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

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

Natrum sulphuricum

[Nat-s.]

Mind.–

Depressed,
irritable and taciturn Despair: of recovery. Passionate Sensitive. Music
causes sadness.

Vertigo.–

On
rising, then ascending. heat till sweat breaks out on forehead, with
buzzing in head. Then vomits sour mucus. Inclines to fall to the right.

Head.–

Dull,
muddled feeling in, with darkness before eyes. Brain feels loose. Pain:
As if to burst, as if top would split, like a hard substance in
forehead, must hold it, like electric shocks, breaking in forehead,
following by sleepiness, grasping in forehead, better cold foot bath:
tearing from r. temple to vertex. with shaking chill, or towards facial
bones, or in occiput, boring, in bones, burning, with excessive
feebleness, violent beating in temples, aching when reading which causes
heat and sweat, pressive squeezing in occiput. Suddenly jerked to one
side. Worse: Walking, during menses, exerting arms, periodically,
after vomiting.

Scalp:
Sensitive, every hair pains when combed. Sensitive bunches of hair.

Eyes.–

Rough,
dry, red and burning. Balls feel as if they gave out heat. Lachrymation,
running, burning water. Itching, crawling as of a bug. Sticking water.
Itching, crawling as of bug. Sticking Piercing in, with nausea, Lids:
Heavy agglutinated, with photophobia, worse lamplight. Vision:
Bleared, better bathing them, glittering bodies before after blowing
nose. Worse: Near fire. Better: Rubbing.

Ears.–

Boring
behind. Outward forcing pressure in. Stitches: Like lightning fly out
of, sudden, violent, causing starting. Tinkling, as of distant bells in.

Nose.–

Wandering
boring, in bones of root. Itching of wings. Much sneezing. Crawling, as
of an insect on back of. Stuffed coryza. Bleeds during menses.

Face.–

Looks
pale, wan and cross. Skin of cheek feels drawn up. Tearing in cheek
bones, worse cold air, better hard rubbing. Itching Painfully stiff
maxillary joints. Lips: Dry, peeling. Burn as from pepper.
Vesicles on.

Teeth.–

Jerking,
tearing, k pulsating in, with heavy head warm body and restlessness,
then nose – bleed. Grasping, raging in. Better: Cold air, tobacco
smoke. Movable, painless swelling on gums.

Tongue.–

Covered
with mucus. Grayish or brownish coat, at root. Boring
in. Shooting in tip. Stitches thro’ root of.

Mouth.–

Rough
and almost insensible in AM Burning: ON palate; like pepper on tip of
tongue, like fire on gums, which are red. Blisters: On tip of tongue,
sensitive on palate better cold thighs, on gums, which suppurate. Sour
water collects in. Salivation.

Throat.–

And
mouth very dry, without thirst, Sore. Glands, uvula and tonsils swell,
swallowing difficult. Hawks up much, salty mucus in AM, p tenacious
mucus Constriction.

Taste:
Slimy.

Stomach.–

Pressive
pain in pit. Trembling in pit, with want of breath, feels faint. Burning
and pinching in. Fullness, extending into chest, with difficult
breathing. Breathing pain in. Better: Eating.

Hypochondria:
Sticking, bursting or pulsating pain in right. Worse: Lying on
left side walking, touch, deep breathing.

Appetite:
Feeling of voracious hunger, with boring pain in stomach, better eating.
Thirst for very cold things in evening.

Eructations:
Disagreeable, with incarcerated flatus, nausea and flow of saliva.

Nausea:
With sticking in right flank. And vomiting salty, sour water. On
descending.

Abdomen.–

Bellyache:
With bruised pain in small of back, better lying on l. side Grumbling
and rolling, with sudden pinches, as after a purgative, then diarrhoea.
Painful contraction extending into chest, oppressing the breathing. then
diarrhoea Pinching: As if bowels were stretched, extending into
genitals, then diarrhoea. Digging, during menses. Fullness, as if to
burst, in right groin. Pains: Flatulent, now here, now there, more
about navel. Worse: Walking, during menses.

Stool.–

Diarrhoeic:
Forcibly expelled, with much flatus, in morning after rising, preceded
by bellyache. Copious, watery, preceded by colicky pains and gurgling.
Difficult, although’ soft. Knotty. Worse: Pastry, cold food and
drink.

Anus.–

Itching.
Burning during and after stool (Iris)

Urine.–

Copious.
Cutting in meatus or burning urethra during an after urination. Urging
to urinate, with sticking in groins. Violent pinching around navel and
pain i small of back when he retains urine because it is so burning.
Sediment brick red, yellowish – red or yellowish – white.

Sexual Organs.–

Itching:
On scrotum, scratching causes burning.

Female.–

Menses:
Late. Of acrid lumpy blood, excoriating thighs. Of white, bloody mucus.
More when walking. With pinching bellyache. Chilly during.

Respiration.–

Short:
When walking, with a sharp stitch in l. chest if standing.

Cough.–

With
many pains. Excited by tickling scraping in throat. Dry, with soreness
or sticking in chest, must sit up and hold chest with bash hands for
relief. Expectorates much mucus in on awaking in morning.

Chest.–

Trembling
in, making her irritable. Pressure as of a load on. Sticking, as of a
dull instrument. Itching about nipple. Heart: Anxiety at, with
rapid beats, and dim vision, better in open air.

Back.–

Piercing,
like knives between shoulders. Gnawing in bones. Suppurative or bruised
pain in small of. Distensive pain as of a soft body in right flank.

Neck:
Tearing and tension in tendons of. Throbbing. Nape: Stiff,
burning in, later coldness and prickling in, later coldness and
prickling there, pains from nape, into occiput, extorting screams,
better rubbing, piercing pain in, drawing in. Worse: Motion.

