Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica

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Mind

Ideas seem to stand still. Too great rush of ideas. Sad, dejected mood. Takes everything to bad part. Cheerful, alternating with grave mania.

Vertigo

Causing him to fall sidewise. Dizziness in head.

Head

Violent congestion, with throbbing and agreeable warmth therein. Headache as of a stone lying on skull. Sensation of cold water dropping on scalp.

Eyes

Inflamed, with diminished visual power. Weak, with indistinct vision. Opacity of corns. Cataract.

Ears

Throbbing and forcing in ear.

Nose

Nosebleed follows a sense of warmth within the dry nose. Swelling and coppery redness of. Dryness and beat of.

Mouth

Dry, without thirst. Difficult speech.

Taste: Clay - like, in, mouth.

Stomach

Ulcerative pain in, from touch disappearing after eating. Spasm of with a pale, sweaty face.

Hypochondriac: Inflammation, and ulcerative pain in region of kidneys.

Eructations: Gulping up of a bitter, sour, scratchy fluid.

Vomiting: Of green bile.

Abdomen

Bruised pain in. Throbbing from within outward in upper. Ascites.

Stool

Constipation and hard stool. Diarrhoea with colic.

Urine

Retained, as from paralysis of bladder. Discharge scant, bloody, burning, passed drop by drop. turbid.

Sexual Organs

Urethral gonorrhoea. Painless discharge of mucus from urethra. Sticking, burning and biting in urethra during and after urination. Inflammatory swelling with dark redness of prepuce. Painful erections. Intensified sexual desire. Impotency with cold genitals.

Respiration

Suffocative, asthmatic attacks, wherein he can breathe when sitting in an upright position only. Shortness of, and tightness as of a load on chest, with whistling or rattling breathing.

Cough

Without, or with a tenacious, green expectoration.

Larynx and trachea

Catarrh of. Loss of voice.

Chest

Inflammation of lungs, with stitches low down in the left side of. Heart beat is felt too low down. Thrusts and blow in cardiac region. Cardiac inflammations. Anxious palpitations.

Back

Backache which impedes talking and obstructs breathing.

Upper Extremities

Bruised pain in arms during motion.

Lower Extremities

Pain in legs, as from great exhaustion. Weariness with clumsiness and staggering when walking. and with a dull pain in knees like that from very great exhaustion. Slipping of patella when ascending steps.

Generalities

Great weakness after meals and after motion. Exhaustion after physical average. Debility after talking and writing. Tonic spasms, especially of trunk and upper limbs.

Bones

Rheumatic drawing during motion, as if in periosteum.

Sleep

Unconquerable day sleepiness. Unrefreshing night sleep. Sleepless at night because of anxiety and heat as though dashed with hot water.

Fever

Pulse: Very weak, slow, often almost imperceptible. chill: Predominant, with thirst and shaking. Shaking c. over entire body. External coldness of whole body except face. Heat: In face only and very slight. Nightly burning. Sweet: Entirely absent.

Relationship

Allied Remedies: Ap., Arg-n., Arn., Bell., Calc-c., Canth., Coloc., Euphor., Men., Merc-c., Nat - m., Nit-ac., Puls., Thuj.