Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Taraxacum tarax.
Mind
Irresolution. Despondency and discontent. Averse to work. Loquacity, with inclination to joke and laugh.
Vertigo
Reeling on walking in open air.
Head
Pressive pains. Sensation of constriction or distension of brain. Tearing in occiput. Only when walking or standing is he sensible of headache.
Eyes
Sticking burning in. Photophobia.
Ears
Sticking and tearing in, and behind.
Face
Reed, with sensation of heat. Pustules on cheeks, wings of nose and angle of mouth. Upper lip cracked.
Teeth
Sour blood exudes from hollow teeth. Dullness of. Drawing in hollow teeth, it extends into eyebrows.
Mouth
Accumulation of sour water in. Dry feeling in throat. Larynx feels pressed shut. Hawking of sour mucus which dulls the teeth. Thick white coat on tongue, peeling off in patches which afterward become very sensitive.
Stomach
Appetite: Aversion to tobacco smoke.
Taste: Bitter, in mouth, before eating. Saltish sour, of food, especially of butter and meat
Nausea: With anxiety and headache. And inclination to vomit after fat foods.
Abdomen
Sticking bellyache, especially in sides of. Sensation of bubbles bursting within.
Stool
Ineffectual urging. Is passed with difficulty even when not hard.
Rectum
Perineum: Voluptuous itching on, compelling him to scratch.
Urine
Frequent urging to urinate, with profuse discharge. Polyuria.
Chest
Pressive pain in. Sticking in. Twitching in intercostal muscles.
Back
Bubbling and rumbling in scapulae, with chill over entire body. Pressive sticking in spine and small of back, with oppression of breathing.
Neck: Twitching and sticking in muscles of, and of nape. Tearing from ear downward along sides of.
Upper Extremities
Twitching in muscles of arm. Icy cold finger tips.
Lower Extremities
Sticking in thighs, calves and soles of feet. Burning in knees, lower legs and toes. Pains in, worse at rest.
Generalities
The limbs are movable enough, but it seems as though' power of motion were impeded. Painfulness of all limbs to touch, and when in a false position. Sense of weariness through' power of motion were impeded. Painfulness of all limbs to touch, and when in a false position. Sense of weariness through' entire body, with inclination to sit or lie, with impaired consciousness. Most symptoms appear when sitting or standing and cease when walking.
Sleep
Sleepiness and falling to sleep when listening to scientific discourses. Day sleepiness and yawning when sitting.
Fever
Chill: and chilliness, especially after eating and drinking. General c. with headache. Shivering c., in open air. Heat: At night when awaking. especially on face and hands. Sweat: Very profuse throughout whole night, but most in first sleep before midnight. Very exhausting biting s., on skin.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Con., Kali-c., Puls., Valer.