Extremities.–

Many
pains in joints of toes and fingers. Twitching: Here and there, of hands
and feet after midnight. Hands and feet, weary and sore, pain in borders
of. Compression, especially about joints. Feel too full. Pain:
Sticking r ulcerative under nails, boring, in joints. Worse:
Walking. Better: Open air, motion better temporarily only.

Upper Extremities.–

Heaviness
of r. Stiff. Ulcerative pain in tendons of elbow. Transient burning
above and below elbow, asleep feeling in. Hands: Weak drops
things, pain in flexors when grasping things, tremble on waking, when
writing, burn like nettles, with red backs, pain deep in palm. Fingers,
Itching between, tearing and numbness from elbows into. Tips of:
Pulsation in, stitches, fine piercing as if veins were pulled out,
crawling as if becoming numb, boring in. Better, Out of doors.

Lower Extremities.–

Piercing
as with knives or breaking, rending, excoriating hip joint pains, on
motion stooping or rising from sitting, piercing rending from coccyx to
middle of thigh. Bruised pain in anterior thigh. Burning in band of
thighs. Digging in hollow of knee. Better motion. Leg: Swollen
feeling, deep in, hot, up to knee. Cramp – like contraction in calves.
Tearing, breaking pain in shin. Feet: Weary, she often changes
their position, itching, on dorsal worse undressing and scratching,
alternating between soles, of balls of they feel drawn together,
particularly affects the borders or outer sides of the feet. Ankles feel
sprained, better continued motion. Sensitive, Burning in soles at night.
Piercing rending in heels, extorting screams, ulcerative pain in.
Shooting, stitches or burning in tips of toes. Numbness in toes. Better:
Stretching, rubbing.

Generalities.–

Symptoms
in other parts cause oppression o breathing (Puls.). Weariness of whole
body, must like down, in knees, better walking. General trembling, with
visible spasmodic muscular motions, anxiety and fear of misfortune.
Pressure, as of a dull instrument (or plug.) forcing or boring into
part. Wandering pains. Piercing, Compressive, needle
– like, boring or tearing pain in almost any part. Worse: Wet
weather and dampness, morning and evening during menses, lying on l.
side, walking, motion, pressure of clothes, rest, touch. Better:
Dry, open air, cloudy weather, momentarily, on changing position, after
breakfast.

Skin.–

Vesicles
on, during menses. Itching: On undressing, now here, now there.
Gnawing and tearing in bones.

Sleep.–

Restless
at night violent headache awakes her. Starting up on falling to. Dreams,
Of falling, terrifying, fighting, of flying, beautiful, heavy. Lazy
and sleepy after breakfast.

Fever.–

Chill:
In evening, without heat or sweat. up back, with shaking and chattering
of teeth. With anxiety, followed by sleep, better lying down. With
internal heat in head and a pale face. With icy coldness and gooseflesh.
Then sweat without thirst. At four PM better Internal coldness, with
stretching and yawning. Coldness, not better heat. Heat: Dry in
flashes, toward evening. Sweat: Profuse, followed by dry mouth.
On scrotum. No thirst in any stage.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Alo, Arg-n.,
Asclep., Bell., Bry., Coloc., Dros.,
Dulc., Gamb. Lyc., Nat-c., Nat-M.,
Pod., Puls., Rhod., Rhus-t. Rum., Scill., Sul.

Complementary:
– Ars., Thuj.

Nitricum acidum

[Nit-ac.]

Mind.–

Anxious
about his illness, with fear of death worse ascending. Sadness and
despondency. Excessive excitability (after abuse of Mercury). Angry
wilfulness. Long continued animosity toward those who have offended him.
Attacks of rage, with imprecation and swearing.

Head.–

Headache
pressing inwards, with tension extending into eyes nausea and vomiting.
Congestion to, with much heat therein. Throbbing ache. Stitches in,
compel lying down. Attacks of gouty headache, excessively sensitive to
the rattle of vehicles. Bone pain in skull. Dark brown or black, stiff,
fibrous hair. Worse: Evening, noise. Better: Riding is a
carriage, lying.

External Head.–

Moist,
sticking, itching eruption from vertex down over temples into bead,
bleeding easily when scratched, from which as well as on the side
wherein he lies a smarting pain results. Exostoses Cephalic bone pains
as though’ skull were constricted by a band, readily passing into
inflammation and necrosis. Painfully sensitiveness to touch and pressure
even of hat, with anxiety. Falling of hair, with a moist eruption which
sticks like painfully penetrating splinters when touched, also from
genitals, especially after a nervous headache or abuse of mercury. Worse:
Evening, and night, external pressure, lying thereon. Better:
Cool air, during a carriage ride.

Eyes.–

Pressure
and sticking in. Inflamed (after suppressed syphilis or abuse of
Mercury). Spots on cornea. Lachrymal fistula. Myopia. Black spots
before.

Ears.–

Sticking
in. suppurating. Difficult hearing (after abuse of Mercury Pounding and
roaring in.

Nose.–

Tip
red and scurfy. Sticking, a of a splinter in. Scurfs in. Nosebleed of
dark, clotted blood early in morning Offensive smell from. Stuffed
coryza, with obstructed nostrils. Fluent coryza after taking cold. the
nasal mucus flows only thro’ the nasal mucus flows only thro’ the
choanae. Sneezing.

Face.–

Yellow.
Sunken eyes encircled by yellow. Dark yellow, almost brownish
complexion. Eruption, on forehead and temples, pimply on. Swollen lips.
Ulcers on red part of lips. Painfully swelled submaxillary glands.

Teeth.–

Loose
and turn yellow. White gums.

Mouth.–

Foul,
cadaverous smell from (Syphilitic and mercurial) ulcers in, and on
fauces. Inflammation of throat with burning and painful soreness.
Painful excoriation of palate, tongue and inner gums. Sticking in
pharynx, Salivation. Salivary fistula. hoarseness.

