Quiz 1

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.

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! 

Questions

  1. Anguish; he sits, then walks, then lies, never long in one place.
  2. At every attempt to eat, colic pains in the abdomen.
  3. Adapted to persons who suffer from chronic diseases; "the Aconite of chronic diseases".
  4. Physical exertion, even much walking, brings on an abscess in some part, but generally in the r. ear.
  5. Menses: painful, regular, now lasting only one hour; or late, scanty, short, lasting only one day.
  6. Discharge of blood from the vagina every time the child takes the breast.
  7. Vertigo; when moving slowly, but not when taking violent exercise.
  8. Palpitation of the heart is felt in the face.
  9. Discharge of blood from genitals during every stool.
  10. Painless sore throat.
  11. Foul breath; in girls at puberty.
  12. Full of fun and mischief, then perhaps moaning and crying.
  13. Every stool is followed by thirst, and every drink by shuddering.
  14. Increased ability to exercise without danger.
  15. Pains as if the bones were all torn to pieces.
  16. Child suddenly seized with the desire to urinate; if cannot be gratified at once, jumps up and down with pain.
  17. Hungry: at night; longing for spirituous liquors, an almost maniacal desire.
  18. At every menstrual nisus, throat, mouth and tongue intolerably dry, especially when sleeping.
  19. Constipation; ….. frequent desire felt in epigastrium.
  20. Can only void urine while sitting bent backwards.

 

Answers:

1. Bismuth; 2. Calcarea phosphorica; 3. Alumina; 4. Carbolic acid; 5. Euphrasia; 6. Silicea; 7. Millefolium; 8. Muriatic acid; 9. Lycopodium; 10. Baptisia; 11. Aurum metallicum; 12. Cannabis indica; 13. Capsicum; 14. Fluoric acid; 15. Ipecacuanha; 16. Petroselinium; 17. Selenium; 18. Tarantula; 19.Veratrum album; 20. Zincum metallicum

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