Quick reference

Name: Open Materia Medica
Author: Dr. Sohil Momin, BHMS

The daily-practice shelf: the fifty polycrests that cover almost everything, each in one line — then the Boericke supplement, the further remedies of the classic manual in single lines.

The daily-practice fifty

Remedy	In one line
Aconite	Sudden onset after fright or cold dry wind; fear of death; fever, panic.
Apis mellifica	Rosy-pink stinging swellings; thirstless; better cold.
Arnica	Every accident's first remedy; bruised, denying, bed too hard.
Arsenicum album	Midnight anxiety; burning yet chilly; sips; worse food-poisoning.
Belladonna	Hot, red, dry, throbbing; sudden; light and noise worse.
Borax	Aphthous nursing infant; dread of downward motion.
Bryonia	Dares not move; dry; thirst for large gulps; irritable, business-minded.
Calcarea carb	Fair, flabby, chilly; sour sweat of the head; fears dark; craves eggs.
Calc phos	Slow dentition and walking; thin large-headed child; slow healing.
Calendula	Torn and lacerated wounds; soreness out of proportion.
Camphora	Icy coldness unrelieved by warmth; first-stage collapse.
Cantharis	Scalding urinary pain, drop by drop; burns and blisters.
Carbo veg	Sinking, bloated, must be fanned; cold breath; near-collapse.
Causticum	Weeps at injustice; morning hoarseness; slow paralysis; warts.
Chamomilla	Angry teething child; one hot cheek; better carried; green stool.
Chelidonium	Liver pain shooting to right scapula; jaundice; better eating.
China	Weakness after loss of fluids; bloating; better hard pressure.
Cina	Cross grinding child; picks nose and seat; worse touch and being looked at.
Coffea	Sleepless from excited ideas; senses painfully acute; weeps at music.
Colocynthis	Colic from anger; better doubling double and hard pressure.
Conium	Vertigo turning the head; glands harden stony.
Drosera	Gagging cough in paroxysms; worse lying after midnight.
Dulcamara	Ailments from cold damp; urticaria after getting wet.
Euphrasia	Burning tears with bland coryza; photophobia.
Ferrum phos	The soft flush of the first stage of every fever.
Gelsemium	Anticipatory trembling; drooping lids; drowsy heaviness.
Graphites	Sticky honey oozing; cracked skin and nails; stout and chilly.
Hepar sulph	Cannot bear touch; splinter pains; abscesses ripen fast; chilly.
Hypericum	Injuries to nerve-rich parts; shooting pains; smashed fingers, coccyx.
Ignatia	Grief with sobbing and sighs; consolation worse; lump in throat.
Ipecac	Constant nausea; clean tongue; thirstless; worse warmth.
Kali bich	Ropy stringy mucus; punched-out ulcers; pinpoint sinus pains.
Kali carb	2–4 a.m. asthma; stitching back that can't lie.
Kali mur	The stalled white second stage: white mucus, swollen pale glands.
Kali phos	Brain-fag: grey anxious exhaustion, failing memory.
Lachesis	Left-sided, purple, talkative; worse after sleep; throat-intolerant.
Ledum	Cold puncture wounds; ascending gout; loves cold bathing.
Lycopodium	Bossy at home, timid outside; bloating 4–8 p.m.; right side.
Mag phos	Cramping pains better for heat and pressure; radiating.
Mercurius	Offensive sweat, saliva and stool; trembling; worse night.
Nux vom	Irritable, driven, stimulant-using; morning nausea; cold and cross.
Phosphorus	Craves ice water; easy bright bleeding; sympathetic and sensitive.
Pulsatilla	Gentle, tearful, changeable; thirstless; better air and consolation.
Rhus tox	Stiff and sore, worse rest, better continued motion; damp-worse.
Ruta	Bruised periosteum; strained wrists; eye-strain; worse lying.
Sepia	Worn-out, indifferent mother; yellow saddle; better vigorous exercise.
Silicea	Weak, chilly, sweaty feet; slow healing; expels foreign bodies.
Spongia	Dry barking croup; wakes suffocating; better warm drinks.
Sulphur	Hot, red, itchy; burning feet out of bed; hates washing; worse 11 a.m.
Veratrum album	Collapse with cold sweat, cramps, rice-water discharges; gulps ice water.

