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

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

Selenium

[Sel.]

Mind.–

Great
debility and relaxation caused by mental labor extended far into the
night. Extraordinary forgetfulness when awake, but a clear recollection
when half asleep. Extraordinary loquacity and talkativeness.

Head.–

Violent
sticking ache over left eye, excited by walking in the sun and strong
odors. Headache every afternoon. Headache from lemonade, wine and tea.
Hair falls out on combing (also from eyebrows, beard and genitals).
Itching creeping on scalp in evening, it oozes when scratched and feels
as if contracted.

Eyes.–

Itching
vesicles on margin of lids and brows.

Ears.–

Increased ear – wax.

Nose.–

Inclination
to bore into. Fluent coryza in evening. Yellow, thick, gelatinous nasal
mucus.

Face.–

Greasy,
shining skin. Extraordinary emaciation of.

Teeth.–

Boring
pain in molars with tearing in lover jaw. Teeth covered with mucus.

Appetite:
Want of appetite, with white – coated tongue, early in morning. Aversion
to strongly salted food. Great desire for brandy.

Taste:
Repulsively sweetish t., on lips after smoking.

Eructations:
Hiccough and eructations when smoking.

Hypochondria:
Pains in liver during inspiration. Miliary eruption in hepatic region.
Stitches in spleen when walking.

Abdomen.
– Sensible throbbing in arteries of, and entire body after eating.

Stool.–

Hard.
Constipation.

Urine.–

Dark,
diminished. Urination after every stool. Urinary sediment like coarse
grained, red sand.

Sexual Organs.–

Slow
and insufficient erections, with too rapid emission of semen and long –
continued voluptuous thrill. Impotency with lasciviousness. Discharge of
prostatic fluid during sleep and stool.

Respiration.–

Frequent,
deep, sighing. Tightness of, from stitches in side.

Cough.–

Early
in morning, straining chest, with expectoration of bloody mucus.

Larynx.–

Hawking
of bloody mucus. Hoarse, husky voice.

Back.–

Neck:
Stiff nape when turning head.

Back:
Paralytic pain in small of, early in morning.

Upper extremities.–

Nightly
tearing in hands. Itch vesicles on margin of hands and between fingers.
Biting in palms.

Lower Extremities.–

Itching
about ankles and feet in evening. Cramp in calves and soles of feet.
Flat ulcers on legs.

Generalities.–

Great
emaciation, especially of faces, hands and thighs. He is intolerant of
drafts and easily takes cold, which is followed by tearing in limbs. All
of the symptoms are after sleep, whereunto he has a great inclination,
especially on hot days. China intensifies the symptoms beyond endurance.

Skin.–

Heat
like a direly glow in single spots on body. Spots which have been
scratched open remain humid a long times. Flat ulcers

Sleep.–

Late
falling to sleep in evening. Awakened by the least noise He always
awakes at the same hour.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Accelerated but little, even with strong ebullition. Chill:
constant, alternating with heat. Heat: External only, with
burning in skin in single spots only. Sweat: Very profuse,
especially on chest, axillae and genitals. From the slightest motion.
Every time he sleeps by day as well as night. Extraordinary easy s.
Causes yellow or white stiff salty spots on the linen.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: ALUM., Boy., Bry., calc-c.,
Ign., Merc., Nux-v., Puls., sep., Sul.,
thuj.,

Senega

[Seneg.]

Mind.–

Vacancy
and dull confusion in head, with pressure in eyes and cloudy vision.
Great anxiety, with quick breathing. Melancholic mood, easily irritated
by offences. Cheerfulness, with great excitability, which turns to anger
and rage. Hypochondriasis.

Head.–

Dull
outward pressure in forehead and orbits, as though’ brain and eyes would
be forced out, with sensitive eyes, Jerkings and thrusts in forehead.
Congestion, with throbbing therein, especially when stopping. Hollow,
empty feeling affecting eyes. The headache always extends to eyes, is
intensified in a warm room and during rest and is better in the cold,
open air. Shivering on scalp.

Eyes.–

Out
pressing pain in orbits, as though’ eyeballs were expanded, especially
in evening by artificial light. Congestion of blood to eyes when
stooping, with burning therein. Swelling of lids, with crawling therein.
Hardened mucus crusts in lashes early in morning. Watering, when in open
air and looking intently. Clouded cornea. Sensitive to light. Weak
vision and flickering before.

Ears.–

Painfully
sensitive hearing.

Nose.–

Odor:
As of an ulcer in, as of pus before.

Face.–

Heat
of. Burning vesicles on upper lip and in angles of mouth.

Mouth:
– Burning on palate, in throat and at tip of tongue. Inflammatory
swelling of fauces and uvula. Dry buccal cavity, with tenacious mucus in
throat. Increased saliva. Roughness in throat.

Taste:
Sweat, metallic or urinous, in mouth.

