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Keynotes and Characteristics · H. C. Allen

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Bowel Nosode

Appearance

Florid, dark more than fair (120 cases) pale; either dark or fair (30 cases.)

Mentals

Tense, active, weepy, depressed, irritable, fears crowds, unknown and ill health. Mongoloid.

Head

HEADACHE morning (congestive). Frontal vertex, occipital, migraine. Weekly sick headache.

Scalp

Hair falling out. Alopecia complete. Scalp sensitive.

Face

Acne rosacea. Hairy face.

Eyes

Granular lids. Conjunctivitis. Tarsal cysts Styes. Iritis, keratitis, phlyctena. Spots before eyes.

Ears

Catarrhal deafness. Otorrhoea. Noises ears. Boils meatus. Meniere's disease.

Nose

Catarrh; Post nasal catarrh (30 percent of cases) Sinus infection and antral infection. Dry mucous membrane. Cracks, angles nose; crack nose. Sense of smell lost epistaxis.

Mouth

Ulcers mouth. Burning tongue. Tongue raw and dry, burning, coated, slimy, swollen. Tongue stiff in morning, wart on tongue. mouth and lips dry-lips stiff in morning. Bad taste in mouth (day, nocte), halitosis, salivation. Taste deficient or lost. Cracks angles mouth lips very red. Pain root of tongue. Jaw bones Ache. Periostitis jaw.

Throat

Thyroid enlarged. Adenitis neck. Throat dry and burning. Throat parched, raw and granular Recurring tonsillitis, cheesy pieces come out. Pharyngitis. laryngitis, tracheitis. Apple core sensation. Easy choking.

Appetite

Fond of fats; sweets; eggs and butter, more than averse, upset fats and eggs, or avoids fats and eggs.

Stomach

Waterbrash; heartburn. Sour, acid, bitter mouthful. Eructations. pyrosis. Burning in throat and stomach. Pain and acid (>) with food. Nausea, vomiting, haematemesis. Duodenal and peptic ulcer. Bilious attacks. Bilious attacks at M.P. Bilious attacks 14 years old.

Abdomen

Epigastric pain or discomfort. Tenderness epigastrium. Pain right and left hypochondrium. Pain right and left iliac fossae. Pain liver and gall bladder Tender liver and gall bladder Gall stones; confirmed by X-ray or operation Attacks jaundice. Flatus. Redness and moisture at umbilicus. Bad odour.

Bowels

Constipation-present in 95 percent of present series. Pruritis ani , piles bleeding, itching or painful. Anal fissures. Mucus P.R. Bowel motion without help, loose, urgent in the morning. Immediately after food.

Stool

May be pasty, foul and contain blood and mucus.

Urine

Cystitis; with frequency and pain. Urine of strong smell and corrosive. Urine contains sugar.

Genitalia

Pruritis vulva and vagina Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia polypi and fibroids of uterus Leucorrhoea - corrosive, offensive, brown, green, yellow. Boils vulva. Urethral caruncle, bartholinitis Dyspareunia.

Chest

Pleurodynia. Fibrositis chest wall. Emphysema. Angina. Pain since shingles.

Respiration

Bronchitis each winter. History of pneumonia or bronchopneumonia; never well since. Bronchitis and asthma. Emphysema. Suffocative attacks nocte. Shortness breath.

Cough

Dry tickling cough. Morning cough-loose or sticky. Dry asthma.

Circulation

Varicose veins; Vertigo, Phlebitis; Flushes, Varicose ulcer. High blood pressure. Sluggish circulation. Cerebral thrombosis. Easy bruising.

Neck and Back

Fibrositis neck and shoulders. History of rheumatic fever. Pain generally (<) note. (<) heat (>) moving (<) beginning to move Lumbago acute or chronic. Fibrositis generalized; dorsal; lumbar; sacroiliac. Arthritis spine. Arthritis sacro - iliac joints.

Upper Limbs

Pains shoulder ; rheumatism shoulders Pain arms; wrists, hands Neuritis arms pain keeps awake nocte. Numbness and tingling arms. Arms puffy; useless; stiff. Hands puffy; stiff and grip poor. Hands too hot nocte. Fingers stiff in morning. Fibrous rheumatism hands. Rheumatoid arthritis wrists (confirmed by X-ray). Rheumatism thumb; osteoporosis.

Hands

Fingers joints swollen and painful. Metacarpophalangeal joints swollen and painful, especially middle finger. Nodules on finger.

Lower Limbs

Lack power legs; limbs stiff; limbs numb. Tingling legs, feet numb; growing pains legs ache legs. Limbs cold in patches, sense of touch lost. Knee; swollen and painful; grating Peri-arthritis knee Osteo-arthritis knee. Feet; Pain soles of feet Metatarsal phalangeal joints painful. Swollen. Pain heels. thick skin soles of feet with cracks heels. Pes planus. Feet too hot nocte; offensive foot sweat.

Skin

Face; Eruption-face scalp; neck-pustular weeping. Eruption-brow; scaling and very itchy. Face hot, red, dry and fissured. Eczema chin and forehead. Cracks and eruption behind ears. weepy, itchy, scaly and fissured. Neurodermatitis-chin, forehead and scalp margins. Eruption scalp margins; pustular, itchy and scaling Eczema ear passages. Erysipelas face. Acne face and scalp.

Neck and Body

Eruption neck, body and chest erythema, vesicular, papulopustular; with marked itching. Herpes-zoster both axillary regions. Herpes-zoster R. hypochondrium. Eczema left nipple. Intertrigo breasts. Acne shoulders and back. Boils and carbuncles neck.

Arms and Hands

Eruption flexures arms-dry cracked, fissured itching. Prickly heat dorsum arms and elbows. Eruption wrists to elbow;-dry, scaly, cracked and itchy. Infantile eczema. Backs and palms of hands and between fingers (dry, cracked, fissured, weepy, itchy and burning). Cracks knuckles, fingers and thumbs. Flat warts hands. Nails brittle.

Genitalia

Eruption scrotum; vesicular, scaling, weepy, red, raw, itching, Eruption perineum and groins; Dry scaly eczema; pudenda and groins (itch, red, raw and burn.)

Skin-Legs

Varicose eczema. Chilblains, erythema florida. Erythrocyanosis peullarum, leukoplakia foot (and neck) Circinate eruption both legs inner side. Dermatitis dorsum foot, inner side heel, ankle. Erythema nodosum legs. Athlete's foot. Fidgets feet. Eruptions generally (<) heat, washing and nocte. Cannot wear wool next skin. Skin sensitive to sun -prickly heat.

Sleep

Insomnia; light and restless.

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. When a medicine appears in more than one materia medica, switch authors on the chapter to compare how each describes it. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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