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

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

Calcarea carbonica

[Calc.]

Mind.–

Dull
confusion, as of a board before head. Nervous debility. Tearfulness.
Anxiety, especially in twilight. Easily frightened. Timidity. Fearful
solicitude concerning the future. Despair about shattered health. Self –
will and peevishness, especially in children.

Vertigo.–

Whirling,
with nausea and vomiting, worse stooping, ascending, or looking up.
Dizziness with trembling in the early morning, until he has eaten
breakfast. Fainting attacks with blindness and coldness.

Head.–

Violent
congestion and heat in, with a puffy red face. Stupefying ache after
three AM, ceasing only in afternoon. Icy coldness on, and in one side of
(r.) Beating and hammering in center of brain. Unilateral ache with
nausea and belching. Heaviness and fullness in forehead with twitching
of eyes or necessity to close them. Boring in forehead and temple (l).
Empty feeling in. Cutting in vertex and occiput (r). Fine jerking or
tearing stitches on vertex, toward evening. Inward sticking from temple
to temple (r). Tensive ache in temples and right side. Stitching,
tearing and bursting pains in. Crackling in occiput, then warmth rises
from nape into head. Fontanelles remain open too long. Inflammatory
swelling of bones with sticking and throbbing, ending in suppuration,
better rubbing. Worse: Early on awaking, walking in open air,
stooping, external pressure, mental exertion, moving lower jaw, change
of weather, during wet weather, spirituous liquors, standing, rising
from bed, after dinner, exertion, overlifting. Better: Touch. Lying:
Quietly, on back. Closing eyes, raising eyes, warmth.

Scalp:
Crampy tearing in, and in muscles of Sore smarting in occiput. Bald
swellings and follicular tumors which readily suppurate, and are painful
in open air. Painfully sensitive, especially when moving muscles of
forehead back and forth. Painful biting, burning and crawling itching,
spreading from occiput, scratching better, but causes swelling and
bloody eruptions which form thick, dry, foul crusts. Hair dry, falling
out from sides and temples down to beard, with yellowish – white
dandruff and a cold scalp. Worse: Washing, drafts: open,
especially cold damp air, evening, motion, slight touch, warmth of bed. Better:
Pressure, rubbing, scratching, after lying down, sitting quietly, dry
weather, warm room.

Eyes.–

Pressing,
burning and cutting in, mostly in evening by artificial light Inflamed,
with ulcers and maculate on corners. Bluish, cloudy cornea with health
lids. Widely dilated pupils. Lachrymation in open air. Dim vision, as of
a mist before eyes when looking intently, before. Blackness before.
Suffused with tears in morning, but dry in evening.

Ears.–

Throbbing
in. Discharge of pus. Aural polypi. Swelling of parotid gland. Difficult
hearing.

Nose.–

Persistent
dryness of. Inflammatory redness and swelling of. Sore, ulcerated
nostrils, Diminished sense of smell. Stuffy colds, with retarded nasal
discharge. Fluent coryza with sore, ulcerated nostrils, often ends –
colic.

Face.–

Pale,
puffy. Tearing pain in bones of. Moist eruption upon forehead and
cheeks. Inflamed and suppurating follicular tumor. Painful swelling of
submaxillary glands.

Teeth.–

Difficult,
and delayed dentition. Drawing sticking, ache, excited by cold or
drafts. toothache renewed by either cold or warmth. Dental fistulae.

Mouth.–

Stitching
pains in hard palate. Roughness in throat. Spasmodic constriction and
narrowing of throat. Dry tongue early in morning. Indistinct speech.

Appetite:
Frequent ravenous hunger, especially early in morning. Continued intense
thirst with complete loss of appetite. Nightly thirst, for cold drinks.
Persistent dislike for meat and aversion to tobacco. Insatiable thirst
for cold drinks at night but it disagrees with him and the more he
yields to it the more violent it becomes.

Taste:
Sour, in mouth, as well as to food.

Eructations:
Continuous heartburn after every meal.

Nausea, etc. – Qualmishness. Early in morning, after milk.
Vomiting of sour tasting ingesta, of food and sweetish mucus.

