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

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

Belladonna

[Bell.]

Mind.–

Reeling
as if intoxicated, and mental stupefaction, better motion of head,
eating and drinking. Vanishing of senses and ideas. Complete
unconsciousness. Insanity with buffoonery. Violent delirium, with
inclination to toss about. Biting, spitting and striking. Mental
aberration after dried or fright with mortification or vexation. Anguish
and restlessness. Hasty speech. Fantastic illusions and frightful
pictures before eyes. Tremulous, anxious mood. Whining and fearful.
Despondent. Fear of death, with great anxiety and restlessness (in child
– bed). Sad and indifferent. Mistrust. Hypochondriacal depression.
Peevishness. Weeping and crying. Constantly laughing. Great self – will
in children. Frenzy and madness. Desire to escape.

Vertigo.–

With
anguish and falling down (backward) unconscious. With weariness before
and after each attack. Sensation of being rocked. Reeling, as if drunk
from moving head worse after eating and drinking.

Head.–

Stupefying
ache in forehead with congestion to, ending in unconsciousness.
Periodically recurring nervous headache. Congestion to, with heat
distension and throbbing or pulsating in arteries of head and neck. The
head trembles, shakes, is moved from side to side or bored into pillow.
Internal and external burning heat of Pains: throbbing, worse in
forehead, ascending from nape, which and in outward passing stitches,
bursting, cutting, from place to place, stabbing passing off in occiput,
which draw eyes shut, violent stitching, boring or pressing in skull
bones. Feeling as of: A stone in, water swashing in. Meningitis.
Hydrocephalus.

External Head.–

Exquisite
sensitiveness of, as if hair had been pulled, the least touch, or even
pressure of the hair can hardly be borne. Profuse sweat upon the hair
scalp and face, with dry heat of remainder of body. Worse:
Afternoon, till midnight, violent motion, as ascending steps, stepping
hard, coughing, etc., every movement, light, opening or moving eyes,
noise, open air, stooping, lying with head low, drafts, uncovering head,
cutting hair, cold bathing, getting wet, after anger. Better:
External pressure, drawing head back, laying hand upon, reclining head,
wrapping it up.

Eyes.–

Pains
in orbits. Heat in. Conjunctiva is red and loosened. Inflammation of,
with averted lids. Spasm. Bleeding lids. Sarcoma. Macular on cornea.
Widely dilated pupils. Glistening, sparkling, red. Wild, unsteady or
staring look. Squint. Photophobia. Paralysis of optic nerve. Vanishing
of sight when raising up in bed. Vision lost, hearing remains unchanged.
Sparks before.

Ears.–

Difficult
hearing after scarlet fever or taking cold. Swollen parotid glands.

Nose.–

Heat,
swelling and redness of. Sore, with swollen upper lip. Dry inside.
Profuse bleeding from, and from mouth, with a red face. Very keen sense
of smell. Much sneezing. Fluent coryza.

Face.–

Red,
with burning heat. Bluish red, bloated. Smooth, erysipelatous, hot
swelling of, spreading over head, with stupefaction, delirium, violent
head pains, inflamed, fiery red eyes and great photophobia. Faceache,
with intense cutting pains. Half open mouth. Lock jaw (trismus).
Ulcerated angles of mouth. Swelling and induration of upper lip.
Bleeding, cracked lips.

Teeth.–

Toothache
(in children and women), after taking cold, insufferably worse by
eating. Gnashing of.

Mouth.–

Dry,
without (or with) thirst. Intense redness and inflammatory swelling of
soft palate. Salivation. Inflammation of throat, with sticking when
swallowing. Pharynx feels narrowed. Scratching in throat. Tearing in
throat when not swallowing. Swelling and suppuration of tonsils. Extreme
redness of tongue. Heavy coat of mucus on tongue and palate.
Inflammatory swelling of tongue. Speechlessness.

Appetite:
Loathes food. Burning thirst, with a dry throat and aversion to drinks.
Hasty drinking with trembling.

Taste:
Loss of Bread tastes sour. Of blood in mouth.

