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

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

Petroleum

[Petr.]

Mind.–

Indisposed
to think. Weak memory. Irritable, angry disposition, with scolding.
Frightened easily. Great irresolution and solicitude concerning the
futures.

Vertigo.–

When
stooping. Fainting, with trembling during storms.

Head.–

Throbbing
in occiput. Pressive sticking in occiput. Sensation as though’
everything inside were alive.

External Head.–

Sensitive
on both sides, with a festered or bruised feeling when touched, followed
by numbness. Smarting as if raw when scratched. Eruption on, especially
toward nape. Worse: From anger,
morning, when heated.

Eyes.–

Inflamed,
with itching. As of gauze before. Lachrymal fistula. far slight.

Ears.–

Disagreeably
dry sensation in. Discharge of blood and pus from. Humid soreness
behind. Deafness (after Nit-ac.).

Nose.–

Disagreeably
dry feeling in.

Face.–

Yellowish,
pale countenance. Heat of, after eating. Scurfs about mouth. Easy
dislocation of maxillary joint, with great pain, early in morning when
in bed. Swollen submaxillary glands.

Teeth.–

Numb.
Toothache, with swelled cheek, at night and when going into open air
Dental fistula.

Mouth.–

Bad,
garlicky odor from. Early in morning, great dryness of, and of throat,
with great thirst. Sticking sore throat when swallowing. When
swallowing, the food is forced into forced into posterior nares. Tongue
coated white.

Appetite:
Gluttony and ravenous hunger. Great aversion to meat and a fatty food.
Violent thirst (for beer).

Taste:
Foul, dirty, slimy. Bitter, in mouth.

Eructations:
Sour or bitter a., and regurgitation. Collection of water in mouth.

Nausea. etc. – Much. From driving (riding). Bitter vomiting.

Stomach.–

Pressure
in. Very weak digestion. Pit sensitive to touch. Pain in pit, as though’
something would be torn loose.

Abdomen.–

Cutting
in, soon after eating.

Stool.–

Head,
unsatisfactory. Frequent diarrhoeic s., during day, preceded by pale in
belly. Of bloody mucus.

Urine.–

Frequent
passage of scanty, brown stinking u. Involuntary dribbling of. Narrowing
of urethra.

Sexual Organs.–

Redness,
excoriation and moisture on scrotum and adjacent parts. Itching and
moist herpes on scrotum and perineum. excoriation and moisture on female
pudendum and in groins. Aversion to coition.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early, the blood excites an itching irritation. Difficult appearance
of first menses.

Respiration.–

Rattling
snoring. Cold air causes an oppressed feeling on chest. Nightly
oppression of chest.

Cough.–

Dry,
at night or in evening coming from deep in chest and excited by a
scratching in throat.

Chest.–

Herpes
on.

Back.–

Weakness
and stiffness in, and in lumbar region. Backache preventing the least
movement. Lumbar pain preventing standing.

Upper Extremities.–

Brown
or yellow spots on arms. Burning in palms. In winter, cracked skin of
hands and fingers, which are full of deep, bloody cuts. Gouty stiffness
finger joints.

Lower Extremities.–

Stitches
in knee. Hot swelling of soles, with burning. Painful swelling and
redness of heel.

Generalities.–

Cracking,
creaking and gouty stiffness of joints. Asleep sensation in, and
stiffness of limbs. Twitching in limbs. Weariness early in morning and
in evening. Great emaciation. Aversion to open air. Takes cold easily.
Flying heat, orgasm of blood and sweat after a walk r the lead
anger. complaints from riding in a carriage or ship. General
internal, insufferably sick feeling, with trembling and great weakness.

Glands.–

Affections of, especially after bruises.

Skin.–

Extra
ordinary sensitiveness of epidermis. Heals with difficulty. Easy
excoriation. Moist, denuded spots. Moist herpes. Ulcers with proud
flesh. Boils, corns. Frostbites.

Sleep.–

Sleepy
during day and in evening when sitting still. At night full of
phantasies, with anxious beat and many dreams. Insufficient and
unrefreshing in morning.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Stronger, full and accelerated from every motion, it immediately become
slow during rest. Chill: Mostly toward evening, now earlier, now
later. chilliness thro’ entire body, followed by saver itching.
Internal, in evening, with co – existent heat. chilliness in open air.
With headache and remarkable coldness of face and hands. Heat: In
evening, after the chill, with cold feet. After midnight and in morning
in bed. Flying, over entire body inn repeated attacks (6 to 10) during
day. feeling of heat, over entire body, with great burning of skin. Sweat:
Profuse every night. Easy, especially on forearms and legs. Immediately
after the chill, without previous heat.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Agar.,
Ars., Calc-c., Carc., Cham., Kre,
Lyc., Nat – m., Nit-ac., NUX-V., Phos.,
Puls., Sil., sul., thuj.

Complementary:
Sep.

Phosphoricum acidum

[Ph-ac.]

Mind.–

Inability
to think. Absence of idea dull, without phantasies. quiet delirium, with
great stupefaction and confused dullness and head (typhoid). Dizzy
confusion in forehead. Introverted, peevish and taciturn. Greatest
indifference. Low – spirited and solicitous of the future or his
illness. Homesick and weeping. Grief and disposition to weep.

Sensorium.–

Reeling
vertigo in evening, in a warm room, with bursting pain in head when
coughing, and humming therein.

Head.–

Squeezing,
pressive ache, especially in side lain on. Unusual heaviness of. Tearing
in. Stitches over either (often the right) eye. Headache intensified by
concussion or noise, as well as by mental exertion. Worse: Early
in morning.

