BOENNINGHAUSEN’S CHARACTERISTICS MATERIA MADICA & REPERTORY – C.M. BOGER

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BŒNNINGHAUSEN’S
CHARACTERISTICS
MATERIA MEDICA
by
C. M. BOGER, M.D.

Psorinum

[Psor.]

Mind.–

Anxious,
full of fear, very depressed, despairing, always thinking of dying.
Irritable, easily angered. Every moral impression causes trembling.
Persistence of one idea. Memory lost.

Head.–

Lifting.
Aching, spasmodically contractive a. Pain: In center, with
weakness of, like a hammer beating, as of a piece of wood lying across
occiput, pushing out, as if brain had not space enough, one – sided
pressure. Pulsation. Boring or cramp in temples. Drawing in frontal
sinuses. Pinching and heaviness in forehead, temples feel pressed in,
alternating with pain in teeth. Burning. stitches extending to nose or
eyes. Dull pressing in vertex. As of a cord tied about. Hair feels
pulled. Worse: Mental labor. Better:Wrapping up: nose
bleed, sweat, washing face.

Eyes.–

Glassy.
Gummy. Agglutinated. Deep broad, blue rings about. Feel swelled, like a
foreign body in, tired, burning. Vision, Of fiery sparks, tremulous,
suddenly blurred. Pimples like styes on upper lid. Worse: Looking
intently.

Ears.–

Ears
discharging fetid pus. with headache. Reddish earwax. Feeling as if:
Stuffed, something bursting in, when swallowing, breath came from,
hearing with another’s ears, Pain, ulcerative, stitching, preceded by
coldness, better boring in with finger. Burning heat in. extending to
vertex. roaring in, with stupefaction. Worse: Evening.

Nose.–

Tough
mucus in nose, Sense of a plug high up in, causing nausea, better
stooping. Boring in, then sneezing. Pustules on septum. Clear fluid
escapes on stooping. Sensitive to inhaled air. Drawing in, then fluent
coryza. Burning in, better by a fluent discharge. Scratching crawling at
root. Itching on tip.

Face.–

Greasy.
Pale, sickly look. Zygoma painful to touch.

Mouth.–

Lips:
Swelling of upper. Brown, black and dry. Painful and itching. Burn. Feel
swelled. Vesicles around corners of, with humid sore spots. Tough mucus
in and in throat, it in glues the teeth together, tastes like old
cheese, is offensive and adheres to palate causing hawking. Scratching
in back part and asthmatic feeling on leaning backward. Swelled feeling
in fauces.

Taste:
Foul, bitter or coppery, sticky. Of food is oily, or like cat’s urine.
Nauseous. Better: Eating.

Teeth.–

Gnashing
of, at night, feel on edge when smoking, loose, stitches in, hammering
in, feel pulled. Toothache, alternating with headache. Worse:
touch. Better: Fresh air.

Gums.–

Inflamed, with crawling pain, and tongue ulcerated, with sore throat.

Tongue.–

Dry,
painful. tip feels burnt.

Throat.–

Pink
spots with cheesy tips, which turn black. Sore, everything burns it,
with difficult swallowing, can take cold food only. Tough, adherent
mucus in, causing hawking. Scratching, with suffocation, causing cough.
tickling causing cough, tickling in, the eructations. Burnt feeling in,
burning in palate. Dry. Swollen feeling in left tonsil. Submaxillary
glands swelled.

Stomach.–

Bloated,
oppressed. Crampy stitch, cutting or contracting pain in pit.

Appetite:
Great hunger, without appetite. Easily satiated. Disgust for pork. Great
thirst, with dryness and burning in mouth, for beer after the chill.

Eructations:
Tasting like rotten eggs, rancid, with headache. Waterbrash, after
drinking water, on lying down, with colic. Better, Eating roasted
thighs.

Nausea:
Constant. Vomits sweet mucus, or sour, which sets teeth on edge.

Abdomen.–

Stitches
in hypochondria and sides of, motion and lying on r. wide. Swollen
feeling below short ribs (sul.). Bloated. gurgling, griping, cutting or
twisting in. Twitching or sticking in inguinal region. Worse:
Eating frozen things, driving. Better: Stool.

Rectum.–

Burning
in. Chafed feeling.

Anus.–

Burning
nodes at. Itching. Hemorrhoids worse during stormy weather.

Stool.–

Of
a dark brown, very foul smelling fluid. Shooting out, preceded by colic.
green, bilious, mixed with mucus. Involuntary, with much flatus, Soft,
but difficulty. Mushy.

Urinary Organs.–

Urination:
Prostatic discharge before, burning in tip of penis at start of, burning
with cutting during, dribbling after. Inward stitches in urethra. Red
sediment in, fatty pellicle on urine.

Sexual Organs.–

Male:
Relaxed. Impotence, with aversion to coition. Tightness and drawing in.
Taste swelled and heavy, with ulcer on glans. Drawing in testes and
small of back. Spermatic cords as if full of blood. Painful suppurating
vesicles on scrotum.

Respiratory Organs.–

Cough:
Paroxysmal, hacking, excited by suffocation and crawling in larynx, or
talking, quiet, with weakness or heaviness in chest, with dizziness,
with vomiting acid mucus, with soreness under sternum, in morning on
rising and evening on lying down (Phos.). Expectoration, Blood –
streaked, of saliva, of green mucus,
difficulty, sticking firmly. Hoarseness. Short of breath in fresh air,
with whistling in chest. Suffocation in larynx when sitting bent
backward, gentle exercise, riding or lying down, sitting.

Chest.–

Pains,
cutting, as with knives, as if tearing loose, pressing in small spots,
ulcerative under sternum, excoriating, boring. Oppression as of a load,
on inclining head forward when stooping. Worse: Coughing. Better:
Holding arms away from chest.

