BŒNNINGHAUSEN’S
CHARACTERISTICS
MATERIA MEDICA
by
C. M. BOGER, M.D.
Argentum nitricum
[Arg-n.]
Mind.–
Imbecile
appearance, shy (Ign.) and childish.
Weak memory, confusion of thought. Falters in
speech. Anxiety: With gastrointestinal symptoms, with
palpitation, apprehensive, hurried and impulsive. Bed
effects of anxiety or suspense. Awakes with complete loss of
memory. Impulsive but apprehensive with loss of control somewhere.
Distraction. Taciturn. Timid. Builds air
– castles by day and has monstrous dreams at night.
Vertigo.–
As
intoxicated, with confusion, with headache, with buzzing in ears, week limbs
and trembling, with blindness.
Head.–
Enlarged
feeling, as if to burst, with eructations and chilliness. As if
in a vise. As of a cool current in. Unilateral radiating, digging or boring
pains so violent that he loses his senses, with bitter sour taste and
vomiting. Worse: Mental exertion and in open air. Better:
Tight banding.
Scalp:
Extremely troublesome itching and crawling. Roots of hair feel pulled
upward.
Eyes.–
Ophthalmia
with sticking pains and swelled carunculae, conjunctiva blood – red, swollen
or puckered. Agglutinated lids. Filled with mucus. Dilated pupils. Filled
pupils. Misty vision. Serpents, gray spots or fiery bodies before. Chemosis.
Opacity or cornea. Worse: From heat of fire. Better: In cool
air.
Nose.–
Coryza
with chilliness. Sneezing excited by tingling in and in posterior nares.
Obstructed in room but flowing a thin mucus in open air. Bruised pain in
bones of. Violent itching, rubs until it becomes raw. Blows bloody, purulent
mucus from, as cough improves. Dull sense of smell.
Face.–
Sickly,
sunken, pale or bluish. Aged expression.
Teeth.–
Grumbling
digging in worse from cold or sour things. Loose. Readily bleeding gums.
Mouth.–
Dry.
Salivation.
Taste:
Astringent, metallic, like ink, sweetish or clayey, straw – like to food.
Throat.–
Dark
red. Thick, tenacious mucus in, obliges hawking. As of a splinter in.
Rawness, soreness or roughness in. Tickling in, causing lachrymation Cramps,
choking or astringent sensation in.
Stomach.–
Pit:
Painful swelling of, sense of a lump in. Radiating, twisting, griping,
ulcerative gnawing or dragging pains, better from diarrhoea, worse touch,
drinking, after food and by deep inspiration. Sense of being filled unto
bursting, better copious eructations.
Appetite:
Irresistible for sugar which worse.
Eructations:
Violent, tasting of ingesta.
Nausea:
With gnawing in stomach and shuddering. Retching better from eating.
Abdomen.–
Flatulent
distension, better passing flatus. Gurgling in. Feeling of a ball rising
into throat from. Drawing extending into throat from. Drawing extending into
groins, dragging in. Stitches. Intolerance of lacing. Worse: Lying on
right side.
Anus.–
Creeping
with burning in.
Stool.–
Scanty,
watery or of greenish, fetid mucus with noisy flatus or flatulent colic.
Diarrhoea from eating sugar, after mental emotions or drinking. In flakes
like spinach.
Urine.–
Can’t
pass urine in a projecting stream. Urethra: Feels
swollen, hard and knotty, cutting from behind forward in, stretched
feeling in, during coition. Itching
at meatus.
Sexual Organs.–
Chancre
– like ulcers in prepuce. Desire wanting, with
shriveled genitals. Painful coition.
Respiratory Organs.–
Hoarseness.
Cough: with lachrymation from tickling in throat and palate, with
suffocation, worse from tobacco smoke.
Chest.–
Burning.
– Heaviness. Worse while lying down and in evening. Palpitation:
Irregular heart beat, worse thinking there of, better from motion in open
air.
Back.–
Lumbar
pain, worse rising from sitting, better walking. Heaviness in sacrum.
Extremities.–
Chorea
– like motions. Startings in. Paralysis. Walks as if intoxicated.
Left arm feels bound.
Generalities.–
Great
debility: With trembling, with rigidity and bruised feeling in calves and
loins. General throbbing worse spine. Feels better out of doors. Incoherent
ideas and incoordinate movements. Feeling of a hot fluid running along
parts, skin, urethra, etc Sensation: Of expansion;
of bursting: as if bones of head were separating or sacral bones
were loose, as of a band about parts. Boring
pains. Pains in spots. Heaviness. Emaciation. Many
left sided symptoms. Splinter – like sensation.
