Important clinical rubrics and sub rubrics in Synthesis Repertory for practitioners and students

Important clinical rubrics and sub rubrics in Synthesis Repertory for practitioners and student  

Dr MansoorA li 

A compilation of important clinical rubrics from Synthesis repertory by Frederik Schroyens.

This is an attempt to help beginners and busy practitioners – these rubrics will definitely help the practioner in day-to-day clinical practice to arrive at a similimum. 

While going through these rubrics and sub rubrics you ca easily realise how the new generation repertories eased our prescription in a reliable way. 

Mind
Abrupt = harsh rough  Absent minded – absorbed – abstraction of mind  Abusive – using harsh insulting languages as a routine Accident prone Activity desires  Admonition – gentle advice  Affectation – artificial behaviour designed to impress others  Agility – quick to answer  Ailments from – abused sexually, anger, business failure, anticipation, disappointment, discord between, fright, home sickness, love etc Alcoholism  Amativeness – extreme sexual desire  Ambition loss of  Amorous  Anguish – anxiety with physical sufferings Anorexia nervosa Anticipation  Anxiety  Aphasia – apoplexy after  Ardent – enthusiastic passionate  Audacity – negative boldness Autism Avarice Behaviour problems  Benevolence – charitable  Boaster  Brooding – recent depression Bulimia – over eating  Capriciousness – changeable  Cars love for  Censorious – fault finding  Cheerful – happy despite various suffering  Childish behaviour Company aversion  Concentration  Confidence  Conscientious  about trifles  Consolation Contemptuous  Content – satisfied despite various sufferings  Contradiction disposition to, Contrary, Contradiction intolerant of  Cowardice Cruelty children  Cynical – Contemptuously bitterly mocking  Cursing – abusive after some provocation  Deceitful  Delirium Delirium tremens Delusion Dementia  Dependant of authors  Destructiveness Determination  Development arrested  Discontent – always dissatisfied  Disgust – despair after repeated failures  Disobedience children    Dullness  Dwells – chronic depression  Dyslexia  Eating – refuses to eat  Egotism Envy  Fastidious  Fear  Fearless Feigning sick to be  Foolish behaviour Forgetful Forsaken  Gourmand – eating always  Greed  Grief Hard hearted  Hatred  Haughty  Home desire to  Homoeopathy aversion to  Homesickness  Homosexuality Horrible things sad storied affect profoundly  Hurry Hydrophobia Hypochondriasis  Hypocrisy Hysteria	Idiocy Imbecility  Impatience  Impulsive Inconstancy  Indifference  Indignation Industrious Injustice cannot support  Insanity Intellectual  Introspection  Irresolution Irritability  Jealousy Kleptomania  Lascivious  Laziness Liar  Libertinism  Loquacity Malicious  Mania Marriage  Mathematics  Meditating  Memory  Mental exertion – aversion to, desire for  Mischievous Mistakes  Moral feeling want off Mother complex Mother fixation  Narrow minded Nibble desire to – small bite at a time Nymphomania Obstinate  Occupation > Oedipus complex Offended easily  Optimistic Pertinacity  Pictures taken aversion to her own Postponing  Precocity children Quarrelsome Reading  Religious affections Reserved  Restlessness Retardation – mental  Sadness Schizophrenia Self control  Selfishness Sensitive Sentimental  Serious  Shrieking  Sighing  Stranger Striking Studying  Suicidal disposition Suspicious  Sympathetic  Talking  Temper tantrums Timidity  Tourette’s syndrome  Tranquility  Travelling desire for  Unconsciousness  Un sympathetic  Washing  Weeping  Yielding

Vertigo 

• Accompanied by
    – Dim vision
    – Noises – Meniere’s disease 
• Alcoholic drinks from 
• Closing the eye < and > 
• Concussion of brain from 
• Exertion of eyes <
• Fall tendency to 
• Meniere’s disease
• Object – turn in a circle
                room whirls
  Sleep loss from 
• Turning in bed
• Turning when – head quickly

Head 

• Apoplexy – stroke
• Cephalhematoma (injuries from delivery) 
• Concussion of brain
• Dandruff = Pityriasis scalp
• Eruption – destroying hair
• Eruption – milk crust 
• Fracture of skull
• Heat flushes of menopause during 
• Hydrocephalus 
• Inflammation – meninges 
• Motion of head – nodding 
• Head pain – accompanied by 
• Head pain School children 
• Head pain fasting 
• Head pain hysterical 
• Sclerosis cerebral 
• Sunstroke – ailments after, prophylactic 
• Tumors – brain 

Eye 

• Agglutinated 
• Amblyopia – dim vision – Children, congenital, old people 
• Asthenopia – weak vision 
• Cataract – children, old people 
• Conical cornea – Keratoconus 
• Glaucoma
• HerpesZoster Opthalmicus 
• Inflammation – acute, chronic, foreign bodies, Trachoma
• Movement – involuntary – Nystgmus
• Open – Sleep in 
• Paralysis muscle – strabismus, Optic nerve
• Protrusion – exophthalmos 
• Pterygium
• Spectacles wearing 
• Staphyloma – abnormal protrusion uveal tissue 
• Strabismus 
• Styes
• Hair falling – eye lashes from 
• Pupil – dilated, insensible, unequal 

