Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica

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Mind

Distraction. Awkwardness. Weak memory. Sadness, with restlessness. Easily offended: takes everything in bad part. Unusual candor and talkativeness.

Vertigo

Stupefying, with vanishing of senses. Intoxication from a small quantity of wine. Reeling and confusion in head after coition.

Head

Headache deep in brain, with feeling as if head were growing large. Ulcerative pain in. Nightly ache, worse raising up. Soreness of scalp.

Eyes

Pressure in orbits. Weak, dim. Objects appear too near.

Ears

Purulent, bad - smelling discharge from. Indistinct hearing, misunderstands what is spoken.

Nose

Crusts, with burning pain in.

Face

Frequent, rapid changes of color. Head of, with sense of swelling in cheeks. Pale swelling of upper lip, nose and cheeks. Fissured lips. Angles of mouth ulcerated.

Teeth

Drawing ache in evening, and at night, ceasing in warmth and when walking in open air. Gums bleed easily and profusely.

Mouth

Bad odor from. Burning in pharynx. Numbness of buccal cavity. Painfully sore ulcers on edge of tongue. Stuttering.

Stomach

Coldness, as if a lump of ice lay therein.

Appetite: Violent hunger. Thirst for cold drinks in afternoon and evening.

Taste: Putrid or bloody, in mouth.

Nausea: With shivering, all forenoon.

Abdomen

Ulcerative pain in. Cutting bellyache, worse during rest.

Flatulence: Flatulent colic, with chill and coldness, especially after stool. Discharge of very foul smelling flatus.

Stool

Constipation. Diarrhoea, with ulcerative pain in abdomen. - during menses.

Urine

Frequent urging to urinate.

Sexual Organs

Intensified sexual desire. Frequent pollution.

Female

Menses: Too early, and too profuse. Bloody discharge during intermenstrual period. Acrid, corroding leucorrhoea.

Respiration

Short during manual labor. Oppression, as from constriction of chest.

Cough

Dry, from tickling in throat and chest.

Larynx

Hoarseness early in morning, with mucus and scratching in throat.

Chest

Palpitation with restlessness, qualmishness and headache.

Back

Pain and stiffness in, after stooping.

Neck: Swelling of cervical glans, with tension.

Upper Extremities

Axillary sweat, smelling like onions. Paralytic sprained pain in joints of arm and hands. Powerless hands. Moist tetter on dorsum of hand.

Lower Extremities

Tension in lower legs and calves, as though' the muscles were too short.

Generalities

Great weariness and powerlessness in joint. Deep impressions are made by instruments, i. e., from scissors on fingers.

Skin

Itching in various parts, especially when getting warm. - better not scratching. moist tatters. Panaritia.

Sleep

Sleepiness after eating, and early in morning.

Fever

Pulse: Excited, with ebullitions and palpitation. Chill: Predominant, even near a warm stove, in morning, in evening and even at night, usually with thirst. During the pain. Heat: With thirst, anguish and restlessness. Daily evening fever (about 7 o'clock) consisting only of chill with thirst. Shuddering proceeding from back, in evening. Sweat: Most profuse on chest, every morning (from 5 to 6 o'clock.).

Relationship

Allied Remedies: Ap., Nit-ac., Selen., sil.