Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica

Cyclamen Europæum cycl.

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Mind

Dullness of. Weak memory. Rapid alternation of cheerfulness and peevishness. Troubled conscience, as though he had not fulfilled his duty. Inclination to concealed, inward grief.

Head

Stitches in temples, disappearing when touched. Fine, sharp, itching or tearing sticking in scalp, changing place when scratched. Eruption on head, painless to touch.

Eyes

Sticking itching in, and in lids. Dilated pupils. Vision is obscured, as by a fog.

Ears

Drawing pain internally. Difficult hearing, as though stopped.

Nose

Diminished sense of smell.

Face

Induration, with sense of numbness in upper lip.

Teeth

Nightly, drawing ache.

Mouth

Constant sensation of mucus in.

Appetite: Lost, early in morning and in evening. A little food quickly satiates. Aversion to bread and butter. Thirstless.

Taste: Tastelessness of foods, they taste quite flat.

Eructations: Hiccough after eating.

Nausea, etc. - With accumulation of water in mouth. Early in morning after smoking tobacco. Inclination to vomit smoking tobacco. Inclination to vomit after every meal, especially of fatty food.

Stomach

Fullness and pressure in pit, as from overloading.

Abdomen

Discomfort and nausea in. Flatulent colic.

Flatulence: Rumbling and growling in abdomen immediately after eating.

Stool

Frequent, pappy.

Anus

Festering pain in, and in perineum.

Urine

Frequent urging to urinate, with profuse discharge of pale urine.

Female

Menses: Too profuse, Too early.

Respiration

Difficult, with oppression of chest. Short, as from weakness in chest.

Chest

Congestion to, with sensible palpitation.

Upper Extremities

Paralytic pressure as though in periosteum, extending from shoulder into fingers. Tearing, as though in periosteum, of fingers. Sticking itching between fingers.

Lower Extremities

Cramp like pain on posterior thigh. Violent itching on calves, with distended blood - vessels. Sprained pain in ankle - joints. Violent itching in joints and toes, seemingly in periosteum.

Generalities

Pressive drawing or tearing pain, s mostly in periosteum or where skin lies close to the bone. Weariness of body in evening, with peevishness and sleepiness, disappearing from motion. As long as he moves about, aside from weariness, he feels quite well, however, upon sitting down, especially toward evening, all kinds of complaints appear.

Bones

Pressive or tearing pains to periosteum.

Skin

Unendurable, sticking, itching, in evening in bed. Cracks on hands and feet. Frostbites. Offensive ulcers.

Sleep

Great sleepiness in evening and forenoon. Constant inclination to lie and lumbar.

Fever

Pulse: Not markedly changed. Chill: Forenoon or evening. Early morning or evening attacks of cold shudders over whole body. Great sensitiveness s to cold air and uncovering with the evening fever. Heat: After the chill, most on face, but without thirst, while the hands remain cold a long time. Sense of, over entire body, especially on face and hands. Of single parts, except face. General, after every meal. Sweat: Moderate, but of a bad odor. At night during sleep.

Relationship

Allied Remedies: Con., Puls.