Vision 

• Acute – sharp 
• Blurred – glasses adjusted even after having 
• Dim – headache during 
• Focal distance changes while reading – presbyopia 
• Hair hung before the sight 
• Hemaralopia – day blindness
• Loss of vision – incipient, renal hge from
• Muscae volitans – Colors – black – floating 
• Myopia children in – myopic astigmatism 
• Zig zag circle of colors 

Ear 

• Abscess 
• Boing fingers children 
• Calcareous deposit on tympanum
• Degeneration of tympanic membrane 
• Discharges Chronic 
• Favus – fungus 
• Inflammation – chronic, media(otitis media),recurrent 
• Noises in , synchronous with pulse
• Otosclerosis
• Perforation – tympanum 
• Retracted tympanum 
• Sneezing agg
• Suppuration – middle ear – chronic (CSOM)
  Ulceration Tympanum Lobe hole of ear rings
• Wax – hardened, increased, troublesome 

Hearing

• Clairaudience – receiving in another frequency 
• Impaired – hardened ear wax, adenoids in, catarrh eustachian tube,tonils in
• Lost – tonsils from 

Nose

• Adenoids 
• Cancer 
• Coryza – smell loss ,children,chronic,fever with, voice complaints
• Cracks 
• Diphtheria
• Discharges – crust, copious ,hard, post nasal
• Dryness – blowing nose without discharge 
• Hay fever 
• Lupus 
• Obstruction – chronic, alt sides
• Ozena 
• Polypus 
• Sneezing 
• Snuffling 
• Sinuses complaints 

Face 

• Abscess
• Cancer, tobacco from 
• Chloasma 
• Cracking in articulation jaw
• Dandruff of eye brows
• Discoloration 
• Eruption – cosmetic from, acne, comedon, pimples, beard (Barber’s itch)
• Excoriation mouth corners of 
• Freckles – brownish spot
• Face – heat menopause during 
• Inflammation – parotid – extending to testes 
• Lockjaw – prophylaxis 
• Face -pain – neuralgic – Tic 
• Face – Paralysis one sided – Bell’s palsy, riding in the wind,cold from 
• Prognathism – protrusion lower jaw
• Shaving <
• Sun – Exposure to sun 
• Face – Swelling pregnancy during , Lips – angio edema 
• Ulcers – Lips, face corners of 
• Hair – growth children & women 

Mouth

• Abscess – recurring frequently 
• Apthae – children, painful preventing nursing 
• Bleeding – cleaning when, extraction of teeth after, pressing with teeth, sucking them 
• Cancer 
• Cleft palate 
• Cracks tongue 
• Detached from teeth gums – Peridontosis 
• Discolororation 
• Dryness
• Heat – nipple hot, when feeding 
• Indented tongue- Imprint teeth 
• Leukoplakia
• Plummer-vinson syndrome
• Pyorrhea alveolar
  Salivation – Children in , spit with constant desire, tooth ache during 
• Scorbutic gums
• Speech – Stammering 
• Stomatitis – nursing children, mothers 
• Swelling – Gums – extraction of teeth after, Tongue
• Taste – Bad fever after, bitter fever during, insipid (tasteless), metallic, putrid, Wanting – coryza during
• Tongue tie
• Thrush
• Ulcers – Cheek- lichen planus, tongue

Teeth

• Brushing teeth aggravates
• Caries – teeth children 
• Children complaints of teeth 
• Cupped children
• Deformed
• Dirty looking 
• Grinding sleep in 
• Incrustations 
• Injury – dental work after 
• Looseness – sound teeth
• Maidens complaints of young 
• Mucus on teeth – black crusts 
• Nursing women in 
• Pain – filling after, neuralgic, picking teeth excited by
• Pregnancy age during 
• Reflecting (Flapping gums)
• Sordes – black, dark 
• Wisdom teeth ailments from 

Throat

• Calcareous deposit
• Catarrh – Smokers 
• Throat – chocking eating drinking <,thyroid gland from enlargement of 
• Crawling – worm as if 
• Diphtheria – prophylactic 
• Food lodges in throat, nursing children
• Foreign body sensation
• Hawk disposition to – constant, ineffectual
• Inflammation – Children, chronic, follicular, oesophagus(Reflux esophagitis), tonsils recurrent, accompanied by salivation
• Lump – rising sensation (Globus)
• Smokers complaints of 
• Stricture oesophagus 
• Swallow constant disposition to 
• Swallowing – difficult, hindering, impossible
• Ulcers

External throat 

• Clothing <
• Discoloration blue
• Goitre  – exopthalmic,nodular, pregnancy, puberty
• Perspiration 
• Swelling – cervical glands, thyroid – puberty
• Totricollis 

