Allen's Keynotes & Materia Medica - Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering the key remedies, symptoms, modalities, and bowel nosodes from Allen's Keynotes and supplementary Materia Medica.

Abrotanum

Homeopathic remedy indicated for marasmus of children with marked emaciation especially of the legs, flabby skin hanging loose in folds, and painful rheumatic contractions.

Aceticum Acidum

Remedy suited to pale, lean persons with lax muscles, characterized by intense, burning thirst in dropsy or diabetes (but absence of thirst during fever) and inability to sleep on the back.

Aconitum Napellus

Remedy indicated in acute inflammatory cases with great fear, anguish, and physical restlessness, often triggered by sudden exposure to dry, cold air or winds.

Actaea Racemosa

Remedy characterized by the sensation of a heavy black cloud enveloping the head, severe left-sided inframammary pains, and spasmodic labor pains or puerperal mania.

Aesculus Hippocastanum

Remedy indicated for hemorrhoids with dryness, heat, and a sensation as if the rectum were full of small sticks, accompanied by severe lumbo-sacral backache.

Aethusa Cynapium

Remedy for teething children with intolerance of milk (vomited in large, frothy curds), complete absence of thirst, and inability to hold the head up.

Agaricus Muscarius

Remedy characterized by involuntary muscle twitches, complaints appearing diagonally (upper left and lower right), and severe itching, burning chilblains.

Agnus Castus

Remedy indicated for premature old age resulting from sexual excesses, marked by complete impotence with coldness and flaccidity of genitalia and deficient milk in nursing women.

Allium Cepa

Remedy indicated for acute catarrhal inflammation with profuse, acrid nasal discharge that corrodes the upper lip, accompanied by profuse, bland lachrymation.

Aloe Socotrina

Remedy suited to indolent, weary individuals, characterized by discharge of jelly-like mucus, early morning diarrhea driving the patient out of bed, and hemorrhoids resembling grapes.

Alumina

Known as 'the Aconite of chronic diseases,' characterized by extreme dryness of mucous membranes, abnormal cravings (chalk, starch), and rectal inactivity requiring great straining even for soft stool.

Ambra Grisea

Remedy for excitable, nervous, and emaciated subjects where the presence of others is unbearable during defecation and intermenstrual bleeding occurs from slight exertion.

Ammonium Carbonicum

Remedy suited to stout, fleshy women leading a sedentary life, characterized by nasal stoppage at night ('snuffles' of infants) and epistaxis when washing the face in the morning.

Ammonium Muriaticum

Remedy indicated for fat, sluggish individuals with disproportionately thin legs, painful shortening of hamstrings when walking, and hard, crumbling stools.

Amylenum Nitrosum

Palliative and curative remedy for menopausal hot flushes, marked by intense surging of blood to the face and head, retarding pulse, and constant desire to stretch.

Anacardium Orientale

Remedy characterized by sudden loss of memory, an irresistible urge to curse and swear, a feeling of having two wills, and gastric pain relieved entirely by eating.

Anthracinum

A nosode used for severe septic inflammation, gangrenous ulcers, carbuncles, and malignant pustules with unbearable burning pain and rapid prostration.

Antimonium Crudum

Remedy suited to children or old people inclined to grow fat, marked by a thick, milky-white coating on the tongue, extreme peevishness, and horny corns on the soles.

Antimonium Tartaricum

Remedy characterized by loud rattling of mucus in the bronchi with inability to expectorate, asphyxia neonatorum, and a cold, pale, blue face bathed in cold sweat.

Apis Mellifica

Remedy indicated for burning, stinging pains, bag-like puffy edema under the eyes, thirstlessness in dropsical conditions, and intolerance of heat and closed rooms.

Apocynum Cannabinum

Remedy indicated for acute dropsy of serous membranes with diminished secretions, intense thirst, and acute hydrocephalus with open sutures and involuntary arm and leg motion.

Argentum Metallicum

Remedy affecting cartilages and joints, indicated for total loss of voice in singers and speakers and cough with easy expectoration of gelatinous mucus looking like boiled starch.

Argentum Nitricum

Remedy for withered, old-looking patients, characterized by apprehension, feeling that time passes too slowly, acute granular conjunctivitis, and green diarrhea resembling chopped spinach.

Arnica Montana

Remedy indicated for mechanical injuries, concussions, and contusions, characterized by a sore, lame, bruised feeling all over and a sensation that any resting surface is too hard.

Arsenicum Album

Key remedy characterized by intense anxiety, fear of death, physical prostration, burning pains relieved by heat, and unquenchable thirst for small, frequent sips of water.