External Head.–

Very
oily, soft, flaxen hair, which turns gray early and falls from head and
beard, especially after grief and care. Bone pains begin like scraping
with a knife on the swelled and bruisedly painful periosteum, then
follows a markedly painful burning, lastly caries with great weakness
supervenes. coldness of, with feeling as if a cool wind blow on temples,
forehead and face, with cold blue finger – tips, fore noon, evening and
in open air. Worse: As night, at rest, touch. Better:
Motion.

Eyes.–

Glassy,
Lusterless. Pressure, as though’ eyeballs were too large. Coldness of
inner edge of lids Burning in lids and canthi, especially from
artificial light in evening. Inflammation of lids, not balls. Are
dazzled by bright light. Short sightedness.

Ears.–

Stitches
in, by music only. Intolerance of every noise, especially music. sounds
re – echo too loudly in. Difficult hearing at a distance.

Nose.–

Discharges
bloody pus. Scurfs on dorsum. Inclined to bore in. Catarrh.

Face.–

Stickily
complexion, with pointed nose and weak, sunken eyes surrounded by blue
rings. Hot tension in skin, a though’ egg albumen had dried thereon.
Scurfy, suppurating lips. Dry lips.

Teeth.–

Burning
in front teeth, especially at night, by warmth of bed and by warm as
well as cold things. Nightly tearing in. teeth turn yellow. Bleeding
gums. Painful nodes on gums.

Mouth.–

Offensive
breath. Ulceration of velum palate, with burning pains. Tenacious,
clammy mucus in, and on tongue. Swelling of tongue. He involuntarily
bites his tongue at night. Difficult speech.

Appetite:
Desire for juicy or refreshing things, bread is to dry. Unquenchable
thirst from a sense of dryness throughout entire body. Bad effects of
sour food and drink.

Taste:
Long – continued after – taste of ingesta, especially of bread.

Eructations:
Burning, sour, Bitter, after eating sour foods.

Qualmishness. etc. – continuous, in the throat. Frequent vomiting
of ingesta.

Stomach.–

Pressure
as of a load in, with sleepiness, especially after every meal, and when
touching the epigastrium.

Abdomen.–

Squeezing
or contractive pain about navel. Gurgling like water in. Distension.
Ascites.

Flatulence:
Extraordinary grumbling and rumbling in abdomen. The uterus is
distended, as if filled with air.

Stool.–

Undigested.
Difficult discharge of even a soft s. Diarrhoea: With much
flatulence, especially after sour things, without debility, mucus,
greenish white.

Urine.–

Involuntary
urination. Sudden irresistible urging. Frequent urging, with scanty
discharge, a pale face, thirst and heat. Diminished discharge of brown
u., passed drop by drop. Painful cutting or burning discharge of urine
as clear as water, especially at night from ten PM to three AM. Milky,
white, containing jelly – like lumps. Diabetes mellitus. anxiety and
restlessness before urinating. Burning after urinating.

Sexual Organs.–

Sticking
pain in glans. Fig – warts. Crawling and moisture about frenum. Swollen
testes, with swelling and tension in spermatic cords. Many, very
debilitating pollutions. Bad effects of onanism. Sexual desire wanting.

Respiration.–

Constant
short r., and inability to speak from weakness of chest.

Cough.–

Spasmodic
tickling cough, as if from the tickling of feather down from throat pit
to epigastrium, in morning with, but in evening without expectoration.
With headache, nausea and vomiting. With purulent, very offensive
expectoration. Expectoration in of dark blood, or tenacious whitish
mucus of a sourish, herby taste. With involuntary spurting of urine.
From cold air.

Larynx.–

Great
hoarseness. Contractive pain in throat pit.

Chest.–

Squeezing
pressure or burning in.

Back.–

Crawling,
as of ants in, and in lumbar region.

Upper extremities.–

Twitching
tearing in arms. Bony exostoses on back of hand. the skin of hands and
fingers is dry and wrinkled. Unilateral, sharply defined deadness of
fingers.

Lower Extremities.–

Boils
on nates, Painful cramp in hip – joints. Weakness of lower limbs, he
falls easily when making a misstep or stubbing his foot. Humming
throughout entire limb, with coldness running over body. Nightly burning
in shin – bones and soles of feet. Old, itching leg ulcers. Swelling and
burning throbbing in joint of great toe.

Generalities.–

Bruised
pains in body and limbs, like growing pains, especially in morning.
Painless fevers. Crawling, like ants, here and there on body or limbs.
Burning throughout entire half of body, below lumbar and epigastric
region with coldness of extremities t touch. Great emaciation. Stupid
prostration. Epilepsy. Debility from loss of vital fluids, with burning
but without pain. Rapid sinking of strength. Bad effects of sexual
excesses, grief, sorrow and unfortunate love. The pains are almost
exclusively prominent during rest and are diminished during motion.
Tearing in limbs every time he takes cold.

Tissues.–

Glands
swollen.

Bones.–

Pain
as though” periosteum of all long bones were scraped with a knife.
Inflammation and nightly burning of. Swelling of (periostitis). Caries
with smarting pains.

Skin.–

Scarlatinous
eruption. Fine miliary eruption in aggregated clusters. Eruptions, with
burning or excoriating pains. Itching or smarting ulcers. Boils. frost
bites, Bony exostoses. Corns with burning and sticking.

