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

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

Aconitum napellus

[Acon.]

Mind.–

Results
of vexation combined with anxiety and fright.
Great nervous excitement and feverish restlessness. Lively phantasies.
Mental instability, Delirium, mostly at night. Anxious impatience.
Inconsolable anxiety and piteous wailing. Unappeasable frenzy and
agonized tossing about. Very easily frightened. Alternate weeping and
laughing or singing. Fear of ghosts. Lamenting with fear of impending
death, and doubt of salvation. Fixed premonition of death, she foretells
the day or hour (in childbed).

Vertigo.–

With
fainting on rising. Giddiness with vanishing of sight on raising up.

Head.–

Congestion:
With fullness and throbbing therein, more towards evening, with black
vision, roaring in ears and a fiery red face,
with external and internal heat. Burning heat as from hot seething water
in, with external sweat and a pale face. Fullness, pressure and
heaviness in forehead as if brain and eyes would be forced out, with a
hot red face. Meningitis. Crackling like tinsel in forehead, temples and
nose. Feeling: Of a ball rising in, of backward sticking in, as
if brain fluctuated to and fro, of painful pulling at hair of vertex. Worse:
Stooping, talking, motion, raising up, evening, night, becoming heated,
warm wraps, dry cold winds. Better: rest, uncovering, warmth,
sitting erect, open air.

Eyes.–

Inflamed
and protruding, with dark red blood vessels and unbearable pains.
Sparkling. Inflammatory swelling of lids. Dilated pupils, Photophobia.
Lachrymation.

Nose.–

Epistaxis.
Extremely sensitive smell. Stuffed coryza.

Face.–

Red,
turning deathly pale on raising up. Hot, bloated. Pale. Sweat on side
wherein he lies. Sweat on upper lip. Lips, Black, dry, peeling off.

Teeth.–

Throbbing
ache after taking cold.

Mouth.–

Dry.
Inflammation of, and of fauces, with dark redness and violent fever.
Crawling in pharynx. Sticking sore throat when swallowing and coughing.
Tongue coated white. Trembling, stammering speech.

Stomach.–

Tensive
pressing pain as from a weight in.

Hypochondria:
Tensive pressing pain as from a weight in.

Appetite:
Aversion to food, Violent unquenchable thirst.

Taste:
Bitter: In mouth, of all food and drink except water.

Vomiting:
Bloody mucus, fluids.

Abdomen.–

Inflamed,
distended and painful to touch. Flatulent colic after taking cold.

Stool.–

Small,
soft, with pressure. White, Green. Constipated.

Urine.–

Brown,
dark. fiery and infrequent suppressed. Anxious urging to urinate.

Female.–

Menses:
Continue too long. Uterine hemorrhage.

Respiration.–

Sighing.
Rapid (or slow), with open mouth. Short: As from compression of
chest, especially when raising up and during sleep. Offensive breath.
Anxious suffocative attacks. Anxiety, which impedes breathing.

Cough.–

From
tobacco smoke. Stitches in chest during. Clear ringing or whistling,
excited by burning sticking in larynx and trachea, generally dry, rarely
in morning and during day expectoration of thick white mucus or of mucus
mixed with coagulated blood, blood colored, or of pure blood.

Larynx.–

Inflammation
of. Paralysis of epiglottis. Hoarseness.

Chest.–

Congestion
of. Inflammation of. Painful stitches in, during exhalation, coughing
and motion (also of the arms only). Sticking in sides of, with
disposition to complain and weep, slightly when lying on back. Sense of
terrible anxiety in. Pain, from taking cold or from fright. Anxious
palpitation.

Back.–

Stiffness
in nape. Crawling in. Bruised feeling in, and in lumbar region. Lumbar
pain when turning over.

Upper Extremities.–

Laming,
drawing pain in arms and legs, without swelling. Hot hands with cold
feet. Swelling of hands. Crawling in fingers.

Lower Extremities.–

Powerless
in hip and knee joints. Stiffness in legs during motion (after taking
cold).

