Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica

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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.