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

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

Cuprum metallicum

[Cupr.]

Mind.–

Vanishing
senses. Exaltation of. Spiteful, malicious insanity with hauteur,
intermingled with clonic spasms. Extraordinary anxiety as if afraid of
death. Restless tossing about. Groaning. Desire to escape. Fearfulness.
Frightened easily. Attacks of raving madness. Oversensibility of all
senses. The attacks of frenzy end in sweat.

Vertigo.–

With
almost every complaint. With sinking forward of head (Gels.). With
vanishing of all the senses.

Head.–

Pressive
ache worse touch. Crawling sensation in vertex. Meningitis.

External Head.–

Convulsions
of, with to and fro motion, drawing in sharply away or sideways, drawing
in sharply away or sideways, or sinking forward of, worse or renewed by
every touch (in hydrocephalus). Bluish – red swelling of, with
convulsive twitching of limbs, worse touch, which also causes pain in
the swelling.

Eyes.–

Distorted.
Staring, sunken. Turned upward. Tightly closed. Insensible pupils.

Face.–

Pale,
sunken. Intensely red. Bluish, and blue lips. Spasms and distortion of
facial muscles.

Teeth.–

Difficult
dentition in children, with convulsions.

Mouth.–

Foaming
at. Burning in throat. Cold tip of tongue. Hoarse crying, like a child.
Drink gurgles audibly down the oesophagus.

Taste:
Sweetish, coppery.

Stomach.–

Pressure
in pit, worse from touch Gnawing and corroding sensation in.

Appetite:
Eats hastily. Inclination, for cold foods. unquenchable thirst with a
dry throat.

Eructations:
Hiccough precedes the spasmodic attacks.

Nausea:
From abdomen up into throat. Intense retching. Vomiting:
Offensive bilious, or bloody, of water containing floating flocks, with
abdominal cramps, and convulsions, of solid food only.

Abdomen.–

Intense
abdominal pains with agony. Pressure as of a stone in, worse touch.
Atrocious cramps, also in, worse touch. Atrocious cramps, also in
stomach, with convulsions. Eroding sticking ulcers in.

Stool.–

Retained,
with general heat. Diarrheas: Violent, watery, mixed with flocks.

Urine.–

Suppressed.
Tenacious and very offensive. Frequent nightly urination.

Female.–

Menses:
Continue too long. Suppressed, with abdominal cramps. Spasms of chest
before.

Respiration.–

Arrested.
Whistling. Rattling. Rapid, with whimpering, and snoring in trachea.
Difficult, with convulsive working of abdominal muscles.

Cough.–

Incessant,
dry, not even allowing an intermission for breathing. Better a swallow
of cold water. In long uninterrupted paroxysms, lasting until the breath
is completely exhausted, excited by mucus in trachea or spasm in larynx,
quite dry in evening, in the morning a scanty expectoration of mucus
with dark blood, of a foul taste and smell.

Chest.–

Constriction.
– Rattling of mucus in. Painful and spasmodic contraction of. After
fright or anger and before menses, spasms of, which deprive him of
speech and breath. Anxious palpitation.

Upper Extremities.–

Tearing
twitching in arms and hand. s Bluish mottled arms and hands. Twitching
of muscles of forearms and hands. Twitching fingers.

Lower Extremities.–

Weariness
in knee joints. Twitching of muscle of lower leg. Painful cramp in
calves. Twitches in toes.

Generalities.–

Violent
convulsions with piercing shrieks. Chronic spasms, (Cramps): Beginning
in fingers and toes, preceded by weeping. Nightly twitchings. Epileptic
attacks. Weariness and great relaxation of entire body. Great
emaciation. Intolerance of the least touch, it renews and intensifies
the symptoms. Stiffness and rigidity of whole body. Trembling. Spasmodic
cramps. All remedies overact, aggravate without helping.

Bones.–

Pain
as though’ broken. Caries.

Skin.–

Dry
itch. Chronic ulcers.

Sleep.–

Somnolency.
Deep, with twitchings.