Generalities.–

Bruised
feeling over entire body and heaviness of all limbs. Cannot lie on
painful side. Constant desire to lie down. Painful sensitiveness of body
to touch, he will not allow himself to be handled. Unbearable pains.
Extra ordinary sudden sinking of strength. When sitting still most
complaints disappear, but at night in bed, they are almost unendurable.
Swollen feeling in many parts. Takes cold from Exposure to dry cold
winds. Results of taking cold. Agg. hot days and cold nights.

Skin.–

Dry,
burning heat of. Hot, burning swelling of injured parts. Jaundice
Measles. Purpura.

Sleep.–

Starting
up in after midnight during sleeplessness, with constant tossing about
from anxiety, and flightiness with closed eyes. Somnolency, with anxious
delirium and rapid breathing. Drowsiness, with inability to.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Mostly very full, hard and accelerated, seldom small and thready or
imperceptible, Cold sensation in blood vessels. Chill: At
beginning of attacks, most severe evenings after lying down, often with
hot cheeks and contracted pupils. From uncovering or from touch.
Internal chilliness with dry, hot skin and disposition to uncover. Often
internal heat, with anxiety and red cheeks during chill. Shivering
extending from feet to chest. Heat : Dry, burning, for the most part,
proceeding from head and face, with great thirst for cold drinks. With
uncommon excitement restlessness, anxiety and agonized tossing about.
Continued external, with inclination to uncover. Burning with cold
shiverings running over one at the same time. Sweat: With
feverish restlessness and inclination to uncover. Of parts lain on. Long
– continued, over whole body, of a somewhat acid odor, Most on covered
parts.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Arn., Ars., BELL., BRY.,
CANTH., CHAM., Coff., Croc., Dulc.,
Gel., Graph., Lyc., MERC., Millef.,
Nux-v., Op., Phos., Phos-ac., Puls., RHUS-T., Ruta.,
SEP., Sul., Valer., Verat – a.

Agaricus muscarius

[Agar.]

Mind.–

Inclination
to prophesying and versification. Timid or fearless, violent madness,
Disinclination to speak and work.

Vertigo.–

In
the sunlight. Vertiginous giddiness early in the morning and in open
air, as from spirituous liquors.

Head.–

Headache,
as from a nail pressing into side (r), Drawing ache extending to root of
nose, in early morning when awaking. Twitching in forehead and temples,
Senses of icy coldness on outside of. Worse: sitting quietly,
standing. Better: Gentle motion.

Eyes.–

Disagreeable
twitching in. – Quivering lids. – Vision, dim, as of a mist before.

Nose.–

Excoriated
internally. Heightened sense of smell.

Face.–

Tearing
pains in. Itching of.

Teeth.–

Tearing
ache, by cold.

Mouth.–

Bad
odor, as of horseradish, from. Excoriation of buccal cavity and tongue.

Stomach.–

Pressure
in, after eating.

Appetite:
Attacks of ravenous hunger in evening.

Eructations:
Empty, alternating with hiccough.

Abdomen.–

Pinching
and cutting in, with diarrhoea.

Flatulence:
Copious discharge of flatus of a garlicky odor.

Stool.–

Hard,
dark – colored, after previous constipation. papescent, with much
flatulence and abdominal pain.

Urine.–

Clear,
lemon – colored, Diminished.

Sexual Organs.–

Greatly
excited sexual desire with flaccid penis. Intense exhaustion after
coition.

Respiration.–

Compression
of chest with frequent desire to take a deep breath. Tightness of chest
and short breathing when walking.

Cough.–

Easy
Expectoration of small, hard balls of mucus almost without cough.

Chest.–

Nightly
profuse sweat on.

Back.–

Beaten
and sprained sensation throughout whole. Great weakness in muscles of.

Upper Extremities.–

Weariness
and heaviness in legs. Tearing in entire length of legs, as if in marrow
of bones, motion.

Generalities.–

Great
sensitiveness of entire body, to pressure and cold air. Extra ordinary
weariness and bruised feeling after moderate exercise. Pains in limbs
are continuous during rest and disappear during motion. Complaints often
appear diagonally, for instances on right arm and left leg. Epileptic
attacks with great physical exertion.

Skin.–

Itching
– burning and redness, as after freezing, on many parts, particularly on
nose, ears, fingers and toes. Closely aggregated white miliary eruption
with violent itching.

