Quiz 5

The Materia Medica is so vast, that every time we read a drug from any our books, we find a symptom that we had never seen before. 

Allen's 'Keynotes of the Leading Remedies' is a book that we use from the day we join a homeopathic college, and it continues to be of use, years after one graduates and settles down comfortably with a successful practice. It should be noted however that the 'Allen's Keynotes' is not a source book but a mere compilation from other books. Hence, to understand the Materia Medica, one must read the other original reference works. 

Here are a few symptoms from the Allen's Keynotes. Do you know to which remedy they belong? (A new set of symptoms will be put up every month). 

Happy quizzing! 

1. Dyspnoea or asthma, where the patient can only breathe by standing up. 

2. Intense sleeplessness of irritable, excitable persons from business embarrassments, often imaginary. 

3. Red pimples or tubercles on forehead and cheeks, as in brandy drinkers, stinging when touched. 

4. Bed feels so hot she cannot lie on it. 

5. Constantly changing his occupation. 

6. Toothache; every shrill sound penetrates the teeth. 

7. Melancholy, from nervous exhaustion. 

8. Loss of voice from becoming overheated. 

9. Intolerable itching at tip of coccyx, must scratch till parts become raw and sore. 

10. Catarrhal ischuria in grown-up children, with milky urine; from wading with bare feet in cold water; involuntary. 

11. Vertigo: with balancing sensation, as if on water; on seeing flowing water. 

12. General depression from heat of sun or summer. 

13. Profuse discharges, which simulate a hemorrhage, and form a drain upon the system as severe as loss of blood. 

14. Loss of memory; forgets how to talk; absent-minded; had to be told the word before he could speak it. 

15. Extremes of heat and cold cause great debility. 

16. Eructations tasting like rotten eggs, like onions. 

17. Intolerable melancholy and apprehension; is wholly occupied with sad thoughts. 

18. Perspiration has the odor of sulphur. 

19. Corns sensitive to touch, smart, and burn. 

20. Toothache from tea drinking. 

Answers: 1. Cannabis sativa; 2. Hyoscyamus niger; 3 Ledum palustre; 4. Opium; 5. Sanicula; 6. Theridion curassavicum; 7. Coca; 8. Antimonium crudum; 9. Bovista; 10. Dulcamara; 11. Ferrum metallicum; 12. Gelsemium; 13. Hamamelis virginica; 14. Kali bromatum; 15. Lachesis; 16. Magnesia muriatica; 17. Natrum carbonicum; 18. Phosphorus; 19. Ranunculus bulbosus; 20. Thuja occidentalis