Worse:
Emotions, mental strain, thinking, in a warm room.
Skin.–
Tense
and hard Leaden hue.
Sleep.–
Sleepless
from fancies. Dreams of serpents, with horror.
Fever.–
Chills:
Along spine, creeping. with nausea Heat: With burning, in spots. With
chilliness on uncovering. Sweat: on palms, lower abdomen and inside
of thighs.
Relationship.–
Allied
Remedies: Arg-m., Aur., Bar-c., Carbo.,
Con., Gel., Hell., Hep., Lyc., Merc.,
Merc-c., Nat-m., Nit-ac., Pul, Thuj.,
ARS., Plb., Cup., Zinc.
Complementary:
Puls.
Antidotes:
Nat-m., Bell.
Arnica montana
[Arn.]
Mind.–
Unconsciousness.
Distraction and inability to think. Great fear and restlessness. Lachrymose
humor. Oversensitive. Refuses to reply to anything. Rage. Peevish, wilful,
quarrelsome mood. Anger, followed by screaming and weeping.
Sensorium.–
Whirling
vertigo with nausea when rising up and during motion, better lying. Fainting
after physical injuries.
Head.–
Congestion
to. Burning or heat of, with coldness of rest of body. Pressing pain in
forehead. Tearing and inward sticking in temples and forehead. Compressive
ache. Stitches in. Concussion, of brain. Aching over one eye, with vomiting
of green water after overlifting. Cutting like a knife through head,
followed by a cold feeling and bristling hair. Feeling: As if brain
were rolled into a lump (Ant-t.), as if a nail were thrust into one temple,
of crawling in forehead over orbit, also upon vertex. Worse: Forenoon
and evening, motion, shaking, coughing, mental exertion, midnight, after
eating, raising eyes, becoming cold. Better: Rest, lying horizontally
or on painful side.
External Head.–
Crawling,
tearing in the bone itself, most severe in region of temples (after trauma).
Crawling in vertex. Tension from vertex down to brows. Scalp adheres tightly
to cranium. Worse: Touch. Better: Warmth, rubbing, wrapping up
warmly.
Eyes.–
Inflamed
and bloodshot after injuries. Dim, lusterless. Swollen, ecchymosed lids.
Burning tears. Photophobia.
Ears.–
Stitches
in, and behind. Difficult hearing, with roaring before. Earache, as from a
contusion.
Nose.–
Crawling
in. Pain in, as if crushed. Swelling and ecchymosis of. Epistaxis.
Face.–
Pale,
sunken, Heat of, with coldness of body. Unilateral redness and swelling of
cheeks. Crawling about eyes, in cheeks and lips. Busted burning lips.
Swollen, submaxillary glands.
Teeth.–
Aching,
with crawling in gums and a swelled cheek.
Mouth.–
Offensive
odor from, early in morning. Bleeding from. Burning in throat. Swallowing
impeded by a sort of qualmishness. Noisy deglutition. White coated tongue.
Stomach.–
Cramp
in. Fullness in. Stitches in pit, with pressure extending into back and
constriction of chest.
Hypochondria:
When walking stitches in spleen with arrested breathing.
Appetite:
Craving for vinegar. Violent thirst for cold water, without heat. Taste. –
Foul or bitter.
Eructations:
Foul or bitter. Like rotten eggs. Regurgitation of bitter mucus.
Nausea,
etc. – Qualmishness and empty retching.
Vomiting:
Of ingesta (often mixed with blood) after drinking, of dark, coagulated
blood.
Abdomen.–
Hard
distended. Pain in after overlifting (also during pregnancy). Contusive pain
in sides of. Pain about navel during motion. Colic with retained urine.
Flatulence:
Torturing. Discharged flatus has odor of rotten eggs.
Stool.–
Retained,
with ineffectual urging. Undigested. Unnoticed. Involuntary. Diarrhoea with
tenesmus. Ineffectual tenesmus.
Urine.–
Retention
of from spasm of sphincter vesicae. Brownish – red, with brick red sediment.
Haematuria. Ineffectual urging to urinate. Involuntary urination at night in
bed and during day when walking.
Sexual Organs.–
Bluish
– red swelling of penis and scrotum. Hot swelling of testes (after
contusion.) Hydrocele. Inflamed vagina and uterus after (difficult)
childbirth. After pains too painful and too long continued.