Sleep.–

Great
sleepiness, worse after eating.

Fever.–

Pulse,
Somewhat accelerated in early morning, always slower as the day
advances, very irregular and sometimes intermittent. Chills: And
chilliness predominate, especially in cold, open air and when lifting
the covers. Shivering over body running from above downward. Sense of
chilliness with natural warmth of body. Heat: Slight, and almost
exclusively on upper part of body. Sweat: Greasy, but not
offensive, during sleep throughout night. – From slight motion.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Bell., CALC-C., Cocci., Coff.,
LYC, Nit-ac., NUX-V., Perr., Phos.,
Pul., Sep., SIL., Bep, Complementary: Calc-c.

Agnus castus

[Agn.]

Mind.–

Extraordinary
distraction, absence of mind and want of recollection. Great anxiety, as
the diarrhoea would ensue, with great weakness. Sadness with fear of
impending death. Melancholy, hypochondriacal mood, dissatisfied with
himself, incapable for work and indifferent to his surroundings,
Alternate over – exaltation and want of self – esteem.

Head.–

Contractive
pain in, when reading. Pressive tearing in forehead and temples, more
violent during motion. Headache in skull, as from remaining in a close,
warm room. Biting itching on scalp, Tension, and chilliness in scalp
with internal warmth thereof.

Eyes.–

Corrosive
itching on and above brows and on lids. Greatly dilated pupils.

Ears.–

Roaring
in.

Nose.–

Odor,
as of musk or herring, before.

Face.–

Corrosive
itching, especially on cheeks and under eyes.

Mouth.–

Ulcers
in, also on tongue.

Stomach.–

Pinching
in pit when sitting bent over.

Hypochondriac:
Pressure in hepatic region by touch. Swelling and induration of spleen.

Appetite:
Thirstlessness with aversion to all drinks.

Taste:
Metallic, coppery, in mouth.

Eructation, etc. – Frequent hiccough with peevishness.

Qualmishness. In gastric region.

Abdomen.–

Sensation
as though all the intestines were sinking downward. Ascites.

Stool.–

Soft.
Constipated.

Anus.–

Deep,
sharp stitches in and along sides of coccyx. Painful spots as if
festering alongside anus when walking. Deep chaps and cracks at.
Corrosive itching of perineum.

Urine.–

Increased
discharge of.

Sexual Organs.–

Yellowish
discharge from urethra, Gonorrhea with suppressed sexual desire. Cold
testes. Swelled and indurated testes. Itching on. Flagging sexual
powers, with torpid, cold, relaxed sexual parts. Desire wanting.

Female.–

Menses:
Suppressed. Barrenness with both menses and sexual desire wanting.

Cough.–

In
evening in bed, before falling to sleep.

Upper extremities.–

Hard
pressure in axilla and upper arm, more violent during motion.

Generalities.–

Inflammatory
swelling of joints. Sprained swollen limbs, especially at ankle joints.
Gouty nodes on joints.

Skin.–

Corrosive
itching here and there over entire body by scratching, but it rapidly
returns. Itching around ulcers in evening.

Sleep.–

Somnolency,
Restless at night.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Weak and slow, often imperceptible. Chill: Internal with
trembling, while external skin is warm. Alternating with heat. Much
shivering with cold hands. Chilliness without thirst Predominates. Heat:
Over – running, burning, most in face, with cold knees in evening in
bed, Sweat: Almost exclusively on hands, when walking in open
air.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Calc
– c., Con., Graph., Lyc.,
Merc., Nux – v. Oleand., Puls.,
Rhod., Sep., Sul.

Aloe

[Aloe]

Mind.–

Disinclination
and incapacity for mental labor, with speedy fatigue therefrom. Peevish
and quarrelsome. Anthropophobia.

Vertigo.–

As
if he sat in a high chair, by a nasal catarrh.

Head.–

Shaking
in, as if the brain were loose. Confused heaviness, pressing down into
root of nose, outward towards temples, or like a weight on vertex.
Aching above forehead, compelling him to make the eyes small, with heaviness
of eyes and nausea. Headaches associated with abdominal
symptoms. Worse: From stepping hard and heat. Better:
After eating and from cold. Scalp sensitive to touch, yet pressure feels
good.