Stomach.–

Pressive
spasm in after eating, with vomiting of ingesta. Great weakness of
digestion. Swelling and sensitiveness of pit on pressure.

Hypochondriac:
Intolerance of tight clothes about stomach. Stitches in liver.

Abdomen.–

Cutting
in upper. Corroding and gnawing sensations in. Hard and distended. hard,
swollen mesenteric glands. Thrusts in. Protrusion of inguinal hernia.

Stool.–

Retarded,
hard. Angriness before, and weariness after. Chronic looseness of
bowels. Sour smelling diarrhoea in children. Constipation.

Rectum.–

Prolapsed
with burning pains during stool.

Urine.–

Acrid
and offensive. Too frequent micturition. Haematuria. Burning in urethra
during, and independent of urination.

Sexual Organs.–

Increased
(or diminished) sexual desire.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early, and too profuse. Bloody discharge in period between in.
Itching, during, milky leucorrhoea, before.

Respiration.–

Tightness,
as from congestion of blood to chest. Frequent inclination to take a
deep breath.

Cough.–

Violent,
dry, in evening and at night. Short paroxysms of few, but frequently
repeated coughing fits, excited by a feeling of feather down in throat
and trachea, in morning and during day with much mucus or pus like,
yellow or grayish, sometimes bloody expectoration mostly sour and
stinking. Expectoration, as if from suppuration of lungs. Sequence of
whooping cough, worse drinking water.

Larynx, etc.–

Chronic hoarseness. Feeling as if something tore loose in. Accumulation
of tenacious mucus in trachea, difficult to loosen. Dryness of larynx.

Chest.–

Roughness
in. Sticking in sides of, during motion. Painful soreness during
inspiration. Stoppage (or too profuse) secretion of milk of nursing
mothers. Nightly exhausting sweat on. Palpitation after eating.

Back.–

Pain
in lumbar region and back after overlifting.

Neck:
Goitre – like swelling of. Painful swelling of cervical glands.
Stiffness and rigidity of nape from overlifting.

Upper Extremities.–

Sudden
weakness of arms, as if paralysed. Arthritic nodes on wrist and finger
joints. Sweaty hands. Deadness of hands ad fingers. Fingers tips are
thick are swelled.

Lower Extremities.–

Heaviness
of legs. Children are slow in learning to walk. Swelling of knees, with
stitches. Tension in legs, especially from knees to toes. Inflammatory
swelling and ulcers on lower leg. Profuse foot sweat. Coldness and
insensibility of feet in evening.

Generalities.–

Nervous
debility with weariness and want of strength. Great emaciation with a
large abdomen and good appetite. Tendency to take cold and sensitive to
cold, moist air. Very plethoric. Epileptiform attacks. Easily sprained.
Water and washing renew and aggravate the symptoms. Children are heavy,
fat, big – headed and big – belled, have sour diarrhoea and profuse head
– sweats, more on occiput.

Tissues.–

Glands
painfully swollen.

Bones.–

Swelling
and softening of epiphyses (rachitis). curvature of. Caries of.

Skin.–

Nettle
rash disappearing in cold air. Moist tatters. Follicular tumors
recurring every four weeks at full moon. Many small warts, especially on
arms and hands. Polypi. Unhealthy, Easily excoriates in children.

Sleep.–

Disturbed,
at night, on account of heat, apprehension, tightness of chest and
restlessness. Wandering and flightiness during, with continuous anxiety
upon awaking. Sleepiness early in evening, but late falling to sleep on
account of rush of ideas and frightful fantasies.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Full, and accelerated, often trembling. Much throbbing in blood vessels,
and palpitation of heart, Strong ebullitions of blood. Chill:
With shuddering, most in evening, but also in forenoon. Internal
chilliness in morning after rising. Alternating with heat. Heat:
Frequent attacks of overrunning heat, with anxious palpitation. Then
chill, and cold hands. Evening in bed, external, with internal chill.
After eating. Sweat: From slightest movement, even in cold, open
air. In first sleep. Early morning sweat. Most on head and chest.
Sticky, exhausting, more on occiput and neck, while legs remain cold.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: AGAR, Ag-c.,
Alum., Ambr., Am-c., Anac., Ang.,
Ars., Aur., Bar – c., BELL., BISM., Bor., Bry., CALC-PH.,
Cann., Caust., Chel., Chin., Coccl.,
Cupr., Flu-ac., Graph.,
Ign., Iod., IP., Kali-n,
LYC., Mag-m., Men, Merc., NAT-C.,
NIT-AC., NUX-V., Petr., Phos., Phos-ac., Puls, Rhus-t., Sabi,
SARS., Slain., Sep., Sil., SUL.