Taste:
Bitter, in mouth, Sour, with burning in throat.

Stomach.–

Pain
in cardiac orifice when swelling solid food. Stitches in pit.

Hypochondria:
Pressure and sticking in splenic region.

Appetite:
Desire for earth, chalk, lime, etc. Milk disagrees throat.

Abdomen.–

Pinching,
cutting and sticking in. Ulcerative pain in. Colic from talking cold.
Inguinal glands.

Flatulence:
Obstructed f., early in morning and in evening. Accumulation of flatus
in abdomen.

Stool.–

Diarrhoeic,
often of mucus or foul smelling s Dysenteric, bloody, with tenesmus.
Constipation and dry stool. Nervousness and relaxation after.

Anus.–

Itching
and burning of. Swollen hemorrhoids, which bleed with every stool.
Stitches in rectum.

Urine.–

Discharge
of scanty, dark stinking u. Feels cold when passed. Incontinence.

Sexual Organs.–

Figwarts
and sycotic gonorrhoea Chancre – like ulcers on foreskin and glans.
Inflamed and swelled testes, from whence pain ascends through spermatic
cord. Want of or intensified sexual desire, with painful erections at
night.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early, Suppressed. Cramps in abdomen with urging toward sexual
organs during.

Respiration.–

Panting,
Tightness of chest and want of breath when walking or ascending step.
Wheezing.

Cough.–

Shattering,
spasmodic c., excited by tickling in larynx and epigastrium. Short, with
expectoration of black, coagulated blood. Dry, barking, after lying down
in evening. Stitches in small of back when coughing. Purulent
expectoration from lungs. In morning and daytime, with expectoration of
dark blood mixed with coagula, or of a yellow acrid pus of a bitter,
sourish or salt taste and offensive odor.

Trachea, etc. – Scratching and sticking in, with hoarseness,
especially after long talking. Tracheal phthisis.

Chest.–

Congestion
to, with heat and anxious palpitation Stitches thro’, and in sides
thereof. Excoriative pain in, when coughing and breathing. Dwindling of
female mammae.

Back.–

Stitches
within and between scapulae with stiff nape. Pains in and in lumbar
region after taking cold.

Upper Extremities.–

Drawing
and tearing in, especially in forearms and hands. Frostbites on hands
and fingers. Herpes between fingers. White spots on nails.

Lower Extremities.–

Drawing
and tearing in legs. Coldness of entire limb. Restlessness in legs in
evening. Weakness in knees. Shootings in knee. Cramp in calves when
walking stitching foot sweat frostbites on toes.

Generalities.–

Sticking
pains like a splinter driven into part. Extraordinary emaciation. Tense
fiber. Great weakness and trembling, especially early in morning. Easily
takes cold. Complaints causes by change of weather. Tearing in limbs
after taking cold. Cracking joints. Hysterical complaints. Chlorosis and
jaundice. Sycosis, worse by mercury. The symptoms are intensified in
evening and at night. Pain are felt during sleep. Driving better most
complaints. (Seldom applicable to blondes.

Tissues.–

Inflamed
swelled and suppurating glands

Swelling:
of cervical, axillary and inguinal glands.

Bones.–

Inflamed
and painful. Caries Soft ending and curvature

Skin.–

Black
pores. From slight cold limbs are frostbitten, inflamed and itch.
Painful frostbites. Brownish – red spots and dark freckles on. Large
boils. Wounds and ulcers which stick like splinters, when touched.
Mercurial ulcers.

Sleep.–

Vertiginous
day sleepiness. Late falling to. Restlessness at night and frequent
awaking.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Uncommonly irregular, two small, quick beats often follow a normal one
and the fourth is omitted. Alternation of hard, with quick and small
beats. Chill: Mostly in afternoon and evening, as well as after
lying down. With concomitant internal heat. Early in morning in bed,
after previous heat Constant chilliness. General, external coldness. Heat:
Especially on face and hands. Overrunning heat, with sweaty hands.
Nightly, internal, dry heat, with inclination to uncover and much
thirst. And sweat with great debility after eating. Sweat: Every
or every other night, most profuse on side lain on. Sour, offensive or
smelling like horse urine.

Allied
Remedies. Agr., (ANT – T), Argen
Arg-n., Asaf., Bell. Box Con., Fulu – r-ac. Graph.,
HEP., Kali – b KALI-C.,
Cann., Carb-v. (CAUST.), Con.,
Flur-ac., Graph. HEP, Kali
– b,. KALI-C., Lyc., MERC.,
MERC – C Mez., Nat-m.) Mez. Nat-m.
PETR., Puls, Rhus-t. SEP., Sul. Thuja.

Complementary. Calc-c., Thuj.

Nux moschata

[Nux-m.]

Mind.–

Thoughts
vanish, as when going to sleep. Absence of ideas, the power to collect
his thoughts returns slowly. Great forgetfulness. Imbecility. confusion
of intellect. Difficult comprehension. Stupefaction. Great irresolution,
vacillation and fickleness in his undertakings. Inclination to laugh.
Continuous rush of disagreeable idea. Changeableness, wants this, then
that. Hysteria, with rapidly changing moods, somnolency and inclination
to faint. Sense of duality. Vertigo. As if intoxicated. Extraordinary
dizziness and dull confusion in head. Fainting with palpitation then
sleep.

Head.–

The
brain feels loose and wobbles as though’ it struck against the skull
when moving or shaking head. Oppressive confusion in forehead. Aching
from a disordered stomach, most violent after breakfast. Temples
sensitive to lying on them and touch. Left – sided headache. Apoplexy. Worse:
Uncovering, after eating, from cold, wet weather. Better:
Wrapping up head, external heat.

Eyes.–

Feel
dry. Objects at a greater distance. Staring. Worse: Light
especially artificial. Better: Darkness.