Eyes.–

Yellow
rings before vision.

Ears.–

Ache
when pressing teeth together.

Nose.–

Red
in cold air. Epistaxis.

Face.–

And
lips red. Sickly expression.

Mouth.–

Teeth
yellow, seem sharp and hurt the tongue. Dry, burnt feeling in, Sickening
smell from. Salivation, with hunger after breakfast.

Stomach.–

Distended,
after drinking water. Pain in pit when making a misstep, it radiates
backwards or upwards with every eructation, and then sinks back again.

Hypochondria:
Distension, better by passing flatus. Stitches in liver. Uneasiness with
heat, pressure and tension in hepatic region. Worse: Standing. Better:
Bending forward or emission of flatus.

Appetite:
Increased: For juicy or stimulating foods. Thirst for beer.

Taste:
Metallic, like ink, bitter, nauseous.

Eructations:
Bilious. Bitter after drinking water.

Nausea, etc. – Must sit still to avoid vomiting.

Abdomen.–

Distension:
Much flatulent rumbling. Heaviness in, as of a stone, which falls to
side upon which she lies. Feeling: Of weakness, as if diarrhoea
would ensue, as though she had taken cold in, Gurgling, griping and
pulsating within, Sensation of a plug between symphysis pubis and
coccyx. Soreness of walls, Better: Pressure and discharge of
flatus.

Stool.–

Urgent
diarrhoea of light – colored faeces, preceded and accompanied by flatus
and gurgling in abdomen from 2 to
ten AM, with a sense of insecurity in rectum. Fainting during stool.
Sudden diarrhoea in morning on rising, followed by a feeling as if more
ought to come. Involuntary: With passage of flatus, during
micturition, although solid. Of gelatinous mucus. Diarrhoea, with
hunger, after eating. Loud, copious emission of hot, offensive flatus.

Anus.–

Weakness
of sphincter, with loose sensation therein and fear lost stool should
escape with flatus. Soreness, after stool. Itching hemorrhoids protrude
during stool, by cold water.

Urine.–

On
rising must run quickly to urinate.

Sexual Organs.–

Determinations
of blood to pelvic organs, uterus, etc. Menses of dark, clotted blood,
too early, too profuse and lasting too long. Increased sexual desire.
Emissions without dreams.

Throat.–

Hawking
up thick, lumpy mucus, easily loosened.

Chest.–

Stitches
under mammae.

Heart
and Circulation. – Pain in cardiac region extending to left scapula.
Varicose veins.

Back.–

Neck:
Tension, with compression in nape behind ears.

Back:
Pain in, with heaviness in uterus. Lumbago alternating with headache.
Heaviness with pressure. Bruised feeling in coccyx. Worse:
Sitting or lying on back. Better: Motion.

Extremities.–

Jerking,
drawing and dull sticking in finger, knee and elbow joints. Weariness
and heaviness. Weak ankles and wrists. Bruised pain in tendo
achilis.

Generalities.–

General
mental and physical relaxation, especially affecting the veins,
intestinal canal and sphincters, with a sense of insecurity in the
latter or involuntary evacuations. Determination of blood to liver,
head, chest and pelvic viscera. Sensations of heaviness, heat, dryness
and crawling predominate in all parts of body. Gelatinous secretions
from mucous membranes. Produces its effects slowly.

Worse:
Stepping hard, heat, afternoon, especially the symptoms of mucous
membranes.

Better:
Open air, cold applications.

Skin.–

Golden
yellow. Furuncles. Crawling, itching and biting in.

Sleep.–

Interrupted
by hemorrhoidal irritation and sexual excitement. Dreams of having an
involuntary stool.

Fever.–

Chilliness
during stool. Cold feeling in occiput. Shivering through whole body,
with griping above umbilicus.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Crot-t.,
Gamb., Gel., Caust.,
Hyos., Mur-ac., Nat – a, Nux – v.,
Oleand., Phos-ac., Pod., SUL.

Alumina

[Alum.]