Complementary:
Hep., Lyc.

Calcarea phosphorica

[Calc-p.]

Mind.–

Loss
of memory. Stupid, slow comprehension. Confusion, with flatulency,
washing in cold water. Violent screaming. Peevish, fretful, goes from
place to places, likes to be alone.

Vertigo.–

Accompanies
many symptoms, with running from nose and aching in bones, worse in
windy weather.

Head.–

Vertex:
Burning heat in, running down to toes, crawling over, as if ice were on
upper occiput, with hot head and smarting of roots of hair. Pain along
sutures. Both fontanelles open. Throbbing headache and diarrhoea during
menses. Worse: Motion, stepping and exertion. Better:
After eating, sneezing or applying cold water.

Eyes.–

–
Protruding, squinting, balls feel sore or distended. Hot feeling of
lids, with sweat on, and on brows. Worse: Artificial light, or
when other talk about it.

Ears.–

Excoriating
discharges. Pain in, with or alternating with rheumatism in other parts.
Worse: Touch.

Nose.–

Feeling
of a foreign body in. Bleeding in a afternoon. Coryza.

Face.–

Pain
in upper jaw born.

Mouth.–

Teeth:
Contracted feeling as if a draft of wind came from roots. Fresh air,
warm or cold things. Tip of tongue sore burning, with little blisters
on. Salivation: With coryza, with sense of dryness, copious acid
saliva.

Taste:
Bitter at start of menses, disgusting, worse when hawking.

Throat.–

Much
hawking. Enlarged tonsils. Weakness and emptiness in fauces and throat.

Stomach.–

Easy
vomiting. In children, when hawking. Expanded feeling in. Burning and
waterbrash. Infantile indigestion. Emptiness and sinking in, and in
abdomen. Flabby. Loud eructations which alleviate the pains. Pains are
better after food.

Abdomen.–

Soreness
and festering at navel. formication over, Asleep sensation in lower, in
sacrum, and in lower limbs, numbness and quivering in walls. Weakness in
lower. Worse: After eating, cold drinks, while passing stool or
urine. Better: Eructations, after passing flatus, stool and
urine, lying.

Anus and Rectum.–

Fistula.
Throbbing in Hemorrhoids, oozing a yellow fluid.

Stool.–

Watery,
burning, offensive, flatulent, with while points like flakes of pus.
Cholera infantum with acute hydrocephalus. Worse: From juicy
fruit, cider, during dentition, after vexation.

Urine.–

Copious,
with weakness.

Sexual organs.–

Throbbing,
with increased desire. Upward pressure over cons. Burning from vagina up
into chest. Aching in uterus, in vagina, after nosebleed. leucorrhoea,
Albuminous, bellyache. Profuse, dark menses. Labor – like pains, going
into thighs, with involuntary stool and passing of blood when nursing
child. Worse: Taking cold: while passing stool or urine.

Respiratory Organs.–

Suffocation,
lying down, raising up. Involuntary sighing.

Chest.–

Milk,
acid, Constriction, lying, getting up.

Back.–

Neck:
Rheumatic pain, with stiffness, after being in a draft. Cramp – like
pain in one side. Aching sore pain in region of parotid gland.

Back:
Ache, with uterine pains. Scapular pains. Feeling as if sacro –
symphysis were separated. Worse, Lifting.

Upper Extremities.–

Numbness
of left arm in afternoon. Paralysis loss of power in affected part.
Ulcerative pain in roots of nails.

Lower Extremities.–

Caries
of hip – joint with stinking pus. Inability to walk after vexation,
child no longer walks, infant is unable to stand. Cramp in calves when
walking.