Stomach.–

Burning.
Spasmodic pressure.

Appetite:
– total loss of. Increased thirst.

Nausea:
Starting in stomach, with gagging and inclination to vomit.

Abdomen.–

Warmth
and oppression in upper, during inspiration. Boring, digging pain in
upper. Drawing, as from a foreign body n wall of.

Stool.–

Retarded
hard and too scanty.

Urine.–

Diminished
discharge of. Nocturnal enuresis. Urine mixed with mucus threads,
becoming turbid and cloudy on cooling. Burning and sticking in urethra
during and after urination.

Sexual Organs.–

Increased
sexual desire with painful erections.

Respiration.–

Difficult
as from stoppage of lungs. Tight, as though’ chest were too narrow,
especially in open air when stooping. Short, from accumulation of mucus
in chest and air passages.

Cough.–

Dry,
shattering c., from burning and tickling in larynx, especially when open
air and in evening, with copious expectoration of tenacious albuminous
mucus, of a somewhat offensive odor in morning, and when in the house.

Larynx.–

Extraordinary
quantity of mucus in, and in tracheas. Catarrhal croup. Tracheal
phthisis, Hoarseness.

Chest.–

Congestion
to, with throbbing therein while sitting. Pressing pain in, worse during
rest. Great sensitiveness internally, and to touch externally. Stitches
in, when coughing and during inspiration. Painful soreness of, increased
by external pressure, sneezing, coughing, etc. Most chest symptoms are
worse when at rest and have no influence on the breathing. Copious
accumulation of mucus in. Phthisis mucosa. Hydrothorax. Violent, shaking
palpitation.

Back.–

Bursting
pain under right scapula.

Lower Extremities:
Sense of great weariness, with trembling thereof. Paralytic weariness in
joints of lower legs.

Generalities.–

Extraordinary
mental and physical relaxation. Relaxed, plethoric, phlegmatic
constitution, old persons. Great weakness, especially when it seem to
start from chest. Diseases of the mucus membranes. Dropsy of the mucous
membranes. Dropsy of internal parts (especially after inflammations).

Skin.–

Bites
of poisonous animals. Anasarca.

Sleep.–

Sound
and at same time stupefying, in evening immediately upon lying down.
Frequently awakened by chest difficulties, toward morning.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Irregular, mostly hard and accelerated, with strong of ebullition of
blood, seldom soft. Chill: And shivering, almost exclusively in
open air, with weariness in legs and difficult breathing. Shuddering
over back, with heat of face. Chest symptoms and other sufferings:
Heat: Only in rapid flashes. Sweat: Wholly wanting and appears
only during its secondary action.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ars., Bell, Bry., Stann.

Sepia

[Sep.]

Mind.–

Incapable
of mental exertion. Distraction. Great weakness of memory. Anxiousness
in evening in bed. Anxiety with flying heat. Easily startled. Crying
out. Indifference to his family. Angry,
sensitive, irritable, very excitable when in company. Mores.
Despondent about his health.

Vertigo.–

As
though’ all surrounding objects were moving, or he was being wafted in
the air, with inability to collect his senses especially in the open
air.

Head.–

Dulness
in Attacks of outward boring pains extort soreness and causes vomiting.
Weight on vertex. Unilateral outward sticking in forehead or one (mostly
1.) side with drawing together of eyes. Heaviness in temples and
forehead with violent congestion, in evening after lying down it
terminates in a one – sided tearing pain. Throbbing in: In occiput.
Distensive pressing pain. Feeling: Of a ball rolling about in, as
if brain were loose and shattered Ulcerative pain in occiput. Worse:
forenoon, towards night, slightest moving or shaking of, turning eyes,
striking foot against anything, stooping, lying on back, sitting, Better:
Rest, external pressure, closing eyes, after sleep, warmth, continued
vigorous motion, open air, in darkness raising up, lying on painful
side.

External Head.–

Cold
feeling on vertex. (Chin.). Foul dry eruption with sticking itching
crawling, smarting when scratched, and crack on vertex, occiput and
behind ears. Swelling over one temple with coldness, tearing and itching
therein. Crawling itching most on occiput and behind ears, worse from
scratching which is followed by pimples, denuded spots, thickening of
scalp and raw sensitiveness. Painfully sensitive roots of hair, burning
after scratching. Involuntarily jerks it backward (and forward) mostly
in AM and when sitting quietly. Open fontanelle. Takes cold in, from
dry, cold winds or getting it wet. Worse: touch: early in morning
and toward evening, at rest, rising from bed, cold north wind, on side
on which he is not lying. Better: Lying upon part.

Eyes.–

Inflammation
and sticking in, with sensitiveness to daylight. Gauze or black spots
before. Sparks before. Inability to open them at night. Feeling as if
they would fall out. Falling of one upper lid, as from paralysis.
Inflammatory swelling of lids, Yellow, sclerotic. Freight. Yellow halo
about candle light in evening.