Mind.–

Inability
to think connectedly. Anxious and peevish. Continued great weakness of
memory. Mental activity alternating with inability to think. Great
anxiety and apprehension. He takes everything in bad part. Alternate
paroxysms of laughing and weeping. He views everything in a gloomy and
discouraging light. Fear of losing his thoughts, his reason.

Head.–

Severe
stitches in brain with inclination to vomit. Throbbing and pulsating in,
or compressive pain over eyes, as if coming from temples, with
congestion to eyes and nose and shaking chill. Humid scurf on temples. Worse:
in early morning, walking in open air in evening. Better: Lying
quietly, after eating.

Eyes.–

Pressure
in, which impedes opening them. At night they are agglutinated. By day
full of tears. Squint of both.

Ears.–

Stitches
in. One ear is hot and red in evening. Purulent discharge from.
Crepitation in when showing.

Nose.–

Redness
and swelling of, Ulceration in. Sense of smell diminished.

Face.–

Tension
in skin as if egg albumen had dried thereon. Pale. Bulbous excrescences
or boils on, and on nose.

Teeth.–

Feel
too long. Ache when chewing.

Mouth.–

Painful
soreness of entire mouth when eating. Constrictive sore throat when
swallowing. Difficult, painful swallowing of food, as from narrowing of
oesophagus. In the evening and at night the throat pains are most
intense, by warm food and drink.

Stomach.–

Constriction
in, extending into throat and chest. Pressure in evening.

Hypochondria:
Painful soreness in hepatic region extending to epigastrium, when
stooping. Pain in kidneys.

Appetite etc. – Changeable. Bad effects of potatoes.

Eructations:
Sour, and heartburn.

Nausea:
And qualmishness when talking.

Abdomen.–

Sticking
pains in, extending up into chest. Cutting pains in bowels, by warmth.
Lead colic. Inguinal hernia.

Stool.–

Difficult
from want of peristaltic action and inactivity of intestinal canal of
mucus.

Anus.–

Varicose
hemorrhoids and itching of.

Urine.–

Increased
discharge of watery urine with burning.

Sexual Organs.–

Excessive
sexual desire. Frequent pollutions. All complaints are worse after
pollutions.

Female.–

Menses:
Too scant, too early and too short, Abdominal colic before and during.
Acrid, corrosive leucorrhoea before and after.

Cough.–

Early
in the day, dry, later with expectoration. Short, dry, with arrested
breathing.

Larynx.–

Suddenly
appearing hoarseness not by hawking, mostly in afternoon and evening.

Chest.–

Pressing
pain in, at night Constriction of when stooping. Thrusts at heart.

Back.–

Pain
in as if a hot iron were thrust throw lowest vertebrae (Bufo). Sticking
in. Bruised pain in lumbar region when at rest.

Upper Extremities.–

Paralytic
heaviness of arms. Tearing from shoulders to fingers. Pain in arms
extending to fingers, as if a hot iron was thrust through them. Tumid
scurf on forearm. Cracks on palmar surface of hands.

Lower Extremities.–

Nightly
stiffness, deadness and numbness of legs. Heaviness of legs.

Generalities.–

Involuntary
motions and twitchings of head and other parts. Sensory illusions, i. e.
as if certain parts of body had become larger. Extraordinary lassitude
and fatigue, particularly from talking. Sense of constriction in
internal organs. He is on alternate days. Many complaints are in
afternoon and when sitting. He feels best during moderate exercise, in
evening and in open air.

Skin.–

Herpes
with itching, in evening, Humid tatters. Cracked. Skin symptoms are
renewed and full and new moon. Brittle nails.

Sleep.–

At
night, unrefreshing and entirely too light, Sleeplessness before
midnight. Many anxious, frightful dreams at night.

Fever.–

Pulse
Full and somewhat accelerated. Chill: Predominant and mostly
toward evening, even in bed and by a warm stove, as well as after eating
warm soup, often with heat of face. During day, and heat at night. In
evening, following the chill there is Heat which spreads from face, but
sometimes only attacks the right side of the body. Evening fever with
prevailing chill. Sweat: At night, especially in early morning in
bed, most profuse on face, often on right side of face only, with
anxiety. Entire inability to.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: BRY., Calc – c, Cham, Ign,
Ip, Lach, Nat – m, Phos.,
Plb., Pul., Verat – a.

