Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica

Colocynthis coloc.

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Mind

Anxious depression with surliness and disinclination to talk. Anxiety and restlessness. Tearfulness. Inclination to concealed grief or vexation with indignation. Inclination to escape.

Head.

Pressive ache in forehead, worse stooping and lying on back. Attacks of gouty unilateral squeezing pain, with nausea and vomiting, daily about five PM

Eyes

Burning cutting in. Acrid tears.

Face

Pale and flaccid, with sunken eyes. Dark red. prosopalgia, tearing, crampy pain in one - half of.

Throat

Spasm in pharynx, with empty eructations and palpitation.

Stomach

Pressure, with feeling of hunger.

Appetite: Great craving for water, without thirst.

Taste: Flat, in mouth after every drink. Bitter, of all food.

Abdomen

Extraordinary, colicky, crampy pain in, necessitating bending double, with anxiety and restlessness. Constriction of intestines. Frequent, violent, squeezing or cutting as with knives in, with tearing extending into thighs and chill. Tympanites, with pain in belly, as though' intestines were squeezed between stones. Bruised feeling and great sensitiveness of. Violent motion, coffee and tobacco better the abdominal pains, but all other foods worse them.

Stool

Constipation, with retarded stool during pregnancy. Diarrhoea: Foamy, sourish, and offensive, dysenteric, of mucus, and blood with tenesmus of anus. Diarrhoea and vomiting after all food. Diarrhoea with bellyache.

Anus

Painfully swollen hemorrhoids, and in rectum. Paralysis of sphincter ani.

Urine

Diminished secretion. Intensely offensive, it quickly becomes thick, gelatinous and sticky. Ineffectual urging to urinate. During pain there is profuse, watery urination.

Sexual Organs

Complete impotency. Retraction of foreskin behind glands. (Priapism.)

Respiration

Nightly attacks of shortness of, r. as from compression of chest.

Cough

Dry hacking, from irritation in larynx. Smoking tobacco immediately excites a persistent cough.

Chest

Painful nodes in female mammae.

Back

Tensive pain in, and in scapulae, extending into throat.

Upper Extremities

Swelling and suppuration of axillary glands. Crampy pain in hands and fingers.

Lower Extremities

Sciatica, tensive pain in hips, extending from kidneys down into thighs, with a sensation as if hip joint were fastened in iron clamps. Pain in thighs, as if psoas muscles were too short, where walking. Stiff knee, which hinders crouching down.

Generalities

Tearing stitches lengthwise though' entire body. Crampy pain in contraction of internal and external parts. Stiff joints. Muscular twitchings. Shortened tendons. The limbs are drawn up so that he resembles a hedgehog. Fainting, with cold external parts. Stiff joints. Muscular twitchings. Shortened tendons. The limbs are drawn up so that he resembles a hedgehog. Fainting, with cold external parts. After effects of chagrin and indignation combined with silent internal grief. Worse:Night, in bed. Better: After rising, gentle motion in warm room.

Tissues

Painful swelling and suppuration of glands.

Skin

Itching over entire body, with great restlessness, especially in evening in bed, followed by sweat. Desquamation, over whole body.

Fever

Pulse: Generally full, hard and accelerated, seldom small and weak, Strong throbbing in all blood vessels. Chill, And coldness of entire body, often with heat of face. Either cold hands or soles of feet, with warmth of rest of body. Chill and shuddering with the pains. Heat: Dry external Sense of internal, with attacks of external overrunning heat. Sweat: At night, of a urinous odor, causing itching of skin. Especially on head and extremities.

Relationship

Allied Remedies: Bell., Bry., Conn., Caust., Cham. COFF., Mag-c., Merc-c., Phyt., Rhe., Sec-c., STAPH.