Ears.–

Oversensitive
hearing. As if stuffed.

Nose.–

Stuffed
coryza, full or partial (one sided) obstruction. Hypersensitive smell.
Dark nosebleed.

Face.–

Hot
and red cheeks. Pale, with blue circles about eyes. Numerous freckles.

Teeth.–

Sticking
ache, external warmth. Compressive ache from cold damp air, they feel as
if grasped tongs. Sensitive or painful incisor or bicuspid teeth. Dull
feeling, as though’ coated with lime. Worse: Cold damp air,
drawing in air, during pregnancy, when sucking with tongue.

Mouth.–

Excessive
dryness of end of throat and tongue without thirst. Tension in posterior
pharynx, as from dryness. Difficult swallowing as from paralysis of
throat.

Taste:
Like chalk. Earthy. As though’ he had eaten strongly salted food.

Stomach.–

Fullness
of, with oppressed breathing. Weakness, especially in the age. Better:
Before eating.

Appetite:
Thirstlessness. Excessive.

Nausea:
Qualmishness when driving. Vomiting during pregnancy.

Abdomen.–

Relaxed,
with sense of heaviness in upper. Cutting in, with twisting about navel
as from worms with sleepiness. Distended by flatus, which disturb his
sleep. Wind colic.

Stool.–

Tendency
to diarrhoea from weakness or after taking cold. Like chopped eggs with
loss of appetite and sleepiness, in children. Soft, but passed with
difficulty. Inactive rectum.

Urine.–

Scanty,
highly saturated. Odor of violets.

Sexual Organs.–

Desires
coition, with relaxed sexual organs. Seminal emissions. Spasmodic, false
labor pains.

Female.–

Menses:
Irregular, of dark, thick blood. Too early and too profuse. Uterine
hemorrhage. Preceded by lumbar pains. Diseases during pregnancy,
parturition or child – bed.

Respiration.–

Oppression
of chest, seems to start from epigastrium, with congestion of blood to
heart. Sudden suffocative attacks. Short breath after eating.

Cough.–

Dry,
with obstructed breathing, after taking cold from being in water. Dry,
when heated or becoming warm in bed. In pregnancy. Expectoration slimy,
bloody, mostly dark. Haemoptysis.

Larynx.–

Hoarseness
coming on when walking against wind.

Chest.–

Pressure,
as of a load on. constriction. Palpitation.

Back.–

Bruised
pain in, and in lumbar region. Backache when driving. Tabes.

Extremities.–

Joints
feel sprained, stiff and weak. Children stagger, waver and often fall
when walking. Pains caused by exposure to damp cold.

Generalities.–

Suits
females, drunkards. Inclination to faint. Great weakness, especially in
small of back and knees, with sleepiness. Tremblings. Spasms and
convulsions of children, with consciousness. convulsive motions. Great
sensitiveness of body and bruised pain in parts on which he lies.
Cyanosis congenitalis. Sensation of: Itching internally and prickling
externally, humming and whizzing in body, tingling, crawling, numbness,
painful shocks more internally. Inflamed mucous membranes, increased
mucous sensations. Hard parts feel soft. Lameness of inner organs.
Dropsy of external parts. Disposition to catch cold. Worse:
Uncovering, getting warm in bed, from suppressed eruptions, damp cold,
getting wet, drafts of cold air, washing, to which he also averse. Better:
Warmth and warm air, dry weather.

Skin.–

Sensitive.
cold, and dry, wanting in natural moisture. Extraordinarily sensitive to
cold damp air. Very painful ulceration of.

Sleep.–

Irresistible
desire to. Stupefying somnolency, as from intoxication. Sleepiness
accompanies almost every complaint, after eating. coma.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Frequent. Tremulous. Somewhat accelerated, as from on ebullition. Faster
from wine. Chill: Every time he uncovers, and chilliness in the
open, especially the cold, wet air, with a very pale face, soon gets
better in a warm room. cold feeling of feet, with heat of hands.
Chilliness in evening, but with greater sleepiness chill and somnolency
predominate. Heat: of face and hands in forenoon with
hypochondriacal mood, thirstlessness and dry mouth and throat. Sweat:
Little, dry mouth and throat. Sweat: Little, which is, however sometimes
red, like blood.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: – Asaf., Coccl.,
Con., Croc., Gel., Ign., Mag-c.,
Mos., Nux – v., Op., Pulse., Sep.,
Sul., Terch.

Complementary:
Calc-c., Lyc.

Nux vomica

[Nux-v.]

Mind.–

Hypochondriasis
of students leading a sedentary life, and night revellers, with
abdominal complaints and constipation. Anger, followed by alternate
chill and heat, with thirst and bilious vomiting. Great anxiety and
restlessness in evening. Immoderately anxious scrupulosity. Zealous,
fiery temperament. Quarrelsome. Malicious, spiteful disposition.
Inclination to reproach others. Surly, refractory mood. Easily startled.
Violent and excitable. Suicidal thoughts, when looking at a knife he is
inclined to stab himself, when at water, to drown himself, yet he fears
death. Insanity of drunkards. Oversensitive to external impressions.
Time passes too slowly. Moroseness.

Vertigo.–

Reeling,
as though’ intoxicated early in morning and after dinner, with
unconsciousness and vanishing of sight and hearing. Cloudiness in head,
as from intoxication. After – effects of yesterday’s debauch, in the
sun.