Back.–

Neck:
Glands swelled, on touch bruised pain extends to head. Tearing, boring
or stiffness in nape. Drawing extending to shoulders. Tensive pain as
from lying uncomfortably. Pustules on.

Back:
Boil – like indurations in axillae. Sticking extending towards chest on
coughing. Pains: Boring, or as if broken in vertebrae, bruised,
cutting, stitches, pressure in. tightness in ischii, extending to knees.
Weakness. Worse, Straightening out, motion.

Extremities.–

Stretching.
Weakness, as if joints would not hold together.
Tearing, wandering pains. Trembling of hands and feet. Upper:
Asleep feeling in left arm and fingers. Crawling in fingers. Spasmodic
pain in bones of left arm. Better: Motion.

Lower Extremities.–

One
leg feels too weak to endure pressure of other when lying. Bruised pains
in legs and soles, as after too much walking, with restlessness in them.
Stitching as of a strained sinew in ankles. Inclination to turn left
foot inward when walking. Gouty pains in left foot. Cramps in single
toes when stretching them out. Itching feet and soles. Worse:
Rest.

Generalities.–

Filthy
smell of body. Offensive discharges. Pale. exhausted and thin, his
clothing is too large for him. Malaise, easily tired out, riding
exhausts him. the sun shining upon her seems to press her down. Great
bodily heaviness. Affected by stormy weather. Hot tremblings over body. Worse:
Riding. Morning and evening. Better: Lying down: in morning:
in fresh air, wrapping up.

Skin.–

Yellow,
dirty, and greasy. Roughness of knuckles. Small warts, like pinheads on
fingers. Pimples with black points in center (Kali – bi). Eruption:
Miliary, vesicular, pustular, itch – like, unhealthy. Itching, after
scratching vesicles arise, when touched.

Sleep.–

Very
sleepy in daytime. Gnashes teeth, which wakes her. Unrefreshing. Dreams
of business, anxious.

Fever.–

Chilliness,
in the evening, with hot flashes, debility and sleepiness. Creeping
chills. Feet cold all night. Heat: Sudden, general, with
trickling, sweat over face. As if about to lose sense. With thirst,
dryness and burning in mouth, burning in head and face, better fluent
coryza. thirst during chill and heat. Sweat: profuse, when
walking with consequent debility and taking cold easily. Offensive. On
perineum. On palms at night. During night, then feels better.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Carb-v., chin., Graph., Kali
– bi., sul.

Followed by Sep.

Complementary:
Sep., Sul., tab.

Pulsatilla pratensis

[Puls.]

Mind.–

Distraction.
Unconsciousness. Full of numerous, but very changeable ideas. Delirium.
Anxiousness, restlessness and fear of death. Secret anguish, even to
self – destruction, by drowning. Melancholy and sadness. anthropophobia.
Mild, timid, yielding disposition. Tearful mood. Inclination to inward
grief and silent vexation. full of care concerning his domestic affairs.
Covetous and dissatisfied. Mistrust.

Sensorium.–

Vertigo
as though’ intoxicated, with nausea, headache and vanishing of sight and
hearing in evening when looking up or stooping. Stupefying confusion of
head. Mental obtusion and chaotic condition of head, as after a debauch
or night watching, worse in a warm room. Mental fatigue from exertion of
mind. Fainting attacks with a deathly pale face, on entering a warm
room.

Head.–

Congestion
to. Twitching tearing pain, going to temple upon which he turns and
lies. Crackling in, after each impact of the pulse. One – sided stitches
in one temple or in occiput, with vertigo, roaring in ears and vanishing
of sight. Aching as though’ brain were torn. Empty feeling in. Sore pain
in one or both temples. Bursting pressure in forehead, with pressure on
eyes and nausea. Great heaviness of. throbbing in. cutting in. Tension
in forehead as though’ screwed together. Twitching jerks in one side,
like a tight drawing which suddenly lets go. Worse: Evening,
lying on painless side, at rest, in a warm room, hot air, mental
exertion. Better: Walking in cool open air, tight bandaging,
external pressure, raising up.

External Head.–

–
Exostoses, tending to suppurate and ending in necrosis of bones. Feeling
as if frontal bones were too thin. Twitching tearing or crawling biting,
sticking and itching on, most on temples and behind ears, unchanged or
worse from scratching. followed by swelling and eruptions which pain as
if ulcerated. Drawing pain in when brushing hair back. Takes cold in,
from getting it wet. Worse: Undressing, getting warm in bed,
touching hair. Better: Open air, gentle motion, washing head.

Eyes.–

Inflammation
with nightly agglutination. Lachrymation. Redness of conjunctiva,
without swelling of lids. Sticking in, especially from light and
sunshine. Dryness of, and of lids. Lachrymal fistula which discharges
pus when pressed upon. Styes, especially on upper lids. Dim vision, when
becoming heated, Like gauze before, by wiping. Incipient paralysis of
optic nerve and gray cataract. Obscuration of cornea.

Ears.–

Twitching
tearing or sticking in. Inflammation of. Hardened, black cerumen.
discharging pus. Pain in, as though’ something were forced out,
Deafness, as from stoppage, after taking cold. Nightly earache and
toothache.

Nose.–

Nosebleed
of dark blood. Ulceration and moisture on wings. Green, stinking or
purulent discharge. Coryza with constant chilliness and loss of smell
and taste, dry in evening, fluent in morning.

Face.–

Pale
yellow complexion with deeply sunken eyes. Erysipelas, with sticking
pains then desquamation of skin. Shivering on one side. Painful
sensitiveness of skin. Biting and gnawing about mouth. Swelling of under
lip, of submaxillary glands. Tearing in lower jaw.

