Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Clematis Erecta clem.
Mind
Sadness, and fear of impending misfortunes. Morose discontent.
Head
Boring pain in temples. Moist vesicles and excoriation on occiput.
Eyes
Inflamed, with profuse lachrymation. Inflammation of iris. Biting, smarting in margins of lids when closing eyes. Stitches in angles of. Extreme photophobia.
Face
Pale, sickly countenance. Moist eruption on it, starts with a stitching pain. White, sticking blisters on, and on nose, as from sun burn. Cancer of lips. Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.
Teeth
Stitching and jerking drawing toothache, when lying in a horizontal position at night, driving him to despair. Worse: Smoking.
Abdomen
Swelling, and induration, with twitching pain in inguinal glands.
Urine
Increased discharge of. Discharge of purulent urine. Stopped, of discharged drop by drop, from narrowing of urethra.
Sexual Organs
Painfully swollen and indurated testes. - Thickened scrotum. Aversion to coition, as after excessive sexual indulgence.
Back
Neck: Encircled by an itching pimply eruption having purulent tips, with soreness and rawness after scratching. Moist eruption on, extending up to occiput.
Chest
Swelled and indurated mammae. Cancer of mammae.
Upper Extremities
Swollen axillary glands. Spreading vesicles on the hands and fingers. Worse by cold water.
Lower Extremities
Scaly, crusty tetter on thighs or legs.
Generalities
Extraordinary emaciation. Flaccidity of all muscles. Twitching of muscles. Vibration though entire body after lying down.
Tissues
Glands painfully swollen and indurated.
Skin
Crawling, throbbing and burning in ulcers, with sticking in their edges when touched. Chronic, humid herpes itching intolerably from warmth of bed and after washing. The painful, non - itching, tettery eruption over entire body is red and moist during the increasing, but pale and dry during the waning moon. Scaly herpes with thick crusts. Itching, moist eruption spreads by a corrosive ichor with redness, heat and swelling of skin.
Sleep
Day sleepiness with nightly sleeplessness.
Fever
Pulse: Excited, with throbbing in all blood vessels. Chill: With shuddering, then sweat without previous heat. Shivering c. every time he uncovers. Heat: Dry, with general hot feeling, only at night. Sweat: Profuse at nights, most toward morning, with aversion to uncovering.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Bry., Graphs, Merc., RHOD., Rhus-t.