Generalities.–

Emaciation.
Cretinism. Acid saliva, milk, heartburn, etc. Shifting pains. Sensations
in small of soreness predominate. Sensations in small spots. Many
symptoms go from right to left. Bilateral pains, on both sides of
throat, bladder, uterus, and chest, all going upward, upward pressure in
many parts. Conditions marked by numerous concomitants or alternating
symptoms.

Worse:
During dentition. Thinking of his complaints. Weather changes, cold,
wet, damp weather. Sensitive to dampness. East winds. When snow melts.
When menses are increased. Better: Rest.

Bones.–

Pains
in, especially in shin – bones, along sutures and symphysis. Slow or
absent ossification of fractures, fontanelles, etc. Caries. Exostoses.
Rachitis. Deficient formation of.

Skin.–

Dark
– brown, yellowish. Red, with prickling like nettles after a bath.

Sleep.–

Day
sleepiness.

Fever.–

Chill:
With uterine pains or motions of scrotum. Coldness behind eyes, of
prominent parts, ears, nose, etc., with hot face. Heat, Running
downward, without thirst. On mammae. With many complaints. Sweat:
On single parts. On palms. Cold.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Calc-c., Calc-f., Phos., Sil.

Complementary:
China.

Camphora

[Camph.]

Mind.–

Vanishing
senses. Raving, Great fears. Hopeless dependency. Hurried manner.
Madness.

Sensorium.–

Reeling,
vertigo. Stupefied and unconscious.

Head.–

Violent
congestion to. constriction and throbbing in brain, especially in
occiput. Meningitis from sunstroke. Convulsively drawn sideways and
backward. Worse: Motion, cold, fresh air. Better: Lying
down, thinking of the pain.

Eyes.–

Troubles,
fixed look. Sunken. Distorted. Greatly contracted pupils. Strongly
reflecting and very bright objects cause photophobia.

Ears.–

Hot
and inflamed, externally. Suppurating ulcers in.

Nose.–

Coryza.
Nasal irritation. Feeling of a discharge but there is non.

Face.–

Deathly
pale, alternating with redness. Icy cold, bluish – pale, Erysipelas on.
Distorted facial expression. Trismus from spasm of masseter muscles.

Mouth.–

Burning
in, and down throat into stomach. Foam from.

Stomach.–

Burning
in. Great sensitiveness of pit to touch, it causes him to scream aloud.

Appetite:
Thirstless. (Intense thirst.) Repugnance to tobacco.

Taste:
Bitter, of food. Of all food is intensified.

Abdomen.–

Burning
heat in entire.

Rectum.–

Irritation
as if piles sitting on something hard.

Stool.–

Difficult,
on account of narrowing rectum. Constipation, as from want of
peristaltic action of intestines.

Urine.–

Retention
of, with tenesmus of neck of bladder. Yellowish – green, musty smelling
thin, weak urinary stream.

Sexual Organs.–

Want
of sexual desire. Complete impotency.

Respiration.–

Asthmatic
oppression of chest (also from copper and arsenical fumes). Intense
oppression of chest. with constriction of larynx, as from sulphur vapor.

Larynx.–

Crying
and whining in a hollow, hoarse tone.

Chest.–

Audible
palpitation after eating, Trembling of heart.

Upper Extremities.–

Convulsive
rotation of arms. Icy cold hands.

Lower Extremities.–

Great
weakness of lower legs. Tensive pain in calves of legs and feet.

Generalities.–

Generalized
tonic spasm with unconsciousness. Epileptic and convulsive attacks of a
tonic kind, he falls to the ground unconscious, Unusual and rapid
sinking of strength. Insensibility. Great tendency to take cold. Great
sensitiveness to cold and cold air, all the symptoms an intensified
thereby. Most pains are felt only when in a partly inattentive (self –
abstracted) states. (Mag-p., Ars.) Camph. antidotes many remedies and
corrects spoiled cases (Paor.). setting them in order again. Sometimes
it acts powerfully again if an intercurrent dose of Opium is given.

Skin.–

Erysipelatous
Inflammations. Dry.

