Quiz 7The 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.
Teething children are pale, weak, fretful, and want to be carried
rapidly. 2.
Spasmodic
rigid os, delays labor;
needle like pricking pains in cervix. 3.
Chewing motion of the mouth; corners of mouth sore, cracked; nostrils
dirty and sooty, dry. 4.
Driven to despair with excessive itching. 5.
Cough deep, dry, precedes the fever paroxysm. 6.
Pain nausea and vomiting; during pregnancy; from wearing pessaries. 7.
Intolerable, sour, carrion-like odor of the feet, without perspiration,
every evening. 8.
Crops of small boils, intensely painful, succesively appear in the nose;
green fetid pus. 9.
Insane women will not be touched or approached. 10.
Thirsty and hungry, yet as soon as they begin to eat or drink they lose
all desire. 11.
Leucorrhoea < mental depression, happier when leucorrhoea is worse. 12.
Foetus appears to be turning somersaults. 13.
….. bears the same relation to the diseases of women that Nux does to
sanguine, bilious men. 14.
Swallows without pain, but fluids are vomited or returned by the nose. 15.
Heat of the head, as if surrounded by hot air. 16.
Periodic orbital neuralgia (right side), with excessive lachrymation; tears
fairly gush out. 17.
Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food. 18.
Restlessness,
could not keep quiet in any position;
must keep in motion, though walking <
all symptoms. 19.
Asthma after the “rose cold” < from odors. 20.
Eyes
burn, ache, feel strained; hot like balls of fire;
spasms of lower lid. |