Ears.–

Sticking
in. Oversensitive to music.

Nose.–

Cancer
of. Dry, stooped. Inflammation and swelling of tip. Ulcerated nostrils.
Want of smell. Fluent coryza with hoarseness. Nosebleed. Sneezing.

Face.–

Sallow.
Yellow, especially about mouth and transversely across nose and cheeks.
Pale, puffy. Skin, red and rough. Milk crust. Scurfs on lips and about
chin.

Teeth.–

Become
hollow. Sticking or drawing ache with great agitation. Swollen, bleeding
gums. Throbbing ache going up into ear and down arms to fingers with
prickling therein with difficult breathing, swelled face and
submaxillary glands, during pregnancy.

Mouth.–

Aphthae.
Sensation of a lump sticking in throat when swallowing. Sticking sore
throat when swallowing. White coat on tongue. Offensive breath.

Taste:
Sour or foul, in mouth. Food tastes salt.

Stomach.–

Sticking
or throbbing in pit of. Spasmodic pressure in. Burning in. Severe pain
in cardiac orifice when swallowing food. Empty sensation in, and in
abdomen.

Hypochondria:
Pain (sticking) in liver from motion or when riding.

Appetite:
Ravenous hunger and gluttony. Aversion to food. Especially meet and
milk. thirstlessness.

Eructations:
Sour. Painful.

Nausea:
In morning while fasting and when driving. Vomiting: Bile, during
pregnancy, first bitter water, then food.

Abdomen.–

Adherent
and indurated sensation in. Burning and sticking in. Pot belly (in
mothers), (colch., Pod.) Tearing pains which spread from abdomen into
chest and thigh. Excoriation in groins.

Flatulence. – rumbling and grumbling in abdomen after eating.

Stool.–

Violent
urging, discharge of mucus only too soft. Constipation with delayed
stool. Diarrhoea: Exhausting, after milk, green (of children).

Rectum.–

Prolapsed,
during stool. Protruding, bleeding hemorrhoids.

Urine.–

Dark.
Frequent urging with inability to urinate. Involuntary urination during
first sleep. Smarting in urethra when urinating.

Sexual Organs.–

Weak
and sweating constantly. Increased sexual desire. Prolapsus uteri.
Downward pressure in uterus, causing oppression of breathing. Violently
itching rash inside of labia.

Menses. – Dark, too early and too profuse, with increased bodily
complaints. Suppressed. Corrosive leucorrhoea.

Cough.–

Paroxysms
of spasmodic cough following each other in rapid succession, excited by
tickling in chest from larynx to stomach. With salty expectoration early
in morning and in evening. With copious, salty or foul tasting
expectoration, dark bloody in early morning and evening, and a milky
tenacious mucus during day. Expectoration: Yellow, green or gray
pus, tasting bitter, putrid, flat, sour or repulsively sweet with an
unpleasant odor, in loosened with difficulty and is swallowed, Dry
stomach cough, in evening in bed, with nausea and bitter vomiting.

Larynx.–

Roughness
and soreness in and in throat.

Chest.–

Oppression
of during profuse as well as stopped expectoration. Roughness and
soreness in. Itching and tickling in. Tightness of, at night and when
walking. Constriction of. Intense orgasm in, with violent palpitation.
Shocks and stitches in, when breathing and during mental exertion. Empty
feeling in. Pulmonary consumption following inflammation of. Heaviness
and fullness in. Rattling in. Palpitation. Better, Pressure of hand.

Back.–

Neck:
Drawing and sticking in nape.

Back:
Stiffness, extending up to nape. Burning tearing in lumbar region.
Symptoms fly from other parts to back. (Calc – c) Pressing and sticking
in scapulae. Feels as if something adhered in sacral region.

Upper Extremities.–

Scurfs
on hands. Burning of palms. Exfoliation of skin of palms. Painless
ulcers upon knuckles and tips of fingers. Panaritia.

Lower Extremities.–

Drawing
in thighs. Paralysis of legs, especially after anger. Stiffness of legs
after sitting a short times. Coldness of legs and feet. Spreading
blisters and painless ulcers upon heels and joints as well as tips of
tons. Crippled too nails. All the flexures of the joints become sore.

Generalities.–

Want
of flexibility in wrist, knee and ankle joints. Sticking pains in limbs.
Painful sensitiveness of every part of entire body. Great sensitiveness
to cold north wind. Easily takes cold. Getting wet is followed by a
violent chill, the fainting attacks, then coryza. Intense nightly orgasm
of blood with palpitation. Restlessness and throbbing in all limbs.
Burning pain in many parts of body. Want of natural bodily heat.
Excessively bad effects from anger. Weakness on awaking. Symptoms cease
during violent motion (except riding) but appear in their greatest
intensity when sitting quietly in morning and evening.

Skin.–

Painless
ulcers. Excoriation in bends of joints. Moist herpes with itching and
burning. Hypersensitive.

