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 *****

Ears :-

Fainting after loss of blood or other animal fluids,
with ringing in ears, cold skin, cold perspiration :-

Chin.

Earth-colored :-

General anasarca, with pale, waxy or earth colored skin
and great thirst :-

Ars.

East :-

Worse from east wind :-

Hep.,
Spong.

Eating :-

Better after eating :-

Acon.,
Chel., Cimic., Iod., Puls.

Better while eating warm food :-

Aloe.

Fainting after eating :-

Nux-v.

Weariness and heaviness after eating :-

Staph.

Worse after eating :-

Æsc.,
Æth., Agar., Aloe, Ant-c., Arg-n., Calc., Calc-p., Clem., Coff., Hyos.,
Kali-c., Lach., Nat-m., Sep.

And drinking :-

Ars.,
Cist., Coloc., Ferr.

Especially oysters :-

Lyc.

Or drinking :-

(Ars.),
Caps., Chin., Nux-m.

Worse during and after eating :-

Am-c.

Worse after eating potatoes :-

Alum.

Worse after eating sweet things :-

Nat-c.

Better when eating and during digestion :-

Anac.

Worse while eating :-

Cann-i.,
Corn.

Ebullitions :-

And congestions :-

Phos.

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

Am-m.

Trembling all over with anxiety and ebullitions of
blood :-

Samb.

Ecchymosis :-

Black and blue spots all over :-

Æth.,
(Arn.).

Stagnation of blood in capillaries, causing blueness,
coldness, ecchymosis :-

Carb-v.

Effusion :-

Exudations after inflammation, with effusion of
lymph :-

Kali-chl.

Dropsical effusion to serous membranes especially brain
thorax and peritoneum :-

Hell.

Effusions :-

Chronic inflammation of serous membranes, with profuse
serous effusions :-

Ars.

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

Apis.

Egg :-

Weariness, weakness and faintness, associated with
indigestion gastric derangements and distress as if hard-boiled egg or
something were knotted in the stomach :-

Abies-n.

Eggs :-

Craves boiled eggs :-

Calc.

Electric :-

Shooting pains like electric shocks, here and
there :-

Cimic.

Susceptibility to electric changes :-

Petr.

Twitching like shocks, through one side of body :-

Colch.

Electricity :-

Shocks of pain as from electricity :-

Verat.

Emaciated :-

Atrophy of children ; child tall, slender,
emaciated big-bellied :-

Phos.

Flabby shrunken, emaciated children :-

Calc-p.

Emaciation :-

Am-c.,
Ant-c., Ars., Asc-c., Bar-c., Calc., Chin., Cocc., Ferr., Graph., Iod.,
Lyc., Nat-m., Nit-ac., Nux-v., Petr., Ph-ac., Phos., Plb., Puls., Sars.,
Sec., Sil., Stann., Sulph., Tab., Ter., Verat.

Anæmia and emaciation :-

Chlol.

And deadness of affected parts :-

Thuj.

And debility after loss of fluids :-

Lyc.

And dropsy :-

Chin-s.

And loss of appetite :-

Kali-i.

Especially of upper arms and thighs :-

Nit-ac.

Irritability :-

Petr.

Lassitude, debility :-

Gamb.

Of children ; face has very old look :-

(Arg-n.),
(Op.), Sulph.

Of suffering parts :-

Graph.,
Led.

Sensitiveness to cold air :-

Nat-ar.

With marked appetite :-

Petr.

With withered old-man look :-

Arg-n.

Extreme :-

(Ars.),
(Nat-m.), (Phos.), Plb., Sulph.

With great hunger :-

Iod.

Extreme rapid emaciation is reduced almost to a
skeleton :-

Phos.

General emaciation most conspicuous about neck, which
is very thin and shrunken :-

Nat-m.

Gradual or rapid :-

Iod.

Great debility and emaciation :-

Acet-ac.

Great :-

Ars.,
Canth., Iod., Phos., Stram.

