BŒNNINGHAUSEN’S
CHARACTERISTICS
MATERIA MEDICA
by
C. M. BOGER, M.D.
Ammonium muriaticum
[Am-m.]
Mind.–
Irritable
and fretful in forenoon, but in better humor in afternoon. Anxiety with
weeping. Low spirited from care and grief.
Vertigo.–
Dizzy,
disappearing in open air.
Head.–
Sense
of heaviness and fullness in forehead, early in morning.
Eyes.–
Burning
of, in twilight, disappearing in artificial light. Burning in canthi with
photophobia, early in morning, disappearing after washing. Flying spots
before.
Ears.–
Outward
sticking in, especially in open air. Running ears with difficult bearing.
Nose.–
Sensitiveness
and ulcerative pain deep in nasal cavity. Fluent coryza with discharge of
acrid water, stoppage of nose and loss of smell.
Face.–
Burning
heat of, in room. Violent tearing in zygoma. Angles of mouth ulcerated. Dry
cracked lips with denuded spots thereon. Throbbing pain in swollen
submaxillary glands.
Mouth.–
Sticking
pain in throat when swallowing. Burning vesicles on tip of tongue.
Stomach.–
Thirst:
Much, particularly in evening.
Taste:
Bitter, in mouth early in morning.
Eructations:
Bitter. Hiccough with stitches in chest.
Vomiting:
Mucus, early in morning.
Abdomen.–
Pinching
bellyache. Twitching about naval and in hypochondria.
Stool.–
Constipation.
Bellyache about naval before.
Urine.–
Diminished
discharge of. Frequent nightly urination.
Female.–
Menses:
Two early and too profuse, with abdominal and lumbar pains.
Cough.–
Day,
from tickling in throat, early in the morning. Chronic straining cough
coming from deep within chest. When lying on back, in evening and at night.
Larynx.–
Hoarseness
with burning in.
Back.–
Neck:
Tearing in sides of, extending into clavicle. Painful stiffness of nape.
Back:
Extraordinary lumbar pains as though beaten, at night. Stitches in scapula
when breathing.
Upper Extremities.–
Blisters
which become scabby, on wrists. Feeling of skin between fingers. Painful
fingertips (panaritia).
Lower Extremities.–
Contraction
of tendons of popliteal spaces and stiff knee joints. Deadness of legs.
Ulcerative pains and tearing in heels. Painful tips of toes. Fetid foot
sweat.
Generalities.–
Ulcerative
pains in many parts of body. Tightening in joints, as from contraction of
muscles. In the morning hours the parts are as if contracted, it disappears
during rapid walking in open air. The right side is principally affected.
Chest and head symptoms are in morning, abdominal symptoms in afternoon, and
pain in extremities, skin diseases and fever in evening.
Bones.–
Tearing
in, at night.
Skin.–
Vesicular
eruptions finally forming scabs. Peeling off, of skin of many parts of body.
Sleep.–
Sleepless
after midnight.
Fever.–
Pulse:
Constantly accelerated day and night. Chill: With external coldness
in evening, and from uncovering it night. Coldness runs up back. Alternating
with heat every half hour. Heat: With puffy red face, especially in a
warm room and after physical exertion. Frequent attacks of overrunning heat,
each time ending with sweat, which breaks out most profusely on face, palms
and soles. Sweat: After previous heat, at night as well as during
day. Profuse night sweat over entire body, most violent after midnight and
in early morning in bed.
Relationship.–
Allied
Remedies: Ars., Nux
– v., PUL, Rhus-t.
Anacardium oriental
[Anac.]
Mind.–
Imagines
himself double, or that someone lies beside him. Feels possessed of two
wills, one of which hinders him from doing that to which the other impels
him. His reason and will are at variance. Great Weakness of comprehension
and memory. Imbecility. Awkward, foolish conduct Anxiety. Despondency and
fear of approaching death. Cruelty and inhumanity. Want of moral feeling.
Inclination to swear. Irascible and ill natured. Inclination to laugh about
serious matters. Anthropophobia. Hysteria and hypochondriasis after
excessive sexual indulgence.