Nausea, etc. – Qualmishness with repugnance of food. Empty
retching. Vomits, Green, mucus, first food, then bile.

Stomach.–

Distension
of pit. Pressure in, after eating. Pains in.

Hypochondria:
Stitches in spleen.

Abdomen.–

Painful
distension of. Sensitive to touch. Painful clutching and griping in.
Painful soreness in.

Flatulence:
Flatulent colic with sensible distension of transverse colic, better by
external pressure and stooping.

Stool.–

Retained.
Involuntary. Constipation. Diarrhoea: Green with bellyache.

Urine.–

Diminished,
dark red, fiery. Suppressed. Involuntary urination.

Sexual Organs.–

Violent
urging and pressing toward genitals, as if everything would fall out.
False spasmodic labor pains. Prolapsus and induration of uterus. Dry
vagina. Metritis.

Female.–

Menses:
Uterine hemorrhage of bright red blood with urging toward genitals.
Bloody discharge during intermenstrual period. Foul smelling, lumpy
lochia.

Respiration.–

Short,
rapid breathing with open mouth and violent working of chest. Heavy
breathing with oppression of chest. Danger of suffocation when
swallowing or touching external neck. After rising in morning, want of
breath in the room, better in open air.

Cough.–

In
quarter hourly paroxysms at night, consisting of a few dry coughs in a
rough, hollow, barking tone, excited by tickling as of feather down in
throat, or as from constriction of larynx, sometimes a scanty
expectoration of bright coagulated blood. Renewed by the slightest
movement when in bed. Preceded by crying. Following by sneezing. Violent
stitches in loins (in uterus) during. Complicated by cerebral
inflammation.

Larynx.–

Constriction
of. Extremely painful to touch. Loss of voice.

Back.–

Neck:
Painful swelling and stiffness of and of nape. Distension of blood
vessels in. Sour – smelling sweat on neck only. Painfully swollen
cervical glands.

Chest.–

Oppression
of. Rattling in. Violent pains in whole thorax. Congestion and throbbing
therein, with restlessness. Violent palpitation which vibrates into
head. Flow of milk from female mammae. Induration and swelling of
mammae.

Upper Extremities.–

Paralytic
heaviness of arms. Pressive tearing pains in shoulder. Scarlet red
swelling of arms and hands. Twitching in hands. Hasty picking at the bed
clothes.

Lower Extremities.–

Stitches
in hip joint, most intense at night and when touched. Reeling,
staggering gait. When rising from bed, the legs refuse their coffee and
she sinks to the ground.

Generalities.–

Shattering
of whole body. Trembling. Plethoric, full blooded patients. Congestion
to different parts. Excessive hyperaesthesia of all the senses.
Convulsive motion of limbs. Jerkings. Spasms with stiffness of entire
body and unconsciousness. Sharp, cutting pains. Twitchings. Pains
come and go quickly. The action of Bell. is intensified or
excited by Hyos. and Stramonium. Loss of sensation and motion of one –
half of entire body Great weariness. Paralyses of single parts.
Sensation of a mouse creeping about in muscles. Typhoid fevers with
unconsciousness or delirium. The slightest touch renews the attacks and
intensifies the pains. Consequences of taking cold. The symptoms are
intensified in the afternoon and at night. Restlessness delirium and
somnolency.

Tissues.–

Glands
swollen and indurated.

Skin.–

Dry,
burning heat with pale or red skin. Alternate paleness and redness of.
Smooth scarlet redness of, with dryness, burning and swelling.
Glistening redness of, not circumscribed, with bloating. Swelling from
insect stings. Gangrenous blisters. Boils.

