Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Bovista bov.
Mind
Distraction. Awkwardness. Weak memory. Sadness, with restlessness. Easily offended: takes everything in bad part. Unusual candor and talkativeness.
Vertigo
Stupefying, with vanishing of senses. Intoxication from a small quantity of wine. Reeling and confusion in head after coition.
Head
Headache deep in brain, with feeling as if head were growing large. Ulcerative pain in. Nightly ache, worse raising up. Soreness of scalp.
Eyes
Pressure in orbits. Weak, dim. Objects appear too near.
Ears
Purulent, bad - smelling discharge from. Indistinct hearing, misunderstands what is spoken.
Nose
Crusts, with burning pain in.
Face
Frequent, rapid changes of color. Head of, with sense of swelling in cheeks. Pale swelling of upper lip, nose and cheeks. Fissured lips. Angles of mouth ulcerated.
Teeth
Drawing ache in evening, and at night, ceasing in warmth and when walking in open air. Gums bleed easily and profusely.
Mouth
Bad odor from. Burning in pharynx. Numbness of buccal cavity. Painfully sore ulcers on edge of tongue. Stuttering.
Stomach
Coldness, as if a lump of ice lay therein.
Appetite: Violent hunger. Thirst for cold drinks in afternoon and evening.
Taste: Putrid or bloody, in mouth.
Nausea: With shivering, all forenoon.
Abdomen
Ulcerative pain in. Cutting bellyache, worse during rest.
Flatulence: Flatulent colic, with chill and coldness, especially after stool. Discharge of very foul smelling flatus.
Stool
Constipation. Diarrhoea, with ulcerative pain in abdomen. - during menses.
Urine
Frequent urging to urinate.
Sexual Organs
Intensified sexual desire. Frequent pollution.
Female
Menses: Too early, and too profuse. Bloody discharge during intermenstrual period. Acrid, corroding leucorrhoea.
Respiration
Short during manual labor. Oppression, as from constriction of chest.
Cough
Dry, from tickling in throat and chest.
Larynx
Hoarseness early in morning, with mucus and scratching in throat.
Chest
Palpitation with restlessness, qualmishness and headache.
Back
Pain and stiffness in, after stooping.
Neck: Swelling of cervical glans, with tension.
Upper Extremities
Axillary sweat, smelling like onions. Paralytic sprained pain in joints of arm and hands. Powerless hands. Moist tetter on dorsum of hand.
Lower Extremities
Tension in lower legs and calves, as though' the muscles were too short.
Generalities
Great weariness and powerlessness in joint. Deep impressions are made by instruments, i. e., from scissors on fingers.
Skin
Itching in various parts, especially when getting warm. - better not scratching. moist tatters. Panaritia.
Sleep
Sleepiness after eating, and early in morning.
Fever
Pulse: Excited, with ebullitions and palpitation. Chill: Predominant, even near a warm stove, in morning, in evening and even at night, usually with thirst. During the pain. Heat: With thirst, anguish and restlessness. Daily evening fever (about 7 o'clock) consisting only of chill with thirst. Shuddering proceeding from back, in evening. Sweat: Most profuse on chest, every morning (from 5 to 6 o'clock.).
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Ap., Nit-ac., Selen., sil.