Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Bromium brom.
Mind
Depression and melancholy. Wailing and crying in a hoarse tone. Apprehensive, of seeing things in evening. Desire form mental labor.
Vertigo
When crossing running water, in damp weather, with tendency to fall backwards, with confusion of the head.
Head
Headache: In the heat of the sun, from drinking milk. Sensitive to cold air. Congestion to, and stiffness of muscles of neck. Left sided pains. Worse: Stooping.
Eyes
Lachrymation. Burning pains with spasmodic closure.
Nose
Fluent coryza, with scabby nostrils, with violent sneezing and blood - streaked corrosive discharges. nose - bleed accompanies many symptoms, it ameliorates the vertigo, eye and chest symptoms.
Face
Pale. Sensation of a cobweb on.
Mouth
Salivation. Inflammation of fauces, with net - like redness and denuded patches. Much frothy mucus in. Affects tip of tongue.
Taste: Salty: Of water, on tip of tongue.
Throat
Rawness, scrapping and constriction in.
Nausea, etc. - Retching and inclination to vomit.
Abdomen
Tympanitic distension of, with evolution of large quantities of gas. Eructations, and passage of much flatus.
Stool
Yellowish green or blackish diarrhoea, with blind hemorrhoids which pain severely. Diarrhoea: From oysters, better from coryza.
Sexual Organs
Passage of flatus from vagina.
Respiratory Organs
Suffocative attacks as from vapor of sulphur. Great tightness of chest (dyspnoea) Gasping for air. Rawness, scraping and sense of constriction in all respiratory organs.
Cough
Croupy, rough, barking or whistling, excited by tickling in throat, as from vapor of sulphur, or by scraping and rawness in larynx, without expectoration. With paroxysms of suffocation, suddenly on swallowing.
Larynx
Inspired air is very cold. Constriction. Soreness in. Croup, also during whooping cough. Hoarseness.
Chest
Oppression of, with palpitation. Very sensitive to cold air.
Extremities
Cold, moist hands.
Generalities
Greatly increased secretions. Symptoms predominate on left side or go from left to right. tickling, burning or boring sensations predominate, the latter especially in bones. Gangrene. Great weakness, especially in bones. Gangrene. Great weakness, especially after other symptoms have subsided. Tremblings. Plump figure. Constrictions and spasmodic phenomena prevail.
Tissues
Glands swollen and indurated.
Skin
Formication. Tickling in many parts. Yellow, Boils.
Sleep
Yawning and sleepiness, with difficult breathing, with violent shivering.
Fever
Pulse: Greatly accelerated. Chill: Every other day, with shaking, yawning, stretching and cold feet. Sensitive to cold air. Heat: Internal, burning as if between skin and flesh. Great, when in bed. Sweat: From motion or least exertion. After the paroxysms of cough.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: AM-C., Ant-c., Ars., Com., Coff., Flu-ac., Hep., Iod., Kre., Mag-c., Nat-m., Op., Phos., Spo.