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 *****

Talk :-

Fatigue from hearing others talk :-

Alum.,
Am-c., Ars., Verat.

Great weakness feels too weak to talk and finds it
difficult to stand firmly :-

Cocc.

Sudden sinking of strength ; is scarcely able to
talk or walk :-

Colch.

Talking :-

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

Nat-m.

Reading aloud or talking produces great
exhaustion :-

(Cocc.),
Stram.

Fatigues and excites pains :-

Sulph.

Makes patient weak :-

Calc.

Worse after talking :-

Cocc.,
Ferr., Nat-c., Nat-m., Ph-ac., Stann.

Tall :-

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

Phos.

Sensation of being very tall :-

Stram.
(Reverse :- Coca.)

Taller :-

Feeling as if had grown taller :-

Pall.

Tardy :-

Reaction after debilitating illness or sickness :-

Caps.

Tea :-

Better from drinking tea :-

Kali-bi.

Tearing :-

Drawing, tearing pains :-

Act-sp.

Frequent sharp, tearing pains from one part to
another :-

Dios.

Paralytic sensations accompanied by drawing tearing
pains and numbness :-

Cham.

Periosteal inflammation :-

Staph.

With burning, gnawing tearing pains :-

Ph-ac.

Pressive drawing tearing pains often ending in a
stitch :-

Guai.

Pricking tearing pressing pains running across
parts :-

Hell.

Rending tearing pains :-

Agar.,
Am-m., Aur., Calc., Cann-s., Carb-v., Caust., Cham., Chin., Cocc., Colch.,
Coloc., Dulc., Euphr., Ferr., Hell., Kali-c., Kali-n., Led., Lyc., Merc.,
Mez., Mur-ac., Nat-acet., Nux-v., Ph-ac., Phos., Plb., Puls., Rhus-t.,
Sars., Sec., Sil., Spig., Staph., Stront., Sulph., Valer., Zinc.

In inner parts :-

Bell.,
Con., Lyc., Puls., Sil.

In outer parts :-

Acon.,
Bry., Chin., Kali-c., Lyc., Sil., Sulph., Zinc.

Sharp, tearing pains in various parts, with ovarian or
uterine irritation :-

Cimic.

Sticking tearing throbbing pains :-

Led.

Swelling of glands, with rending tearing pains :-

Ferr.

Cutting, wandering pain with rheumatism :-

Acon.

Drawing tensive pains excited by slightest
chill :-

Phos.

Drawing pains :-

In various parts of body :-

Carb-v.

Quickly changing location :-

Colch.,
(Puls.).

Pains :-

Caust.

Like shocks in different parts :-

Daph.

Piercing pains :-

Cist.

Pricking, pulsating pains :-

Lach.

Shooting pains whole length of body :-

Coloc.

Tenderness and cramp-like drawing and tearing in
various parts :-

Mang.

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.

Temper :-

Nervousness great irritability of temper and
patience :-

Ambr.

Temperature :-

Worse from change of temperature :-

Nit-ac.,
Ran-b.

Tenacious :-

Increases secretions from mucous membranes, which are
tenacious and ropy :-

Hydr.,
(Kali-bi.).

Tendency (See Liability.) :-

Or liability to take cold :-

Con.,
Graph., Mag-m., Nat-c., Nux-v.

To take cold :-

After overheating :-

Kali-c.

Easily :-

(Calc.),
(Kali-c.), Nat-m., Nit-ac., (Phos.), (Sil.), Sulph.

In head and feet :-

Sil.

When uncovering feet :-

Sil.

Tender :-

Excruciating pain and inflammation of small
joints :-

Caul.

Which are very tender to touch ; worse at
night :-

Act-sp.

Tenderness :-

Extreme tenderness ; cannot bear least pressure of
clothing :-

Helon.

Great tenderness of al flesh :-

Lach.

And cramp-like drawing and tearing in various
parts :-

Mang.

Tendons :-

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

Rhus-t.

Pains where tendons are connected with muscles or bones
especially during action of muscles :-

Rhus-r.

Sensation as if tendons were contracted too
short :-

Cimx.