Ambra grisea

[Ambr.]

Mind.–

Animated
phantasies of which he cannot rid himself. Difficult thinking and
comprehension. Restless and hasty. Long after excitement after talking.
Despair and satiety of life. Embarrassed in company. Sadness. Great
seriousness with aversion to talking and laughing.

Vertigo.–

Intense,
in open air.

Head.–

Aching
to temples from congestion thereto. Rush of blood to, also when
listening to music. Tearing in, with ulcers on scalp. Violent (pressing)
headaches on alternate days, with fear of going mad. The hair falls out
and is painful to touch. Smarting soreness of scalp early on waking,
followed by numbness thereof, as well as of skin of entire body.

Eyes.–

Pressure,
as if they had been closed too firmly. Inflammatory redness of
sclerotic.

Ears.–

Tearing
in. One sided deafness.

Nose.–

Nose
– bleed in early morning. Cramp in wings of. Stopped coryza with
smarting pain inside of.

Face.–

Jaundiced
color. Flushes of heat in. Spasmodic trembling and twitching of muscles
of, and of lips.

Teeth.–

Tearing
pain in hollow, by warmth, Bleeding and twitching of muscles of, and of
lips.

Mouth.–

Dry
and numb inside, early on awaking, Fetor from, early in morning.
Excoriative, smarting pain in a nodule (ranula) under tongue. Early in
morning there is much gray mucus in throat necessitating hawking,
thereby causing gagging and vomiting.

Stomach.–

Thirst:
Entirely absent.

Eructations:
Abortive. Sour. Heartburn, particularly after drinking milk.

Hypochondriac:
Pressive pain in (r.), and in stomach. Splenic pain, as if something
were torn loose there.

Abdomen.–

Pressure
and heaviness in. Distension of, after every meal. Cold sensation on one
side of. Pain in upper and lower.

Stool.–

Constipated
and retarded.

Anus.–

Itching
and crawling in, and in rectum.

Urine.–

Frequent
micturition at night. Turbid, with brown sediment. Sour odor of.

Sexual Organs.–

Burning,
itching and smarting sensations in, with violent voluptuous feelings.
Early in bed, erections with numbness in parts. Inflammation of internal
sexual organs.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early and too profuse, with varices.

Respiration.–

Short,
with tightness of chest.

Cough.–

Dry,
spasmodic, with eructations and hoarseness (particularly in emaciated
persons). Nightly, from tickling in throat. In long paroxysms coming
from deep in chest, dry in evening, expectoration of grayish – white,
seldom yellow mucus, of a salty or sour taste in morning.

Trachea etc. – Hoarseness from much thick mucus in. Itching,
scratching and soreness in, and in larynx.

Chest.–

Compression
in, and in back. Pressure in and on, particularly in cardiac region.
Palpitation with a pale face. Itching in.

Back.–

Neck:
Itching in thyroid gland.

Upper Extremities.–

Asleep
sensation with numbness of arm on which he lies at night. Gouty tearing
in joints of arms and hands. Shriveled finger tips.

Lower Extremities.–

Tearing
from lumbar region throughout entire right thigh, it is impossible to
stop, and limb seems shorter than the sound one. Nightly cramps in
calves. Burning in soles.

Generalities.–

The
arms and limbs easily go to sleep. Tearing pains particularly in joints,
often one sided. Spasms and twitching in muscular parts. Benumbed
sensation of entire surface of body, in morning. Many complaints appear
during sleep and disappear after during sleep and disappear after
rising. Many complaints are by slow exercise in the open air and by
lying on painful parts. Particularly adapted to elderly and emaciated
persons.

Skin.–

Dry.
Itching and burning in many localities. Burning herpes.

Sleep.–

Disturbed
by coldness of body and twitching of limbs at night. Full of reveries,
with anxious dreams and phantasies.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Accelerated and ebullition of blood. Chill: In forenoon, with
weariness and sleepiness, by eating. At night, preventing falling to
sleep. Of single parts, with heat of face. Anxious flying. Heat:
Recurring every fifteen minutes, most violent toward evening, Sweat,
Profuse, at night, mostly after midnight, on affected side. Profuse,
especially on abdomen and thighs, during motion.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Bell., Calc-a., Lyc., Nux v.,
Puls., Staph., Sul.