Neck

• Lumps 
• Pain 
• Stiffness
• Warts

Stomach

• Acidity – children 
• Aerophagia
• Appetite – Diminished cancer in, children in, finicky( selective eating),Increased – children, sick when, disease before, ravenous, Wanting – chronic, disease after, hunger with 
• Cancer 
• Cardialgia – Heartburn
• Coffee abuse of 
• Disordered – eating after, eructation > ,not >
• Drunkards complaints in 
• Emptiness – eating not >
• Eructation – ineffectual and incomplete
• Eructation – types 
• Fullness eating ever so little
• Heartburn
• Hiccough – continued, hysterical, pregnancy
• Hyperchlorhydria
• Indigestion 
• Lump sensation 
• Narrow pylorus feels 
• Nausea 
• Pain – eating after, fasting while, burning, children
• Raw food aggravates 
• Slow digestion – alcoholics, hypochondriacs, pregnancy during, sedentary living 
• Thirst – large quantise, small quantities 
• Thirstless
• Vomiting –  brain tumours from, chemotherapy after, dialysis from, drinking after, measles during, palliative action,projectile
• Vomiting types of 
• Epigastrium complaints of 

Abdomen

• Aneurism 
• Anxiety 
• Atrophy liver, spleen
• Bubo 
• Cancer
• Cracks on surface of abdomen
• Discharge from umbilicus – children 
• Distension – anticipation from, children, mothers, 
• Diverticulosis 
• Enlarged – children, mothers, maiden in young
• Eruptions – ringworm zona, umbulicus
• Fatty degeneration liver 
• Flatulence – fever during, descending colon with constipation, old people, painful
• Gall stone 
• Hernia – children, umbulicus
• Ileus 
• Inflammation – Appendix, Cecum, Colon (IBS),Gall bladder,Liver, hepatitis A, hepatitis C, Perityphlitis, Spleen 
• Intussusception 
• IBS ( Inflammation colon)
• Pain : children – school children, hemorrhoids from, hysterical, lead poisoning from, pregnancy during, colic gall stone
• Pendulous abdomen – Children in , delivery after, mothers of 
• Peristalsis – Increased, reversed 
• Rumbling – eating after, stool before
• Stasis of the portal venous system 
• Stricture of intestine
• Tabes mesenteric
• Ulcer : duodenum, intestine, mesentric gland, umbulicus
• Worm complaints from 

Rectum

• Cancer
• Cholera – asiatic, chlorine(begning),infantum,morbus
• Constipation : mouth odour offensive, antibiotic after, children, constant desire, painful in children, home away from, ineffectual, purgatives after,remains long without urging, travelling while
• Constriction – painfull, anus
• Diarrhoea – alt with constipation, alcoholic drinks after, newborns in, fever during , artificial food after, vaccination after 
• Dysentery 
• Eruption – anus about children-diaper rash 
• Excoriation 
• Fissure
• Flatus 
• Hemorrhage – accompanied by constipation, children, infants, hemorrhoids from, stool from hard
• Hemorrhoids – children, delivery after, parturition <.pregnancy <,purgatives after 
• Involuntary stool 
• Itching – ascarides, leukorrhoea agg
• Moisture 
• Pain 
• Paralysis sphnicter ani
• Polyp
• Prolapsus – Children,delivery after, pregnancy aggar, replacing difficult, soul during 
• Ulceration – anus
• Urging – constant, fever during, painful, pregnancy aggr,sudden
• Worms – children, pin worm, round worm, schistosome, tape worm, whip worm 

Stool

• Acrid
• Bloody – streaks in (Fissure), children, infants
• Eating – over eating <
• Hard followed by soft stool 
• Mucous covered with mucus
• Odor
• Pastry <
• Purgatives <
• Stickin to trollet – Fatty 
• Undigested 

Bladder

• Atony – retention from long 
• Fullness sensation – urging to urinate without
• Hemorrhoids
• Inflammation – accompanied by prostate gland swelling, coition after, acute, chronic
• Nervous bladder 
• Pain 
• Paralysis – no desire after delivery
• Polyp
• Prolapse – vagina into
• Retention – Children, infant, new born, old people, enlarged prostate from
• Stones in bladder 
• Urination – dribbling, enlarged prostate with, delivery after, children, involuntary, perpendicularly urine drops, dysuria – bhp with, painful, feeble stream, forked stream (multiple),incomplete, involuntary – day night, cauterisation after, old people with enlarged prostate, delayed if desire urinate, retarded must wait urine to start, press a long time before he can begin, Urging to urinate – constant. Frequent. Sudden – hasten to urinate or urine will escape 
• Weakness

Kidneys

• Addison’s disease 
• Complaints – accompanied by diabetes, hypertension, vomiting 
• Hydronephrosis 
• Inflammation – accompanied by, acute, chronic, interstitial, parenchymatous, pregnancy, pelvis (pyelitis),pelvis and kidney (pyelonephritis)
• Nephrotic syndrome
• Pain – Urters Lt RT, Extending to 
• Polycystic Kidney
• Renal failure 
• Sclerosis 
• Stones 
• Suppression of urine

