Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Bismuthum bism.
Mind
Complete apathy. Morose discontent with continued complaining. Inconstancy. Solitude is intolerable.
Head
Pressure and sense of painful heaviness in forehead, temples and occiput, with pressure on eyeballs. Outward boring in the forehead, orbits, root of and down nose. Alternate contraction and expansion in forehead, eyes and nose. Worse: Afternoon, after eating, rest. Better: Motion, touch, washing, cold drinks.
Eyes
Pressure on eyeballs.
Face
Earthy complexion with distorted features and blue rings around eyes. Pressive pain in zygomae.
Teeth
Painful soreness and swelling of gums.
Mouth
Painful sensitiveness, as if buccal cavity were excoriated. Tongue coated white in evening.
Stomach
Pressure in, after eating. Burning in.
Appetite: Great thirst for cold drinks in evening.
Nausea: Nauseating qualmishness after eating.
Abdomen
Pinching, pressing, rumbling and urging to stool in.
Stool
Ineffectual urging to, in evening.
Urine
Watery. Urination frequent, passing a large quantity every time.
Sexual Organs
Pressive pain in testes.
Respiration
Tightness of, with burning constriction of chest.
Cough
Day and night, with copious expectoration.
Chest
Boring and burning in.
Upper Extremities
Paralytic tearing pressure in forearm, hands and fingers.
Lower Extremities
Tearing in feet and toes.
Generalities
Great exhaustion and relaxation. Tearing pains which disappear during motion.
Bones
Pressive tearing in bones of feet and hands.
Skin
Eroding itching, worse by scratching.
Sleep
Starting as if frightened during. Unrefreshing, at night. Extreme drowsiness in morning.
Fever
Pulse: Mostly contracted, somewhat spasmodic and sometimes intermittent. Chill: With deathly coldness of entire body. Heat: Flying, over entire body, especially on head and chest, early in morning after rising, external, dry, burning. Sweat: wanting.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Ant-c., Bell., CALC-C., Coccl., Ign., Spig., Staph.