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

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

Staphisagria

[Staph.]

Mind.–

Chaotic,
incapable of any mental exertion. Weak memory. Bad effects of righteous
anger and indignation of quarrels (he flings away what he has in his
hand). Great angriness. fixed dissatisfaction over his own as well as
the deeds of others. Ill humor over events. Tearful mourning, with grief
and fear for the future. Hypochondriacal indifference (of onanists).
Detachedness. Thoughts full of solicitude. Morbidity.

Head.–

Stupefying
pressive ache, as though brain were pressed together. Pressure as of a
heavy lump or ball fixed within forehead. Feeling: As though’
brain were rent asunder, as if head would burst, especially in forehead.
Worse: Early, on awaking, motion, stooping. Better:
Reclining head, rest, warmth, after much yawning, after breakfast.

External Head.–

Painfully
sensitive, with desquamation of epidermis. Moist, (seldom dry) foul,
erosive, creeping, itching eruption on occiput and behind ears,
scratching causes the itching to change place, increases the moisture
and makes it burn. Itching dandruff. Pressive, sticking and tearing in
bones and periosteum of skull, especially in occiput and behind ears
ending in swelling and suppuration, with foul day and night sweats. Hair
falls out most on nape and behind ears. With a foul, moist eruption or
scales on, (also after illness induced by vexation). Worse:
Becoming warm in bed, warm wraps, touch, motion, evening, at night,
after rising, sometimes after the siesta. Better: After
breakfast, reclining it upon something, after lying down

Eyes.–

Biting
and burning in inner canthi. Dryness of balls and lids. Inflammation of
edges of lids, with nightly agglutination. Nodes in edges of lids. Dim
vision. Lachrymation. Halo about candlelight at night.

Nose.–

Nasal
and aural polypi. Ulcerated nostrils. Coryza with ulcerated nostrils.
Stoppage of upper nares. Acrid coryza, with obstruction of choanae.
Sneezing.

Face.–

Sickly,
sunken or debauched countenance, with hollow eyes encircled by blue
rings. When getting angry it turns brown and blue. Inflammation of bones
of. Scurfy, burning, painful lips. Easy dislocation of maxillary joint.
Painful submaxillary glands with or without swelling.

Teeth.–

Exfoliate
and turn black. Very sensitive to touch and cold drinks, not felt when
biting them together violently. Painful, whitish swelling and ulceration
of gums. Nodosities and excrescences on gums. Bleeding gums.

Mouth.–

Stomatitis.
Dryness and scraping in throat and fauces, with painful soreness when
talking and swallowing. Painful drawing extending from hyoid bone
downward into throat. Salivation. Feeble voice on account of weakness of
vocal organs and after anger. Nasal speech from obstruction of choanae.
Continued swallowing while talking. Offensive breath.

Appetite:
Excessive, Ravenous hunger with waterbrash, when stomach in full. Desire
for thin, liquid food only, for brandy and tobacco.

Taste:
Flat, in mouth. Bitter, of all food.

Eructations:
Bitter, salty after eating meat. Bitter, after sour food. Hoggishly,
during which bitter water comes up into mouth. Waterbrash Retching.

Hypochondria:
Anxious, suffocative pressure and tension transversely across head,
early in morning while fasting.

Abdomen.–

Spasmodic
cutting in every time he eats or drinks. Weak feeling in as though’ it
would fall away. Contraction of. Pot belly, especially in children.
Colic, with urging to urinate. Painfully swollen inguinal glands.
Inguinal hernia descends when coughing. Flatulent symptoms.

Flatulence:
With odor of rotten eggs.

Stool.–

Constipation,
with urging to s. Slow although soft. Dysenteric. Urging sometimes with
hard, sometimes with soft stool. Evacuations with much flatus.

Urine.–

Urging
to urinate, with painful discharge of scanty, dark red urine, passed
drop by drop. Urging to urinate, with discharge of much clear, watery
urine. Involuntary urination when coughing.

Sexual
organs, especially when sitting. Excited sexual desire. Frequent
pollutions, Bad effects of onanism.

Cough.–

Nightly,
with expectoration of yellow, pus – like, flat – tasting mucus. Dry,
hollow, spasmodic c., from tickling crawling in larynx and trachea. Dry
by day.

Larynx, etc.–

Adherent mucus in, and in trachea. Rawness in, from much talking.
Sensation of pressure and constriction in throat – pit after anger,
worse swallowing. Tearing pain in, and in trachea. Soreness in trachea.
Weak voice.

Chest.–

Constricting
dyspnoea. Scratching, soreness or ulcerative pain, worse coughing. Great
restlessness in. Spasms of diaphragm after anger. Tremulous palpitation
from least motion or music.

Back.–

Pain
in small of, as though’ broken, during rest and when rising from
sitting.

Neck:
Stiff nape. Painfully swollen glands of throat and neck.