Boericke supplement — single-line remedies

The further remedies of Boericke's manual (the same public-domain source as the library), each in a single line for quick reference. Remedies with full pages in this library are linked; the rest await expansion.

Remedy	In one line
Abies canadensis	Gastric upset with canine hunger; rheumatic limb pains.
Abies nigra	Stomach pain after eating, as of a hard lump.
Acalypha indica	Morning cough with blood-streaked sputum; incipient chest trouble.
Actaea spicata	Small-joint rheumatism of hands; worse touch and motion.
Adrenalinum	Asthma, hay-fever congestion, pounding heart.
Aesculus glabra	Rectal pain and prolapse, burning like fire.
Ailanthus	Dusky-red malignant throat with great prostration.
Alnus rubra	Chronic eczema, swollen lymphatics, female complaints.
Ammonium carb	Winter nose-blocked-at-night catarrh; suffocative.
Amyl nitrosum	Surging heat and flushing of the menopause.
Angustura	Rheumatic pains and toothache; heightened sensitivity.
Apocynum andros.	Watery diarrhoea; dropsy of the old American school.
Aralia racemosa	Asthmatic wheeze and hay-fever cough; worse lying.
Aranea diadema	Marked periodicity; cold bone-pains; worse damp.
Arctium lappa	Boils, acne, chronic skin; the Eclectic blood-purifier.
Arsenicum brom	Intensely itchy psoriasis.
Arsenicum met	Scaling exfoliative skin states.
Asafoetida	Hysterical nervousness with flatulence; offensive sinus states.
Asarum	Oversensitivity to noise; nervous chills and restlessness.
Asclepias tub	Pleuritic chest pains; influenza of the frontier.
Avena sativa	Nervous exhaustion and sleeplessness; debility after illness.
Bacillinum	Ringworm and repeated respiratory infections; tubercular diathesis.
Berberis aquif	Sallow complexion, liver spots, facial eczema.
Bufo rana	Convulsions from cerebral irritation; epilepsy-like states.
Cadmium sulph	Persistent nausea with yellow vomiting.
Cannabis sativa	Urethral irritation with burning; mind-altering picture.
Ceanothus	Pain and enlargement of the spleen.
Cerium oxalicum	Vomiting of pregnancy; vomiting of children.
Chininum ars	Malarial cachexia, dropsy, obstinate skin states.
Chininum sulph	Periodic fevers with ringing ears — the quinine signature.
Cicuta virosa	Violent convulsions with rigidity and opisthotonos.
Cimex	Intermittent fever with chills and anguish.
Cinnabaris	Gum and throat states of the syphilitic-legacy chapter.
Cistus canadensis	Chronically swollen glands, scrofula, cold feeling.
Cobaltum	Low backache; weakness after seminal losses.
Cochlearia	Nasal polyp with obstructed breathing.
Cyclamen	Delayed menses with visual spots; worse fats.
Cypripedium	Nervous excitability and sleeplessness of children.
Dolichos	Intense itching without eruption; liver-linked.
Fagopyrum	Itching, prickling eczema; worse scratching.
Fel tauri	Gallstones and biliary obstruction with jaundice.
Ferula glauca	Vomiting from the smell or taste of tobacco.
Fraxinus americana	Uterine fibroids with bearing-down; rachitic children.
Galium aparine	Gravel and stones; chronic skin ulcers as poultice.
Ginseng	Sexual debility and nervous exhaustion.
Gnaphalium	Sciatica with numbness; worse lying, better flexing.
Hedera helix	Spasmodic cough, worse in warm rooms.
Heloderma	Coldness, cyanosis and convulsive tendency.
Hippozaenium	Glandular swellings, offensive sinus, chronic ulcers.
Hydrocotyle	Thickened skin states, psoriasis-like; lupus chapter.
Iberis	Palpitations with vertigo; the tobacco heart.
Jacaranda	Syphilitic ulcers and chancre; obstinate skin.
Jaborandi	Profuse sweat and salivation; source of pilocarpine.