Sleep.–

Great
somnolency. sleepiness early in evening. deep, sound sleep, can scarcely
be aroused. Anxious dreams.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Irregular, sometimes intermitting one or two beats, mostly small, and
weak, but accelerated, often, however, full and strong. Violent
ebullition of blood with great restlessness. Distended blood vessels. Chill:
With shuddering and shaking, generally in evening. Alternating with
heat, in frequent attacks. An especially cold sensation in finger – tips
and in abdomen during. Unilateral cold sensation in face. In evening,
without thirst. Heat: Internal, dry, without thirst, and without
complaints, at any time of day. general, with unconsciousness and
somnolency. Anxious, in evening, with violent ebullition of blood. Of
head, with cold feet. Sweat: Mostly on occiput and nape, while
sleeping during day. Profuse, night and early morning sweats, with
anxiety. extraordinary tendency to s., during day and night. Clammy.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Aco., Ars., Asaf., Bell.,
Calc-c., Calc-p., chin., cupr., Dig,
dulc., GEL., Hyos., Ign.,
Lach., Lyc., Merc., Op., rheu, Rhus
– t., Staph, Verat – a.,
Zinc.

Complementary:
– chin.

Phosphorus

[Phos.]

Mind.–

Brain
feels tired. Very irritable, easily flies into passion, with consequent
suffering. Great anxiety and restlessness, especially when alone. Fear
during storms, especially toward evening. Fear of work. Misanthropy.
somnambulistic condition. Shamelessness. Clairvoyant state with
heightened sensibility.

Vertigo.–

Whirling,
when rising from bed in morning. Frequent, at all time of day. With
nausea and pressive headache.

Head.–

Congestion,
with burning, humming, buzzing and throbbing, in forehead, and a red
face. Beating and burning in, with inflammation ascending from back into
brain, and heat spreading from thence over entire body to feet.
Outpressing, bursting, stupefying ache with a pale face. Enervation of,
music, laughing, stepping hard, etc., are intolerable. cold feelings in
occiput often alternating with heat, with benumbed feeling in brain.
Empty feeling in, with vertigo. Stitches now here ow there, or over
either eye. Tearing in one temple or side, passing into vertigo. Trusts
and pressure. Worst Early on awaking till noon, after dinner, in warm
room, sitting, in evening in bed, at rest, after anger, chewing, motion,
stooping, mental exertion, after motion in open air, eating warm soup,
changes of weather, storms, music. Better: Walking in cool air,
after sleep, lying, rubbing, during meals, temporarily from pressure and
after eating.

External Head.–

Tension,
as if skin of forehead and face were too tight, often one sided only,
when opening mouth. falling of whole tufts of hair from bregma and above
ears, dryness of hair roots, much dandruff and itching of scalp
scratching. Burning, itching, scale covered head, quickly and decidedly
by scratching, but festering, burning pains follow. dry, painful,
burning heat of, with desire to uncover it.

Eyes.–

Burning
in, with profuse lachrymation in wind. Pressure as from a grain of sand
in, with inflammation. Swelling of upper lid, with difficult moving of
same. Myopia. Black, floating spots before vision. Day blindness wherein
everything seems covered with gray.

Ears.–

Violent
tearing and sticking in. Throbbing pounding and roaring in. Difficult
hearing, especially for the human voice (Reverse Ign.). Words sound too
loud and re – echo in ears.

Nose.–

Swelling
and redness of. Nose bleed and blowing of blood from. Disagreeable
dryness in. Fetid smell from. Numerous freckles on. Constant, greenish
yellow discharge. Stuffed coryza.

Face.–

Dirty,
pale countenance. Puffy, especially under eyes, they are deeply sunken
and surrounded by blue rings. Tearing in bones of. Ulceration of angles
of mouth.

Teeth.–

Tearing
or sticking ache in open air and from warm foods. Painful as if
suppurating, early in morning when chewing. the gums are swollen and
bleed easily.

Mouth.–

Dryness
of throat during day and night. Scratching and burning in throat.
Increased, sweetish, salty saliva. Blood – spitting. Hawking of mucus
early in morning. appearance like white fur or velvet in fauces.

Appetite:
Loss of, with a full feeling in upper art of throat. Hunger after
eating. Craves something refreshing. Thirst, with loss of appetite.

Taste:
Sour after eating.

Eructations:
Sour, spasmodic, with pain as though’ something would be torn loose at
the cardiac orifice of stomach.

Nausea, etc. – With hunger, early in morning. vomiting, with
violent pains in stomach. Nightly vomiting of bile. Vomits soured food.
Vomits cold drinks after they become warm in stomach.

Stomach.–

Fullness
and pressure in. Burning in, and in pit. Painful to touch. Narrowing of
the cardiac orifice. Sticking in, and in hypochondriae.

Hypochondria:
Stitches in.

Abdomen.–

Distension
of, after dinner. Burning in. Yellow spots on. tearing bellyache early
in morning in bed.

Flatulence:
Causing tormenting pains in abdomen, arising in region of short ribs,
especially after dinner. Flatulent colic deep in abdomen. Obstructed
flatus.

Stool.–

Chronic
diarrhoea, as from paralysis of intestinal canal, stools preceded by
rumbling in belly. Involuntary soft s. Watery, frequently greenish,
mucus diarrhoea. Undigested, diarrhoeic s. Watery containing flocks.
Discharge of blood with stool. discharge of mucus from the constantly
open anus. (apis).

Anus and Rectum.–

–
Hemorrhage from, External and internal hemorrhoids bleeding easily.
Paralysis of sphincter.

Urine.–

Increased,
watery. Iridescent, fatty pellicle on. Urinates often and a little at a
time. Haematuria. Burning twitching in urethra when not urinating.

