Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Carbo Animalis carb-an.
Mind
Liveliness as from overexcitement, alternating with peevish sadness Easily started, timidity. Anxiety in evening and fear in the dark. Homesickness with tearfulness.
Vertigo
Especially early in morning.
Head
Numbness in. Stupefying pain or heaviness in occiput with dull confusion therein. Feeling as if brain were loose. Pressive ache, worse in cold air. Scald head. Tightness of scalp on forehead and vertex with great sensitiveness of these parts to cold, dry, open air. Worse: Moving head, after eating, early in morning, in cold, moist air, external pressure, touch. Better: After dinner, in warm, open air, in a warm room, at rest.
Eyes
Feel loose in their sockets. Pronounced farsightedness with dilated pupils.
Ears
Destructive suppuration of. Roaring in. Difficult hearing, the tones commingle and nothing is heard distinctly.
Nose
Tip cracked, red and burning. Painful nasal bones. Stuffed coryza with complete stoppage. Nosebleed. Sneezing.
Face
Copper - colored eruption on. Smooth. elevated, erysipelatous spots on. Erysipelas of. Fissures and vesicles on lips. Swollen, burning lips.
Teeth
Loose. Gums: Swollen, red and painful, pustules on.
Mouth
Burning vesicles in and on tongue. Offensive odor from.
Appetite: Aversion to tobacco and fat food.
Taste: Bitter, in mouth in early morning.
Throat
Roughness in. Soreness and rawness in.
Eructations: Ineffectual, with pain.
Nausea, etc. - Qualmishness at night. Faint - like squeamishness at stomach.
Stomach
Great weakness of digestion, almost all foods cause distress. Pressure in, even when fasting, and in evening when in bed. Grasping and clutching in. constrictive spasm of. Audible growling in.
Hypochondria: Pressure and cutting in hepatic region.
Abdomen
As if shattered. Soreness in. Outward pressure in.
Flatulence: Audible rumbling in abdomen. Flatulent colic. obstructed flatus. Protrusion of inguinal hernia from flatulence.
Stool
Hard, knotty. Constipation with ineffectual urging, he passes offensive flatus only.
Anus
Burning and sticking in. Burning hemorrhoids. Oozing of a sticky, odorless moisture from perineum.
Urine
Intense urging to urinate with increased discharge. Involuntary discharge of offensive urine.
Female
Menses: Too early. Leucorrhoea staining the linen yellow.
Respiration
Wheezing, with rattling i chest. Tightness of chest early in morning, and after eating.
Cough
Suffocative, hoarse, excited by rawness and dryness in larynx and trachea. In evening after falling to sleep. Dry at night, but by day, with a gray - greenish sometimes purulent expectoration, of an offensive, somewhat sour taste.
Larynx, etc
Loss of voice at night. Hoarseness in early morning. Constriction of.
Chest
Ulcerative pain in, with suppuration of lungs. Cold feeling in. Sticking and constriction in. Rattling in. Palpitation. Erysipelatous inflammation of breasts of nursing women. Hard, painful nodes in female mammae.
Back
Stitches in lumbar region when breathing deeply.
Neck: Painful swelling and induration of cervical and parotid glands.
Upper Extremities
Much moisture in axillae. Indurated axillary glands. burrowing pain s in bones of arms. Gouty stiffness of finger joints.
Lower Extremities
Tension in popliteal space and groin. Feet and toes turn under easily. Frostbites on feet and toes, with burning pains as though' inflamed.
Generalities
Numbness of all limbs. Gouty stiffness in joints. The joints are weak and snap easily. Parts are easily sprained. Burning pains. Very sensitive to dry, cold, open air. Sense of looseness or weakness in many parts. Excoriating discharges. Great debility from small losses of vital fluids.
Tissues
Glands inflamed, swollen and indurated.
Skin
Erysipelatous swelling with burning pains. Itching of entire body, in morning while in bed. Blue, over affected parts.
Sleep
Full of vivid fancies with weeping, groaning and talking. Inability to go to sleep in evening, on account of restlessness, anxiety and frightful vision.
Fever
Pulse: Excited and accelerated, with throbbing in blood vessels, mostly toward evening. Chill: Especially in afternoon, after eating and in evening. Shuddering every other day in evening continuing while in bed. In evening, then sweat during sleep. Heat: Following every chill, mostly at night in bed. Sweat: After the heat, usually toward morning. During day, from slightest motion, even when eating. Nightsweat, offensive, debilitating, staining the linen yellow. Most profuse on thighs.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Carb-v., Rhod., Thuj