Respiration.–
Anxious
oppression of. Foul smelling breath.
Cough.–
Dry,
excited by crawling in trachea, with stitches in head. When coughing,
inability to expectorate, on the contrary must swallow what is loosened.
Haemoptysis, of bright foamy blood mixed with small clots. Expectoration of
black blood in coagulated lumps, without cough, after every exertion.
Expectoration of badly tasting slime in evening. Wailing, crying and weeping
precede and follow the paroxysm.
Larynx.–
Scraping
in.
Chest.–
Bruised
pain and compression in. Burning in. Stitches in worse from coughing and
motion, better by external pressure. Rawness in. Stitches in (left side).
Bruised feeling in ribs. Jerking heart beat. Erysipelas and inflammation of
female mammae. Excoriated nipples.
Back.–
Crawling
in. Stitches in loins. Bruised sensation in, and in lumbar region.
Upper Extremities.–
Bruised
sensation in arms. Crawling in arms. Sprained pain in joints of arm and
hand. Distended blood vessels on hands.
Lower Extremities.–
Bruised
feeling in legs. Crawling in legs. Tension and weariness in thighs. Pale
swelling of knee. Hot, erysipelatous inflammation and painfulness of feet.
Podagra.
Generalities.–
Bruised
pain with crawling in entire body, from every motion. Stiffness of limbs
after excessive exertion. Oversensitiveness of entire body. Constant
restless of body and tossing about. Shifting pains in joints quickly change
place. Twitching muscles. Ebullitions of blood. Apoplexy with exudation.
Ecchymosis and hemorrhages of internal and external parts. Complaint (also
inflammations) after blows, falls or contusions. The symptoms are
intensified in the evening and at night, as well as from touch, motion and
even from nose.
Bones.–
Drawing
in periosteum, before fever.
Skin.–
Numerous
small boils. Hot, hard, glistening swelling (i. e., as from insect stings).
Ecchymoses. Wounds. Excoriations (bed sores) of invalids.
Sleep.–
Day
sleepiness, with inability to sleep. Somnolency, with flightiness Anxious
dreams.
Fever.–
Pulse:
Very variable, mostly full, hard and accelerated. Sometimes very weak and
slow. Alternate quick and slow action of pulse and heart. Strong pulsation
thro’ whole body in evening. Chill: Internal coldness with external
warmth. With great thirst, which often precedes it, as if cold water were
poured over one, for the most part in the evening. And coldness of lower
parts of body, with heat of upper, especially of head. Universal, with heat
and redness of one cheek. After every nap. From slightest lifting of covers.
Alternating with heat. Cold sensation of side on which he lies. Heat:
Dry, which is either general or only running over the face or back. Earning
in single parts of body, which feel cold externally. Or coldness, now here
now there. IN evening, with pains in limbs. Internal with external coldness.
Sweat: for the most part sour or offensive smelling, sometimes cold.
Relationship.–
Allied
Remedies: Acon., Ap., Ars., Bry.,
Cann., Caps., Chin., CIC., Ferr., Rhus-t.,
Sabi., Samb., Sell, Seneg., Verat-a., ZINC.
Complementary:
Nat-s., SUL.
Arsenicum album
[Ars.]
Mind.–
Anxiety,
restlessness and cold feeling from vexation (Bell.).
Inclined to hang himself. Derangement, mental weakness and satiety of life
in drunkards. Anxiety at night which allows him no rest. Anxiety and despair
(Acon.) often mounting to madness during pain. Attacks of great fear of
being alone, (of thieves, ghosts) or death. Mad brutal obstinacy. Takes
everything in bad part. Inclination to talk about faults of others, love of
scandal. Malice. Capricious disposition. Crying and whining of children.
Sensorium.–
Fainting
from weakness with a scarcely perceptible pulse. Chaotic condition and
heaviness of head, when in a room.
Head.–
Burning
and shocks in. Swelling of. Throbbing pain in forehead with nausea. Pressure
as of a load bearing down on brain, with exhaustion and humming. Worse:
Night, in morning when standing or sitting in room, motion, raising up.
Better, Transiently, from cold bathing, permanently in open air and from
warmth. Violent head pains interrupted by sopor, full of dreams. The veins
of the temples are distended during the headache.
External Head.–
Burning,
itching most on bregma but also on occiput, less on sides, scratching causes
bleeding, more violent burning and some moisture, later foul festers among
may dry, whitish, burning, itching bran – like scales appear. Burning
itching gatherings on, with festering pain when touched and sensitiveness of
head to touch and cold. Erysipelatous burning swelling of entire head, face
(and genitals) with general coldness, chill, aversion to uncovering, great
exhaustion and nightly aggravation.