Fever.–

Pulse:
usually small, almost imperceptible, weak and very slow, more seldom
full, hard and accelerated. Chill: Over entire body, most severe
on extremities. Icy coldness of entire body. After every attack of
illness (also after epilepsy). Heat: Overrunning, flying.
Internal, exhausting, consuming heat. Sweat: Cold, at night. Many
attacks (of epilepsy and mania) and with (cold) sweat.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Bell., Calc-c.,
Caust., Chin., Cic., Coccl.,
Con., Dulc., HEP., Hyos., Ign., Ip.,
Lyc., Merc., Nux-v., Op., Phos-ac., Phyt.
PULS., Sep., Sil., SUL., VERAT-A.

Complementary:
Calc-c.

Cyclamen europaeum

[Cycl.]

Mind.–

Dullness
of. Weak memory. Rapid alternation of cheerfulness and peevishness.
Troubled conscience, as though he had not fulfilled his duty.
Inclination to concealed, inward grief.

Head.–

Stitches
in temples, disappearing when touched. Fine, sharp, itching or tearing
sticking in scalp, changing place when scratched. Eruption on head,
painless to touch.

Eyes.–

Sticking
itching in, and in lids. Dilated pupils. Vision is obscured, as by a
fog.

Ears.–

Drawing
pain internally. Difficult hearing, as though stopped.

Nose.–

Diminished
sense of smell.

Face.–

Induration,
with sense of numbness in upper lip.

Teeth.–

Nightly,
drawing ache.

Mouth.–

Constant
sensation of mucus in.

Appetite:
Lost, early in morning and in evening. A little food quickly satiates.
Aversion to bread and butter. Thirstless.

Taste:
Tastelessness of foods, they taste quite flat.

Eructations:
Hiccough after eating.

Nausea, etc. – With accumulation of water in mouth. Early in
morning after smoking tobacco. Inclination to vomit smoking tobacco.
Inclination to vomit after every meal, especially of fatty food.

Stomach.–

Fullness
and pressure in pit, as from overloading.

Abdomen.–

Discomfort
and nausea in. Flatulent colic.

Flatulence:
Rumbling and growling in abdomen immediately after eating.

Stool.–

Frequent,
pappy.

Anus.–

Festering
pain in, and in perineum.

Urine.–

Frequent
urging to urinate, with profuse discharge of pale urine.

Female.–

Menses:
Too profuse, Too early.

Respiration.–

Difficult,
with oppression of chest. Short, as from weakness in chest.

Chest.–

Congestion
to, with sensible palpitation.

Upper Extremities.–

Paralytic
pressure as though in periosteum, extending from shoulder into fingers.
Tearing, as though in periosteum, of fingers. Sticking itching between
fingers.

Lower Extremities.–

Cramp
like pain on posterior thigh. Violent itching on calves, with distended
blood – vessels. Sprained pain in ankle – joints. Violent itching in
joints and toes, seemingly in periosteum.

Generalities.–

Pressive
drawing or tearing pain, s mostly in periosteum or where skin lies close
to the bone. Weariness of body in evening, with peevishness and
sleepiness, disappearing from motion. As long as he moves about, aside
from weariness, he feels quite well, however, upon sitting down,
especially toward evening, all kinds of complaints appear.

Bones.–

Pressive
or tearing pains to periosteum.

Skin.–

Unendurable,
sticking, itching, in evening in bed. Cracks on hands and feet.
Frostbites. Offensive ulcers.

Sleep.–

Great
sleepiness in evening and forenoon. Constant inclination to lie and
lumbar.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Not markedly changed. Chill: Forenoon or evening. Early morning
or evening attacks of cold shudders over whole body. Great sensitiveness
s to cold air and uncovering with the evening fever. Heat: After
the chill, most on face, but without thirst, while the hands remain cold
a long time. Sense of, over entire body, especially on face and hands.
Of single parts, except face. General, after every meal. Sweat:
Moderate, but of a bad odor. At night during sleep.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Con.,
Puls.

Digitalis

[Dig.]

Mind.–

Great
anxiety, weeping and solicitude for the future. Sadness. Raving
excitement, alternating with melancholy.

Vertigo.–

With
trembling.

Head.–

Stitches:
in temples in evening and at night, in forehead, extending into nose,
especially after cold drinks. Pressure in forehead from mental exertion.
Feeling as though’ something in head fell forward, when stooping.
Itching sensation inside of. Feeling like water or waves striking
within. Worse: Standing, talking, shaking or bending it backward.
Better: Inclining it forward.