Sleep.–

Deep,
stupefying. Anxious desire for. Starting (jerking), during. Starting up
in affright and flightiness during. He can sleep only in a sitting
posture. Frightful phantasies which dissipate sleep appear before the
vision, as soon as the eyes close.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Ordinarily quick, often full,
hard and tense, but sometimes also small and soft, seldom
slow, and then it is full. Throbbing carotid and temporal arteries.
Violent beating of the arteries. Chill: In evening, especially on
extremities, most on arms, with heat of head. Internal, with external
burning heat. Alternating with heat. Evening shaking chill. Coldness of
limbs, with a hot head. Shivering, running down back. Heat:
constant dry burning, with sweat on head and neck only. Internal, with
anxiety and restlessness. Of forehead, with cold cheeks. Internal or
external, or both at same time. Of head, with red face and delirium.
Generally predominating. Sweat: Exclusively on the covered parts.
With, or immediately after the heat, most on face. Of an empty rheumatic
odor, and stains the linen. During sleep, by day as well as night.
Entirely absent. Ascending from feet to head.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: ACO., Agar., Ambr., Ant-t.,
Ap., Bry., CALC-C., Cann., Canth., Caust., Cham., Chin., Cic.,
Cina., Coff., Colch., Coloc., Croc., Cupr., Dig.,
Gel., GLO., Graph., Hell.,
HEP., HYOS., Iod., LACH., Merc., MOS., Nit-ac., NUX-V., Op., Phos-ac., Phyt.,
Plat., Plb., PULS., Rhe., Rhus-t., Sars., Seneg. SEP., Sil.,
Stram., Sul., Valer.

Complementary:
Calc-c., Hep.

Bismuthum oxidum

[Bism.]

Mind.–

Complete
apathy. Morose discontent with continued complaining. Inconstancy.
Solitude is intolerable.

Head.–

Pressure
and sense of painful heaviness in forehead, temples and occiput, with
pressure on eyeballs. Outward boring in the forehead, orbits, root of
and down nose. Alternate contraction and expansion in forehead, eyes and
nose. Worse: Afternoon, after eating, rest. Better:
Motion, touch, washing, cold drinks.

Eyes.–

Pressure
on eyeballs.

Face.–

Earthy
complexion with distorted features and blue rings around eyes. Pressive
pain in zygomae.

Teeth.–

Painful
soreness and swelling of gums.

Mouth.–

Painful
sensitiveness, as if buccal cavity were excoriated. Tongue coated white
in evening.

Stomach.–

Pressure
in, after eating. Burning in.

Appetite:
Great thirst for cold drinks in evening.

Nausea:
Nauseating qualmishness after eating.

Abdomen.–

Pinching,
pressing, rumbling and urging to stool in.

Stool.–

Ineffectual
urging to, in evening.

Urine.–

Watery.
Urination frequent, passing a large quantity every time.

Sexual Organs.–

Pressive
pain in testes.

Respiration.–

Tightness
of, with burning constriction of chest.

Cough.–

Day
and night, with copious expectoration.

Chest.–

Boring
and burning in.

Upper Extremities.–

Paralytic
tearing pressure in forearm, hands and fingers.

Lower Extremities.–

Tearing
in feet and toes.

Generalities.–

Great
exhaustion and relaxation. Tearing pains which disappear during motion.

Bones.–

Pressive
tearing in bones of feet and hands.

Skin.–

Eroding
itching, worse by scratching.

Sleep.–

Starting
as if frightened during. Unrefreshing, at night. Extreme drowsiness in
morning.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Mostly contracted, somewhat spasmodic and sometimes intermittent. Chill:
With deathly coldness of entire body. Heat: Flying, over entire
body, especially on head and chest, early in morning after rising,
external, dry, burning. Sweat: wanting.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ant-c.,
Bell., CALC-C., Coccl.,
Ign., Spig., Staph.

Borax

[Bor.]

Mind.–

Fear
of downward motion. Frightened and starting at every noise. Timidity.
Anxiety with sleepiness, increasing toward evening. Fretfulness with
whining and crying.

Head.–

Heat
of, hot mouth and hot palms, with desire to uncover. Aching, with nausea
and trembling of whole body at ten AM

External Head.–

Sensitive
to cold and changes of weather. Hair tangles at tips and becomes
agglutinated.

Eyes.–

The
lashes turn inward and inflame them, especially in outer canthi. The
tarsal edges are quite sore. Nightly agglutination. Better:
Rubbing.