Eyes.–
Red,
inflamed with burning pains. Inflammation on inner surface of lids, impedes
opening them. Spots on cornea.
Ears.–
Difficult
hearing for the human voice everything else is distinctly heard.
Nose.–
Swelling
and burning of. Ulcers in. Cancer of. Violent, fluent coryza with discharge
of acrid burning water.
Face.–
Earthy,
pale or yellow color. Distorted, deathly countenance. Blue and puffy,
especially about eyes. Unnatural deep redness of. Milk crust. Drawing
sticking here and there. Cancer of, and of lips with burning pains.
Blackish, fissured lips. Crawling sensation on denuded lower lip, as of
something alive there. Swollen submaxillary glands.
Teeth.–
Nightly
aching better external warmth. Bleeding gums.
Mouth.–
Bad
odor from. Thrust. Inflammation of oesophagus. Burning and roughness in
fauces. Dry, black, fissured tongue. Gangrene of tongue.
Stomach.–
Burning
in, with bitter eructations, Great painfulness in pit. Pressure in. Cancer
of. Stomachache with anxiety.
Hypochondria:
Indurated liver. Stitches.
Appetite:
Desire for sour things and brandy. Continual craving for fluids, drinks
frequently but little at a time. Constant thirst for cold water.
Taste:
Bitter: In mouth after eating and drinking, of bread.
Nausea,
etc. – Retching. Qualmishness rising into throat. Vomiting: Chronic
of food immediately after eating, after every drink, black, with anxiety in
epigastrium.
Abdomen.–
Distended,
hard. Burning in. Stitches in sides of.
Nightly twitching pains in. Ascites. Buried pain in. Indurated mesenteric
glands. Painful swelling of inguinal glands.
Stools.–
Burning evacuations with intense cutting in abdomen. Diarrhoea, Very
offensive, with persistent coldness, dysenteric, white, involuntary,
burning, chronic, watery and painful. Constipation.
Anus, etc.
– Burning pain in rectum. Burning hemorrhoids.
Urine.–
Retention
of, or difficult urination. Burning.
Sexual Organs.–
Painful
swelling of. Erysipelatous inflammation of scrotum.
Female.–
Menses:
Too early and too profuse. Acrid, burning, excoriating leucorrhoea.
Respiration.–
Tightness
of chest during motion. Suffocative attacks in evening after lying down.
Oppression of chest when ascending and when in cold air. Shortness of, when
walking or turning over in bed.
Cough.–
Clear,
ringing, crowing or whistling, excited by burning tickling as from sulphur
vapor in trachea and throat pit, dry at night, by day expectoration of a
scanty, mostly foamy, mucus, or in lumps of varying taste and color,
sometimes mixed with bright red blood, returning periodically with
increasing violence. Without expectoration, especially after drinking.
Immediately on lying down. Nightly hemoptysis with heat.
Larynx and trachea.–
Phthisis
of, with scanty secretion of mucus. Constriction of larynx.
Chest.–
Burning
(or chilliness) in, Constriction for, with want of breath, from every
movement. Distension of. Itching in. Nightly anxious palpitation. Cancer of
breast. Hydrothorax. Sticking and pressing in sternum.
Back.–
Intense
burning. Nightly tearing.
Upper Extremities.–
Nightly
tearing in arms from elbows to shoulders. Black pimples on arms. Nightly
sensation of fullness and swelling in palm of hand. Chafing between fingers.
Discolored nails.
Lower Extremities.–
Twitching
in hip. Tearing sticking in hip, lumbar region and thigh. Nightly tearing in
legs. Bruised sensation in knee – joint. Old ulcers on legs, with burning
and sticking especially at night. Itching herpes in popliteal spaces. Hard
burning swelling of feet. Painfulness of balls of toes, as if rubbed sore
when walking. Podagra. Varicose veins.
Generalities.–
Burning
pains in various parts. Tearing pains in limbs are most violent at night and
during rest after previous overexertion, are only endurable when walking
about and from external warmth, which he craves. Extraordinarily rapid
sinking of strength. Great restlessness in limbs. Emaciation. Tremblings.
Elastic swelling. Convulsions. Worse: During rest, especially after
previous violent exercise, weak, restless, and cold, by addressing others,
after eating and lying down, immediately after midnight. Better: By
external warmth and exercise. It sometimes rescues when all appears lost,
but only when given in the smallest doses and a high potency.