External Head.–

Constantly
inclines to sink or fall backward, while sitting and walking, as though’
the anterior neck muscles bad lost their tone. Hydrocephalus.

Eyes.–

Burning
pain in orbital arch. Blue lids. Inflamed meibomian glands. Lids are
agglutinated by mucus. Biting tears. Cloudy crystalline lens, without
pains. Dim vision.

Nose.–

Coryza,
with hoarseness.

Face.–

Pale.
Skin of is a transparent bluish color. Black, suppurating sweat pores.
Thin, blue lips. Dry lips.

Mouth.–

Rawness,
redness and scratching in cavity of and in throat. Profuse flow of
sweetish saliva. Offensive salivation. Blue tongue.

Taste:
Bitter, in mouth. Sweetish, with constant collection of water in mouth.
Bread is unpalatable, it tastes bitter.

Stomach.–

Sense
of intense weakness, as though’ he would die, immediately after eating.
Cramp in, with nausea and vomiting, somewhat better eructations.
Stitches extending from pit into sides and back.

Nausea:
Continuing after vomiting. And vomiting of all food, as soon as be eats.
After expectorating she must instantly vomit the ingesta. Vomits:
Mucus, first food, then bile.

Abdomen.–

Pinching
Contraction in, as though intestines were twisted. Ascites.

Stool.–

Diarrhoeic,
of faecal masses mixed with mucus. Gray, ashy. white,
like lime. Watery diarrhoea.

Urine.–

Ineffectual,
anxious urging to urinate. Constant urging, with scanty discharge of red
urine. She is able to hold her urine longer when lying down. Frequent
necessary to urinate, whereat a little only is passed by drops, each
time. Difficult urination, as if from narrowing of urethra. Diminished
section of, sometimes alternating with profuse watery discharge of. Dark
brown or red. Inflamed bladder. Cutting before and after urinating.

Sexual Organs.–

Dropsical
swelling of. Hydrocele, the scrotum looks like a bladder filled with
water.

Respiration.–

Tightness
of chest when lying and walking.

Cough.–

Hollow,
dry, spasmodic, excited by roughness in palate and trachea, dry in
morning, in evening, scanty, difficult expectoration of yellow,
gelatinous, sweetish mucus, sometimes with a little dark blood. Dry with
pain in shoulders and arms. With smarting in chest. With bloody
expectoration, of like boiled starch.

Larynx.–

Hoarseness,
early in morning.

Chest.–

Sense
of weakness rising from stomach. Hydrothorax. Anxious, strong and
audible palpitation, with contraction in sternum.

Extremities.–

Pain
in shoulder and arm. Chronic sciatica. Tumefaction about knee, with
sticking pains. Swelling of feet during day, becoming thinner again at
night. Cold hands and feet.

Generalities.–

Sticking
pains in muscles of upper and lower limbs. Extreme faintness and
debility, with sweat. Attacks of excessive weakness, especially after
breakfast and dinner. Great nervous weakness. Dropsy, of internal and
external parts. Gouty nodes. Digitalis first affects the heart then the
skin.

Tissues.–

Glands
swollen and indurated.

Skin.–

Corrosive
itching, terminating in burning sticking when not scratched. Anasarca.
Cyanosis. Jaundice.

Sleep.–

Interrupted,
at night Persistent day sleepiness, like sopor. Drowsiness during day,
disturbed by attacks of vomiting.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Extremely slow, especially during rest. Irregular and sometimes
intermittent. Form every motion it immediately becomes accelerated, full
and hard, afterward during rest it quickly sinks back to its accustomed
slowness. Chill: More internal, with warmth of face, but
beginning with coldness of extremities, from which it spreads over
entire body. Chilliness and shuddering over entire back. Internal, with
external warmth. General with heat and redness of face. Alternating with
heat. Extraordinary coldness of hands and feet, with cold sweat. Great
sensitiveness to cold. heat: Unusually appears a long time after
the chill. Sudden overrunning sensation o, followed by weakness.
Increased bodily warmth, with cold sweat on face. Heat of one hand, with
coldness of the other. Sweat: At night, mostly cold and somewhat
clammy. Immediately after the chill, without
previous heat. General.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ars. Bell.,
Chin., Con., Glo., Merc., Nux-v.,
Op., Phos. Phos-ac. Plat., Puls., Spig.,
Sul-ac.