Ears.–

Stitches
in (l.) with roaring, hardness of hearing and purulent discharges. Worse:
Washing in cold water.

Nose.–

Red,
shining swelling, with throbbing and tenseness. Fluent coryza with
stitches in chest. Sucklings rub the nose, and then the eyes. Hard dry
mucus in, m and in eyes. Discharges much thick, greenish mucus.

Face.–

Bladder
– like swellings under eye. Swelling of lower lip. Heat, swelling and
redness of one cheek. Redness around eyes when crying. Herpes about the
mouth. Pale. Anxious expression during downward motion.

Teeth.–

Inflammatory
swelling of gums (gum boils). Dull griping toothache in hollow teeth, in
wet weather.

Mouth.–

Aphthae,
also on tongue. Mucous membrane of palate wrinkled and shrivelled as if
burnt, infant cries frequently when nursing. Hot.

Throat.–

Much
tough mucus in, so difficult to loosen, the exertion causes vomiting.

Stomach.–

Pain
in region of, extending to sacrum, after heavy lifting or during menses.

Hypochondria:
Pressure as of a stone in. Cutting as of a hard, sharp piece there.

Abdomen.–

Flatulent
distension after every meal. Pinching in, with diarrhoea.

Stool.–

Frequent,
very easy, of soft, light yellow mucus, with languor and weakness.
Mucous diarrhoea.

Urine.–

Badly
smelling. Albuminuria with erythema and swelling, especially of lower
limbs. Hot, in an infant, Nephritis.

Female Sexual Organs.–

–
Abortion. Easy conception. Leucorrhoea: Like the white of an egg,
with a sensation of warm water flying down, like paste. Heat in vagina.

Cough.–

Coughs
up blood streaked white phlegm, detached with difficulty. Expectoration
has a mouldy taste and smell, with every cough.

Chest.–

Stitches
in (r.), from coughing, breathing, yawning, speaking or lying on painful
side, better washing with cold water or walking about slowly. Pains in
one breast when child nurses the other. Aching in mammae when empty,
better by pressure. Milk curdled.

Generalities.–

Great
weariness and indolence, with heaviness of lower limbs. Infants cry and
scream when nursing, and before passing stool or urine. When laying the
infant down it starts and throws up its hands as if afraid of falling.
Hot discharges, hot urine and leucorrhoea. Heat in orifices, vagina,
mouth, etc. Albuminous discharges. Stitching sensations predominate.
Soft, flabby patients.

Worse:
Mental exertion, noise, excitement, downward motion, bad or wet weather,
eating fruit (apples, pears etc.)

Better:
After stool and urine, after eleven PM, smoking helps toothache, but may
bring on diarrhoea.

Skin.–

Does
not heal. Earth – colored. Herpes on. Psoriasis.

Sleep.–

Restless,
caused by restlessness of body and ebullitions of blood. Child screams
out during sleep, and awakes clinging to its mother as if frightened.
Awakes at three AM, can’t sleep again because of heat of body,
especially of head, with sweat of thighs.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Somewhat accelerated. Chill: And shivering mostly during sleep.
Predominating, especially in afternoon and evening. Alternating with
heat. Whenever he uncovers. Heat: Flying, in early morning and in
evening. When covering hands, but coldness if she uncovers them. Sweat:
During morning sleep.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ap., Bry.,
Calc-c., Cham., Coff, Gel., Sil.,
Stram., Sul.

Bovista

[Bov.]

Mind.–

Distraction.
Awkwardness. Weak memory. Sadness, with restlessness. Easily offended:
takes everything in bad part. Unusual candor and talkativeness.

Vertigo.–

Stupefying,
with vanishing of senses. Intoxication from a small quantity of wine.
Reeling and confusion in head after coition.

Head.–

Headache
deep in brain, with feeling as if head were growing large. Ulcerative
pain in. Nightly ache, worse raising up. Soreness of scalp.

Eyes.–

Pressure
in orbits. Weak, dim. Objects appear too near.

