BOENNINGHAUSEN’S CHARACTERISTICS MATERIA MADICA & REPERTORY – C.M. BOGER

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BŒNNINGHAUSEN’S
CHARACTERISTICS
MATERIA MEDICA
by
C. M. BOGER, M.D.

Clematis erecta

[Clem.]

Mind.–

Sadness,
and fear of impending misfortunes. Morose discontent.

Head.–

Boring pain in temples. Moist vesicles and excoriation on occiput.

Eyes.–

Inflamed,
with profuse lachrymation. Inflammation of iris. Biting, smarting in
margins of lids when closing eyes. Stitches in angles of. Extreme
photophobia.

Face.–

Pale,
sickly countenance. Moist eruption on it, starts with a stitching pain.
White, sticking blisters on, and on nose, as from sun burn. Cancer of
lips. Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.

Teeth.–

Stitching
and jerking drawing toothache, when lying in a horizontal position at
night, driving him to despair. Worse: Smoking.

Abdomen.–

Swelling,
and induration, with twitching pain in inguinal glands.

Urine.–

Increased
discharge of. Discharge of purulent urine. Stopped, of discharged drop
by drop, from narrowing of urethra.

Sexual Organs.–

Painfully
swollen and indurated testes. – Thickened scrotum. Aversion to coition,
as after excessive sexual indulgence.

Back.–

Neck:
Encircled by an itching pimply eruption having purulent tips, with
soreness and rawness after scratching. Moist eruption on, extending up
to occiput.

Chest.–

Swelled
and indurated mammae. Cancer of mammae.

Upper Extremities.–

Swollen
axillary glands. Spreading vesicles on the hands and fingers. Worse by
cold water.

Lower Extremities.–

Scaly,
crusty tetter on thighs or legs.

Generalities.–

Extraordinary
emaciation. Flaccidity of all muscles. Twitching of muscles. Vibration
though entire body after lying down.

Tissues.–

Glands
painfully swollen and indurated.

Skin.–

Crawling,
throbbing and burning in ulcers, with sticking in their edges when
touched. Chronic, humid herpes itching intolerably from warmth of bed
and after washing. The painful, non – itching, tettery eruption over
entire body is red and moist during the increasing, but pale and dry
during the waning moon. Scaly herpes with thick crusts. Itching, moist
eruption spreads by a corrosive ichor with redness, heat and swelling of
skin.

Sleep.–

Day
sleepiness with nightly sleeplessness.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Excited, with throbbing in all blood vessels. Chill: With
shuddering, then sweat without previous heat. Shivering c. every time he
uncovers. Heat: Dry, with general hot feeling, only at night. Sweat:
Profuse at nights, most toward morning, with aversion to uncovering.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Bry., Graphs, Merc., RHOD.,
Rhus-t.

Cocculus indicus

[Cocc.]

Mind.–

He
sits, as though’ buried in deep thought, and takes no notice of his
surroundings. Time passes too rapidly. Mild, indolent temperament.
Sadness during the sufferings. Intense anxiety. Intolerance of noise.
Timidity, easily startled. Bade effects of grief with anger. Dull
confusion in head everything seems unreal.

Vertigo.–

With
qualmishness when raising up in bed, or moving. As if intoxicated.

Head.–

Sense
of emptiness or hollowness in. Inward pressing, or sticking ache in
forehead. Throbbing in forehead. Convulsive trembling of, from weakness
of cervical muscles and neck. Dull compression in either temple or half
of forehead, as if brain were screwed in. Headache with nausea. Worse:
During and after meals, drinking, evening, carriage riding, cold or open
air, after sleep, coffee, tobacco. Better: In house, when quiet,
warmth of bed.

Eyes.–

Pain
as though’ they would be torn out of head. Inability to open them at
night. Contracted pupils. Dim vision, and black spots before.
Progressive amaurosis.

Nose.–

Increased
sensitiveness of smell.

Face.–

Burning
heat of, with red cheeks. Distorted features. Swelling and induration of
submaxillary glands.

Mouth.–

Dryness
in, and in throat. Impeded swallowing, as from paralysis of throat.
Bubbling foam from. Difficult speech, as from paralysis of tongue.

Appetite:
Aversion to food, drink and tobacco. Great thirst, especially when
eating. Aversion to all sour foods.

