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

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

Hepar sulphuris calcareum

[Hep.]

Mind.–

Tearful
mood and weeping. Extraordinary anguish in evening, driving him to self
– destruction. Fearfulness and depression. Oversensitive and vehement
with hasty speech.

Vertigo.–

When
riding, or shaking head.

Head.–

Bent
back, with swelling below larynx, forcible beating of carotids and
rattling breathing (in membranous croup). Pain, ass of a plug or dull
nail driven into Pressure: In temples and on vertex, in evening, one
sided, outward in forehead. Inward boring in right temple, side of head
or root of nose. Sore pain in forehead, right over eyes. Sticking in.

External Head.–

Burning
itching from front to back, less on sides when scratched, leaving bumps
and a burning smarting eruption which is excessively sensitive to touch.
Painless swellings and bumps on, and on nape, with smarting soreness
when touched or lain upon (after severe illness, abuse of mercury or in
hysterical headaches). Moist, foul, purulent eruption smarting painfully
on whole head, itching violent early on rising, scratching causes
burning and excoriation. Scalp sensitive. Nodes on. Profuse falling of
hair, large bald spots on. Takes cold every time he uncovers head,
especially during (dry.) cold east or north winds. Cold, clammy, sour
sweat most on head and face with aversion to uncovering. Worse:
Early, on awaking, touch, night, cold, least motion, moving eyes,
stooping every jar. Better: After rising, tight bandaging,
warmth, warm wraps, sweating.

Eyes.–

Inflamed:
Lids surrounded by an eruption which smarts when touched, and running
tears. Bruised pain in. Pressure as from a foreign body in. Stiff.
paining during motion. Protruding. Spasmodic closure of lids. Ulcers and
spots on cornea. Photophobia. Surrounding objects appear red.

Ears.

Itching of external. Foul smelling purulent discharges from.
Crusty eruption behind. Difficult hearing with rushing and throbbing in.
Roaring in head.

Nose.

Inflammation of. Painful soreness, m especially of dorsum to
touch. Intensified acuteness of smell. Unilateral coryza with scratching
in the throat. Sneezing, (also after cough)

Face.–

Heat
and fiery redness of. Erysipelatous swelling of. Yellow, with blue rings
around eyes. Pain in bones of, when touched. Thrusts in malar bone.
Boils on lips, chin and neck, very painful to touch. Chronic facial
eruptions, very sensitive to touch.

Teeth.–

Drawing,
jerking ache, worse in warm room. Swelling of gums, painful when
touched.

Throat.–

Sensation
as though’ a plug or sharp splinter stuck therein, when swallowing.
Roughness in. Scratching, when swallowing saliva. Hawking up mucus.
Swollen tonsils and glands of neck. Hoarseness with rapid, hasty speech,
as from over excitement.

Appetite, etc. Desire for sour, pungent things and wine.
Repugnance to fat foods. much thirst. Nausea. Retching. Vomiting.

Stomach.–

Distension
of pit necessitates loosening clothes. Tickling in pit. Pressure, after
little food. Burning in Hypochondria. – Stitches in region of spleen or
liver. Inflammation of kidneys.

Abdomen.–

Spasmodic
contraction of Bruised pain in, early in morning. l Cutting bellyache.
Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands.

Stool.–

Hard,
dry. Dysenteric, difficult passage of scanty, soft feces or bloody
mucus, with tenesmus. Whitish, sour smelling diarrhoea in children.

Urine.–

Dark
red, hot, Acrid burning urine eroding the foreskin. Bloody Nocturnal
enuresis in children.

Sexual Organs.–

Excoriation,
also of thighs. Congestion to uterus. Discharge of prostatic fluid
during hard stool, and after urination. Chancre like ulcers on foreskin.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early. Discharge of blood between menses.

Respiration.–

Rattling,
during sleep. Anxious, short, whistling right which threatens
suffocation and necessitates raising up quickly or throwing head
backward.

Cough.–

Deep,
dull, whistling, c. excited by tickling as of feather down in larynx,
dry in evening, in morning with expectoration of mucous lumps which are
often purulent and bloody, mostly sour but sometimes sweet, if the
latter, they are also offensive. Deep, asthmatic e. Attacks of dry,
hoarse c. with retching and anxiety. Dry, in evening after chilling any
part of body. With expectoration of blood. After every drink. Whooping
cough. The child cries after coughing.

Larynx, etc.–

Membranous croup, with swelling below larynx. Sensitive to cold air.
Pains in a spot within. Phthisis of, and of trachea. Rattling in
trachea. Hoarseness.

Chest.–

Pustules
and ulcers on, which are painfully sore when touched. Cancerous
ulcers which are sensitive to touch, on
female mamma. Swelling and suppuration of axillary glands.
Fetid sweat in axilla. Shattering shocks and soreness in. Rattling in.
Weakness in, which makes speaking difficult.

Back.–

Sticking
and drawing in. Bruised pain in lumbar region, extending into thighs.

Neck:
Violent pulsation of carotids.

Upper Extremities.–

Bruised
feeling of humeri. Hot, red swelling of wrist and finger joints.
Numbness of fingers. Fissured skin of hands and feet.

Lower Extremities.–

Paralytic
drawing pains in limbs. Stitches in joints. Fainting from slight pains
in, evening. All symptoms tomes are intensified at night. Great
sensitiveness of affected parts to touch.

Tissues.–

Glands
swollen and indurated and suppurating.

Bones.–

Bruised
pain in caries.

Skin.–

Unhealthy.
Burning itching in, followed by white vesicles after scratching.
Erysipelatous inflammation of external pars. Suppurations, especially
after previous inflammation. Eruptions and ulcers are painfully sore to
touch. Burning and sticking in ulcers. Ulcers bleed easily.