Skin.–
Dry,
cold. General oedema. Flat ulcers, with burning pain and ichorous discharge.
Gangrenous ulcers, vesicles. Cold swellings. Scanty burning secretions. The
pains excite symptoms.
Sleep.–
Frequent
starting up and twitching in. Somnolency in evening. Sleeplessness with
constant restlessness and tossing about. Inability to fall asleep after once
awaking at night. Anxious dreams.
Fever.–
Pulse:
Weak and small, but greatly accelerated, often imperceptible and entirely
wanting to intermittent. Quick early in morning, slow in evening. Burning or
cold sensation in blood vessels. Chill: (And heat) indistinct, either
concomitant or alternating. In forenoon, which nothing relieves. Internal,
with external heat. And shuddering after every drink. Without thirst.
External coldness, with cold, clammy sweat. During the chill (and heat) many
concomitants which before were only of slight importance now appear in
severity. General coldness of body or of diseased parts. Shivering in
evening, with tearing in limbs and anxious restlessness. Heat:
Internal, burning, dry. Dry in evening at night, with thirst for frequent
drinks. but only a little each time. Nightly, as if dashed with hot water. Sweat:
At end of the fever, with disappearance of all symptoms, even the
concomitants. When first falling to sleep, or thro’ whole night. Cold,
clammy. sour or offensive smelling. Unquenchable thirst during.
Relationship.–
Allied
Remedies: Aco.,
Am-m., Ant-c., Arn., APIS, Bar-c., Brom.,
Bry., Calc-c., Carb-v.,
CHAM., Chin., Coff., Colch., Dig., Dulc.,
Euphor., FERR., Graph., HEP., Ign., IOD., IP., Kali-bi., Kali-c.,
KRE., Lach., LYC., Mag-c.,
MERC., MERC-C., Mos., Mur-ac., Nat-m.,
NUX-V., Petr., Phos., Phos-ac. Plb., Ran-s.,
(RHUS-T.) Samb., Scill., Sec-c., Sep., Sil., Stram.,
Staph., SUL., Sul-ac., Verat-a.
Acute of
Ars.: Puls.
Complementary:
Kali-bi.
Asafoetida
[Asaf.]
Mind.–
Very
excitable and sensitive disposition with indifference to everything.
Hypochondriacal and hysterical restlessness and anxiety. Vacillating mood,
and inconstancy.
Head.–
Congestion
to, with throbbing. Fleeting stitching in forehead, sides or temples, which
jerk outward thro’ head. Pressure as of a dull instrument or plug in side
and temples. Outward pressure, with pressing over eyes as if sleepy.
Stupefying tension, most in left side. Worse: Afternoon and evening,
rest, in room, after lying down, sitting bent. Better: Walking in
open air: raising up, touch.
Eyes.–
Burning
in balls, also extending from within outward. Dry feeling in.
Ears.–
Difficult
hearing with suppuration of.
Nose.–
Pressure
in, as if it would burst. (Ham’.) Sense of numbness in bridge of. Offensive,
purulent discharge from.
Face.–
Sense
of tensive numbness in bones of. Pressive numb feeling in chin.
Mouth.–
Dryness
and burning in, and in pharynx. Sensation of a body ascending into throat.
Stomach.–
Pressure
in, after eating. Feeling of fullness in region of. Pulsation in pit of.
Disordered, after fat food.
Hypochondria:
Pressure or sticking pains from within outward in liver.
Eructations:
Acrid, rancid, as after fat food.
Abdomen.–
Sticking
pain from within outward in sides of.
Flatulence:
Pinching flatulent colic. Much stinking flatus.
Stool.–
Ineffectual
urging to. Foul smelling diarrhoea with bellyache and discharge of stinking
flatus.
Urine.–
Brown
acrid smelling. Spasm of bladder during and after urination.
Respiration.–
Compression
of chest with rapid breathing and a small pulse. Spasmodic tightness of
chest, as if lungs could not be sufficiently expanded.
Chest.–
Pressure,
with difficult respiration. Throbbing in. Sticking from within outward in.
Palpitation.
Back.–
Sticking
in scapulae, muscles of back and loins.
Upper Extremities.–
Twitching
of muscles of arms and hands.
Lower Extremities.–
Twitching
of muscles of legs and feet. Swollen ankles. Sticking and throbbing in great
toe.
Generalities.–
Jumping
and quivering of muscles in many parts (Phel.) Continued dull sticking pains
from within outward. Lancinating pains and lancinating burning pains.