Prostate Gland

• Cancer 
• Catarrhal (postatorrhea)
• Emission 
• Festering sensation – lightning like 
• Hardness
• Induration 
• Inflammation 
• Swelling – old people in 

Urethra 

• Agglutination of meatus
• Caruncle (false outgrowth)
• Chordee (Painful erection)
• Cracks in meatus
• Discharge – gleety(acute gonorrhoea),gonorrhoeal, mucus, staining the linen,
• Inflammation – new sexual relationship since
• Pain – before during after urination, last drop
• Stricture 
• Swelling 

Urine

• Acetonuria
• Albuminous – children, heart disease, pregnancy, delivery 
• Alakaline
• Bile containing 
• Bloody – children, bhp in 
• Calcium increased 
• Cast – cylindroid, epithelial, granular, tubes,urate 
• Chlorides – decreased, increased 
• Cloudy 
• Color 
• Cuticle forming 
• Gonadotrophic hormone increased
• Odor
• Phosphorous increased 
• Scanty
• Sediment – bloody, cylindrical cast, lime stone, oxalate, phosphate, sand, white-filmy wash difficult to, yeast like 
• Specific gravity – increased, decreased 
• Staining – linen, sheet, diaper 
• Sugar – children in 

Male 

• Atrophy 
• Blennorrhoea glands
• Cancer 
• Coition – aversion to, enjoyment absent,painful
• Condylomata
• Crab lice
• Cracks
• Cryptorchism (Retraction testes, un descended tests )
• Ejaculation – absent. bloody, failing during coition,late too, quick too, painful, scanty, thick, thin
• Elephantiasis scrotum 
• Erection – continued (priapism),painful, sexual desire without, short too, troublesome, violent, wanting – thinking about his impotence, wife with his 
• Eruption – thighs between, itching 
• Excoriation – thighs between and scrotum 
• Gangrene 
• Handling genitals 
• Hematocele
• Hernia 
• Inflammation 
• Masturbation disposition to – Adolescent, childhood since, children, young people 
• Orgasm – wanting 
• Phimosis 
• Pollution – dream without, emaciation with , erection without 
• Retraction 
• Sarcocele 
• Sexual desire – increased, violent, wanting 
• Smegma
• Sterility 
• Swelling – testes mumps from 
• Varicocele 

Female 

• Abortion – repeated, tendency to 
• Atony uterus
• Cancer 
• Coition – enjoyment absent, interrupts ailments from, painful 
• Condylomata 
• Curettage < – DNC aggr
  Delivery – after complaints, during 
• Displacement of uterus 
• Dryness vagina
• Endometriosis 
• Erosion cervix
• Eruption
• Excoriation 
• Fetus – position abnormal – brach, cross wise
• Fistula vagina
• Flatus vagina
• Frigidity see Coition aversion to 
• Hair falling out 
• Hematocele
• Hydrometra see Swollen Uterus dropsical 
• Induration – Cervix, ovary, uterus
• Infantilism 
• Inflammation – ovary, ovi duct (salpingitis), Uterus (metritis), Cervix, Vagina(colpitis), Vulva
• Insensibility vagina – coition during 
• Itching – intolerable, leucorrhoea from, pregnancy agg, labia between, vagina- coition after, pregnancy during 
• Kraurosis vulvae (Lichen sclerous atrophicus)
• Leukorrhea – acrid-eats holes linen, menses before and after, old people in, pregnancy at, puberty at, staining linen, stiffening linen, stubborn, students in, weak women in, weakness with 
• Lochia – offensive after instrumental delivery, protracted, suppressed 
• Masturbation disposition to 
• Menopause  – obese women in, sadness, servants in 
• Menses – absent(amenorrhoea),molimen(just a top), appear before proper age, copious – forceps delivery after, menopause during, old people in, plethoric women in. delayed in girls first menses, early too, frequent too, intermittent, late too, painful, return after ceased, short too, suppressed menses from 
• Metrorrhagia – curettage after, delivery after, fibroids from, iron after abuse of, menopause during, women- children not having, old women, plethoric women, sterile, weak in 
• Moles
• Narrowing of vagina
• Nodules – uterus, vagina
• Orgasm
• Os Uteri 
• Pain 
• Pelvic inflammatory disease 
• Pessary after 
• Placenta – retained
• Polypus 
• Post menopausal bleeding (Menses – return-ceased, Metrorrhagia – menopause during)
• Postpartum haemorrhage (Metrorrhagia – Delivery after)
• Precocity (Sexual desire premature)
• Pregnancy – after complaints, during 
• Pre menstrual syndrome – Mind – menses before, generals – menses before)
• Prolapsus – Uterus delivery after, vagina
• Puberty ailments at 
• Relaxation – vagina sphincter of 
• Retentio Secundinarum (Placenta retained)
• Sensitiveness – Vagina
• Sexual desire – diminished, increased, menopause during, insatiable, violent, wanting
• Sterility 
• Suv involution 
• Swollen
• Symphysiolysis 
• Tumors – ovary, uterus – mayoma, large 
• Ulcers
• Vaginismus 
• Veins varicose 