Sleep.–

Stupefying
somnolence with raving. Sleepiness at night, as though from nervous
excitement. Snoring.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Small, weak and slow, often imperceptible. Diminished flow of blood to
parts distant from heart. Chill: Chilliness and sensitiveness to
cold air. With shuddering and shaking. General icy coldness of entire
body, with a deathly pale face, and congestion of blood to head and
chest. Heat: With distended blood vessels, increased by every
movement, Sweat: Cold often clammy, always debilitating.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Brom., Canth., Glo,
OP., Sec-c., Verat-a.

Cannabis indica

[Cann-i.]

Mind.–

Ideas
seem to stand still. Too great rush of ideas. Sad, dejected mood. Takes
everything to bad part. Cheerful, alternating with grave mania.

Vertigo.–

Causing
him to fall sidewise. Dizziness in head.

Head.–

Violent
congestion, with throbbing and agreeable warmth therein. Headache as of
a stone lying on skull. Sensation of cold water dropping on scalp.

Eyes.–

Inflamed,
with diminished visual power. Weak, with indistinct vision. Opacity of
corns. Cataract.

Ears.–

Throbbing
and forcing in ear.

Nose.–

Nosebleed
follows a sense of warmth within the dry nose. Swelling and coppery
redness of. Dryness and beat of.

Mouth.–

Dry,
without thirst. Difficult speech.

Taste:
Clay – like, in, mouth.

Stomach.–

Ulcerative
pain in, from touch disappearing after eating. Spasm of with a pale,
sweaty face.

Hypochondriac:
Inflammation, and ulcerative pain in region of kidneys.

Eructations:
Gulping up of a bitter, sour, scratchy fluid.

Vomiting:
Of green bile.

Abdomen.–

Bruised
pain in. Throbbing from within outward in upper. Ascites.

Stool.–

Constipation
and hard stool. Diarrhoea with colic.

Urine.–

Retained,
as from paralysis of bladder. Discharge scant, bloody, burning, passed
drop by drop. turbid.

Sexual Organs.–

Urethral
gonorrhoea. Painless discharge of mucus from urethra. Sticking, burning
and biting in urethra during and after urination. Inflammatory swelling
with dark redness of prepuce. Painful erections. Intensified sexual
desire. Impotency with cold genitals.

Respiration.–

Suffocative,
asthmatic attacks, wherein he can breathe when sitting in an upright
position only. Shortness of, and tightness as of a load on chest, with
whistling or rattling breathing.

Cough.–

Without,
or with a tenacious, green expectoration.

Larynx and trachea.–

Catarrh
of. Loss of voice.

Chest.–

Inflammation
of lungs, with stitches low down in the left side of. Heart beat is felt
too low down. Thrusts and blow in cardiac region. Cardiac inflammations.
Anxious palpitations.

Back.–

Backache
which impedes talking and obstructs breathing.

Upper Extremities.–

Bruised
pain in arms during motion.

Lower Extremities.–

Pain
in legs, as from great exhaustion. Weariness with clumsiness and
staggering when walking. and with a dull pain in knees like that from
very great exhaustion. Slipping of patella when ascending steps.

Generalities.–

Great
weakness after meals and after motion. Exhaustion after physical
average. Debility after talking and writing. Tonic spasms, especially of
trunk and upper limbs.

Bones.–

Rheumatic
drawing during motion, as if in periosteum.

Sleep.–

Unconquerable
day sleepiness. Unrefreshing night sleep. Sleepless at night because of
anxiety and heat as though dashed with hot water.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Very weak, slow, often almost imperceptible. chill: Predominant,
with thirst and shaking. Shaking c. over entire body. External coldness
of whole body except face. Heat: In face only and very slight.
Nightly burning. Sweet: Entirely absent.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ap., Arg-n., Arn.,
Bell., Calc-c., Canth., Coloc.,
Euphor., Men., Merc-c., Nat
– m., Nit-ac., Puls., Thuj.

Cantharis

[Canth.]

Mind.–

Madness
like hydrophobia, renewed by looking at glistening things (water), and
by touching larynx. Foolish gestures. Attacks of rage. Restless anxiety
with timorousness. Pusillanimous and fainthearted. Angriness. Madness
with shrieking, barking and striking about. lamenting, whining and
anxious restlessness. Amorous insanity with lewd, shameless behavior.