Sleep.–

Day
sleepiness, especially early in morning and evening, with spasmodic
yawning. Restless, soporous slumber, with head thrown back. Stars up
from sleep at night, as though’ he could get no air.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Hard, full and accelerated, sometimes intermittent, with ebullition of
blood and throbbing in blood vessels. Chill: Regularly each
evening about six or seven o’clock. In daytime, alternating with heat
and photophobia, Nightly in bed, with intensification of all symptoms.
Great chilliness in open air. Heat: Dry, burning, with a red face
and great thirst, thro’ the whole night. Dry, at night with dreams of
uncovering. Flying heat. with sweat. Sweat: Constant, copious by
day and night. Very easy s. in daytime, especially from every mental
effort. At night and in early morning with thirst. Cold, clammy, often
sour or offensive smelling.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Am-c., ANT-C., Ap.,
Arg-n., ARS., BELL., Bros., Caust., CHAM,
CUPR., Dros., Euphr., FERR., Ign.,
IOD., LACH., Lyc. MERC.,
Merc-c., Nit-ac., Rhus-t., Sep., SIL., SPOD., Sul.,
Thuj., ZINC.

Complementary:
Iod., Sil.,

Hyoscyamus niger

[Hyos.]

Mind.–

Imbecile
and irrational. Total unconsciousness, he does not recognize his family
and has no wants except thirst. When spoken to he answers properly, but
immediately talks and acts irrationally, or relapse into
unconsciousness. Unconscious delirium about his business, with closed
eyes. Extraordinary forgetfulness and weakness of memory. Loquacious
insanity shamelessness and lasciviousness, kissing mania, furious
jealousy, buffoonery and clonic spasms. Rage with striking about,
murderous frenzy and uncontrollable exhibition of strength. Loquacity.
Confused babbling and prattling or much chattering, scolding and
quarreling. Anger, and its consequences. Anxiety and fearfulness. Fear
of being poisoned. Desire to escape. Melancholy, Unhappy love with
jealousy. Unsociable, averse to light and company. Immoderate or silly
laughter. Phantasies.

Vertigo.–

As
if intoxicated.

Head.–

–
Strong congestion to. Hydrocephalus. Meningitis with stupefaction.
Stupefying pressive pain in forehead. Heating crawling and surging, as
from strong beating of arteries in. Brain feels loose, when walking it
swashes, surges and seems shattered. The head weaves and shakes to and
fro, or its drawn to one side. Stitches in forehead. Takes cold in, from
dry cold air. Worse: Evening: after eating and drinking, becoming
cold, walking, especially in cold air, Better: Stooping, in
warmth, at rest.

Eyes.–

Red,
sparkling. Dull, staring look. Protruding. Distorted or squinting.
Dilated pupils. Red sclerotic. Swollen lids. Spasmodic closures of.
Diplopia. Dim vision. Night blindness. Surrounding objects appear
enlarged or red.

Ears.–

Difficult
hearing as if stupefied.

Nose.–

Nosebleed
of bright red blood. Loss of smell (and taste.)

Face.–

Hot,
red. Brownish red, swelled. Distorted, bluish. Feels about for with his
hands. Trismus. Festering pain is soft parts between gums and cheeks.

Teeth.–

Tearing
ache early in morning, with congestion to head, Ache after taking cold
and in open air. Throbbing ache, as from an inflamed periosteum. He
clenches them together tightly. Affected teeth seem loose, violent pains
in gums.

Mouth.–

Foam
at. Constriction of throat, with inability to
swallow, especially fluids. Flow of salty saliva. Bloody
saliva. Red tongue. Inability to speak, he utters inarticulate sounds.

Stomach.–

Great
sensitiveness of pit to touch. Burning and inflammation of. Spasm of,
vomiting.

Appetite:
Ravenous hunger and unquenchable thirst, with inability to swallow.
Thirst, drinking but little at a time. Convulsions after drinking.

Hiccough:
Frequent, especially at night and after eating.

Vomiting:
Of blood, bloody mucus or food. Retching and vomiting after every cough.

Abdomen.–

Painful
soreness in muscles when coughing. Painful distension.

Stool.–

Frequent
urging to, with scanty, infrequent evacuations. Involuntary, from
paralysis of sphincter ani. Slender. Painless diarrhoea (in childbed).

Urine.–

Suppressed.
Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge. Involuntary
urination, as from paralysis of bladder.

Female.–

Menses:
Too profuse. Suppressed. Hysterical spasms before. Uterine hemorrhage of
brighter red blood, with spasms.

Respiration.–

Short.
Slow and rattling. Catching, rattling, wheezing. Loss of breath, as
after rapid running.

Cough.–

Nightly,
dry, shattering, spasmodic c., from continuous tickling as from adherent
mucus in throat (also in aged persons). In frequent paroxysms rapidly
succeeding one another, like whooping cough, during rest as well as
motion. Haemoptysis of bright red blood, with spasmodic attacks. Dry at
night, but with expectoration of somewhat saltish mucus or bright red
blood mixed with lumps by day.

Larynx.–

Husky
voice from mucus in, and in tracheas.

Chest.–

Spasm
of, with want of breath, necessitating leaning forward. Inflammation of
lungs, with stitches in sides of. Soreness in muscles of.

Upper Extremities.–

Hands
clenched over the flexed thumbs. Rigidity of hands. Carphology.
Trembling of arms and hands. Coldness of hands and feet.

Lower Extremities.–

Spasm
in posterior part of thigh and in calf.

Generalities.–

Extraordinary
sinking of strength. Inflammation of internal parts. Spasms and
convulsions. Convulsive twitching, with threshing about of hands and
feet. Effects of taking cold, and cold air. Epileptic attacks,
terminating in deep, snoring sleep. Apoplexy, with snoring.
Insensibility of body. Complaints are intensified in the evening and
after eating and drinking. The action of Hyoscyamus is often
intermittent, that of Stram, continues, Hyos. has angular motions,
Stram. has graceful motions.

Skin.–

Hot,
dry, brittle. Brown or gangrenous spots on body, as in certain forms of
typhus. Numerous, large boils. Bleeding ulcers.

