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

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

Kali nitricum

[Kali-n.]

Mind.–

Anxious
restlessness. Faint – hearted, and fear of death.

Sensorium.–

Stupefying
heaviness of head, as after a debauch, early in morning.

Head.–

Congestion
to. Sticking ache. Compressive sensation in occiput, binding up the
hair. Pressive ache, coffee, driving in open air. Headache after eating
veal. Painfully sensitive scalp. Eyes. – Burning in, after washing early
in morning. Blackness before the eyes (after inhaling camphor), Rainbow
colored circles around the light.

Ears.–

Nightly
sticking in, when lying thereon. Deafness from paralysis of auditory
nerve.

Nose.–

Inflamed
tip, with stitches therein, with increased headache. Contractive pain in
forehead, eyes and face, which concentrates itself in tip of nose.

Teeth.–

Sticking
or tearing ache. Nightly, throbbing ache, cold things. Gums swell and
bleed easily, as in scurvy.

Mouth.–

Stench
from. Sticking sore throat, with inflammation of soft palate and uvula.
Impeded swallowing, with tension and cutting in larynx. Shiny white
coating on tongue.

Stomach.–

Spasmodic,
contractive, cramp like stomach – ache, especially after eating veal.
Burning in. Pressure in pit.

Hypochondriac:
Stitches in kidneys.

Appetite:
Greater in evening than at noon. Continuous, violent thirst.

Nausea:
Nightly, as though he would vomit.

Abdomen.–

Violent
pains after eating veal.

Flatulence:
Obstructed, especially in afternoon.

Stool.–

Hard,
difficult. Soft, with and without colic.

Urine.–

Frequent
and profuse passage of bright – colored urine.

Female.–

Menses:
Of black blood, too early and too profuse. Violent lumbar pains before
and during. Leucorrhoea with pains in small of back.

Respiration.–

Tightness
of chest compelling him to lie with head high. Oppression of chest when
ascending.

Cough.–

Dry,
especially early in morning. The cough awakens him at 3 o’clock in
morning, with a stupefying headache. Chest pains when coughing lasting
until expectoration is loosened. With stitches in chest and
expectoration of clear blood. Purulent expectoration of clear blood.
Purulent expectoration from lungs, with colliquative sweats.

Larynx.–

Hoarseness,
with roughness and scratching in. Tracheal phthisis.

Chest.–

Stitches
in, with anxiety and oppression, especially when taking a deep breath
and lying with the head low. Contractive chest pains coming from the
back, as though lungs were being constricted. Inflammation of lungs.
Violent palpitation, most intense when lying in bed at night.

Back.–

Stitches
in and between scapulae, with arrested breathing. Violent pain in small
of, early in morning and when stooping. Pressive pain in lumbar region
during rest, especially when coughing.

Neck:
Neckache extending into shoulders, as though hair were violently pulled.

Upper Extremities.–

Nightly
tearing and sticking in joints of arms. Sensation as though hands and
fingers were thick and swollen.

Lower Extremities.–

Great
paralytic weakness and debility in lower legs.

Generalities.–

Relaxation
early in morning, with a sensation of warmth in face and a hot forehead.
Greater debility when sitting than during moderate exercise. Tearing and
sticking in limbs and joints. After – effects of eating veal which is
too young and tender. Inflammation of internal organs. the symptoms are
intensified after midnight and towards morning. Camphor aggravates.

Skin.–

Stitches
as of needles in skin, especially of face then burning. Burning vesicles
containing a yellowish fluid, which cease to burn after being scratched
open. Sudden, dropsical swellings.

Sleep.–

Day
sleepiness. Stupefying. Restless, especially after midnight. Nightmare.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Full, hard and accelerated. Slow in morning, rapid in afternoon and
evening. Chill: and coldness in afternoon and evening, increased
by every motion, disappears, when lying. Succeeded by sweat, without
previous heat. In evening, with pains. Coldness with thirst in
afternoon. Heat: Some but insignificant heat in the evening.
Nightly, without thirst or succeeding sweat. Sweat: Very
exhausting, from the least exertion. Nightsweat, most profuse on legs.
Early morning s., most profuse on chest.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Amyl-n., Calc
– c., Glo., Ip., Melil.

Kreosotum

[Kreos.]

Mind.–

Peevish
irritability. Vexed at every trifle. Cross, wilful and obstinate.
Excited, before menses. Strong disposition to tears, sometimes with
moroseness or melancholy. Weak memory, thoughts vanish.