Teeth.–

Ache
in evening. Jerking. Jerking, tearing ache, warmth of bed or room and by
cool air or cold water. Jerking from teeth into ear. Throbbing in upper
jaw and sticking in gum, heat of stove. Toothache from taking cold (when
the weather first turns warm in spring), with tearing in ears, pale face
and chill. Looseness of painful teeth.

Mouth.–

Putrid
odor from, especially in morning. Dark redness or varicose swelling of
throat. Sore throat, as though’ it were raw. Sticking sore throat when
swallowing. Pressure and tension in throat during empty swallowing.
Tenacious mucus in throat early in morning. Increased flow of sweetish
saliva. Tongue covered with mucus.

Appetite:
Ravenous hunger. constant hunger, but knows not for what, entire loss
of. Aversion to bread and butter and rich food. Thirstless. Craving for
refreshing, alcoholic drinks. Thirst, with foul eructations.

Taste:
Diminished, to food and drink, Bitter, after eating, drinking, chewing
and vomiting. Like putrid meat, in mouth, early in morning. Bread tastes
bitter, sour or too dry. Meat gray tastes putrid.

Eructations:
Tasting of ingesta, Tasting like spoiled food. Putrid or bitter.

Nausea., etc. – Inclination to vomit, seeming to come from upper
abdomen. Chronic vomiting of ingesta after every meal. Vomiting of food
every evening and night. Bitter vomit early in morning. Vomits ingesta,
then bitter mucus.

Stomach.–

Disordered
by fat food or pork. Pressure, especially after bread. Chilled by frozen
things, fruit, etc. Cramp, with nausea which ceases after vomiting.
Sensible pulsation in pit.

Hypochondria:
Sticking in hepatic region when walking. Sense of lassitude in. Pressure
in spleen.

Abdomen.–

Sticking
and cutting in, in evening, especially when sitting still. Thrusts in.
Painless gurgling in upper. Inflammation of. Sensitiveness and swelling
of walls. Spasmodic colic and labor – like abdominal pains during
pregnancy. Pains in belly, with chilliness at time menses should appear.

Flatulence. – flatulent colic every evening. Rumbling in abdomen.

Stool.–

Diarrhoeic,
with much mucus. Diarrhoea from fright. White. Difficult, altho’ soft,
with urging and backache. Nightly, greenish, watery diarrhoea. Foul
smelling diarrhoea. Constipation alternating with diarrhoea.

Anus.–

Violent
bleeding from, during stool. Anal hemorrhoids with smarting pain.

Urine.–

Frequent
urging to urinate, with scanty discharge, during pregnancy, with drawing
in abdomen. Ischuria, tenesmus vesicae. Nocturnal anuresis. Haematuria,
with burning at meatus and contraction in umbilical region. Dark urine,
with a ring of violent froth.

Sexual Organs.–

Painful
swelling of testes and spermatic cords, with prostatic discharge.
Burning in testes, without swelling. Inflamed testes, especially after
contusions. Hydrocele. Inflammation of prostatic gland. Greatly excited
sexual desire. Labor – pains, too feeble, wanting, with violent pains in
lumbar region. After – birth delayed. After pains.

Female.–

Menses:
Of thick, black, lumpy or thin, watery blood, too late and too scanty.
Suppressed, especially after taking cold. Appear with difficulty and are
delayed at puberty. Non – appearing lochia.

Uterine hemorrhage, with false labor pains. Thin burning or thick
painless leucorrhoea.

Respiration.–

Groaning
or rattling. Constriction and tightness of chest, especially when lying
on back. Difficult, when walking. Nightly asthma, as from sulphur vapor.
tightness from spasmodic tension in lower part of chest, under false
ribs.

Cough.–

Short,
dry, e., on becoming warm. Dry, after every nap. Early in morning and
during day with, but in evening and night without expectoration. With
copious, yellow or greenish. Variously tasting mucus expectoration. with
copious, yellow or greenish, variously tasting mucus expectoration, or
e., of dark clotted blood. Excited by dryness, as of sulphur vapor and
itching, scratching in trachea and chest, with retching and inclination
to vomit. Paroxysms of dry, short, c., with pains in chest. Headache,
thrusts in abdomen and pains in lumbar region during. Hemoptysis of
black, coagulated blood with suppressed menses.

Larynx.–

Hoarseness,
inability to utter a loud word. Tickling in thyroid cartilage.

Chest.–

Spasmodic
constriction and tension. Stitches, especially when coughing and taking
of deep breath. Pains in, or upon sternum, as from an ulcer. Painful, as
if bruised. Attacks of burning and piercing in. Anxious palpitation.
Disappearance of milk from breasts of nursing mothers. Painful, sticking
swelling in the nipple less breasts, with discharge of thin, acrid milk,
in girls before puberty.

Back.–

Prominence
and curvature f upper spinal and cervical vertebrae. Backache when
pressing hand on chest. Lumbar pains after sitting. Ache in lumbar
region when labor – pains cease. Lumbar pains with chilliness at time
menses should appear. Stitches in, and in sides.

Neck:
Drawing, tensive pain in nape. Swelling and pain in neck and nape, as
from an ulcer.

Upper Extremities.–

Paralytic
sensation in shoulder joints when raising arms, Jerking tearing thro’
arms. Heaviness of arms, with numb hands, Swelling of elbow after
contusions. Swelling of blood vessels of forearms and hands. Stiff
wrist. Itching frost bites on fingers.

Lower Extremities.–

Jerking
in legs. Trembling of legs, especially during pains. Hot, inflammatory
swelling of knee, with sticking pains, especially over patella.
Heaviness of lower legs. Drawing in fibulae. Varicose veins on lower
legs Red hot swelling of feet, extending up to calf, with sticking
pains. When walking there is a sticking, when sitting a jerking in
ankles. Swelling dorsum of foot. Ulcerative pain in soles of feet.

