Quiz
6
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!
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Excessive
muscular soreness, after
dancing, skating, or other violent muscular exertion.
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Movement increases or brings on the urinary complaints.
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Rheumatism of cold weather; getting well in spring and returning in
autumn.
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Sensation
as if heart would stop beating if she moved.
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Insatiable
thirst before and during chill and fever; knows
chill is coming because
he cannot drink enough.
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Always feels better by walking
slowly about, although weakness obliges the patient to lie down.
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Slow
pulse of old age.
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Uterine
hemorrhage active or passive; from jolting while riding over rough roads.
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Sweat
on the face on a small spot only while eating.
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Daily
colic in infants about 5 a.m.
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Wild,
crazy feeling on vertex; confused
ideas.
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Inordinate
craving for meat in children of
tuberculous parentage.
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Eczema
and itching eruptions after
vaccination.
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Inability
to speak with choking, nervous, chronic palpitation, especially after public
speaking.
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Want
of susceptibility to remedies.
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Painful
sensitiveness of skin of whole body; all clothing is painful.
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Patient
is constantly rubbing and shaking the
region of the liver with his hand.
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Desires
various kinds of food, but cannot eat them; become repugnant.
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Leucorrhoea
with strong odor of fish brine.
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Sensation
as if body, especially the limbs, were made of glass and would break easily.
Answers:
1.
Actea racemosa; 2. Berberis vulgaris;
3 Calcarea phosphorica; 4.
Digitalis purpurea; 5. Eupatorium
perfoliatum; 6.
Ferrum metallicum; 7. Gelsemium; 8. Hamamelis virginica; 9.
Ignatia; 10. Kali bromatum; 11.
Lilium tigrinum; 12.
Magnesia carbonica; 13. Mezerium;
14. Naja tripudians; 15.
Opium; 16. Petroleum; 17. Podophyllum; 18.
Rheum; 19. Sanicula; 20.
Thuja occidentalis
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