Drosera rotundifolia

[Dros.]

Mind.–

Anxiety,
especially in evening and when alone. Fear of ghosts.
Restless disposition. Great mistrust of others. Capricious. Obstinate.
Trifles quickly put him beside himself. Inclination
to drown himself.

Vertigo.–

When
walking in open air.

Head.–

Pressive
ache seeming to push out thro’ forehead and zygoma, with stupefaction
and qualmishness. Outward throbbing and hammering in forehead. Corrosive
itching and painful soreness on scalp, better rubbing. Worse:
Stooping, warmth. Better: Motion, cold.

Eyes.–

Prostration
of. Outward stitches in, when stooping. Dazzled by light. Presbyopia,
with contracted pupils. Letter run together when reading. Livid lids.

Ears.–

Sticking
and forcing in, especially when swallowing. Difficult hearing with
buzzing and roaring in.

Nose.–

Nose
– bleed, in early morning and evening. He blows blood from. Black pores
on. Constantly dry. Sensitive to sour odors.

Face.–

Pale,
with sunken eyes. Puffed and livid. Pimply eruption on, with fine
sticking pains, Faceache, worse pressure and touch. Black pores on chin.

Mouth.–

Sense
of dryness in fauces, with absence of thirst. Bleeding from Ulceration
of venum palati. Sticking in pharynx when swallowing. Scratching in
throat from salty foods. Difficult swallowing of solids, as from
narrowing of throat. Sensation as if crumbs of bread remained in
pharynx. Bloody saliva. Hawks up yellow or green mucus. Constant
collection of water in.

Appetite:
Thirst in early morning. Thirst during the heat, but not during the
chill. Aversion of pork.

Taste:
Bitter: In mouth when eating, to bread. Food is tasteless.

Nausea, etc. – After fatty food. And retching. Vomiting:
Nightly, of bile of only water, in early morning, of mucus and food,
during or after coughing, of blood, after drinking.

Hypochondria:
Contractive pain in, when coughing, it compels him to press upon the
spot with his hands.

Abdomen.–

Drawn
in (with the vomiting). Constriction Bellyache after sour nightly
urination.

Female.–

Menses:
Suppressed. Too late. Leucorrhoea, with labor – like cramps in abdomen.

Respiration.–

Bad
smelling breath when coughing. Tightness of chest when talking, most
while sitting. Compressive feeling in chest, when coughing and talking,
as though’ something there, held the voice and breath back. held the
voice and breath back. Attacks of suffocation. Gasping for breath.

Cough.–

From
contraction of lower abdomen. Ringing, as from dryness in trachea
during. When coughing the chest is compressed, he must press thereon
with his hands. When singing, causing biting in larynx. Caused by
smoking or drinking. Violent whooping cough in periodically recurring (1
to 3 hours) attacks of barking or non – resonant coughing fits, which do
not permit a recovery of the breath, excited by tickling, feeling of
dryness or of soft feathers in larynx, dry in the evening, in morning
with a little yellow, generally bitter expectoration, which must be
swallowed. With scraping in throat, with bleeding from nose and mouth,
and pains in hypochondria. Haemoptysis of bright red, foamy or black,
coagulated blood. Green expectoration.

Larynx, etc.–

Constant roughness and dryness and in trachea. Sensation of a soft body
(like a feather) in. Constriction of, when talking. Alternately soft
(yellow, gray or green) and hard mucus in trachea. Inflammation of, and
of trachea, with pain when talking. Phthisis of, and of trachea. Deep,
husky voice.

Chest.–

Constriction.
Sticking in. Pain compelling him to press it with hands when sneezing or
coughing. Pressure on sternum causes festering pain there in. Black
pores on, and on shoulder.

Upper Extremities.–

Feet
constantly chilly and covered with cold sweat.