Tensive :-

Tearing drawing, tensive pains excited by slightest
chill :-

Phos.

Testes :-

Atrophy of glands, especially testes and mammæ :-

Kali-i.

Theorizing :-

Always :-

Apis,
Cann-i., Sulph.

Thick :-

Numbness over whole body followed by sensation as if
skin were an inch thick and so stiff could hardly move :-

Apis.

Thinking :-

All pains reappearing when thinking about them :-

(Bar-c.),
Ox-ac.

Pains disappear when thinking to them :-

(Bar-c.),
Camph., (Ox-ac.).

Worse from thinking of pain :-

Hell.

Worse when thinking of disease :-

Bar-c.,
(Ox-ac.).

Thirst :-

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

Apis.

Feeling of heat over whole body with thirst :-

All-c.

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

Ars.

Great languor with trembling and violent thirst :-

Hyper.

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

Ars.

Pain with thirst and redness of cheeks ;
fainting ; congestion of blood to head :-

Acon.

Thorax :-

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

Hell.

Thrills :-

Slow shooting pains, with long-continued
thrills :-

Sang.

Throbbing :-

Burning, throbbing pain with chilliness :-

Hep.

Deep ulceration, characterized by terrible throbbing
pains during night with extreme sensitiveness of affected part :-

Asaf.

Desire to stretch and yawn ; faint weak and
weary ; fullness, with throbbing in various organs, as if they
contained too much blood :-

Æsc.

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

Camph.

Painful throbbing in different parts :-

Hep.

Painless pulsation or throbbing throughout body :-

Glon.

Sticking, tearing, throbbing pains :-

Led.

And pulsating in all bloodvessels of body :-

Ant-t.

As if in all the bloodvessels :-

Lil-t.

In bloodvessels of whole body :-

Glon.,
Sep.

Especially in abdomen :-

Sel.

Or burning through body :-

Calad.

Pulsating, biting through whole body :-

Glon.

Especially in left chest :-

Sep.

Through body :-

Sabin.

Undulating pulse, or throbbing in whole body :-

Nat-m.

Violent throbbing through whole body :-

(Glon.),
Zinc.

Throwing :-

Restless, constantly changing position or throwing body
to and fro, forward and backward, especially hands and feet :-

Bell.

Throws :-

Very restless ; throws body about :-

(Acon.),
(Ars.), Lachn.

Thrusts :-

Child lies on abdomen and spasmodically thrusts breach
up :-

Cupr.

Thunder storm :-

Fatigue after thunder storm :-

Rhod.,
Sil.

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

Rhod.

Worse before or during thunder storm :-

Petr.

Worse before thunder storm :-

Agar.,
Rhod.

Worse during thunder storm :-

(Nat-c.),
Phos., (Rhod.).

Time :-

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

Cann-i.

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.

Tingling :-

Crawling, formication or tingling of hands :-

Ign.

Itching, boring biting, tingling gnawing in various
parts of body :-

Ran-s.

Numbness tingling, formication :-

Acon.

Pricking tingling in various parts :-

Sil.

Pains in all joints :-

Acon.

Through whole body :-

Spig.

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.

Tired :-

Easily tired by bodily exertion :-

Calc.

General lassitude and feeling of weariness ;
becomes tired easily :-

Ham.

Faint and tired ; wants to sit down :-

Alum.

Heavy, tired feeling patient is always tired :-

Pic-ac.

Languid tired feeling :-

Dios.

Languid ; usually tired yet knows no reason for
it :-

Helon.

Prostration ; tired weary especially about
knees :-

Nat-s.

All over, as if had walked a great distance, with
aching in limbs ; an stand only with difficulty :-

Lac-ac.

And drowsy ; feeling of constriction in internal
organs :-

Alum.

And weary all day :-

Am-c.

Bruised sick feeling all over body :-

Bapt.

Feeling :-

On least exertion :-

Pic-ac.

With weariness and restlessness in limbs :-

Ind.

Very tired in evening :-

Pall.

Weak and tired :-

All-c.

When sitting especially in feet :-

Mang-c.