Upper Extremities.–

Painfully
swollen axillary glands. Paralytic, pressive drawing in arms. Scabby
herpes on elbows. Insensible finger – tips.

Generalities.–

Painfulness
of muscles to touch, and of joints to motion. Unilateral paralysis from
anger. Early in morning, great weariness and stiffness of all joints,
mostly in shoulder, lumbar region and hips. Continual inclination to lie
down. Heaviness of limbs and dullness after the noon – day nap. Nightly
twitchings. Faintness. Effects of onanism or the abuse of Mercury.

Tissues.–

Glands
painfully (or painlessly) swollen.

Bones.–

Swelling
and suppuration of, and of periosteum.

Skin.–

Itching
herpes which burns, after scratching, in evening. Dry, crusty herpes
upon joints. Chronic miliary eruptions, with nightly twitchings.
Unhealthy, diseased s. Incised wounds Gouty nodes on joints, on finger.

Sleep.–

Violent
yawning and stretching, with tears in eyes. Extraordinary day
sleepiness. Sleepless before midnight. Anxious drams full of peril,
after midnight.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Very quick but small and often tremulous. Chill: And coldness
predominate. And coldness in evening, often without subsequent heat.
Violent, in evening, with shuddering and shaking and heat of face.
Shuddering in afternoon (3 o’clock), better motion in open air. From
back up over head, even when near a warm stove. Running down back.
Constant chilliness or (in alternate action) sweat, day and night.

Heat:
External, with thirst after midnight, then chill toward morning.
Nightly, burning heat, especially on hand and feet, with inclination to
uncover. With violent thirst and profuse sweat.

Sweat:
Profuse, also great inclination thereto. Inability to s., with headache
and a pale face Night sweat smelling like rotten eggs. Cold, on forehead
and feet. Great inclination to s., during day, even when sitting.
Intermittent fever consisting almost solely of coldness. Violent hunger
before and after paroxysm.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ars., Bis.,
COLOC., Kre., Merc., Merc-c., Phos-ac., Ran-b.,
Sil., sul.,
Thuj.,

Complementary:
COLOC., Caust.

Stramonium

[Stram.]

Mind.–

Extremely
variable phenomena. Changing deliria of various sorts, frightful,
loquacious, lead, ridiculous, with pride, etc. Funny pranks alternating
with sad demeanor. Loud laughing alternating with sad demeanor. Loud
laughing alternating with groaning and lamenting. Drollery alternating
with earnestness. Premonitions of death alternating with attacks of
rage. Ungovernable rage with great violence, howling, shrieking and
striking about. Violent raving mains with frightful phantasies, visions,
trembling and clonic spasms. Mental disturbances of drunkards.
Extraordinary anxiety. Low – spirited, with weeping and fear of death.
Melancholy. In consulate over trifles. Incessant idle talking. Constant
restlessness. Want of memory. Insensible to mental impressions. Desire
for light, company and sunshine. Illusions of fancy. Affectation.

Sensorium.–

Reeling,
stupefying vertigo, with vanishing of sight and hearing, and headache.
Light feeling in head. Fainting, with a dry throat, and a pale, followed
by a red face.

Head.–

Hot,
with a glowing red face, cold hands and feet, convulsive twitching of
body from every touch, and aversion to uncover. Extraordinary congestion
to. Headache, with vanishing of sight and hearing. Heat and throbbing in
vertex. With vanishing of sight and hearing. Heat and throbbing in
vertex, with fainting attacks. Convulsive motions, frequently raises it
from pillow, or moves it to and fro. Meningitis. Hydrocephalus. Worse:
Touch. Better: Lying quietly.

Eyes.–

Red,
inflamed. Staring, sparkling. Distortions of lids. Inflammation of edges
of lids. Dilated, insensible pupils. Short sight. Illusions of sight and
hearing. Surrounding objects appear blue.

Face.–

Alternately
pale and deep red, swollen, turgid. Stupid, disordered countenance.
Anxiety and fear is expressed in countenance and actions. Deep folds and
wrinkles on. Wasted countenance. Distortion of mouth. A yellow stripe on
red part of lip.

Teeth.–

Inclination
to gnash.

Mouth.–

Dry.
Bloody foam at. Difficult swallowing from spasmodic constriction and
dryness of throat. Swelling and paralysis of tongue. Stuttering with
contortion of face. Complete aphonia.

Stomach.–

Anxiety
in pit with oppressed breathing.

Hiccough, spasmodic.

Vomiting of sour mucus or green bile.

Appetite:
Violent thirst. Fear or aversion to water and all fluids.

Taste:
Bitter, in mouth. Tastelessness of food, it has no taste at all.

Abdomen.–

Hard,
tensely distended. Painful to motion and touch. Hysterical spasm of.
Bellyache, as though’ navel would be torn out, and diarrhoea.

Stool.–

Retained.
Cadaverous, stinking. Discharge of blood from anus.