Sexual Organs.–

Greatly
increased sexual desire. Excessive pollutions. Stitches in vagina,
extend into uterus. Sterility caused by excessive venery.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early, too profuse and long lasting. Discharge of blood during
pregnancy. Biting, blistering leucorrhoea.

Respiration.–

Difficult,
with anxiety in chest. Spasmodic rightness of chest. Nightly suffocative
attacks.

Cough.–

Hollow,
hacking c., excited tickling or itching in chest. with rawness and
hoarseness in chest or with sticking in throat. Spasmodic. Dry,
straining c., with bursting headache, excited by cold air or reading
aloud. Dry in evening and night, in morning and by day expectoration of
a tough, whitish mucus apparently mixed with dust, or of a yellow pus –
like or a rust – colored, often cold mucus, of a sour, salty, or
sweetish taste, or else of bright red, frothy blood. When shopping cough
threatens an unfavorable course.

Larynx.–

Chronic
hoarseness and roughness in. Complete aphonia, with dryness in trachea.
Stitches in. Sense of a pieces of skin or flesh hanging loose in.
Laryngeal phthisis. Membranous croup.

Chest.–

Anxiety
in. constriction. Spasm of. Burning, piercing, soreness and tension in.
Congestion to, and violent palpitation, from every emotion, especially
vexation. Inflammation of lungs, with stitches in sides. Heaviness,
fullness and tension on. suppuration of lungs Phthisis mucosa.
Erysipelas, with sticking and burnings in female mammae. Suppurating
ulcers on mammae, or festering pains therein after erysipelas.

Back.–

Sticking
in scapulae. Pains in back and lumber region, as though broken hindering
every motion. Burning in lumbar region.

Neck:
Goiter. Swelling of cervical and axillary glands. Painful stiffness of
nape.

Upper Extremities.–

Arms
and hands tremble when holding anything. Burning of hands with swollen
blood vessels. Stiff arms. Paralysis of fingers. frost bites on fingers.
Numb finger tips.

Lower Extremities.–

Dislocative
pain in hip joint. Hip first right to left. Drawing and tearing in knee.
Weariness in limbs especially in lower leg. Bony swelling on tibia.
Painful swelling of feet in evening or after walking. Numbness of tips
of toes. Frost – bites and corns on toes.

Generalities.–

Especially
suited to tall, weakly people. Painless fevers. Agg. from putting hand
into cold water. Great emaciation. Easily takes cold, which results
especially in nightly tearing and sticking in limbs, So called human
barometer. Trembling of limbs from slightest exertion. Violent trembling
of whole body. Burning in all parts of body and limbs. Violent trembling
of whole body. Burning in all parts of body and limbs. Violent
congestions and ebullitions of blood. Hemorrhages from various organs.
General nervous weakness. Heaviness and paralytic weakness of limbs.
Very sensitive to cold weather. Complaints are intensified during storms
and changes of weather. Most symptoms appear early in morning and in
evening in bed, as well as after eating. Many complaints appear while,
and cease after eating. After affects of passion, emotions, etc.

Tissues.–

Glands
affected, especially after bruises.

Bones.–

Swelling
of (periostitis). Rachitis.

Skin.–

Yellow
or brownish spots on, especially on chest and lower abdomen. Small
wounds bleed profusely. Dry, scaling herpes. Boils, Fungus haematodes.
Bony exostoses.

Sleep.–

Insufficient
and unrefreshing in morning. Sopor – like day sleepiness. Late falling
to sleep in evening and nightly sleeplessness from anxiety and nightly
sleeplessness from anxiety and restlessness. Great sleepiness and
indolence after meals. somnambulism. Hideous, frightful dreams. Yawning.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Various, ordinarily quickened, at same time full and hard, but sometimes
weak and small, more seldom slow or intermittent. Strong ebullition of
blood and throbbing of carotids. Chill, Almost only in evening, without
thirst, and with aversion to least uncovering, with greatly swollen
veins of hands. Internal. with shuddering, not relieved by warmth of
stove. And heat alternating at night. Nocturnal, with diarrhoea. running
down back. Chilliness in evening till midnight, with great weakness and
sleep. Heat: Flying, over the whole body, but first on hands.
Universal, anxious heat, afternoons and evenings, with burning on hands
and face. Nocturnal., disturbing sleep, mostly after midnight. According
back, with somnolency. Sweat: Motes on head, hands and feet, with
copious urine. Only on forepart of body. After midnight and in morning
copious s., followed by great weakness. Sticky. The transpiration often
smells like sulphur.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Aeo.,
Agar., Alum., Am-c., Ars., Aur.,
Bro., Calc-c., CALC-P., Caust., chin.,
Cina, Dig., Graph, Hell.,
Iod., Ip., Kali-c., Lyc.,
Mos., Nat-a., NUX-V., Op., Par.,
Petr., Pic-ac., PULS., Sec-c., Sep.,
Sil., Stront., Verat-a., Verbas.

Often
followed by Petr., Kali-bi., Carb-v., or complemented by.

Complementary:
Calc-c., Lyc., sang., Sep.

Phytolacca decandra

[Phyt.]

Mind.–

Loss
of personal delicacy. Indisposition to mental exertion. Indifference.
Half stupor.

Vertigo.–

As
if intoxicated, with nausea and dim vision. Faintness on raising up.

