Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica

Camphora Officinarum camph.

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Mind

Vanishing senses. Raving, Great fears. Hopeless dependency. Hurried manner. Madness.

Sensorium

Reeling, vertigo. Stupefied and unconscious.

Head

Violent congestion to. constriction and throbbing in brain, especially in occiput. Meningitis from sunstroke. Convulsively drawn sideways and backward. Worse: Motion, cold, fresh air. Better: Lying down, thinking of the pain.

Eyes

Troubles, fixed look. Sunken. Distorted. Greatly contracted pupils. Strongly reflecting and very bright objects cause photophobia.

Ears

Hot and inflamed, externally. Suppurating ulcers in.

Nose

Coryza. Nasal irritation. Feeling of a discharge but there is non.

Face

Deathly pale, alternating with redness. Icy cold, bluish - pale, Erysipelas on. Distorted facial expression. Trismus from spasm of masseter muscles.

Mouth

Burning in, and down throat into stomach. Foam from.

Stomach

Burning in. Great sensitiveness of pit to touch, it causes him to scream aloud.

Appetite: Thirstless. (Intense thirst.) Repugnance to tobacco.

Taste: Bitter, of food. Of all food is intensified.

Abdomen

Burning heat in entire.

Rectum

Irritation as if piles sitting on something hard.

Stool

Difficult, on account of narrowing rectum. Constipation, as from want of peristaltic action of intestines.

Urine

Retention of, with tenesmus of neck of bladder. Yellowish - green, musty smelling thin, weak urinary stream.

Sexual Organs

Want of sexual desire. Complete impotency.

Respiration

Asthmatic oppression of chest (also from copper and arsenical fumes). Intense oppression of chest. with constriction of larynx, as from sulphur vapor.

Larynx

Crying and whining in a hollow, hoarse tone.

Chest

Audible palpitation after eating, Trembling of heart.

Upper Extremities

Convulsive rotation of arms. Icy cold hands.

Lower Extremities

Great weakness of lower legs. Tensive pain in calves of legs and feet.

Generalities

Generalized tonic spasm with unconsciousness. Epileptic and convulsive attacks of a tonic kind, he falls to the ground unconscious, Unusual and rapid sinking of strength. Insensibility. Great tendency to take cold. Great sensitiveness to cold and cold air, all the symptoms an intensified thereby. Most pains are felt only when in a partly inattentive (self - abstracted) states. (Mag-p., Ars.) Camph. antidotes many remedies and corrects spoiled cases (Paor.). setting them in order again. Sometimes it acts powerfully again if an intercurrent dose of Opium is given.

Skin

Erysipelatous Inflammations. Dry.

Sleep

Stupefying somnolence with raving. Sleepiness at night, as though from nervous excitement. Snoring.

Fever

Pulse: Small, weak and slow, often imperceptible. Diminished flow of blood to parts distant from heart. Chill: Chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air. With shuddering and shaking. General icy coldness of entire body, with a deathly pale face, and congestion of blood to head and chest. Heat: With distended blood vessels, increased by every movement, Sweat: Cold often clammy, always debilitating.

Relationship

Allied Remedies: Brom., Canth., Glo, OP., Sec-c., Verat-a.