Objective Pointers To The Materia Medica

Objective Pointers To Materia Medica :

Homoeopathic materia medica can be learnt by many ways. One of the way is by seeing the person, observing his gesture, the way he talks, the way he walks, by his external looks. Here are some objective Pointers To The Materia medica.

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Body temperature

▪ Heat or hot feet and cold hands– sep.
▪ Heat of one hand coldness of the other –dig. , ip., puls.
▪ Heat one foot with coldness of the other – lyco., puls.
▪ Coldness of extremities when exertion or excitement-— lach
▪ Coldness of olecrenon (elbow)— agar.
▪ Coldness of wrist –gels
▪ Coldness of hand with hot face – arn., stram
▪ Coldness of foot during headache –sep
▪ Coldness of one foot other hot – lyc., puls.
▪ Coldness foot during pregnancy – lyc., verat
▪ One cheek red and hot other pale and cold — acon., chamo.
▪ Face cold one side ,the other side is hot — cham., ip., acet-ac., acon.,kali-c., lach., mosch., nux- v.,
▪ One cheek cold and red ,the other hot and pale— mosch.
▪ Heat face nose cold — arn.

Skin impression ,feeling

▪ Induration of muscles of forearms– sil
▪ Induration of muscles of hand – sulph
▪ Induration of muscles of palm– caust.,lyc
▪ Induration of muscles ,tendon — caust
▪ Induration of muscles of leg – mag.c
▪ Induration of muscles of sole – ars.
▪ Indurations knotty like ropes – bacill.
▪ Indurations like nodes under the skin – calc.
▪ Skin hard like callosities — graph.,sep.,ant.c., dulc., ran.b,rhus., sil.
▪ Skin parchment like– ars., chin., lith.,lyc.,sars,sil.
▪ Skin peeling of-graph., lach., rhus., sil., sep.
▪ Skin thickening with– ant.c, rhus., sep., ars., calc., dulc., graph., lach., lyc., ran.b

Gestures

▪ Furious — hep.
▪ Clapping of hands – bell., stram.
▪ As if intoxicated – hyos.,(ant-c)
▪ Plays with fingers – hyos.
▪ Stamps on feet – ant-c., stram., verat.
▪ Extreme sympathy for sufferings - Causticum
▪ Humour—haughtyness - Ipecac.
▪ Inclination to laugh at everything. - Hyosciamus
▪ Frantic loquacity with elevated language. - Lachesis
▪ Disposition to be very haughty when sick. Mistrustful does not understand anything one says to them.mild and submissive in otherwise healthy condition.- Lycopodium
▪ Greatly inclined to use strong language and violent expressions.fond of good openion of others, wants to be flattered. easily wounded pride.imagines herself
neglected.- Palladium
▪ Pride and self conceit with contempt( vanity, disregard ) for
others.evenfor those who are most beloved and respected.he has delusion of senses.feeling as of being too large, and on the contrary all others things and
persons seem to be too small and too low. Mania with great pride - Platinum
▪  Illusion as if all surrounding objects were lower and the patient himself much taller than the reality. - Staphisagria
▪ Insanity, delusion of fancies,in which all surrounding objects appear
to be very small and the sufferer himself very large.talking conversations with
specters affection of importance. - Stramonium
▪  Egoistic ; dwells on religious or philosophical speculations. Mania with a settled idea of having all things in abundance. Possessing beautiful things. Foolish happiness and pride. - Sulphur
▪ Amativeness, haughtiness, delirium, madness. He hunts up other peoples weak side and reproaches(rebukes) them. Never speaks the truth . Erroneous and haughty notions. Things himself distinguished, squanders his money, proud of his positions. extravagant (spending unnecessary money ) and haughty ideas and action. - Veratrum album
▪ Indignation from disorder , with anxiety and chillyness dissatisfied and angry with himself all day, thinks he has not accomplished enough, and reproaches himself bitterly. - Arsenic alb
▪ Great indignation about things done by others or by himself grieves about consequences. Hypochondriasis, apathy, weak memory caused by unmerited insults. Sufferings from pride, envy or chagrin, very sensetive least impression, least word that seems wrong hurts her very much. Ailments from indignation and vexation or subdued displeasure. - Staphisagria
▪ Inclined to indignation and anger. After vexation depressed,cannot work,walks as if lame, looseness of
bowels.involantary sighing.does not want to do what he has to do. - Calc-phos
▪  Indignation with silent internal grief. Affection from anger with
indignation particularly vomiting diarrhoea and suppression of menses. Extremely irritable and impatient. Nothing seems right,gets angry when questioned.becomes offeneded at everything. Anger with indignation and extreme irritability, throws things out of his hand. - Colocynthis

Speech

▪ Babbling (speaking like a baby) - hyos.
▪ Childish –arg-n.
▪ Hasty – hep., hyos., lach., merc.
▪ Hesitating — nux-m.
▪ Monosyllabic — nux-v., ph-ac., sul-ac., thuj.
▪ Slow – hell., lach.,
▪ Sulky (aloop) — ant-c., caust., con., kali-c., nux-v., plat.
▪ Unsympathetic — dig.
▪ When very sick says well —- apis., arn.