Head.–

Congestion,
with great, burning heat therein and a puffy, red face. Stupefying ache.
Vertiginous heaviness, early in morning. Hemicrania of coffee drinkers.
Tearing in occiput going in to nape, with anxiety. Rendering pains in,
extending to root of nose and upper jaw. Aching: With bilious or
sour vomiting, early in bed, disappearing after rising, with shaking and
reverberation in brain. Sore pain in occiput. Bursting pain. Feeling:
As if something heavy sank in, of a nail being driven into vertex, as if
brain were bruised, mostly one sided (r.) Takes cold in, mostly from
dry, cold winds and drafts. Worse: Morning, after eating, walking
in open air, especially in sunshine, mental exertion, on awaking,
stooping, becoming cold. Better: At rest, in a warm room, resting
head on a support, lying on back, or painless side, wrapping side,
wrapping head tightly.

Sensitive, as if raw, especially to slight touch. Smarting
soreness of, in raw winds. Chilly feeling over head and face, often
alternating with heat. Offensive half – sided sweat on head and face,
which is cold, with diminution of pains. Worse: Wind, in the
cold, after lying down, slightest motion in open air, uncovering, after
midnight and toward morning. Better: Head pressure, wrapping up
warmly, washing.

Eyes.–

Inflamed
conjunctiva, with stitches and aversion to sunlight. Bloody
extravasations into sclerotic and bleeding thereof. Yellowness,
especially of lower half of ball. Intolerance of daylight early in
morning. Anxious, staring look. Lightning – like streaks before.

Ears.–

Tearing,
sticking ache. Tension, when looking upward. Pain, as though’ pressed
outward when swallowing.

Nose.–

Sensitiveness
and inflammatory redness of inner nose. Nosebleed early in sulphur, or
like a snuffed candle before. Fluent coryza during day, worse in warm,
but better in cool, open air. Stuffed coryza at night. Sneezing.

Face.–

Pale,
yellowish, earthy or livid countenance. Yellow about nose, mouth or
eyes. Red, swollen. Swelling of one cheek. Tearing in zygoma. Lips peel
offend are painful. Scurf on lips. Trismus. Sticking pains in the
swollen submaxillary glands when swallowing.

Teeth.–

Painful
soreness or boring digging in, mental exertion. Burning sticking in a
whole row of. Tearing in, and in jaws, extending into bones of face,
renewed by cold drinks, but warmth. Toothache, of wine fibbers and
coffee drinkers, after taking cold. Gums: white, swollen, foul –
smelling, bleeding.

Mouth.–

Putridity
and stench from. Aphthae (of children). Inflammatory swelling: Of root
of, of throat, and sticking in uvula. Bleeding from m, nose and even
eyes. Thick, white – coated tongue.

Taste:
Sour, in mouth, especially early in morning and after eating and
drinking. Foul, early in morning. Bitter, of bread.

Throat.–

Sore,
with sensation of plug therein, painful soreness of, when swallowing,
and sensation as though’ it were too narrow. Tension in fauces.

Stomach.–

Spasmodic
colic and pressure in, which extends to interscapular region, when
fasting in morning and after eating. Burning in region of, and at
pylorus. Contractive spasm in, mostly. Every drink distresses. Spasmodic
colic of brandy and coffee drinkers. Disordered from overeating.
Induration of. Pressure and tension in pit, with tension at an opposite
point between shoulder blades. Distended pit, which pains from slight
touch. Indigestion after taking cold. Better: Hot drinks.

Hypochondriac:
Intolerance of tight clothes. Inflamed liver. Pressure and sticking in
hepatic region. Indurated liver.

Appetite:
Hunger with aversion to food, especially bread, coffee and tobacco.
Ravenous hunger after drinking beer. Thirst: Early in morning,
with loathing of water and beer. Desire for brandy or chalk. Discomfort
from bread and sour foods, the fattest foods are borne well. Warm foods
temporarily many complaints.

Eructations:
Sour. Regurgitation of blood. Collection of water in mouth, with many
complaints. Violent hiccough. Rancid heartburn after sour or fatty
foods.

Nausea, etc. – Qualmishness early in morning and after eating.
Empty retching of drunkards. Vomiting: Sour, of ingesta, of dark
lumpy blood, of bile, of fluid, and nausea during pregnancy.

Abdomen.–

Fullness
in, after eating but little. Inflamed. Constriction of upper. Very
sensitive, especially to slight touch. Labor – like cramps in, and in
uterus, extending into legs. Tearing pains in navicular region and
hypogastrium. Urging from lower a., toward genitals. Bruised painfulness
of muscles during motion, coughing, laughing and to pressure, etc. Colic
from taking cold. Umbilical and inguinal hernia. Excoriation in groins.

Flatulence:
Flatulent colic in upper abdomen, disappearing when lying down.

Stool.–

Very
scanty, blackish. Ineffectual urging to. Small, dysenteric or
diarrhoeic, with tenesmus (after taking cold),. Constipation:
Seemingly from inactivity of intestines, chronic. Painful diarrhoea
alternating with constipation.

Anus.–

Painful,
dry anal hemorrhoids.

Urine.–

Retention
of. Bloody. Painful ineffectual urging to urinate. Urging to urinate,
with discharge of a few drops of red, burning urine.

Sexual Organs.–

Gonorrhea
of glans with increased secretion of smegma. Inflammatory swelling of
testicles. Hydrocele. Prolapsus uteri. Congestion, with urging toward
female genitals. Extremely violent after pains. Greatly intensified
sexual desire.

Female.–

Menses:
Of dark, black blood, too early and too profuse. Renewed discharge of
blood at intervals after cessation of. Appearance of new, and of old
symptoms during and after.

Respiration.–

Suffocative
attacks from spasmodic constriction of larynx after midnight. Asthmatic
tightness from constriction of lower part of chest.

Cough.–

Very
laborious, excited by tickling in hard palate and larynx. Dry: mostly at
night or early in morning while fasting, from motion of body or mental
exertion. With expectoration of a yellow or gray, often cold mucus,
generally of a sour or sweetish, sometimes bitter, putrid or metallic
taste, or finally of clear dark red blood, during day and evening, with
bursting headache and bruised feeling in abdominal muscles.

