Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Magnesia Carbonica mag-c.
Mind
Anxiety and fearfulness, with trembling and heat. Peevishness in evening.
Head
Congestion to. Pressive pain over entire head, with preoccupation during mental exertion. Stitches in side upon which he lies at night. Tension in occiput. Dandruff on scalp, itching during wet weather.
Eyes
Inflamed, with obscuration of cornea. Agglutinated early in morning. Swollen eyeball. Black spots before. Cataract.
Ears
Difficult hearing. Sensitive to noise. Diminution of hearing, especially in the room, with buzzing and roaring in.
Nose
Complete stoppage, compelling one to open the mouth.
Face
Sickly, earthy countenance. Changing color. Tension, as though white of egg had dried on. Puffiness and nodular swellings on. Face - ache, nightly tearing, boring and digging in zygoma, in supportable during rest.
Teeth
Ache when driving. Burning in evening and at night in bed, insupportable during rest, compelling him to get up. Ache, with great physical restlessness. Sticking in, after eating. Ache during pregnancy. Worse: Cold.
Mouth
Nightly dryness in. Vesicular eruption in, and on tongue. Sticking sore throat when talking and swallowing. Stitchings in throat. Roughness in throat, as from awns of barley. Often there is a sudden faltering in speech.
Taste: Sour, in mouth. Lost, of food, it tastes like straw.
Stomach
Spasm of. Pressive contraction in, with sour eructations.
Appetite: Great, for vegetables with aversion to meat. Violent thirst for water at night.
Abdomen
Spasmodic colic in, with discharge of leucorrhoea, or during menses.
Stool
Constipated and retained. Green, frothy diarrhoea with cutting in abdomen. Sour - smelling d. of children.
Urine
Greatly increased, pale or greenish. Involuntary discharge of. Enuresis.
Sexual Organs
Diminished sexual desire. Erections wanting.
Female
Menses: Retarded or entirely suppressed lying. Pale face and other symptoms, during. White, acrid, mucous leucorrhoea.
Cough
Violent, from tickling in throat or thyroid region, dry in evening and at night, in morning and by day, expectoration of a yellow, thin, but tenacious, mucus, or of dark blood of a somewhat saltish taste. Spasmodic, at night. Haemoptysis.
Chest
Constriction of. Soreness in.
Back
Violent bruised pain at night in, and in lumbar region.
Upper Extremities
Nightly tearing in shoulder, with crawling extending into fingers. Cracks in skin of hands. Sticking, spreading vesicles on hands and fingers. Inflammatory swelling and redness of fingers.
Lower Extremities
Burning spots on shin - bone. Boils on lower leg. Cramp in calves at night.
Generalities
Painless twitchings here and there. Emaciation and physical relaxation, especially of children. General painfulness of entire body. Sense of great exhaustion when sitting. Sudden falling to the ground with unconsciousness. In evening, after prolonged sitting, restlessness in limbs, which necessitates rising. Most symptoms appear or are intensified in the evening and at night, as well as during rest.
Skin
Spreading vehicles on hands and fingers. Small, red, painless herpes, which afterward desquamate. Violent itching. Small boils. Dry.
Sleep
Day sleepiness. Unrefreshing, at night. Crying out during. Sleeplessness from nightly oppression in abdomen. Anxious dreams.
Fever
Pulse: Somewhat accelerated, at night only. Chill: And shuddering, with external coldness in evening and after lying down, only disappearing slowly. Heat: Most in forenoon, often with sweat, but on hand only. In evening after chill. Nightly, anxious, internal, with restlessness and fear of uncovering. Sweat: During whole night, most profuse in the morning hours. Greasy, staining the linen yellow, at the same time it is sour and fetid.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Ars., Chem., Coff., Coloc, Graph., Kali - c, Mag - m., Nux-v., Puls., Rhe.
Complementary: Cham.