Head.–
Congestion
to. Pressive ache like a painful inward pressure in temples with decreased
vision and bearing, some hours after eating. Pressure as of a nail, mostly
in temples (eyes and ears). Tearing headache. Stitches in brain. Pain in
occiput from making a misstep and from noise. Worse: Mental exertion,
stepping hard, after eating, in cold. Better: While eating.
Eyes.–
Pressure
on balls. Dim vision. Halo about light in evening.
Ears.–
Painful
swelling of external. Earache with tearing and sticking. Deafness.
Nose.–
Absence
of sense of smell. Illusions of smell: Like pigeon dung or shouldering
tinder. Violent coryza with fever. Much sneezing and long – continued
excitation thereto.
Face.–
Pale,
with hollow eyes encircled by blue rings. Herpetic skin about mouth.
Mouth.–
Fetid
odor from, of which he is not conscious, Difficult speech, from swelling and
stiffness of tongue.
Stomach.–
Pressure
in, after eating. Weak digestion with hypochondriacal humor after eating.
Shattering in pit at every step, after eating.
Appetite:
Violent thirst with arrested breathing when drinking.
Taste:
Loss of.
Vomiting:
Of food, which.
Abdomen.–
Bursting
pain in.
Flatulence:
Rumblings abdomen with pinching and urging to stool.
Stool.–
Ineffectual
urging to. Passed with difficulty from inactivity of rectum, although soft.
Anus.–
Painful
hemorrhoids in.
Urine.–
Frequent
passage of scanty, watery urine, with burning.
Sexual Organs.–
Discharges
of prostatic fluid during stool and after urination.
Respiration.–
Tightness
of chest and oppression, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into
open air. Suffocative attacks.
Cough.–
Attacks
of shattering cough every 3 or 4 hours, excited by crawling in trachea, dry
at night, during day with a mucous expectoration, mostly of a flat, sweetish
taste, often bloody, then again yellow purulent, sometimes also gray and
acrid. With arrested breaking. With stitches in head and vomiting of
ingesta. Continued yawning and sleepiness after.
Chest.–
Pressive
pain as from a plug in. Stitches extending from cardiac into lumbar region,
Scratching and soreness in.
Back.–
Tearing
and sticking between scapulae. Pressure as of a load upon shoulders.
Upper Extremities.–
Cramp
– like pain in wrist and finger joints. Numbness of fingers. Weakness of
arms and knees. Clammy sweat on palms.
Lower Extremities.–
Restlessness
and stiffness in legs, as if knees were bandaged. Twitching and trembling
about knee with paralytic weakness. Intermittent, cramp – like pressure in
thighs and calves. Cold feet.
Generalities.–
Pressive
pain like the inward pressure of a plug, in many parts, Trembling limbs.
Sensitive in drafts and easily takes cold. Paralyses from apoplexy. Symptoms
generally appear periodically. During dinner most symptoms vanish, but
reappear afterward. Diminution of sight, hearing, taste and smell. Almost
exclusively adapted to ill natured persons.
Skin.–
Want
of both sensibility and irritability of.
Fever.–
Pulse:
Accelerated, with throbbing in blood vessels. Chill: And chilliness
with trembling, especially in open air, disappearing in sunshine. Shuddering
over back, as if cold water were poured over it, with heat of face.
Internal, even in a warm room. Heat: External with internal chill. Of
upper part of body, with cold feet, internal shuddering and hot breath.
Daily from four PM until evening, disappearing at supper time. Sweat:
In evening, on head, abdomen and back, even when sitting still. On abdomen
and back at night. Sticky, on palms of hands, especially on left. Cool, with
internal heat.
Relationship.–
Allied
Remedies: Calc-c. Coff.,
Con., Nat-m.
Angustura vera
[Ang.]
Mind.–
Extraordinary
distraction. Great crowding of thought like a waking dream in afternoon.
Disheartened and want of self – confidence. Over – sensitive to offences.
Extraordinary agitation and cheerfulness.
Head.–
In
evening (pressing) head pains with hot face. Cramp – like headache. Tensive
pain in temporal muscles when opening jaws.
Eyes.–
Tension
and pressure in, as from too strong a light. The lids stand spasmodically
wide open. Short sight.
Ears.–
Cramping
pain in. Diminished hearing.