Head.–

Painful
soreness and burning in brain. Tearing ache. Meningitis, with a sense of
burning, rawness and smarting in head. Inward striking most violent in
forehead and occiput. Headache, as if it arose from the nape and would
pass out at forehead, with vertigo. Worse: Morning and afternoon,
talking, motion, standing and sitting, Better: Walking, lying
quietly.

Eyes.–

Painful
soreness and burning in. Involuntary spasmodic motion of. All objects
appear yellow, with yellowness in eyes.

Nose.–

Redness,
burning and swelling of.

Face.–

Glowing
redness and swelling of. Yellow. Trismus.

Teeth.–

Suppurating
gums. Dental fistula.

Mouth.–

Inflammation
in buccal cavity and throat. Burning in throat worse drinking water.
Foamy saliva streaked with blood flows from. Painless inability to
swallow, especially liquids. Sore throat when swallowing from
inflammation and suppuration of tonsils. Feeble voice from weakness of
vocal organs.

Appetite:
Repugnance and aversion to all food. Thirst with aversion to all fluids.

Eructations:
Hiccoughy, which recede toward stomach. Heartburn worse drinking pains.
Agony and restlessness in, with sensitiveness of pit.

Hypochondria:
Inflamed kidneys with intense burning pains. Stitches and tearing in
region of kidneys. Inflammation of liver. Pain in, from obstructed
flatulence.

Abdomen.–

Inflamed,
with burning pain and sensitiveness to touch. Burning here and there,
especially in upper, with yellow spots upon painful parts.

Stool.–

Dysenteric,
mucus, like scrapings of intestines. Diarrhoea: Bloody, foamy
followed by cutting in abdomen.

Urine.–

Retained
with spasmodic pains in bladder. Suppressed secretion of, with
ineffectual urging. He urinates blood drop by drop. Discharge of bloody
mucus from bladder. Inflammation of bladder and urethra.

Sexual Organs.–

Inflamed,
tending to gangrene. Painful gonorrhoea. Suppressed gonorrhoeal
discharge. Intense sexual desire with incessant painful erections.
Inflamed ovaries.

Female.–

Menses:
Of black blood, too early and too profuse.

Respiration.–

Great
sense of weakness in respiratory apparatus. Tightness of breathing from
constriction of larynx.

Larynx.–

Burning
and sticking in trachea when hawking tenacious mucus loose. Hoarseness.
Weak, indistinct voice.

Chest.–

Burning
and sticking in. Inflammation of.

Back.–

Tearing
in. Spasm, with alternate emprosthotonos and opisthotonos.

Upper Extremities.–

Tearing
arms.

Lower Extremities.–

Tearing
in legs. Gout in hip joints, with spasmodic bladder and urinary
symptoms.

Generalities.–

Intense,
painful soreness combined with burning in all parts of, especially the
cavities, of the body. Urinary symptoms with tearing in limbs, better
rubbing. Sense of dryness in joints. Most intense debility, bordering on
paralysis. Over – sensitiveness of all parts. Jaundice. Dropsy. Most
complaints occur on right side. Symptoms are better when lying down.
Attacks recur every seven days. Coffee and oil worse the symptoms. Raw,
burning soreness.

Skin.–

Scabious,
itching vesicles which burn when touched. Erysipelatous inflammations.

Sleep.–

Great
sleepiness in afternoon. Nightly sleeplessness.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Very variable, mostly hard, full and accelerated, sometimes, also
intermittent, more seldom weak, slow and almost imperceptible. Pulsation
throughout the trembling limbs. Chill: With general coldness,
attacks mostly in evening, not relieved by external warmth. Fever often
consisting of chill only, with subsequent thirst, without heat. Running
up the back. Heat: Burning, with anxiety and thirst. At night
merely external, not sensible to patient. Sweat: From every
movement. Cold especially on hands and feet. On genitals, of a urinous
odor.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: ACO., AP., Bell., Calad.,
Cam., Cann, Laur., LYC.,
PULS.

Capsicum annuum

[Caps.]