Larynx.–

Rawness
and soreness in trachea. Pain in throat pit. Scraping in tracheas after
taking cold. Itching in trachea. Husky, rasping voice. Catarrhal
hoarseness with scratching in throat.

Chest.–

Feeling
as if something tore loose within. Constriction in lower part. Pressive
pain as of a load within. Spasms in, after midnight. Warm abullition in,
with collection of water in mouth, beat and anxiousness. Rawness and
soreness in. Stitches and thrust in. Anxious palpitation.

Back.–

Tension
between scapulae. Burning, pressure or sticking between scapulae.
Drawing extending from the lumbar region up back into shoulders. Bruised
pain, and in lumbar region, so violent that he dare not move. Lameness
and paralytic he dare not more. Lameness and paralytic pain in the
lumbar region, (often after difficult childbirth).

Neck:
Stiffness of nape. Tearing in neck in evening.

Upper Extremities.–

Bruised
pain in shoulder joints. Drawing pain in arms. Asleep sensation and
sense of deadness of hands. Swollen blood vessels on hands and arms.

Lower Extremities.–

Numbness,
stiffness and tension in legs. Lame sensation in legs, with a painful
streak down inside of thigh. Tottering salt and unsteady legs. Snapping
of knee. Painful swelling of knee joint. Cramp in calves at night in
bed. Asleep sensation and deadness in soles of feet. In walking he drags
his feet, is unable to lift them.

Generalities.–

Emaciation.
Hyperaesthesia of all the senses. Jerking stitches thro’ entire body.
General bruised sensation early in morning in bed. Hypochondriacal
discomfort and indisposition after eating. Great debility or
irritability of entire nervous system. Feeling of illness in
periodically returning attacks. Great inclination to sit or lie down,
with aversion to exercises and open air. Easily takes cold, sensitive to
drafts of air, complaints from taking cold. Tearing in limbs, especially
during stormy weather. Sensation of heaviness of body alternating with a
feeling of lightness thereof. Lean, a lank figure, effects of coffee,
tobacco and spirituous liquors. Effects of continuous mental exertion,
night watching and sedentary habits. Every mental exertion excites or
heightens the symptoms. the complaints are by motion and slight touch,
hard pressure however gives more speedy relief. The symptoms are most
intense early in morning upon awaking and after eating. the symptoms are
most intense early in morning upon awaking and after eating. The
symptoms which appear inn the open air and during motion are in the room
and during rest, but the reverse may occur.

Skin.–

Jaundiced.
Frost – bites. Blue spots from extravasations after bruises.

Sleep.–

Great
sleepiness during day and in evening. Late felling to sleep on account
of rush of idea He awakes after midnight (toward 3 o’clock) end at day
break falls into a deep sleep full of heavy dreams, from which he wakes
very tired. Early awaking, then morning sleep after which he is always
worse. yawning.

Fever.–

Pulse:
full, hard and quickened, especially during heat. Small and quick, the
fourth and fifth beat often intermitting. Imperceptible. Chill:
And coldness not relieved by external warmth. And shuddering, evening
and night in bed till morning, increased by every movement and by
drinking. With or without thirst (mostly with lumbar pains) with heat of
face. Alternating with beat. And shuddering during motion in cold, open
air. Sleep between chill and heat,. Heat: Universal, internal,
burning heat. Nocturnal, without thirst. Becoming more violent from
least exertion or movement, also in open air. With aversion to
uncovering, is chilled thereby. With disposition to uncover, whereby
other ailments immediately appear. Before the chill. Of single parts.
with chill and shuddering in others. Seems to stream from throat.

Sweat
After midnight and in the morning hours. Sour or offensive. One sided or
only on viper part of body. Cold, sticky, on face. With relief,
especially of pains in limbs.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Aco., AGAR., Alo., ambr., Am
– m., ARS, Asar., Aur., Bar – c.,
BELL., Calad., CALC. C., Cepa.,
Carb – v., Caust., CHAM., Chin.,
Cocal., Coff., colch., con., Cupr.,
Dig., Dros., Dulc., Euphr., Gel.,
Graph., Guai., Ign., IP., Kali
– c., KRE., Lyc., M – aust.,
mag – c., Merc.,
MILLEF., Mos., Mur-ac., Nat – m.,
OP., PETR, PHOS., Phyt., Plb., Pod,
Rhe., RHUS-T., Selen. Sep., Sil., Stram.,
Sul., Tab., Valer.

Complementary.

– kali-c.,
Phos., sul.

Oleander

[Olnd.]

Mind.–

Mental
stupidity. Great distraction and
want of attention. Diminished power of comprehension. Mental
derangement. Indolence and dislike for work. Want of self – reliance.
contradiction is unbearable. Sudden ebullitions of anger of which he
quickly repents.

Vertigo.–

When
rising from lying or looking downward.

Head.–

Stupefying,
pressive ache in forehead. Extreme heaviness, lying.

External Head.–

Corrosive
itching, as from vermin, most on occiput and behind ears, on beginning
to scratch, but then it burns and smarts which soon passes into biting
and eating, on undressing. Scaly, moist tinea, with biting itching,
especially on occiput.

Eyes.–

Tears
in, when reading. Burning and tension in lids when reading. Diplopia.

Ears.–

Herpes
and ulcers on and about. Singing and wailing in, like the wind.

Nose.–

Dull,
numbing pressure on.

Face.–

Pale,
troubles, sunken countenance with blue rings about eyes in morning.
Paleness alternating with deep redness. Benumbing alternating with deep
redness. Benumbing pressure on and under zygoma. Numb feeling in upper
lip.

Teeth.–

Drawing
in molars, at night when lying in bed, with anxiety, nausea and profuse
urination. Sensitive when chewing only. Bluish – white gums.