Face.–
Hot
and bluish red. Tension in muscles of. Cramp – like pain in zygomae and in
masseter muscles. Trismus: Lock jaw with widely retracted lips, exposing
teeth. For a while after attacks, lips and cheeks remain blue. Periostitis
of lower jaw.
Throat.–
Cramped
feeling in, compelling clearing it, but no expectoration.
Stomach.–
Cutting,
smarting pain in. Cramping pain in pit.
Appetite:
Entire loss of, for solid food, he desires only coffee. Aversion to pork.
Thirsty without desire to drink. Irresistible longing for coffee.
Taste:
Bitter, in mouth after eating and smoking.
Abdomen.–
Cramping
pain in. Cutting in, after drinking milk.
Stool.–
Mucus.
Diarrhoea with cutting in abdomen.
Sexual Organs.–
Violent
itching of.
Respiration.–
Intermittent,
spasmodic. Oppressive tightness of chest when running and ascending.
Cough.–
Dry,
with scratching and rattling in chest.
Trachea,
etc. – Tenacious mucus in, which is not easily dislodged. Hoarseness from
mucus in. Faint, soft voice.
Chest.–
A
cutting ache in both sides of, at first only on inspiration, afterwards
increased to cutting shocks which continue, even when patient holds his
breath. Painful spasm in muscles of. Bruised pain in muscles of, when moving
arms. Violent palpitation with anxiety.
Back.–
Painful
stiffness between scapulae and in nape. Violent itching along back.
Opisthotonos. Bruised pain in lumbar region, early in morning.
Upper Extremities.–
Cramp
– like drawing through arms into fingers.
Lower Extremities.–
Cramping
pain and bruised feeling in legs. When stepping, pain on inner side of
ankles, necessitating limping.
Generalities.–
Tonic
spasm excited by slightest touch, drinking and noise. Stiffness and
stretching out of limbs. Spasmodic twitchings. Paralyses.
Bones.–
Caries
and very painful ulcers which affect the bones and extend into the marrow.
Sleep.–
Sleepiness
early in evening, followed by great vivacity until after midnight.
Fever.–
Pulse:
Accelerated, spasmodic irregular and sometimes intermittent. Chill:
Early in morning in bed and in forenoon, after previous thirst. Violent
internal, every afternoon (3 o’clock). Repeated shivering chill over
diseased parts. Shivering chill over back in forenoon (9 o’clock). Heat:
In evening moist in face, after entering a room and after supper. After
midnight (3 o’clock) which disturbs sleep, soon followed by shuddering, Sweat:
Only in early morning, and on forehead.
Relationship.–
Allied
Remedies: Bry.,
Calc-c., Lyc., Rhus-t., Verbas. Tab.
Antimonium crudum
[Ant-c.]
Mind.–
Imbecility.
Insanity. Ecstatic love and sentimental reveries in the moonlight.
Apprehension and solicitude concerning his fate. Restlessness. Inclination
to suicide by shooting.
Head.–
Stupefying
ache with nausea in throat. Congestion to. Distensive pressing ache. Bone
pains in cranium, the periosteum is painful and swelled and the bone itself
feels swollen. Takes cold in, from getting wet or bathing in cold water. Worse:
Evening, warmth, becoming heated, after bathing, after eating, after his
accustomed smoke. Better: Walking in cool, open air, at rest.
Eyes.–
Inflammatory
redness of, and of lids. Sticking in. Eye gum in canthi. Aversion to
daylight.
Ears.–
Deafness
as if a leaflet were lying before tympanum.
Nose.–
Sore,
cracked, crusty nostrils. Sensation of coldness in, on inspiration.
Face.–
Sad
expression. Vesicular, suppurating eruptions on, which form a yellow crust.
Angles of mouth are sore and cracked. Swelled submaxillary glands.
Teeth.–
Bleeding
from about, and from gums. Jerking pain in hollow teeth worse cold water.
Gnashing.
Mouth.–
Salty
saliva. Salivation Dirty, white – coated tongue. Hot breath.
Taste, –
Flat, disagreeably insipid. Bitterness in mouth.
Stomach.–
Pains
as from overloading. Deranged by gluttony. Spasm in, with sensitive pit and
thirst. Weak.
Appetite,
Long continued loss of, Loathes all food. Desires sour things. Intense
thirst particularly at night.