Weary tired bruised sore ; great weakness ;
must lie down yet bed feels too hard :-

Arn.

Tiredness :-

Great tiredness or fatigue :-

Gels.

Tissues :-

Œdematous distention of all tissues by interstitial
inflammation :-

Kali-i.

Œdematous infiltration of tissues :-

(Apis),
(Apoc.), (Ars.), Kali-i.

To and fro :-

Giddy, as if drunk, as if balancing to and fro :-

Ferr.

Restless, constantly changing position or throwing body
to and fro, forward and backward, especially hands and feet :-

Bell.

Tobacco :-

Worse from coffee or liquor and tobacco :-

Cann-i.

Worse from tobacco coffee or brandy :-

Ign.

Torn :-

Pains, as if flesh were torn loose from bones or as if
bones were being scraped :-

Rhus-t.

Sensation in internal organs as if something were being
torn away :-

Rhus-t.

Torpor :-

Drowsiness, torpor lethargy :-

Nux-m.

Languor fatigue, torpor :-

Naja.

Lassitude, lameness and soreness, with stiffness,
heaviness numbness and torpor :-

Berb.

Lassitude, torpor, languor not disposed to move or make
any mental exertion :-

Sang.

Tossing :-

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

Acon.

Jactitation or tossing about caused by pains :-

Acon.,
Ars., Bell., Calc., Cham., Chin., Cina, Coff., Hell., Lyc., Mag-c., Sulph.

Restless, tossing about :-

And constant uneasiness :-

Cupr.

And moaning in children with sore throat :-

Lach.

Worse at night with tossing about :-

Abies-c.,
Abies-n.

Touch :-

Better from pressure touch or motion :-

Arn.

Body painful ; sensitive to touch parts touched
feel chilly :-

Spig.

Excessive sensibility to touch and noise :-

Chin-s.

Excruciating pain and inflammation of small
joints :-

Caul.

Which are very tender to touch worse at night :-

Act-sp.

Great sensitiveness to touch and pressure :-

Apis.

Over-sensitiveness to slightest touch :-

Colch.

Soreness of muscles and integuments, as if bruised or
beaten ; flesh sore to touch eve of clothes :-

(Arn.),
Bad., (Led.), (Ruta.).

Stiffness in different parts on motion and on
touch :-

Bry.

Whole body sensitive to touch sensibility as after
protracted sickness :-

Acon.

Worse from touch :-

Bell.,
Mag-m., Mez., Nit-ac., Ran-s., Spig., Stram.

Worse from slightest touch :-

Carb-an.,
Ign., Mang., Nux-v.

Touched :-

Bruised pain when touched :-

Hep.

Child must be carried ; it cries if touched will
not allow pulse to be felt :-

Ant-t.

Neuralgic pains in different parts of body as if
touched by pieces, of ice or as if icy-cold needles were piercing
skin ; pricking as from a pin, and itching and burning all over with
great distress ; pains as from splinters :-

Agar.

Soreness when touched :-

Mang.

Worse when touched :-

Arg-m.

Touching :-

Intermittent, pulsative or pressive, darting or
lacerating pains from within outward, transferred from different parts and
relieved by touching parts in hysterical patients :-

Asaf.

Pains felt only when touching part are renewed
immediately after dinner, in evening after lying down and in morning
immediately after awaking :-

Ign.

Worse from touching parts :-

Hep.

Or contact :-

Chin.

Tough :-

Discharges from mucous membranes of tough stringy
mucus :-

Kali-bi.

Trembling :-

Acet-ac.,
Agar.

Constant weakness and trembling :-

Verat.

Exhaustion, causing trembling and knocking together of
knees :-

Berb.

Fainting with :-

Nux-v.,
Petr.

Feeling of weakness and trembling of all limbs :-

Hyper.

Frequent trembling through whole body :-

Sep.

Great debility and trembling :-

(Alum.),
(Chin.), Sulph.

Great debility, lassitude and trembling while standing
up and without moving :-

Merc-c.

Great languor with staggering gait or trembling of
body :-

Mag-s.

Great languor with trembling and violent thirst :-

Hyper.