Ammonium carb

[Am-c.]

Mind.–

Difficult
thinking. Easily makes mistakes in talking and writing. Forgetful and
distracted. Sadness and weeping with fears and presentiments of
impending evil. Very peevish and ill – humored during cloudy weather.
Satiety of life. Disobedient.

Vertigo.–

With
nausea, toward evening.

Head.–

Chronic
headache with nausea. Feeling as if brain were loose. Beating and
pressing in forehead, as if head would burst. Heaviness and fullness in
forehead. Worse: Evening: after eating, after motion in open air,
Better: Half – reclining position, external pressure, warmth.

Eyes.–

Burning
in with photophobia. Dim vision with glimmering. Nearsighted. Catarrh.

Ears.–

Difficult
hearing with suppuration and itching of. Hard swelling of parotid gland.

Nose.–

Congestion
of blood to tip, when stooping. Nosebleed, Chronic coryza, can breathe
through mouth only. Stopped coryza at night.

Face.–

Deathly
pale, bloated. Itchy eruption with swollen cervical glands. Herpes about
mouth. Many freckles. Dry, cracked lips, with burning pains.

Teeth.–

Jerking,
tearing ache, by biting teeth together. Sticking ache. Loose. Swollen
gums, which bleed easily.

Mouth.–

Swelling
of inner surface of cheek, Blisters in, also on tongue. Throat, sore, as
if a foreign body had lodged there.

Stomach.–

Pressure
in with nausea and sensitiveness of pit after eating. Intolerant of
pressure of clothes on.

Appetite:
He cannot eat without also drinking. Great desire for sugar. Continual
thirst.

Taste:
Bitter, in morning.

Eructations:
Scratchy heartburn after eating.

Nausea:
And vomiting after every meal.

Abdomen.–

Spasm
in, with contractive sensation, nausea and collection of water in mouth.

Stool.–

Constipated.
Retarded, hard, knotty.

Anus.–

Hemorrhage
from, during and independently of stool. Moist hemorrhoids. Itching of.

Urine.–

Nightly,
also involuntary urination.

Sexual Organs.–

Pollutions
follow a forcing and drawing in testes.

Female.–

Menses:
Too scant and too short, of blackish acrid blood. Too early and too
profuse. Many complaints during. Burning, acrid, watery leucorrhoea.

Respiration.–

Tightness
of chest with palpitation, particularly during exercise and when
ascending steps. Asthmatic symptoms of dropsical persons.

Cough.–

Dry,
as from feather down in throat, with hoarseness. Night cough. With
bloody expectoration after previous sweetish (blood) taste in throat,
with violent respiratory symptoms.

Chest.–

Congestion
to. Sticking in left side of, lying thereon. Hydrothorax Palpitation.

Back.–

Drawing
through entire length of, from lumbar region to nape.

Upper Extremities.–

Distended
blood vessels and blue hands after washing, with cold water or letting
them hang down. Deadened sensation in arms and fingers. Pain in wrist
which had been formerly sprained. Skin peels from palms.

Lower Extremities.–

Bruised
pain in hip joints and thighs. Twitching in knees. Cramp in soles of
feet. Painful redness and swelling of great toe, in evening.

Generalities.–

Wrenching,
tearing in joints by warmth of bed. Restlessness of body in evening.
Inclination to stretch limbs. Aversion and unusual sensitiveness to open
or cold air. Emaciation. Aversion to motion. Symptoms are intensified in
evening. Right side of body is mostly affected. Worse: Washing.
Mucous membranes first then circulatory apparatus.

Skin.–

Violent
itching and burning vesicles after scratching. Freckles. Ganglion chafed
skin in children.

Sleep.–

Day
sleepiness. Nightly nausea and ebullitions of blood.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Hard, tense and rapid. Chill: Attacks of in evening, often
alternating with heat, till toward midnight. In open air. Heat:
Most in evening, especially on face, with cold feet. Sweet: In
early morning, most on joints. Persistent, day or night sweats.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Bro., Calc – c, flu
– ac., Hep., Phos., Sec-c.

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