Eructations:
Tasting of ingesta.
Nausea,
etc. – Loathing, qualmishness and nausea after derangement of stomach.
Qualmishness after drinking only.
Abdomen.–
Distended
and full after eating. Violent cutting in upper. Ascites.
Flatulence:
Much, with grumbling and rattling in abdomen.
Stool.–
Hard,
difficult. Faces too large. Diarrhoea: Alternating with constipation
(in the aged), papescent or water, with cutting bellyache.
Anus.–
Hemorrhoids
in. Continuous flow of mucus from.
Urine.–
Profuse
discharge, containing mucus, with burning in urethra and lumbar pains. Dark.
Involuntary urination when coughing. Kidney calculi.
Sexual Organs.–
Lustfulness
and great sexual excitement. Uterine hemorrhage.
Respiration.–
Deep
sighing. Suffocative oppression of chest.
Cough.–
Seeming
to come from deep in abdomen, the coughs gradually grow weaker as if from
increasing closure of throat by a plug. Dry in evening, in morning
expectoration of a flat – tasting tenacious mucus mixed with dark blood.
Larynx.–
Heat
in, during exercise in open air. Very weak voice. Aphonia from becoming
heated.
Back.–
Neck:
Rheumatic pain in.
Chest.–
Burning
and sticking pain in.
Upper Extremities.–
Rheumatic
pain in arms. Swelling, sticking and tension in deltoid. Inflammatory
swelling of forearm. Slowly growing finger – nails.
Lower Extremities.–
Rheumatic
pain in legs. White swelling (hydrarthrosis) of knee. Soles sensitive when
stepping. Large callous corns on ball of foot. Inflammatory redness of heel.
Generalities.–
Excessive,
corpulency (or emaciation). Dropsical swelling of entire body. Shattering of
whole body. When they recur, complaints alternate from side to side of body.
(Lac-c.). Gastric symptoms return most violent in afternoon, the others are
worse from motion and warmth. Effects of wine, especially if sour. Results
of auto – intoxication, intestinal.
Skin.–
Fatty
itch. Popular and vesicular eruption like insect stings. Nettlerash. Chicken
– pox. Arthritic nodes. White swelling. Fistulous ulcers. Liver spots and
freckles.
Sleep.–
Great
day sleepiness. Somnolency particularly in forenoon.
Fever.–
Pulse:
Exceedingly irregular, now accelerated, now slow, alternating every few
beats. Chill: Predominates by day, even in a warm room. Toward noon
violent shaking chill with thirst (for beer). Exquisitely cold sensation in
nose during inspiration. Heat: Predominating at night, but with cold
feet until midnight. Great, from slightest motion, especially in sunshine, Sweat:
In morning when awaking, wrinkles the finger – tips. Returning at the same
hour usually on alternate mornings. Intermittent fever with loathing,
qualmishness, vomiting, bitter taste in mouth and diminished (or excessive)
thirst.
Relationship.–
Allied
Remedies: Ars., Bism.,
Bro., HEP., Ip., MERC., Pul.,
Sep., SUL.
Antimonium tartaricum
[Ant-t.]
Mind.–
Stupefying
confusion of head with sleepiness. Restlessness and solitude concerning the
future. Despair and hopelessness, with somnolence. Weeping and crying.
Cheerful by day, but fearful and anxious in evening.
Sensorium.–
Stupefaction.
Fainting preceded by coldness in the epigastrium and followed by sleep,
raising up.
Head.–
Pressive
ache in forehead, with inclination to close eyes. Tensive ache in forehead
and one side, as if brain were rolled up into a ball (Arn., Chel., Coccl.).
Throbbing in right side of forehead. Sticking headache. Heat and sweat of.
Long – continued trembling of (and hands) Especially when coughing. Worse:
Evening, night, at rest, sitting bent, warmth, getting warm in bed, lying,
after eating. Better: Rising up, sitting upright, in the cold, lying
with head high, motion, washing head.
Eyes.–
Inclination
to close, as if weary and sleepy. Are drawn shut. Pressure on. Glimmering
before, with dim vision Chronic optic – nerve paralysis.
Nose.–
Fluent
coryza, with loss of taste and smell, chilliness and somnolency.