Larynx and Trachea 

• Cancer 
• Condylomata – larynx, vocal cord 
• Constriction 
• Croup 
• Diphtheria
• Fissure in larynx
• Food drops into larynx
• Inflammation – acute, chronic 
• Laryngismus stridulus (constriction)
• Necrosis of cartilage 
• Nodes vocal cord 
• Paralysis – larynx, vocal cord 
• Pthisis (TB)
• Polyp
• Scrapping clearing larynx- incessant 
• Singers complaints of 
• Spams – thyroid(Asthma thymicum)
• Ulceration 
• Voice – broken, hoarseness, chronic, crying when,coryz during, drinking cold water when over heated, heated when becoming, over use of voice, nasal – enlarged tonsil, weak
• Whistling 

Respiration

• Abdominal
• Accelerated
• Anxious 
• Arrested – ascending stairs <, children on lifting, fall after child
• Arsenical vapours aggr
• Asthmatic (Bronchial Asthma) – pulsatilla symptoms, allergic, children, hysterical, periodic, recurrent, status asthmatics
• Cheyne stokes (Gen Cheyne – stokes)
• Children in
• Difficult (COPD) – exertion from slight, weather – change of, wet 
• Dust aggravates
• Flatulence – obstructed flatulence <
• Holding something > 
• Hyperventilation
• Impeded
• Measles after 
• Panting 
• Sighing 
• Snoring – adenoids removed after, children in
• Snuffling
• Sobbing – audible convulsive catches of breath
• Stertorous
• Wheezing 

Cough 

• Morning waking on 
• Asthmatic 
• Barking – children
• Chicken pox after
• Children in 
• Chronic
• Cold – air aggr, drinks < 
• Cold after taking 
• Constant
• Crying aggr
  Delivery after 
• Dentition during 
• Dry – loose in morning 
• Dust from 
• Eating after 
• Fever – after, during 
• Heart affections in
• Hoarse
• Hold chest with hands
• Irritation from – Larynx, trachea, throat 
• Loose
• Measles after 
• Menopause during 
• Milk < 
• Old people
• Paroxysmal
• Periodical
• Pregnancy
• Rattling 
• Sit up must
• Sleep preventing 
• Spasmodic
• Suffocative
• Sugar <
• Sun <
• Sympathetic – cough in organic heart diseases 
• Tuberculous person in 
• Violent
• Weather 
• Warm aggravates 
• Whooping cough – prophylactic 
• Worms from 

Expectoration 

• Ball in shape of 
• Blackish
• Bloody – streaks in 
• Calcareous tubercles 
• Copious 
• Constant – almost day and night 
• Difficult – adhering throat and lips 
• Flakes 
• Flies forcibly out of mouth
• Flocculent
• Frothy
• Greenish
• Lumpy
• Oleaginous 
• Purulent
• Scanty
• Stringy
• Swallow what has been loosened 
• Taste 
• Thick
• Transparent
• Viscid 

Chest

• Abscess lungs
• Adam stokes syndrome
• Aneurysm
• Angina pectoris – children in ,pseudo angina, straining from 
• Anguish (Anxiety with physical sufferings)
• Anxiety 
• Apprehension heart region
• Arrhythmia (Palpitation – irregular)
• Arteriosclerosis 
• Atelectasis 
• Atrophy – Mammae – ovarian dropsy from, goitre with, infertility with, lumps with
• Bleeding nipples 
• Bronchiectasis 
• Cancer – heart, lung,mammae
• Ceases to beat heart 
• Chicken breast – Pigeon Chest 
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 
• Cicatrices – mammae 
• Complaints of chest
• Cracks – nipple
• DA Costa’s syndrome (Palpitation irritable = anxiety with palpitation)
• Dilatation of heart 
• Discharge from nipple – blood, male 
• Dropsy – feet – heart disease organic, cardiac
• Edema – Pulmonary 
• Emphysema 
• Empyema  
• Eruptions – axilla painful recurrent, mammae
• Excoriation  – axilla, nipples 
• Fatty degeneration heart 
• Gouty heart
• Heart failure – accompanied by, valvular complaints, congestive
• Heart beat 
• Hemorrhage – lungs, heart, valves
• Hepatisation lung
• Hypertrophy – heart, mammae – menopause during 
• Induration – Mammae, children, infants, delivery after, painful
• Inflammation – Aorta, bronchial tubes (bronchitis), bronchopneumonia, children, chronic, bonchioles (bronchiolitis) , heart endocardium rheumatic (rheumatic endocarditis) , Lungs, Mammae, Pleura
• Inter coastal neuralgia ( see Pain intercostal neuralgic)
• Inversion nipples 
• Milk – absent delivery after, night watching from, bad, boys in , decreased, disappearing, failing to release milk, increased , pregnancy not related, robust women in 
• Milk fever
• Murmurs – cardiac, valular-aortic,mitral
• Neuro circulatory asthenia – palpitation irritable
• Nodules – mammae, children, new born,painful, pregnancy aggr 
• Oppression 
• Over lifting aggravates 
• Pain – hold chest with hands during cough, hysterical, inflammation lungs after, rheumatic, coastal cartilage, lung, heart, mammae – menses before, pregnancy aggr, Sternum
• Palpitation of heart – Anemia in ,Ascending stairs, excitement < ,motion slightest, pregnancy aggr, tumultuous violent 
• Pthisis Pulmonalis (TB)  – diabetes in, acute , florida (acute with extensive degenaration) incipient(beginning),pitutious (more phlegm),stone cutters 
• Pneumothorax 
• Retraction nipples 
• Sarcoidosis 
• Small mammae 
• Soldier’s heart – Functional CVS – Dacosta 
• Swelling mammae – children- infants, nipples 
• Ulcer – nipples 
• Warts – mammae, nipples
• Heart – Complaints Valves – Aortic Mitral Tricuspid – regurgitation, insufficiency etc.