Mind.–

Dullness
of all senses. Awkwardness. Exceedingly changeable moods. Self will.
Reproachful. Timidity. Inclination to be jocular and given to witticism.
Homesickness, with red cheeks and sleepiness. Capricious, takes things
in bad part.

Sensorium.–

Intoxication
and reeling, especially during the chilly stage, and on awaking in the
morning.

Head.–

Throbbing
ache in forehead or temples. Hysterical migraine., attacks of unilateral
pressive headache, with qualmishness ending in vomiting Tearing head
pains, mostly in forehead. Bursting headache during motion. Worse:
Evening: moving head or eyes, cold, walking, stooping. Better:
Continuous gentle motion in open air, warmth, lying with head high.

Eyes.–

Dilated
pupils. Dim vision. Progressive paralysis of the optic nerve.

Ears.–

Swelling
behind. Diminution of hearing.

Nose.–

Nose
– bleed, early in the morning in bed. Diminished sense of smell. Stuffed
coryza with crawling in.

Face.–

Hot,
red, often alternating with paleness. Forthergill’s prosopalgia, a
benumbing pressure on zygoma, excited and worse by touch. Swollen,
cracked lips.

Mouth.–

Aphthae.
Burning vesicles in. Bad odor from. Sore throat when not swallowing.
Spasmodic constriction for throat.

Stomach.–

Burning
in, after eating. Swelling of pit.

Abdomen.–

Distension
of, with pressive, tensive pain, which takes his breath. Flatulent
colic.

Appetite:
Immoderately ravenous hunger alternating with aversion to food.
Thirstless.

Taste:
Sour. Heartburn.

Nausea:
Coming from stomach.

Stool.–

Of
bloody mucus, with tenesmus. Nightly diarrhoea with burning in anus.
Dysenteric.

Anus.–

Moist
hemorrhoids with burning.

Urine.–

Urging
of urinate with tenesmus of neck of bladder. Discharge of blood from
urethra. Burning urination.

Sexual Organs.–

Purulent
urethral gonorrhoea. Cold scrotum, with impotency.

Respiration.–

Tight,
as from fullness of chest. Tightness of chest, which seems to come from
stomach. Involuntary forcible expirations. Inclination to take a deep
breath. Bad smelling breath when coughing.

Cough.–

Violent,
dry, with concomitant symptoms and pains in other parts, especially in
ears and throat, in evening and at night.

Back.–

Tearing
pain in.

Lower Extremities.–

Pain
in thigh.

Generalities.–

Cracking
and squeaking in joints. Stiffness and painfulness of all joints when
beginning to walk. Averse to all motion. Very sensitive
to cool air, especially to drafts. Persons of relaxed fibre
and phlegmatic temperament. Many symptoms are worse after eating and
drinking, reach their greatest intensity at the beginning of, and are
better during continued motion. Lazy, fat and unclean.

Sleep.–

Sleepless
after midnight.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Very irregular, often intermittent. Chill: Predominates, almost
always with violent thirst. With shuddering, after every drink. With
heat of face. In cold air, especially in drafts. Evening chill.
Diminution of natural bodily heat. Feeling of a cold sweat on thighs. Heat:
With coexistent sweat and thirst. Internal, with cold sweat on forehead.
Heat and sweat first, then chill with shuddering and chattering teeth. Sweat:
Accompanies the heat. After the chill, without previous heat.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Arn.,
CALAD., Cham., Chin., CINA,
Ign., Merc.,
Nux-v., Puls.

Carbo animalis

[Carb-an.]

Mind.–

Liveliness
as from overexcitement, alternating with peevish sadness Easily started,
timidity. Anxiety in evening and fear in the dark. Homesickness with
tearfulness.

Vertigo.–

Especially
early in morning.

Head.–

Numbness
in. Stupefying pain or heaviness in occiput with dull confusion therein.
Feeling as if brain were loose. Pressive ache, worse in cold air. Scald
head. Tightness of scalp on forehead and vertex with great sensitiveness
of these parts to cold, dry, open air. Worse: Moving head, after
eating, early in morning, in cold, moist air, external pressure, touch. Better:
After dinner, in warm, open air, in a warm room, at rest.