Face.–
Pale,
sunken. Twitching of muscles. Dry, cracked lips.
Teeth.–
Chattering
of.
Throat.–
Pains
in pit of.
Stomach.–
Gastric
pains, as from overloading it. Pressure in, and in pit, with great
sensitiveness thereof. Throbbing in pit.
Appetite:
Great, for fruit and sour things. Loathes milk. Thirstlessness. Desires cold
drinks.
Taste:
Salty in mouth. Food is tasteless.
Eructations:
Empty. Nightly, as of rotten eggs.
Nausea,
etc. – Constant, anxious qualmishness, and inclination to vomit. Violent
retching, with sweat on forehead, Vomiting of food, with great exertion,
followed by exhaustion, chill and sleepiness (Aeth.), of mucus with mucus
diarrhoea. Alternate vomiting and purging.
Abdomen.–
Throbbing
and pulsation in. Bellyache, with intense mental and physical restlessness.
Pressure, as of stones lying in, when sitting bent forward.
Flatulence:
Cutting, flatulent colic, worse sitting bent forward.
Stool.–
Papescent,
mucus or bloody diarrhoeic. Watery diarrhoea follows bellyache. Diarrhoea
with restlessness.
Rectum.–
Perineum:
Violent tension in.
Urine.–
Dark,
brown, red. Violent, painful urging to urinate, with scanty (often at end
bloody) discharge. Burning in urethra after micturition. Suppressed.
Respiration.–
Difficult,
necessitating an upright position. Short, from retained expectoration.
Paralysis of lungs. Suffocative attacks, with sense of warmth about heart.
Cough.–
Short
coughs following each other in quick succession, excited by tickling and
creeping in throat and larynx, dry in evening, with expectoration of
tenacious mucus, generally somewhat slat, often only flat or sour in
morning. With vomiting of food and sweat on forehead. With Suffocative
attacks. Rattling, hollow. Whooping cough after eating or anger (in
children.) Nightly, with expectoration of mucus. After the paroxysms,
dizziness, sweat on forehead, yawning and great sleepiness.
Larynx and trachea.–
Much
mucous rattling in.
Chest.–
Oppression
of. Rattling in. Perceptible palpitation with (or without) fear.
Back.–
Pains
as from fatigue in, and in lumber region.
Neck:
Weakness of muscles. Eruption on nape.
Upper Extremities.–
Twitching
of muscles of arms and hands. Deadness and coldness of finger – tips.
Generalities.–
Great
weakness and feebleness. Fainting attacks. Sense of internal trembling.
Beating and pulsating in all blood vessels. Convulsive twitches.
Sensitiveness of body to touch. The symptoms are intensified toward evening
and when sitting.
Skin.–
Pustules
like those of smallpox or cowpox. Eruption of pocks as large as a pea
containing pus
Sleep.–
Jerks
and shocks through body during. Intense and irresistible somnolency, with
deep, stupefying sleep. Sleepiness, with involuntary closure of eyes. Much
yawning.
Fever.–
Pulse:
Full, hard and accelerated, sometimes intermittent. Strong throbbing in
blood vessels. Often slow and imperceptible during decline of fever. Extraordinarily
accelerated from the slightest motion. Chill: And external
coldness predominate at all times of day, with somnolency, mostly with
trembling and shaking, often as if water were poured over one. Alternating
with heat during day. With a pale face. Heat: Violent, but of short
duration after a long chill, increased by every movement. Long – continued,
after a short chill, with somnolency and sweat on forehead. Sweat:
All over, most profuse on face, also at night. Often cold and clammy. Most
profuse on suffering parts. Intermittent fever, with thirstlessness and
somnolency.
Relationship.–
Allied
Remedies: BELL., Chin., Coccl., Con.,
Ip. NIT-AC., Op., Pul., Sep.
Complementary:
Ip., Bar-c.
Apis mellifica
[Apis]
Mind.–
Anxiety
and premonition of death. Irritability and violent anger, every thing goes
wrong. Extraordinary nervous restlessness, does not know what to do with
herself, so that tears come to her eyes: over busy and inconstant.
Screaming, or stupidity interrupted by sudden piercing shrieks.
Unconsciousness. Absent – minded, impaired memory, indifferent. Suspicion
and jealousy. Fidgetiness.