Head.–

Head
thrown back. Aching, which moves about, above one brow, with nausea,
cool sweat on forehead and weakness, in temples, with sense of
suffocation, in forehead, extending backward (Bry.), with acute hearing.
Pressure, Bursting, painful in forehead and upper part of eyes, with
gaping in vertex, with dryness. Bruised soreness in, more in occiput or
right side. Heaviness extending thro’ shoulders, chest and legs, with
vertigo. shooting in, when leucorrhoea begins. Worse: Stopping
down, looking down, stooping. Better: Eating, open air.

Eyes.–

Sunken,
inflamed, flowing hot tears. Smarting. Balls painful, feel too large.
Lids reddish blue, swollen, edematous, agglutinated, as of coals of fire
on. Sandy feeling in. Shooting from left to top of head. Worse:
From gaslight.

Nose.–

Drawing
about root. Sore, with profuse, acrid, watery coryza. Stoppage of one
nostril, flow of mucus from the other. Tickling in. Burning in.

Face.–

Dark
yellowness of, and of sclerotic. Purple – red, bluish, sickly pallor of,
suffering expression. Pain in bones of, and in all joints. feeling of
mumps coming on. Jaws ache.

Mouth.–

Inclination
to bite teeth together, they feel sore and elongated. Tongue: Red
at tip, blisters on sides, pain at root on
swallowing, burnt feeling at base, and in throat. Heat, swelling and
tenderness of tongue, tonsils and palate. Saliva: Thick, ropy and
tenacious, flowing from mouth, yellow, metallic tasting: cold.

Taste:
Like nuts, bitter, then smarting and cool towards tip of tongue.

Throat.–

Congested
and dark red. Sore, rough and dry, with aching in neck, back and limbs.
Choking as from a lump, hot ball or apple – core lodged therein.
Smarting or raw, scraped feeling in. Much hawking to clear it of
increased mucus, with, no relief. Excruciating
pains shoot through ears on attempting to swallow. Eruption in Worse:
Hot drinks. Better: Liquids.

Stomach.–

Intense
thirst. Violent retching and vomiting, distress so intense, he desired
death. Vomiting, with purging, with eructations (Arg – n), painless. Vomit:
Bloody, dark bilious, acrid, causing scraping and excoriation in throat.
Empty retching. Agonizing cramps and coldness, with cutting, tearing,
straining pain in, then soreness on pressure, diarrhoea and prostration.
Bruised soreness in pit. Burning in. Sickly feeling in. Worse:
Morning, eating.

Abdomen.–

Much
flatus. Boring or burning griping about navel. Weakness in.

Rectum.–

Pain
shooting from r., along perineum into penis.

Stool.–

Diarrhoea,
with sickly feeling in bowels, preceded by cramping about navel,
followed by faintness. Continual inclination to, with much straining.
Involuntary, from much straining, which continues even in sleep.
Copious, of blood, mucus and like scrapings of intestines. Dark brown,
Painless. With fearful tenesmus. vomiting and purging.

Urinary Organs.–

Weakness,
pain and soreness in kidney region. Straining to urinate. Kidneys
inflamed. Urine: diminished, with pain in iodine, retained,
albuminous, chalky sediment.

Sexual organs.–

Sharp
or hard grinding pains run up spermatic cords, followed by soreness.
Gurgling in prostate gland. Bearing down pains, involuntary straining
and hemorrhage from vagina. Intermittent contractive, uterine pains.
Menses suppressed. Profuse, ropy leucorrhoea. Loss of sexual appetite,
relaxed genitals. Mammae full, containing lungs.

Respiratory Organs.–

Dry,
croupy cough, with burning in larynx and trachea. Cough with nausea,
excited by scraping and tickling in throat, worse in cold air.
Expectoration tough. Hoarse. Dryness in Feels as if breathing thro’ a
sponge.

Chest.

Painful muscles. Pain in region of right nipple through to back. Worse:
After midnight. Better: Afternoon.

Heart.–

Shocks of pain in region of, then in right arm, worse walking.
Constrictive feeling in precordia with pressure in temples. Pulse slow.

Back.–

Neck:
Stiffness of, and of back at night. Pain in back of, running down spine,
also in upper jaw and teeth.

Back:
Backache. Aching weight and pressure on scapulae. Intense griping in
small of, with cramps in lower extremities, which come and go suddenly,
the muscles gather in knots, then become flaccid and sore, followed by
drossiness and stupor. Shooting pains in sacrum, down outer side of both
thighs to feet.

Extremities.–

Rheumatic
and neuralgic pains affect the outer side and seem near surface of skin
or bones. Corpse – like coldness, they look withered. Rheumatism of
shoulders, Throbbing, aching or pricking needle – like pains as is
suppurating, in finger – tips. Pains below knees and elbows Hamstrings
seem too short. Heavy. Stiff. Spasmodic jerking of. rheumatic feeling
in all joints. Worse: Sitting. Better: Elevating feet.

Generalities.–

General
soreness, with tired aching and restlessness. Great muscular debility.
lassitude and desire to lie down. Dark or purple redness of affected
parts. Affects the right side especially the shoulder and thigh. Pains
appear and disappear suddenly and are often followed by itching, burning
or soreness. Universal throbbing. Smarting sensations. convulsions,
hands clenched, toes flexed, eyes bleared and dancing, with alternate
spasm and relaxation of facial muscles. Many symptoms are accompanied by
heat. All the secretions are greatly increased, tears. Saliva, etc. Worse:
Motion: raising up, wet weather, at night, open air, pressure, at eleven
AM. Better: Eating: warm, dry weather.

