Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Ammonium Carbonicum am-c.
Mind
Difficult thinking. Easily makes mistakes in talking and writing. Forgetful and distracted. Sadness and weeping with fears and presentiments of impending evil. Very peevish and ill - humored during cloudy weather. Satiety of life. Disobedient.
Vertigo
With nausea, toward evening.
Head
Chronic headache with nausea. Feeling as if brain were loose. Beating and pressing in forehead, as if head would burst. Heaviness and fullness in forehead. Worse: Evening: after eating, after motion in open air, Better: Half - reclining position, external pressure, warmth.
Eyes
Burning in with photophobia. Dim vision with glimmering. Nearsighted. Catarrh.
Ears
Difficult hearing with suppuration and itching of. Hard swelling of parotid gland.
Nose
Congestion of blood to tip, when stooping. Nosebleed, Chronic coryza, can breathe through mouth only. Stopped coryza at night.
Face
Deathly pale, bloated. Itchy eruption with swollen cervical glands. Herpes about mouth. Many freckles. Dry, cracked lips, with burning pains.
Teeth
Jerking, tearing ache, by biting teeth together. Sticking ache. Loose. Swollen gums, which bleed easily.
Mouth
Swelling of inner surface of cheek, Blisters in, also on tongue. Throat, sore, as if a foreign body had lodged there.
Stomach
Pressure in with nausea and sensitiveness of pit after eating. Intolerant of pressure of clothes on.
Appetite: He cannot eat without also drinking. Great desire for sugar. Continual thirst.
Taste: Bitter, in morning.
Eructations: Scratchy heartburn after eating.
Nausea: And vomiting after every meal.
Abdomen
Spasm in, with contractive sensation, nausea and collection of water in mouth.
Stool
Constipated. Retarded, hard, knotty.
Anus
Hemorrhage from, during and independently of stool. Moist hemorrhoids. Itching of.
Urine
Nightly, also involuntary urination.
Sexual Organs
Pollutions follow a forcing and drawing in testes.
Female
Menses: Too scant and too short, of blackish acrid blood. Too early and too profuse. Many complaints during. Burning, acrid, watery leucorrhoea.
Respiration
Tightness of chest with palpitation, particularly during exercise and when ascending steps. Asthmatic symptoms of dropsical persons.
Cough
Dry, as from feather down in throat, with hoarseness. Night cough. With bloody expectoration after previous sweetish (blood) taste in throat, with violent respiratory symptoms.
Chest
Congestion to. Sticking in left side of, lying thereon. Hydrothorax Palpitation.
Back
Drawing through entire length of, from lumbar region to nape.
Upper Extremities
Distended blood vessels and blue hands after washing, with cold water or letting them hang down. Deadened sensation in arms and fingers. Pain in wrist which had been formerly sprained. Skin peels from palms.
Lower Extremities
Bruised pain in hip joints and thighs. Twitching in knees. Cramp in soles of feet. Painful redness and swelling of great toe, in evening.
Generalities
Wrenching, tearing in joints by warmth of bed. Restlessness of body in evening. Inclination to stretch limbs. Aversion and unusual sensitiveness to open or cold air. Emaciation. Aversion to motion. Symptoms are intensified in evening. Right side of body is mostly affected. Worse: Washing. Mucous membranes first then circulatory apparatus.
Skin
Violent itching and burning vesicles after scratching. Freckles. Ganglion chafed skin in children.
Sleep
Day sleepiness. Nightly nausea and ebullitions of blood.
Fever
Pulse: Hard, tense and rapid. Chill: Attacks of in evening, often alternating with heat, till toward midnight. In open air. Heat: Most in evening, especially on face, with cold feet. Sweet: In early morning, most on joints. Persistent, day or night sweats.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Bro., Calc - c, flu - ac., Hep., Phos., Sec-c.