Sleep.–

Deep,
stupefying, with snoring. Starting up during and convulsions, especially
after fright. Laughing during Coma vigil. Sleeplessness from anxiety or
over – excitement.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Accelerated, full, hard and strong, more seldom weak, slow and
intermittent. Great distension of blood vessels. Chill: With
shivering over whole body, and heat of face ascending from feet.
Coldness at night, ascending back from lumbar region. He cannot get warm
at all in bed at night. General coldness of body, with a glowing red
face. Alternating with heat. Heat: Burning over entire body,
every evening. Extraordinary congestion to head with a foul taste in
mouth during heat. In evening, with thirst. Sweat: Continued,
debilitating s. during sleep. Much and very violent. Cold and sometimes
sour smelling. Most profuse on legs.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: BELL., Glon., Cupr., Gel., Op.,
Phos-sc., Plb., STRAM., Tab., Valer., Verat-a. Hyos. often intensified
the action of Bell. or Stram.

Ignatia amara

[Ign.]

Mind.–

Weakness
of thought and recollection, especially after violent concealed
vexation. Extraordinarily changeable mood. Hysteria. Paroxysms of
laughter or screaming. Introverted and tatiturm with low spirits and
weeping. Tenderness. Internal, concealed grief, with frequent sighing.
(Arg – n) Carking mental care. Unfortunate love. Very easily frightened.
Overconscientious. After effects of mortification and vexation, with
silent, concealed grief or spasms. Alternatively frolicsome and sad.
Always desire to be alone. Despair of recovery. Dread of work. Vertigo.

Head.–

Heavy,
Empty feeling in. Trembling, nodding or backward bending of. Headache:
As of a nail pressing outward in temples or sides, from chagrin or
silent grief, or by stooping. Tearing in brain, especially in forehead.
Pressure in forehead and vertex, following a befuddled feeling in.
Outward pressing or sticking pain in forehead and at root of nose. Pain
as if crushed, often ending in a similar toothache. Distensive pressure
in either temple. Worse: Coffee, spirituous liquors, smoking,
noise, odors, morning moving eyes, sunlight, reading, writing, after
siesta, lying on painless side, lying on back, mental exertion,
emotions, sitting upright. Better: Changing position, lying on
painful side, lying on back, external warmth.

Eyes.–

Scalding
tears during day (especially in sunlight) with nightly agglutination of
lids. Convulsive motions of. Flickering zigzags before. Pressure as from
sand under upper lid. Swelling of upper lid, with bluish veins.
Inflammation of upper part of eyeball, as far as covered by upper lid.
Photophobia.

Ears.–

Roaring
before, like a strong wind. Difficult hearing, but not for the human
voice.

Nose.–

Excoriated
before, like a strong wind. Difficult hearing, but not for the human
voice.

Face.–

One
– sided redness. Alternate paleness and redness of. Sunken, earth
colored, with blue circles around eyes. Spasmodic twitching of muscles
of. Sweat only on face (never on scalp). Dry, bleeding, cracked lips.

Teeth.–

Ache,
as though being crushed, from taking cold in molars. Convulsions of
children, during difficult dentition.

Mouth.–

Redness
and inflammation in entire buccal cavity. Stitches in palate, extending
into ear. Soreness as from a plug in throat, when not swallowing.
Sticking sore throat swallowing food. Sensation of a lump in throat,
with painful soreness when swallowing. Much sour saliva in. Salivation.
When talking or chewing he easily bites his tongue or cheek. Faint,
tremulous voice.

Appetite:
Feeling of hunger in evening, which prevents sleep. Appetite for this or
that which is distasteful when obtained. Great aversion to tobacco,
smoked meat or brandy.

Taste:
Flat, insipid, like chalk. Lost, of food.

Eructations:
Hiccup. Regurgitation: Bitter, of the ingesta. Hiccough after eating,
drinking and smoking.

Nausea, etc – Without vomiting. Qualmishness, with sweat and
bellyache after smoking. Nightly vomiting of ingesta.

Stomach.–

Stitching
in region of. Burning, especially after brandy. Pressure in pit. Weak or
empty sensation in pit.

Hypochondriac:
Fullness and distension in. Swelling and induration of spleen.

Abdomen.–

Turning
and twisting about navel. Protrusions here and there on. Throbbing in.
Uterine cramps, with cutting, sticking and labor – like pains.
Outpressing pain in inguinal region. Abdominal pains are after sweet
foods, coffee and brandy.

Flatulence:
Nightly, flatulent colic. Rumbling in abdomen, as from hunger. Evolution
of much flatus, which is easily discharged.

Stool.–

Easy
and satisfactory. Very thickly formed, difficult altho soft. Ineffectual
urging, felt more in upper intestine. Diarrhoea, with fissures in
rectum. Constipated, from taking cold and driving.

Anus,
etc – Itching and crawling in. Prolapsus recti with smarting pains
during moderate pressure to stool. Contraction of, after stool.

Urine.–

Frequent
discharge of much watery. Sudden, irresistible urging to urinate.
Involuntary urination. Constant urging to urinate after coffee. Burning
and smarting in urethra when urinating.

Sexual Organs.–

Violent
itching in evening, disappearing by scratching. Sweat on scrotum.
Impotency with lasciviousness. Pains in penis.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early (and too profuse). Menstrual blood black, smell badly and is
discharged in clots. Uterine hemorrhage. Uterine spasms during menses.

Respiration.–

Oppression
of: Alternating with twitchings and convulsions, nightly, of chest,
especially after midnight. Want of breath from abdominal disturbances.
Loses his breath when running. Changeable. Deep. Slow inspiration and
rapid exhalation.

Cough.–

Dry,
spasmodic. Dry, hollow, from tickling in stomach, early in morning when
awaking. Dry, from irritation, as feather – down or sulphur vapor in
throat pit, in evening, always by continued coughing. Expectoration
scanty and difficult, tasting and smelling like secretions of an old
catarrh, in evening only.

Larynx, etc.–

Soreness in. Tearing and contraction in. Pains in whole trachea. Loss
voice.

Chest.–

Pressure
in. Stitches in, from flatulent colic. Spasmodic constriction of. Feels
as if too small. Nightly palpitation, with stitches at heart.

Back.–

Spine
curved backward. Cutting stitches, as from a sharp knife, extending from
lumbar region cut throw loins down into thighs. Pain in sacrum when
lying on back in bed, early in morning.

Neck:
Painless glandular nodules on.

Upper Extremities.–

Convulsive
twitchings in arms, fingers and legs. Cutting stitches in shoulder –
joint when flexing arm. Sense of numbness and something alive crawling
about in arm, at night in bed.