Urine.–

Suppressed.
Involuntary discharge.

Female.–

Menses:
Increased, of coagulated, black blood. Rank stench of body during.
Uterine hemorrhage.

Cough.–

Periodically
recurring attacks of painless, barking, spasmodic dry cough, in a shrill
screeching tone, excited by constriction of larynx and chest.

Respiration.–

Difficult,
oppressed. Frequent sighing.

Larynx.–

Constriction
of, and of chest muscles. Shrill screeching voice.

Chest.–

Spasm
of muscles. Too profuse secretion of milk in nursing women.

Back.–

Bent
backward.

Lower Extremities.–

He
falls over his own feet.

Generalities.–

Trembling
of limbs (also in drunkards). Increased and easier mobility of voluntary
muscles. Graceful movements. Twitching
in limbs. Crawling in limb. Spasmodic attacks. Convulsion. Chorea.
Eclampsia. The convulsions are excited by the heat touch, as well as by
glistening objects and light. Consciousness, with stiffness and
immobility of body or with clonic spasms. The body is bent backward and
the countenance distorted. Insensitive. Painlessness with most symptoms.

Skin.–

Effects
of suppressed eruptions.

Sleep.–

Frightful
phantasies during stupefying somnolency with snoring. Awakes frightened.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Extremely irregular, mostly full, hard and accelerated, then again small
and quick, sometimes slow and scarcely perceptible, also intermittent
and trembling. Chill, and universal coldness, often very long continued,
with a red face and twitching. Extraordinarily sensitive to uncovering.
Running down back. Universal coldness in afternoon, after previous heat
of head and face followed by general heat. Inflammatory fevers with
deliria. Heat Of whole body with vivid redness of face and mostly with
concomitant sweat. Hot, red face with cold hands and feet. Anxious heat,
with vomiting. Sweat: Profuse over entire body, even with the
heat, with great thirst. Only offensive heat, with great thirst. Oily,
offensive General, colds. Copious, at night.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: AP., Bell., Cham.,
Cic., Gels., Hell., HYOS.,
Ign., Nux-v., Op.,
Plb., Verat-a.

Strontium

[Stront.]

Mind.–

Uneasiness
and anxiety. Peevish and inclined to anger and vehemence.

Head.–

Tensive
pain externally as well as internally, as if it were distended and the
scalp too small, it extends into the upper jaw increasing gradually and
decreasing in the same way. Sticking headache. Sense of heat in and in
the red face, with anxiety and sleepiness. Worse: Evening, lying
with head low, in cold. Better: In warmth, especially of sun.

Eyes.–

Pressive
pain on upper surface of eyeball. Burning in. Pressive pain, after
rubbing them, which causes one to see blue or red rings. Green spots
before, when in the dark. Weak.

Nose.–

Twitching
and quivering of. Hardened, bloody nasal mucus.

Face.–

Red
with burning heat of. Violent burning and tearing pain in.

Teeth.–

Jerking
ache. Violent tearing, preceded by increased saliva. Toothache, like a
screwing together sensation.

Mouth.–

Numb
sensation in. Inflammation of fauces and throat. Heat coming from mouth
and nose, with thirst.

Stomach.–

Pressure
in, which disappears after eating.

Appetite, etc. Hunger after dinner. Great thirst, especially for
beer.

Taste:
Like earth in mouth.

Nausea:
With burning heat of face.

Abdomen.–

Sensation
of fullness. Cutting in, with diarrhoea and chill. Pains in umbilical
region.

Stool.–

Retarded,
hard and lumpy, expelled with effort and great pain in anus.

Burning in anus after s. Diarrhoea of yellow water.

Urine.–

Diminished
discharge of. Pale, smelling strongly of ammonia.

Female.–

Menses:
Delayed, at first like meat juice, then passed in clots.

Respiration.–

Tightness
of chest with burning heat of face when walking.

Cough.–

Violent,
dry c., from irritation in trachea at night.

Chest.–

Transfixion
pain, as if in mediastinum. Pressive pain in. Drawing pain in muscles of
right side of. Palpitation.

Back.–

Drawing
pain in, and in loins, in evening. Bruised pain in, and in lumbar
region, worse stooping and touch.

Generalities.–

Cold
collapse after operations. Tearing pains in joints, especially in
evening and at night in bed. Weak, tremulous sensation in body, early in
morning and in evening. Impaired use of limbs as from one – sided
paralysis (r.), in evening. Great emaciation. Many pains are like
fleeting phantoms. (Pall.), so that one can scarcely
designate their locality, yet they appear to be situated mostly in the
cylindrical bones and marrow. The symptoms increase gradually and
decrease just as slowly. The right side is most violently affected. He
is better in open air, especially in warm sunlight and from warmth in
general. His physical condition is worse in the evening.

Skin.–

Itching,
worse scratching. Tension of, in many parts of body, in evening.