Intermittent pains. Puffiness and heaviness of body. Chorea. Hysterical
attacks. Most of the pains are associated parts. Great sensitiveness to
touch. The pains are ameliorated or change place from touch, but on the
other hand are not affected by a change of position (sang.)
Bones.–
Painful
osteitis. Softening and curvature of (rachitis). Interstitial distension of.
Caries with thin, ichorous, fetid pus.
Skin.–
Hot,
dark – red swelling of single parts. External inflammations with inclination
to suppuration. Gangrenous ulcers with unhealthy pus and painful areolae.
Sleep.–
Unusually
great desire for.
Fever.–
Pulse:
Small, but greatly accelerated and irregular. Chill: Coldness and dry
skin. In afternoon, shouldering running over body, especially over back.
Heat:
Of face after dinner, with anxiety and sleepiness, but without thirst. Sweat:
Entirely wanting, only seldom a somewhat cold moisture on skin.
Relationship.–
Allied
Remedies: Arg-n., Aur.,
Caust., CHIN., Men., MERC.,
Nit-ac., Phos-ac., Plat., Puls. Sep.
Asarum europæum
[Asar.]
Mind.–
Pressive
confusion in head. Vanishing of thought. Melancholy peevishness. Tearful
sadness. Nervous excitement with liveliness.
Head.–
Pressive
pain in forehead with qualmishness, worse by every mental exertion. Attacks
of unilateral arthritic headache every afternoon at five o’clock.
Compressive pain in forehead, temples and behind ears, with lachrymation and
burning in eyes. Worse: Afternoon, walking, Better: Sitting,
washing.
External Head.–
Entire
scalp so tense that the hair feels painful, and the nerves are affected. Worse:
Warm dry air. Better: Bathing in cold water.
Eyes.–
Burning
and sense of dryness within. Red conjunctiva with sticking in canthi. Sense
of coldness in. Bleared, inflamed. In evening when in room, burning as from
brandy in, with constant lachrymation. Cold air feels agreeable, but
sunshine, light and wind are unendurable. Staring. Dim vision.
Ears.–
Pressure
and tension on orifice of auditory canal. Diminished hearing
Mouth.–
Much,
cool, watery saliva in.
Taste:
Bread and tobacco taste bitter.
Eructations:
Foul. Heartburn with sour eructations which dull the teeth.
Nausea:
Violent, empty retching which, worse all symptoms. Vomiting
in violent efforts, with anxiety and chilliness.
Hypochondria:
Smarting excoriating pain in spleen.
Abdomen.–
Pinching
pain in left, extending into back. Intense colic with vomiting. Inguinal
hernia.
Stool.–
Cutting
in abdomen before. Prolapsus recti during. Discharge of black, thick blood
during. After stool, pressing, with discharge of white, tenacious bloody
mucus. Diarrhoea: Of tenacious, mucus, with blood, of undigested
food, especially potatoes. Soft, with ascarides and reddish mucus.
Sexual Organs.–
Suppressed
sexual desire. Menses. – Of black blood, too early and too prolonged.
Violent pain in small of back, so that she can hardly breathe, at start of.
Respiration.–
Short,
as though’ one were breathing in a sack.
Cough.–
From
irritation in larynx, with copious expectoration of mucus.
Larynx.–
Constriction
of, with shortness of breath.
Chest.–
Contractive
squeezing in lungs. Stitches in lungs during inspiration.
Back.–
Bruised
feeling in.
Neck:
Sensation as if cravat were too tight. Contractive cramp in neck, nape and
limbs.
Lower Extremities.–
Chronic
pressive pain in hips, which impedes stepping. Cramp in thighs. Weariness in
knees. Stitches in ankles.
Generalities.–
Excessively
sensitive nerves, scratching on linen, silk, etc. is unendurable. Sense of
lightness of limbs, when walking he imagines himself floating in air.
Symptoms from worms. Many symptoms disappear upon washing (the face) with
cold water. Evening aggravation.
Sleep.–
Late
falling to sleep on account of ebullition of blood.
Fever.–
Pulse:
Quick and strong. Chill.: Sensation of coldness in forenoon, after
eating, drinking and in open air, mostly with heat of head. Much shivering
during day. Coldness and chilliness without thirst. Coldness alternating
with flushes of burning heat. Heat, In evening after lying down, especially
on face and palms of hands. Sweat: Sour smelling, increased at night,
and otherwise when sitting still, most profuse in axillae. Generally very
easy, especially on upper part of body.