Back 

• Abscess – Cervical,coccyx,lumbar,psoas 
• Ankylosing spondylarthritis 
• Bluish cervical region/ nape of neck 
• Caries spine
• Comfortable position cannot find
• Cracking cervical region 
• Curvature Spine : Dorsal (Kyphosis), Lateral (Scoliosis),Scheuermann’s syndrome 
• Delivery after – difficult delivery , forceps, coccyx, sacrum 
• Emprosthotonos
• Hair – gray, growth along spine
• Inflammation – Membrane (Spinal meningitis), Spinal cord (myelitis), vertebrae(Spondylitis)
• Opisthotonus 
• Pain – Cervical, Lumbar, Sacral, Spine, Dorsal scapular
• Pregnancy During 
• Intervertebral disk 
• Sclerosis spinal cord
• Softening cord
• Spina bifida 
• Stiffness 
• Straining easily 
• Syringomyelia 
• Tabes dorsalis(TB spine)  
• Tuberculosis vertebrae (Pott’s disease)
• Warts soft in cervical region, nape of neck 
• Weakness – Lumbar Leucorrhoea during 

Extremities  

• AbscessAnthrax
• Arthritic nodosities – painful, finger joints
• Awkwardness – drops tings from hand, stumbling while walking 
• Berger’s disease 
• Callosities – soles, toes
• Carpal tunnel syndrome 
• Claudico intermittens
• Club foot 
• Contraction of muscles and tendons – paralysis of extensor muscles, Dupuytren’s contracture, ham string 
• Corns – inflamed, painful 
• Cracked skin – hand, feet, soles, toes
• Cracking in joints (Crepitus) 
• Cramps – writing whiles, walking ,night
• Droppig wrist 
• Enlargement children – osteo arthropathy, hypertrophic pneumonic 
• Eruptions 
• Excoriation – thighs between- walking <,dentition during, toes between 
• Exostoses – bony outgrowth , feet- heel = calc spur
• Fall liability – children 
• Fatty degeneration muscle 
• Felon (panaritium, whitlow) – chronic, hang nail from, injuries after, itching ,recurrent,run around
• Flat foot 
• Fractures
• Frost bite 
• Fungus hematodes 
• Ganglion
• Gangrene
• Genu valgum
• Genu Varum 
• Growing pain = Gen pain growing 
• Hair – abdominal growth
• Hangdown – Limbs < 
• Heat – Sole – flushes of menopause during, uncover them 
• House maid’s knee = Inflammation Knee Bursae 
• Inflammation – soles – fasciitis plantar, joints chronic, leg – lymphatics, tendon(tendonitis) 
• Injuries 
• Itching – palm detergent < , lower limb vericose
• Jerking – sleep in 
• Lipoma
• Milk leg = puerperal phlebitis 
• Mouse running up the limbs 
• Numbness
• Pain – in different location with modalities 
• Paralysis – rheumatic 
• Raynaud’s disease 
• Spina ventosa – Tubercular inflammation 
• Stiffness 
• Tottering gate 
• Trembling 
• Tuberculosis hip 
• Tumor 
• Ulcers – chronic, varicose,
• Varices 
• Walking 
• Warts 
• Weakness 
• Knee position inward (genu vlgm), outward (genu varum)
• Nail complants – brittle
• Ingrowing toe nail – un healthy granulations, mycoses is
• Nates complaints of 

Sleep

• Coma vigil
• Comatose 
• Deep – morning, old people in 
• Disturbed – children, new born, delivery after, nightmares by 
• Falling asleep – sitting <, difficult ,light is on, late 
• Light – hears every sound 
• Need of sleep 
• Position 
• Restless
• Semi conscious 
• Sleepiness – anaemia in, over powering, sitting <
• Sleeplessness – night, midnight, children in, diabetics in ,dispute after, excitement <, hunger from, menopause during, mental exertion after, pain-rheumatic, restlessness from, dreaming children, thoughts activity thoughts from, weaning
• Unrefreshing 
• Waking – easily, fright as from, late too
• Yawning – ineffectual 

