Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Caladium Seguinum calad.
Mind
Apprehensiveness before going to sleep. Loud wailing and inconsiderate prattling, like a child. Great solicitude concerning everybody's else, as well as his own health.
Head
Pressive headache on side on which he has been lying.
Ears
Great sensitiveness to noise, especially on endeavoring to sleep. Earache during the fever.
Stomach
Burning in. Empty feeling in. Stitches in pit, whereby it is always drawn inward.
Appetite: Thirst with dry mouth. Aversion to cold water. Hasty eating.
Abdomen
Burning in upper.
Stool
Very scanty, pappy.
Urine
Sensitiveness of region of bladder to touch.
Sexual Organs
Impotency with lustfulness. (After coition) swollen and painfully sore prepuce. Flaccid, sweaty.
Respiration
Short, from pressure in epigastrium.
Cough
Paroxysms of weak but irritable. cough, with expectoration of small lumps of mucus, without expectoration of small lumps of mucous. Without resonance, at night. When coughing, sensation as though the attacks originate above larynx, which feels constricted.
Chest
Hollowness and emptiness in, after expectoration.
Generalities
Inclination to lie down and great aversion to motion. All symptoms are ameliorated by sweat and after a short sleep. (Nux-v.).
Skin
Itching, burning miliary rash on chest and forearms, alternating wit tightness of chest. Fly bites burn and itch severely.
Sleep
Day sleepiness with inability to sleep. Anxious groaning and moaning during.
Fever
Pulse: Hard, jumping. Chill: In evening, with coldness which spreads from abdomen to feet and fingers. After midnight. Heat: Internal only, with throbbing in body. During the sleep before midnight quickly ceasing on awaking,. Sweat: Exhausting, it greatly attacks the files, which persistently plague him. When it breaks out all the symptoms are ameliorated.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Canth., CAPS., Ign., Nux-v.