Head.–

Outward
pressure in forehead and temples. Heaviness and fullness, as if
everything would press out at forehead on stooping, or in occiput, as if
he would fall backward. Aching, with desire to sleep, contraction of
eyelids, a red face, weariness, especially of legs, and a bitter taste. Pains:
Throbbing, especially in forehead, obtuse, peg – like, over right
eyebrow, pricking. Painful scalp. Pain as if hairs were being pulled. Worse:
Emotions. Before and during menses. Better: Bathing in hot water.

Eyes.–

Look
as if swimming in tears. Projecting. Lids red, swelled, twitching. Heat
and constant burning in, with lachrymation on looking at the light. Hot,
acrid tears. Greasy mucus in inner canthi. Feel smaller. Blue vision. Worse:
Looking at anything. Rubbing. Better: Wiping.

Ears.–

Heat
and burning redness of. Inflammatory swelling of, with tensive burning
pain and painful stiffness in neck, shoulder and arm of affected side.
Cramp – like pain in. Bubbling in. Itching in and in soles of feet.
Difficult hearing before and during menses.

Nose.–

Frequent
sneezing, with dry coryza, with moisture in. Epistaxis. Fluent coryza,
with painful sensitiveness to inspired air.

Face.–

Earthy.
Pale, bloated. Brownish red. Deep red and hot, with throbbing in cheeks
and forehead, and frequent desire to urinate. Tearing and burning desire
to urinate. Tearing and burning pains. motion, lying on affected part. Lips:
Hot, tense, blue, upper cracked l scaling. Right half of lower feels
drawn towards corner of mouth.

Mouth.–

Fetid
breath. Drawing or jerking in hollow teeth, with scorbutic
gums. Inflamed gums. Mouth and throat while (Pale). Grayish ulcers on
gums and in commissure of lips.

Tongue.–

Pale,
as if withered, cold feeling on. Taste: Sour on back, of cubes,
of straw, bitter, of food just as it goes down.

Throat.–

Feeling
of something hanging in left side of. Sloughing, diphtheritic
appearance. Constantly hawks up sweetish mucus. Painful choking low
down. Extending throw to back. Dysphagia. Burning, scraping in.
roughness in.

Eructations.–

Violent, acid, frothy. Nausea, with burning in mouth, with spitting of
saliva and chill.

Vomiting.–

During pregnancy, undigested food several hours after eating, Sweetish
water in morning fasting. Violent retching.

Stomach.–

Sensation
of coldness, as from ice – water in, Gnawing, soreness or burning in
epigastric region, better temporarily by eating. Worse: Pressure
of clothes. Better: Eating warm things.

Hypochondriac.–

Pressive pain in spleen and hepatic region. Gnawing, under left short
ribs. Worse: Pressure of clothes.

Abdomen.–

Tense
distension of, sometimes with shortness of breath. Drawing from upper to
sacrum, with heat of face and ineffectual urging to defecate and
urinate. Sensation: Of a hard, twisted lump lying in navicular
region, prickling, ulceration, painful coldness in, clawing, burning,
stitches, shooting, extending into genitals, shattering in. Worse:
Motion. Coughing. Pressure of clothes. Better: Stooping.

Stool.–

Green
mucus, with nausea and weakness. Frequent by day. Pasty.

Rectum.–

Creeping.
Cramps. Dragging in. Stitches in, extending into left flank, during
menses.

Urine.–

Profuse,
passed in great haste. Stream feeble, spray – like. Strangury.
Albuminous, black, offensive, acrid, hot, causing burning between
pudendae. Involuntary, when coughing or lying down. Worse: Lying
down.

Female.–

Hot
swelled of, with corroding, burning pains and bleeding after coition.
Soreness, corrosive itching and burning in labia, vagina, etc.
Ulcerative pain in neck of uterus during coition. Hard lump in neck of
uterus. Vagina prolapsed. Labour – like pains alternate with eye
symptoms (watering of). Better: Walking.

Leucorrhoea:
Putrid, corrosive, causing swelling, burning itching and biting
externally, exhausting, why – like, milky, yellow, staining yellow, with
weakness in legs, staining gray, discharge of, preceded by sacral pains
or by contractive pains in vagina, before every urination. Menses
profuse, worse lying down, causing itching, followed by a discharge of
acrid bloody matter.

Cough.–

Hollow,
or whistling spasmodic c., excited by roughness, scratching and tickling
in chest and throat, without expectoration. Hoarse, croupy, exhausting.
Concussive, with vomiting.