Arum Triphyllum

Remedy indicated for malignant scarlatina and diphtheria, marked by constant picking or boring at the raw, bleeding nose and lips and an acrid, excoriating coryza.

Baptisia Tinctoria

Remedy indicated in low typhoid states where all exhalations are fetid, the patient feels scattered about the bed, and falls asleep while answering questions.

Baryta Carbonica

Remedy for dwarfish, scrofulous children or childish old people with enlarged tonsils, mental and physical weakness, and extreme susceptibility to taking cold.

Belladonna

Remedy characterized by violent congestive symptoms, sudden onset of intense heat, redness, throbbing carotids, dilated pupils, and delirium with an urge to bite or strike.

Benzoicum Acidum

Remedy for gouty or rheumatic diatheses, characterized by dark brown, highly pungent, intensely offensive urine with excess uric acid.

Berberis Vulgaris

Remedy indicated for renal colic, marked by stitching, cutting pains radiating from the left kidney down the ureter to the bladder and urethra, worse from motion or jarring.

Bismuthum

Remedy for severe gastralgia and vomiting where water is rejected immediately upon reaching the stomach while solid food is retained longer.

Borax Veneta

Remedy characterized by an extreme dread of downward motion (e.g., laying a child down or swinging), easily startled by slight sounds, and painful aphthous mouth ulcers.

Bovista Lycoperdon

Remedy characterized by stammering, extreme awkwardness (dropping objects), and menstrual flow occurring only at night or ceasing during the day.

Bromium

Remedy indicated for stony-hard glandular swellings in fair, blue-eyed, blonde individuals, with membranous croup showing loose rattling of mucus without expectoration.

Bryonia Alba

Remedy for rheumatic and gouty constitutions where all symptoms and stitching pains are aggravated by the slightest motion and relieved by absolute rest and pressure on the painful side.

Cactus Grandiflorus

Cardiac remedy characterized by a sensation as if the heart or chest were clasped tightly and constricted by an iron hand or band.

Caladium Seguinum

Remedy indicated for complete sexual impotence with relaxed penis despite mental desire, excessive pruritus vaginae during pregnancy, and sweet sweat that attracts flies.

Calcarea Carbonica

Remedy suited to leucophlegmatic, fair-skinned individuals with open fontanelles, profuse head sweats during sleep, cold damp feet, and cravings for indigestible items or eggs.

Calcarea Phosphorica

Remedy suited to tall, thin, rapidly growing youths with delayed bone non-union, open sutures, schoolgirl headaches, and flatulent dyspepsia relieved by eating.

Calendula Officinalis

Key traumatic remedy used topically and internally for torn, jagged, lacerated wounds to prevent suppuration, promote healthy granulation, and relieve excessive pain.

Camphora Officinalis

Emergency remedy for sudden collapse, shock, or cholera, characterized by icy coldness of the entire body surface yet an inability to tolerate any covering.

Cannabis Indica

Remedy characterized by profound disorientation in time and distance (seconds seem ages, rods seem miles), excessive loquacity, and vanishing thoughts.

Cantharis Vesicatoria

Remedy characterized by violent, raw, burning inflammation of mucous membranes, intolerable constant urging to urinate, and severe strangury with bloody drops.

Capsicum Annuum

Remedy for stout, phlegmatic, chilly individuals, characterized by burning, smarting pains as if from cayenne pepper in the throat, homesickness, and painful swelling behind the ear.

Carbo Vegetabilis

Remedy for states of complete vital exhaustion ('resuscitation of the dying'), cold breath, cold knees, cyanosis, and an intense craving to be fanned continuously.

Carbolicum Acidum

Remedy for sudden, severe pains and profound collapse, featuring a frontal headache as if a tight rubber band were stretched across the forehead and putrid discharges.

Caulophyllum Thalictroides

Obstetric remedy characterized by short, irregular, spasmodic labor pains, rigid os uteri, and erratic rheumatic pains in the small joints of the fingers and toes.

Causticum

Remedy for dark-haired, psoric individuals with paralysis of single parts (lids, vocal cords, bladder), rawness/soreness of respiratory tract, and cough relieved by drinking cold water.

Chamomilla

Remedy characterized by extreme irritability, snappishness, unbearable pain driving to despair, one cheek red and hot while the other is pale and cold, and relief only when carried.

Chelidonium Majus

Liver remedy characterized by constant pain under the lower inner angle of the right scapula, yellow-coated tongue with red edges, jaundice, and desire for very hot drinks.

