Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica

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Mind

Hypochondriacal dejection. Low spirited and joyless, with a feeling of general exhaustion.

Sensorium

Dizziness with ebullition of blood to, and heat in head.

Head

Distensive, pressing ache, especially in frontal eminences and right temple, appearing suddenly and decreasing slowly. Sticking ache.

Eyes

Weak, lusterless. Biting tears. Illusion of clouds rising before.

Nose

Small, grain - like vesicles about root.

Face

Pale, with lusterless eyes encircled by blue rings. A red areola cheeks near wings of nose. Black pores on nose and face.

Teeth

Drawing ache, excited almost exclusively by chewing. Nightly ache, as if to burst, warmth of bed and eating. Gums swollen around the hollow, broken teeth.

Mouth

Excoriative soreness in throat when swallowing. Strangling pressure in throat, as from an internal swelling. White saliva, becoming frothy when talking. Bloody saliva. Every morning there is a thick yellow coat on posterior part of tongue.

Taste: Greasy, in mouth. Bitter of food, milk and coffee.

Stomach

Pressure in. Stitches extending from pit into back.

Appetite: Desire for acids, especially lemonade.

Eructations: Copious, empty.

Vomiting: Bile. The ingesta of the previous day, which is still undigested.

Abdomen

Extraordinary distension of. Bellyache, as from taking cold, with sensation as though' diarrhoea would ensue. Labor - like abdominal pains. Contractive pain in region of uterus. Urging toward genitals. Bruised pain in muscles.

Stool

Diarrhoea with much flatulence. Discharge of blood with mucus.

Anus

Bleeding anal hemorrhoids. Crawling in.

Urine

Frequent, violent urging to urinate with profuse discharge, Retention of urine with burning discharge, passed drop by drop.

Sexual Organs

Inflammatory gonorrhea with a purulent discharge. Gristle - like swelling on (dorsum of) penis. Figwarts with burning, excoriative pain. Stitches deep in vagina. Inflammation of uterus after childbirth. Sexual desire greatly intensified, even unto nymphomania.

Female

Menses: Too early and too profuse. Uterine hemorrhage of partly bright red and partly lumpy, or of thin, fluid, foul smelling blood. Abortion. Especially during third month of pregnancy. Foul - smelling leucorrhoea following suppressed menses.

Cough

Dry hacking c., from tickling in trachea. Blood spitting, with or without cough.

Chest

Painless trembling and creaking sensation under sternum. Sensible swelling of mammae. Crawling in nipples.

Back

Backache, which necessitates drawing in and bending backward of parts. Labor - like pain extending from lumbar into public region. Paralytic pains in small of.

Upper Extremities

Sprained pain in shoulder joint. Stiff wrist, with swelling and stitches, unbearably intensified on allowing hands to hand down.

Lower Extremities

Sticking pain in hip joints, early in morning and during palpitation. Lardaceous ulcers on shin bones. Podagra: Swelling, redness and stitches in great toe.

Generalities

Paralytic pain in joints after exertion. Tearing sticking in joints, with swelling thereof., Red, glistening swelling of affected parts. Jerking throbbing in arteries.

Bones

Drawing pain through' cylindrical b.

Sleep

Sleeplessness with great restlessness. Heat and profuse sweat after midnight.

Fever

Pulse: Irregular: mostly rapid, Strong and tense. Violent throbbing of arteries of entire head. Chill: In evening, with repeated shivering. Great chilliness during day. Shuddering with darkness before eyes, then sleepiness. Cold feeling in entire (r.) leg. Heat: Intolerable burning heat in whole body, with great restlessness. Flying heat on face, with chill of all the rest of body and cold hands and feet. Sweat: Every night.

Relationship

Allied Remedies: Arn., Calc-c., Plat.

Complementary: Thuj.