Chest.–

Feeling
of a weight in centre of c. with dyspnea, he involuntarily takes a deep
breath, anxious dyspnoea. Pains in chest and sternum which necessitates
pressure with the hand. Sensation of, Being bruised, sticking, shooting
between ribs occurring periodically, burning, a throbbing constriction,
stabbing under left mamma. Lungs engorged, excessive bronchial
secretion. Emotions excites tightness of heart and weeping. Scratching,
creeping and tickling in tracheas. Worse: Expiration. Motion.
Awakening. Lying in bed, especially on side. Turning over. Morning and
evening. Music. Better: Pressure, with hand.

Back.–

Shoulders,
chilly between, as of a band between, feeling of a weight from s. to
elbows, could not raise arms to head. Scapular pains, plug – like or as
if beaten. Painfully bruised feeling of cristae ill. Violent drawing and
shooting sacral pains going into genitals or thighs. Sensations:
Of burrowing, as if broken, of ulceration, as if asleep, as if vertebrae
were suppurating. Worse: Stooping. Better: Pressure.

Upper Extremities.–

Elbow:
Cramp in, tendons feel too short. Hands icy cold. fingers go to sleep,
with creeping, they turn while after rising. Left thumb pains as if
sprained and is stiff. Desquamating hands. Better: Bathing in hot
water.

Lower Extremities.–

Pain
in hip, from exposure to air. (Edema of legs and feet. Feet:
Sweaty, feel as if gathering in soles, burning and itching in soles in
evening.

Generalities.–

Rawness.
Burning. Putrid, acrid discharges. Bleedings, often profuse from slight
causes. Weakness, prostration and muscular feebleness. Numbness. Pains:
Excoriative, ulcerative, pulling, paralytic, shooting like lightning, as
if torn out, bruised, can’t find an easy position. Most useful in aged
persons and pregnant woman and when the tooth decay rapidly. Worse:
Contact. Uncovering. Rubbing or scratching. After menses. During
leucorrhoea. Better: After sleep. Warmth.

Skin.–

Feels
all affairs. Tettery eruptions. Intense itching. Prurigo. Pustules.
Nettlerash in morning. Pimply task on face. Blue spots. Dry. Offensive
ulcers which break out and heal up repeatedly. Better: Warmth.

Sleep.–

Yawning,
with chilliness and watery eyes. Anxious dreams and sweat during. Laughs
in her dreams. Great sleepiness and sound sleep.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Small and weak with great ebullition of blood. Throbbing in all blood
vessels during rest. Chill: Predominating, principally when at
rest. Shaking c., with violent flushes of heat in face, red cheeks and
icy cold feet. With great bodily restlessness. Alternating with heat.
During menses. Skin as if dead during c.; pain in patella during. Heat:
Mostly on face. Flying heat with sharply circumscribed redness on
cheeks. Bed is too warm, but she is chilled if she puts her foot out. Sweat:
Scant and only in morning, accompanied by heat and red cheeks. On chest
and back during menses.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Arn.,
Ars., Brom., Carb-ac., Carb – c.,
Caust., Cham., Chin., Eupion.,
Merc-c., Nat-m., Nit-ac., NUX-V., Petr., Sec-c., Sep., Sul., Graph.

Complementary:
Sul.

Lachesis

[Lach.]

Mind.–

Indolent,
phlegmatic disposition. Increased mental power. Ecstatic, easily
excitable nature. Loving tenderness. Unhappy love. Inclination to silent
grief. Grumbling discontent. Hasty speech. Easily frightened. Insane
jealousy with mistrust and suspicion. Dogmatic. Spiteful. Extraordinary
loquacity. Greatly inclined to mockery, satire and breaking out into
laughter. Despair and satiety of life. Anxious trembling. Restlessness,
driving him into the open air. Hideous phantasies.

Head.–

Pressive
ache in temples like an outward urging, in morning after rising. Violent
congestion to. Hammering headache when stooping. Headache over eyes
early in morning after rising. sharp cutting pain, as with knives, in
vertex, or as if someone cut a piece out of (r.) parietal bone. Worse:
Stooping, external pressure, rest, ascending steps, after rising from
bed, in the sun. Better: Eating, lying, after sleep, warmth,
eructations.

External Head.–

Hair
falls out, especially during pregnancy, with biting itching on scalp,
scratching causes swellings and thickening of skin. Great sensitiveness
of the uncovered head to sunshine.

Eyes.–

Tension
in.

Ears.–

Sensitive
to wind, to noise.

Nose.–

Itching,
when eating. Pain in nasal bones. Nosebleed and blowing of blood from.
Purulent discharge from. Fluent coryza in evening, stuffed coryza with
obstruction, early in morning. Fluent coryza with inflammation of margin
of nostrils and acrid, watery discharge.

