Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Sabina sabin.
Mind
Hypochondriacal dejection. Low spirited and joyless, with a feeling of general exhaustion.
Sensorium
Dizziness with ebullition of blood to, and heat in head.
Head
Distensive, pressing ache, especially in frontal eminences and right temple, appearing suddenly and decreasing slowly. Sticking ache.
Eyes
Weak, lusterless. Biting tears. Illusion of clouds rising before.
Nose
Small, grain - like vesicles about root.
Face
Pale, with lusterless eyes encircled by blue rings. A red areola cheeks near wings of nose. Black pores on nose and face.
Teeth
Drawing ache, excited almost exclusively by chewing. Nightly ache, as if to burst, warmth of bed and eating. Gums swollen around the hollow, broken teeth.
Mouth
Excoriative soreness in throat when swallowing. Strangling pressure in throat, as from an internal swelling. White saliva, becoming frothy when talking. Bloody saliva. Every morning there is a thick yellow coat on posterior part of tongue.
Taste: Greasy, in mouth. Bitter of food, milk and coffee.
Stomach
Pressure in. Stitches extending from pit into back.
Appetite: Desire for acids, especially lemonade.
Eructations: Copious, empty.
Vomiting: Bile. The ingesta of the previous day, which is still undigested.
Abdomen
Extraordinary distension of. Bellyache, as from taking cold, with sensation as though' diarrhoea would ensue. Labor - like abdominal pains. Contractive pain in region of uterus. Urging toward genitals. Bruised pain in muscles.
Stool
Diarrhoea with much flatulence. Discharge of blood with mucus.
Anus
Bleeding anal hemorrhoids. Crawling in.
Urine
Frequent, violent urging to urinate with profuse discharge, Retention of urine with burning discharge, passed drop by drop.
Sexual Organs
Inflammatory gonorrhea with a purulent discharge. Gristle - like swelling on (dorsum of) penis. Figwarts with burning, excoriative pain. Stitches deep in vagina. Inflammation of uterus after childbirth. Sexual desire greatly intensified, even unto nymphomania.
Female
Menses: Too early and too profuse. Uterine hemorrhage of partly bright red and partly lumpy, or of thin, fluid, foul smelling blood. Abortion. Especially during third month of pregnancy. Foul - smelling leucorrhoea following suppressed menses.
Cough
Dry hacking c., from tickling in trachea. Blood spitting, with or without cough.
Chest
Painless trembling and creaking sensation under sternum. Sensible swelling of mammae. Crawling in nipples.
Back
Backache, which necessitates drawing in and bending backward of parts. Labor - like pain extending from lumbar into public region. Paralytic pains in small of.
Upper Extremities
Sprained pain in shoulder joint. Stiff wrist, with swelling and stitches, unbearably intensified on allowing hands to hand down.
Lower Extremities
Sticking pain in hip joints, early in morning and during palpitation. Lardaceous ulcers on shin bones. Podagra: Swelling, redness and stitches in great toe.
Generalities
Paralytic pain in joints after exertion. Tearing sticking in joints, with swelling thereof., Red, glistening swelling of affected parts. Jerking throbbing in arteries.
Bones
Drawing pain through' cylindrical b.
Sleep
Sleeplessness with great restlessness. Heat and profuse sweat after midnight.
Fever
Pulse: Irregular: mostly rapid, Strong and tense. Violent throbbing of arteries of entire head. Chill: In evening, with repeated shivering. Great chilliness during day. Shuddering with darkness before eyes, then sleepiness. Cold feeling in entire (r.) leg. Heat: Intolerable burning heat in whole body, with great restlessness. Flying heat on face, with chill of all the rest of body and cold hands and feet. Sweat: Every night.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Arn., Calc-c., Plat.
Complementary: Thuj.