Acidum lacticum	Rheumatic pains, milk intolerance, hot flushes.
Lac caninum	Symptoms alternating sides; throat and breast states.
Lac defloratum	Sick headaches with transient blindness; milk intolerance.
Lapis albus	Indurated glands of the cancer chapter.
Lupulinum	Nervous irritability and insomnia; genital oversensitivity.
Mag carb	Cramping colic and diarrhoea; worse milk.
Mag mur	Liver and gall-stone states; constipation worse milk.
Mancinella	Restlessness and despair; melon-poisoning picture.
Mandragora	Rheumatic pains; duodenal ulcer of the old books.
Manganum	Anaemia, chest affections, worse weather change.
Melilotus	Congestive headaches relieved by a nosebleed.
Menispermum	Jaundice, biliousness and sick headaches.
Mephitis	Suffocative whooping-type cough; offensive.
Mercurius dulcis	Sluggish liver, jaundice, scrofulous glands.
Merc iod flavus	Syphilitic-type throat; glands and tonsils.
Merc iod ruber	Tonsils and glands swollen and hard.
Morphinum	Coma and respiratory depression of the opium family.
Natrum phos	Acidity, worms and gout; the acid neutraliser.
Natrum salicyl	Ear noises and Meniere-like vertigo.
Oleander	Eczema of the scalp; involuntary stool; palpitations.
Paraffinum	Constipation of the elderly; abdominal tumours of the old books.
Passiflora	Insomnia and nervousness; the Eclectic sedative.
Pinus sylv	Chronic bronchitis with copious expectoration.
Pix liquida	Chronic eczema and psoriasis; tar chemistry.
Polygonum	Renal colic and gravel; haemorrhage.
Populus trem	Nocturnal bed-wetting and bladder irritation.
Prunus spinosa	Nerve-pains of stumps and teeth; cardiac dyspnoea.
Ptelea	Liver torpidity, nausea and constipation.
Quassia	Debility, dyspepsia, worms; the bitter tonic.
Ranunculus bulb	Shingles-like eruptions and intercostal neuralgia.
Ranunculus scel	Burning blisters and shingles; thrush-like mouth.
Raphanus	Retained gas after operations; post-operative colic.
Rhamnus frangula	Constipation and colic of the buckthorn family.
Rheum	Sour diarrhoea of teething children; worse cold.
Rhus glabra	Mouth ulcers; suppressed menses.
Rhus radicans	Like Rhus tox; better continued motion.
Rhus venenata	Like Rhus tox; worse damp.
Sanicula	Head-sweat, warts, foul stool; chronic catarrh.
Saponaria	Cough and chest rattling of the aged.
Sarracenia	Cough with expectoration; periodic skin eruptions.
Scilla (Squilla)	Dropsy and cardiac cough; official diuretic of the pharmacopeias.
Scrophularia	Fistulous abscesses, piles, urinary irritation.
Selenium	Prostatic weakness and involuntary emissions; debility.
Sinapis nigra	Coryza with sneezing; the mustard chemistry.
Solanum carol	Convulsions and spasms of children.
Solidago	Kidney congestion and backache; urinary sediment.
Squilla	Cardiac cough and dropsy.
Tanacetum	Suppressed menses from cold; chorea of the old books.
Tarantula cub	Septic wounds with blue-edged inflammation.
Tellurium	Offensive otitis; ringworm-like skin states.
Teucrium marum	Nasal polyp and chronic dry coryza.
Thiosinaminum	The old remedy for scars, strictures and adhesions.
Ulmus	Catarrhal irritation of the throat.
Uranium nit	Diabetes with weakness and incontinence.
Urtica urens	Burns, stings and nettle-rash; uric-acid diathesis.
Valeriana	Hysteria and nervous sleeplessness.
Viola odorata	Rheumatic pains; cough with blood streaks.
Vipera berus	Varicose veins and painful phlebitis.
Xanthoxylum	Ovarian and other sharp neuralgias.
Xerophyllum	Psoriasis-like eruptions of the old books.
Yohimbinum	Sexual weakness and lowered tension.
Zingiber	Nausea, travel sickness and digestive debility.