Generalities.–

Gnawing,
sticking pain in joints. Paralytic, bruised sensation in limbs. Soreness
of limbs upon which he lies, as if the bed were too hard. Rapid
emaciation (galloping laryngeal phthisis). Epileptic attacks with
twitching limbs, they are followed by sleepiness and expectoration of
blood. Most symptoms are intensified at night and toward morning, as
well as from warmth and during rest. Because of its many alternate
effects, a repetition of the dose, without an intercurrent remedy is
seldom beneficial, Sulphur and Veratrum are the most appropriate inter –
current.

Bones.–

Gnawing,
sticking pains thro’ all long bones, worse during rest.

Skin.–

Intense
itching when undressing, when scratched it easily peels off.

Sleep.–

Frequent
starting up during. Sleepiness at noon and sunset.

Fever.–

Pulse,
Unchanged. Chill: With a cold pale face and cold extremities. In
forenoon. Internal, at night in bed and during rest. In the morning one
(the left) half of face is cold, the other (or right) is hot. And
shuddering during rest, it seems too cold every where, even in bed.
Chill by day, heat by night. Heat: Almost entirely on face and
head. Increased warmth of upper part of body in evening. Intermittent
fever with sore throat and inclination to vomit. Sweat: Warm, at
night, especially, after midnight and in morning, most profuse on face.
Cold, on forehead.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Cim.,
Hep., Ip., Nux-v., Sep., Spo.,
Verat-a.

Complementary:
Sul., Verat-a.

Dulcamara

[Dulc.]

Mind.–

Delirium,
during the pains at night and during the heat. Internal restlessness.
Great impatience. Inclination to quarrel, with anger.

Sensorium.–

Great
mental obtusion in head.

Head.–

Outward
boring in temples and forehead. Congestion to, with roaring in ears and
difficult hearing. Pressive stupefying ache. Burrowing in forehead with
distended feeling in brain, not affected by either rest or motion.
Feeling as though’ occiput were enlarging. Worse: Evening until
midnight, lying still, becoming cold. Better: Talking, lying.

External Head.–

Disagreeable
chilliness on occiput and over whole body with a feeling as if hair were
bristling, recurring every evening. Thick crusts on scalp, denuding it
of hair.

Eyes.–

Inflamed,
after taking cold. Twitching, in cold air. Amaurosis.

Nose.–

Nose
– bleed of very warm, bright red blood, with a sense of pressure on it.
Stuffed coryza worse cold air. Dry nasal catarrh in a dry atmosphere.

Face.–

Pale,
with circumscribed redness of cheeks. Tettery eruption on. Milk crust.
Twitchings in lips when in cold air. Mouth drawn awry.

Mouth.–

Much
mucus in fauces. Inflamed throat after taking cold. Salivation. Dry
tongue, with much thirst and increased secretion of saliva. Swelled
tongue impeding speech and breathing. When becoming cold there is
difficult speech on account of paralysis of tongue (and jaws.)

Appetite:
Hunger without appetite. Great hunger after the heat. Intense thirst.
Excessive thirst for cold water.

Vomiting. Of pale, tenacious mucus.

Abdomen.–

Bellyache
after taking cold. Cutting about navel. Ascites.

Stool.–

Diarrhoea:
With pains in abdomen, after taking cold, of green mucus, chronic,
bloody.

Urine.–

Retained.
Offensive. Mucus sediment in. Involuntary discharge of fetid, u. from
paralysis of bladder.

Sexual Organs.–

Herpes
on.

Menses. – of watery blood, too late and too short. Suppressed
after taking cold. Miliary rash before.

Respiration.–

Intense
oppression of chest, from accumulation of mucus, after taking cold.

Cough.–

From
excessive secretion of mucus in larynx and trachea, hence with every
attack there is considerable easy expectoration of tasteless mucus,
often with bright red blood. Haemoptysis. Seldom applicable except when
after suppression of skin eruptions or taking a violent cold excessive
secretion of mucus in internal organs follows.

Larynx and trachea.–

Is
full of mucus. Hoarseness.

Chest.–

Dull,
thrust – like stitches in and upon both sides of. Hydrothorax. Herpes on
mammae. Suppressed secretion of milk after taking cold in child. bed.
Nocturnal palpitation of heart.

Back.–

Paralysis
of lumbar region after taking cold. While at rest, drawing from lumbar
region downward into thighs, during motion, stitches therein, better
drawing them up.