Skin.–

Aching
and hardness in glands. Itching rash with a dry, hot, red skin, desire
for cold bathing, which relieves momentarily, bit is worse afterwards,
worse from scratching and heat of bed. Elevated erythematous eruption,
painfully sore itching, terminating in a dark purple node. Causes
suppuration of tumors, boils, etc. Cold and blues, purplish
red, lead – colored.

Fever.–

Chill:
Chilliness uncovering, internally during pains. Heat: Burning
heat, especially on soles of feet, which seem bloated like puff – balls.
In throat, stomach and rectum. With fullness of head, red face and cold
feet. Sweat: Cool, mostly on forehead. Free on feet, most under
toes. Profuse with the vomiting and purging.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Bell.,
Bry., cimi., Cimi., dulc., Hell., Ign.,
Kali-bi., Kali – iod., Merc., Nux-v., rhus – t.

Antidotes. – dig., Dig., Ign. Nit – ac.,
Op.

Complementary. – sil.

Platina metallicum

[Plat.]

Mind.–

Unconsciousness.
Delirium. Mental disturbances from fright, or anger caused by vexation,
i. e. alternate laughing and crying, etc. Hysteria. with excessive
sexual desire, hauteur and involuntary weeping. Sadness and weeping in
evening. Premonition and great fear of imminent death, with
extraordinary anguish. Insanity, with fault – finding, pride, abscess
talk, trembling and tonic spasms. Great peevishness. Pride and self –
conceit, with contempt for everything else, even the most beloved and
sacred things. Symptoms of mind and mood frequently alternate with those
of body. Great indifference.

Head.–

Crampy
pain, like an inward pressure in temples and forehead. Compressive
cramping as of a constricting hand Sensation of a plug in parietal bone.
Pains increase gradually and leave in the same manner. Crawling, like
ants, and cold feeling from temple down over lower jaw. Numbness within
as well as on skull. Brain feels stiff. The scalp seems to gradually
contract tightly over the skull then slowly relax again. Worse:
Evening: Stooping: sitting or lying at rest, in room. Better:
Gentle motion in open air, rubbing.

Eyes.–

Cramp
– like pain in edge of orbit. quivering or spasmodic trembling of lids.
cold sensation in. Crawling in angles of. Smarting in. Objects
appear smaller than they really are. ears. – Crampy pain like
an earache. Numb sensation in, which extends to cheeks and lips.
Reverberation and rolling like the noise of a wagon in.

Nose.–

Crampy
pain, with numb sensation.

Face.–

Redness
and burning heat of, with violent thirst, especially toward evening.
Pale, sunken and numb. Crampy pain, with numb feeling in malar bone.
Benumbing, dull pressure in malar bone. Lock – jaw. Sense of coldness,
mostly about mouth. Bluish – red varicosity on chin.

Teeth.–

Crampy,
jerky drawing in. Fissured gums.

Mouth.–

Cramp
– like drawing in throat, as though it were constricted. Hawking of
mucus. Burnt feeling on tongue.

Appetite, etc, – Ravenous hunger and hasty eating, with
contemptuous mood. Low spirits causing aversion to food. thirstless.

Taste:
Sweetish on tip of tongue.

Eructations:
Ineffectual desire to eructate. Rising of a disagreeable bitter sweet
fluid, during which he early swallows the wrong way.

Nausea, etc. – Continued qualmishness, with anxious weakness and
trembling.

Stomach.–

Pressure,
after eating. contractive pain in pit, as though’ too tightly laced.
Thrusts in pit.

Abdomen.–

Contractive
pain in. Dull. thrusting pressure in. Burning extending from throat –
pit down into a. Pressure, extending downward into inguinal region and
sexual organs. Pinching is umbilical region. Drawing downward from
lumbar region into both groins. Lead colic.

Stool.–

Sense
of weakness in abdomen or shivering after stool. Constipation.

Anus.–

Itching,
crawling and tenesmus at, every evening.

Urine.–

Frequent
urination in a weak stream.

Sexual Organs.–

Painfully
sensitive, internally and externally. Voluptuous crawling in, and in
abdomen. Pressing and urging toward. Nymphomania and unnaturally excited
sexual desire, especially in lying – in women.

Female.–

Menses:
Of dark, thick blood, too early and too profuse (of too short duration).
spasms at appearance of. Uterine hemorrhage, with greatly excited sexual
desire, after miscarriage.

Respiration.–

Deep,
anxious inspiration. shortness of breath, as though’ chest were too
tightly laced, with anxious, warm rising. Desire to take a deep breath,
hindered by a weak feeling in chest.

Larynx, etc.–

Loss of voice.

Chest.–

Dull,
thrusting pressure in. Tensive, crampy pains seemingly in external
chest, increasing and decreasing gradually. Anxious palpitation.

Back.–

Tensive,
cramp – like, numb feeling in, and in lumbar region. bruised pain in,
and in lumbar region, especially when pressed upon or bending backward.

Neck:
Tensive, crampy feeling in. Stiffness of nape.

Upper extremities.–

Paralytic
drawing and sense of weakness in arms. Crawling pain in arms and hands.
Stiff sensation in forearms. Ulcers on fingers and toes.

Lower Extremities.

Cramping pain in legs. Stiff feeling in legs. Swelling of balls of
toes, with nightly tearing.

Generalities.–

Cramp
– like pains in many parts, especially in extremities and joints, dull,
thrust – like or inward pressing pains like the deriving in of a plug.
Benumbing cramps. Tension in limbs, as though’ tightly bound. Paralytic,
numb and stiff sensation in various parts, generally accompanied by a
feeling of coldness. Paralytic weakness and weariness in limbs,
especially during rest. Hysterical, tetanic spasms, with full
consciousness. Bad effects of fright and mortification, or of anger
excited by vexation. the pains begin feebly, increases gradually and
again disappear just as slowly. Most complaints are intensified in the
evening and during rest. Especially suited to the female sex.