Mouth.–

Dirty
white, elevated papillae on tongue. Power of speech is lost.

Stomach.–

Throbbing
in pit, as after being greatly heated.

Appetite:
Ravenous hunger and husky eating, without appetite. Much thirst,
especially for cold water.

Eructations:
Violent empty.

Vomiting:
Of bitter, greenish water. Great hunger and thirst after.

Abdomen.–

Sense
of emptiness and coldness in upper, and in chest. Gnawing pain in
umbilical region.

Flatulence. Grumbling and rumbling in abdomen with discharge of
much foul smelling flatus.

Stool.–

Ineffectual
urging to. Sluggish. Undigested, watery.

Urine.–

Brown,
burning u., depositing a white sediment. Profuse urination, especially
after drinking coffee.

Respiration.–

Weak,
heavy. When lying oppression as though’ chest were too narrow, with
long, deep inspirations.

Cough.–

Shattering,
from tickling in larynx.

Back.–

Neck:
Violent, sensible but slow pulsation in carotids. Tearing in nape in
evening and at night. stiff and numb.

Chest.–

Sense
of emptiness and coldness in. Dull stitches in left c., and in sternum,
continuous during expiration and inspiration, but worst when taking a
deep breath. Stitches in diaphragm. Anxious palpitation.

Upper Extremities.–

Cramp
– like drawing in arms. Dull, benumbing pressure on lower arms and
hands. Distended blood – vessels on hands.

Lower Extremities.–

Great
feeling of weakness in legs, especially knees. Painless stiffness and
lameness of limbs, especially of thighs. A spurring or whizzing
sensation in legs, especially in soles of feet. Constant coldness of
feet.

Generalities.–

Dull.
benumbing pressure in limbs. Painless stiffness and paralysis of limbs.
A spurring or whizzing sensation throughout entire body. Forcible inward
pressure like a squeezing in many spots. Tension thro’ entire body.
Insensibility of entire body. Want of natural vital heat in limbs.
Painless paralysis/ Faint – like weariness and weakness of entire body,
trembling of knees when standing and of hands when writing. Fainting
attacks as from weakness (with or without loss of consciousness),
disappearing after sweat.

Skin.–

Very
sensitive to rubbing, which quickly causes redness and excoriation.
Biting itching, when undressing, after scratching it burns.

Sleep.–

Frequent
yawning followed by shuddering and trembling. Restlessness, voluptuous
dreams and frequent waking.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Very changeable and irregular. In evening full and accelerated, in
morning weak and slow. chill: Attacks of, and shuddering over
entire body, with heat of face and cold hands. Chilliness and want of
natural vital heat. Chilly feeling externally, at same time internal
heat. Heat: Attacks of flying heat
breaking out especially from mental or physical exertion.
Sweat: Entirely absent.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ag-c.,
Coccl., Gel.

Opium

[Op.]

Mind.–

Placidity
in the most dangerous diseases. Vivid imagination and increased courage
with stupefaction and dullness of all senses. Heightened power of
imagination even to ecstasy. Imbecility and stupid indifference.
Unconsciousness and dullness of mind and senses. Phantasy illusions and
caricatures before eyes with, a great throng of scattered idea. Insanity
and delirium with hideous or ecstatic visions, alternating with
somnolency, especially of drunkards, Contented and careless.
Cheerfulness with joyous mood. Fearless and audacious. After
effects of fright with fear, i. e., heat of head, spasms,
etc. Grief from mortification, then spasms, etc. Fear of death.
Agreeable fancies cause her to forget her sufferings. Loquacious
delirium with open eyes and a red face. Easily frightened.

Vertigo.–

Stupefying,
when raising up, compelling him to lie down. Stupefaction and full
confusion of head, like a vapor in brain, as from intoxication.

Head.–

Aching
in forehead. Violent congestion to. Extraordinary heaviness of.
Tremulous twitching of (and of arms and hands), intermingled with jerks,
as if from over – active flexor muscles. Worse: Moving eyes. Better:
Motion, uncovering head.

Eyes.–

Dry
heat and burning in. Red, inflamed. Half open and turned upward. Upper
lids hang down relaxed. Staring look. dilated, immobile pupils.
Obscuration of vision: Paralysis of optic nerve or cataract.

Face.–

Bloated,
dark red and hot. Bluish. pale or earth – colored countenance. distended
blood vessels on. Relaxation of all facial muscles and drooping of lower
lip. Profuse sweat on. Spasm of facial muscles, especially about mouth.
Trismus.

Mouth.–

Dry
(with or without thirst). Inability to swallow. Profuse salivation.
Paralysis of tongue and difficult speech.

Stomach.–

Heaviness
and pressure in. Inactive digestive organs.

Appetite:
Aversion to all food. Violent third. thirstless.

Vomiting:
Sour, also sour eructations. Of ingesta (after mental emotions) with
violent pale in stomach and convulsions. Having a urinous or fecal odor.
Ineffectual retching.

Abdomen.–

Hard,
distended. Heaviness. as of a load in (Pul.) Lead colic. Incarcerated
inguinal hernia.

Stool.–

Offensive,
involuntary a. diarrhoea. constipation from inactivity of intestines.
Spasmodic retention of, especially in small intestines. Tenesmus.

Urine.–

Suppressed
discharge of, as from inactivity of bladder. Scanty discharge of dark
red u., with sediment.

Sexual Organs.–

Violently
excited sexual desire and strong erections Spasmodic, labor – like pains
in uterus. Cessation of labor pains during parturition, with twitchings
and convulsions.

Respiration.–

Rattling.
Deep snoring r., with open mouth. Difficult and intermittent, as from
paralysis of lungs. anxious oppression of. Suffocative attacks like
nightmare, during sleep.

Cough.–

With
obstructed breathing and blue face. With expectoration of frothy blood
and mucus.

