114 articles tagged with “Materia Medica”

How to read H.C. Allen's Keynotes: the "Adapted to" line, bracketed comparisons, Relations, Aggravation and Amelioration, and where to read it free.

Bowel nosodes of Bach and Paterson: Morgan, Gaertner, Proteus, Dys. Co., Sycotic Co., with keynotes, associated remedies and where to read Paterson free.

Constitutional remedy and constitutional types for practitioners: Hahnemann, Kent, Vithoulkas, French biotypes, acute vs chronic, genus epidemicus.

How a homeopathic proving is conducted, from Hahnemann's protocol to modern blinded trials, and how to read a proving report: prover marks, timing, grades.

Isopathy (Isopathie, isothérapie, isoterapia) and tautopathy vs homeopathy: definitions, Hahnemann's objection, nosodes on the boundary, modern use.

Materia Medica Lite (now Materia Medica AI) vs Similia: what the offline Android app offers, where practitioners outgrow it, and what Similia gives free.

How to read Hahnemann's Materia Medica Pura: its six volumes, the head-to-foot proving schema, prover marks and timings, and where to read it online free.

Natrum carbonicum materia medica: worse from sun, music and mental exertion, 5 a.m. hunger, weak ankles. Keynotes from Boericke, Kent, Clarke and Allen.

S. R. Phatak's Concise Repertory and Materia Medica: alphabetical layout, grades, Boger lineage, differences from Kent and BBCR, and how to study them.

What complementary, inimical and antidote mean in homeopathy, where the relationship tables come from, and how to read them in Boericke, Clarke and Hering.

Robin Murphy's Nature's Materia Medica explained: Remedy Guide to Lotus MM to the 4th edition, how each entry is built, book vs Similia Pro Murphy Edition.

Vital sensation, seven levels, kingdoms and ten miasms: Sankaran's sensation method explained, and how to test it against a classical repertorisation.

Compare 21 classic materia medica books and their formats, then try a free printable and editable study worksheet with a worked Boericke and Kent source comparison.

Antimonium tartaricum materia medica: the coarse rattling cough with little expectoration, the drowsiness, debility and cold sweat, plus differentials.

Argentum nitricum materia medica: keynotes of hurry and anticipation, expansion and splinter sensations, sweets that disagree, and the Gelsemium differential.

Calcarea fluorica materia medica: keynotes for stony-hard indurations, exostoses, varicose veins and cracked palms, with modalities and working differentials.

Calcarea phosphorica materia medica: the thin, discontented growing child — delayed dentition, open fontanelles, school headaches, growing pains, bone repair.

Ferrum phosphoricum materia medica: keynotes for the first stage of inflammation, bright-red haemorrhage, soft rapid pulse, epistaxis, otitis and modalities.

Hering's law of cure explained for practitioners: the four directions of cure, what a return of old symptoms means, and how to read a follow-up.

Kali mur materia medica: the second-stage tissue salt of thick white exudate, greyish-white tongue, glandular swelling and catarrhal deafness.

Magnesia phosphorica materia medica: the great antispasmodic — cramping, lightning-like neuralgic pains better for heat, pressure and bending double.

Nosodes in homeopathy explained for practitioners: how they are prepared, the classical nosodes one by one, the bowel nosodes, and when a nosode is indicated.

Psorinum materia medica for practitioners: lack of vital reaction, hopelessness, foul discharges and chilliness — with modalities, keynotes and differentials.

Abrotanum materia medica: marasmus ascending from the legs with ravenous appetite, metastasis after checked diarrhœa, alternating piles and rheumatism, the cruel-tempered emaciated child — Boericke, Kent, Clarke and Lippe compared.

Arundo mauritanica materia medica: hay fever beginning with itching of the palate and conjunctiva, catarrh of teething children, red sand in the urine — Boericke, Clarke and Hering compared.

Leptandra virginica materia medica: black tarry stools, aching over the gall-bladder extending to spine and left scapula, jaundice with clay stools, better lying on the stomach — Boericke, Boger, Clarke and Hering compared.

Menispermum canadense materia medica: bursting headache with pain down the whole spine, yawning and stretching, night dryness of mouth and throat, itching worse in bed — Boericke, Clarke and Allen compared.

Teucrium marum verum materia medica: threadworms with itching anus and tingling nose, nasal polypi, atrophic catarrh with clinkers, the mouldy taste, oversensitivity after too much medicine — Boericke, Nash, Clarke and Boger compared.

