Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Petroleum petr.
Mind
Indisposed to think. Weak memory. Irritable, angry disposition, with scolding. Frightened easily. Great irresolution and solicitude concerning the futures.
Vertigo
When stooping. Fainting, with trembling during storms.
Head
Throbbing in occiput. Pressive sticking in occiput. Sensation as though' everything inside were alive.
External Head
Sensitive on both sides, with a festered or bruised feeling when touched, followed by numbness. Smarting as if raw when scratched. Eruption on, especially toward nape. Worse: From anger, morning, when heated.
Eyes
Inflamed, with itching. As of gauze before. Lachrymal fistula. far slight.
Ears
Disagreeably dry sensation in. Discharge of blood and pus from. Humid soreness behind. Deafness (after Nit-ac.).
Nose
Disagreeably dry feeling in.
Face
Yellowish, pale countenance. Heat of, after eating. Scurfs about mouth. Easy dislocation of maxillary joint, with great pain, early in morning when in bed. Swollen submaxillary glands.
Teeth
Numb. Toothache, with swelled cheek, at night and when going into open air Dental fistula.
Mouth
Bad, garlicky odor from. Early in morning, great dryness of, and of throat, with great thirst. Sticking sore throat when swallowing. When swallowing, the food is forced into forced into posterior nares. Tongue coated white.
Appetite: Gluttony and ravenous hunger. Great aversion to meat and a fatty food. Violent thirst (for beer).
Taste: Foul, dirty, slimy. Bitter, in mouth.
Eructations: Sour or bitter a., and regurgitation. Collection of water in mouth.
Nausea. etc. - Much. From driving (riding). Bitter vomiting.
Stomach
Pressure in. Very weak digestion. Pit sensitive to touch. Pain in pit, as though' something would be torn loose.
Abdomen
Cutting in, soon after eating.
Stool
Head, unsatisfactory. Frequent diarrhoeic s., during day, preceded by pale in belly. Of bloody mucus.
Urine
Frequent passage of scanty, brown stinking u. Involuntary dribbling of. Narrowing of urethra.
Sexual Organs
Redness, excoriation and moisture on scrotum and adjacent parts. Itching and moist herpes on scrotum and perineum. excoriation and moisture on female pudendum and in groins. Aversion to coition.
Female
Menses: Too early, the blood excites an itching irritation. Difficult appearance of first menses.
Respiration
Rattling snoring. Cold air causes an oppressed feeling on chest. Nightly oppression of chest.
Cough
Dry, at night or in evening coming from deep in chest and excited by a scratching in throat.
Chest
Herpes on.
Back
Weakness and stiffness in, and in lumbar region. Backache preventing the least movement. Lumbar pain preventing standing.
Upper Extremities
Brown or yellow spots on arms. Burning in palms. In winter, cracked skin of hands and fingers, which are full of deep, bloody cuts. Gouty stiffness finger joints.
Lower Extremities
Stitches in knee. Hot swelling of soles, with burning. Painful swelling and redness of heel.
Generalities
Cracking, creaking and gouty stiffness of joints. Asleep sensation in, and stiffness of limbs. Twitching in limbs. Weariness early in morning and in evening. Great emaciation. Aversion to open air. Takes cold easily. Flying heat, orgasm of blood and sweat after a walk r the lead anger. complaints from riding in a carriage or ship. General internal, insufferably sick feeling, with trembling and great weakness.
Glands
Affections of, especially after bruises.
Skin
Extra ordinary sensitiveness of epidermis. Heals with difficulty. Easy excoriation. Moist, denuded spots. Moist herpes. Ulcers with proud flesh. Boils, corns. Frostbites.
Sleep
Sleepy during day and in evening when sitting still. At night full of phantasies, with anxious beat and many dreams. Insufficient and unrefreshing in morning.
Fever
Pulse: Stronger, full and accelerated from every motion, it immediately become slow during rest. Chill: Mostly toward evening, now earlier, now later. chilliness thro' entire body, followed by saver itching. Internal, in evening, with co - existent heat. chilliness in open air. With headache and remarkable coldness of face and hands. Heat: In evening, after the chill, with cold feet. After midnight and in morning in bed. Flying, over entire body inn repeated attacks (6 to 10) during day. feeling of heat, over entire body, with great burning of skin. Sweat: Profuse every night. Easy, especially on forearms and legs. Immediately after the chill, without previous heat.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Agar., Ars., Calc-c., Carc., Cham., Kre, Lyc., Nat - m., Nit-ac., NUX-V., Phos., Puls., Sil., sul., thuj.
Complementary: Sep.