Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Cuprum Metallicum cupr.
Mind
Vanishing senses. Exaltation of. Spiteful, malicious insanity with hauteur, intermingled with clonic spasms. Extraordinary anxiety as if afraid of death. Restless tossing about. Groaning. Desire to escape. Fearfulness. Frightened easily. Attacks of raving madness. Oversensibility of all senses. The attacks of frenzy end in sweat.
Vertigo
With almost every complaint. With sinking forward of head (Gels.). With vanishing of all the senses.
Head
Pressive ache worse touch. Crawling sensation in vertex. Meningitis.
External Head
Convulsions of, with to and fro motion, drawing in sharply away or sideways, drawing in sharply away or sideways, or sinking forward of, worse or renewed by every touch (in hydrocephalus). Bluish - red swelling of, with convulsive twitching of limbs, worse touch, which also causes pain in the swelling.
Eyes
Distorted. Staring, sunken. Turned upward. Tightly closed. Insensible pupils.
Face
Pale, sunken. Intensely red. Bluish, and blue lips. Spasms and distortion of facial muscles.
Teeth
Difficult dentition in children, with convulsions.
Mouth
Foaming at. Burning in throat. Cold tip of tongue. Hoarse crying, like a child. Drink gurgles audibly down the oesophagus.
Taste: Sweetish, coppery.
Stomach
Pressure in pit, worse from touch Gnawing and corroding sensation in.
Appetite: Eats hastily. Inclination, for cold foods. unquenchable thirst with a dry throat.
Eructations: Hiccough precedes the spasmodic attacks.
Nausea: From abdomen up into throat. Intense retching. Vomiting: Offensive bilious, or bloody, of water containing floating flocks, with abdominal cramps, and convulsions, of solid food only.
Abdomen
Intense abdominal pains with agony. Pressure as of a stone in, worse touch. Atrocious cramps, also in, worse touch. Atrocious cramps, also in stomach, with convulsions. Eroding sticking ulcers in.
Stool
Retained, with general heat. Diarrheas: Violent, watery, mixed with flocks.
Urine
Suppressed. Tenacious and very offensive. Frequent nightly urination.
Female
Menses: Continue too long. Suppressed, with abdominal cramps. Spasms of chest before.
Respiration
Arrested. Whistling. Rattling. Rapid, with whimpering, and snoring in trachea. Difficult, with convulsive working of abdominal muscles.
Cough
Incessant, dry, not even allowing an intermission for breathing. Better a swallow of cold water. In long uninterrupted paroxysms, lasting until the breath is completely exhausted, excited by mucus in trachea or spasm in larynx, quite dry in evening, in the morning a scanty expectoration of mucus with dark blood, of a foul taste and smell.
Chest
Constriction. - Rattling of mucus in. Painful and spasmodic contraction of. After fright or anger and before menses, spasms of, which deprive him of speech and breath. Anxious palpitation.
Upper Extremities
Tearing twitching in arms and hand. s Bluish mottled arms and hands. Twitching of muscles of forearms and hands. Twitching fingers.
Lower Extremities
Weariness in knee joints. Twitching of muscle of lower leg. Painful cramp in calves. Twitches in toes.
Generalities
Violent convulsions with piercing shrieks. Chronic spasms, (Cramps): Beginning in fingers and toes, preceded by weeping. Nightly twitchings. Epileptic attacks. Weariness and great relaxation of entire body. Great emaciation. Intolerance of the least touch, it renews and intensifies the symptoms. Stiffness and rigidity of whole body. Trembling. Spasmodic cramps. All remedies overact, aggravate without helping.
Bones
Pain as though' broken. Caries.
Skin
Dry itch. Chronic ulcers.
Sleep
Somnolency. Deep, with twitchings.
Fever
Pulse: usually small, almost imperceptible, weak and very slow, more seldom full, hard and accelerated. Chill: Over entire body, most severe on extremities. Icy coldness of entire body. After every attack of illness (also after epilepsy). Heat: Overrunning, flying. Internal, exhausting, consuming heat. Sweat: Cold, at night. Many attacks (of epilepsy and mania) and with (cold) sweat.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Bell., Calc-c., Caust., Chin., Cic., Coccl., Con., Dulc., HEP., Hyos., Ign., Ip., Lyc., Merc., Nux-v., Op., Phos-ac., Phyt. PULS., Sep., Sil., SUL., VERAT-A.
Complementary: Calc-c.