Yohimbinum materia medica: the yohimbe alkaloid in homeopathy — congestive sexual states, neurasthenic impotence, flying waves of heat, sleeplessness from crowding thoughts — Boericke, Clarke and Lippe compared.

Camphora materia medica: icy coldness with refusal of covers, sudden collapse, the cholera trio with Cuprum and Veratrum, first stage of colds, and why camphor antidotes other remedies — Boericke, Kent, Nash and Clarke compared.

Picricum acidum materia medica: brain-fag and neurasthenia, the tired 'must give in' state, occipital headache better from tight bandaging, burning along the spine — Boericke, Kent, Nash, Clarke and Lippe compared.

Sticta pulmonaria materia medica: pressure at the root of the nose, the dry nose you must blow without result, dry night cough that forbids lying down, and the floating sensation — Boericke, Nash, Clarke and Boger compared.

Apis mellifica vs Belladonna in acute inflammation: oedema versus throbbing congestion, stinging versus hammering pain, and the modalities that decide.

Carbo vegetabilis vs China officinalis: whether belching relieves, air hunger versus periodicity, and the touch-and-pressure paradox that decides the case.

Gelsemium vs Bryonia in flu and febrile states: thirst, motion, pulse and the mental picture that separate them — with the rubrics that decide the prescription.

What camph., pic-ac., thuj., euphr. and 100+ other repertory abbreviations stand for — how homeopathic remedy abbreviations are built, and where to read each remedy free.

Ignatia vs Natrum muriaticum in ailments from grief: acute versus buried sorrow, consolation, the globus and the salt craving — plus the deciding rubrics.

Pulsatilla vs Sepia: craving sympathy versus refusing it, warmth versus cold, motion, discharges and menses — plus why the sources call them inimical.

Staphysagria vs Causticum: indignation versus long-lasting grief, the bladder and weather modalities, and how two complementary remedies divide a case.

Anacardium materia medica: the divided will, sudden memory loss in examination funk, plug-like pains, better from eating — Boericke, Kent and Clarke compared.

Apis mellifica materia medica: oedematous stinging swellings, worse heat better cold, thirstless with scanty urine — Boericke, Clarke, Boger and Kent compared.

Arnica montana materia medica: bruised soreness, bed feels too hard, says he is well when gravely ill, fear of touch — Boericke, Kent and Clarke compared.

Aurum metallicum materia medica: profound depression with self-condemnation, nightly bone pains, heart affections — Boericke, Kent and Clarke compared.

Baryta carb materia medica: delayed development, tonsillitis from every cold, bashful timidity, premature senility — Boericke, Kent and Clarke compared.

Berberis vulgaris materia medica: pains radiating from one point, bubbling kidney sensation, colic worse from jarring — Boericke, Kent and Clarke compared.

Cantharis materia medica: intolerable urging to urinate, fearful tenesmus, burns and scalds, rapidly destructive inflammation — Boericke, Kent, Clarke compared.

Carbo veg materia medica: collapse with air-hunger, wants to be fanned; upper-abdominal flatulence; never well since — Boericke, Clarke, Boger, Kent compared.

Causticum materia medica: progressive paralysis, morning hoarseness, intense sympathy, old burns that never healed — Boericke, Clarke, Kent and Boger compared.

Chamomilla materia medica: unendurable pains with anger and numbness, one cheek red one pale, child better carried — Boericke, Kent and Clarke compared.

China officinalis materia medica: debility from loss of fluids, marked periodicity, painless exhausting diarrhoea — Boericke, Kent, Clarke and Boger compared.

Cina materia medica: ugly cross children who repel caresses, nose-boring, teeth-grinding in sleep, ravenous hunger — Boericke, Kent and Clarke compared.

Colocynthis materia medica: agonising colic better bending double and hard pressure, anger with indignation — Boericke, Clarke, Kent and Boger compared.

Conium materia medica: ascending paralytic weakness, stony-hard glands, vertigo turning in bed, Socrates' hemlock — Boericke, Clarke, Kent and Boger compared.

Cuprum metallicum materia medica: cramps and convulsions starting in fingers and toes, clenched thumbs, eased by cold water — Boericke, Clarke, Kent compared.

Drosera materia medica: whooping-cough paroxysms ending in retching, worse after midnight and on lying down — Boericke, Kent, Clarke and Lippe compared.

Dulcamara materia medica: ailments from damp cold and autumn chills, catarrhs settling in eyes and bladder, urticaria — Boericke, Kent and Clarke compared.

Euphrasia materia medica: acrid lachrymation with bland coryza, catarrhal conjunctivitis, daytime cough — Boericke, Kent, Clarke and Boger compared.

