Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Antimonium Crudum ant-c.
Mind
Imbecility. Insanity. Ecstatic love and sentimental reveries in the moonlight. Apprehension and solicitude concerning his fate. Restlessness. Inclination to suicide by shooting.
Head
Stupefying ache with nausea in throat. Congestion to. Distensive pressing ache. Bone pains in cranium, the periosteum is painful and swelled and the bone itself feels swollen. Takes cold in, from getting wet or bathing in cold water. Worse: Evening, warmth, becoming heated, after bathing, after eating, after his accustomed smoke. Better: Walking in cool, open air, at rest.
Eyes
Inflammatory redness of, and of lids. Sticking in. Eye gum in canthi. Aversion to daylight.
Ears
Deafness as if a leaflet were lying before tympanum.
Nose
Sore, cracked, crusty nostrils. Sensation of coldness in, on inspiration.
Face
Sad expression. Vesicular, suppurating eruptions on, which form a yellow crust. Angles of mouth are sore and cracked. Swelled submaxillary glands.
Teeth
Bleeding from about, and from gums. Jerking pain in hollow teeth worse cold water. Gnashing.
Mouth
Salty saliva. Salivation Dirty, white - coated tongue. Hot breath.
Taste, - Flat, disagreeably insipid. Bitterness in mouth.
Stomach
Pains as from overloading. Deranged by gluttony. Spasm in, with sensitive pit and thirst. Weak.
Appetite, Long continued loss of, Loathes all food. Desires sour things. Intense thirst particularly at night.
Eructations: Tasting of ingesta.
Nausea, etc. - Loathing, qualmishness and nausea after derangement of stomach. Qualmishness after drinking only.
Abdomen
Distended and full after eating. Violent cutting in upper. Ascites.
Flatulence: Much, with grumbling and rattling in abdomen.
Stool
Hard, difficult. Faces too large. Diarrhoea: Alternating with constipation (in the aged), papescent or water, with cutting bellyache.
Anus
Hemorrhoids in. Continuous flow of mucus from.
Urine
Profuse discharge, containing mucus, with burning in urethra and lumbar pains. Dark. Involuntary urination when coughing. Kidney calculi.
Sexual Organs
Lustfulness and great sexual excitement. Uterine hemorrhage.
Respiration
Deep sighing. Suffocative oppression of chest.
Cough
Seeming to come from deep in abdomen, the coughs gradually grow weaker as if from increasing closure of throat by a plug. Dry in evening, in morning expectoration of a flat - tasting tenacious mucus mixed with dark blood.
Larynx
Heat in, during exercise in open air. Very weak voice. Aphonia from becoming heated.
Back
Neck: Rheumatic pain in.
Chest
Burning and sticking pain in.
Upper Extremities
Rheumatic pain in arms. Swelling, sticking and tension in deltoid. Inflammatory swelling of forearm. Slowly growing finger - nails.
Lower Extremities
Rheumatic pain in legs. White swelling (hydrarthrosis) of knee. Soles sensitive when stepping. Large callous corns on ball of foot. Inflammatory redness of heel.
Generalities
Excessive, corpulency (or emaciation). Dropsical swelling of entire body. Shattering of whole body. When they recur, complaints alternate from side to side of body. (Lac-c.). Gastric symptoms return most violent in afternoon, the others are worse from motion and warmth. Effects of wine, especially if sour. Results of auto - intoxication, intestinal.
Skin
Fatty itch. Popular and vesicular eruption like insect stings. Nettlerash. Chicken - pox. Arthritic nodes. White swelling. Fistulous ulcers. Liver spots and freckles.
Sleep
Great day sleepiness. Somnolency particularly in forenoon.
Fever
Pulse: Exceedingly irregular, now accelerated, now slow, alternating every few beats. Chill: Predominates by day, even in a warm room. Toward noon violent shaking chill with thirst (for beer). Exquisitely cold sensation in nose during inspiration. Heat: Predominating at night, but with cold feet until midnight. Great, from slightest motion, especially in sunshine, Sweat: In morning when awaking, wrinkles the finger - tips. Returning at the same hour usually on alternate mornings. Intermittent fever with loathing, qualmishness, vomiting, bitter taste in mouth and diminished (or excessive) thirst.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Ars., Bism., Bro., HEP., Ip., MERC., Pul., Sep., SUL.