Lower Extremities.–

Cutting
sticking in hip and knee – joints. When walking knees are involuntary
drawn up. Ulcerative pain or stitches in soles of feet. Nightly burning
of heels when held in contact with each other, at the same time they
seem cold to touch.

Generalities.–

Extraordinary
changeableness of all the symptoms. Crawling, asleep feeling in limbs.
Dislocative pains in joints. Trembling of limbs. Pain, as from hard,
pointed body, pressing from within outward. Cutting stitches, as from a
sharp knife. Convulsive twitches, especially after fright or vexation,
with silent grief. Hysterical spasms. Coffee, tobacco and brandy
intensify the symptoms. The attacks are renewed after dinner, in evening
after lying down, and early in morning immediately upon awaking, they
are diminished when lying upon back, upon painful parts, or in general
by a change of posture.

Skin.–

Itching
on body, which immediately leaves the spot when gently scratched.
Itching when becoming heated or in open air. Great sensitiveness to
drafts. During fever, violent, itching nettlerash covering entire body.

Sleep.–

Deep,
stupefying. Sleep after the cough paroxysms. Extraordinary spasmodic
yawning with pain in maxillary joint as though it would be dislocated.
Sleep so light that patient hears everything. Restless sleep and great
restlessness at night. Fixed ideas in his dreams which continue after
waking.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Generally hard, full and rapid, with throbbing in blood vessels, more
seldom small or slow, in other respects upon the whole, very changeable.
Chill: And coldness, with increased pains. Capable of being by
external warmth, always with thirst. Often on posterior part of body
only. Internal, with external heat. External coldness with internal
heat. Heat: External only without thirst, with intolerance of
external warmth. External, with redness, internal shuddering and
sticking in limbs. Overrunning attacks of external heat. Constant rapid
changes of heat and cold. One – sided burning heat, of face. Sweat:
Slight, often only on face. Feeling as if sweat would break out, which
does not. While eating. Sometimes cold, but generally warm and somewhat
sour smelling. Thirst during apyrexia.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Alum.,
Arn., Ars., Bism, Coloc, Calc-c., Caps,
Carb-v., Caust., CHAM., Coccl.,
Coff., Cupr., Hep., Ip., Lyc., Mgs.,
M – arct., M – aust., Mar., Nux v., Phos
– ac., Plat., Puls, Ruta.,
Selen., Stram., Valer., ZINC.

Complementary:
Aur., Nat – m.

Iodum

[Iod.]

Mind.–

Anxiety.
Great excitement, irritability and sensitiveness. Low spirits and
weeping, with ill – humor. Restlessness which renders sitting quietly or
sleep impossible. Excessive loquacity and mirthfulness.

Head.–

Congestion
to, with throbbing therein. Aching as from a tight band about. Headache
from warm air or a long drive noise and talking.

Eyes.–

Smarting.
Dirty yellow sclerotic. Swollen lids. Obscured vision. Diplopia.

Ears.–

Difficult
hearing. Sensitive in noise.

Nose.–

Increased
secretion of mucus from. Nasal catarrh, dry in morning, fluent in
evening.

Face.–

Complexion
pale, yellow or rapidly changing to brown, earth – colored. Twitching of
facial muscles. Suppurating ulcers on cheeks with swelling of
submaxillary glands.

Teeth.–

Yellow
and covered with mucus in morning. Gums are detached and bleed easily.

Mouth.–

Ulcers
in, with fetid odor therefrom. Aphthae. Throat inflamed, with burning
pains. Constriction of throat with difficult swallowing. Salivation.
Thickly coated tongue.

Appetite:
Unusual hunger, the patient feels generally better after satisfying it.
Ravenous hunger alternating with loss of appetite. Increased thirst.

Eructations:
Heartburn after heavy food.

Nausea, etc. – Frequently nauseated. Vomiting. Forcible, renewed
after every meal, bilious, with violent pains in stomach.

Stomach.–

Pains
in. Pressure after every meal. Burning and corrosive gnawing in. A
single internal tremor, which radiates therefrom, with increased warmth.

Hypochondriac:
Pain in liver. Painful swelling of spleen.

Abdomen.–

Abdominal
pains renewed after every meal. Enlarged a., it threatens suffocation
when he assumes a wrong position. Swollen mesenteric glands. Labor –
like cramps in. Scirrhous swelling of inguinal glands.

Flatulence:
Incarcerated.

Stool.–

Hard,
nodular. Soft, frequently whitish diarrhoeic s., alternating with
constipation. Of dysenteric mucous without feces.

Urine.–

Suppressed.
Yellowish, green or acrid. With an iridescent pellicle.

Sexual Organs.–

Swollen
and indurated testes and prostatic gland. Increased sexual desire.

Female.–

Menses:
Sometimes too early, sometimes too late. Long – continued, profuse
uterine hemorrhage. Corrosive leucorrhoea.

Respiration.–

Difficult
with tightness of chest.

Cough.–

Chronic,
dry, early in morning, excited by an unbearable crawling of tickling in
larynx or throat pit. With sticking and burning in chest. With copious,
frequently bloody or tenacious yellow mucus expectoration in evening.

Larynx.–

Inflammation
of, and of trachea. Increased secretion of mucus in, in trachea and
bronchi. Hoarseness and insufferable crawling, early in morning.

Back.–

Neck:
Swollen externally. Swells up when talking. Goitre from swelling of
thyroid gland. Constant sensation of constriction in the goitre.
Swelling of glands of throat and neck.

Chest.–

Burning,
sticking tension in integuments of. Burning, itching and tickling in.
Forcible palpitation increased to violence by every exertion. Flaccidity
and dwindling of the female mammae.

Upper Extremities.–

Nightly
bone pains in arms wherein he lies. Trembling arms and hands. Cold sweat
on hands.

Lower Extremities.–

While
swelling of knee. Hot, bright swelling of knee, with inflammation,
sticking and burning, greatly touch and pressure. Sweat excoriates the
feet.