Generalities.–

Emaciation.
Jerking tearing in muscles, as though’ they were suddenly pulled,
especially at night and during rest. Swollen limbs, with numb sensation
or sticking pains. pains which rapidly shift to
other parts, with swelling of affected region. Tearing in limbs, like a
slight tension, which always lets go with a tearing jerk. Pain, as of
something sore or an internal parts, with inclination to ulceration.
After effects of blows, falls or contusions. Fainting attacks, with
cadaverous paleness of face. Epileptic attacks, with cadaverous paleness
of face. Epileptic attacks after suppressed menses, with violent beating
about of limbs, then relaxation of same, eructations and inclination to
vomit. Pains are generally accompanied by thirstlessness and chilliness,
as though, affected parts were dashed with cold water, (but no shaking).
the symptoms are intensified in the evening and in the hours before
midnight, also when resting and from warmth, especially in warm air of a
room, they are in the open air, when lying on back and during gentle
motion.

Tissues.–

Inflammation
of the mucous membranes.

Bones.–

Bruised
pain in cylindrical bones. Curvature of. Caries.

Skin.–

Biting
itching, like the biting of ants. Itching in evening (and at night) from
warmth of bed, by scratching/ Eruption (like chicken – pox) after bacon
and fat pork. Painful soreness when grasping affected parts. Chappped,
from moistening in. Dropsical swelling. Ulcers, flat, foul, bleed
easily, sticking. Frost bites on hands and feet.

Sleep.–

Late
falling asleep in evening. Somnolency. Nightly sleeplessness before
midnight, on account of anxiety, restlessness and beat with unrefreshing
sleep in the morning.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Weak and small, often hardly perceptible, but quickened, seldom slow.
Throbbing in blood vessels, in evening. Swollen blood vessels during the
evening heat. Chill: Increase toward evening. With the pains.
coldness and shuddering predominate. Thirst
before e., and before heat, seldom with either. Constant
chilliness, as if dashed with water, even in a warm room. Chilliness,
with overrunning heat. One – sided coldness, with sensation of numbness.
Cold drawings thro’ back in evening. After anger. In evening and before
midnight, constant chilliness overrunning the body, without shivering.
the stronger the pains, the more violent the chill. Chillness yet
artificial heat is insupportable. Heat, After the chill, with anxiety
and red face. General internal, dry without external heat, in evening
and at night. Of face, or one hand with coldness of the other. Of body,
with cold extremities. Attacks of anxious heat, as if dashed with hot
water. Sweat: Copious, at night and in morning. During sleep,
disappears on awaking. Easy, during day. One – sided, sometimes only on
face and hairy scalp. At night, with stupefying slumber. Often smells
sweetish, sour, mouldy or like musk, and is sometimes cold.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Aco,
Agar., Ag – c., Alum., Ambr., Am-m.,
Ant – c., Ant-c., A.P., Arn., Aur., BELL., BRY., Calc-c., Cann.,
CANTH., Caps., carb. v., Caust.,
CHAM., chel., Chin., coff., Colch.,
Con., CUPR., Cycl., dig., dulc.,
euphor., Ferr., Gel., GRAPH., Ign.,
Ip., KALI-BL., KALI-C., LACH., Led.,
LYC., M – arct., Mag-c., Mang., Merc.,
MILLEF., NAT-C., NAT-M., Nat-s., NIT-AC., Nux-c., NAT-M., Nat-s.,
NIT-AC., Nux-v., Petr., Phos.,
PLAT., sil., Spig., STANN., Sul.,
SUL AC., Valer., Verbas.

Complementary. – Arz., Bry.,
Kali-b., Sep., Sil., Zinc.

Ranunculus bulbosus

[Ran-b.]

Mind.–

When
reflecting his thoughts vanish. Dull senses. Irritable and quarrel
some. Fear of ghosts in evening.

Vertigo.–

From
congestion of blood to head.

Head.–

Congestion
to. Sense of enlargement and distension of entire head distensive or
bursting pressure, more in forehead and vertex, with pressure on
eyeballs. Headache: With qualmishness and sleepiness, as though’
the brain were bruised, with faint – like weakness. The pains are
especially excited and intensified by changes of temperature. Worse:
Toward evening, going from a warm room into the cold, or the reverse. Better:
Rising from bed, in an even temperature.

Eyes.–

Excoriative
biting in and in canthi. Pressure in.

Ears.–

Stitches
in. Spasmodic earache.

Nose.–

Red,
tensive, inflammatory swelling. Scurfy nostrils.

Face.–

Dry
heat of, with red cheeks. Crawling, especially about chin and nose.
Spasms of lips.

Teeth.–

Sensation
in molars, as though’ they were forced asunder.

Mouth.–

Scratching
burning on palate and in throat. Increased secretion of tenacious mucus
in throat in evening. Accumulation of much coppery – tasting saliva.
Salivation.

Stomach.–

Burning
in cardiac orifice. Pressure and excoriative pain in pit when touched.

Hypochondriac:
Excoriative or bruised pain in. Sticking pains in liver, extending into
right chest.

Thirst
Increased in afternoon.

Eructations:
Spasmodic hiccough.

Nausea:
Mostly in afternoon and evening.

Abdomen.–

Pinching
bellyache alternating with pains in chest. Burning, excoriative pain in.
Festering pain in intestines.

Stool.–

Soft,
light, without pain.

Female.–

Leucorrhoea:
Acrid, corrosive.

Respiration.–

Shortness
of, with oppression of chest in evening. Violent oppression, as after
deep mortification, he seems unable to inhale sufficient air and must
frequently take a deep breath.

Chest.–

Suppurative
pain in entire c., from least motion of upper part of body and when
touched. Festering pain with stitches, extending downward into sides of
abdomen. Violent stitches in right c., extending downward into hepatic
region. the chest pains are mostly external and are intensified by
motion and touch.

