Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Euphorbium eupho.
Mind
Anxious solicitous disposition. Quiet earnestness with inclination to work.
Head
Bruised sensation in occiput.
Eyes
Inflamed, with itching in lids and angles. Flow of biting tears. Agglutinated early in morning. Dim vision. Diplopia.
Face
Red, inflamed, painful swelling of cheeks, with yellowish vesicles which discharge a thick yellow moisture.
Teeth
Pressive, sticking ache. Toothache, worse by touch. Crumbling teeth.
Mouth
Dry internally without especial thirst. Burning in throat, extending into stomach, with heat and anxiety. Salivation, preceded by shaking and griping in stomach.
Thirst: Intense, for cold drinks.
Stomach
Burning like fire in. Spasmodic constriction in.
Abdomen
Empty feeling in, as after an emetic. Burning in. Spasmodic, flatulent colic with distensive pressure pains better resting upon elbows and knees.
Stool
Diarrhoeic, with tenesmus, burning in anus and painfulness in abdomen. First thin, then nodular.
Urine
Urging to urinate, with diminished discharge passed drop by drop.
Sexual organs
Erections without sexual desire.
Respiration
Short, as though' chest were too narrow, with tension in chest muscles.
Cough
Dry, hollow, from tickling in throat or chest. Dry by day and night, only early in morning is there copious expectoration.
Chest
Burning in. Stitches in left side of during rest, disappearing during motion. Sensation as though' the lobe (left) of lung were adherent.
Upper Extremities
Scarlet red stripes on forearms, itching when touched
Lower Extremities
Dislocative pain in hip - joint. Nightly burning in upper femur. Great weakness of lower legs.
Generalities
Rheumatic pains in limbs, of a tearing or pressive sticking sort, almost exclusively during rest. Paralytic weakness in joints, felt particularly when beginning to move. Burning pains in internal parts. Complaints are worse during rest, especially when sitting, and from touching affected parts.
Bones
Burning in. Caries.
Skin
Burning itching necessitating scratching. Old, indolent ulcers. Cold gangrene. Boils. Warts. Erysipelas bullossum.
Sleep
Day sleepiness. Feeling to sleep late in evening.
Fever
Chill: And chilliness predominate. When beginning to eat and while walking in the open, not cold, air. With coexistent sweat. Cold shuddering over whole upper part of body with heat of cheeks. Went proper bodily warmth, with internal burning heat. Heat: With intolerance of clothing, it seems too heavy. On head only. Sweat: Early in morning in bed. Cold sweat on lower legs.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Ars., Flu-ac., Kre., Lyc., Merc., Merc-c., Mez., Puls., Rhus-t., Sep., Zinc.