Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica

Bismuthum bism.

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Mind

Complete apathy. Morose discontent with continued complaining. Inconstancy. Solitude is intolerable.

Head

Pressure and sense of painful heaviness in forehead, temples and occiput, with pressure on eyeballs. Outward boring in the forehead, orbits, root of and down nose. Alternate contraction and expansion in forehead, eyes and nose. Worse: Afternoon, after eating, rest. Better: Motion, touch, washing, cold drinks.

Eyes

Pressure on eyeballs.

Face

Earthy complexion with distorted features and blue rings around eyes. Pressive pain in zygomae.

Teeth

Painful soreness and swelling of gums.

Mouth

Painful sensitiveness, as if buccal cavity were excoriated. Tongue coated white in evening.

Stomach

Pressure in, after eating. Burning in.

Appetite: Great thirst for cold drinks in evening.

Nausea: Nauseating qualmishness after eating.

Abdomen

Pinching, pressing, rumbling and urging to stool in.

Stool

Ineffectual urging to, in evening.

Urine

Watery. Urination frequent, passing a large quantity every time.

Sexual Organs

Pressive pain in testes.

Respiration

Tightness of, with burning constriction of chest.

Cough

Day and night, with copious expectoration.

Chest

Boring and burning in.

Upper Extremities

Paralytic tearing pressure in forearm, hands and fingers.

Lower Extremities

Tearing in feet and toes.

Generalities

Great exhaustion and relaxation. Tearing pains which disappear during motion.

Bones

Pressive tearing in bones of feet and hands.

Skin

Eroding itching, worse by scratching.

Sleep

Starting as if frightened during. Unrefreshing, at night. Extreme drowsiness in morning.

Fever

Pulse: Mostly contracted, somewhat spasmodic and sometimes intermittent. Chill: With deathly coldness of entire body. Heat: Flying, over entire body, especially on head and chest, early in morning after rising, external, dry, burning. Sweat: wanting.

Relationship

Allied Remedies: Ant-c., Bell., CALC-C., Coccl., Ign., Spig., Staph.