinging pains :-

Apis.

Anger :-

Indignation or anger followed by inflammation or
colic :-

Coloc.

Worse from anger :-

Cham.,
Coloc., Cupr., Staph.

Worse from anger grief or sorrow :-

Staph.

Anguish :-

Tremor and sweat during pains :-

Nat-c.

Burning pains with great anguish and fear of
death :-

Ars.

Animal :-

Constant want of animal heat ; constant
chilliness :-

Con.

Answer :-

Always out of humor impatient, snappish,
spiteful ; will not give a civil answer excessive
irritability :-

Cham.

Anthrax :-

Burning like fire, with cold blue skin, dry as
parchment, peeling off in large scales :-

Ars.

Antepone :-

Periodical return of symptoms on alternate days or they
antepone :-

Chin-s.

Anticipations :-

Very anxious ; restless, with foreboding ;
sometimes definite anticipations of time of death ; drawing, tearing
or tingling pains ; symptoms aggravated at night also by warmth and
motion :-

Acon.

Anxiety :-

When lying on left side at night :-

Phos.

Ebullitions with anxiety and weakness as if paralyzed
with sore feeling in various parts :-

Am-m.

Excessive restlessness, with tossing about shivering
and anxiety accompanying many symptoms :-

Acon.

Extreme exhaustion and heaviness after slight exertion,
with great anxiety, nausea, pale face and difficult breathing :-

Spong.

Nervous vibrations through body causing anxiety and
uneasiness :-

Meph.

Restless changing position often ; great
anxiety :-

Ars.

Trembling all over with anxiety and ebullitions of
blood :-

Samb.

Anxious :-

Faint anxious and weak ; pale in morning :-

Ars.

Very anxious ; restless with forebodings ;
sometimes definite anticipations of time of death ; drawing, tearing
or tingling pains ; symptoms aggravated at night, also by warmth and
motion :-

Acon.

Apathy :-

Great indifference and apathy discouraged irritable and
fidgety :-

Apis.

Apoplexy :-

Paralysis with numbness and coldness of paralyzed parts
after apoplexy, sexual excesses, dissipation :-

Nux-v.

Appear :-

Pains suddenly appear and gradually disappeared :-

Puls.

Appearing :-

Frequent drawing pains constantly appearing and
disappeared in almost all parts of body :-

Nit-ac.

Appetite :-

Asthenopia ; nervous deafness ; loss of
appetite flatulence and nervous, hacking cough, with irritable nerves in
anæmic nervous persons :-

Asar.

Atrophy of children, with inordinate appetite :-

Iod.

Depressed condition of mind and body, with great
appetite :-

Nat-m.

Emaciation and loss of appetite :-

Kali-i.

Emaciation, with marked appetite :-

Petr.

Approach :-

Pains appear at approach of rough, windy weather or
thunder storm :-

Rhod.

Approaching :-

Internal feeling as of approaching illness :-

Chin-s.

Arm :-

Better carrying child on arm :-

Ant-t.,
Bell., Cham., Coloc., Kali-c., Mur-ac.

Arms :-

Body rigid, stretched out stiff :-

(Hyos.)

Followed by spasmodic jerking of arms :-

Ip.

Paralytic feeling in arms legs and spine :-

Æsc.

Trembling emotions and tremor of whole body, especially
in arms :-

Con.

Aroused :-

Lowest passions are aroused making man beastly :-

Bufo.

Arteries :-

Feels pulsations of all arteries down to tips of
toes :-

Kali-c.

Arthralgic :-

And neuralgic pains in trunk and limbs :-

Plb.

Arthritic :-

Nodes :-

Calc.,
Dig., Graph., Led., Lyc., Rhod., Sabin., Staph.

Rheumatic and arthritic pains :-

Guai.

Ascend :-

Faintness when going down stairs, can ascend without
difficulty :-

Stann.

Usually buoyancy, enabling one to ascend great heights,
or run rapidly without sense of fatigue or loss of breath :-

Coca.

Ascending :-

Great weakness and loss of breath on ascending
stairs :-

Iod.

Weariness on ascending :-

Calc-p.

Worse on ascending :-

Am-c.,
Ars., Bry., Calc., Iod., Spong.

Worse on descending :-

Bor.

Ascites :-

Ars.,
Lyc.

Asks :-

Painlessness of all ailments ; complains of
nothing and asks for nothing :-

Op.

Assimilation :-

Cachectic state from faulty nutrition and
assimilation :-

Ferr.

Æsthenopia :-

Nervous deafness ; loss of appetite ;
flatulence and nervous hacking cough, with irritable nerves in anæmic,
nervous persons :-

Asar.

Asthma :-

Fainting with :-

Berb.,
Kreos., Lach.

Asthmatic :-

Œdematous swelling of whole body, with asthmatic
complaints :-

Lact.

Atrophy :-

Carb-v.,
Chin.

Anæmia or atrophy from prolonged hæmorrhage :-

Helon.

Of children :-

Ferr.

Child tall, slender emaciated big-bellied :-

Phos.

With inordinate appetite :-

Iod.

Of glands, especially testes and mammæ :-

Iod.,
Kali-i.

Muscular :-

Plb.

Aversion :-

To all exercise :-

Caps.

To cold water ; omits bath on account of
it :-

Phys.

To heat and being covered :-

Sec.

To open air :-

Petr.,
(Am-c.), (Cocc.), (Nux-v.), (Sep.), (Sil.).

To open air least cold damp air goes right through, and
patient is constantly taking cold :-

Calc.

To washing :-

Am-c.,
Ant-c., Bry., Cham., Rhus-t., Sep., Spig., Sulph.

To water :-

Sulph.,
(Am-c.), (Ant-c.), (Bry.), (Cham.), (Rhus-t.), (Sep.), (Spig.).

Great aversion to water ; cannot bear to touch
it :-

Am-c.

Great weakness with aversion to all food :-

Ip.

Sensitiveness and aversion to open air :-

Nux-v.,
(Rumex.).

Awake :-

Easily startled when awake and then feels throbbing and
palpitation :-

Camph.

Awakes :-

Heaviness in whole body as when one awakes from deep
sleep :-

Rheum.

Awaking :-

Better on awaking :-

Chin.

Giddy fluttering on awaking, must rise or
smother :-

Kali-i.

Worse on awaking :-

Ambr.,
Ars., Calc., Caust., Hep., Nit-ac., Phos.

Awkwardness :-

Ambr.,
Apis, Ars., Bov., Calc., Caps., Caust., Hep., Nat-c., Nat-m., Nit-ac.,
Phos., Puls., Sep., Staph.

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