Generalities.–

Violent
trembling of limbs. Twitching of muscles and subsultus tendinum. He
emaciates to a skeleton. Edematous swellings. Great weakness, even
talking causes sweat to break out. Great irritability of entire nervous
system. Violent tearing in joints. Chronic gouty arthritis, with violent
nightly pains, but without swelling. Intolerance of heat.

Tissues.–

Glands
swollen and indurated after bruises.

Bones.–

Nightly
pains. Curvature.

Skin.–

Dirty,
clammy, moist. Rough, dry. Anasarca.

Sleep.–

Sleeplessness.
Anxious dreams.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Large, hard and accelerated, with strong abullition and throbbing in
blood vessels. Quick, but weak and thready. It instantly becomes
quicker, from every movements. Chill: Frequently alternating with
heat. Cold feet throughout entire night. With shaking, also in a warm
room. Heat: General flying over whole body. Internal, dry, with
external coldness of skin. Sweat: Very profuse at night. Very
exhausting, in the morning hours, of a sour odor and with much thirst.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ap.,
Ars., BELL., Bro., Bry., Calc – c.,
Chin., HEP., Kali-c., Lyc, Merc.,
Par., Phos., Sil, Spo., Sul.

Complementary:
Sil., Lyc.

Ipecacuanha

[Ip.]

Mind.–

Very
excitable, impatient disposition. Taciturn peevishness, with inclination
to scorn everything. Intolerance of noise. Anxiety. Crying and screaming
of children.

Head.–

Sticking
headache in vertex or forehead. Bruised sensation in brain and racial
bones, especially the parietals, with nausea and vomiting. Throbbing and
shocks in. Occiput and nape painful. Blondes. Worse: In room. Better:
In open air.

Eyes.–

Twitching
lids. Dilated pupils. Dim vision. Weeping, inflamed.

Ears.–

Coldness
and chill on, during the heat.

Nose.–

Frequent,
violent nosebleed. Loss of smell. Obstruction of, and stuffed coryza.

Face.–

Pale,
with blue circles about eyes. Lucid, puffed. Convulsive twitches of
facial muscles and lips. Smarting eruption and aphthae on margin of
lips. Redness of skin about mouth. Redness of one cheek and paleness of
the other.

Teeth.–

Hollow
teeth ache as though they would be torn out, when biting on them.

Mouth.–

Biting
in, also on tongue. Difficult swallowing. Salivation. Yellow coated
tongue. Bleeding from. Inflamed throat.

Taste:
Sweetish, bloody, in mouth.

Stomach.–

Intense,
indescribably sickening pain in. Sense of emptiness and relaxation in.
Distension and throbbing in pit. Shocks in.

Appetite:
Loss of, as from a relaxed stomach. Loathing of all food. Desire for
delicacies and sweet things. After effects of pork.

Thirstlessness.

Nausea, etc. – Incessant nausea and vomiting. Qualmishness, as if
from stomach. Inclination to vomit and retching after cold drinks and
smoking. Vomiting: Of all ingesta, bilious, of green, gelatinous
mucus. Haematemesis. Bad effects of all kinds of fat. Averse to all
sorts of food.

Abdomen.–

Cutting
and pinching about navel, motion.

Flatulence:
Flatulent colic, with frequent, diarrhoeic stools.

Stool.–

Diarrhoeic,
as if fermented, with nausea and violent bellyache. Diarrhoea of various
kinds. Dysenteric, with tenesmus. Fecal, covered with bloody mucus.
Bloody, Foul – smelling. Green.

Urine.–

Diminished,
dark red. Bloody, with cutting in abdomen and urethra (after suppressed
itch). Ineffectual urging to urinate. Retained.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early and too profuse. Uterine hemorrhage of bright red, clotted
blood.

Respiration.–

Fetid
breath. Anxious, hurried. Sighing. Suffocative attacks in room, becoming
better in open air. Want of breath from slightest motion. Gasping for
breath. Spasmodic asthma with contraction of throat and chest.

Cough.–

Dry,
excited by tickling, as from sulphur vapor, especially in upper part of
larynx. Whooping cough in violent, shattering, rapidly succeeding
paroxysms of hollow coughs, which do not permit recovery of the breath.
Incessant suffocative c. in evening, with sweat on forehead, shocks in
head, retching and vomiting. With stiff body and a blue face.
Haemoptysis, after every exertion. Dry in evening, in morning
expectoration of bright red blood mixed with mucus, of a putrid,
sweetish taste.

Chest.–

Spasmodic
constriction. Sore pain in. Oppression. Palpitation. Rattling from
accumulation of mucus within.

Back.–

Opisthotonos
and emprosthotonos.

Neck:
Swelling and suppuration in superasternal fossa.

Upper Extremities.–

One
hand cold, the other hot.

Lower Extremities.–

Sensation
in hip – joint as though it would be dislocated, immediately upon
sitting down. Convulsive twitches in legs and feet. Nightly cramp in
calf muscles, drawing them in to lumps. Violent itching of calves.
Ulcers on feet which have a black base.

Generalities.–

Symptoms
are accompanied by great weakness, repugnance to all food and nausea.
Hemorrhage from all orifices of body. Asleep sensation in joints.
Oversensitive to both cold and warmth. Twitches in limbs. Tonic spasm
bending body backward and forward. Twitches in limbs. Tonic spasm
bending body backward and forward. Gastric disturbances and disposition
to hemorrhages. He falls to the floor. Shattering of entire body. The
entire body is stretched out rigidly. Apoplexies. After – effects of
intemperance, taking cold or eating pork. Complaints are in open air.

Bones.–

Bruised
pain in.

Skin.–

Miliary
or receding with in childbed. Violent itching of the clear skin of arms
and thighs, with nausea, he is compelled to scratch until he vomits.

