THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS
OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA
BY CONSTANTINE HERING, M. D.
Presented by Médi-T
 Inner head.
 Outer head.
 Sight and eyes.
 Hearing and ears.
 Smell and nose.
 Upper face.
 Lower face.
 Teeth and gums.
 Taste, speech, tongue.
 Inner mouth.
 Palate and throat.
 Appetite, thirst. Desires..
 Eating and drinking.
 Hiccough, belching, nausea..
 Scrobiculum and stomach.
| Lower limbs.
 Limbs in general.
 Rest. Position. Motion.
 Temperature and weather.
 Attacks, periodicity.
 Locality and direction.
 Touch. Injuries..
 Stage of life, constitution.
Kali-bi. * Full text (155 Ko) * Red and blue only (100 Ko) * Red only
SKIN.  [Kali. bi.]Burning stinging in skin.
Skin hot, dry and red.
Whole of lower part of body, from a little below navel in front and from top of nates behind, down thighs and legs, covered with a smooth, shining, elevated, bright red eruption, giving those parts appearance of boiled lobster shell ; skin has na appearance of thickening and induration ; not much irritation or heat.
Heat and itching of skin at night, when warm in bed, followed by reddish, hard knots, from size of pin's head to that of a split pea ; centre depressed, with a dark scurf, surrounded by an inflamed base.
Dry eruption like measles.
Upon development of eruption, hoarse, croupy, distressing cough ; nose sore, small ulcers in nostrils, and discharge tough, thick, viscid, stiff ; expectoration stringy and tough, and detached with great difficulty. θ Measles.
Papular eruption, began as a spot on calf of leg and spread all over body ; large papular elevations, red and irregular, like measles, but more raised, with intense and excessive burning itching like fire, especially at night, compelling her to walk about room whole night ; general debility ; gnawing and pain at epigastrium, and sensation of internal itching there, > taking food ; bowels open ; urine hot and high colored, and at times scanty ; catamenia regular.
Violent itching of whole surface ; then small pustules form, mostly on arms and legs ; scabs smart, pain and burn ; < in hot, > in cold weather.
Small pustules over body like small pox ; they disappear without bursting ; mostly on face and arms.
Pustules over whole body, appearing on inflamed parts of skin, as large as a pea, with a small black scab in middle.
Eruption all over body, beginning as a small lump on skin, which inflames and gets red, and finally discharges a bloody fluid, and leaves a small, depressed, ulcerative surface with an inflamed base, which heals and breaks out again ; wherever discharge touches it causes a fresh spot ; violent itching at night. θ Pustular eruption.
Small pustules on roots of nails, spreading over hands to wrists ; arm red, axillary glands suppurate ; small pustules on hands secrete a watery fluid when broken ; if not touched, fluid thickens into a yellow, tough mass.
Boil-like elevation which turned into a large ulcer, with hard centre and overhanging edges.
Blood boil on right thigh ; right side of spine, near last rib ; painful on least motion.
Blisters full of serum on sole of right foot.
Herpes after taking cold, with fluent coryza and bronchial irritation.
Scabs on fingers, or corona glandis ; deep, stinging cicatrices on hands.
Brown spots like freckles on throat.
Suppurating tetter (ecthyma).
Lupus, chronic form, with burning and itching.
The eruption begins in hot weather.
After an abrasion, swelling like a knot, forming an irregular ulcer, covered with a dry scab and painful to touch ; under skin, hard, movable knot, like a corn, with small ; ulcerated spot in middle, where it touches the cuticle ; the hard, knotty feel remains after the healed ulcer is covered with white skin.
Ulcers : deep yellow, dry, oval ; edges overhanging, bright red areola ; base hard, corroding ; becoming deeper ; blackish spot in centre ; cicatrix remains depressed ; deep as if cut out with a punch, edges regular.
Syphilitic ulcers, deep with hard edges, on genitals, in throat, uvula, septum of nose, etc.
Ulcers painful in cold weather.
Suppurating, solitary skin tubercles, forming deep holes.
Head and scalp covered with dry, red, scaly patches at roots of hair, and bringing out hair ; much itching at night, but no moisture or pain ; on face and body brown flat spots and papulæ ; cervical glands behind ears swollen and painful ; violent pains from patella to foot, of a "linking" character, and as if in the bone ; pains < in bed and on lying down ; at night must get up and walk about most of the time ; at times much swelling along tibia ; leg feels swelled and doughy along the bones ; throat sore on swallowing, especially at night, and is red but not ulcerated ; several flat, elevated ulcerations on tongue, and one large patch in centre ; voice hoarse ; constipation ; nausea after meals ; flushes of heat and perspiration ; catamenia regular but painful. θ Eruption and periostitis, probably syphilitic.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION.  [Kali. bi.]Fat, light haired persons, who suffer from catarrhal, syphilitic, or scrofulous affections.
Fat, chubby, short necked children, disposed to croupous inflammations.
