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Complexion – Stage of Life and Constitution – Chapter 47 – REPERTORY OF HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.

CHAPTER 47.
STAGES OF LIFE AND CONSTITUTION.

Age
* Complexion
* Constitution * Habit
* Occupation * Size
* Temperament

Complexion.

Complexion

(including
color of eyes and hair) :-

Dark

(brunette) :-
Bry., CAUST.,
Coff., IGN.,
Kreos.,
Lac-c., NIT-AC.

Brown, olive, disposed
to constipation, sad, gloomy, taciturn :-

Aur.

Excitable :-

Alumin.

Fibre, with
rigid :-

Acon.,
Anac., Arn.,
Ars., Bry., Kalm.,
Nat-m., Nit-ac.,
NUX-V.,
Plat., Puls.,
Sep., Staph.,
Sulph.

Ophthalmia :-

Apis.

Slight, lean :-

Kreos.

Spare habit, yellow

(icterus
calculosus) :- Calc.

Spare and dark, 7 were,
from 8 patients, the 8th blonde :-

Lac-c.

Swarthy :-

Chin.,
NIT-AC.

Eyes :-

Black :-

CAUST.,
Mur-ac.,
Nit-ac.

Blue :-

Brom.,
CALC.,
Caps., Lob.,
PULS.

Dark :-

Acon.,
Aur., Guai.,
IOD.,
LACH.

Dark, baby,
epistaxis :-

Lac-ac.

Dark, disposed to
sluggishness and indolence :-

Lach.

Dark, sycosis :-

Sars.

Gray :-

Med.

Lashes delicate :-

PHOS.

Fair

(blonde,
light) :- Apis,
Brom., Bry.,
CALC.,
Hep., Lob., PETR.,
PHOS., Sabad.,
Sil., SPONG.

Fibre, with lax :-

Bell., BROM.,
CALC., Caps.,
Cham., Clem.,
Cocc., Con., Dig., GRAPH.,
Hyos., Kali-bi.,
Lach.,
Lyc., Merc., Rhus-t.,
Sil., SULPH.

Grows too rapidly

(tuberculosis) :-
Calc.

Hair, sandy, sanguine

(whooping
cough) :- Arn.

Lymphatic ascites,
ophthalmia :-

Apis.

Skin, delicate, thin,
white, light hair and eyebrows

(croup,
diphtheria) :- Brom.

Skin fine :-

Sil.

Spare and thin

(chronic
diarrhœa) :- Apis.

Women, graceful

(metritis) :-
Phos.

Florid :-

Acon.,
Chin-s.

Blotchy, red, thick
skin :-

Kali-bi.

Freckled

(See
Skin Freckles, Chapter
46 : Skin.) :-
Lach.

Hair :-

Black :-

Aur.,
CAUST.,
NIT-AC.

Black, dark complexion,
tendency to constipation :-

Bry.

Black, dark complexion,
blue eyes, rheumatism :-

Calc.

Black, children,
enuresis nocturna :-

CAUST.

Blonde :-

CALC.,
Coloc.,
Cycl., PHOS.

Blonde, asthma :-

Phos.

Blonde, deafness due to
congestion to ears, after typhoid fever :-

Phos.

Blonde, blue-eyed girl

(earache) :-
Bar-m.

Blonde, red-cheeked,
scrofulous girls :-

BROM.

Blonde,
hæmorrhages :-

Merc.

Blonde, irritable,
weakly :-

Camph.

Blonde,
leuco-phlegmatic, chlorotic, disinclination for any kind of labor,
easily fatigued, special senses enfeebled or with functions
suspended :-

Cycl.

Blonde, pale face, low
spirits :-

Graph.

Blonde, mild
temperament, gonorrhœa :-

PULS.

Dark :-

Acon.,
Dulc.,
Ferr., Guai.,
IGN.,
IOD., KALI-C., Mur-ac.,
NUX-V.,
SEP.

Dark, baby, epistaxis,
every morning :-

Lac-ac.

Dark, firm, fleshy
fibre :-

Bry.

Dark, lax fibre,
inclined to obesity :-

KALI-C.

Dark, rigid
fibre :-

Arn.,
CAUST.

Dark, rigid fibre, mild
and easy disposition :-

SEP.

Dark, hysteria during
change of life :-

Ph-ac.

Dark, skin delicate,
sensitive to cold, liable to eruptions from being exposed to
cold :-

Dulc.

Dark, women :-

Plat.

Light :-

Agar.,
Bor., Brom., Caps., Clem., Cocc., Con., Cupr.,
Dig., Hep.,
Hyos., KALI-BI.,
Lob., Merc.,
Mez., Op., PETR.,
Sabad.,
Spig., SPONG.,
Sul-ac.

Light, asthma :-

Aur.

Light brown, nervous,
excitable temperament :-

CHAM.

Light, debilitated,
pale, thin, bloated persons, complaining of weakness :-

Spig.

Light, lax
fibre :-

SPONG.

Light, skin and muscles
lax :-

Agar.,
Bor., Merc.

Light, inclined to be
fleshy :-

Lob.

Light, lax muscles and
want of bodily irritability, the well-chosen remedy makes no
impression :-

Op.

Light, with a weakened,
relaxed muscular system :-

Sabad.

Light

(scrofula) :-
AUR.

Sandy :-

Arn.,
PHOS.,
PULS., RHUS-T.

Sandy, blue eyes, pale
face, inclined to grief and submissiveness :-

PULS.

Sandy, freckles,
women :-

Lach.

Soft :-

PHOS.

Soft, atrophy of
children :-

Phos.

Soft, straight, more
often than crisp and curly :-

Nux-m.

Pale

(See Fair.) :-
Calc., Kali-p.,
Spig.

Delicate :-

Led.

Livid :-

Kreos.

Livid, disposition sad,
irritable :-

Kreos.

Sciatica, nervous
affections, neuralgia, lumbago, with deficiency of animal
heat :-

Ol-j.

Scrofulous, flabby

(inflammation) :-
Merc-d.

Scrofulosis, diseases
of joints :-

Ol-j.

Sensitive,
irritable :-

Kali-p.

Sickly :-

Lach.

Very white, light hair,
and more or less tendency to scrofula, post-scarlatinal
dropsy :-

Dig.

Sallow

(See
Dark, Pale.) :-
Fl-ac.

Bilious :-

Hep.

Cold
extremities :-

Lyc.

Jaundice :-

Podo.

Pale, lupus, recent
cases, shallow ulceration :-

LYC.

Yellow, dirty, greasy
skin, with a partially developed eruption on forehead and chest,
with constant fretting and worrying, cases which do not respond
promptly to the indicated remedy :-

Psor.

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