Especially face thighs and hands :-

Sel.

Skin becomes shriveled or lies in folds :-

Sars.

Weight reduced 70 pounds :-

Hydr.
(Phytolacca berries.).

Laxness and weakness of whole muscular system, with
emaciation weakness of digestion and coldness of extremities :-

Ferr.

Low cachectic condition, with profound debility and
great emaciation ; almost like a skeleton :-

Iod.

Muscular relaxation and emaciation :-

Lach.

Nervous restlessness, with emaciation and constant
thirst for small quantities of water :-

Ars.

Progressive emaciation with dry cough and
hæmoptysis :-

Acal.

Rapid :-

Kreos.

And prostration :-

Ars-i.

Of paralyzed parts :-

Sec.

With great loss of flesh, cold sweat and
debility :-

Ars.

Emotions :-

Affections from sudden emotions :-

Coff.

Chlorosis in sensitive, nervous and hysterical women,
inclined to spasmodic and intermittent complaints, induced by mental
emotions such as grief, fright or disappointed love :-

Ign.

Fainting from sudden emotions :-

Coff.

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

Con.

Emptiness :-

Faintness with sensation of emptiness in abdomen after
stool :-

Podo.

Feeling of, in :-

Internal parts :-

Cocc.

Whole body as if were hollow :-

Kali-c.

Encumbered :-

Feels uneasy and encumbered by clothing :-

Nux-v.

Endurance :-

Great physical vigor and great endurance in spite of
slight nourishment and little sleep :-

Coca.

Energy :-

Debility ; patients want to be mesmerized ;
they are starving, without vital energy :-

Calc-p.

General debility and impaired mental energy with great
drowsiness :-

Corn.

Loss of :-

Ery-a.

Want of :-

Carb-an.

Enervation :-

Of whole body :-

Cycl.

Engorgement :-

Of glands :-

Bell.,
(Merc-i-f.).

Impaired nutrition and tendency to glandular
engorgement :-

Calc.

Enlargement :-

Tardy development of bones, with lymphatic
enlargement :-

Calc.

Enovial membranes :-

Pains in ligaments tendons and enovial membranes worse
at rest and on beginning to move and better from continued motion :-

Rhus-t.

Envy :-

Ill-effects from envy, pride or chagrin :-

Staph.

Epistaxis :-

Fainting with :-

Croc.,
Lach.

Erect :-

Better when sitting erect :-

Lact.

Stoop-shouldered ; cannot walk erect :-

Sulph.

Erosions :-

Dryness and erosions of mucous membranes :-

Nat-m.

Eructations :-

Better from :-

Cinnb.,
Nit-ac.

Eruption :-

Exhaustion ; not able to develop eruption :-

Zinc.

Eruptions :-

Scrofulous eruptions and ulcers in children :-

Calc.

Ether :-

Feeling as if inhaling ether :-

Glon.

Evening :-

Darting and lacerating in whole body afternoon and
evening :-

Ind.

Greater weariness in morning after rising than in
evening on going to bed :-

Nux-v.

Lassitude in evening :-

Startings, like convulsive shocks, in affected parts,
on going to sleep in evening :-

Ars.

Trembling like shivering in evening :-

Anag.

Very tired in evening :-

Pall.

Worse evening and night :-

Acon.,
Am-c.

Worse in morning, or from evening till midnight :-

Anac.

Worse in evening :-

Acon.,
Am-c., Am-m., Ambr., Ant-c., Ant-t., Asaf., Bell., Caps., Caust., Colch.,
Cycl., Euphr., Guai., Hell., Hyos., Kali-c., Kali-n., Lach., Lyc., Mag-c.,
Meny., Merc., Mez., Nit-ac., Phos., Plat., Puls., Ran-b., Ran-s., Sep.,
Stann., Stront., Sul-ac., Sulph., Zinc.

Exaggeration :-

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

Cann-i.

Exaltation :-

Of all powers of mind and body :-

Cann-i.

Physical excitement through mental exaltation :-

Coff.