Sleep.–

Starting
up and jerking of body when falling to s. Frequent awaking at night,
especially from coughing

Fever.–

Pulse
full and hard, with strong throbbing in blood vessels. Chill: IN
forenoon, running from lumbar region down back part of thighs.
Shuddering over head and scapulae. Heat: Dry, at night with
thirst. Which streams from nose and mouth at same time. Sweat: In
morning hours. At night mostly on affected parts, with increased pains
from uncovering.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Phos.,
Plat., Sul.

Sulphur

[Sulph.]

Mind.–

Mental
preoccupation with difficult thinking. Inclined to philosophical
religious and political speculations. Weak memory. Great angriness and
irritability in full blooded persons. Depression and despondency.
Restlessness and haste. Anxiousness in evening. Frightened easily.
Aversion to being washed, in children. Melancholy with solicitude of the
salvation of his own should but indifference to the fate of others.
Weeping.

Vertigo.–

Especially
when sitting, with vanishing of sight and nosebleed.

Head.–

Congestion
from chest to head, with burning heat and gurgling, pulsating pain in
brain, throbbing in neck and cardiac region, diminished hearing and
flushes of heat in face. Hollow feeling in occiput. Buzzing and roaring
feeling in. Stitches and bruised sensation. Bursting pain. Forehead:
outward sticking and pressure in, tearing and heat in better moving
head, heaviness and fullness worse raising or moving head, tension in
and in eyes from every mental exertion or moving eyes. The head is
stooped forward when walking, Worse: Open air, during stool,
talking, early on awaking and in evening, stooping, after eating. Better:
In warm room, at rest, external pressure, sitting, lying with head high.

External Head.–

Bone
pains like a band contracting about head, and as though’ flesh were
loose thereon, ending in inflammation, swelling and caries. Open
fontanelles. Agreeable crawling, itching (more on occiput and behind
ears), burning changing place or feeling better from scratching, but
bleeding easily, then foul eruptions or ulcers which burn or smart as if
raw, soon follow. Scalp or vertex sensitive to touch. External coldness.
Hair dry, falls out, in child bed. Worse: Cold, wet weather,
during rest, warmth of bed. Better: Motion, cool air.

Eyes.–

Sunken,
encircled by blue rings. Red painful inflammation, as from the recent
presence of a foreign body. Stitches, especially in sunshine or
artificial light. Profuse lachrymation in open air, with disagreeable
dryness thereof in a room. Vision lost, as though’ they had been
obliterated. Like gauze before. Obstruction of cornea. Vesicles on
cornea. Farsighted. Photophobia with sticking, worst during sultry
weather. Frequent inflammation of lids with burning and profuse
secretion of mucus. Ulcerated lids. The lids are relaxed and hang down.

Ears.–

Purulent
discharge from. Drawing and sticking in. Humming and roaring in.
Oversensitive hearing.

Nose.–

Swelling,
redness and inflammation of. Herpes transversely across. Epistaxis. Odor
like an old catarrh in. Dry, stopped nasal secretions. Burning fluent
coryza with discharge of burning water in open air, but dry in house.

Face.–

Pale,
sickly color. Burning, seeming to rise from chest. Heat and spotted
redness of. Erysipelas. Humid herpes. Milk crust. Swollen upper lips.
Cancer of lips. Swelling of submaxillary glands.

Teeth.–

Ache
every evening. Sensitive tips. Swelling of gums with throbbing pains.
Dental fistula.

Mouth.–

Stomatitis.
Aphthae of children. Chronic sensation of a plug or lump in throat.
Dryness of throat. Frothy mucus on tongue. Offensive breath.

Stomach.–

Burning
in. Contractive spasms of, after eating. Burrowing in pit. Sensitive
pit. Pressure and stitches in.

Hypochondria:
Stitches in hepatic region both hypochondria and spleen.

Appetite:
Too great. But knows not for what. Constant thirst. Drinks much, eats
little. (Ant-t.)

Taste:
Offensive, sweetish or sour, in mouth.

Eructations:
Offensive smelling, at night during sleep. Sour. Loud, whenever he
presses on abdomen. Gulping up of ingesta. Heartburn.

Nausea, etc. – Qualmishness after eating. Tenderness of
epigastrium after eating. Retching. Vomiting: First of water,
then of solid food, of blood, sour or bitter, withhold sweat upon face.

Abdomen.–

Stitches
in (left) side of, when walking. Bellyache after drinking. Like a hard
lump in (Pul.). Hemorrhoidal colic. Ascites. Labor – like pains across
the pubes. Incarcerated hernia. Loud rumbling and grumbling in.
Obstructed flatus with pressure in (left) side of.

Stool.–

Frequent,
ineffectual urging. Hard, knotty. Chronic constipation. Soft, blood –
streaked s. Dysenteric, with violent tenesmus. Involuntary.