Sleep.–

Restless,
from ebullition of blood. Late falling to. Great day sleepiness.

Fever.–

Pulse:
at night rapid and full, often intermittent, slow during day.
Accelerated especially by anger and motion. Great ebullition of blood
and throbbing in blood vessels. Chill: Often first appears after
the previous heat. Alternating with heat. Chilliness in evening in open
air and from every movement. More thirst with chill than with the heat.
Shivering during pains: Want of natural vital heat. Heat:
Attacks of flying heat during day, especially in afternoon and evening,
while sitting as well as when in open air, and from mental excitement,
mostly with thirst and redness of face. Attacks of heat as though”
dashed with hot water. Sweat: Copious, more after, than during
motion. Continued debilitating. Constant night and morning s. Only on
upper part of body. Profuse, after slight exertion, with faint like
weakness, motion. Anxious, offensive, sour or smelling like elder
blossoms. Sour, on feet.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: ACO., Agar.,
Ag-v., Ani – c., ant-t., ap.,
Ars., Asaf., Bar – c., BELL., Bry.,
Calc-c., Carb – v., CAUST., CHIN., Clem.,
cupr., Dros., Dulc., Euphor,
Gel., Graph., Hep., Kre., Lyc., MAG-M., Men,
Merc., Nat-c., NIT-AC., Nux – v.,
Phos., PULS., Rhod., RHUS-T., Selen.,
SIL., SUL., Verat-a., Sepia
intensified the action of Lil – tig. Nux – v intensified the action of
Sepia. complementary. – Nat-m., Phos., Puls.

Silicea

[Sil.]

Mind.–

Enervation
from mental exertion. Anxiousness. Dejection and despair with most
intense satiety of life. Great obstinacy in children, they cry even when
kindly spoken to. Yielding. Anxious mood.

Vertigo.–

When
driving. Vertiginous attacks seeming to ascend from nape into head.
Great dizziness, as though’ drunken, in evening. When stooping, driving
or looking up. As if to fall forward.

Head.–

Congestion
with burning with burning heat in. Throbbing and pounding, most severe
in forehead and vertex, with chilliness. Heaviness in, wanting to press
out through’ forehead, daily from noon till evening. Tearing pains,
often unilateral (r.) only, with stitches out through’ eyes and in
facial bones, heat in forehead and great restlessness, external cold.
Outward sticking in forehead and temples, most in right. Painful jerks
in middle of forehead when turning quickly. Bursting pressure in. Pains
ascend from nape to vertex and are accompanied by weakness. Worse:
Night, noon till night, evening, stepping hard, motion, Of eyes,
writing, mental exertion, flaking, becoming heated, uncovering head and
letting it get cold, drafts, stooping. Better: Wrapping head
warmly, tight bandage on, in a warm room.

External Head.–

Enlarged
head with upon fontanelle, with emaciation of rest of body. Tearing
externally especially on occiput and nape. Sensitive to pressure of hat,
etc., and to touch. Burning tickling itching most on occiput, worse from
scratching, which causes festering pain and more violent burning. Foul
dry crusty, burning (or sticking) itching eruption on occiput and behind
ears, when scratched it festers. Itching nodes and nodular elevations
on, and in nape. Takes cold in it easily and is intolerant of
uncovering. Worse: Night, lying thereon, pressure, undressing,
becoming warm in bed, touch, changing weather, at change of moon, stormy
weather. Better: Wrapping up warmly, warm room, dry warm weather.

Eyes.–

Suppurative
agglutination of. Lachrymation in open air. Biting in canthi. Swollen
lachrymal glands. Ulcers and fungus hematodes on cornea. Paralysis of
optic nerve. Black spots float before vision. Far sight.

Ears.–

Stooped,
sometimes opening with a report. Difficult hearing, especially for the
human voice and during full moon. Oversensitive to noise.

Nose.–

Nosebleed
of acrid, corrosive blood. Long continued sense of dryness in. Ulcers
and gnawing pain high up in, with great sensitiveness of this spot, to
touch. Fluent coryza. Acrid. Excoriating discharge. Loss of smell.
Violent or very frequent sneezing with discharge of thin, acrid mucus.
Stuffed coryza and chronic stoppage, from lumps of hardened mucus.

Face.–

Pale,
earth colored or waxy. White, or burning red spots, especially on
cheeks. The skin is cracked. Painful scurfs on lips. Herpes on chin.
Swelling of lower jaw bone. Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.

Teeth.–

Tearing
pain in, worse at night. Nightly, sticking toothache by both warmth and
cold. Periosteum of lower haw swelled.

Mouth.–

Dryness
in. Much mucus in throat.

Taste:
Sense of, wanting. Bitterness in mouth early in morning.

Stomach.–

Pressure
like a stone in. Pressure in, waterbrash and vomiting follow each other
consecutively after every meal. Pit is painful to pressure.