Back.–

Stitches
in, and between scapulae.

Upper Extremities.–

Stitches
in arms and hands. Herpes on palms of hands. Herpes or blue vesicles on
fingers. Ulcerated fingers.

Lower Extremities.–

Drawing
extending from thighs downward. Podagra and sticking in feet and toes.

Generalities.–

Bruised
sensation in entire body. Trembling of limbs, with oppression of
breathing after vexation. Epileptic attacks. Symptoms are intensified in
evening, (in evening), in certain cases also after eating. Changes of
temperature and alternations of heat or cold, as well as touch, motion
and stretching of body, many symptoms, especially those of trunk.
Effects of taking cold.

Skin.–

Blistery
eruption like that of a burn. Burning, itching, dark blue vesicles in
closely aggregated groups. Flat, burning, sticking ulcers, with
corrosive ichor. Horny growths. Herpes.

Sleep.–

Late
falling to, in evening. Sleeplessness, as if from too great activity.
Frequent awaking at night and difficult falling to sleep again.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Hard, full and accelerated in evening, slower in morning. Chill:
predominating, with heat of face, mostly in afternoon and evening.
Chilliness with heat of face after dinner. In open air he chills mostly
on the outside of (covered) chest. The fever often consists of chill
only. Heat: In evening, especially on face, often on r. side
only, with cold hands (and feet). With concomitant internal chill.
Sweats very little, and only in morning on awaking.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Bry., Puls., RHUS-T., Staph.,
Sul., Verbas.

Ranunculus sceleratus

[Ran-s.]

Mind.–

Indolence
and aversion to mental exertion, early in morning. Low – spirited and
depressed mood in evening.

Head.–

Gnawing
ache in region of vertex or temples. The head feels distended and thick.
Contraction of scalp. Biting itching on scalp.

Eyes.–

Biting
gnawing in, and in canthi. Painful pressure in balls.

Ears.–

Earache,
with pressive or gnawing headache and drawing in teeth.

Nose.–

Biting
and crawling in.

Face.–

Slight
drawing in, with cold sensation down the cheek. Sensation as though’
covered with a spider web. Trembling about mouth (before vomiting).
Sardonic laughter.

Teeth.–

In
afternoon and evening painful, jerking drawing in upper molars. Sticking
drawing in.

Mouth.–

Burning
in throat. Scraping in throat. Salivation. Swelling of tonsils, with
fleeting stitches therein.

Eructations:
Tasting of ingesta, after eating.

Qualmishness especially after midnight.

Stomach.–

–
Sore burning immediately over pit. Pressing and sensation of fullness in
pit, external pressure.

Hypochondriac:
Sticking and pressing in region of liver, spleen or kidneys.

Abdomen.–

Sense
of a plug behind navel in morning. Nightly, screwing pressure behind
navel. Twitching in walls.

Stool.–

Frequent,
foul smelling, diarrhoeic s.

Respiration.–

Obstructed
by gnawing behind sternum.

Chest.–

Periodically
recurring bruised feeling in entire chest in evening. Stitches in. and
in pectoral muscles. Gnawing. Sensitive, externally and sternum.

Back.–

Paralytic
bruised feeling in small of.

Upper Extremities.–

Sticking,
boring and gnawing in arms, most intense in fingers (chiragra). Swelling
of fingers.

Lower Extremities.–

Sticking,
boring and gnawing in legs, most intense in great toe (podagra).

Generalities.–

Eating.
gnawing sensations. Boring and gnawing in various parts, especially in
evening and before midnight. Convulsive twitchings in limbs. Fainting
during the pains. Pains are toward evening, after
midnight and then are replaced by sleeplessness.

Skin.–

Eruption
of blisters containing an acrid, watery ichor.

Sleep.–

Sleepless
after midnight, with anxiety, heat and thirst, on account of activity
and great physical restlessness. Half slumber after midnight.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Quick and full but soft, with nightly heat. Chill: And chilliness
while eating. Heat: In room in evening, after walking in open
air. Nightly dry heat, with violent thirst and strong ebullitions, most
after midnight. Predominating. Sweat: After heat, towards
morning, most profuse on forehead.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Ars.,
Aru – tri’., flu-ac., Puls., Verat – a.

Rheum

[Rheum]

Mind.–

Morose,
sluggishness and silent brooding. the child desires various things with
weeping and vehemence. Restless and tearful. Fear of death.

Head.–

Heaviness
of, with heat rising therein. Beclouding, stupefying ache with puffed
eyes. Throbbing ache.

Eyes.–

Painful
throbbing in. Suffered. Contracted pupils. Weak, with dim vision.

Ears.–

Bubbling
in, and in muscles of throat Throbbing in.

Nose.–

Crawling
in tip.

Face.–

Tension
in skin of. Inclination to wrinkle forehead. Drawing, welling up, almost
a bubbling sensation in lower jaw, extending into temples.

Teeth.–

Difficult
teething in children. Cold feeling i, with great accumulation in saliva.

Mouth.–

Taste:
Flat, slimy. Food tastes bitter while it is in the mouth.

Stomach.–

Tension
in region of. Fullness, as from overloading.

Appetite:
Hunger without appetite. Appetite for various things, but after the
first bite they become repulsive. Aversion to fatty, insipid foods.
Coffee is repugnant unless very sweat. Violent thirst.

Nausea:
Seeming to arise from stomach and abdomen.

Abdomen.–

Tense
and bloated. Violent cutting pain, especially in loins, they compel him
to double up. Cutting in compel him to double up. Cutting in before and
during stool. Welling up, gurgling sensation in abdominal muscles.

Flatulence. – rumbling and cutting from flatus in abdomen.