Skin.–

Excoriative
painful biting, or prickling burning here and there.

Sleep.–

Spasmodic
yawning, in afternoon. Lascivious dreams.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Small, weak and often tremulous. Chill: In evening, with
trembling and tremulous sensation thro’ whole body. Shaking c., when
passing from a room into open (even warm) air. and chilliness
predominate with peevishness, which passes off later during the beat.
Alternating with symptoms of the intellect and disposition. Heat:
With a sense of burning redness of face, when it is neither noticeable
nor present. Flying heat, inter – mingled with shivering. Gradually
increasing and diminishing in a like manner. Sweat: Only during
sleep, disappearing immediately on waking.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ag-c.,
Asaf., Bell., Caust., Croc.,
Dig., Ign., LACH., Men Merc., PLB.
PULS., Saba., Sobi., Stront.

Plumbum metallicum

[Plb.]

Mind.–

Weakness
of mind and memory. Delirium, with rage and wild looks. Insanity. Great
anxiety and restlessness, with frequent sighing. Dejecting and
melancholy. Ennui.

Sensorium.–

Vertigo
when stooping or looking upward. Stupefaction, he falls down
unconscious.

Head.–

Congestion,
with heat ascending in to head. Heaviness, especially in occiput.
sticking ache. Hair very dry, it falls from beard and eyebrows.

Eyes.–

Inflamed
and congested. Pressure in, as though’ the ball were too large.
Paralysis of upper lid. Yellow sclerotic. Contracted pupils. Myopia.
Misty, foggy vision. Paralysis of optic nerve.

Ears.–

Tearing
in. Difficult hearing.

Nose.–

Erysipelatous
inflammation. Diminished sense of small. Nasty odor in.

Face.–

Cadaverous
paleness. Puffed. greasy, glistening skin. Confused look. Painless
desquamation of lips. Tearing in maxillae.

Teeth.–

Soften
and turn black. Pale, swollen gums. Painful nodes on gums.

Mouth.–

Dry.
Aphthae, dirty ulcers and bluish – black blotches in, also on tip of
tongue (as after abuse of Mercury). Sense of a foreign body or of
swelling in throat. rising, as of a ball in throat. Constriction of
throat. Paralysis of throat. with inability to swallow. Much sweetish
saliva in. Paralysis of tongue, with difficult speech.

Taste:
Sweetish, in mouth.

Stomach.–

Violent,
constrictive spasm of. Violent pressure in. Sticking extending from pit
into back.

Hypochondriac:
Stitches in liver. Pains in kidneys.

Appetite:
Loss of. Increased. Desire for bread and baked food. Violent thirst,
especially for cold water.

Eructations:
Sweetish. gulping up of sweetish water.

Nausea:
Frequent retching. Excessive vomiting of ingesta or discolored
substances, with violent pains in stomach and abdomen. Fecal vomit, with
colic and constipation.

Abdomen.–

Pains
radiate from a – to all parts of body. Agg. touch but amel. hard
pressure. violent colic with strong retraction of. especially of naval.
constriction of intestines, with strong retraction of navel and anus.
Inflammation of viscera. Hard nodes in. (Graph.)

Flatulence:
Grumbling and rumbling in abdomen. Exceedingly offensive flatus,
especially after eating fish.

Stool.–

Obstinate
constipation. Hard, nodular stool passed with difficulty.

Anus.–

Constriction
and retraction of.

Urine.–

Retained.
Tenesmus vesicae. Difficult discharge of, passed drop by drop
(strangury).

Sexual Organs.–

Inflammatory
swelling of. Constriction in testicles. Greatly intensified sexual
desire.

Respiration.–

Difficult,
panting. Spasmodic tightness of chest.

Cough.–

Dry,
convulsive. With expectoration of blood or pus.

Larynx.–

Hoarseness
and roughness in. Constriction of.

Chest.–

Constriction.
Stitches, in female mammae. Anxious palpitation.

Back.–

Stitches
in, and in lumbar region.

Upper Extremities.–

Twitching
tearing in arms. Bony exostoses on back of hand.

Lower Extremities.–

Paralytic
sensation in hip, knee and ankle joints, Paralysis of lower limbs, Stinking
foot – sweat.

Generalities.–

Sticking
and tearing in limbs. Twitching in limbs. Paralysis of limbs.
Constrictive sensations in internal organs. Epileptic attacks. Great
weakness and emaciation. Dropsical swellings. The pains in limbs are
intensified at night and are by rubbing. symptoms intermit every third
day. Acts on abdominal muscles first. Paralysis
of the extensors, of single parts.

Bones.–

Crawling
pain, seemingly inside of.

Skin.–

Sensitive
to open air. Yellowish or pale bluish color. Dark brown spots on body.
Denuded spots. Acute decubitus. Burning ulcers. Cold gangrene.

Sleep.–

Great
drowsiness. Stupefying somnolency. Extraordinary day sleepiness. Nightly
sleeplessness on account of spasmodic colic.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Very variable and irregular mostly small, contracted and slow, sometimes
hard and slow, also occasionally small and accelerated, seldom full,
feverish or intermittent. Chill: Predominating, increasing toward
evening with violent thirst and redness of face. Internal, with external
heat, towards evening. Chilliness in all members. Coldness in open air
and during motion. Heat: with thirst, anxiety, a red face and
sleepiness. Internal, in evening and night with yellow of whole buccal
cavity. Sweat: Anxious, cold or sticky and clammy.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Alum., Ars., Bell., (CAUST.),
Chin., Hyos., Nat
– m., Nux-v., OP., PLAT., Stram., sul.,
sul-ac.