Appetite:
Lost, with great thirst. Ravenous hunger with want of. Aversion to warm
cooked food, he wishes to eat cold things only. Repugnance to meat and
milk.

Eructations:
Tasting of ingesta or sour. Waterbrash with shuddering.

Nausea, etc. – Continuous, with vomiting, early in morning. Vomiting:
After every drink: of food, then of bitter mucus, of water, then of
food.

Abdomen.–

Tense,
bloated, hard and hot, especially in children. Cutting in (without
diarrhoea, much worse when constipated). warm applications. Colic,
wherein the hands turn yellow and the nails blue. Colic from worms in
children. Painful inguinal hernia.

Flatulence:
Incarcerated. Much noise in abdomen, with discharge of very offensive
flatus.

Stool.–

Difficult,
hard, and constipated, Frequent, papescent, cadaverous or stinking.
Discharge of worms.

Anus.–

–
Itching and sticking in, and in rectum.

Urine.–

Strangury.

Sexual Organs.–

Itching
and humid spots on, especially scrotum. Sweat on scrotum. Hydrocele.
Excessive sexual desire.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early, but too scanty (or too profuse). Menstrual discharge between
the periods. Uterine hemorrhage. Abortion. Acrid, biting, corrosive
leucorrhoea.

Respiration.–

Whooping,
Arrested. Deep, sighing. Short and panting, when walking rapidly and
during manual labor. Tightness of chest when at rest.

Cough.–

From
cold drinks. Phthisical, with copious expectoration. Hollow, spasmodic,
suffocative c., from tickling in trachea, especially in region of throat
pit, dry in evening and night, in morning and during day, with copious,
yellow, somewhat greenish, purulent, though, sometimes milk – white,
acrid, mucus expectoration, or, more rarely, of bright, frothy blood:
generally of a fatty taste and offensive odor.

Chest.–

Rattling
in. Bruised feeling in. Pressure and soreness on. Stitches extending
through’ into back. Purulent pulmonary consumption. Suppurating mammae
of nursing women. Inflamed nipples. Mammary cancer.

Back.–

Swelling
and curvature of vertebrae. Spasmodic, drawing lumbar pains.

Upper Extremities.–

Incipient
paralysis of lower arm and hand. Burning in finger tips. Yellow,
crippled, brittle finger nails. Panaritia.

Lower Extremities.–

Boils
on thighs. Swelling of knee. Swelling of feet, in morning. Cold feet.
Foot sweat with excoriation between toes. Stinking feet. Ulceration of
big toe.

Generalities.–

He
easily takes cold, especially from uncovering head or feet. Nightly
sticking in all joints. Worm complaints in scrofulous persons. Lameness
of limbs in evening. Great weariness and sleepiness during storms.
Ebullitions of blood and thirst from drinking a small quantity of wine.
Restlessness after sitting a long time. Great nervous exhaustion. Great
emaciation. The symptoms are intensified at night, at new and full moon
and when the weather changes. Part on which he lies goes to sleep.

Tissues.–

Painlessly
swollen glands, they develop a continued itching only. Suppurating
glands.

Bones.–

Swelling
and curvature of. Inflammation of, Caries.

Skin.–

Painful
sensitiveness of. Suppurating ulcers of all kinds with laudable as well
as unhealthy pus especially in membranous parts. Ulcers, with proud
flesh, sticking, spongy swelling and painfulness around, gangrenous.
Ganglion. Unhealthy, easily ulcerates from slight bruises.

Sleep.–

Frequent
jerking and starting up in. Sleepiness early in evening. Sleepless:
Although’ sleepy, from heat, restlessness and great ebullition of blood
to head. Many anxious dreams. Somnambulism.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Small, but hard and quick: often irregular, and then sometimes
also slow. The blood every readily begins to surge. Chill:
Strong, in evening in bed, increase when uncovering. Great chilliness,
especially during every exertion. Constant internal chilliness and want
of natural vital heat. Heat predominant. Frequent short attacks of
flying heat, during day, most on face. Universal strong heat, with
thirst in afternoon, evening on through’ whole night, allowing him no
rest. Nocturnal dry heat during day, typically recurring heat without
previous chill, followed by slight sweat. Sweat: Debilitating, at
night or only in morning, From moderate exercise, most profuse on head
and face. Profuse on head only. Nocturnal sour or offensive s. Wholly
absent.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Agar., Ars.,
Bell., Bor., CALC-C., Caust., Flu-ac., Gel.,
Graph., HEP., Iod., Kali-c., Lyc.,
Merc., Mez., Nat-c., Nux – v.,
Petr., Phos., Puls., Rhus
– t., SEP., Staph., Sul.

Complementary:
Acid-f., Hep., Lyc., Thuj.

Spigelia anthelmia

[Spig.]