Larynx.–

Violent
hoarseness from dryness of throat.

Chest.–

Tension
and constriction of.

Back.–

Drawing
in muscles of. Opisthotonos. Lumbar pains.

Neck:
Blood vessels distended, and strong pulsation of carotid.

Extremities.–

Twitching
and convulsions of arms and legs. Trembling in arms and hands. Distended
blood vessels on hands.

Generalities.–

Trembling
of entire body, with external coldness thereof, jerking and twitching of
limbs. Trembling of limbs after fright. Convulsions with sudden, loud
shrinks. During attacks entire body becomes stiff. Sensation of humming
or buzzing thro’ entire body. Insensibility of body and limbs.
Painlessness with his complaints he complains of nothing wants nothing.
Quiet repose. Want of sensitiveness to external impressions and
medicines, with want of reaction of vital force. Paralysis without pain.
Internal sensation of strength and vigor. Increased excitability and
activity of voluntary muscles with a corresponding decreases in the
involuntary ones. Renewal and increase of symptoms from becoming heated
Applicable almost solely to recent complaints. Frequently suitable for
tipplers and the aged. After fright it helps only when given
immediately.

Skin.–

Dry,
burning beat of. Dropsical swelling of entire body. Redness and itching
of. Blue spots on.

Sleep.–

Stupefying.
unrefreshing. Stupefying, with half open eyes and snoring breathing
during inhalation or exhalation. After every attack. Somnolency, with
dreams, from which cannot be aroused. Early in morning it is especially
difficult to awaken him.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Very changeable, full and slow, with heavy, snoring breathing, quick and
hard, with heat and rapid anxious respiration, toward the end, weak and
intermittent.Chill: And diminished vital heat, with stupefaction
and weak, almost imperceptible pulse. Entire body is cold and quite
stiff. Coldness of external members only. Heat: With sweating
skin predominates, spreading from head or stomach over entire body.
Burning, of entire sweating body, with a glowing red face, then
stupefying sleep, with snoring, With inclination to uncover. Sweat:
Much strong, over the entire, burning, hot body, with snoring sleep.
Early in morning, general, strong, hot s., with inclination to uncover.
Of upper, with dry heat of lower part of body. Cold, on forehead.
Immoderate, hot. Burning fever, with stupefying somnolency, snoring,
jerking of limbs, suppressed evacuations and hot sweat.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Aco., Ant-t., BELL., Bro.,
CAM., Carb-v., Cic., Coff., colch.,
Croc., cupr., Dig., Gel., Glo., Hyos.,
Ip, MERC., Mos., Nux-v., Phos.,
Phos – ac. PLB., Stram.,
Tab.

Complementary:
Alu., Bry., Phos., Plb.

Paris quadrifolia

[Par.]

Mind.–

Loquacious
mania. Extraordinary loquacity, he prattles incessantly, but talks in a
polish, disconnected manner. Inclination to treat others with scorn and
contempt. Inclination to anger.

Head.–

Pressive
ache, mental exertion. Stitches in. Headache from smoking. Tension of
scalp of forehead and occiput. Painful soreness of vertex to touch.
Scald head. Falling of hair.

Eyes.–

Burning
in, and in canthi. tearful. the ball seems too large and thick. Unsteady
look.

Ears.–

Sensation
as though’ ears were pressed asunder or torn out. ringing in.

Nose.–

Milk
and bread smell like putrid meat. Fluent, alternating with stuffed,
coryza. Blowing of greenish or red mucus from.

Face.–

Pimply
eruption on forehead and upper lip. In evening excessive itching. biting
and burning on side of lower jaw, frequently with a fine, red, easily
bleeding eruption. Herpes encircles mouth.

Teeth.–

Tickling
toothache, worst at night, by cold as well as warmth. Gums wrinkled as
though’ they had been burnt.

Mouth.–

Dry
on awaking in early morning. Swelling, painfulness and exfoliation of
hard palate. Hawking of mucus. Tart, astringent saliva. Burning i
throat.

Stomach.–

Pressure
as from a stone in. Boring and cutting in side of abdomen wherein he
lies, in evening in bed.

Flatulence:
Grumbling and rumbling in abdomen. Flatulent colic.

Appetite:
Hunger at once after eating.

Stool.–

Frequent,
soft. Diarrhoeic, with a stench like rotten meat.

Urine.–

Acrid,
excoriating. Frequent urination, with burning. Dark, fiery urine, with
an iridescent fatty pellicle, becoming turbid after standing.

Cough.–

Excited
by feeling of sulphur vapor in air passages. In early morning and in
evening after lying down, with expectoration of tenacious, greenish
mucus, which is dislodged with difficulty.

Larynx and trachea.–

Hoarseness
n early morning, on awaking. It seems completely dried out. roughness
in, with deep, bass voice. Periodical, painless hoarseness. Hawks
tenacious, greenish mucus from. Burning in larynx. Tracheal phthisis.

Chest.–

Stitches
in. Palpitation during motion and when at rest.

Back.–

Sticking
in back, between scapulae and in coccyx.

Generalities.–

Sticking
pains in buttocks and limbs. Cramp – like dragging in joints. When
moving sensation as though joints were broken. Heaviness throughout
entire body.

Skin.–

Painful
soreness of the entire skin to touch. Crawling under skin without
itching. Paronychia on fingers.

Sleep.–

Sleepiness
in afternoon. Half asleep, with constant restlessness.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Full, but slow. Chill: Most towards evening, with internal
trembling. Unilateral (right), with warmth of other half of body. Skin
feels contracted, on every part of body, during c. chilliness with goose
– skin. Cold feet, almost constantly at night in bed. Heat:
Spreading from nape down back. With sweat on upper part of body. Sweat:
With biting itching, on awaking.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Iod., Nux-v.,
Phos.

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