Cicuta Virosa

Remedy for violent, contorting, epileptic or choreic convulsions with loss of consciousness and opisthotonos, triggered by the slightest touch, noise, or jar.

Cina Maritima

Remedy for helminthiasis (worms) in cross, irritable children who pick or bore into their nose, grind their teeth in sleep, have dark rings around eyes, and desire sweets.

Cinchona Officinalis

Remedy indicated for extreme debility and hemorrhages resulting from loss of vital fluids, marked by excessive flatulence with unrelieved belching and pains aggravated by touch but relieved by hard pressure.

Coca

Remedy for nervous and brain exhaustion from overwork or mountain sickness (altitude sickness), characterized by shortness of breath and heart strain.

Cocculus Indicus

Remedy indicated for bad effects from loss of sleep, night watching, or motion sickness (sea or car sickness), accompanied by nausea, vertigo on rising, and weakness of neck muscles.

Coffea Cruda

Remedy characterized by unusual mental activity, extreme oversensitiveness of all senses, insupportable pain, and wide-awake sleeplessness due to mental exaltation or joy.

Colchicum Autumnale

Remedy for gouty and rheumatic conditions where the smell or sight of cooking food (especially fish or meat) causes intense nausea and faintness.

Collinsonia Canadensis

Remedy for portal congestion resulting in severe, painful, bleeding hemorrhoids with a sensation as if sticks or sand were lodged in the rectum, alternating with heart symptoms.

Colocynthis

Remedy for agonizing, griping abdominal colic causing the patient to bend double and seek relief from hard pressure, often triggered by anger or indignation.

Conium Maculatum

Remedy for diseases of old age or old maids/bachelors, characterized by stony-hard glandular indurations (breast, testes), vertigo when turning in bed or moving the head, and intermittent urinary flow.

Crocus Sativus

Remedy characterized by rapid changes in mood (hilarity to despondency), passive hemorrhage of dark, stringy blood hanging in threads, and sensation of something alive moving in the abdomen.

Crotalus Horridus

Ophidian remedy indicated for low septic typhoid states, hemorrhagic diathesis where dark non-coagulable blood oozes from all orifices, and yellow skin/jaundice.

Croton Tiglium

Gastro-intestinal remedy for sudden, yellow, watery diarrhea shot out of the rectum like a jet immediately after eating or drinking, accompanied by intense skin itching.

Cuprum Metallicum

Remedy for periodic, violent spasms and cramps beginning in the fingers and toes, severe coughing fits relieved by drinking cold water, and blue face with clenched thumbs.

Cyclamen Europaeum

Remedy for chlorotic, anemic females with flickering or fiery sparks before the eyes, vertex headache, and menses that are too early, profuse, and black.

Digitalis Purpurea

Cardiac remedy characterized by an extremely slow, weak, irregular or intermitting pulse, faintness/sinking at the epigastrium, ash-colored stools, and fear that the heart will stop if she moves.

Dioscorea Villosa

Remedy for violent, twisting abdominal colic in regular paroxysms that is aggravated by bending forward or lying down and relieved by standing erect or bending backwards.

Diphtherinum

A nosode indicated in malignant, painless diphtheria with dark red swelling of the throat, thick dark membrane, subnormal temperature, cold extremities, and profound apathy.

Drosera Rotundifolia

Primary whooping cough remedy characterized by violent, rapidly succeeding paroxysms of deep, hoarse, barking cough aggravated after midnight and by lying down.

Dulcamara

Remedy for catarrhal, rheumatic, or skin affections brought on or aggravated by exposure to cold, damp, rainy weather or sudden changes from warm to cold air.

Equisetum Hyemale

Urinary remedy characterized by severe dull pain and fullness in the bladder not relieved by urinating, accompanied by enuresis diurna et nocturna.

Eupatorium Perfoliatum

Remedy for malarial and influenza fevers characterized by severe bruised bone pains as if broken in the back, limbs, and wrists, with insatiable thirst before the chill.

Euphrasia Officinalis

Remedy for acute catarrhal conjunctivitis and coryza, marked by profuse acrid lachrymation and profuse bland nasal discharge (opposite of Allium cepa).

Ferrum Metallicum

Remedy for delicate, chlorotic females with false plethora (fiery red flushing of the face upon slight exertion or emotion), regurgitation of food by mouthfuls, and relief from walking slowly.

Fluoricum Acidum

Remedy for premature aging, caries and necrosis of long bones, varicose veins, and destructive ulcers with violent lightning-like pains relieved by cold applications.