Taste:
Sour, in mouth, after eating and coughing. Sulphurous, in mouth, Bitter
to tobacco.

Eructations:
With pain in epigastrium and nausea. Hiccup, at once after eating.

Nausea, etc. – Attacks of, ending in fainting. Nausea and
vomiting. from driving (riding), and becoming cold.

Stomach.–

Spasm
in, during and immediately after eating, with intense clutching and
squeezing. Fullness and pinching in, and in abdomen with oppression of
breathing.

Abdomen.–

Constrictive
pain in upper and lower. Sense of emptiness in. Hysterical abdominal
spasms in women. Painful soreness in. Protruded and incarcerated
inguinal hernia.

Flatulence:
Nightly, spasmodic, wind colic especially worse coughing. Pushing
upward.

Stool.–

Hard,
every other day. Retarded. ineffectual urging, from want of peristaltic
action in upper intestines. Bright colored, pale stool by day only.

Rectum.–

Intense
tenesmus of, after stool.

Urine.–

Watery.
Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge.

Sexual Organs.–

Sensitiveness
of, with greatly excited sexual desire. Bruised pain in testicles.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early, with intense, spasmodic pain sin abdomen. Suppressed wit
abdominal colic.

Respiration.–

Difficult,
as from constriction of larynx

Cough.–

Racking,
with oppression of chest which comes on during cough. Irritation to, as
from narrowing of trachea

Chest.–

Sticking
pain in. Spasmodic constriction of. Burning in, ascending into throat.
Sense of emptiness in. Anxious palpitation. Trembling about heart.

Back.–

Paralysis
of spine and lumbar region (tabes dorsalis).

Neck:
Weakness of muscles of. Snapping of cervical vertebrae.

Upper Extremities.–

Bruised
pain in bones of arms on raising them. Asleep feeling in arms. Hot
swelling of hands.

Lower Extremities.–

Paralytic
immobility, and paralysis below lumbar region. Bruised pain in thighs.
Inflammation and swelling with stitches in knee. Burning in feet. Hot
swelling of feet.

Generalities.–

Paralytic
immobility of limbs with drawing bone pains. Unilateral paralysis with
deadness of limbs. Hemiplegia. Sense of emptiness or constriction of
internal parts. Hysterical spasms with sadness. inclination to tremble.
Gouty pains without swelling of affected parts. Great fatigue, even to
fainting, from slight exertion. Intolerance of open air, warm as well as
cold. The Sufferings are intensified by driving, eating, drinking,
sleeping, talking, and smoking. Twitchings, numbness and extremes
sensitiveness to cold.

Tissues.–

Hard,
cold, swollen glands, with sticking pains.

Bones.–

Bruised
pain, or tearing and burrowing in.

Skin.–

Anaemic
paleness of. Ulcers, very sensitiveness, on account of anxiety and
bodily restlessness. Anxious dreams. Greatly refreshed by an undisturbed
sleep. Feels much better at night than by day.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Small and spasmodic, often imperceptible, seldom hard, and somewhat
accelerated. Chill: Very frequently alternates with heat.
Internal, with shuddering over whole body, most on back and legs, not
relievable by external heat, in afternoon and evening. Constant
chilliness, with hot skin. Heat, Dry, through the whole night. Over
running, with burning heat of cheeks and cold feet. Intermittent fever
with spasms of stomach and lameness of small of back. Sweat: The
whole night, it is cold on face only. In early morning, most on chest.
Exhausting, over whole body from least movement. On painful parts.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Agar.,
Ant-t., Bism., Calc-c., Caust.,
CHAM., Cupr., IGN., Ip.,
Kali-c., Mos., Nux-m., Nux-v., Oleand.

Complementary:
Petr.

Coffea cruda

[Coff.]

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.

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.

Colocynthis

[Coloc.]

Mind.–

Anxious
depression with surliness and disinclination to talk. Anxiety and
restlessness. Tearfulness. Inclination to concealed grief or vexation
with indignation. Inclination to escape.

Head.

Pressive ache in forehead, worse stooping and lying on back.
Attacks of gouty unilateral squeezing pain, with nausea and vomiting,
daily about five PM

Eyes.–

Burning
cutting in. Acrid tears.