Face.–

Sunken
or unnaturally red. Heat and redness of the usually pale face. Lead
colored. Livid. Itching of. Swellings here and there upon. Blue circles
around eyes. Erysipelatous inflammation of cheeks just below eyes.
Bluish erysipelas, just below eyes.

Teeth.–

Hollow,
crumbling. Boring pain in molars extending into maxillary bones,
especially after eating. Swollen gums.

Mouth.–

Scratching
on posterior palate. Rawness in throat Sensation, as though something
had lodged in the throat, which necessitates continual swallowing.
(Mag-c.) Sensitiveness of internal throat to external pressure. Empty
swallowing increases the throat pains, but swallowing solids does not.
Salivation. Swallowing saliva is painful but swallowing food is
painless.

Appetite:
Loss of, early in morning. Desire for smoking is lost, without having
any particular aversion to tobacco. Continual thirst. Intense craving
for wine and beer. Craving for coffee which. Very weak digestion.

Nausea. – and forcible vomiting of ingesta, and bile.

Stomach.–

Pit
painful to pressure. Spasm of. Alternate
coldness and burning in.

Abdomen.–

Distension
of. Heat in. Empty sensation in. Hypochondria feel bruised.

Stool.–

Papescent,
clayey, very offensive, followed by tenesmus. Constipation, flatus only
is passed. Constipation alternating with diarrhoea.

Anus.–

Burning
in. Prolapsus recti during stool.

Urine.–

Clear,
foamy. Burning when urinating. Continual dribbling after stool, as well
as after urination.

Sexual Organs.–

Great
lasciviousness and violent sexual excitement.

Female.–

Menses:
Too scanty.

Respiration.–

Tightness
of, after eating. Inclination to take a deep breath when sitting.
Touching larynx externally causes fear of suffocation.

Cough.–

During
and after every nap. Paroxysms of short, very fatiguing hacking c.
excited by tickling in stomach, rarely in larynx, dry in evening and
night, in morning and by day, with difficult dislodgement of scanty,
watery, sometimes salty mucus which is swallowed.

Larynx.–

Painfully
sensitive. Feeling of something fluttering above. Hollow voice,
Hoarseness and aphonia as though a foreign body were tightly lodged in
1, and could not be hawked loose.

Chest.–

Burning
on c., at night. Anxious palpitation. Soreness in, also of sternum.

Back.–

A
stitch deep in, as though something stuck therein, necessitating taking
a deep breath and bending backward.

Upper Extremities.–

–
Itch vesicles on hands and fingers. Panaritia. Livid swelling of hands.
Writers cramp.

Lower Extremities.–

Weak,
stiff knees. Cramps in calves. Bluish flat ulcers on legs. Coldness,
with internal burning of feet. Swollen feet. Deep, itching fissures on
toes.

Generalities.–

Great
emaciation. Relaxation and weariness in evening. Apoplexy. The
complaints are intensified at night. Aversion to motion, with
inclination to lie down. Bad effects of mental exertion, wine or
tobacco.

Skin.–

Unhealthy.
Itching, after scratching skin becomes thickened and large lumps appear.
Spongy ulcers which burn when touched. Bluish, black vesicles upon hands
and feet. Angry ulcers.

Sleep.–

Sleepiness
with loquacity in evening. Falls to sleep late in evening. Constant
sleeplessness. Many frightful or lascivious dreams. Restlessness, with
many dreams and frequent waking.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Small and weak, but accelerated, often alternating with a full, strong
best, generally very irregular and intermittent. Chill:
Universal, warmth, and external, benumbing coldness. shivering, running
up the back, often every other day. Alternating with heat, changing from
place to place. Every other day. Alternating with heat, changing from
place to place. Every other day. Heat: In evening, especially on
hands and feet. Burning in palms of hands and soles of feet, in evening
and at night. Nightly, as if from ebullition of blood, with great
sensitiveness of neck. Sense of internal heat with cold feet. Sweat:
Profuse, with most complaints. Great inclination to. Cold, straining
yellow, bloody, or red.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Alum.,
Ap., Ars., BELL., Carbo – v.,
CAUST., Chin., CON., Gel., HEP.,
LYC., MERC., Nat – m., Nux-v.,
Phos-sc., PLAT., PULS., Stans., Sul-ac. Zinc.

Complementary:
Ars., Carb-v., Calc-c.

Laurocerasus

[Laur.]

Mind.–

Condition
similar to intoxication. Stupefaction. Loss of consciousness. Blunting
and insensibility of perceptive powers. Weakness of mind and memory. sad
and very low spirited. Anxiety, with fear of impending evil. Peevish.