Sleep.–

Whimpering
and restlessness with half open eyes. Frequent starting up during.
Complete insomnia.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Greatly accelerated, but often imperceptible. Chill: Generally of
short duration and soon passing into heat. Internal, as if under the
skin, increased by warmth. With thirst. Moist coldness of hands and
feet. Want of natural vital heat. Heart, General, continued, with dry,
parchment – like skin, after a short chill. Anxious, dry, in evening.
Sudden attacks of general heat with cold hands and feet. Mostly without
thirst. With chilliness, and heat of face. Sweat: Very profuse,
mostly at night. Biting, mostly sour smelling, often also cold. Frequent
attacks of hot sweat when in a room. Cold, on forehead. Intermittent
fever with a slight chill, violent heat, gastric symptoms and oppression
of chest, Exacerbation of fever in evening.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Alum., Ant
– c., ANT-T., ARN., ARS., Bry.,
CALC-C., Carb – v., Cham.,
Chin., Coccl., Cupr., Dros., Ferr., Ign.,
Kali-n., Laur., NUX-V., Op., Phos.,
Puls., Sul – ac., Tab., Verat-a.

Complementary:
Calc-c.

Kali bichromicum

[Kali-bi.]

Mind.–

Indifference.
Disinclination to mental work, to business. Ill humor. Gloomy.
Discouraged. Better: Eating.

Vertigo.–

Whirling,
on rising, with epigastric pain, with nausea, sudden, paroxysmal. Better:
After acid vomiting. Worse: Descending.

Head.–

Blindness
followed by violent headache, sight returns as headache increases.
Violent, shooting pains from root of nose to external canthus, (Cin.)
increases till noon, cease toward evening. Feeling as if brain were too
large and was driving skull bones asunder. As of a weight on vertex.
Pains: Shooting or pressing, mostly in forehead and temples, as though
cut to pieces with knives, sore, with bristling of hair on vertex, periodical,
in small spots or radiating therefrom, over
one eye. Sensitiveness of bones. Worse: Stopped
nasal discharge, cold air, motion, stopping, at night. Better:
Nosebleed, lying down.

Hair:
Bristling, painful to touch over affected area. Hair falling out.

Eyes.–

Brownish
spots on sclerotic. Inflammation, With itching, with lachrymation, with
agglutination. Redness of lid margins. lashes lost. Pus or mucus in, in
canthi. Burning. Dryness. Feel raw. Swelling of upper lids edematous,
with heaviness. Granular lids. Chromopsies. Twitching lids. Dim vision.
Worse, Morning.

Ears.–

Stitches
in, extending into palate.

Nose.–

Running
of eyes and n, from least exposure to cold. Frequent violent sneezing.
Snuffling. Stoppage. Discharges: Corrosive, watery, sudden purulent, of
clinkers, scabs or plugs, offensive, of bloody mucus. Nosebleed: When
bathing, after eating, preceded by burning eyes and sleepiness.
Sensations: Dryness, stiffness within, burrowing, crawling, twitching,
the bones rubbing together, being swollen, heaviness, as if a weight
were hanging to it, tickling, as of a hair in, pressure or pain at root
or in hones of, painful soreness of, sensitive tip. Expired air feels
hot, the inspired cold. Ulcers in, especially perforating the septum.
Smell: Imaginary, putrid, fetid from, lost. Worse: Damp weather,
touch, evening.

Face.–

Yellowish,
sickly, anxious. (Lyc.) Drawn, pale, and covered with cold, clammy
sweat. Acne on. Bones of, Bruised feeling, periodical tearing, boring,
sensitiveness of, and of cranium. (Merc – cor.) Tension in scalp and
face making features stiff. Swelling, over malar bones, under nose. Better:
Warmth.

Teeth.–

Boring,
borrowing, gnawing, drawing, tearing, stitching. Gums: Livid,
abscess in, bleed easily.

Tongue.–

Dry,
smooth, red and cracked. Thick. Coating, Yellowish, of base, of thick
mucus on, mapped. Stinging prickling in. Burning at tip.

Mouth.–

Aphthae.
Burning, and excessive dryness in, and in throat, drinking cold water. Saliva:
Salty, frothy, sticky. Salivation: With toothache, with drawing
in ears, with tension and drawing in masseter muscles.

Taste:
Astringent, metallic, greasy, putrid, sweetish, bloody, resinous.
Bitter.

Throat.–

Posterior
pharynx: Dark red and glistening, injected with bright red blood
vessels, a fissure exudes blood. (Elap.) Hawks up thick gelatinous or
much tenacious mucus in morning. Rawness, redness, roughness and
swelling in. Ulcers in, and in mouth, covered by an ashy slough,
excavated, containing yellow tenacious matter. Uvula baggy and
elongated. Sensation of a plug in, of a hair in
fauces, coldness in pharynx, a prickling substance in,
sticking, extending into ears, adherent mucus in, scraping, causing
vomiting. Swallowing difficult, feeling as if food stuck in oesophagus. Worse:
Protruding tongue, swallowing, speaking. Better: In air.

Stomach.–

Dyspeptic
attacks, with low spirits, with confusion of head, with emaciation.
Swelling of. Sensation, Of pressure, as of a load, weakness emptiness,
sinking, anxiety, gnawing at pit, turning over in, soreness of, coldness
of, burning, twitching and electric shocks. Pain, especially in pit. alternate
gastric and rheumatic symptoms. Worse: Pressure of
clothes, motion, after meat. Better: After eating.

Hypochondriac:
Sticking in. Boring in left. Pain, in a small spot, in posterior (l.),
in liver.

Appetite:
Sense of hunger, with nausea and disinclination for food. Dislikes meat.
Great thirst, longing for beer, for acid drinks.

Eructations:
Convulsive, fetid, rancid, when hawking, with imaginary putrid smells.

Nausea, etc. Ñ At sight of food, sudden, excessive, with heat
risings and sweetish flat salivation, with shuddering of chilliness,
excited by slightest pressure on pit of stomach, after a glass of water.
Vomiting: sudden, forcible, painful, glairy, bloody, with keen
smell and taste, preceded by retching and followed by hiccough, of
bright yellow water, with cold sweat on hands.

Abdomen.–

Inflamed,
with cramps in many parts, chiefly legs. Distension. Painfully
sensitive. Cramp – like constriction with nausea, then a pasty stool
with burning and tenesmus in anus. Rumbling, gurgling and emission of
much flatus. Violent cutting griping and twisting in. Gnawing at navel.
Retracted. Weakness in navel region.

Worse:
Touch, draft of air, afternoon, deep inspiration. Better:
Pressure, after passing stool or flatus.