Relationship.–
Allied
Remedies: Cupr.,
Nux-v., Phos.
Aurum metallicum
[Aur-m.]
Mind.–
Debility
from mental labor. Melancholy mood with restlessness and longing for death.
Irresistible inclination to weep. Religious melancholy with praying.
Melancholy with rancor. He does nothing but ask questions. Great anguish
drinking him to suicide. Despair of himself as well as others. From
slightest opposition he flies into a heated passion and anger. Alternate
laughing and crying, or alternate anger and sadness. Unfortunate love.
Hypochondriasis. Taciturnity. Scrupulosity.
Head.–
Intense
congestion to, with heat therein. Bruised pain in forepart of, on awaking,
causing confusion of ideas. Tumult and roaring in. Pain in skull bones. Worse:
Every mental exertion, stooping, cold. Better: raising up, warm
wrapping, in open air.
External Head.–
Exostoses,
boring painfully of themselves, but worse when touched or lain upon. Boring
tearing in skull bones readily passing into inflammation and necrosis. Worse:
Becoming cold. Better: Warm wrapping, external pressure.
Eyes.–
Tensive
pain in. Inflammation and suppuration of. Protruding. Fire and sparks
before. Paralysis of optic nerve. Horizontal half vision.
Ears.–
Discharge
of foul – smelling pus from. Humming in. Caries of mastoid.
Nose.–
Caries
of nasal bones. Bone pain in bridge of. Cancer of. Fetid odor from. Greatly
heightened sense of smell.
Face.–
Glistening,
puffy. Swelled cheeks. Osteitis Tensive pain n upper jaw. Painful swelling
of submaxillary glands.
Teeth.–
Ulcerated
gums with toothache and heat in head.
Mouth.–
Foul
odor like old cheese from. Caries of hard palate.
Appetite:
Excessive hunger and thirst with sore feeling in stomach.
Abdomen.–
Protruding
inguinal hernia. Disagreeable feeling in.
Flatulence:
Nightly diarrheas. Copious.
Urine.–
Painful
retention of, with urging and pressing in bladder. Copious, watery.
Sexual Organs.–
Indurated
testes. Swelling of under part of testes. Increased sexual desire. Nightly
erection and pollutions. Prolapsus uteri.
Respiration.–
Suffocative
attacks with constrictive oppression of chest. Great tightness in thorax,
with necessity to take a deep breath.
Chest.–
Anxious
palpitation from congestion thereto.
Back.–
Intense
backache.
Upper Extremities.–
Tearing
in joints of hands and fingers.
Lower Extremities.–
Paralytic
weakness in knee, as if bandaged. Tearing in joints and bones of feet and
toes.
Generalities.–
Paralytic
tearing in joints, early, on awaking, and when parts become cold. Gouty
nodes. Dropsical swelling of body. Strong ebullition in blood throughout
entire body, with violent palpitation. Over – sensitive to cold and every
pain. Desire for open air. Hysterical spasms with alternate laughing and
weeping.
Bones.–
Bone
pains. Osteitis. Caries.
Skin.–
Cracked.
Mercurial ulcers, which also attack the bones.
Sleep.–
Sleepiness
after dinner. Restless with anxious dreams. Nightly delirium.
Fever.–
Pulse:
Small, but accelerated. Much ebullition of blood in entire body, and strong
congestion to head and chest. Chill: Predominating. And coldness of
hands and feet, also when in bed, often continuing the whole night. In
evening in bed, general shaking chill without thirst and not followed by
heat. Coldness of entire body, with nausea. Heat: Mostly in face,
only alternating with chill. Sweat: In early morning, most profuse on
and above sexual organs.
Relationship.–
Allied
Remedies: Asaf.,
Col-c., Coff., Merc., Nux-v., Phos. Pul.
Baryta carbonica
[Bar-c.]
Mind.–
Averse
to playing. Disposed to weep. Sudden ebullitions of temper with cowardice.
Mental weakness in old people. Extraordinary forgetfulness. Critical and
irresolute. Want of self – confidence. Dread of man (especially strangers).
Excessive activity and restlessness. Chilliness.
Vertigo.–
With
nausea while stooping.
Head.–
Pressive
ache just over the eyes. Tension in occiput. Sticking headache, when near
stove. Heaviness worse night and lying on a pillow.