Head.–

Dull,
pressive, stupefying ache. Dull heaviness. Congestion, with heat and
throbbing therein. Feeling as though brain fell into forehead when
stooping. Cold feeling in forehead or vertex, as of a cold wind blowing
down neck and back. Worse: Afternoon, evening, in room, stooping.
Better: In open air.

Eyes.–

Staring,
distorted. Protruding. Dilated, immobile pupils. Surrounding objects
appear enlarged. Obscured vision, as of a veil before.

Ears.–

Difficult
hearing.

Nose.–

Fluent
coryza with sore throat.

Face.–

Sunken,
livid gray. Distorted. Puffed. Twitchings in. Foam from mouth. Lockjaw.
Eruption about mouth.

Mouth.–

Dry
buccal cavity. Roughness and dry feeling in throat. Contraction of
throat when drinking. Spasm of throat and oesophagus. Impeded
swallowing. Fluids roll audibly down throat. Speech difficult or lost.

Stomach.–

Inflammation
of. Cooling burning in. Faintish stomach – ache.

Thirst:
Intense, with dry mouth.

Nausea:
From Stomach, with vomiting of ingesta.

Abdomen.–

Cooling,
burning in. Colicky contraction and cutting in. Griping about navel.

Stool.–

Involuntary.
Constipation. Diarrhoea with tenesmus.

Urine.–

Suppressed.
Retained, as from paralysis of bladder. Involuntary urination.

Sexual Organs.–

Gangrene
of penis.

Female.–

Menses:
Of thin, fluid blood, too early and too profuse.

Respiration.–

Weak,
anxious and slow, Rattling. tightness of chest, as though he could not
inflate lungs properly. Threatening paralysis of lungs, with cessation
of expectoration.

Cough.–

Short,
dry, hacking c., excited by tickling in throat. With copious
expectoration of gelatinous mucus dotted with blood. Frequently
recurring, whistling, spasmodic, single coughs, excited by tickling in
larynx and trachea, as if they were dry.

Larynx, etc.–

Hoarseness, with scratching in, and in trachea. Spasmodic constriction
of trachea.

Chest.–

Constriction
of. Sticking in, more in ribs. Pressure upon sternum. Irregular heart
beat.

Generalities.–

Sticking
and tearing in limbs. Extraordinary physical relaxation. Rapid sinking
of strength. Painless paralysis of limbs. Want of vital energy and
falling reaction. Apoplexies with paralysis. Convulsive twitching.
Epileptic convulsions, with foam from the clenched mouth. Tonic spasm.
complaints without pain. Aggravation in evening. He feels better in the
open air and at night. The pains of laur are very apt to be accompanied
by loss of memory.

Skin.–

Between
the fingers it is raw and exfoliates, water causes it to burn.

Sleep.–

Irresistible
somnolency, especially after dinner and in evening.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Externally irregular, now small and slow, often imperceptible, then
again somewhat accelerated, seldom full and hard. Weak. Veins on hands
are distended. Chill: Coldness and shivering in afternoon and
evening, not external warmth. Alternating with beat. Want of natural
vital heat. Heat. After the chill, in evening until midnight. Running
down the back. Sweat: Mostly with the heat and continuing until
toward morning. After eating.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Canth., HYDROC AC., Ip., Kali
– c., Merc., Spig.

Ledum palustre

[Led.]

Mind.–

Vehement,
angry mood. Dissatisfaction and hatred of mankind. Love for solitude.
Great seriousness. Chaotic dullness, with general heat.

Vertigo.–

As
though intoxicated, especially when walking in open air.

Head.–

Stupefying
ache causing mental dullness. Raging, pulsating ache. Pressive ache
which renders head coverings intolerable. shattering sensation in brain
when making a misstep.

Eyes.–

Nightly
agglutination of lids without pain or inflammation. Violent suppuration
with a foul smelling discharge. Biting tears. dilated pupils.

Ears.–

Roaring
or ringing before. Difficult hearing.

Nose.–

Burning
in. Nose – bleed of bright red blood.

Face.–

Alternatively
pale and red. Dry herpes on, which burns in open air. Dry pimples like
millet seed on forehead. Red nodular eruptions, like those of brandy
drinkers, they stick when touched. Boils on forehead. Swelling of glands
under chin.

Mouth.–

Offensive
odor from.

Throat.–

Sore,
with fine sticking pain, worse when not swallowing.

Stomach.–

Pressure
in, after eating a small quantity.

Nausea:
And inclination to vomit when spitting.

Abdomen.–

Sense
of fullness in upper. Bellyache like that of dysentery. cutting colic
every evening. Ascites.

Stool.–

Constipation.
Diarrhoea, feces mixed with blood and mucus.