Neck:
Stiff, after taking cold. Swollen cervical glands.

Upper Extremities.–

Paralysis
of arms with icy coldness thereof, mostly during rest. Tetter on arms
and hands. Sweat on palm. Warts on hands.

Lower Extremities.–

Herpes
on knees. Erysipelatous eruption on feet, with itching and desquamation.
Crawling as of ants on feet.

Generalities.–

Remarkable
emaciation. Dropsical swelling of body. Tearing in limbs, and other
complaints from taking cold. Unilateral spasms with loss of speech.
Paralysis of a single limbs. The complaints are intensified at night and
during rest. Convulsions, beginning in face.

Tissues.–

Glands
swollen and indurated.

Skin.–

Redness,
dryness and heat of. Thickness and desquamation in spots. Vesicular
eruption. Nettle rash. Tetters of various sorts, i. e.: 1. Moist,
suppurating. 2 Pale, which exude water upon being scratched. 3. Reddish,
with a red circumference, which bleeds upon being scratched. 4. With
reddish circumference, which smarts from cold water, but don’t itch. 5.
Small, yellowish brown tetters which bleed after scratching. Thick
crusts over entire body. Inactivity of external skin with excessive
secretion from the internal mucous membranes and glands.

Sleep.–

Restless,
after midnight. Very early awaking.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Small, hard and tense, especially at night. Chill: Mostly toward
evening, spreading from back, not relieved by external warmth. During
the pains. With violent thirst. Heat: General, dry, burning, over
entire body., And burning in back. with flightiness, without thirst. Sweat:
Offensive, over entire body at night and in early morning, during day,
more on back, axillae and palms of hands. Suppressed and entirely
wanting.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Acon.,
Ars., Bry., Cic., Con., Cupr.,
Led., Merc., Nux-v.,
Phos-ac., Phyt., Puls., Rhus-t.,
Sep., Sul.

Euphorbium

[Eupho.]

Mind.–

Anxious
solicitous disposition. Quiet earnestness with inclination to work.

Head.–

Bruised
sensation in occiput.

Eyes.–

Inflamed,
with itching in lids and angles. Flow of biting tears. Agglutinated
early in morning. Dim vision. Diplopia.

Face.–

Red,
inflamed, painful swelling of cheeks, with yellowish vesicles which
discharge a thick yellow moisture.

Teeth.–

Pressive,
sticking ache. Toothache, worse by touch. Crumbling teeth.

Mouth.–

Dry
internally without especial thirst. Burning in throat, extending into
stomach, with heat and anxiety. Salivation, preceded by shaking and
griping in stomach.

Thirst:
Intense, for cold drinks.

Stomach.–

Burning
like fire in. Spasmodic constriction in.

Abdomen.–

Empty
feeling in, as after an emetic. Burning in. Spasmodic, flatulent colic
with distensive pressure pains better resting upon elbows and knees.

Stool.–

Diarrhoeic,
with tenesmus, burning in anus and painfulness in abdomen. First thin,
then nodular.

Urine.–

Urging
to urinate, with diminished discharge passed drop by drop.

Sexual organs.–

Erections
without sexual desire.

Respiration.–

Short,
as though’ chest were too narrow, with tension in chest muscles.

Cough.–

Dry,
hollow, from tickling in throat or chest. Dry by day and night, only
early in morning is there copious expectoration.

Chest.–

Burning
in. Stitches in left side of during rest, disappearing during motion.
Sensation as though’ the lobe (left) of lung were adherent.

Upper Extremities.–

Scarlet
red stripes on forearms, itching when touched

Lower Extremities.–

Dislocative
pain in hip – joint. Nightly burning in upper femur. Great weakness of
lower legs.

Generalities.–

Rheumatic
pains in limbs, of a tearing or pressive sticking sort, almost
exclusively during rest. Paralytic weakness in joints, felt particularly
when beginning to move. Burning pains in internal parts. Complaints are
worse during rest, especially when sitting, and from touching affected
parts.

Bones.–

Burning
in. Caries.

Skin.–

Burning
itching necessitating scratching. Old, indolent ulcers. Cold gangrene.
Boils. Warts. Erysipelas bullossum.