Head.–
Bursting,
expansive pain in, with vertigo and mental confusion. Brain feels tired,
gone to sleep and crawling in. Headache better from pressure and diarrhoea. Scalp:
Sensitive. Hot sweat on. Pain like a blow, swelling of.
Eyes.–
Burning
and itching of. Inflammatory or edematous swelling of lids. Lids averted. Stiff.
Profuse lachrymation. Photophobia. Desire to rub. Better:
Bathing in cold water. Profuse burning tears.
Ears.–
Purple.
Swelling of lymphatic gland behind.
Nose.–
Cold
tip. Itching and frequent sneezing.
Face.–
Puffy.
Erysipelatous redness of. Red stripes on. Lips greatly swollen.
Mouth.–
Dry
with burning raw feeling, as if scalded in, and in throat, followed by
vesicles on edge of tongue, without thirst. Adhesive mucus in and in throat.
Fiery redness and painful tenderness of buccal cavity and throat. Swelling,
especially of tongue, Inflammation of and tongue.
Throat.–
Sense
of constriction, soreness, stinging or itching in. Breathing and swallowing
very difficult, every drop of liquid put upon the tongue nearly suffocates
him. Swelling of, and of glands of, worse from hot drinks.
Stomach.–
Hot
vapor seems to rise from Prickling as from needles. Oppression at pit.
Burning in. Sensitive to pressure.
Eructations:
Tasting like yolk of egg during headache. Drinking water, on.
Nausea,
etc. – Progressing to vomiting, with fainting. Vomiting with abdominal
symptoms or diarrhoea.
Thirst:
Generally absent, but occasionally it is intense.
Abdomen.–
Bruised
soreness of, pressure, sneezing or touch. Inflated sensation in. Rumbling in
Heaviness in. Sickly feeling in.
Anus,
Rectum and stool. – Diarrhoea, with feeling of rawness in anus, with extreme
weakness. Stools pass with every motion of the body, as if anus
stool open (phos.) Stools contain lumps of bloody mucus.
Dysentery. Tenesmus. Diarrhoea with profuse urine.
Urine.–
Burning
and soreness when urinating Frequent, profuse urination. Suppressed or
scanty. Strangury. Brick dust sediment. Agg. Exertion.
Sexual Organs.–
Sexual
excitement. Uterine hemorrhage with yawning. Miscarriage. Flow of menses
relieves burning in abdomen. Ovaries: Stinging, drawing, cutting or
sore pains, more in right, worse from coition, standing or walking.
Respiration.–
Suffocation.
With a sensation that he would not be able to breathe again, can bear
nothing about throat, wants to be fanned, worse lying down and in a warm
room. Oppression of, with desire to take a deep breath. Respiration and
cough are worse lying on left side.
Cough.–
Violent
shocks of cough from a crawling irritation near the throat pit, increased
headache at every shock. Worst: In a warm room, after lying and
sleeping. Better: By little expectoration.
Larynx, etc.–
Hoarseness, in morning, with difficult breathing.
Chest.–
Stinging
or stitches in. Bruised soreness, worse coughing. Fullness in. Heart:
Feeble heart beat. Violent, audible palpitation. Acute pain below heart,
extending towards right chest.
Neck and Back.–
–
Neck stiff. Nettlerash on. Bruised feeling in. Odor from axillae greatly
intensified.
Upper Extremities.
Sensitiveness of. Painfulness of bones. Numb finger – tips. Sensation
as if nails were loose. Blood settles under nails. Burning,
pricking, especially in finger – tips.
Swelling of.
Lower Extremities.–
Feel
paralyzed. Sore pains. Sensation in feet and toes, as if too large, swollen
and stiff. Painful fullness in soles, as if walking on cushions. Crawling
in. Numb.
Generalities.–
Swelling
of affected parts, with burning itching, stinging or shooting pains, Edema,
dropsy, anasarca, etc., puffing up of the whole body. Sense of tightness in
many parts, especially abdomen. Bruised soreness all over. Sensitiveness of
mind and body or apathy, numbness and anesthesia with awkwardness causing
her to drop things. Lassitude, weakness and sudden prostration. Trembling. Sensation:
Of sudden stinging or stabbing, of swelling, soreness, rawness, drawing,
prickling, crawling or as if parts were going to sleep. Pain causes
fainting. Symptoms often move from right to left. Want of thirst
predominates.