Dreams

• Abyss
• Accidents 
• Amorous 
• Animals 
• Anxious
• Business
• Children about
• Danger 
• Dead bodies
• Death 
• Disease
• Dogs 
• Events
• Ghost
• High places 
• Many 
• Murder
• Nightmares 
• Snakes
• Unpleasant
• Un remembered 

Chill

• Anticipating 
• Beginning 
• Pain with 
• Quartan – every 72 hours 
• Quotidian – every day 
• Tertian – every second day 

Fever 

• Bilious 
• Black water 
• Catarrhal fever
• Cerebrospinal 
• Continued – typhoid
• Venue fever
• Eruptive fever 
• Gastric fever
• Hectic fever 
• Idiopathic – PUO
• Inflammatory
• Intermittent 
• Lactation during 
• Puerperal fever
• Quartan fever 
• Relapsing – recurrent 
• Rheumatic
• Scarlet 
• Septic fever 
• Summer – hot season 
• Traumatic fever 
• Typhoid fever 
• Typhus fever 
• Vaccination after 
• Yellow fever 
• Zymotic fever 

Perspiration 

• Absent 
• Affected parts on 
• Colliquative – Profuse perspiration without any relief 
• Critical
• Dyspnoea with 
• Exertion slight
• Long lasting 
• Menopause during 
• Odor – 
• Oily 
• Profuse 
• Salty deposit after perspiration 
• Staining the linen – difficult to washout 
• Sticky
• Stiffening linen
• Symptoms <
• Single parts

Skin

• Acanthosis nigricans 
• Action mycosis 
• Allergy to milk 
• Cancer 
• Cicatrices – depressed, elevated, itching, painful
• Cracks
• Decubitus 
• Discolouration – red scratching – Dermoraphism, chloasma, injures remain after long, Spots – bathing after, soap with, dar spots old people in
• Eruptions – angio edema, antibiotics from, baker’s itch, Boils – accompanied by diabetes, impotence, periodic, Chemical from, Cosmetics from, Desquamating, Discharging – destroying hair, Ecthyma, Eczema – childhood since, children in, sun from, Erythema – toxic treatment after, Herpes zoster – neuralgic pain,Herpetic – circinate (ring arm), neuralgia post herpetic, Hormonal change during, Leprosy, Measles, Molluscum, Pmphigus, Phagedenic, Pityriasis versicolor, Psoriasis, Rash – delivery during, Rhus poisoning, Rubella, Scabies, Soap application of, Symmetrical, Letters, Urticaria, Vesicular,Washing <, Bend – folds of skin, hairy parts
• Erysipelas
• Excoriation – folds of skin
• Fatty degeneration of muscle
• Freckles 
• Gangrene 
• Goose flesh 
• Hair  – falling out, growth excessive – children
• Inflammation 
• Intertrigo – dentition during 
• Itching – diabetes in, jaundice during, menopause during, old people in, pregnancy during, scratching, undressing <
• Keloid
• Lousiness
• Lupus
• Melanosis
• Moles
• Nevi
• Purpura hemorrhagica
• Sensitiveness sun to , touch to 
• Thick – scratching after 
• Ulcers – cancerous, maggots with, suppurating
• Vaccination after 
• Vitiligo
• Warts
• Wens
• Worm sensation 