Ears.–

Purulent,
bad – smelling discharge from. Indistinct hearing, misunderstands what
is spoken.

Nose.–

Crusts,
with burning pain in.

Face.–

Frequent,
rapid changes of color. Head of, with sense of swelling in cheeks. Pale
swelling of upper lip, nose and cheeks. Fissured lips. Angles of mouth
ulcerated.

Teeth.–

Drawing
ache in evening, and at night, ceasing in warmth and when walking in
open air. Gums bleed easily and profusely.

Mouth.–

Bad
odor from. Burning in pharynx. Numbness of buccal cavity. Painfully sore
ulcers on edge of tongue. Stuttering.

Stomach.–

Coldness,
as if a lump of ice lay therein.

Appetite:
Violent hunger. Thirst for cold drinks in afternoon and evening.

Taste:
Putrid or bloody, in mouth.

Nausea:
With shivering, all forenoon.

Abdomen.–

Ulcerative
pain in. Cutting bellyache, worse during rest.

Flatulence:
Flatulent colic, with chill and coldness, especially after stool.
Discharge of very foul smelling flatus.

Stool.–

Constipation.
Diarrhoea, with ulcerative pain in abdomen. – during
menses.

Urine.–

Frequent
urging to urinate.

Sexual Organs.–

Intensified
sexual desire. Frequent pollution.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early, and too profuse. Bloody discharge during intermenstrual
period. Acrid, corroding leucorrhoea.

Respiration.–

Short
during manual labor. Oppression, as from constriction of chest.

Cough.–

Dry,
from tickling in throat and chest.

Larynx.–

Hoarseness
early in morning, with mucus and scratching in throat.

Chest.–

Palpitation
with restlessness, qualmishness and headache.

Back.–

Pain
and stiffness in, after stooping.

Neck:
Swelling of cervical glans, with tension.

Upper Extremities.–

Axillary
sweat, smelling like onions. Paralytic sprained pain in joints of arm
and hands. Powerless hands. Moist tetter on dorsum of hand.

Lower Extremities.–

Tension
in lower legs and calves, as though’ the muscles were too short.

Generalities.–

Great
weariness and powerlessness in joint. Deep impressions are made by
instruments, i. e., from scissors on fingers.

Skin.–

Itching
in various parts, especially when getting warm. – better not scratching.
moist tatters. Panaritia.

Sleep.–

Sleepiness
after eating, and early in morning.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Excited, with ebullitions and palpitation. Chill: Predominant,
even near a warm stove, in morning, in evening and even at night,
usually with thirst. During the pain. Heat: With thirst, anguish
and restlessness. Daily evening fever (about 7 o’clock) consisting only
of chill with thirst. Shuddering proceeding from back, in evening. Sweat:
Most profuse on chest, every morning (from 5 to 6 o’clock.).

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ap., Nit-ac.,
Selen., sil.

Bromium

[Brom.]

Mind.–

Depression
and melancholy. Wailing and crying in a hoarse tone. Apprehensive, of
seeing things in evening. Desire form mental labor.

Vertigo.–

When
crossing running water, in damp weather, with tendency to fall
backwards, with confusion of the head.

Head.–

Headache:
In the heat of the sun, from drinking milk. Sensitive to cold air.
Congestion to, and stiffness of muscles of neck. Left sided pains. Worse:
Stooping.

Eyes.–

Lachrymation.
Burning pains with spasmodic closure.

Nose.–

Fluent
coryza, with scabby nostrils, with violent sneezing and blood – streaked
corrosive discharges. nose – bleed accompanies many symptoms, it
ameliorates the vertigo, eye and chest symptoms.

Face.–

Pale.
Sensation of a cobweb on.

Mouth.–

Salivation.
Inflammation of fauces, with net – like redness and denuded patches.
Much frothy mucus in. Affects tip of tongue.

Taste:
Salty: Of water, on tip of tongue.

Throat.–

Rawness,
scrapping and constriction in.

Nausea, etc. – Retching and inclination to vomit.

