Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica

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Mind

Lively fancies and actively changing ideas. Acuteness of intellect. Active memory. Great nervous excitement. Hypererethism. Hurried. Beside himself with anxiety. Excessive howling and screaming over trifles. Hypersensitiveness, with tearful disposition. Great anguish, of conscience, also about heart. Anxious despair, with fever. Restlessness. Fainting.

Head

Violent congestion to, especially after sudden joy. Unilateral headache, as from an inward pressing nail. Unilateral crackling after each impact of the pulse. Feeling as if brain were being torn, or shattered. Worse: Walking in open air, morning, after sleep. Better: In room, sitting quietly.

Eyes

Sparkling, somewhat reddened, with increased visual power.

Ears

Hearing more acute. Music sounds entirely too loud.

Nose

Nosebleed. Sensitive small.

Face

Dry heat of, with red cheeks.

Teeth

Twitching, tearing ache, with restlessness, anxiety and tearfulness.

Mouth

Swollen, and painful soft palate, worse from swallowing.

Taste: Acute, Proper taste of food is too pronounced. Sweetish, as of nuts or almonds in mouth.

Stomach

Spasm, as from overloading, can't bear tight clothing about pit

Appetite: Great hunger, with hasty, greedy eating. Thirst increased, especially at night.

Abdomen

Spasmodic bellyache, which seems quite insufferable.

Stool

Frequent, soft, during day. Diarrhoea: In children during dentition, tendency to.

Bladder

Urination increased, especially at night.

Sexual Organs

Greatly excited sexual impulse, without emission of semen, and with dry heat of body. Insufferably painful labor or after pains.

Female

Menses: Uterine hemorrhage.

Cough

Short, dry, hacking, as from constriction of larynx, with restless anxiety. Irritating, at night. During measles.

Back

Neck: Sweat on.

Back: Chilliness along. Paralytic pain in lumbar region.

Generalities

Twitching limbs. Great mobility of entire muscular system. Trembling. Increased sensitiveness to pain driving to despair, with tearfulness. Excessively active vital forces. Extraordinarily increased sense of well being. Aversion to open air which also intensifies the sufferings. After effects of a wine debauch, taking cold or excessive joy with exaltation. Mental and physical erethism.

Skin

Eruptions, with extreme excitability and tearfulness.

Sleep

Sleeplessness, on account of excessive mental and bodily activity.

Fever

Pulse: Almost entirely unaffected, only very slightly accelerated. Chill: Increased by every (beginning) motion. Internal, frequently recurring shivering, with external heat of face or entire body. Sensation of, with internal and external warmth. Runs down back. Great sensitiveness to external cold. Heat: External, dry, in evening after lying down, with shuddering on back Nightly, dry, with delirium. Great, of face. Hot breath. Sweat: Occasionally after the heat. Slight, in early morning. On face, with internal cold shuddering.

Relationship

Allied Remedies: Aco., Agar., Anac., Ars., Aur., Bell., Bor., Bro., Caps., Cham., COLOC., Con., Ign., Mag-c., Mar., Merc., Mos., Nux-v., Op., Puls. sul., Valer. Verat-a.