Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Camphora Officinarum camph.
Mind
Vanishing senses. Raving, Great fears. Hopeless dependency. Hurried manner. Madness.
Sensorium
Reeling, vertigo. Stupefied and unconscious.
Head
Violent congestion to. constriction and throbbing in brain, especially in occiput. Meningitis from sunstroke. Convulsively drawn sideways and backward. Worse: Motion, cold, fresh air. Better: Lying down, thinking of the pain.
Eyes
Troubles, fixed look. Sunken. Distorted. Greatly contracted pupils. Strongly reflecting and very bright objects cause photophobia.
Ears
Hot and inflamed, externally. Suppurating ulcers in.
Nose
Coryza. Nasal irritation. Feeling of a discharge but there is non.
Face
Deathly pale, alternating with redness. Icy cold, bluish - pale, Erysipelas on. Distorted facial expression. Trismus from spasm of masseter muscles.
Mouth
Burning in, and down throat into stomach. Foam from.
Stomach
Burning in. Great sensitiveness of pit to touch, it causes him to scream aloud.
Appetite: Thirstless. (Intense thirst.) Repugnance to tobacco.
Taste: Bitter, of food. Of all food is intensified.
Abdomen
Burning heat in entire.
Rectum
Irritation as if piles sitting on something hard.
Stool
Difficult, on account of narrowing rectum. Constipation, as from want of peristaltic action of intestines.
Urine
Retention of, with tenesmus of neck of bladder. Yellowish - green, musty smelling thin, weak urinary stream.
Sexual Organs
Want of sexual desire. Complete impotency.
Respiration
Asthmatic oppression of chest (also from copper and arsenical fumes). Intense oppression of chest. with constriction of larynx, as from sulphur vapor.
Larynx
Crying and whining in a hollow, hoarse tone.
Chest
Audible palpitation after eating, Trembling of heart.
Upper Extremities
Convulsive rotation of arms. Icy cold hands.
Lower Extremities
Great weakness of lower legs. Tensive pain in calves of legs and feet.
Generalities
Generalized tonic spasm with unconsciousness. Epileptic and convulsive attacks of a tonic kind, he falls to the ground unconscious, Unusual and rapid sinking of strength. Insensibility. Great tendency to take cold. Great sensitiveness to cold and cold air, all the symptoms an intensified thereby. Most pains are felt only when in a partly inattentive (self - abstracted) states. (Mag-p., Ars.) Camph. antidotes many remedies and corrects spoiled cases (Paor.). setting them in order again. Sometimes it acts powerfully again if an intercurrent dose of Opium is given.
Skin
Erysipelatous Inflammations. Dry.
Sleep
Stupefying somnolence with raving. Sleepiness at night, as though from nervous excitement. Snoring.
Fever
Pulse: Small, weak and slow, often imperceptible. Diminished flow of blood to parts distant from heart. Chill: Chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air. With shuddering and shaking. General icy coldness of entire body, with a deathly pale face, and congestion of blood to head and chest. Heat: With distended blood vessels, increased by every movement, Sweat: Cold often clammy, always debilitating.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Brom., Canth., Glo, OP., Sec-c., Verat-a.