Persons of florid complexion, of a blotchy, red appearance and thick skin.
Dyspeptic beer drinkers.
Suited to persons subject to catarrhs of mucous surfaces.
Boy, æt. 5 months ; constipation.
Child, æt. 5 months, strumous constitution, ailing three months ; eruption on head.
Boy, æt. 10 months, bright, vivacious, light complexioned ; membranous croup.
Child, æt. 11 months ; diphtheria.
Girl, æt. 18 months ; eruption on body.
Child, æt. 1 1/2 ; six months ago had whooping cough, since then suffering ; cough.
Boy, æt. 2 ; scrofulous conjunctivitis.
Boy, æt. 2 1/2, suffering nine months ; hoarseness.
Boy, æt. 3, good constitution ; bronchitis.
Girl, æt. 3 ; membranous croup.
Child, æt. 3 ; diarrha.
Boy, æt. 4 ; scrofulous conjunctivitis.
Child, æt. 4 ; diphtheria.
Girl, æt. 4, fair complexion ; diphtheritic croup.
Girl, æt. 4, light complexion, flaxen hair ; membranous croup.
Boy, æt. 4, sanguine temperament ; chronic diarrha.
Boy, æt. 5 ; diphtheritic croup.
Girl, æt. 5, fair haired, had whooping cough, after which she caught cold ; gastro-intestinal irritation.
Girl, æt. 5 ; pustular eruption.
Boy, æt. 6, suffering two days ; catarrhal ophthalmia.
Boy, æt. 6 ; scrofulous conjunctivitis.
Child, æt. 6 ; diphtheria.
Girl, æt. 7, affected most of her life ; scrofulous ophthalmia.
Boy, æt. 7, lymphatic, pale complexion, sanguine temperament ; eruption.
Girl, æt. 8, had whooping cough four years ago, since then ill ; recurring bronchial attacks.
Boy, æt. 8, stout, large head, after a burn ; dysentery.
Girl, æt. 8 1/2 ; scrofulous conjunctivitis.
Boy, æt. 9 ; scrofulous conjunctivitis.
Child, æt. 10 ; diphtheria.
Girl, æt. 10, ill six weeks ; eczema.
Girl, æt. 11, ill two months ; vomiting.
Girl, æt. 12, had croup six years ago, since which she has been suffering ; hoarseness ; cough.
Girl, æt. 13, suffering a month ; scrofulous ophthalmia and ulceration of cornea.
Girl, æt. 13 ; sore throat.
Girl, æt. 13 ; croup.
Girl, æt. 14, not yet menstruated ; affection of stomach.
Boy, æt. 14, lymphatic, nervous temperament, fair hair, light eyes ; pustular eruption.
Girl, æt. 15, suffering for a year ; catarrh of nose ; Young lady, æt. 17, just returned from India ; pain in right hypochondrium.
Girl, æt. 17, caught cold one year ago, since which she has been suffering ; bronchitis.
Young girl, suffering several months, operation unsuccessful ; nasal polypus.
Girl, sanguine, lymphatic temperament, for six years after diphtheritis ; pains in limbs.
Lady, æt. 22 ; pain in hypochondriac region.
Man, æt. 22, had syphilis two years ago ; ulcers on leg.
Woman, æt. 22 ; syphilis.
Man, æt. 24, has gastric and rheumatic troubles ; pain in back.
Young man, blonde ; gastric derangement.
Young tenor singer, after catching cold ; laryngitis.
Man, æt. 24, healthy, suddenly seized with violent pain in temples a month ago, since which he has suffered ; headache.
Officer, æt. 24, strong, plethoric constitution, choleric temperament, 15 months ago had chancre ; syphilis.
Young woman, mother of two children ; ulcerated sore throat.
Woman delicate, married five years ; eruption and periostitis.
Woman, æt. 25, unmarried, suffering for three months ; stomacace.
Lady, æt. 25, strumous constitution, suffering many years ; lung fever.
Man, æt. 26 ; chronic bronchitis.
Woman, æt. 26, blonde, small figure, steel grey eyes, oxygenoid constitution ; gracile, but not phthisicky habit ; excessively nervous, anxiety at least ailment ; irritability and tendency to spasm, and of tearful disposition ; catches cold easily and then coryza and cough are troublesome for a long time ; suffered from acute gastric and intestinal catarrh, for which she took very large doses of nitrate of silver ; consumption.
Woman, æt. 27, married ; migraine.
Man, æt. 27 ; trachoma with pannus.
Woman, æt. 28 ; ulcer.
Man, æt. 28 ; pustular eruption.
Woman, æt. 30, had syphilis eleven years ago, and was treated with mercury, had one stillborn child ; syphilitic sore throat.
Irishman, æt. 30, strong and hearty, during day is able to work and enjoys his breakfast and lunch ; affection of stomach.
Man, æt. 30, after being exposed to cold some months before ; affection of kidneys.
Lady, æt. 30, unmarried, suffering for years ; affection of fauces and larynx.