Anus and Rectum.–

–
Prolapsus rect. Swollen anal hemorrhoids. Itching, sticking and burning
in anus.

Urine.–

Frequent,
nightly urination, with discharge of much urine in a powerful stream.
Nocturnal enuresis. Involuntary.

Sexual Organs.–

Weak
sexual power. Swelling of testicles. Hydrocele. Moisture on scrotum.
Pressure on genitals. Swelling and painfulness of labia and vagina when
sitting.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early and too profuse. Suppressed, with congestion of blood to other
parts. Headache before. Mucus or acrid milky leucorrhoea.

Respiration.–

Difficult
inspiration from a painless tightness of chest. Nightly. Suffocative
attacks. Tightness of chest with visible palpitation and snoring like
sensation therein. Oppressed when bringing the arms together in front of
body.

Cough.–

Dry,
with spasm of chest and retching, during day and night. Nightly, with
tendency to diarrhoea. From crawling in larynx. Always in two quickly
succeeding paroxysms of rapid coughing fits, excited by a tickling as of
feather down in larynx. In evening and at night without, in morning and
during day with expectoration of dark blood or yellow, greenish,
purulent, often cold or milky white watery mucus ordinary of a sourish
or flat, foul or salty taste or like on old foul catarrh.

Larynx and trachea.–

Rough
nasal sound like snoring. Deep, rough voice.

Chest.–

Pressure,
tension, stitches, cutting, constriction, and a kind of bursting pain
in. Fullness in. Congestion to. Spasms of. Roughness and soreness in.
Oppression, as of a load on, after some foods. Feeling as if lungs
touched back. Pain in entire c. Suppuration of lungs. Pulmonary
phthisis. Violent, visible palpitation. Swelling and nodes in mammae.
Excoriated nipples. Cancer of mammae.

Back.–

Drawing
in. Curvature of spine. Pain in lumbar region when walking or rising
from sitting pain and tension in sacrum. Stitches in scapulae.

Upper Extremities.–

Drawing
in joints of arms, hands and fingers. Cracks on hands, especially
between fingers and on palms. Erysipelatous swelling of fingers.
Hangnails. Cold trembling hands.

Lower Extremities.–

Heavy
legs. Erysipelas on lower legs. Stiff ankles. Bruised or dislocative
pain in shoulder (I). Feet cold or covered with cold sweat.

Generalities.–

Great
debility from speaking. General emaciation. Sensitive to open air.
Restless limbs. Sticking pains in joints. Tearing in limbs with yawing
and anxious sweat. Gouty arthritis with heat and swelling. Flying pains
in extremities which often suddenly disappear for a time. Paralysis of
limbs. Epileptiform twitchings, with an aura, as of a mouse running up
arm or back. Symptoms appear mostly during rest and disappear during
motion. Standing causes the greatest aggravation. Changes of weather,
and especially wet weather, intensify the symptoms. Cold intensifies and
warmth ameliorates the pains. Useful as an intercurrent in cases where
the carefully selected remedy fails to act because some foreign
controlling influence (Psora) requires to be subdued in order to allow
the previous remedy a free scope to develop its power.

Tissues.–

Glands
inflamed, swollen indurated and suppurating. Swollen cervical glands.

Bones.–

Pain
in, as though’ flesh were loose thereon. Inflammation and swelling of.
Caries. Curvature and rachitis.

Skin.–

Erysipelatous
inflammations with pale, hot swelling. Nettlerash. Black pores. Bluish
spots like ecchymoses. Itching and burning herpes. Scaly herpes. Liver
spots. Panaritia. Boils (especially on buttocks). Spongy proud flesh in
ulcers. Dropsy. Cracked. Chafing of children. Unbreakable itching,
especially from warmth. Itch which itches intensely in evening and from
warmth (often recurs in spring time). Eruption: Receding,
tendency to. Effects
of suppressed emotions.

Sleep.–

Great
day sleepiness, especially in afternoon and after sunset, with
sleeplessness at night. Late falling to. Long but unrefreshing sleep, in
morning. Nightly jerking and twitching in body during. Nightmare.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Full, hard and accelerated, sometimes intermittent. Violent ebullitions
of blood throughout entire body. Chill: And chilliness,
principally internal and without thirst, mostly evenings, but also at
other times of day. External, with concomitant internal heat and redness
of face. Severe, at night in bed. In forenoon, in afternoon heat with
cold feet. With thirst, after previous heat. Spreading from toes.
Running up back. Heat: Afternoons and evening, with dry skin and
great thirst. Frequent attacks of flying heat. Great, at night, without
thirst, often preceding chill with thirst, often preceding chill with
thirst. Sweat: Nights and mornings. Copious sour smelling s., the
whole night. In evening, most on hands. Copious, from least movement.
Anxious debilitating, of an empyreumatic, sour, seldom offensive,
sometimes also cold. Nightstand, only on nape and occiput

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Aco.,
Ag-c., Alc. Ambr., ANT-C.,
AP., ARS., Bell., Bor., CALC-C.,
Carb-v., CAUST., Cham., Chel., Chin.,
Coff., Dulc., Ferr., Graph.,
Hep., Iod., Kre., MERC., NAT-S., Nit-ac.,
Nux-v., Petr Pod., PSOR.,
PULS., Ran-b., Rhus-t., Sars., Selen., SEP.,
Sil., Stann, Staph., Stront., Thuj.,
Valer.