Exalted :-

Great hyperæsthesia of all senses and exalted
susceptibility to impressions :-

Cocc.

Exanthemata :-

Exhaustion ; not able to develop exanthema :-

Zinc.

Excitable :-

Over-sensitive ; lest unpleasant impression
prostrates :-

Phos.

Excitability :-

Congestion followed by inflammation, with full bounding
pulse ; great heat restlessness ; thirst great nervousness and
excitability anguish of mind and fear of death :-

Acon.

And sensibility of all organs :-

Merc.

Excited :-

Weak sick feeling, with trembling when excited, lame
and sore all over :-

Abrot.

Excitement :-

Excessive irritability of mind and body ; vascular
excitement :-

Gels.

Ill-effects from loss of sleep and night-watching, and
mental excitement :-

Cocc.,
(Nux-v.).

Physical excitement through mental exaltation :-

Coff.

Trembling over whole body from excitement exercise and
pain :-

Cocc.

Worse after mental excitement :-

Cist.

Excoriating :-

Discharges thin, offensive and excoriating lame and if
purulent are of a dirty, yellowish-green color and very offensive :-

Nit-ac.

Excoriation :-

Of mucous membranes :-

(Hydr.),
Kreos.

Excretions :-

Discharges and excretions offensive :-

Sil.

Especially urine and sweat diminished :-

Apoc.

Offensive :-

Guai.

Suppression of all secretions and excretions :-

Stram.

Exercise :-

Aversion to all exercise :-

Caps.

Better from continuous exercise :-

Caps.

Better from slight exercise :-

Ferr.

Easily fatigued by least exercise :-

Carb-ac.

Fainting from exercise :-

Nux-v.

Great weakness after little exercise :-

Cann-s.

Ill-effects from over-lifting or from exercise :-

Mill.

Lassitude, with perspiration, after least
exercise :-

Coc-c.

Shuns all motion and dreads exercise :-

Caps.

Trembling over whole body from excitement, exercise and
pain :-

Cocc.

Weak and nervous ; a little exercise causes
palpitation :-

Chin-s.

Worse at beginning of exercise :-

Caps.

Worse from exercise :-

Apis,
Phys.

Worse during exercise :-

Merc.

Worse when sitting after long exercise or on rising
after having been sitting for a long time :-

Puls.

Exertion :-

Great weakness and exhaustion after exertion :-

Colch.

Better from exertion of :-

Body :-

Sep.

Mind :-

Croc.,
Nat-c.

Debility with sleepiness, from least exertion :-

Nux-m.

Dread of :-

Nat-m.

Easily tired by bodily exertion :-

Calc.

Exhaustion as after great exertion especially in arms
and thighs :-

Guai.

Exhaustion from slightest exertion must lie
down :-

Ars.

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

Spong.

Faints after every exertion :-

Ther.

Fainting after least exertion :-

Verat.

Fainting fits after making least exertion :-

Nux-v.

Fatigue from slightest exertion :-

Cycl.,
Sep.

Great debility and weakness on making least
exertion :-

Carb-v.

Great debility after any exertion :-

(Ars.),
Nat-c.

Great weakness and relaxation of all physical and
mental powers after exertion or after long talking :-

Nat-m.

Great weakness as after great exertion :-

Kali-n.

Great weakness from least exertion :-

(Ars.),
Nat-m.

Tired feeling on least exertion :-

Pic-ac.

Weakness from exertion :-

(Ars.),
Lyc.

Worse after least exertion :-

Nat-c.

Worse from exertion :-

Nat-m.

Worse from exertion of :-

Body :-

Arn.,
Ars., Bry., Cocc., Croc., Lyc., Rhus-t., Sulph.

Mind :-

Calc., Ign.,
Nux-v., Sep.

Worse from motion and exertion :-

Pall.

Exhalation :-

Constant vaporous exhalation from body :-

Grat.

Exhalations :-

Fetid discharges and exhalations breath, stools urine,
sweat, ulcers :-

Bapt.