Stool.–

Diarrhoea,
of brown frothy water, with excessively painful pressure, urging and
tenesmus. Dysenteric: Bloody, dark coffee colored, extremely painful.
Gushing, hurrying her out of bed. Involuntary. Odorless, Slate colored.
Clay colored. Constipated, extremely hard. Followed by burning, soreness
and pressure in anus. Worse: In morning, before rising,
periodically.

Anus.–

Constipation,
with painful retraction of. Sore, making it painful to walk. Sensations
of, Boring, rawness, smarting, a plug, dragging, biting, tickling,
stitches in.

Urinary Organs.–

Burning
in, especially in bulbous and navicular portion of urethra. Sensation as
if a drop of urine remained behind. Pyelitis. Albuminuria. Urine
deposits a thick mucus sediment.

Sexual Organs.–

Escape
of prostatic fluid during stool. Painful constriction at root of penis.
Itching in glans. Smarting and rawness in vulva. Swelling of. Adhesive
leucorrhoea.

Respiratory Organs.–

Bronchitis.
Much mucus in air passages excites hawking. Sore, ulcerative or burning
pain in. Wheezing. Dyspnoea, in sleep, in damp weather. Worse:
After eating or drinking, on undressing, morning on waking. Better:
Getting warm in bed, lying.

Cough.–

Short.
On every inspiration, excited by scraping or tickling in air passages,
after meals, must hold his sides, with bloody taste in mouth, evening.
Rough, hoarse voice. Incessant, from tickling in the trachea and bronchi
with a stringy expectoration, or rarer but harder attacks with scanty,
white, sweetish expectoration. Expectoration: Of very tough
mucus, so viscid it hangs in strings down to feet, difficult to detach,
sticky, heavy, lumpy, of reddish mucus, with traces of blood, slate
colored, yellow, sweet.

Chest.–

Pains:
Cutting. from mid – sternum thro to between shoulders, tearing sticking
in, sores, as if bones were broken. Sensation of itching, dryness,
rawness or burning in. Sensitive in nipple region. Heart:
Coldness at. Pressive or sticking pains. Cramps about. Fluttering. Worse:
Motion of lifting arms, of deep breathing, etc.

Back.–

Scapular
pains. Undulative contraction of dorsal muscles. Aching in kidney
region, with scanty reddish urine and nausea. Sprained or paroxysmal
lumbar pain, can’t rise from stooping or a chair. Pain as of a blow or
sacrum. Pain in coccyx, while sitting, walking or touch. Worse:
Motion, during coition. On left side.

Neck:
Stiff. Drawing. Tearing. Worse, Motion.

Extremities.–

Loud
cracking in joints. Twitchings. Pains: Rheumatic, bruised,
paralytic, boring, gnawing, drawing, or tearing, in and about joints,
often confined to a single fibre or spot, alternating with throat
symptoms. Worse: Right.

Upper Extremities.–

As
if asleep. Weakness, especially in hands, she drops things. Swelling of
finger – joints. Pains in bones of, in wrists.

Lower Extremities.–

Trembling.
Coldness. Heaviness. Sensitiveness of. Sciatica, walking and flexing
leg, standing, sitting, lying, pressure and in hot weather. Swollen
sensation. Cramp in patella. (Ruta.) Twitching in calves. Soreness of
heels. Pain in bones of toes as if they would be torn off.

Generalities.–

The
secretions become tough. Stringy and adhesive, finally hardening into
plugs, clinkers or lumps, causing obstruction of the outlets or narrow
portions of hollow organs with consequent dilatation above. Erosions and
ulcers on skin and mucous membrane. Symptoms alternate or suddenly
shift their position. Pains often go from before backward, or
are diurnal. Many symptoms appear in small
spots. Yellow, vision, vomit, pus, saliva, sclerotic, skin
and stool. Pains, gnawing, burning, cramping, drawing – tearing, mostly
near or in periosteum or tendinous expansions. Periostitis. Great
prostration, heaviness and sick feeling. Sluggishness. Emaciation.
Hectic. Sensitive to cold air. Sluggish in mind, body and slow
processes. Indolence everywhere. All the Kalis are adopted to indolent
inflammations and ulcers.

Worse:
Morning. 2 AM and 4 PM,
Periodically. Hot weather. Dampness.
After beer. In fat subjects. After
coition. From touch.

Better:
After a short nap. After eating. Evening. In open air. Motion,
especially of affected parts.

Skin.–

Brown
spots on. Measle – like rash Hard
pimples. Deep ulcers, Having a punched – out appearance and penetrating
to the bone, with overhanging edges and a dark center, painful in cold
weather, leaving depressed white cicatrices, with adherent secretions.

Sleep.–

Incessant,
distressing yawning, with overpowering sleepiness, with gastric
symptoms. Symptoms on falling to sleep. Nightmare, with arrested
breathing. Unrefreshing. Worse after.

Fever.–

Surface
of body cold. shivering coldness starting in extremities, with
constriction in pericranium. Heat: Glowing mostly on face, with
internal chilliness, dry mouth and lips, and cold arms and hands, must
moisten lips. Sweat: Cold on forehead,
clammy.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ars., Bro., Caust., Cinnab.,
Cocc-c., Ferr., Hepp., Hydras.,
Graph., Iris-v., Kali-c., Lach.,
mar., Osm., Merc., Mez., Nit-c., Phyt., PULS., Sep., Sil., Spo., Staph.,
Sul., thuj.

Complementary:
Ars., Phos., Sep., Psor.

Kali carbonicum

[Kali-c.]

Mind.–

Angry
and irritable. Very easily frightened. Anxious fears.
Reticent.

Vertigo.–

Seeming
to come from stomach. Dizziness. Sudden unconsciousness.

Head.–

Congestion
to with throbbing and roaring therein. Unilateral headache, with nausea.
Pressive pain in occiput. Stitches in temples and forehead, Headache
when driving. Worse: Stooping, moving it, eyes or lower jaw. Better:
Warmth, raising up.

External Head.–

Painful
gatherings, like progressing boils, paining more from motion and
external pressure, less from warmth, with coincident itching seemingly
in skull bones. Falling of hair, especially from temples, brove and
beard, with great dryness thereof. Violent burning itching in early
morning and evening, often becoming moist after scratching. Takes cold
in, especially from staying in a draft while heated. Great coldness of. Worse:
Early in morning, in cold. Better: In warmth.