Abdomen.–

Tympanitic
distension of, with evolution of large quantities of gas. Eructations,
and passage of much flatus.

Stool.–

Yellowish
green or blackish diarrhoea, with blind hemorrhoids which pain severely.
Diarrhoea: From oysters, better from coryza.

Sexual Organs.–

Passage
of flatus from vagina.

Respiratory Organs.–

Suffocative
attacks as from vapor of sulphur. Great tightness of chest (dyspnoea)
Gasping for air. Rawness, scraping and sense of constriction in all
respiratory organs.

Cough.–

Croupy,
rough, barking or whistling, excited by tickling in throat, as from
vapor of sulphur, or by scraping and rawness in larynx, without
expectoration. With paroxysms of suffocation, suddenly on swallowing.

Larynx.–

Inspired
air is very cold. Constriction. Soreness in. Croup, also during whooping
cough. Hoarseness.

Chest.–

Oppression
of, with palpitation. Very sensitive to cold air.

Extremities.–

Cold,
moist hands.

Generalities.–

Greatly
increased secretions. Symptoms predominate on left side or go from left
to right. tickling, burning or boring sensations predominate, the latter
especially in bones. Gangrene. Great weakness, especially in bones.
Gangrene. Great weakness, especially after other symptoms have subsided.
Tremblings. Plump figure. Constrictions and spasmodic phenomena prevail.

Tissues.–

Glands
swollen and indurated.

Skin.–

Formication.
Tickling in many parts. Yellow, Boils.

Sleep.–

Yawning
and sleepiness, with difficult breathing, with violent shivering.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Greatly accelerated. Chill: Every other day, with shaking,
yawning, stretching and cold feet. Sensitive to cold air. Heat:
Internal, burning as if between skin and flesh. Great, when in bed. Sweat:
From motion or least exertion. After the paroxysms of cough.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: AM-C., Ant-c.,
Ars., Com., Coff., Flu-ac., Hep., Iod., Kre., Mag-c.,
Nat-m., Op., Phos., Spo.

Bryonia alba

[Bry.]

Mind.–

Effects
of vexation, leaving irritability, with chill and coldness of body
behind. Nightly delirium about the events of the day. Thoughtless.
Forgetful. Unusual peevish irritability and wrathful violence.
Restlessness, with fear to the future and the near approach of death.
Despondent, and doubtful of salivation. Despair of recovery.
Pusillanimity. Tearful disposition.

Vertigo.–

When
raising up, or stooping. With a swaying feeling in brain, and heat. As
if drunk.

Head.–

Compressive
ache, with fullness and heaviness in forehead, as if everything would be
forced out, nose – blood and a puffy red face. Congestion, to. Bursting
pressure in forehead, and pressure upon eyeballs. Bursting pain with
heat in. Stitches in. Bursting pain with heat in. Stitches in. Burning
in bregma. Twitching throbbing in, which can be heard and felt here and
there, with obscured vision. Twitching tearing in one side (worse r.),
extending into cheeks and maxillary bones. Brain feels loose. Outward
sticking in forehead. Tensive tearing in external head. Worse:
Motion: Of head, of eyes, in open air, on opening eyes. Stooping.
Stepping hard. From warmth and becoming heated. Touch. After eating. In
evening Better: External pressure, lying quietly on painful part,
bandaging up head, lying on back, closing eyes.

External Head.–

Sore
pain in occiput and behind ears, worse in dry weather. Better after
sweat. Profuse, sour, oily sweat on, and over whole body, especially
during sleep towards morning, worse as the accompanying pains are worse,
from eating, and slightest motion, particularly in the cold air.

Eyes.–

Burning
in. Inflammation of, worse by warmth. Tearing sticking in. Pressure as
from sand in. Feel as if pressing out of head Swelling, especially of
upper lids. Weakness and lachrymation in murky air and twilight.
Photophobia.

Ears.–

Roaring
in. Intolerance of noise.

Nose.–

Painful
swelling of, with inflamed nostrils. Frequent nose – bleed (also after
suppressed menses). Chronic stuffed coryza with a dry nose.