Worse:
Touch, heat. 3 PM
Better:
Cold, open air.
Tissues.–
Swelled.
Redness of lymphatics.
Skin.–
Stinging,
prickling, burning, smarting and itching all over. Exceedingly sensitive,
even the hair is painful to touch. Red spots, like bee stings on. Swelling
and erysipelatous redness of, then desquamation of whole surface. Pale red
swellings. Appearance of a nettlerash like eruption better the other
symptoms. Receding of suppressed eruptions. Wheels. Urticaria. Burning like
fire in spots, altho’s parts may be cold. Better: Rubbing.
Sleep.–
Somnolency:
With prostration, with nervous restlessness. Screaming out, or terrified
starting during. Dreams, Full of laborious, of heat, of flying, quarrels,
etc. Drowsy and thirstless.
Fever.–
Pulse:
Full and accelerated, more seldom small and thready, occasionally
intermittent and imperceptible. Chill, severest towards evening. Shivering
c., in afternoon (3 or 4 o’clock) increased by warmth. Shivering from least
motion, especially towards evening, with heat of head and hands. Heat:
Without thirst. Sensation of heat. Dry,
toward evening. The sensation of heat is greatest on the chest and
epigastric region. Sweat: Alternating with dry skin.
Relationship.–
Allied
Remedies: Apoc., ARS., Bell., Canth.,
Chin., Coccl., Dulc., Ferr.,
Graph., Hell., Hep., Iod., Kali-c., Kali.
iod., Lach., Lyc., Merc.,
Millef., NAT-M., PULS., Rhus-t., Sep., Sul.,
URT-U.
Antipsoric
of Apis.: Bar-c. Nat-m.
Antidotes:
Canth., Carb-v.
Argentum metallicum
[Arg-m.]
Mind.–
Anxiety
driving him from place to place. Dejection. Taciturnity.
Vertigo.–
With
dim vision.
Head.–
Crawling
and whirling in, as from intoxication. Hollow feeling in, with soreness of
whole brain. Pressing, tearing in skull, especially in temporal bones.
Smarting soreness on external. Pressure and tearing in skull bones. Worse:
Pressure, touch. Better: open air.
Ears.–
Gnawing
itching of external.
Nose.–
Nosebleed
preceded by crawling in. Severe, fluent coryza with frequent sneezing.
Face.–
Red.
Pressing and tearing in bones of. Swelled upper lip.
Mouth.–
Raw,
and sore smarting pain in throat when coughing, less when swallowing.
Inflammation and narrowing of throat (after abuse of mercury), so that food
passes through with difficulty. Sore throat, as though’ swollen internally.
Sore, burning vesicles on tongue.
Stomach.–
Appetite:
Unusually good. Aversion to all food, even when thinking thereof.
Abdomen.–
Painful
distension of. Flatulent colic.
Stool.–
Frequent,
soft, but always scanty.
Urine.–
Frequent
urging to urinate with copious discharge. Polyuria.
Sexual Organs.–
Pollutions
almost every night.
Cough.–
By
day, with easy expectoration.
Larynx, etc.–
Raw, sore pain in. Much gelatinous gray mucus in trachea, which is easily
expectorated.
Upper Extremities.–
Tension
and tearing in arms, especially in bones of hands and fingers.
Lower Extremities.–
Stitches
in hip when walking. Pain in knee when sitting. Tearing in bones of feet and
toes.
Generalities.–
Bruised
pain in joints. Asleep or stiff sensation in extremities. Pain in internal
organs, as if raw or sore. Epileptic attacks. Effects of abuse of mercury
(And of onanism). Symptoms recur each noon.
Bones.–
Tearing
pains in.
Skin.–
Corrosive,
burning itching here and there.
Fever.–
Pulse:
Accelerated in evening after lying down. Chill: In afternoon evening
until falling to sleep, also before midnight from slightest raising of
covers. Spreads from the back. Heat: In forenoon, over the entire
body, it is true yet less on head. Without thirst. Sweat: On abdomen
and chest only.
Relationship.–
Allied
Remedies: Merc.
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