Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Ammonium Muriaticum am-m.
Mind
Irritable and fretful in forenoon, but in better humor in afternoon. Anxiety with weeping. Low spirited from care and grief.
Vertigo
Dizzy, disappearing in open air.
Head
Sense of heaviness and fullness in forehead, early in morning.
Eyes
Burning of, in twilight, disappearing in artificial light. Burning in canthi with photophobia, early in morning, disappearing after washing. Flying spots before.
Ears
Outward sticking in, especially in open air. Running ears with difficult bearing.
Nose
Sensitiveness and ulcerative pain deep in nasal cavity. Fluent coryza with discharge of acrid water, stoppage of nose and loss of smell.
Face
Burning heat of, in room. Violent tearing in zygoma. Angles of mouth ulcerated. Dry cracked lips with denuded spots thereon. Throbbing pain in swollen submaxillary glands.
Mouth
Sticking pain in throat when swallowing. Burning vesicles on tip of tongue.
Stomach
Thirst: Much, particularly in evening.
Taste: Bitter, in mouth early in morning.
Eructations: Bitter. Hiccough with stitches in chest.
Vomiting: Mucus, early in morning.
Abdomen
Pinching bellyache. Twitching about naval and in hypochondria.
Stool
Constipation. Bellyache about naval before.
Urine
Diminished discharge of. Frequent nightly urination.
Female
Menses: Two early and too profuse, with abdominal and lumbar pains.
Cough
Day, from tickling in throat, early in the morning. Chronic straining cough coming from deep within chest. When lying on back, in evening and at night.
Larynx
Hoarseness with burning in.
Back
Neck: Tearing in sides of, extending into clavicle. Painful stiffness of nape.
Back: Extraordinary lumbar pains as though beaten, at night. Stitches in scapula when breathing.
Upper Extremities
Blisters which become scabby, on wrists. Feeling of skin between fingers. Painful fingertips (panaritia).
Lower Extremities
Contraction of tendons of popliteal spaces and stiff knee joints. Deadness of legs. Ulcerative pains and tearing in heels. Painful tips of toes. Fetid foot sweat.
Generalities
Ulcerative pains in many parts of body. Tightening in joints, as from contraction of muscles. In the morning hours the parts are as if contracted, it disappears during rapid walking in open air. The right side is principally affected. Chest and head symptoms are in morning, abdominal symptoms in afternoon, and pain in extremities, skin diseases and fever in evening.
Bones
Tearing in, at night.
Skin
Vesicular eruptions finally forming scabs. Peeling off, of skin of many parts of body.
Sleep
Sleepless after midnight.
Fever
Pulse: Constantly accelerated day and night. Chill: With external coldness in evening, and from uncovering it night. Coldness runs up back. Alternating with heat every half hour. Heat: With puffy red face, especially in a warm room and after physical exertion. Frequent attacks of overrunning heat, each time ending with sweat, which breaks out most profusely on face, palms and soles. Sweat: After previous heat, at night as well as during day. Profuse night sweat over entire body, most violent after midnight and in early morning in bed.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Ars., Nux - v., PUL, Rhus-t.