Complementary:
Calc-c., MERC., Nux-v., RHUS.

Sulphuricum acidum

[Sul-ac.]

Mind.–

Peevishness.
Seriousness alternating with too great hilarity. Great tearfulness.
Restlessness and impatience. Great irritability.

Head.–

Sensation
as of smoke in one side. Concussion, as if brain were loose. Painful
jerks and thrusts in forehead and temples. Headache, as if a plug were
rapidly thrust by increasingly severe blows into head. Dull sticking, or
pressive head pains, increasing gradually, then suddenly disappearing. Worse:
Forenoon and evening, walking, in open air, standing, sitting. Better:
sitting quietly in a warm room.

External Head.–

Hair
turns gray early and falls out, with an eruption and erosive sore pain
on scalp, which changes place when scratched.

Eyes.–

Burning
pressure in eyes. Tears in, when reading. Difficult opening of lids.
Short sight.

Ears.–

Diminished
hearing, as though a leaf lay before. Roaring, in evening

Nose.–

Dark
nosebleed in evening. Stuffed coryza, with loss of taste and smell.

Face.–

Pale.
Swollen sensation in, accompanied by a feeling as though’ white of egg
had dried thereon. Peeling lips. Pain extending from lower jaw into
tongue, as though’ glands were swollen. Swelled submaxillary glands.

Teeth.–

Dull.
Tearing ache, worst in evening after lying down, intensified by cold and
ameliorated by warmth.

Mouth.–

Sense
of dryness in. Aphthae in children. Roughness in throat. Profuse
salivation. Burning in oesophagus.

Stomach.–

Grasping
in, every evening, as after taking cold. Sensitiveness of pit. Pressure
in pit. Unless mixed with a little spirits every drink chills stomach.

Hypochondria:
Stitches: in hepatic region, in spleen.

Appetite:
Desire for fresh fruit, especially plums.

Eructations:
Sour or bitter. Violent heartburn. Sweetish gulping up (after every
cough) Waterbrash.

Nausea:
IN stomach, with the chill. Vomiting, first of water then ingesta.

Abdomen.–

Sense
of warmth in umbilical region. Nightly cutting in. Labor – like pains
extending into hips and small of back. Flatulent colic with a feeling as
though’ a hernia would appear. Violent protrusion of an inguinal hernia.

Stool.–

Ineffectual
urging to. Delayed, compact, hard, nodular and black. Hacked (in
children). Green, curdled diarrhoea, smelling like rotten eggs. Very
foul smelling.

Urine.–

Diminished
discharge of brown urine, which, upon standing, m becomes turbid like
loam water.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early and too profuse. Acrid, burning leucorrhoea.

Cough.–

Asthmatic,
excited by an irritation in the chest, dry in evening, in morning, with
expectoration of dark blood or a thin. Yellowish, sometimes blood
streaked mucus, generally sour, but often salty or sweet. Dry, early in
morning after rising. Chronic hemoptysis. Much worse in open air. Always
followed by eructations.

Larynx.–

Roughness
in. Hoarseness.

Chest.–

Stitches.
Tight. Extraordinary sense of weakness in. Stitches in heart.
Palpitation with or without anxiety.

Back.–

Stiff,
early in morning when rising.

Generalities.–

Drawing
and tearing through’ entire body, even in face. Stitches in joints.
Pain, as of an instrument pressing against part, gradually increasing
then suddenly ceasing. Effects of pressure, blows or contusions of dull
instruments. Weakness of entire body with, a feeling as though’ he were
trembling. He is not so well in open air. The left side is principally
affected. Most symptoms appear or are aggravated in the afternoon of
toward evening. Also worse in AM Very suitable for females, especially
in the climacteric. Aggravation or most symptoms from the odor (not use)
of coffee, and pains which suddenly vanish, furnish indications which
hardly ever deceive.

Tissues.–

Glands
painfully sensitive.

Skin.–

Bluish
spots, like extravasation of blood after contusions. Easy excoriation
from walking or riding. Red, itching spots upon skin bone. Frost bites
Eating.