Urine.–

Frequent
urging to urinate, with scanty discharge. Frequent, profuse. Enuresis.

Sexual Organs.–

Intensified
sexual desire. Inflamed swelling of penis and glans.

Female.–

Menses:
Of bright red blood, too early and too profuse.

Respiration.–

Spasmodic,
double inspiration and sobbing, as after angry weeping. Obstructed
breathing, as though he would suffocate, and opisthotonos precedes the
cough. Tight, rapid. Constrictive tightness of chest when walking and
ascending steps.

Cough.–

Violent,
with expectoration of, bright red blood. Only at night or early in
morning, with purulent, offensive expectoration. Spasmodic, like
whooping cough, with painful concussion of head and entire chest.
Hollow, shattering c., from tickling in larynx, with suffocative arrest
of breathing.

Larynx and trachea.–

Crawling
in. Phthisis of.

Chest.–

Sore,
burning pain in. Stitches in. Shattered feeling of. Suppuration of
lungs. Chicken pox on chest.

Back.–

Painful
stiffness of, and of loins when rising from sitting. Pains in, and in
sacred region.

Upper Extremities.–

Tearing
in joints of. Stitches in shoulder when raising arm. Pressive pain in
shoulder and elbow joints, motion. Gouty nodosities on wrist and finger
joints. Sweat on palms.

Lower Extremities.–

Paralysis
of hip joint. Tearing in hip, knee and ankle joints. Swelling, tension
and sticking in knee. Obstinate swelling of leg and foot, Podagra.

Generalities.–

Painful,
gouty nodes about joints. Intolerance of warmth of bed, from a sense of
heat in extremities. Heat in hands and feet in evening. Gouty tearing in
joints, warmth of bed, and in evening until midnight. Hard, but swelling
of painful joints. Suffering parts emaciate. Only the joint pains are
intensified by motion. After effects of immoderate use of spirituous
liquors.

Skin.–

Dry,
want of natural perspiration. General anasarca. Dry herpes which itches
violently and burns in open air. Boils. Bluish spots like petechia.

Sleep.–

Somnolent
as though intoxicated, during day. Sleepless at night, with restlessness
and fantastic illusions as soon as he closes his eyes.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Full and rapid. Frequently perceptible in one arm, but not in the other.
Chill: Chill: With shudder and thirst, continues a long time with
a feeling as if some parts were dashed with cold water. Coldness and
want of vital heat. Or dominating chill and thirst. Early in morning and
forenoon. General coldness with redness and heat of face. Heat:
Without thirst, more pronounced toward evening. Burning hands and feet
in evening. Alternating with sweat. Sweat: Thro whole night, with
inclination to uncover. Foul or sour night sweat. From the slightest
motion, more on forehead. Itching sweat.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Bry., Dulc.,
Lyc., Puls.,

Complementary:
Chin., Sep.

Lycopodium clavatum

[Lyc.]

Mind.–

Diminished
mental activity. Silent grief and melancholy, he doubts his salvation.
Religious depression with mildness, weeping and silent meditation.
Anxiety with grieving and weeping. Sensitive, he sheds tears easily.
Nervous debility. Irritability. Anger and willfulness. Reserved ill –
humor. anthropophobia, with anxiety at the approach of man, yet fears to
be alone.

Vertigo.–

Whirling,
when stooping or in a warm room.

Head.–

Stupefying
ache with heat in the temples and on ears, also dry mouth and lips.
Congestion. Outward sticking in temples, right. Pains:
Unilateral, worse on right side, pressive, on vertex and occiput, then
weakness, tearing, here and there in forehead or from right side of
neck, tensive. Jerking throw. Thrusts in temples. Worse: Evening,
from 4 to 8 night, raising up, after lying down, warmth, mental
exertion, becoming heated in open air, stooping. Better: Gentle
motion in open air, cold, uncovering head

External Head.–

Nightly
tearing, boring and scraping, especially in temples and sides, moving
and uncovering head, while keeping rest of body warm in bed. Violent,
erosive, creeping and burning itching when heated, intermingled with
twitching tearing, most from vertex down over occiput, scratching causes
moist swellings forming thick but painless crusts which bleed easily and
painless crusts which bleed easily and discharge fetid pus from beneath.
beginning on temples and vertex the hair turns gray early and falls out
profusely, even to baldness, while it grows and increases on other
parts, especially after suppurating scalp eruptions, or a coarse burning
exanthem on nape, also after abdominal diseases or parturition.

Eyes.–

Sticking
and smarting in, by candle light in evening. Inflammation of, with
lachrymation during day and nightly agglutination. Dim vision, as of
feathers before. Presbyopia. Vertical hemiopia. Photophobia.