General 

• Abscess – abort remedies to, gangrenous, insect sting from,Pus- destroying hair 
• Absorption of exudates to facilitate 
• Acidosis 
• Acromegaly 
• Adiposogenital dystrophy
• Agranulocystosis
• Aods
• Ailments from 
• Allergic constitution
• Alternating states 
• Aluminium poisoning 
• Alzheimer’s disease 
• Amebiais 
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 
• Analgesics from 
• Anemia – vertigo with, children in, hemorrhage after, nutritional imbalance from, sickle cell 
• Aneurysm
• Anthrax
• Antipyeretics from 
• Apoplexy
• Arsenical poisoning from 
• Arterio sclerosis 
• Autoimmune disease
• Aviators disease 
• Bathing  – Aggr, aversion 
• Berberi
• Besnier Boeck Schaumann morbus – sarcoidosis
• Brittle bones
• Brpomides abuse of 
• Brown seguard syndrome 
• Brucellosis
• Burns
• Cachexia
• Camphor from
• Cancerous affections – advanced stage,epithelioma,lymphoma, sarcoma,Kaposi sarcoma,ulcers, bones, glands 
• Cartilage affection of 
• Catalepsy
• Catheterism ailments from 
• Cahancre 
• Chemotherapy aggr 
• Cheyne stokes respiration 
• Children complaints in 
• Chloroform ailments in 
• Chlorosis – hypochromic microcytic anemia 
• Chorea – rheumatic, Sydenham
• Chronic disease to begin treatment 
• Chronic fatigue syndrome
• Clothing – intolerance, loosening 
• Coal gas from
• Coal tar drugs
• Colchicum < 
• Cold – becoming, tendency 
• Collagen diseases
• Collapse sudden  
• Combing hair <
• Complaints 
• Complexion 
• Connective tissue 
• Constitution
• Consumption – pthisis
• Contradictory and alternating states 
• Convalescence ailments during 
• Convulsion
• Cosmetic after abuse of 
• Cryptococcosis
• Curvature of bones
• Cushing’s syndrome
• Cyanosis
• Da Costas’s syndrome – chest palpitation irritable
• Debauch
• Delicate constitution
• Dermatomyositis
• Development – arrested,rapid,slow
• Diabetes insipidus
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Disabled children
• Down’s syndrome
• Dropsy – heart complaints, kidney complaints, children new born
• Dust <
• Dwarfishness
• Dystonia
• Dystrophy 
• Efficiency 
• Electroshock 
• Elephantiasis 
• Emaciation – children, infants
• Embolism – prophylaxis 
• Endarteritis Obliterans
• Energy – excess children (ADHD)
• Eosinophilia
• Faintness 
• Family history 
• Food and drinks
• Food poisoning 
• Frostbite ailments from
• Glanders – diseases of horse 
• Glycogen storage disease 
• Guillain barre syndrome
• Hair – distribution in women masculine
• Heat – menopause during, perspiration with, lack of vital heat, sensation of
• Heated becoming 
• Hemorrhage 
• History Personal 
• Hodgkin’s disease 
• Hydrochloric acid complaints after 
• Hyperlipidemia 
• Hypertension
• Hyper thyroidism
• Hypnotics from
• Hypogamaglobulinemia
• Hypo tension 
• Hypoglycemia – Lab blood glucose low
• Hypothyroidism 
• Infectious disease 
• Inflammation – joints deformans arthritis (RA) ,osteo arthritis,sinuses
• Influenza
• Injuries – sprains,tennis elbow, operation ailments from
• Iodine after abuse of 
• Iodine deficiency syndrome
• Iron after abuse of 
• Jet lag 
• Kimelstiel Wilson syndrome
• Laboratory findings 
• Lead poisoning from 
• Lean people
• Leishmaniasis
• Leukemia
• Leukocytosis 
• Locomotor ataxia
• Lyme disease 
• Magnesia <
• Malaria – propylaxis 
• Malignant disease process
• Manual labour 
• Medicine 
• Menopause 
• Metastasis 
• Mononucleosis
• Moon
• Mucoviscidosis
• Multiple sclerosis 
• Mushroom poisoning 
• Myasthenia gravis 
• Myatrophy  progressive spinal
• Mycosis fungoidosis 
• Myogelossis
• Myxedema
• Narcotics <
• Neurological complaints
• Nursing <
• Nux vomica abuse of 
• Obesity – children, old people, menopause, thigh and buttocks
• Old age
• Ossification
• Osteochondrosis
• Osteogenesis imperfect a
• Osteomalacia
• Osteoporosis
• Pain 
• Painlessness of complaints
• Paralysis – paraplegia
• Paralysis agitans = parkinsonism
• Paroxysmal or recurrent complaints 
• Pellagra
• Periarteritis nodosa 
• Periodicity
• Pest = plague, prophylaxis
• Pheochromocytoma
• Poisoning
• Picking teeth <
• Poisonous plants intoxication
• Poliomyelitis 
• Polycythemia 
• Polyneuropathy
• Polypus
• Pompe’s disease = glycogen 
• Psora
• Puberty
• Pulse
• Purgatives
• Pyemia
• Quinine abuse of 
• Radiation therapy
• Radium treatments from 
• Reflexes
• Reiter’s syndrome
• Remedies 
• Revealing nights after 
• Rickets
• Scleroderma
• Scurvy
• Seasons
• Sedentary habits
• Sensitiveness 
• Septicemia
• Sewer gas poisoning 
• Shaving <
• Shock
• Sick feeling 
• Silica from over use of 
• Sjogren’s syndrome 
• Sleep loss of 
• Spots symptoms
• Stein leventhal syndrome       
• Stone cutters
• Stones in organ formation of 
• Stoop shouldered 
• Sulphur abuse of 
• Sun 
• Suppressed complaints
• Sycosis
• Synchronicity
• Syphilis 
• Tall people
• Temperature 
• Tetanus
• Thromboangitis obliterans
• Thrombosis 
• Time
• Tobacco
• Travelling ailments from
• Tumors – angioma,lipoma, neurofibroma
• Typhus abdominalis = fever typhoid
• Unmarried person complaints of 
• Uremia
• Uric acid
• Vaccination
• Vericose vein
• Vaults 
• Venesection Violent complaints = sudden manifestations
• Volkmann’s syndrome
• Weakness – antibiotics from, chemotherapy after, diabetes in, exertion  from slightest, nursing an staying up with sick person, nursing women in, nutrition from defective, operation- cancer surgery, over work from , Muscular 
• Wegener’s granulomatosis 
• Whooping cough ailments after 
• Wounds – Poisonous animals, snakes,spder,heal slowly
• X-ray burns or treatment after 

(C) Dr Mansoor Ali 

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