Mind.–

Difficult
thinking and disinclination for mental exertion. Very weak memory.
Restlessness, anxiety, and solicitude for the future. Dejection even
mounting to self – destruction. Uneasiness.

Vertigo.–

When
looking downward.

Head.–

Neuralgias
coming forward from the occiput and settling over left eye (over right
eye Sang. sil.), coming and going with the sun (Nat-m., Sang.), with
lachrymation of left eye (of right Chel.). Outward boring pain in
forehead, vertex or occiput. Inward pressure generally in right temple,
or as if brain were pressed out of forehead. Shocks of tearing pain in
forehead, with staring eyes. Thrusts and jerks in head. Pressive
squeezing pains, especially when stooping. Sore pain in forehead and
vertex. Shaking in brain. Painfulness of occiput, with stiffness of
nape. Worse: Evening. Motion: Slight, of head, of eyes, stepping
hard. Mental exertion, noise, opening mouth, coughing, stooping,
talking, sitting, standing, walking in open air. Better: Rest,
lying with head high, closing eyes, uncovering head, in room, laying
hand on part, external pressure.

External Head.–

Painful
sensitiveness of scalp and hair to motion, with a burning ulcerative
pain when touched. Tearing in, a shivering runs all over., when affected
part is touched. Tension of scalp. Dull outward sticking in, alternating
with a sore pain on vertex. Better: Drink, but worse after
washing, uncovering. Worse: Touch.

Eyes.–

Are
painful in their sockets when moved. Sensation as
though balls were too large. The lids hang down seemingly
hard and immovable. Difficult opening of. Inflammation of margin of
lids. Burning in with redness of sclerotic and distended blood vessels.
Acrid tears. Dilated pupils. Presbyopia.

Ears.–

Earache:
Like a plug forcibly pressed into. Sense of stoppage. Deafness.

Nose.–

Tickling
itching on. Herpetic eruption on, with painful soreness. Catarrhal
fever, with weeping mood and dry heat without thirst. Profuse discharge
of mucus through posterior, with dryness and stoppage of anterior nares.

Face.–

Pale,
puffy, with distorted features, especially early in morning
when waking from sleep. Sweat on. Yellow
circles about eyes Red. Jerking,
tearing pressure and burning in zygoma. Pressive pain in
lower jaw.

Teeth.–

Thumping
tearing ache by cold water and admission of cold air. Ache as though’
being torn out, immediately after eating and at night.

Mouth.–

Bad
odor from. Much white, foamy saliva in, and in fauces. Fissures, in
tongue.

Taste:
Putrid, fetid, in month.

Stomach.–

Pit
of, sensitive to touch. Pressure as of a hard lump in.

Appetite:
Loss of, with violent thirst. Ravenous hunger, with qualmishness.

Abdomen.–

Pressure
as of a hard lump in navicular region. Stitches in. Worm colic.

Stool.–

Frequent,
ineffectual urging. Discharge of large pieces of mucus, without feces.
Discharge of feces with worms.

Urine.–

Frequent
urging to urinate, with profuse discharge, also at night while sediment.

Sexual organs.–

Frequent
erections, with voluptuous thoughts, but no sexual desire.

Respiration.–

Short,
especially when ascending. Suffocative attacks, with anxiety, violent
palpitation and chest pains.

Cough.–

Violent,
with suffocative attacks. Dry, hollow, with obstructed respiration.

Chest.–

Stitches.
Contractions, with difficult breathing. Tearing pain. Sense of trembling
in, from slightest motion. Punching stitches in diaphragm, with
obstructed respiration. Extraordinarily violent,
visible and audible, anxious palpitation,
bending chest forward. Pursing in.

Back.–

Sticking
pain in, especially when breathing.

Neck:
Hard, painful swelling of cervical glands.

Upper Extremities.–

Stitches
in joints of arms and hands. Hard, burning, itching nodules on palms.

Lower Extremities.–

Stitches
in joints of lower limbs and in upper thighs when walking. Wart – like
excrescences on toes.

Generalities.–

Sticking
pain in limbs, especially in joints. Heaviness and bruised sensation in
entire body when rising from sitting. General weariness, especially
after the slightest motion in open air. Painful sensitiveness of entire
body to contact, with shuddering of the parts touched, or with crawling
running through, or with crawling running through whole body. The
symptoms are intensified after washing and after satisfying the sexual
desires. Spigelia first affects the heart then the eyes.

Tissues.–

Glands
painfully swollen.

Skin.–

Pale
and wrinkled on body.

Sleep.–

Disturbed,
at night, by physical restlessness. Unrefreshing, at night, followed by
sleepiness early in morning.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Irregular, mostly strong, but slow. Tremulous. Quicker in evening,
slower in morning. Chill: In morning, often recurring at same
hour. Alternating with heat or sweat. Or single parts, with warmth of
others. Universal, overrunning c., with concomitant heat. Proceeds from
chest. chilliness from the least
motion. Heat: Principally on back. Nocturnal flying heat, with
thirst, especially for bear. Of face and hands, with chill on back. Sweat:
Nocturnal, offensive, with concomitant heat. Clammy on hands. Cold.