Face.–

Yellowish
pale. Hot, bloated, very red. Nodes and indurations like boils. Dry,
swollen, fissured, bleeding lips. Eruption, especially on lower lip.
Trismus.

Teeth.–

Jerking
toothache worse by warmth, better by lying on painful side.

Mouth.–

Dry
mouth, throat and tongue. Sticking in throat on swallowing. Scratching
in throat. Coating on middle of tongue.

Taste:
Flat, slimy. Bitter, in mouth, food is tasteless.

Stomach.–

Pressure
in, after eating, especially after bread. Burning in. Stitches in pit,
with obstructed breathing during motion, especially when making a
misstep. Pit, sensitive to touch and pressure.

Hypochondria:
Stitches in hepatic region when touched, coughing and breathing.
Inflammation of liver and diaphragm.

Appetite:
Abnormal hunger, he must eat little and often. Strong craving for
coffee, or things he cannot relish. Aversion to, and loathing of food.
Intense thirst. He does not drink often, but a great deal each time.
Thirst for cold water.

Eructations:
Frequent, bitter or empty, after eating. Regurgitation of food, without
retching. Water collects in mouth.

Vomiting:
Of solid food, but not liquids. After eating bread. Bitter, while
drinking after a meal. Bloody. First of bile, then of food. Of bitter
water.

Abdomen.–

Distended,
after every meal (disappearing without discharge of flatus). Hysterical
cramps in. Inflammation of. Bellyache, after taking cold, from motion.
Better by tight bandaging. Ascites. Stitches in.

Flatulence. Loud growling and rumbling in abdomen.

Stool.–

Very
dry, hard. Chronic constipation. Diarrhoea, Fetid, preceded by cutting
in abdomen, and bellyache, alternating with constipation and stomach –
ache, in morning hours only.

Urine.–

Diminished
discharge of hot, red. White, turbid. Urging to urinate and scanty
discharge. Irresistible urging to urinate, with want of breath during
heavy lifting. Burning in urethra.

Female.–

Menses
of red blood, too early and too profuse. Suppressed. Uterine hemorrhage.

Respiration.–

Panting,
short. Impeded, during violent motion. Anxious, rapid. Deep, slow during
exertion. Laborious, with aid of abdominal muscles, and intermingled
with deep inspiration. Frequent, sighing inspirations. Continual
inclination to take a deep breath. Attacks of dyspnoea and suffocation.

Cough.–

Spasmodic,
as from sulphur fumes or a tickling in throat and epigastrium. Dry in
evening and at night, during day expectoration is yellow or mixed with
coagulated brownish bloody, often cold, mucus, of a repulsive flat
taste, and hard to loosen at first. Dry, spasmodic, after eating and
drinking, with vomiting of food. Haemoptysis, of coagulated or brownish
blood. Bursting headache and sticks in sides of chest during.

Larynx and trachea.–

Soreness
in. Hoarseness.

Chest.–

Soreness
and bursting pain in. Stitches in, when breathing, coughing and during
motion, better lying on back. Violent stitches in left side of.
Inflammation of lungs, with stitches. Pressure, as of a load on.
Soreness of ribs, as if beaten. Palpitation with shortness of breath.
(Painless) nodes and induration in mammae. Mammae of lying – in women
are excessively full of milk and congested.

Back.–

Stitches
in lumbar region, back and scapulae. Painful stiffness in small of back,
compelling him to bend forward when walking and sitting.

Neck:
Eruption on. Tension and stiffness in nape and neck.

Upper Extremities.–

Tensive
and sticking tearing in shoulder – joint and hands, especially on dorsal
surface. Sprained pain in wrist during motion. Twitching of fingers when
moving hands.

Lower Extremities.–

Cracking
and dislocation of hip – joints when walking. Hot, tensive swelling of
thighs and lower legs or feet, frequently on back of the latter only.
Tensive stiffness in legs. Dislocative pain in ankle – joint when
walking and stepping. Offensive ulcers on feet. Podagra, with sticking
pains.