Great weakness and debility with heaviness and
trembling :-

Nit-ac.

Great weakness and trembling of whole body while
walking :-

Lac-ac.

Great weakness, trembling, uneasiness :-

Petr.

Internal :-

Ant-t.

Music, causes trembling :-

Nat-c.

Nervous irritable trembling :-

Teucr.

Nervous trembling with great acuteness of
senses :-

Cupr.

Paralytic sensation in whole body and especially in
arms and feet, with trembling of whole body and extremities ; with
pale face ; dilated pupils ; faintness and numbness of
extremities :-

Acon.

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

Lach.

Prostration with trembling in limbs :-

Manc.

Restless trembling faintness :-

Dios.

All over with anxiety and ebullitions of blood :-

Samb.

And tremulous sensation, with general debility :-

Arg-n.,
(Cupr.), (Gels.), (Merc.).

And twitching of muscles, and sensation of constriction
in different parts :-

Cact.

Debility :-

Chin.

Emotions and tremor of whole body, especially in
arms :-

Con.

In whole body :-

Nat-s.

Like boiling and seething, as if parts were going to
sleep, with unpleasant sensation of coldness :-

Acon.

Like shivering in evening :-

Anag.

Of body :-

Calc.

With shuddering sensation while yawning :-

Cina.

Of internal parts :-

Camph.

Of whole body :-

Alternating with convulsive movements of limbs :-

Arn.

As if from fright :-

(Gels.),
Stram.

Or tremor :-

Ars.,
Bell., Cic., Cocc., Iod., Merc., Op., Phos., Plb., Rhus-t., Stram.,
Sulph., Tab., Ther., Zinc.

Over whole body from excitement exercise and
pain :-

Cocc.

Sensation through body :-

Kali-br.

Weakness :-

Languid and restless ; easily fatigued :-

Gels.

On motion :-

Anac.

With feeling of lassitude :-

Apis.

With paralytic weakness :-

Anac.

Twitching and trembling of muscles over whole
body :-

Kali-n.

Violent :-

All over body :-

(Ant-t.),
Phys., Puls.

And twitching of whole body :-

Zinc.

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

Abrot.

Weak trembling nervous :-

Lil-t.

Weakness and trembling especially of joints :-

Mang.

Weakness of whole body with sensation of trembling,
without trembling :-

Sul-ac.

Tremor :-

Anguish tremor and sweat during pains :-

Nat-c.

Fainting with formication and tremor of feet :-

Bor.

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

Con.

Trembling or tremor :-

Ars.,
Bell., Cic., Cocc., Iod., Merc., Op., Phos., Plb., Rhus-t., Stram.,
Sulph., Tab., Ther., Zinc.

Over body :-

Cimic.

Tremulous :-

Trembling and tremulous sensation, with general
debility :-

Arg-n.,
(Cupr.), (Gels.), (Merc.).

Lassitude :-

Alum.,
(Sulph.).

Sensation through whole body :-

Graph.

Weakness :-

Crot-h.

Weak and tremulous with prostration, as after long and
severe illness, sickness :-

(Asc-c.),
Bapt.

Tremulousness :-

Languor and debility :-

Brom.

Tumors :-

Erectile, which have now an increase and then a
decrease of blood :-

Lyc.

Lymphatic :-

Sec.

Turning :-

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

Puls.

Twitches :-

And contractions of body unaffected by sleep :-

Verat.

Twitching :-

Convulsive twitching especially after fright or
grief :-

(Gels.),
Ign., (Op.).

Frequent twitching and constant jerks through
body :-

Stram.

Trembling and twitching of muscles and sensation of
constriction in different parts :-

Cact.

And trembling of muscles over whole body :-

Kali-n.

In various parts :-

Nit-ac.

Like electric shocks through one side of body :-

Colch.

Of muscles :-

Especially about face and head :-

Kali-chl.

In different arts of body :-

Ant-c.

Violent trembling and twitching of whole body :-

Zinc.

Typhoid :-

Sepsis, with sunken features and hectic or typhoid
symptoms :-

Carb-v.

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