Relationship.–

Complementary:
Spo.

Spongia tosta

[Spong.]

Mind.–

Attacks
of anxiety. Great tendency to be easily frightened. Obstinacy. Excessive
mirth. Great inclination to hum and sing. Disposition to weep.

Head.–

Congestion
with pressure in forehead. Distensive, pressive ache as though’ is would
burst. Outward pressure in (r.) Frontal eminence. Throbbing and
pulsation in, especially in forehead. Bent or sunken backward, with
painful stiffness of nape, anxious whistling breathing and a dry barking
cough (croup). Sensation as if hair stood on end. Worse: Sitting:
entering a warm room after walking in open air, looking intently. Better:
Lying horizontally, especially on back/

Eyes.–

Pressure
and sticking in. Headache and tears in eyes., from continued staring at
a single point. The lids feel heavy and draw what.

Ears.–

Suppuration
of external. Difficult hearing.

Nose.–

Dry
nasal catarrh

Face.–

Pale,
with sunken eyes. Red, with an anxious mien. Swollen cheeks. Eruption on
lips. Swelling and tension of submaxillary glands.

Mouth.–

Painful
vesicles on inside of cheeks and on tongue. Salivation. Brown, dry
tongue.

Taste:
Bitter in throat, not in mouth.

Stomach.–

Intolerance
of tight clothing about. Stitches in, from least pressure thereon,
Feeling of laxness and as if stood open.

Hypochondria:
Pressure in.

Appetite:
Insatiable hunger and thirst.

Vomiting:
After milk.

Abdomen.–

Drawing
pains in lumbo – abdominal region, starting from small of back. Swelling
of inguinal glands. Grumbling and granting in.

Stool.–

Hard,
scanty, with urging in anus.

Anus.–

Crawling,
with discharge of ascarides.

Urine.–

Involuntary
discharge. Frequent urging with a scanty discharge.

Sexual Organs.–

Swelling
of testes and spermatic cords.

Menses
too early and too profuse. Palpitation before.

Respiration.–

Difficult,
as from a stopper or valve in larynx, without rattling. Oppressed,
bending upper part of body forward. Whistling, rattling, anxious
inspiration with violent exertion of abdominal muscles. Wheezing (not
rattling) inspiration. Loss of breath.

Cough.–

Deep,
Dry, hollow, barking c., during day and night, excited by an irritation
like a plug or valve high up in the larynx, in the morning only there is
detached a scanty, tenacious yellow or hardened mucus, of a faintly sour
taste, which can’t be ejected but must be swallowed. With painful
soreness and burning in chest.

Larynx, etc.–

Sensitiveness to touch. Roughness and burning dryness with sensation of
constriction in larynx and trachea. Inflammation of mucus membrane of
trachea. Membranous croup. Laryngeal and tracheal phthisis. Hoarseness.
Husky, weak voice which fails when talking and singing.

Chest.–

The
slightest exertion causes violent congestion to, with obstructed
breathing, anxiety and qualmishness. Constriction, with violent
oppression of breathing. Burning and soreness in.

Back.–

Pressing
pain in sacrum.

Neck:
Painful stiffness of nape and neck, felt especially when turning head.
Large goiter with pressure and crawling therein.

Upper Extremities.–

Large
blisters on fore arm. Swelling and redness of single finger, joints
which are tense when bent. Numbness of finger tips.

Generalities.–

Stiff
extremities. Bruised feeling in arms and legs. Heaviness of body.
Sensation of numbness of lower half of body. Great mental and physical
relaxation. Many complaints, except those of respiration, are
ameliorated when resting in a horizontal position.

Tissues.–

Glands
swollen and indurated.

Skin.–

Dry,
hot. Itching sticking, when becoming warm in bed. Herpes.

Sleep.–

Reveries
and phantasies on falling asleep.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Very quick, full and hard. Strong ebullition of blood and swelling of
blood vessels. Chill: With shaking, even by a warm stove, most on
back, heat: Great, soon after the chill, with dry burning skin
over whole body except thighs, which remain cold, numb and chilly.
Attacks of overrunning, flying anxious heat, with red cheeks, weeping
and inconsolable mood. Sweat: cool on face, in evening. Over
whole body, in early morning hoarse.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Brom., Dros., HEP., Iod.,
Kali-bi., Lact., Phyt.

Complementary:
Hep.

Stannum metallicum

[Stann.]

Mind.–

Extraordinary
restlessness and anxiety. Despondency. Quickly passing ebullitions of
anger. Irritability, silent peevishness, anthropophobia and aversion to
talk. Hopelessness.