Graphites materia medica: cracked skin oozing honey-like fluid, fat chilly and costive patients, weeping at music — Boericke, Clarke, Kent and Boger compared.

Hamamelis materia medica: venous congestion, varicose veins with bruised soreness, passive dark haemorrhages — Boericke, Clarke and Boger compared.

Hepar sulph materia medica: the tendency to suppuration, splinter pains, extreme chilliness with irritability — Boericke, Clarke, Boger and Kent compared.

Hypericum materia medica: injuries to nerve-rich parts, intolerable pains shooting along nerves, coccyx injuries — Boericke, Kent and Clarke compared.

Ipecacuanha materia medica: persistent nausea with a clean tongue, bright-red gushing haemorrhages, whooping cough — Boericke, Kent, Clarke and Boger compared.

Kali bichromicum materia medica: ropy stringy discharges, pains in small spots, punched-out ulcers, sinus catarrh — Boericke, Clarke, Boger and Kent compared.

Kali carb materia medica: stitching pains worse at rest, the 3 a.m. aggravation, sweat, backache and weakness — Boericke, Clarke, Kent and Boger compared.

Kali phos materia medica: nerve exhaustion and brain-fag of students, anxiety from overwork, mustard-yellow tongue — Boericke, Clarke, Boger and Kent compared.

Lac caninum materia medica: symptoms that alternate sides, pearly shifting sore throats, floating sensations — Boericke, Kent, Clarke and Boger compared.

Ledum palustre materia medica: puncture wounds with cold parts relieved by cold, ascending rheumatism, black eye — Boericke, Kent, Clarke and Boger compared.

Lilium tigrinum materia medica: bearing down as if all organs would escape, aimless hurry, heart as if grasped in a vise — Boericke, Kent and Clarke compared.

Medorrhinum materia medica: the sycotic nosode, better at the seaside and lying on the abdomen, hurried, time too slow — Boericke, Kent and Clarke compared.

Naja materia medica: valvular heart affections, pain from left ovary to heart, grasping at the throat with choking — Boericke, Kent, Clarke and Boger compared.

Sarsaparilla materia medica: severe pain at the close of urination, urine flows freely only standing, gravel and marasmus — Boericke, Clarke, Kent compared.

Spigelia materia medica: left-sided neuralgia following the sun, violent audible palpitation, fear of pointed things — Boericke, Clarke, Boger, Kent compared.

Spongia tosta materia medica: dry sawing croup cough, dryness of all air passages, suffocation waking after midnight — Boericke, Clarke, Kent, Boger compared.

Staphysagria materia medica: suppressed indignation, clean-cut wounds, black crumbling teeth, irritable bladder — Boericke, Clarke, Kent and Boger compared.

Stramonium materia medica: violent delirium with desire for light and company, night terrors, fear of the dark and of water — Boericke, Kent, Clarke compared.

Symphytum materia medica: knitbone for non-union of fractures, blunt trauma to the eyeball, pricking periosteal pains — Boericke, Clarke and Boger compared.

Tuberculinum materia medica: the restless nosode that craves change and travel, takes cold from the slightest exposure — Boericke, Kent and Clarke compared.

Veratrum album materia medica: collapse with cold sweat on the forehead, copious vomiting and purging, icy coldness — Boericke, Kent, Clarke and Boger compared.

Zincum metallicum materia medica: fidgety feet, brain-fag repeating the question before answering, ailments of suppression — Boericke, Clarke, Kent compared.

Aconitum napellus materia medica: sudden violent onset after dry cold wind or fright, agonising fear with restlessness, thirst for cold water — Boericke, Clarke, Boger and Lippe compared.

Belladonna materia medica: heat, redness, throbbing and burning of sudden violent onset, dilated pupils, hot head with cold feet — Boericke, Clarke, Boger and Lippe compared.

Bryonia alba materia medica: stitching pains worse from the least motion, better lying on the painful side, dryness of all mucous membranes, thirst for large draughts — Boericke, Clarke & Boger.

Calcarea carbonica materia medica: fat, fair, flabby and sour, head sweat wetting the pillow, craving for eggs and indigestible things, worse ascending — Boericke, Clarke and Boger.

Iris versicolor materia medica: the weekend sick headache with blurred vision after mental strain, burning along the whole alimentary canal, ropy saliva — Boericke, Clarke and Boger.

Lachesis materia medica: cannot bear anything tight, worse after sleep, left-sided complaints, purple discoloration and loquacity — Boericke, Clarke and Boger's Synoptic Key compared.