Complementary:
Rhus-t.

Podophyllum peltatum

[Podo.]

Mind.–

Depressed,
Hypochondriac mood.

Vertigo.–

With
fullness over eyes.

Head.–

Splitting,
dull throbbing or heaviness in occiput. Headache, with heat in vertex,
alternating with diarrhoea, sharp pain, soreness over seat of pain,
stunning. Worse: Lying down, after eating, rising. Better:
Open air, cold bathing.

Eyes.–

Sunken.
Half open, during sleep. Heavy lids. Drawing, as if squint would follow.
Inflamed. Photophobia. Ulcers and opacities of cornea. Occluded pupil.

Nose.–

Pinched.
Soreness and little pustules in. Inflamed, with itching and burning.

Face.–

Pale.
Fallen jaw. cheeks red. swelled.

Mouth.–

Lips
sore. Teeth covered with dried mucus in the morning. Much viscid mucus
in. Sour or offensive odor from. Salivation. Tongue: Coated
while, yellow, taking imprint of teeth, swelling of and of adjacent
glands.

Taste:
Sour, putrid, of tried liver, sweet, to everything.

Throat.–

Soreness
of, extending into ears. rough, dry and burning. Sense of a lump in.
Rattling of mucus in. Worse: Swallowing liquids.

Stomach.–

Burning
like hot steam in. Spasmodic, wrenching pains, which extort screams with
efforts to vomit, he constantly rubs it. Cold water causes oppression
and uneasiness in. Heaviness in. Sickly feeling in. Worse:
Motion.

Hypochondriae. Fullness, twisting, stitches or heat in right.
Weight or dragging in left. Worse: Eating.

Epigastrium:
Throbbing, then diarrhoea Hollow feeling. Weakness, after stool.

Appetite:
Voracious, craves acids.

Thirst:
For cold water.

Nausea:
After rising, with acidity. Vomiting: Of hot, frothy mucus,
burning the oesophagus, bitter, dark green, bloody, forcible,
exhausting. Regurgitations, with heat in throat.

Abdomen.–

Faintness,
with a sense of emptiness in a., after stool. Heat and pain in, with
inclination to stool. Cramp – like colic, with retracted muscles
Griping. Cutting in sides of. Rumbling in ascending colon. Pain in
ascending and transverse colon. Sharp pain above right groin.
Distension. Tenderness. Inflammation and ulceration of duodenum. Worse:
Lying on back: pressure of clothes, touch, motion, eating. Better:
Doubling up. Hard pressure. Warmth. After passing stool or flatus. Lying
on side.

Rectum.–

Prolapsus
of. with swelling and congestion. fullness and dragging in, before
stool, sense of weakness in and in abdomen after stool. Anus, Soreness
in. Discharge of mucus from.

Stool.–

Liquid,
profuse, painless, offensive, hurried, gushing out, undigested, frothy,
yellow, green, chalk – like or blood streaked, albuminous, acrid,
burning hot, coated with tough yellow mucus, painful with screaming and
grinding of teeth, ineffectual urging to, preceded by retching and
vomiting. (Comp. Lyc.). alternate diarrhoea and constipation. Worse:
After eating or drinking, in hot weather, during dentition, in morning,
from acid fruit with milk.

Urine.–

Incontinence
of.

Sexual Organs.–

Inflamed
scrotum or eyes, pustules on scrotum (Crot-t.). Sticking above pubes and
in spermatic cord. Inflammation and soreness in right ovary and uterus,
pains in ovary extend up and down. Numbness in left ovary. Falling out
feeling during stool, without pain in sacrum. Prolapsus uteri and recti.

Chest.–

Oppression,
with desire to breathe deeply, hindered by a sense of constriction.
Sense of suffocation on first lying down. Snapping like a thread
breaking in right lung on deep inspiration.

Heart.–

Palpitation. Feeling as if it were mounting into throat.

Back.–

Neck:
Stiff nape with soreness of muscles of neck and shoulder.

Back:
Pains. – Pains, under right scapula, in loins worse from a misstep.

Extremities.–

Tingling
in. Weakness in joints, knees, wrists, left hip, etc. Pain with cramp in
right leg.

Generalities.–

Choleraic
symptoms, with cramps and drowsiness, Prostration. Constant rolling and
tossing about. Stiff on beginning to move. Sense of soreness, the bed
being too hard. Head ache accompanies many symptoms. Affects the right
throat, right hypochondrium and right ovary. Aggravation: In the
morning, from 2 to four AM, abuse of calomel, during dentition. Amelioration:
Evening.

Sleep.–

Moaning
in. Sleepy: In day time, in morning, with rumbling in bowels.

Skin.–

Intolerable
itching, scratching causes urticarious blotches. Rawness. Scabs on arms
and legs.

Fever.–

Coldness:
With the pain in bowels. Heat: In flushes, up back after stool:
over face and head. cough during. Sweat: so profuse it drops from
fingers, cold, on feet in evening. Feeling as if body were bathed in.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Alo.,
chel., Colch., Crot-t., Gamb., Ign., Iris-v., Jat.,
Jat., Lyc., Merc., Nat-c., Nux-v., Sul., sul-ac., Verat-a.

Complementary:
– Nat – m.

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