Sleep.–

He
falls to sleep late and awakens early. Sleeplessness, as from activity.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Small and weak, but accelerated. Chill: During day, mostly when
in a 100m, better motion in open air. Frequent shuddering run down over
body. Heat: In evening, also after lying down in bed. Frequent
flashes of heat, in evening, especially after motion. Attacks of over –
running heat, with concomitant sweat (during climacteric period). Sweat:
Most profuse on upper part of body. Profuse, in early morning. From
every exertion, continuing long after sitting down. Sour, Cold,
immediately after eating warm food.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ars.,
(CAUST.), Chin, Dig., Fer., Flu.
ac., Ip., Lach., Merc-c.
Plb., PULS.

Complementary:
Puls.

Tabacum

[Tab.]

Mind.–

Despondency.
Apprehension. Cowardice and terror of death. Morose and fretful. Full of
projects, but mind is confused. Loss of memory, hunts his words.
Conscious, but unable to move. Profuse stupor. Worse: When alone.
Better: Bathing head in cold water, weeping, vomiting.

Vertigo.–

Excessive,
even to unconsciousness, as if drunk, felt in occiput. Sudden faintness
on rising, even hemiplegia. Worse: opening eyes.

Head.–

Confused
and heavy. Violent ache, like something shaking within. Aching, with
vomiting when urinating. Compression, especially in occiput, or as of a
band around. Pain, as if struck with a hammer. Rush of blood to, with
momentary unconsciousness. Hair falls out. Better: In open air.

Eyes.–

Sunken
and encircled by blue rings. Turned up. Divergent squint. Coldness, with
a kind of burning in. Boring. Pupils irregular. Transient blindness.
Vision better in twilight.

Ears.–

Red
and burning. Violent earache, with giddiness and overpowering
sleepiness. Gnawing in. Sensitive hearing.

Nose.–

Fluent
coryza, with keen smell. Incessant sneezing.

Face.–

Drawn,
pinched, sunken. Deathly pale, collapsed and covered with cold sweat.
Livid, pale greasy. Expression of stupefaction. Transient feeling, as if
parts were dead. Violent shooting in bones of. Lips cracked, burning,
upper feels elongated, retracted over teeth.

Mouth.–

Gums
swell and bleed. Intolerably violent, throbbing toothache. Tongue numb,
feels swelled. And throat full of white tenacious mucus. Dry.
Salivation.

Throat.–

Scraping
and crawling in. Oedema of uvula. Feeling of a plug in, as if clutched.
Difficult swallowing.

Stomach.–

Faint
sinking, or weak, relaxed feeling in. Shocks in pit, as often as he
falls into a slumber. Sensation: As if it would turn over, of writhing,
of coldness in, and along spine, of clawing, as if the bolus were forced
through’ too small an opening (Op.). Gastralgia. Hypochondriacal
dyspepsia.

Hypochondria:
Needle – like stitches in liver preventing stretching better stooping.
Pressure, as of a heavy, round body beneath short ribs.

Appetite:
Incessant, ravenous hunger, is nauseated if she don’t eat. Can eat
immediately after vomiting. Loathes water. Craves stimulants, narcotics,
etc. Great thirst, especially at night, k but drinks only a little at a
time.

Taste:
Of rancid oil, of burnt milk.

Eructations:
Regurgitation and heartburn.

Nausea:
Paroxysmal, as if seasick, with vertigo and cold sweat, faint like,
incessant, with violent vomiting, least motion. Retching. Worse:
Motion, worse hawking. Better: In open air.

Abdomen.–

Cramp
– like retraction of navel. Intestines contracted. Painfully sensitive.
Violent convulsions, head retracted and contraction of abdominal
muscles, excited by pressure on abdomen. Patient desires to uncover
abdomen.

Stool.–

Urgent
painless, profuse and watery, cholera – like, acrid smelling.
Involuntary stool and urine. Constipation alternating with diarrhoea.

Anus.–

Straining
and violent burning in, during soft stool.

Urinary Organs.–

Urine
suppressed. Itching in urethra.

Sexual Organs.–

Flabby.
Nocturnal emissions. Loss of vitality. Discharge like meat water from
vagina.

Respiration.–

Difficult,
suffocative, jerking, stertorous.

Cough.–

With
burning in larynx, with hiccough and suffocation, with dyspnoea. Better:
Eating.

Chest.–

Sudden,
violent constriction, as if squeezed by a vise Pain, as of a knife
sticking in sternum. Heaviness on sternum. Violent, sore pain in mammae,
and a feeling as if nipple were bitten off. Heart: Darting pain
from heart to vertex. Feeling as if a knot were twisted around hour.
Soreness about. Trembling Palpitation, With pain in or between
shoulders, with the throbbing in head. Pains extend from heart to arms,
with a sense of suffocation. Angina pectoris. Worse: Lying on
left side.

Back.–

Tender
along spine. Heat or coldness along. As of some one blowing on.
Pulsation beneath right shoulder. Backache, worse lying, better walking.

Neck:
Stiff. Neuralgia, with tightness of throat. Heaviness and pain in nape.

