Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Ledum Palustre led.
Mind
Vehement, angry mood. Dissatisfaction and hatred of mankind. Love for solitude. Great seriousness. Chaotic dullness, with general heat.
Vertigo
As though intoxicated, especially when walking in open air.
Head
Stupefying ache causing mental dullness. Raging, pulsating ache. Pressive ache which renders head coverings intolerable. shattering sensation in brain when making a misstep.
Eyes
Nightly agglutination of lids without pain or inflammation. Violent suppuration with a foul smelling discharge. Biting tears. dilated pupils.
Ears
Roaring or ringing before. Difficult hearing.
Nose
Burning in. Nose - bleed of bright red blood.
Face
Alternatively pale and red. Dry herpes on, which burns in open air. Dry pimples like millet seed on forehead. Red nodular eruptions, like those of brandy drinkers, they stick when touched. Boils on forehead. Swelling of glands under chin.
Mouth
Offensive odor from.
Throat
Sore, with fine sticking pain, worse when not swallowing.
Stomach
Pressure in, after eating a small quantity.
Nausea: And inclination to vomit when spitting.
Abdomen
Sense of fullness in upper. Bellyache like that of dysentery. cutting colic every evening. Ascites.
Stool
Constipation. Diarrhoea, feces mixed with blood and mucus.
Urine
Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge. Frequent, profuse. Enuresis.
Sexual Organs
Intensified sexual desire. Inflamed swelling of penis and glans.
Female
Menses: Of bright red blood, too early and too profuse.
Respiration
Spasmodic, double inspiration and sobbing, as after angry weeping. Obstructed breathing, as though he would suffocate, and opisthotonos precedes the cough. Tight, rapid. Constrictive tightness of chest when walking and ascending steps.
Cough
Violent, with expectoration of, bright red blood. Only at night or early in morning, with purulent, offensive expectoration. Spasmodic, like whooping cough, with painful concussion of head and entire chest. Hollow, shattering c., from tickling in larynx, with suffocative arrest of breathing.
Larynx and trachea
Crawling in. Phthisis of.
Chest
Sore, burning pain in. Stitches in. Shattered feeling of. Suppuration of lungs. Chicken pox on chest.
Back
Painful stiffness of, and of loins when rising from sitting. Pains in, and in sacred region.
Upper Extremities
Tearing in joints of. Stitches in shoulder when raising arm. Pressive pain in shoulder and elbow joints, motion. Gouty nodosities on wrist and finger joints. Sweat on palms.
Lower Extremities
Paralysis of hip joint. Tearing in hip, knee and ankle joints. Swelling, tension and sticking in knee. Obstinate swelling of leg and foot, Podagra.
Generalities
Painful, gouty nodes about joints. Intolerance of warmth of bed, from a sense of heat in extremities. Heat in hands and feet in evening. Gouty tearing in joints, warmth of bed, and in evening until midnight. Hard, but swelling of painful joints. Suffering parts emaciate. Only the joint pains are intensified by motion. After effects of immoderate use of spirituous liquors.
Skin
Dry, want of natural perspiration. General anasarca. Dry herpes which itches violently and burns in open air. Boils. Bluish spots like petechia.
Sleep
Somnolent as though intoxicated, during day. Sleepless at night, with restlessness and fantastic illusions as soon as he closes his eyes.
Fever
Pulse: Full and rapid. Frequently perceptible in one arm, but not in the other. Chill: Chill: With shudder and thirst, continues a long time with a feeling as if some parts were dashed with cold water. Coldness and want of vital heat. Or dominating chill and thirst. Early in morning and forenoon. General coldness with redness and heat of face. Heat: Without thirst, more pronounced toward evening. Burning hands and feet in evening. Alternating with sweat. Sweat: Thro whole night, with inclination to uncover. Foul or sour night sweat. From the slightest motion, more on forehead. Itching sweat.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Bry., Dulc., Lyc., Puls.,
Complementary: Chin., Sep.