Exhausted :-

Despairs of being cured and is very restless and
exhausted very weak on attempting to move :-

Ars.

Drowsy and exhausted :-

Anag.

Easily exhausted by walking :-

Carb-an.

By slight trouble in remote part such as
itching :-

Ars.

Faint and as if paralyzed after short walk :-

Con.

Thoroughly exhausted after a walk :-

Cann-i.

Weak and exhausted :-

Sul-ac.

Exhausting :-

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

Ferr.

Exhaustion :-

Hep.

Debility and great exhaustion :-

Sul-ac.

Debility :-

Kali-i.

Excessive depression and exhaustion :-

Ant-c.

Excessive prostration, exhaustion faintness :-

Sep.

After mental effort :-

Nat-c.

As after great exertion, especially in arms and
thighs :-

Guai.

Causing trembling and knocking together of
knees :-

Berb.

From night work :-

(Chin.),
(Cocc.), Colch., (Nux-v.).

From slightest exertion ; must lie down :-

Ars.

Not able to develop exanthemata :-

Zinc.

Of vital forces :-

Caps.,
Carb-v., (Laur.).

With defective reaction :-

Am-c.

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

Spong.

Faintness exhaustion great prostration :-

Dig.

Frequent exhaustion debility ; must lie
down :-

Kali-c.

General weakness and great exhaustion :-

Hydr-ac.

Great :-

Con.

And debility :-

Kali-n.

And prostration :-

Phyt.

On ascending :-

Calc.

Great physical and mental exhaustion in morning :-

Lach.

Great weakness and exhaustion :-

(Ars.),
Bry., (Chin.), Ign., (Phos.), (Sec.).

After exertion :-

Colch.

Languor, lassitude exhaustion :-

Aran.

Lassitude exhaustion and debility after severe
illness :-

Ant-c.

Physical and mental exhaustion and trembling in whole
body ; thinks will faint or sink down from weakness :-

Lach.

Profound prostration or exhaustion :-

Carb-ac.

Reading aloud or talking produces great
exhaustion :-

(Cocc.),
Stann.

Weakness and exhaustion of whole body :-

Graph.

Exhilaration :-

As after morphine, followed by drowsiness :-

Am-br.

Expanded :-

Sensation as if body, and especially face and head,
expanded :-

Arg-n.,
(Gels.), (Glon.).

Exposure :-

Catarrhal, rheumatic and other complaints, caused by
exposure to damp, cold weather :-

Dulc.

Ill effects from exposure to sun’s rays or to
heat :-

Glon.

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

Ham.

Extension :-

Contraction of parts alternating with extension :-

Lyc.

Involuntary spasmodic alternate extensions and
contraction of muscles :-

Lyc.

External :-

Great sensitiveness to external influences :-

Chin-s.

Internal burning and external coldness :-

Mez.

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.

Externally :-

Raw and sore pain in whole body, internally and
externally :-

Canth.

External parts :-

Dropsy of internal and external parts :-

Dig.

Become black :-

Ign.

Fainting with coldness of external parts :-

Coloc.

Inflammation of :-

Euph.,
Ign.

Quivering in :-

Asaf.,
Kali-c., Mez., Nat-c.

Sensation of constriction in :-

External parts :-

Sil.

Internal parts :-

Bell.,
Cact.

Extremities :-

Bruised pain in lower extremities :-

Berb.,
Ruta.

Laxness and weakness of whole muscular system, with
emaciation, weakness of digestion, and coldness of extremities :-

Ferr.

Exudations :-

After inflammation, with effusion, of lymph :-

Kali-chl.

Inflammations ending in exudations and
suppurations :-

Merc.

Eyes :-

Fixed upon dark side of room away from light :-

Stram.

Must lie down and close eyes and seems as if patient is
being rocked :-

Calad.

Perspiration day and night as soon as patient sleep or
even on closing eyes :-

Con.

Worse from turning eyes :-

Spig.

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