Head.–

Pressive,
stupefying ache, moving about in forehead. Burning in forehead with
qualmishness in pen air. Throbbing in temples,. Painful jerks through’
forehead and occiput, leaving a dull pressure behind, from motion.

Eyes.–

Weak,
dim., sunken, Nightly purulent agglutination. Stickily and pressure in
lids. Lachrymal fistula. Styes.

Ears.–

Ulcerated
ringholes. Shrieking noise in, when blowing nose.

Nose.–

Stoppage
in upper nasal cavity. Unilateral stuffed coryza with inflamed nasal
cavities.

Face.–

Pale,
sunken, with deep seated eyes. Drawing facial pain in nasal bone and
orbits. Swelling of upper jaw and cheek. Cramp in jaws. Painful swelling
of submaxillary glands.

Mouth.–

Bad
odor from. Sticking, dry sensation in throat. Hawking of mucus with
painful soreness in. After hawking mucus, the voice for singing is much
higher. Speech difficult and weak from debility.

Appetite:
Great hunger and thirst except in evening. Loss of, in evening.

Taste:
Bitter, of all food.

Nausea, etc. – Sweat risings in throat. Bitter vomiting after
eating. Violent retching followed by vomiting of undigested food.
Hematemesis.

Stomach.–

Violent
pressure in, with painful soreness thereof to touch. Cramps, with bitter
eructations, sensation of hunger therein and diarrhoea. Bruised pain in
pit. Empty sensation in.

Abdomen.–

Spasmodic
colic about navel. Hysterical spasms in. Empty or full feeling in.
Sensitive to touch.

Flatulence:
Flatulent distension of abdomen. Obstructed flatus.

Stool.–

Frequent,
ineffectual urging to. Hard, dry and knotty. Scanty greenish. Mucus
diarrhoea.

Urine.–

Scanty
discharge. The excitation to urinate fails, as from insensibility of
bladder, only a fullness in lower abdomen indicates its necessity.

Sexual Organs.–

Increased
sexual desire. Violent, voluptuous irritation to discharge semen.

Female.–

Menses:
Increased. Anxiety and low spirits before. Debilitating, mucous
leucorrhoea.

Respiration.–

Crawing,
snoring. Great tightness of chest, with anxiety in evening, it
necessitates loosening the clothes. Want of breath from every movement,
but also when lying down. Taking a deep breath causes a transient sense
of agreeable lightness. The voice becomes higher after each
expectoration.

Cough.–

Tickling,
deep, hollow cough, returning periodically in fits of three coughs.
Excited by mucus in chest and stitches and dryness in tracheas. Violent,
dry cough, in evening in bed, until midnight. During day, with copious,
greenish, repulsively sweetish foul or sometimes salty or sour
expectoration. Phthisis mucous.

Larynx.–

Roughness
and hoarseness in. Tickling and soreness in. Much mucus in trachea,
which is easily expectorated. Soreness in trachea. Tracheal phthisis.

Chest.–

Tickling
itching in. Piercing and soreness in. Stitches in I., when breathing or
lying thereon. Sense of emptiness and weakness in. Ulcerative phthisis.
Hydrothorax. Tension and painfulness throughout entire external c.

Upper Extremities.–

Swelling
of hands in evening. Violent burning in hands frost bites. Hangnails.

Lower Extremities.–

Great
weakness in thighs. Swellings of ankle in evening. Violent burning in
feet.

Generalities.–

Paralytic
heaviness in extremities. Paralysis of arms and legs. Pressive drawing
in limbs. Burning heat in limbs. Lassitude with trembling. Extraordinary
weakness of body (and mind), with tremulousness felt more during slow
motion. Greatly indisposed and affected after long continued speaking.
Emaciation. Hysterical and hypochondriacal spasms, with pains in abdomen
and region of diaphragm. Epileptic attacks in evening. Especially in
teething children. Motion and rest the symptoms, the debility only is
felt while walking. Pains which gradually increases, then gradually
decline in the same way.

Sleep.–

Day
sleepiness. Late falling to sleep. Nightly restlessness with very many
dreams.

Fever.–

Pulse:
small and quick. Chill: In evening, especially over back. After
previous heat with sweat, shuddering daily in forenoon (toward 10
o’clock). On head only. With the lightest shuddering chill the teeth
chatter as from convulsions of masseter muscles. Marked numb feeling in
finger tips during the shuddering chill in the morning. Heat: In
afternoon (from 4 to 5 o’ clock), recurring daily, with co – existent
sweat. Burning heat, in limbs, strongest on hands, every evening.
Anxious heat, in repeated attacks, as though’ sweat would break out.
Anxious feeling of heat, from the least motion. Predominating feeling of
heat, internally. Sweat: Very exhausting at night and in the
morning hours, most profuse on neck. Very exhausting general from the
least motion. Musty or mouldy smelling.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ars.,
Chin., Lach., PULS, Seneg., Sull.,
Valer.,

Complementary:
Pul.

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