Woman, æt. 30, since confinement three months ago ; cough.
Mrs. ---, æt. 30, delicate, subject to perspirations ; papular eruption.
Man, æt. 32 ; supraorbital neuralgia.
Man, æt. 32, suffering three years ; pain in right side.
Mrs. D., æt. 32, phthisical habit, lymphatic temperament ; convalescent from mild attack of gastric fever ; pain in tibia.
Woman, æt. 33, had syphilis several years ago ; affection of nose and throat.
Woman, æt. 35, married, fair hair, stout ; suffering daily for about ten days ; pain in right hypochondrium.
Policeman, æt. 35, suffering for one month ; sciatica.
Maid servant, æt. 36, suffering three years ; eczema of scalp.
Woman, æt. 36, suffering two months ; affection of larynx.
Woman, æt ; 37, ill seven weeks ; gastric disorder.
Woman, æt. 38, suffering six months, headache.
Man, æt. 38, spare, blonde, father of four healthy children, four years ago had syphilis and was subjected to severe mercurial treatment ; coryza with loss of taste and smell.
Man, æt. 39, suffering 18 months ; dyspepsia.
Woman, æt. 39, general health impaired, feeble frame ; ulcer on leg.
Man, æt. 40 ; boils on head.
Man, æt. 40, in bad health for two years, has had rheumatic gout and rheumatic iritis ; inflammation of eyes.
Lady, æt. 40, fat, fair, of florid complexion, uses beer at meals, and whiskey in evening, suffers from enlarged liver and jaundice ; dyspepsia.
Middle aged woman, suffering for four years ; gastric affection.
Man, tall, spare frame, suffering for eight years ; sciatica.
Florid, red haired woman, husband had syphilis before marriage ; five years ago, had sore throat and ulcer on lips ; first two children premature and stillborn, remaining two delicate, now nursing for last six months ; syphilitic periostitis.
Woman, æt. 44, suffering for a fortnight ; supraorbital neuralgia.
Lady, æt. 44, stout, florid countenance, subject to chronic coughs ; acute bronchial catarrh.
Man, æt. 45 ; laryngitis.
Mrs. ---, æt. 45, nervous temperament ; chronic inflammation of larynx and trachea.
Man, æt. 45 ; chronic bronchitis.
Man, æt. 45 ; cough.
Woman, æt. 46, suffering one month ; headache.
Man, æt. 46, suffering seven years ; pustular eruptions.
Man, æt. 48, chronic bronchitis.
Man, æt. 48 ; pustular eruption.
Man, æt. 50, operated upon three times within last 23 years ; nasal polypus.
Mrs. H., æt. 50, subject to colds in head, and determination of blood to head, catamenia ceased about two years ago, after influenza two years previously ; chronic catarrh of nose.
Man, æt. 50, stout, red faced, suffering many months, had been treated with caustics and counter irritants ; enlarged tonsils with deafness.
Woman, æt. 50, delicate ; laryngitis.
Man, æt. 50, rheumatic ; general pains.
Man, æt. 50, after a blow ; periostitis.
Man, æt. 50 ; affection of kidneys.
Lady, æt. 52 ; polypus of conjunctiva.
Man, æt. 55, major ; chronic inflammation of larynx and trachea.
Man, æt. 55 ; chronic bronchitis.
Woman, æt. 60, weak, rheumatic, for several weeks has been suffering from sudden and profuse discharges of clear, watery fluid from nose which suddenly ceased ; affection of sophagus.
Man, æt. 60, fell and hurt leg 16 years ago ; periostitis.
Mrs. ---, æt. 60, subject to attacks of dyspepsia and sick headache ; lupus.
Man, æt. 62 ; chronic rheumatism.
Man, æt. 64, had syphilis 40 years ago, but no symptoms of it during intermediate time, for last ten years ; sore on cheek.
Woman, æt. 65 ; cough.
Man, æt. 67 ; bronchitis.
Man, æt. 69 ; chronic bronchitis.
Man, æt. 82, lived for thirsty years in India, had fever, dysentery, bronchitis ; bowels generally loose, habitual snuff taker ; malignant ulceration of nose.
RELATIONS.  [Kali. bi.]Antidoted by : Arsen., Laches. (croup, diphtheria, etc.), Pulsat. (wandering pains).
It antidotes : effects of beer ; effects of arsenical vapors ; Mercur., Merc. jod.
Compatible : after Canthar. in dysentery ; after Iodium in croup, when hoarse cough, with tough membrane, general weakness and coldness are present ; Ant. tart. follows well in catarrhal affections and skin diseases.
Compare : Bromium in croup ; Cannab. in orbital pains ; Hepar in croup, ulcers, etc. ; Kali i. in syphilitic affections after mercury ; Mezer. in bone diseases ; Nitr. ac. in syphilis ; Phytol. in syphilitic bone affections ; Spongia in croup ; Silica in bone affections.
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