Gelsemium Sempervirens

Remedy for nervous dread, stage fright, and paralytic debility, characterized by heavy droopy eyelids, dull occipital headache relieved by profuse urination, and thirstless fever.

Glonoinum

Remedy for sudden, violent arterial congestions to the head, sunstroke, throbbing pulsating headache synchronous with the pulse, and intolerance of heat around the head.

Graphites

Remedy for stout, chilly, constipated women at climacteric, characterized by skin eruptions oozing a thick, sticky, honey-like fluid, fissured skin, and delayed menses.

Hamamelis Virginiana

Known as 'the Aconite of the venous system,' indicated for passive dark venous hemorrhages from any orifice, varicose veins, and intense bruised soreness of affected parts.

Helleborus Niger

Remedy for acute hydrocephalus and meningeal brain affections, characterized by automatic motion of one arm/leg, vacant staring eyes, chewing motion of the mouth, and suppressed urine.

Helonias Dioica

Uterine tonic indicated for uterine atony, prolapses, and profound melancholy, where the patient is conscious of the womb and feels better when occupied or mentally engaged.

Hepar Sulphur

Remedy for torpid, lymphatic subjects extremely sensitive to cold air and touch, where slight injuries suppurate and pains feel like a sharp splinter or fishbone in the part.

Hydrastis Canadensis

Remedy for cachectic, broken-down subjects with thick, yellow, viscid, ropy mucus discharges from posterior nares or uterus, and a large flabby tongue showing imprints of teeth.

Hyoscyamus Niger

Delirium remedy characterized by non-inflammatory cerebral excitement, lascivious mania (exposing the body or stripping naked), suspiciousness, and dry nocturnal cough relieved by sitting up.

Hypericum Perforatum

Primary remedy for mechanical injuries to nerve-rich tissues (fingers, toes, spinal cord, matrix of nails), punctured wounds, and preventing tetanus.

Ignatia Amara

The remedy of emotional contradictions, indicated for acute grief, suppressed mental suffering, silent brooding, globus hystericus, and spasmodic symptoms relieved by pressure or swallowing.

Iodium

Remedy for scrofulous, dark-haired subjects with rapid emaciation despite ravenous hunger, glandular hypertrophy, and membranous croup with wheezing, sawing respiration.

Ipecacuanha

Remedy characterized by persistent, continuous nausea with a clean tongue, bright red active hemorrhages from all orifices, and spasmodic suffocative asthma.

Kalium Bichromicum

Remedy for catarrhal affections producing tough, stringy, ropy mucus that adheres to parts and can be drawn into long threads, with round deep ulcers in mucous membranes.

Kalium Bromatum

Remedy for nervous restlessness, night terrors in children, fidgety hands, and pustular bluish-red acne on the face or chest leaving unsightly scars.

Kalium Carbonicum

Remedy for old people or anemic subjects, characterized by stitching pains independent of motion, bag-like swelling between the upper eyelid and eyebrow, and 2 to 4 a.m. aggravation.

Kalmia Latifolia

Rheumatic and cardiac remedy with sharp, shooting pains taking a downward direction accompanied by numbness of the affected part, and an extremely slow pulse.

Kreosotum

Remedy for rapid emaciation, acrid corrosive fetid discharges, rapid decay of teeth as soon as they erupt, and dark oozing hemorrhages from small wounds.

Lac Caninum

Remedy for sensitive, nervous subjects where diphtheritic, sore throat, or rheumatic symptoms rapidly alternate from side to side, and breasts are swollen and painful before menses.

Lac Defloratum

Remedy prepared from skimmed milk, indicated for sick headaches beginning in forehead and extending to occiput with intense throbbing, nausea, and obstinate constipation with dry hard stool.

Lachesis Mutus

Ophidian remedy for climacteric complaints, left-sided diseases moving left to right, extreme intolerance of tight bands or touch around the neck or waist, and aggravation after sleep.

Ledum Palustre

Remedy for gouty/rheumatic diathesis where pains ascend from lower limbs, wounded or affected parts are icy cold to touch yet heat of bed is intolerable, and punctured wounds.

Lilium Tigrinum

Uterine and cardiac remedy characterized by a severe bearing-down sensation as if pelvic contents would escape (must hold vulva with hand), rapid heart rate, and aimless hurried behavior.

Lobelia Inflata

Remedy for extreme nausea, morning sickness, and spasmodic asthma with an indescribable faint, weak feeling at the epigastrium and cold sweat.