Generalities.–

Tensive
or sticking rheumatic or gouty pains in limbs better by motion and
touch. Stitches in joints Stiffness in joints. Paralysis of limbs (Pale
or red) swelling and immobility of affected parts. Oversensitive to
external impressions. The complaints are intensified in the evening
(towards 9 o’clock) and by motion (also during rest, in its rare
alternating action.)

Tissues.–

Glands
indurated.

Bones.–

Pain
as though’ flesh were beaten from.

Skin.–

Burning,
itching, eruptions. Nettlerash (especially in children and during child
– bed). Petechiae. Hard nodes on many parts. Erysipelatous
inflammations, especially about joints, Foul ulcers, with feeling of
coldness therein.

Sleep.–

Yawning
and sleepiness during day. Somnolency with half – closed eyes. Sleepless
before midnight on account of thirst, heat and ebullition of blood.
Nightly delirium as soon as he awakes. Somnambulism.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Very full, hard, rapid and tense, sometimes intermittent, with strong
ebullition of blood Chill: And chilliness predominate, often with
heat of head, red cheeks, thirst and many pains in limbs. With external
coldness of body. And coldness, mostly evening, and often only right
sided. More in a room than in the open air. Heat: Dry, burning,
mostly internal, as if blood burned in veins. Symptoms are greatly
intensified during Internal, with thirst for cold drinks. Sweat:
Profuse and easy, even when walking slowly in cold, open air. Profuse at
night and in early morning. Sour or oily. Cough in all stages. Febrile
movements with bitter taste and thirst.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: ACO., ALUM., Ang.,
Ars, Bell., Bor.,
Calc-c., Carb-v. Caust., Chin.,
Clem., Coloc., Dulc., Guai.,
Iod., Ip., Kali-c., Led.,
Lyc., Mez., MILLEF., (MUR-AC.). Phos. Phyt.,
PULS., Ran-b., RHOD., RHUS-T., Scill., Seneg.,
Sep., Verat-a.

Caladium seguinum

[Calad.]

Mind.–

Apprehensiveness
before going to sleep. Loud wailing and inconsiderate prattling, like a
child. Great solicitude concerning everybody’s else, as well as his own
health.

Head.–

Pressive
headache on side on which he has been lying.

Ears.–

Great
sensitiveness to noise, especially on endeavoring to sleep. Earache
during the fever.

Stomach.–

Burning
in. Empty feeling in. Stitches in pit, whereby it is always drawn
inward.

Appetite:
Thirst with dry mouth. Aversion to cold water. Hasty eating.

Abdomen.–

Burning
in upper.

Stool.–

Very
scanty, pappy.

Urine.–

Sensitiveness
of region of bladder to touch.

Sexual Organs.–

Impotency
with lustfulness. (After coition) swollen and painfully sore prepuce.
Flaccid, sweaty.

Respiration.–

Short,
from pressure in epigastrium.

Cough.–

Paroxysms
of weak but irritable. cough, with expectoration of small lumps of
mucus, without expectoration of small lumps of mucous. Without
resonance, at night. When coughing, sensation as though the attacks
originate above larynx, which feels constricted.

Chest.–

Hollowness
and emptiness in, after expectoration.

Generalities.–

Inclination
to lie down and great aversion to motion. All symptoms are ameliorated
by sweat and after a short sleep. (Nux-v.).

Skin.–

Itching,
burning miliary rash on chest and forearms, alternating wit tightness of
chest. Fly bites burn and itch severely.

Sleep.–

Day
sleepiness with inability to sleep. Anxious groaning and moaning during.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Hard, jumping. Chill: In evening, with coldness which spreads
from abdomen to feet and fingers. After midnight. Heat: Internal
only, with throbbing in body. During the sleep before midnight quickly
ceasing on awaking,. Sweat: Exhausting, it greatly attacks the
files, which persistently plague him. When it breaks out all the
symptoms are ameliorated.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Canth.,
CAPS., Ign.,
Nux-v.

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