Extremities.–

Outstretched,
relaxed and powerless, with trembling and convulsive twitchings. Stiff.

Upper Extremities.–

Aching
in arms. Burning and fuzziness of finger tips., swollen finger tips.
Fingers feel longer and calves feel as if dropping away. Coldness of one
hand and hat of other.

Lower Extremities.–

Gait
slow, shuffling, tottering like an old man. Burning and feeling of pins
in knee, worse touch. Legs icy old below knees (Carb-v.)

Generalities.–

Profound
weakness, with relaxation of the voluntary, but spasm of the involuntary
muscles, especially exciting the muscular activity of the alimentary
canal, hence causing violent colic, vomiting and purgings. General or
localized convulsions, trembling or twitchings. Jerky movements.
Numbness. Constrictive sensations about cavities, heart, chest, etc.
Neuralgia, worse during low barometer and wind, better hot applications.
Body feels bruised. Burning pains and a sense of heat internally
predominate although’ patient may be cold objectively. Great emaciation.
Extreme restlessness. Worse: Extremes of heat and cold, stormy
weather, walking or riding in a carriage or railway train, the jar
aggravates. Better: Open air, vomiting, sweating.

Skin.–

Slight
wounds inflame intensely, burn and are long in healing. Itching
blisters. Ecchymoses. Trembling, as if being torn. Itching like flea
bites.

Sleep.–

Stupefying,
with profuse sweat.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Weak and small. Chill: with cold sweat and thirst. Cold skin.
Coldness between shoulders. Heat: Of one cheek and paleness of
the other. External, with internal shivering. With sweat. Sweat:
Cold, profuse, clammy. Everywhere except on forehead.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Aco.,
Agar., Ant-t., Ars., Coccl.,
Con., Gels., Hydrocy-ac., Ip.,
Jabor., Lobel., Phos., Sec-c., Verat-a.

Complementary:
Op.

Antidotes:
Acids, Gel., Plant.

Taraxacum

[Tarax.]

Mind.–

Irresolution.
Despondency and discontent. Averse to work. Loquacity, with inclination
to joke and laugh.

Vertigo.–

Reeling
on walking in open air.

Head.–

Pressive
pains. Sensation of constriction or distension of brain. Tearing in
occiput. Only when walking or standing is he sensible of headache.

Eyes.–

Sticking
burning in. Photophobia.

Ears.–

Sticking
and tearing in, and behind.

Face.–

Reed,
with sensation of heat. Pustules on cheeks, wings of nose and angle of
mouth. Upper lip cracked.

Teeth.–

Sour
blood exudes from hollow teeth. Dullness of. Drawing in hollow teeth, it
extends into eyebrows.

Mouth.–

Accumulation
of sour water in. Dry feeling in throat. Larynx feels pressed shut.
Hawking of sour mucus which dulls the teeth. Thick white coat on tongue,
peeling off in patches which afterward become very sensitive.

Stomach.–

Appetite:
Aversion to tobacco smoke.

Taste:
Bitter, in mouth, before eating. Saltish sour, of food, especially of
butter and meat

Nausea:
With anxiety and headache. And inclination to vomit after fat foods.

Abdomen.–

Sticking
bellyache, especially in sides of. Sensation of bubbles bursting within.

Stool.–

Ineffectual
urging. Is passed with difficulty even when not hard.

Rectum.–

Perineum:
Voluptuous itching on, compelling him to scratch.

Urine.–

Frequent
urging to urinate, with profuse discharge. Polyuria.

Chest.–

Pressive
pain in. Sticking in. Twitching in intercostal muscles.

Back.–

Bubbling
and rumbling in scapulae, with chill over entire body. Pressive sticking
in spine and small of back, with oppression of breathing.

Neck:
Twitching and sticking in muscles of, and of nape. Tearing from ear
downward along sides of.

Upper Extremities.–

Twitching
in muscles of arm. Icy cold finger tips.

Lower Extremities.–

Sticking
in thighs, calves and soles of feet. Burning in knees, lower legs and
toes. Pains in, worse at rest.

Generalities.–

The
limbs are movable enough, but it seems as though’ power of motion were
impeded. Painfulness of all limbs to touch, and when in a false
position. Sense of weariness through’ power of motion were impeded.
Painfulness of all limbs to touch, and when in a false position. Sense
of weariness through’ entire body, with inclination to sit or lie, with
impaired consciousness. Most symptoms appear when sitting or standing
and cease when walking.

Sleep.–

Sleepiness
and falling to sleep when listening to scientific discourses. Day
sleepiness and yawning when sitting.

Fever.–

Chill:
and chilliness, especially after eating and drinking. General c. with
headache. Shivering c., in open air. Heat: At night when awaking.
especially on face and hands. Sweat: Very profuse throughout
whole night, but most in first sleep before midnight. Very exhausting
biting s., on skin.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Con.,
Kali-c., Puls., Valer.

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