Eyes.–

Stitches
in. Pimply eruption in brows. Sense of coldness in lids. Swelling and
nightly agglutination of lids. Inclination to stars. Easily dazzled by
light. Sparks before. Musca volitantes, when reading and looking into
space. Swelling between brows and lids. Lachrymation.

Ears.–

Inflammatory
swelling, with purulent discharge. Outward stitches in. Inflammation of
parotid glands. Hearing dull, diminished.

Nose.–

Stuffed
coryza, with ulcerated nostrils. Red and swelled, with internal
soreness. Dull sense of smell.

Face.–

Yellow.
Puffy. Swelling and redness of cheeks. Thick, ulcerated lips. Cracking,
peeling lips. Freckles.

Teeth.–

Ache,
when eating only. Twitching, tearing ache, with pain in facial bones.
Sticking ache, with swollen cheeks.

Mouth.–

Sense
of dryness in, with increased flow of saliva. Sticking sore throat when
swallowing. Much mucus on palate. Swelling of, and vesicles on tongue.

Appetite:
Aversion to rye bread. Great desire for sugar or sour things. Complaints
from milk and warm food.

Taste:
Bitter, in mouth.

Eructations:
Sour, Heartburn.

Nausea:
Inclination to vomit, Anxious, from emotions. Sour vomiting.

Throat.–

Sticking,
Food lodges.

Stomach.–

Fullness
after eating. Tension straight across. Anxiety at, Spasm of, renewed
after every meal. Stitches in pit and hypochondriac, which take away his
breath.

Hypochondriac:
Pressure and sticking in region of oliver and kidneys. Pain when
stooping, as the liver were wrenched.

Abdomen.–

Inactivity
and coldness of, Great distension after eating. Emptiness. Stitches.
Heaviness. Ascites. labor – like colic with pains in lumbar region.
Stitches in inguinal region.

Flatulence:
Incarcerated. Excessive discharge of flatus.

Stool.–

Mucus.
Retarded, on account of inactivity of intestinal canal. Constipation,
with difficult passage of too large sized feces, with inactivity of
rectum.

Anus.–

Itching.
Painful hemorrhoids.

Urine.–

Frequent
urging to urinate, with scanty discharge of fiery urine. Burning in
urethra when urinating.

Sexual Organs.–

Deficient
or excessive sexual desire. Constant downward pressure toward female
genitals. Stitches in pudendum.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early. Too scanty. Suppressed. First menses appear with difficulty
in young women. Discharge of blood during pregnancy. Burning
leucorrhoea, passed with labor – like colic and pains in small of back.

Respiration.–

Difficult,
whistling r. Spasmodic tightness of chest, early in morning, especially
during motion.

Cough.–

Asthmatic,
hacking cough, in short but frequently repeated attacks, excited by
tickling in throat and larynx. Dry, tickling c., in evening and at
night, with dislodgement early in morning and during day of tenacious
mucus or yellow pus of a flat, sweetish or sour taste, which is not
expectorated but swallowed. Spasmodic, early in morning, with retching
and vomiting. Whooping cough, with inflammation of chest.

Larynx, etc.–

Rawness of throat and hoarseness, with excessive sneezing.

Chest.–

Spasm
of, when coughing. Stitches in, with inflammation of lungs. (Ant-t.)
Hydrothorax. Palpitation, with ebullition of blood early in morning.
Suppuration of lungs and ulcerative phthisis. Emptiness in.

Back.–

Stiffness
between scapulae. Pain in small of, with labor – like pains in abdomen.
Lumbar pains after a fall. Drawing pain from the lumbar region into the
middle of back.

Neck:
Hard swelling of glands of. Goitre. Stiff nape.

Upper Extremities.–

Asleep
sensation in arms when in cold air and alter violent exertion. Great
weariness and powerlessness in arms early in morning in bed. Numb finger
– tips.

Lower Extremities.–

Nightly
tearing in legs. Burning and sticking in legs. Restlessness in legs in
evening. Cold rest in evening in bed. Stinking foot sweat. Sensitive
feet.

Generalities.–

Sticking
pains in internal parts, as well as in muscles and joints. Tearing pains
in limbs, with swelling, mostly during rest. Faint like weakness and
trembling after walking. Great tendency to take
cold after being overheated, with aversion to open
air and drafts. Limbs pain whenever he rests them. Muscular
twitchings. Paralysis. In the open air she seems better than in the
room, except that the fever is more intense then. Complaints are worse
at 2 or 3 o’clock in morning and during rest, than during day and when
moving about. Cold hands and feet. Sensations of emptiness Agg. 2 – five
AM

Tissues.–

Glands
swollen and indurated after contusions.

Skin.–

Burning
(and sticking) itching of. Burning itching spots, exuding a moisture
when scratched. Anasarca. Bluish frost – bites. Ulcers which bleed every
evening.

Sleep.–

Sleepiness
early in evening. late falling to sleep. Twitchings during. Full of
voluptuous fancies and anxious dreams. Waking up from.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Very variable, often weak and slow, but also often remarkably
accelerated and hard. Sometimes quick early in morning and slow in
evening, seldom the reverse. Violent ebullition of blood, with throbbing
in all blood vessels. Chill: Mostly in evening. Quickly follows
the pains. Shuddering. Sometimes running over the body during day.
Chilliness in evening, ceasing soon when near a warm stove and after
lying down. Heat: In early morning in bed. Internal, with
external shuddering. Sweat: Every night Early in morning. Easy,
during day from motion and mental exertion. Principally in upper part of
body, increased by warm drinks. Offensive or sour smelling. Entire want
of natural perspiration and inability to sweat. Warm on forehead.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ap.,
Arg – n., Ars., Bry., Calc-c., Carb-c.,
Coccl., KALI-BR., Laur.,
Lyc., Mag-c., Nat – c, Nat – c, Nat-m., NIT-AC., Nurse,
Phos, PULS, Sil.

Complementary:
Carb-v., Phos., Nit-ac.

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