Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Plumbum Metallicum plb.
Mind
Weakness of mind and memory. Delirium, with rage and wild looks. Insanity. Great anxiety and restlessness, with frequent sighing. Dejecting and melancholy. Ennui.
Sensorium
Vertigo when stooping or looking upward. Stupefaction, he falls down unconscious.
Head
Congestion, with heat ascending in to head. Heaviness, especially in occiput. sticking ache. Hair very dry, it falls from beard and eyebrows.
Eyes
Inflamed and congested. Pressure in, as though' the ball were too large. Paralysis of upper lid. Yellow sclerotic. Contracted pupils. Myopia. Misty, foggy vision. Paralysis of optic nerve.
Ears
Tearing in. Difficult hearing.
Nose
Erysipelatous inflammation. Diminished sense of small. Nasty odor in.
Face
Cadaverous paleness. Puffed. greasy, glistening skin. Confused look. Painless desquamation of lips. Tearing in maxillae.
Teeth
Soften and turn black. Pale, swollen gums. Painful nodes on gums.
Mouth
Dry. Aphthae, dirty ulcers and bluish - black blotches in, also on tip of tongue (as after abuse of Mercury). Sense of a foreign body or of swelling in throat. rising, as of a ball in throat. Constriction of throat. Paralysis of throat. with inability to swallow. Much sweetish saliva in. Paralysis of tongue, with difficult speech.
Taste: Sweetish, in mouth.
Stomach
Violent, constrictive spasm of. Violent pressure in. Sticking extending from pit into back.
Hypochondriac: Stitches in liver. Pains in kidneys.
Appetite: Loss of. Increased. Desire for bread and baked food. Violent thirst, especially for cold water.
Eructations: Sweetish. gulping up of sweetish water.
Nausea: Frequent retching. Excessive vomiting of ingesta or discolored substances, with violent pains in stomach and abdomen. Fecal vomit, with colic and constipation.
Abdomen
Pains radiate from a - to all parts of body. Agg. touch but amel. hard pressure. violent colic with strong retraction of. especially of naval. constriction of intestines, with strong retraction of navel and anus. Inflammation of viscera. Hard nodes in. (Graph.)
Flatulence: Grumbling and rumbling in abdomen. Exceedingly offensive flatus, especially after eating fish.
Stool
Obstinate constipation. Hard, nodular stool passed with difficulty.
Anus
Constriction and retraction of.
Urine
Retained. Tenesmus vesicae. Difficult discharge of, passed drop by drop (strangury).
Sexual Organs
Inflammatory swelling of. Constriction in testicles. Greatly intensified sexual desire.
Respiration
Difficult, panting. Spasmodic tightness of chest.
Cough
Dry, convulsive. With expectoration of blood or pus.
Larynx
Hoarseness and roughness in. Constriction of.
Chest
Constriction. Stitches, in female mammae. Anxious palpitation.
Back
Stitches in, and in lumbar region.
Upper Extremities
Twitching tearing in arms. Bony exostoses on back of hand.
Lower Extremities
Paralytic sensation in hip, knee and ankle joints, Paralysis of lower limbs, Stinking foot - sweat.
Generalities
Sticking and tearing in limbs. Twitching in limbs. Paralysis of limbs. Constrictive sensations in internal organs. Epileptic attacks. Great weakness and emaciation. Dropsical swellings. The pains in limbs are intensified at night and are by rubbing. symptoms intermit every third day. Acts on abdominal muscles first. Paralysis of the extensors, of single parts.
Bones
Crawling pain, seemingly inside of.
Skin
Sensitive to open air. Yellowish or pale bluish color. Dark brown spots on body. Denuded spots. Acute decubitus. Burning ulcers. Cold gangrene.
Sleep
Great drowsiness. Stupefying somnolency. Extraordinary day sleepiness. Nightly sleeplessness on account of spasmodic colic.
Fever
Pulse: Very variable and irregular mostly small, contracted and slow, sometimes hard and slow, also occasionally small and accelerated, seldom full, feverish or intermittent. Chill: Predominating, increasing toward evening with violent thirst and redness of face. Internal, with external heat, towards evening. Chilliness in all members. Coldness in open air and during motion. Heat: with thirst, anxiety, a red face and sleepiness. Internal, in evening and night with yellow of whole buccal cavity. Sweat: Anxious, cold or sticky and clammy.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Alum., Ars., Bell., (CAUST.), Chin., Hyos., Nat - m., Nux-v., OP., PLAT., Stram., sul., sul-ac.
Complementary: Rhus-t.