Stool.–

Frequent,
ineffectual urging. Forcible, colicky stool motion. Papescent, sour –
smelling s., with shivering. Diarrhoea: Mucus, debilitating, with
cutting in the abdomen, then tenesmus.

Urine.–

Increased
discharge. Reddish yellow or greenish. Feeble discharge, as from
paralysis of bladder.

Respiration.–

Oppressed,
as from a load upon upper part of chest.

Chest.–

Cracking
or gurgling, bubbling up as from small bubbles in chest muscles.
Stitches in nipples, yellow, m bitter milk of nursing women.

Back.–

Stiffness
in small of back and hips.

Upper extremities.–

Twitching
in arms and hands. gurgling bubbling sensation, especially in elbows.
Distended blood vessels on hands. Cold sweat on palms.

Lower Extremities.–

Weariness
in thighs, as after overexertion. Bubbling gurgling sensation extending
from popliteal spaces to heels.

Generalities.–

Bubbling
gurgling sensation, as from small bubbles in muscles and joints. All
joints pain when moved. Asleep sensation in parts wherein he lies.
Weakness and heaviness of entire body, as after waking from a deep
sleep.

Sleep.–

Day
sleepiness. Nightly sleeplessness and restlessness, with tossing about
and crying out (in children). After sleep, want of recollection,
headache, bad odor from mouth etc. Many anxious, sorrowful dreams.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Only slightly quickened. Chill: Alternating with heat. One cheek
red, the other pale. Internal shivering with external warmth. Heat:
Over whole body, most on hands and feet with a cold face. Predominating.
Sweat: From the least exertion. Cold, about mouth and nose. On
forehead and scalp. Stains yellow, and smells like rhubarb.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: Bell., cham., Coloc., Mag
– c., NUX-V., Phos-ac., Puls.

Complementary:
Mag-c.

Rhododendron

[Rhod.]

Mind.–

Morose,
gloomy disposition. Great indifference. Great forgetfulness.

Vertigo.–

Dull
confusion of head and sleepiness, early in morning after rising.

Head.–

Pressive
pain in forehead and temples, as though’ in bones. tearing, seemingly in
bones. Burrowing in forehead and temples. Tension in forehead, Worse:
Early in morning while lying quietly in bed, wine, cold wet weather. Better:
rising, during motion.

External Head.–

Violent
drawing and tearing in bones and periosteum of skull. Festering or
bruised pain. Biting itching on, in evening. Worse: Before
storms, stormy weather, during rest Better: Dry warmth warm
wraps.

Eyes.–

Periodically
recurring dry burning in, especially from bright daylight and when
looking intensely at an object. Spasmodic contraction of lids. dim
vision when reading and writing.

Ears.–

Violent,
jerking, tearing ache. Sensation of worm in. Whizzing and buzzing in,
increased by swallowing.

Nose.–

Frequent
nosebleed. Diminished sense of smell and taste. Fluent coryza with one
sided obstruction at root, accompanied by loss of smell and taste.
Increased flow of mucus, in open air.

Face.–

Shivering
on. Burning dryness of lips. Vesicles on inner side of lower lip, with
excoriative pain when eating.

Teeth.–

Nightly
toothache with earache. Drawing tearing pain in molars, before or during
storms and in cold wet weather, touch. Swelling and excoriative pain
between lower gums and cheek.

Mouth.–

Constriction
and burning in throat. Much accumulation of mucus in, with a dry palate.

Taste:
Tastelessness of food.

Stomach.–

Nightly
pressure in. Pressure, after drinking cold water. Pressure in pit, with
oppressed breathing.

Hypochondriac:
Crampy pain under short ribs. Stitches in spleen from walking rapidly.
Tension in splenic region when stooping.

Appetite:
Rapid satiation with subsequent discomfort. Increased thirst.

Nausea:
Sickening n., with pressure in stomach and accumulation of water in
mouth, by eructations.

Abdomen.–

Distension
of upper, with oppressed breathing.

Flatulence:
Painfully, obstructed flatus in hypochondriac and lumbar regions. Much
rumbling and grumbling in abdomen.

Stool.–

Soft,
papescent s., but passed with difficulty, after previous violent urging.
Diarrhoea: After fruit or during cold, wet weather, tendency to.

Urine.–

Frequent
urging to urinate with drawing in region of bladder. Increased discharge
of very foul smelling urine.

Sexual organs.–

Drawing
from rectum into g. Retraction and swelling of testes. Indurated testes.
Crushing pain in testes. Wrinkling up (or hydrocele) of scrotum.
Aversion to coition.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early and too profuse. Suppressed.

Respiration.–

Tightness
of: From constriction of chest, from pressure in hypochondriac.

Cough.–

At
night and early in the morning, exhausting, dry cough, with oppression
of chest and roughness in throat.

Chest.–

Pressive
pain in, with tight breathing. Strong congestion of blood to. Bruised
pain in external.

Back.–

Bruised
sensation and tearing in, and in lumbar region.

Neck:
Rheumatic tension in muscles of throat, with stiff nape.

Upper Extremities.–

Tearing
in forearm, as though’ in periosteum, during cold, wet weather.
Sensation as though’ the blood stagnated n arm. Increased warmth in
hands.

Lower Extremities.–

Excoriative pain in thighs near genitals. cold sensation and wrinkling
of skin of lower legs. Dropsical swelling of legs and feet. Tearing in
legs and fee, t as though’ in periosteum, worst when at rest and during
cold wet weather. Extraordinarily cold feet.

Generalities.–

Violent,
rheumatic tearing in limbs, as though’ in periosteum, mostly in forearm
and leg, worse when parts are at rest and during cold, wet weather.
Sense of formication in limbs. Paralytic weakness of limbs when at rest.
Digging, drawing in joints, as though’ they would be dislocated, both
gouty nodes and swelling thereof. Painful fevers Most complaints appear
early in morning. Pains are excited and intensified by cold, wet weather
and storms, Pains are most intense during rest. Attacks often cease foe
several days and then reappear again.