Ears.–

Suppurating.
Roaring before. Hearing difficult, oversensitive.

Nose.–

Ulcerating
nostrils. Oversensitive smell. Coryza, obstructing both nostrils.

Face.–

Pale,
especially toward evening. Earthy, yellowish countenance, deeply
furrowed, with blue circles about eyes and blue lips, or with
circumscribed redness of cheeks. Frequent attacks of heat in. Moist
suppurating eruption on. Tearing in right side of face, eyes and teeth.
Freckles. Swollen submaxillary glands.

Teeth.–

Turn
yellow. Jerks in, when eating. Toothache with swollen cheeks, by warmth
and heat of bed. Dental fistula.

Mouth.–

Foul
staunch from. Dry, without thirst, with stiffness of tongue and
indistinct speech. Inflammation of throat, with sticking on swallowing.
Swelling and suppuration of tonsils. Hoarseness.

Taste:
Lose. Bitter, in mouth, with qualmishness early in morning. Sour, of
food.

Stomach.–

Pressure
in, with bitter taste in mouth after every meal. Cancer of. Swelling and
sensitiveness of pit to touch and tight clothes.

Hypochondriac:
Tension as from a hoop about. Inflammation of liver. Induration of
liver. Pressure and tension in liver, especially after eating to
satiety. Stitches in. Hepatic pain.

Appetite:
Disappears as soon as he takes the first bite. Ravenous hunger.
Excessive desire for sweat things. Milk excites diarrhoea.

Eructations:
Sour. Heartburn. Attacks of violent hiccough.

Nausea:
Frequent, early in morning, when fasting and when driving. Nightly
vomiting of ingesta and bile.

Abdomen.–

Distressing
fullness and distension of, and of stomach. Pain in both sides of.
Indurations in. Pinching in. Cutting colic in upper. Ascites. Inguinal
hernia.

Flatulence:
Incarcerated. Inability to discharge flatus. Continued rumbling and
gurgling in abdomen.

Stool.–

Constipation:
With ineffectual urging, persistent. Diarrhoea during pregnancy, from
milk. Pale, putrid, stinking stools. (Comp. with Podo)

Anus.–

Itching
and tension in. Rectal spasm.

Urine.–

Bloody.
Diminished discharge of dark u. Frequent urging to urinate, with profuse
urine. Renal calculi.

Sexual organs.–

–
Sexual desire immoderate or wanting. Impotency of many years standing.
gonorrhoea of glans. Chronic dryness of vagina. Burning in vagina during
coition. Varicose veins on.

Female.–

Menses:
Too profuse and lasting too long. Too scanty. Low – spirited before.
Corrosive leucorrhoea.

Respiration.–

Shortness
of breath in children, especially during sleep. Every exertion of chest,
walking in open air. Threatening paralysis of lungs.

Cough.–

Dry,
by day and night. At night, which affects the stomach. Excited by
irritation as from sulphur vapor in trachea. Tickling c., from deep
inspiration. With expectoration during the day, but not at night.
Expectoration copious, purulent, offensive, lemon – yellow, gray, salty,
bitter, flat, putrid, etc. Haemoptysis.

Chest.–

Continual
pressure in. Stitches in left, (in typhoid or neglected) pulmonary
inflammations. Shattered feeling and shocks in. Rattling. Roughness,
soreness and tension in. Liver spots on. Hydrothorax. Moist nipples.
Palpitation, with anxiety, especially during digestion.

Back.–

Nightly
drawing and sticking in.

Neck:
Yellowness of skin of. Swelling and stiffness of one side of. Swelling
of glands of. Stiffness of nape.

Upper Extremities.–

Nightly
bone pains in arms. Twitches in arms and shoulders. The arms and fingers
fall to sleep early. Dry skin on hands. Redness, swelling and tearing in
finger – joints.

Lower Extremities.–

Nightly
tearing in legs. White swelling of thigh. Swelling and stiffness of
knees. Contraction of calves when walking. Old ulcers on lower leg with
nightly tearing, itching and burning. Dropsical swelling of feet. Cold
foot – sweat. Cold feet.

Generalities.–

Drawing
and tearing in limbs, especially at night and during rest or every
alternate afternoon. Insensibility of limbs. Distortion of single limbs.
Jerking of limbs. twitches through body. Extra ordinary emaciation.
Great internal debility. During rest he feels his weakness most, yet he
shuns every motion. Great desire for or aversion to open air. Easily
takes cold. The symptoms are intensified at about 4 o’clock PM, but,
with the exception of weakness, at about 8 o’ clock they are again
relieved.

