Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Colchicum Autumnale colch.
Mind
Distraction and forgetfulness. Surly ill - humor. His sufferings seem intolerable. Slight pain or external causes and impressions put him quite beside himself.
Head
Pressive pain in occiput excited by mental exertion. Tearing in scalp. Crawling on head and over forehead. Worse: Mental exertion, noise. Better: Rest, lying.
Eyes
Ulceration of meibomian grands with swollen lids.
Ears
Crawling in. Suppurating, with tearing pain therein (after measles).
Nose
Crawling in. Smell morbidly acute.
Face
Doleful, sad expression. Yellow, spotted color. Edematous swelling of. Crawling in. Sensations if bones were being driven asunder.
Teeth
Tearing in roots of, and in gums.
Mouth
Heat in. Crawling in fauces. Inflamed buccal cavity and fauces. Profuse salivation. Tongue insensible and stiff.
Taste: Food tastes like old linen.
Stomach
Sensitiveness of region, to touch. Burning or cold sensation in. Stitches in pit.
Appetite: Lost. Incessant, intense thirst.
Nausea, etc. - Nausea from odors, of fresh eggs or fat meat. Vomiting: Violent of ingesta, leaving a bitter aftertaste, renewed by every movement.
Abdomen
Distension of, with dragging pains. Burning or cold sensation in. Ascites, with a fold overhanging the pubic arch. (sep.)
Stool
Painful urging, with scanty discharge. Constipated. Dysenteric, of white mucus only, with intense tenesmus.
Anus
Crawling, taring and burning in.
Urine
Constant urging to urinate, with scanty discharge. Scanty discharge of dark red urine with burning and urging in urethra Whitish sediment
Female
Menses: Too early.
Respiration
Difficult, with anxious oppression of chest, better bending forward.
Cough
Frequent, short, dry. At night, with involuntary spurting of urine.
Chest
Pressive tension in. Spasms in. Hydrothorax. Stitches in, during inspiration and when coughing. Violent palpitation.
Back
Tearing in, and in lumbar region. Painful soreness of lumbar region to touch.
Upper Extremities
Tearing in arms, extending into fingers. Paralytic pain in arms. Crawling in finger tips.
Lower Extremities
Tearing through entire leg extending into toes. (Edematous swelling of legs and feet. Crawling in tips of toes.
Generalities
Creeping in many parts of body, as after being frosted, during changing weather. Tearing in limbs during warm, and sticking in during cold weather. Tearing jerks like electric shocks, with paralytic sensation though' one whole side of body. Weakness though' all limbs, with a feeling as if paralyzed, Debility and weakness from night work and night watching. Frequent starting. The pains become quite unendurable toward evening and only grow less at break of day. Sensitiveness to touch and motion, of entire body, especially the suffering parts. Tendency to dropsy.
Skin
Edematous swelling and anasarca. Suppressed transpiration.
Fever
Pulse: Extraordinarily accelerated, hard and full. Chill: And shuddering running though' all the members. Frequent cold shudders run down the back. Heat: Only externally, a dry heat of the skin. Dry, but only external, throughout the whole night, with violent, insatiable thirst. Sweat: Completely suppressed and wanting. l
Relationship
Allied Remedies. Ars., Bell., Flu-ac., Merc., Nux-v., Op., Puls., Tab.
Complementary: Ars., Spi.