Bones.–

Drawing
and tearing in periosteum.

Skin.–

Dropsical
swellings.

Sleep.–

Great
day sleepiness, with burning in eyes. Before midnight, good, sound
sleep, but after, sleeplessness with dry heat. Restlessness and frequent
awaking toward morning.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Weak and slow. Chill: Over entire body in morning in bed and
during day when cold air blows on him. Alternating with heat. Icy cold
feet for a long time after lying down in bed in evening. Heat: In
evening, with cold feet. Sensation of warmth, especially on hands,
although they are cold to touch. Feverish heat, in evening, with burning
of face. Sweat: Very profuse and debilitating, especially during
motion in open air. Offensive smelling s., in axillae. Aromatic
smelling. During sweats itching and formication in skin.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: BRY., Calc.,
Carb-a., Carb – v., Caust., CLEM., Merc.,
Nux – v., RHUS-T., Sep.

Rhus toxicodendron

[Rhus-t.]

Mind.–

Want
of recollection. quiet delirium. Sad, anxious and tearful. Anxiety, with
fear of death or of being poisoned. Anxious desire to commit suicide.
Great restlessness keeps him in constant motion. Stupidity.
Unconsciousness. Desires to be alone. Easily startled.

Vertigo.–

As
though intoxicated, he is inclined to fall forward or backward, when
rising from bed. Stupefying confusion of head, with mental obtusion and
gloominess.

Head.–

Congestion,
with burning and throbbing therein and great physical restlessness.
Pressure: As if brain would he forced out of forehead, in temples.
Stupefying pains, with buzzing therein. Sticking, going outward as far
as eyes and zygoma. Aching in occiput, especially in protuberances.
Feeling: Of painful crawling in brain, most in occiput, of flapping or
fluctuating with each step, as if brain were loose, as if rent or
shattered, of thrusts in, of a weight falling forward within, on
stooping, as if brain were torn, more behind ears and in occiput.
Tearing pains externally especially from forehead and temples down to
ears. Heaviness. Heat in, especially after beer. Worse: Cold, on
becoming, bathing, air, wet weather. Uncovering. Moving eyes. Shaking
head. After walking. Ascending. Sitting or lying still. Touch. Early
morning, on awaking. Stooping. Better: Motion, gentle motion.
Wrapping up head, warmth. After sweat. Dry weather.

Scalp:
Swelling of head and face, with tensive pain on crawling and numbness.
As painfully sensitive as a boil. Feels contracted as from clutching the
hair. Erosive crawling and unendurable sticking itching, more on temples
and behind ears, as he begins to scratch but it soon exudes moisture,
burns, inflames and thickens, forming thick offensive painful scabs
which eat the hair off. Dry herpes on. Smell soft growth on. Worse:
Night, warmth of bed, during seat, brushing hair back, touch, on side
lain on, cold air.

Eyes.–

Inflamed,
with red sclerotic. Lachrymation. Edematous swelling of, and of
surrounding parts. Agglutinated, at night. Paralytic stiffness of lids,
mostly in evening. Pale vision. Progressive paralysis of optic nerve.

Ears.–

Bloody,
purulent discharge from, with difficult hearing. Inflammatory swelling
of parotid glands.

Nose.–

Nosebleed
at night and when stooping. Ulcerated nostrils discharging stinking pus.
Erysipelatous swelling of, which spreads sidewise beneath eyes.

Face.–

Sickly,
pale, with pointed nose and blue rings under eyes. Distorted, drawn
away. Yellow, after every attack: Swelling, with glistening redness.
Vesicular erysipelas, the vesicles are full of yellow moisture, with
burning crawling, they dry into burning itching crusts. Acne rosacea
with a clean skin. Eruptions with ichorous exudates. Cramp like pain in
the maxillary joint, or as though it would be dislocated, especially
when yawning. Inflammatory swelling of submaxillary glands.

Teeth.–

Sticking,
jerking ache in evening and at night. Crawling in. Toothache. from
warmth or cold, after bathing. Loose, especially lower incisors.

Mouth.–

Salty
mucus in. Hawking of mucus. Salivation. Sensation of fur on tongue.

Throat.–

Sensation
as though’ something were torn off. Painful swallowing of solids.
Narrowing of and of oesophagus, he is able to swallow fluids only.
Sticking and pressure during empty swallowing. Violent burning, when
drinking brandy.

Appetite:
Complete loss of appetite, with aversion to all food, especially bread
and meat. Unquenchable thirst from dryness of mouth or throat. Nightly
feverish thrust.

Taste:
Putrid in mouth, with proper taste to food. Sweetish, in mouth. Bitter:
Also of food, especially bread. Bloody.

Eructations:
Crawling in stomach, with violent eructations when raising up.
Accumulation of water in mouth.

Nausea, etc. – qualmishness, with ravenous hunger, disappearing
after eating. Gastric symptoms every night. Sudden vomiting when eating.
Vomiting of ingesta whenever he talks, especially when lying on back.

Stomach.–

Throbbing
and ulcerative pain when touching pit, like that of a ripe boil. Cold
sensation in, with a feeling as if full of stones. Fullness of after
eating. Pressure after eating bread. Sensation as though’ something were
torn loose, when stooping or making a misstep.

Abdomen.–

Painful
distension after eating. Sensation of tearing loose in, or as though’ it
would fall off. Contractive spasm in, especially in umbilical region.
Inflammation of. Sensation of a heavy lump lying in. Scarlet redness of
lower a., extending to navel. Ulcerative pain in walls of when
scratching.