Eyes.–

Feel
loose in their sockets. Pronounced farsightedness with dilated pupils.

Ears.–

Destructive
suppuration of. Roaring in. Difficult hearing, the tones commingle and
nothing is heard distinctly.

Nose.–

Tip
cracked, red and burning. Painful nasal bones. Stuffed coryza with
complete stoppage. Nosebleed. Sneezing.

Face.–

Copper
– colored eruption on. Smooth. elevated, erysipelatous spots on.
Erysipelas of. Fissures and vesicles on lips. Swollen, burning lips.

Teeth.–

Loose.
Gums: Swollen, red and painful, pustules on.

Mouth.–

Burning
vesicles in and on tongue. Offensive odor from.

Appetite:
Aversion to tobacco and fat food.

Taste:
Bitter, in mouth in early morning.

Throat.–

Roughness
in. Soreness and rawness in.

Eructations:
Ineffectual, with pain.

Nausea, etc. – Qualmishness at night. Faint – like squeamishness
at stomach.

Stomach.–

Great
weakness of digestion, almost all foods cause distress. Pressure in,
even when fasting, and in evening when in bed. Grasping and clutching
in. constrictive spasm of. Audible growling in.

Hypochondria:
Pressure and cutting in hepatic region.

Abdomen.–

As
if shattered. Soreness in. Outward pressure in.

Flatulence:
Audible rumbling in abdomen. Flatulent colic. obstructed flatus.
Protrusion of inguinal hernia from flatulence.

Stool.–

Hard,
knotty. Constipation with ineffectual urging, he passes offensive flatus
only.

Anus.–

Burning
and sticking in. Burning hemorrhoids. Oozing of a sticky, odorless
moisture from perineum.

Urine.–

Intense
urging to urinate with increased discharge. Involuntary discharge of
offensive urine.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early. Leucorrhoea staining the linen yellow.

Respiration.–

Wheezing,
with rattling i chest. Tightness of chest early in morning, and after
eating.

Cough.–

Suffocative,
hoarse, excited by rawness and dryness in larynx and trachea. In evening
after falling to sleep. Dry at night, but by day, with a gray – greenish
sometimes purulent expectoration, of an offensive, somewhat sour taste.

Larynx, etc.–

Loss of voice at night. Hoarseness in early morning. Constriction of.

Chest.–

Ulcerative
pain in, with suppuration of lungs. Cold feeling in. Sticking and
constriction in. Rattling in. Palpitation. Erysipelatous inflammation of
breasts of nursing women. Hard, painful nodes in female mammae.

Back.–

Stitches
in lumbar region when breathing deeply.

Neck:
Painful swelling and induration of cervical and parotid glands.

Upper Extremities.–

Much
moisture in axillae. Indurated axillary glands. burrowing pain s in
bones of arms. Gouty stiffness of finger joints.

Lower Extremities.–

Tension
in popliteal space and groin. Feet and toes turn under easily.
Frostbites on feet and toes, with burning pains as though’ inflamed.

Generalities.–

Numbness
of all limbs. Gouty stiffness in joints. The joints are weak and snap
easily. Parts are easily sprained. Burning pains. Very sensitive to dry,
cold, open air. Sense of looseness or weakness in many parts.
Excoriating discharges. Great debility from small losses of vital
fluids.

Tissues.–

Glands
inflamed, swollen and indurated.

Skin.–

Erysipelatous
swelling with burning pains. Itching of entire body, in morning while in
bed. Blue, over affected parts.

Sleep.–

Full
of vivid fancies with weeping, groaning and talking. Inability to go to
sleep in evening, on account of restlessness, anxiety and frightful
vision.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Excited and accelerated, with throbbing in blood vessels, mostly toward
evening. Chill: Especially in afternoon, after eating and in
evening. Shuddering every other day in evening continuing while in bed.
In evening, then sweat during sleep. Heat: Following every chill,
mostly at night in bed. Sweat: After the heat, usually toward
morning. During day, from slightest motion, even when eating.
Nightsweat, offensive, debilitating, staining the linen yellow. Most
profuse on thighs.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Carb-v.,
Rhod., Thuj

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