Tissues.–

Glands
swollen, inflamed and suppurating.

Bones.–

Inflammation
of, with nightly pains. Curvature. Softening. Caries.

Skin.–

Corrosive
itching, when becoming heated during day. Moist suppurating herpes.
Humid excoriations on children. Ulcers tear and itch at night, and burn
when touched. Boils. Liver spots. Freckles. Varicose veins. Gouty
nodosities. Dropsy of single parts or entire body.

Sleep.–

Restless,
with anxious dreams and frequent awaking. Day sleepiness, with late
falling to sleep because of a rush of ideas. Yawning.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Somewhat accelerated, only in evening and after eating. In evening,
ebullition of blood with restlessness and trembling. Sensation as if
circulation stood still. Chill: in afternoon and evening (from 4
to 8 o’ clock) with deadness of hands and feet. In evening in bed,
preventing sleep. One – sided, mostly the left. Then sweat, without
previous heat. Alternating with heat. Want of natural vital heat. Heat:
flashing over entire body, mostly toward evening, with frequent
drinking, but little at a time, constipation and profuse urination. Of
one foot (left) with coldness of the other. Sweat: Profuse during
day from least exertion most on face Night and morning, often with a
cold face. Clammy at, night. Often cold, sour or offensive, or with odor
like blood or onions.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Aco.,
Agar., Ag-c., Alum., Ambr., Ang.,
Ap., Arg – n., ARS., Bry., CALC-C.,
CANTH., Caust, CHAM., Chel., Chin., Cic.,
cina., Con., Cupr., Euphor., Graph.,
Hep., Ign., Iod., Kali-c., LACH., Led.,
Mag – m., Mang., Merc.,
Mur-ac., NAT-C., Nat-s., Nit – ac.,
NUX-V., Petr., Phos., Phos – ac.,
PULS., Rhus-t., Sep., Sil.

Complementary:
Carb – veg., Calc-c., graph., Iod.

Magnes artificialis

[M-art.]

Mind.–

Irascibility
and proneness to fly into a passion. Irresolution. Over activity and
hurry, with great exhaustion.

Head.–

Bruised
headache on first awaking in morning. Sharp pressure, as from a nail or
sharp body upon a single spot on brain, after vexation. Painful soreness
in head after vexation.

Eyes.–

Dilated
pupils. Fiery sparks before. Beyond line of vision there are white,
quivering particles of light before eyes.

Ears.–

Deafness,
without noises in.

Nose.–

Muggy
odor before.

Face.–

Profuse
sweat on. Intolerable, burning stitches in facial muscles, in evening.
Painful sensitiveness round about margin of lips. Dislocative pain in
maxillary joint.

Teeth.–

Bruised
or excoriative pain in roots of lower incisors. Ache from cold drinks
and cold air entering mouth.

Mouth.–

Bad
odor from, early in morning. Salivation with swollen lips, in evening.

Taste:
Musty, slimy, of some things.

Stomach.–

Pressure
in, with restlessness and coldness of body. Creaking in pit.

Appetite:
Rapid satiation even of tobacco which bites the tongue. Great hunger in
evening.

Eructations:
Tasting of spoiled food.

Abdomen.–

Pressure,
like a stones in upper.

Flatulence:
Many flatulent symptoms. Discharges much hot and very fetid f.

Stool.–

Constipation,
as though rectum were too narrow. Painful fecal diarrhoea.

Anus.–

Aching
hemorrhoids. Prolapsus recti during stool.

Sexual Organs.–

Burning
in penis and in region of seminal vesicles. Intensified sexual desire.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early and too profuse. Uterine hemorrhage.

Respiration.–

Nightly
tightness of chest, from mucus in trachea, which is easily expectorated
early in the morning.

Cough.–

Violent
attacks of dry cough in evening and at night (before mid night).
Convulsive, Spasmodic, after midnight.

Back.–

Neck:
Stiffness and cracking in cervical vertebrae.

Chest.–

Intolerable,
burning stitches in lateral muscles of.

Upper Extremities.–

Drawing
and burning in arms. Twitchings and blows in arms.

Lower Extremities.–

Drawing and burning in legs.

Generalities.–

Intolerable,
internal burning from head to foot, without external heat or redness.
Twitchings and thrusts throw body. Bruised pain in joints, especially in
side on which he does not lie. Asleep feeling in limbs, Great tendency
to take cold.

Skin.–

Renewed
bleeding of fresh wounds. Boils.

Sleep.–

Stupefying
slumber after sunrise. Coma vigil toward morning. Snoring s.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Nightly heat without thirst, with desire to uncover which is agreeable.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ign, Zinc.

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