Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica

Manganum mang.

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Mind

Quiet, introverted, peevishness.

Head

Congestion to. Sticking or tensive ache. Painful concussion in brain during motion. Headaches which come on when in the room, are in open air and vice versa. Headache from anything that increases congestion to head, straining of stool, physical exertion, etc.

Eyes

Burning heat and dryness. Myopia.

Ears

Violent earache. Sticking pain in, when talking. laughing, swallowing and walking briskly. Pains migrate from other parts into ears. Difficult hearing, as from stoppage of, varying with the change of weather. Cracking in, when blowing nose and swallowing.

Nose

Stuffed coryza, with obstruction of both nostrils.

Face

Pale, sunken. Dry lips. Corners of mouth ulcerated.

Teeth

Painfully sensitive. Smarting ache, insupportably intensified by cold things. Violent (tearing) pains, suddenly migrating to other parts, especially to ears.

Mouth

A dull stitch on both sides of larynx extending into ears, when swallowing. Sore throat, a cutting soreness when not swallowing. Chronic inflammation of throat. Nodules and burning vesicles on tongue. Nodules and burning vesicles on tongue. Slurring speech. Tremor of tongue.

Taste: Foul, flat, in mouth.

Stomach

Burning in, extending up into chest, with great restlessness.

Appetite: Aversion to food, with a sense of satiety. Thirstless.

Stool

Dry, knotty, difficult. Constipation.

Urine

Frequent urging to urinate. Earthy, violet - colored sediment.

Sexual organs

Twitching drawing in spermatic cord, with a sense of weakness in g.

Female

Menses: Too early.

Respiration

Hot breath, with disagreeable warmth in chest.

Cough

Dry, when reading aloud and talking, with painful dryness and roughness in larynx. Easy expectoration of much, grayish, yellow mucus in lumps early in morning.

Larynx

Rough, hoarse voice early in morning and in open air, from old established laryngeo - tracheal affections. Phthisis of, and of teaches.

Chest

Stitches shooting upwards and downwards in sternum and chest. Unpleasant warmth in. Thrusts from above downward in heart.

Generalities

Acts on lower extremities first. Violent drawing and tearing in extremities. Insupportable, nightly digging pains in joints. Red, glistening swelling of joints after taking cold. Arthritic gout with sticking, twitching and digging mostly at night, often onesided or diagonal, with red, glistening swelling of joints. Painful soreness of entire body in touch. Many symptoms change for better or worse with the weather, but are always worse at night.

Bones

Insupportable nightly digging in, and in periosteum. Inflammation of, and of periosteum.

Skin

Excoriation and deep cracks in flexors of joints. Itching herpes. Skin does not heal easily.

Sleep

Great drowsiness and fatigue at 8 o'clock in evening. Numerous, very vivid or distinctly remembered dreams.

Fever

Pulse: Very uneven and irregular, now quick, now slow, but always weak and soft. Chill: Mostly in evening, with icy - cold hands and feet. With heat in head and ache in forehead, lasting long after the chill. Shaking chill, with sticking headache, without thirst in evening. Heat: Sudden flying heat in face, on chest and over back. Sweat: Profuse all over, with short, anxious breathing. Itching night sweat, often on neck and legs only.

Relationship

Allied Remedies: Bry., (CHIN), Lyc., Puls.