Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Argentum Metallicum arg-m.
Mind
Anxiety driving him from place to place. Dejection. Taciturnity.
Vertigo
With dim vision.
Head
Crawling and whirling in, as from intoxication. Hollow feeling in, with soreness of whole brain. Pressing, tearing in skull, especially in temporal bones. Smarting soreness on external. Pressure and tearing in skull bones. Worse: Pressure, touch. Better: open air.
Ears
Gnawing itching of external.
Nose
Nosebleed preceded by crawling in. Severe, fluent coryza with frequent sneezing.
Face
Red. Pressing and tearing in bones of. Swelled upper lip.
Mouth
Raw, and sore smarting pain in throat when coughing, less when swallowing. Inflammation and narrowing of throat (after abuse of mercury), so that food passes through with difficulty. Sore throat, as though' swollen internally. Sore, burning vesicles on tongue.
Stomach
Appetite: Unusually good. Aversion to all food, even when thinking thereof.
Abdomen
Painful distension of. Flatulent colic.
Stool
Frequent, soft, but always scanty.
Urine
Frequent urging to urinate with copious discharge. Polyuria.
Sexual Organs
Pollutions almost every night.
Cough
By day, with easy expectoration.
Larynx, etc
Raw, sore pain in. Much gelatinous gray mucus in trachea, which is easily expectorated.
Upper Extremities
Tension and tearing in arms, especially in bones of hands and fingers.
Lower Extremities
Stitches in hip when walking. Pain in knee when sitting. Tearing in bones of feet and toes.
Generalities
Bruised pain in joints. Asleep or stiff sensation in extremities. Pain in internal organs, as if raw or sore. Epileptic attacks. Effects of abuse of mercury (And of onanism). Symptoms recur each noon.
Bones
Tearing pains in.
Skin
Corrosive, burning itching here and there.
Fever
Pulse: Accelerated in evening after lying down. Chill: In afternoon evening until falling to sleep, also before midnight from slightest raising of covers. Spreads from the back. Heat: In forenoon, over the entire body, it is true yet less on head. Without thirst. Sweat: On abdomen and chest only.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Merc.