Stool.–

Nightly,
watery diarrhoea, with abdominal pains. Hacked or foaming. Diarrhoea
alternating with constipation. Hard, retarded. Ineffectual urging.

Urine.–

Diminished
discharge, while he drinks much. Frequent and profuse passage of watery
u. Hot. Involuntary urination during rest.

Sexual organs.–

Horrid
eruption on. thickened scrotum. Moist eruption on scrotum. Swelling of
foreskin and glans. Swollen urethra. Intensified sexual desire.

Female.–

Menses:
Too early and too profuse. Continuing too long, with scarcely a day’s
intermission. Discharges of blood during pregnancy, of lumps of
coagulated blood from uterus with labor – like pains.

Respiration.–

Anxious
oppression arising from epigastrium. Oppression of, from pressure and
painfulness in epigastrium. Short, before stool. Hot breath.

Cough.–

Spasmodic,
shattering c., excited by tickling, creeping in larynx, trachea and
chest. tickling, in evening, causing dryness of throat. Dry, in evening,
until midnight. Dry, when awaking, early in morning. Hemoptysis, with
expectoration of bright red, lumpy, or sometimes brownish, blood. During
cough, stitches in chest, general sweat and pain in stomach.
Expectoration of acrid pus in stomach. Expectoration of acrid pus or
grayish – green, cool mucus, of a putrid, flat, metallic, sour or salty
taste.

Larynx and trachea.–

Dryness
in.

Chest.–

Tension
and constriction in region of throat – pit. Stitches in, during rest as
well as when sneezing and breathing. Shattering in. Bursting pain in.
Sensation of tenderness in lower part of. Anxious palpitation when
sitting. Trembling at heart. disappearance of milk from breasts, with
burning heat of body/ Milk flows from mammae.

Back.–

Painful
tension and squeezing between scapulae. Sprained pain in shoulders, back
and limbs. cold sensation spreading over. Bruised pain in lumbar region,
when sitting still or lying thereon, lying on something hard.

Neck:
Stiff nape. Sprained pain extending from nape down between scapulae.

Upper Extremities.–

Tearing
and burning in shoulders, with lameness of arms, during rest. Sprained
shoulder. Paralytic, with coldness and insensibility of arms. Trembling
of arms after moderate exertion. Swelled axillary glands. Erysipelatous
swelling of arms. Hot swelling of hands in evening. Distended blood
vessels on hands. Cracked skin on backs of hands. Warts. Hang – nails.

Lower Extremities.–

Pain in hips when rising from sitting or ascending steps. Sciatica,
after excessive exertion. Painful jerks in upper thigh, like a kind of
cramp, when extending limb while walking. Dislocative pain in hip, knee
and ankle joint. Painful swelling of upper half of knee. Swelling of
feet in evening.

Generalities.–

Whole
body feels shattered. Great weakness, weariness and bruised sensation,
especially when sitting and more particularly when at rest. constant
tossing about in bed, during which certain limbs seem paralyzed. Bruised
sensation in limbs upon which he does not lie, in the morning in bed.
Tension, drawing and tearing in limbs, mostly with a numb sensation,
especially during rest. Sensation, as though’ some thing were torn loose
in inner parts. Intolerance of cold (open) air, it excites stitches in
joints. Effects of excessive muscular exertion and overlifting, or
contusions combined with over – exertion. dislocation and dislocative
pains in joints. Numbness of extremities, after preceding twitching and
crawling therein. Convulsive twitchings and other symptoms after cold
baths. the symptoms are intensified in the evening and at night, after
midnight, during rest, from cold or becoming cold and from getting it
while sweating.

Tissues.–

Glands
inflamed, swollen and indurated.

Bones.–

Pain
in limbs, as though’ the flesh were beaten from bones or the bones were
being scraped. Inflammation and swelling of the cylindrical bones.

Skin.–

Painfully
sensitive to cold open air. Burning itching, especially on hairy parts.
Burning vesicular eruptions. Nettlerash with burning itching. Burning
ulcers. Herpetic eruptions alternating with dysenteric stools and chest
symptoms. Thickening and induration of. Warts. Fissures. Frost – bites.

Fever.–

Pulse:
Irregular, generally accelerated, but weak, languid and soft, sometimes
imperceptible and intermittent, Chill: Most frequently in
evening, often starting from feet or shoulder blades. As if dashed with
cold water, or as if blood ran cold thro’ veins. cold sensation from
every movements. With increased pains, especially in limbs. With heat
and redness of face. Rapidly alternating with heat. One – sided,
coldness of right side with heat of left side, Coldness of head and back
part of body. with heat of forepart. Coldness and paleness, alternating
with heat and redness of face. Heat: After the chill, often with
concomitant sweating, with relief of accompanying symptoms and the pains
in limbs. Universal, as from pouring hot water over one, or as if the
blood ran hot thro’ the veins. Flying heat, with sweat, spreading from
umbilicus, often alternating with chill. With nettlerash. Sweat:
Universal, mostly during the heat, often excepting the face. Copious,
night and morning s. Musty, offensive or sour smelling. With the pains,
while sitting. Severe itching of the eruption during. Severe itching of
the eruption during. And trembling with the pains. One head and face
only or on body only.

Relationship.–

Allied
Remedies: ACO., Am
– m., Ang., Arn., ARS.,
Bell., BRY., Calc-c., Caust., Cham., cic., clem.,
Coff., Dulc., Euphor., Hep., Lyc., Merc.,
Mez., Nit – ac., Nux-v., Phos.,
Phos – ac., Phyt., Puls., RHOD., Samb.,
SEP., Sil., Sul., verat – a. When
rhus seems insufficient Calc – flu. acts deeper and longer.

Complementary. – Bry., Calc – c.,
LYC., Phyt., sul., tuber.

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