Sleep.–

Day
sleepiness. Feeling to sleep late in evening.

Fever.–

Chill:
And chilliness predominate. When beginning to eat and while walking in
the open, not cold, air. With coexistent sweat. Cold shuddering over
whole upper part of body with heat of cheeks. Went proper bodily warmth,
with internal burning heat. Heat: With intolerance of clothing,
it seems too heavy. On head only. Sweat: Early in morning in bed.
Cold sweat on lower legs.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ars., Flu-ac., Kre., Lyc.,
Merc., Merc-c., Mez., Puls.,
Rhus-t., Sep., Zinc.

Euphrasia officinalis

[Euphr.]

Mind.–

Indolent,
hypochondriacal mood, without interest in surrounding objects.
Introverted and silent, with aversion to talk. Low spirited.

Head.–

Heaviness
and dullness of. Toward evening, dazed, bruised ache, with fluent
coryza. Sensible throbbing on external head. Aching as though it would
burst, with dazzling of eyes from sunlight.

Eyes.–

Dry
pressure in, as if sleepy. Scratching, as of sand in. Inflamed and red
after injuries. Sticking in, from bright light. Burning, biting tears,
especially when in wind. Swollen under lid. Fine eruption about.
Increased, pus – like discharge of mucus, and nightly agglutination.
Photophobia, especially from or sunlight. Darkened spots or vesicles on
cornea from mechanical injury. Blue and impervious cornea. Pterygium,
extending from inner canthus.

Nose.–

Eruption
on wings of. Excoriated and painful internally. Nosebleed. Profuse,
fluent coryza, with biting tears in eyes and photophobia.

Face.–

Red.
Miliary eruption on, itching when warm, burning and becoming red when
moistened. Stitches and stiffness in cheeks and lower jaw when talking
and chewing. Stiff upper lip, as though’ made of wood.

Teeth.–

Sticking
in lower. Bleeding gums.

Mouth.–

Difficult
speech, from paralytic of stuttering, in speaking he begins the
sentences over again too frequently. Sensation of gurgling from below
upward in throat.

Taste:
Bitter, in mouth, early in morning from tobacco.

Abdomen.–

Short
attacks of pinching in. Squeezing extending across. Abdominal pains,
constantly alternating with eye symptoms.

Stool.–

Hard
and too scanty.

Urine.–

Profuse
discharge of clear u.

Sexual Organs.–

Spasmodically
retracted, in evening.

Female.–

Menses:
Regular, but lasting only an hour.

Respiration.–

When
coughing he is breathless, as during whooping cough.

Cough.–

Excited
by much flat – tasting, sometimes blood streaked, watery mucus in chest
and throat, which is not easily dislodged, and can be expectorated only
in morning, with difficult breathing. Early in morning, profuse
expectoration of mucus by means of voluntary hawking, with fluent
coryza.

Back.–

Continuous,
cramp – like pains in.

Upper Extremities.–

Painless
swelling of wrist and finger – joints from motion. Cramp – like pain in
metacarpus. Numb fingers.

Lower Extremities.–

Sticking
in hip and knee – joint when walking. Jerks extending upwards through
thigh, followed by paralytic numbness thereof. Cramp in legs when
standing, especially in calves.

Generalities.–

Cramp
– like pains throughout entire body. Trembling of limbs. Sense of a fly
creeping up one or the other extremities in a straight line, which
becomes numb without affecting remaining parts. Bad effects of falls,
blows or mechanical injuries to external parts. Fleeing, itching
stitching here and there thro’ entire night, with great restlessness.
Most complains are worse in evening. Acrid watery secretion.

Sleep.–

Excessive
yawning while walking in open air. Great day sleepiness. After midnight,
from about 3 until 6 o’clock in the morning, he awakens every few
minutes, then falls into a stupefying sleep, from which he awakens with
many complaints.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Unchanged. Chill: In forenoon, and internal chilliness, which, in
afternoon, is changed to external chill and coldness, especially on
arms. Predominant chilliness. Heat: Attacks of during day, with a
red face and cold hands. Sweat: At night, during sleep, has a
very strong and offensive odor and is most profuse on chest.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Cann., Hep., Nux-v., Spig.

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