Face.–

Pale
and flaccid, with sunken eyes. Dark red. prosopalgia, tearing, crampy
pain in one – half of.

Throat.–

Spasm
in pharynx, with empty eructations and palpitation.

Stomach.–

Pressure,
with feeling of hunger.

Appetite:
Great craving for water, without thirst.

Taste:
Flat, in mouth after every drink. Bitter, of all food.

Abdomen.–

Extraordinary,
colicky, crampy pain in, necessitating bending double, with anxiety and
restlessness. Constriction of intestines. Frequent, violent, squeezing
or cutting as with knives in, with tearing extending into thighs and
chill. Tympanites, with pain in belly, as though’ intestines were
squeezed between stones. Bruised feeling and great sensitiveness of.
Violent motion, coffee and tobacco better the abdominal pains, but all
other foods worse them.

Stool.–

Constipation,
with retarded stool during pregnancy. Diarrhoea: Foamy, sourish,
and offensive, dysenteric, of mucus, and blood with tenesmus of anus.
Diarrhoea and vomiting after all food. Diarrhoea with bellyache.

Anus.–

Painfully
swollen hemorrhoids, and in rectum. Paralysis of sphincter ani.

Urine.–

Diminished
secretion. Intensely offensive, it quickly becomes thick, gelatinous and
sticky. Ineffectual urging to urinate. During pain there is profuse,
watery urination.

Sexual Organs.–

Complete
impotency. Retraction of foreskin behind glands. (Priapism.)

Respiration.–

Nightly
attacks of shortness of, r. as from compression of chest.

Cough.–

Dry
hacking, from irritation in larynx. Smoking tobacco immediately excites
a persistent cough.

Chest.–

Painful
nodes in female mammae.

Back.–

Tensive
pain in, and in scapulae, extending into throat.

Upper Extremities.–

Swelling
and suppuration of axillary glands. Crampy pain in hands and fingers.

Lower Extremities.–

Sciatica,
tensive pain in hips, extending from kidneys down into thighs, with a
sensation as if hip joint were fastened in iron clamps. Pain in thighs,
as if psoas muscles were too short, where walking. Stiff knee, which
hinders crouching down.

Generalities.–

Tearing
stitches lengthwise though’ entire body. Crampy pain in contraction of
internal and external parts. Stiff joints. Muscular twitchings.
Shortened tendons. The limbs are drawn up so that he resembles a
hedgehog. Fainting, with cold external parts. Stiff joints. Muscular
twitchings. Shortened tendons. The limbs are drawn up so that he
resembles a hedgehog. Fainting, with cold external parts. After effects
of chagrin and indignation combined with silent internal grief. Worse:Night,
in bed. Better: After rising, gentle motion in warm room.

Tissues.–

Painful
swelling and suppuration of glands.

Skin.–

Itching
over entire body, with great restlessness, especially in evening in bed,
followed by sweat. Desquamation, over whole body.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Generally full, hard and accelerated, seldom small and weak, Strong
throbbing in all blood vessels. Chill, And coldness of entire body,
often with heat of face. Either cold hands or soles of feet, with warmth
of rest of body. Chill and shuddering with the pains. Heat: Dry
external Sense of internal, with attacks of external overrunning heat. Sweat:
At night, of a urinous odor, causing itching of skin. Especially on head
and extremities.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Bell., Bry.,
Conn., Caust., Cham. COFF.,
Mag-c., Merc-c., Phyt., Rhe.,
Sec-c., STAPH.

Conium maculatum

[Con.]

Mind.–

Confusion
of thought and insanity. Weakened power of intellect and memory, very
forgetful. Hysteria and hypochondriasis from
too violent or unsatisfied sexual indulgence with pensiveness, anxiety
and peevishness. Aversion to work. Very ill humored. Anxiety of pregnant
women. Anthropophobia, yet fears to be alone. Nightly fearfulness.
Indifference.

Vertigo.–

Whirling
when looking around. Intoxication, from the least quantity of
spirituous, from the least quantity of spirituous liquors, after walking
from siesta and when walking in open air.