External Head.–
Painfully
sensitive on side lain on, and to every touch. Feeling of blood
extravasating beneath. Tension in skin of scalp and face, as if egg albumen
had dried thereon, with swelling thereof. Crawling eating and sticking
itching most on vertex and sides, Sticking violently, and very painful when
scratched, leaving moist spots which late cover themselves with scabs. Hair
falls out even to baldness, beginning on vertex, with dry itching crusts, on
and itching pimples on neck. Tendency to take cold in from washing head. Worse:
Evening, at night, scratching, in a warm room. Better: Motion in open
air.
Eyes.–
Burning
and pressing in, from eye strain. Inflamed, with a sense of dryness and
photophobia. Suppurative agglutination of lids. Light dazzles, yet in the
dark there are sparks before.
Ears.–
Eruption
on and behind. Cracking and snapping in, when swallowing, sneezing and
walking rapidly.
Nose.–
Nosebleed
after blowing it. Sensitive smell. Fluent coryza with thick mucus
Face.–
Dark
red, with violent congestion thereto. Tension as if covered with a cobweb,
Swollen. Milk crust. Swelled submaxillary glands.
Teeth.–
Jerks,
extending into ears and temples. Ache with swollen gums before menses.
Throat.–
Repeated
inflammation, after taking the slightest cold, with swelling and suppuration
of tonsils. Sense of a plug in. Sore, when swallowing. Roughness in.
Stomach.–
Great
weakness of digestion. Pressure, after eating. Sore pain in, with a
sensation when eating as though’ the morsels were forced through sore spots.
Appetite:
Small, but food tastes properly. Thirst.
Taste:
Bitter, in mouth early in morning. Sour, before eating.
Stools.–
Intense urging to, with agonizing pains in loins, followed by diarrhoeic
stools. Sudden irresistible necessity for.
Anus.–
Excoriation
and moisture between scrotum and upper thigh. Weak sexual power. Diminished
sexual desire.
Respiration.–
Suffocative
catarrh from paralysis of lungs in old people. Tightness of chest. Dyspnoea.
Cough.–
Excited
by roughness and tickling in epigastrium and throat. Dry in evening. Chest
full of phlegm with night cough. Difficult expectoration of a yellowish,
tenacious, starchy, often a saltish mucus in morning.
Larynx.–
Hoarseness
and loss of voice from tenacious mucus in, and in trachea. Sensation of
smoke in.
Chest.–
Fullness
in. Strong palpitation, when lying on left side or renewed when thinking
about it. Soreness in. Feeling as if something had fallen down within. Sore
feeling about heart. violent palpitation.
Back.–
Throbbing
pulsation in. In evening, tensive stiffness in lumbar region, especially
when sitting, it allows neither rising nor bending backward.
Neck:
Stiff. Pain in bones of. Indurated swelling of glands of neck and throat.
Burning steatomatous swelling on neck.
Upper Extremities.–
Swelling
of arms, with painful axillary glands. Swollen blood vessels on hands. Dry
skin of hands.
Lower Extremities.–
Sprained
pain in hip joint. Tension in legs, as from shortened muscles. Drawing and
tearing in legs as if in bones. Fetid foot sweat. Corns with burning
sticking, also on balls of toes.
Generalities.–
Suitable
for old men, dwarfs and atrophic children. Nightly twitching of muscles of
entire body. Great weakness and relaxation with inclination to lie down.
General physical, mental and nervous weakness in old people. Hyperaesthesia
of all senses. Apoplexy with paralysis in old people. Great tendency to take
cold, especially causing sore throat, stiff neck and diarrhoea. The left
side is mostly affected. Most symptoms disappear during motion in open air. Worse:
Night, in cold. Better: Warmth, especially when sitting quietly in a
dark room.
Tissues.–
Glands
swollen, indurated.
Skin.–
Unhealthy.
Burning, needle – like stitches here and there. Smarting and oozing of
single spots.
Sleep.–
Somnolency,
day and night.
Fever.–
Pulse:
Accelerated but weak, seldom full and hard. Chill: And chilliness
predominate, often as if cold water were poured over one, relieved by
external warmth. IN evening and at night alternating with heat. Spreading
downward over body from face or epigastrium. Beginning in feet. With drawing
in limbs. Heat: running over body frequently during day. Nightly
attacks of flying heat, with great anxiety and restlessness. Sweat:
Debilitating at night. Unilateral, mostly on left side. Recurring every
other evening. (Lac – can.)
Relationship.–
Allied
Remedies: Ars., Calc-c.,
Nux-v., Sep., ZINC. Acute of Bar-c.: Apis.
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