Merc sol materia medica: the human thermometer, profuse offensive sweat that never relieves, moist mouth with great thirst, teeth-indented tongue — Boericke, Clarke, Boger and Lippe.

Natrum muriaticum materia medica: silent grief, consolation aggravates, craving for salt, sunrise-to-sunset headache, mapped tongue and greasy skin — Boericke, Clarke and Boger.

Phosphorus materia medica: the open, sensitive constitution, cold drinks vomited when warm, burning between the scapulae, left-sided pneumonia — Kent, Clarke & Boericke.

Sepia materia medica: indifference to those loved best, bearing-down as if everything would escape, better for violent exercise, the yellow saddle across the nose — Boericke, Clarke and Boger.

Silicea materia medica: want of grit, every little injury suppurates, chilliness with offensive foot sweat, the receding stool — Boericke, Clarke, Boger and Lippe compared.

Thuja materia medica: the sycotic remedy of warts and condylomata, ill effects of vaccination, fixed ideas of a living thing within, sweat only on uncovered parts — Boericke, Clarke and Boger.

Oscar Boericke's Clinical Repertory — the repertory section of Boericke's Pocket Manual — explained: its therapeutic organisation, how it differs from Kent, and where it fits in modern practice.

John Henry Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica explained: how the entries are structured, why its clinical detail and remedy relationships matter, and how to use Clarke online.

Kent's Lectures on Homeopathic Materia Medica explained: how the lectures are built, why their constitutional portraits endure, how they pair with his Repertory, and how to read Kent free online.

Boericke materia medica explained: how to read the Pocket Manual's entries — modalities, relationship, dose and the built-in repertory — for practitioners.

Read classic materia medica online for free. Learn remedy lookup, author comparison and how paid in-app symptom search differs from public reading.

Mercurius corrosivus materia medica: keynotes, incessant rectal and bladder tenesmus, dysentery, nephritis, eye and throat affinities, plus differentials.

What is a polycrest remedy? A clinical guide to the major polycrest remedies in homeopathy — Sulphur, Lycopodium, Pulsatilla and more — with classical keynotes.

A practitioner's guide to Ruta graveolens — sphere of action on periosteum, tendons and eyes, keynotes, modalities, and the Ruta vs Rhus tox vs Arnica vs Symphytum differential.

Arsenicum Album vs Nux Vomica: a practitioner's differential — keynotes, mind, modalities, GI and sleep symptoms, plus the rubrics that separate them.

How LM (Q) 50-millesimal potencies are prepared, how to plus and adjust the dose, and when to choose them over the centesimal scale — a practitioner's guide.

Rhus Tox vs Bryonia for homeopaths: the worse-from-motion vs better-from-motion split, side-by-side modalities, keynotes, differentials & repertory rubrics.

Lycopodium clavatum remedy profile: constitutional picture, keynotes, 4-8 pm and right-sided modalities, and repertorisation tips for practitioners.

In-depth Nux Vomica remedy profile for practitioners: constitution, keynotes, modalities, clinical uses & differentials from classical sources.

In-depth Pulsatilla remedy profile: constitutional type, keynotes, modalities, differentials & repertory rubrics. Clinical study reference for homeopaths.

In-depth Sulphur remedy profile: constitutional type, keynotes, modalities, and clinical applications. A study and prescribing reference for homeopaths.

Arsenicum album uses and keynotes: anxious restlessness, burning pains better for warmth, midnight aggravation and thirst for sips — and when to prescribe it.

In-depth Coffea Cruda remedy profile covering mental overexcitement, insomnia, hypersensitivity, and clinical applications for homeopathy practitioners.

Gelsemium uses and keynotes: the four Ds, flu with heaviness and drooping eyelids, thirstlessness, and anticipatory anxiety before exams or performance.

Ignatia amara uses and keynotes: acute grief, silent brooding and sighing, the lump in the throat, and contradictory symptoms — with clinical indications.

Rhus tox uses and keynotes: stiffness worse on first motion and better for continued movement, sprains, back pain, shingles — plus the Bryonia differential.

What separates a materia medica from a repertory, how they work together in case analysis, and how to use both — a practical guide for students.

The 20 most important polycrest remedies every homeopathy student must know: Sulphur, Calcarea, Lycopodium, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Nat-mur, Sepia and more. Mental, physical and constitutional profiles, side-by-side.

Find the best homeopathy software with integrated repertory and materia medica. Compare features, free vs paid options, AI tools, and choose the right platform for your practice.