Head.–

Pressive
headache. Stupefying ache. Attacks of tearing, gouty pains in temples of
side of, with asleep feeling in brain and nausea. Chronic outward
stitches, especially in vertex and forehead. Sensation of a large, thick
lump in brain (Arn., Coccl., Chel.) Great sensitiveness of brain to
noise. Unilateral bruised pain. Hydrocephalus. Falling of hair. Worse:
Night, morning, fasting, early on awaking, touch, motion, turning eyes
toward affected side, debauch, after a, after eating, talking, after
walking from siesta, walking in open air. Better: Stooping,
external pressure: lying closing eyes.

Eyes.–

Sense
of coldness or burning, when, in open air. Itching below. Pressure in,
when reading. Gray cataract, after contusions. Daylight dazzles. Myopia.
Surrounding objects appear red. Photophobia, without
inflammation. Feel pushed out of head.

Ears.–

Tearing
and sticking about and in. Roaring and buzzing in. Accumulation of
discolored earwax. painfully sensitive hearing.

Nose.–

Purulent
discharge from. Excessively acute smell. Persistent stuffed coryza, with
obstruction of both nostrils. Sneezing.

Face.–

Heat
of. Pale, bluish, puffy. Itching. Moist, spreading eruption on. Nightly,
sticking, tearing face pains.

Teeth.–

Drawing
ache, worse cold things.

Mouth.–

Spasm
of oesophagus. Involuntary swallowing, especially when walking in wind.
Swelled tongue. Sense of a rising body in throat, with much swallowing.

Appetite:
Complete want of, and of thirst.

Eructations:
Continuous, empty. Tasting of ingesta.

Nausea, etc. – Inclination to vomit, with loss of appetite. After
every meal. Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.

Stomach.–

Constrictive
spasm in. Sense of inflation of, and of upper abdomen, after drinking
milk. Painful soreness of.

Abdomen.–

Painful
soreness when walking on pavement. Induration of, from swelling of
mesenteric glands. Hysterical uterine spasms.

Flatulence:
Rumbling and growling in abdomen. Discharge of cold flatus.

Hypochondria:
Stitches in spleen.

Stool.–

Hard,
every two days only. constipation with ineffectual urging, during
pregnancy. Diarrhoea: undigested, with bellyache, exhausting.

Urine.–

White,
turbid, thick. Bloody. Frequent, nightly urination. Pressure upon
bladder. Cutting in urethra during urination.

Sexual Organs.–

Impotency
and want of erection. Insufficient erections, lasting too short a time.
Excessive pollutions. Swelled testes, after contusions. Itching upon and
in pudenda.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early, but too scant. Painful spasmodic, abdominal colic during.
Sup, pressed (especially in barren women). Acrid, burning leucorrhoea,
preceded by pinching in abdomen.

Respiration.–

Suffocative
attacks. tightness of chest on walking early in morning. Short, when
walking.

Cough.–

Dry,
spasmodic, from irritation as of a dry spot in the throat, mostly at
night. Suffocative, with flying heat of face. With bloody expectoration.
After measles or scarlatina, or when a chronic tracheal affection
threatens. During pregnancy. Whooping cough, especially in nightly
paroxysms, excited by itching and tickling in throat and chest.

Chest.–

Stitches
in sternum and chest. Scirrhus of mammae, after blows or contusions.
Inflammation of female mammae with stitching pain.

Upper Extremities.–

Shoulder
feels as though galled. Moist tetter on forearms. Sweat on palms.
Panaritia. Numbness of hands and feet.

Lower Extremities.–

Reddish
spots, as from bruises, on calves, afterward turning yellow or green,
preventing movement. Feet easily become cold.

Generalities.–

General
relaxation with inclination to laugh. Sense of exhaustion, early in
morning when in bed. Sudden relaxation when walking. Faintness.
Convulsive twitching of limbs. Spasmodic pains in various parts.
Complaints of old age. After – effects of blows and contusions. unusual
liability to take cold. Most complaints appear during the rest,
especially at night and in separate attacks, others come on when walking
in open air. Trembling.

Tissues.–

Glands
swollen, with crawling and sticking. Induration of glands, followed
blows or contusions.

Skin.–

Sticking
itching in. Nettle rash from violent bodily exertion. Death spots of old
people. Old, moist tatters. Blackish ulcers, with bloody, fetid,
ichorous discharge, especially from contusions. Pains in ulcers.