Position

▪ Bending head backwards ameliorate — cham.,spong., verat.
▪ Leaning backwards aggravates— psor
▪ Rocking >— kali.c
▪ Must rise up and bend head backwards > — hep.
▪ Bending forwards < — spig
▪ Bending forwards >— ars., kali-c., kali-bi., lach., spong.,
▪ Lying while > cal-p., chel., dig., psor.,
▪ > by arms outwards stretched — psor.
▪ Lying on back>— cact., kalm.
▪ Shoulders elevated > cact.,
▪ On knee elbow > medo.
▪ Lying on side < — ars., puls.
▪ Lying on side > - alum
▪ > by lying on right side – spig.
▪ > by lying on left side – caust.,
▪ Can only breath when standing – cann-sat.,
▪ Talking after < — lach., spong., sulph.
▪ Talking > –— ferr.

Sleep position

▪ On abdomen — bell., coloc., stram.,
▪ On abdomen with arms under the head — cocc.
▪ Sleeps with arms over the head — lac-c., med., nux-v., puls.
▪ Sleeps with arms under the head — nux-v., puls.
▪ Sleeps with arms on abdomen — cocc., puls.,
▪ Sleeps with hands flat under occiput— ars., ign.,
▪ With hand over the head — lac-c.
▪ Sleeps on knees with face forced into the pillow — med.
▪ limbs crossed –— rhod.
▪ Automatic motion of fingers — zinc.
▪ Automatic motions of toes — opium.
▪ Automatic motions of thigh — opium.
▪ Automatic motions of legs — hell.

Tongue

▪ Motion hanging out — lach., sil.
▪ lapping — bufo
▪ Side to side — hell., lyco.
▪ Ring worm — nat-m.
▪ Ulcer on tongue —
▪ Blue— ars.
▪ Yellow — aloe., cup., hell.,plb.,
▪ Ulcer in centre — fl-ac.
▪ Edges — nit-ac., thuj.
▪ Under — fl-ac., grap., lyc., galic.

Nail

▪ Cracked—finger— ant-c., nat-m., sil.
▪ Black — ars., graph.
▪ Blood settles underneath — apis.
▪ Blue— arg-n., champ., carb-v., nux-v., verat.
▪ Dark — morph., ox-ac.
▪ Gray — merc-c.,sil.
▪ Purple — apis., ars.
▪ White — cupr., nit-ac.
▪ Yellow — con., sep., sil.
▪ Brittle Finger nails — alum.,ambr.,fl-ac., graph., nit-ac., psor., sil., sulph., thuj.
▪ Brittle Toe nails — sil., thuj.
▪ Brittle Thick — ant-c., graph., sil., ust.
▪ Brittle Thin nails — op., ars.

Face

▪ Anxious — acon., aeth., ars., borax., camph., chin-s., lac-c., verat., sulph., lyc.
▪ Astonished — acon., bell., cann-s., stram.
▪ Childish — anac., nux-m.
▪ Cold,distant — puls.
▪ Confused — aeth., bufo., lyc.,
▪ Distressed — ars., cact.,crot.,iod., nux-m., stram.,
▪ Foolish — bar-c., bufo., lyc., phos., nux-m., stram.,
▪ Frightened — acon., stram.,
▪ Happy— apis., op.,
▪ Idiotic — agar., cal., lach., laur., lyc.,
▪ Intoxicated — bufo., gels., lach., nux-v., stram., (ant-c)
▪ Sickly — ars., cina., lach ., lyc..
▪ Sleepy — cann-i., nux-m., op.
▪ Sullen — alum., nux-v
▪ Wild look (eyes) — bell., lyss., nux-v.,m anac., ars., lach., stram.
▪ Besotted — bapt.,
▪ Multiple small warts around nose — caust
▪ Tip of nose red — bor.,carb-an., lach., sulp., .
▪ Red lips — sul., tub.,
▪ Yellow saddle across nose— sep.
▪ Wings of nose red — sin-n
▪ Face brownish red in spots — aur