Sleep.–

Sleepiness
in daytime and early in evening, with forcible closure of eyelids.
Sleeplessness with all complaints.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Extremely irregular, mostly slow and large, intermingled with small,
quick beats. Sensible throbbing in blood vessels though’ entire body.
Entirely absent. Chill: And coldness, early in morning and in
afternoon (from 3 to 5 o’clock). With constant desire for warmth,
especially that of sun. Early in morning, internal only, in afternoon
with overrunning shivering. Heat, Great, internal as well as external,
with great nervous excitability. With coexistent copious sweat. Sweat:
Day and night, as soon as he falls to sleep or even close eyes.
Offensive at night and early in morning, causing smarting of skin.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies. Ag-c.,
Anac., Ant-t., Coff., Cupr., Cycl., Dig., Dulc., Gel., LACH.,
Lyc., Nit-ac., Nux-v., Puls., Tab.,
Arg-n., Sep.

Complementary:
Phos., Sil.

Crocus sativus

[Croc.]

Mind.–

Great
distraction and forgetfulness. Extraordinarily changeable mood.
Mournfulness alternating with cheerfulness. Inclination to joke, laugh
and sing. Gay insanity with buffoonery. Angry and flying into a passion,
alternating with gentleness.

Vertigo.–

With
fainting. Whirling, and feeling of intoxication in forehead when in
room, but not in open air, with occipital headache and pains in eyes.

Head.–

Sudden
thrusts in forehead and temples. In evening by artificial light, pain in
forehead with burning and pressure in eyes. Pulsating pain in one side
of, extending into eyes.

Eyes.–

Nightly
spasms of lids. Visible quivering of lids. Lachrymation when in room,
but not in open air Inclination to blink or wipe them. Dilated pupils.
In evening by candle light dim vision, as of gauze or fog before.

Nose.–

Bleeding
thick, tenacious, black blood, with cold sweat on forehead.

Face.–

Earthy
color. Red, burning spots on. Glowing heat of. Cracked lips.

Mouth.–

Scratching
in throat in evening, before and after (not while) eating. Sensation in
throat, as of a stopper therein, or as though’ as of a stopper therein,
or as though’ uvula had fallen. White coat on tongue with elevated
papillae.

Appetite:
Thirst in evening.

Eructations:
Heartburn after eating.

Nausea, etc. – Inclination to vomit disappearing in open air.

Stomach.–

Sensation,
as something living, hopping and jumping about in, and in abdomen or
chest.

Abdomen.–

Distension
of. Sense of heaviness in lower, and pressing towards genitals.

Anus.–

Sticking,
itching and crawling in.

Sexual Organs.–

Continual,
sharp stitching from anus into groins, where it remains as a simple
pain, worse inspiration.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early, and too profuse. Uterine hemorrhage of dark, tenacious, foul
smelling blood. Discharge of blood during new or full moon.

Respiration.–

Difficult,
with inclination to take a deep breath, better after yawning. Offensive
smelling breath.

Cough.–

Violent
dry, from irritation in trachea, relieved by laying hands on
epigastrium. Haemoptysis.

Back.–

Sensation
of coldness in.

Upper Extremities.–

Great
weariness in knees and legs. Bruised pain in hip joint. Frost bites in
toes.

Generalities.–

Sensation
as of something living, hopping and jumping about in body. Crawling
thro’ body, now here, now there. Asleep feeling in single parts,
especially at night. Hemorrhage of tenacious black blood from various
organs. Choreic attacks with singing laughing and dancing, toward
evening, every eight days. Early in morning, intense weakness and he
feel worse generally. In open air she is far better than in a moderately
warm room. Great alternation of symptoms.

Skin.–

Scarlet
redness of entire body. Painful suppuration of bruised parts.

Sleep.–

Persistent
yawning and inclination to. Sleepiness after every meal. Drowsiness and
somnolency.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Feverishly accelerated. Anxious palpitation. Chill: Afternoon,
augmented towards evening, with cold shuddering spreading from back over
legs, and trembling. Thirst, during chill as well as heat. Cold
shuddering on posterior half of body only. Chilliness with goose – skin
and yawning. Heat: Internal overrunning, with pricking and
crawling in skin. Most on head and face, with pale cheeks and thirst.
With a very red face and swelled blood vessels. Sweat: Scanty,
some at night only and then it is cold and exhausting. On lower half of
body only.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Aco.,
Bell., Op., Plat.

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