Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Teucrium Marum Verum teucr.
Mind
Indolence, with indisposition to both mental and physical exertion. Greatly increased irritability after eating. Extraordinary excitability and sensitiveness. Irresistible inclination to sing.
Head
Pressive pain in front, stooping.
Eyes
Look as though he had been weeping, with biting in canthi and red conjunctiva. Biting tears in, when in open air.
Ears
Ache, with sticking pains. Dry herpes on lobules. A hissing sound in, excited by passing the hand over them, talking and drawing air thro nose.
Nose
Violent crawling in. Sticking tearing high up in. Sensation as though one nostril, were half obstructed. Nasal polypi. Frequent sensing, with crawling in, without coryza. Coryza with stopped nostrils. glasses make the nose sore.
Face
Pale countenance. Frequent sense of a flush of heat, without redness. A pair of deep furrows with high edges on both sides of inner surface of under lip.
Teeth
Violent tearing in roots of stomach, teeth and adjacent gums.
Mouth
Biting and scraping in posterior fauces and at root of tongue. Much mucus in. Pressive or sticking sore throat, which impedes swallowing.
Taste: Musty, after hawking up mucus.
Stomach
Sense of emptiness with rumbling in. Anxious oppression in pit.
Regurgitation of ingesta of a bitter taste.
Appetite: Sensation of hunger, in morning and evening.
Abdomen
Cutting in bowels after drinking beer or water.
Flatulence: Copious, silent discharge of hot, bilious - smelling flatus. Obstructed f.
Stool
Profuse evacuation of papescent, foul feces. Discharge of many ascarides.
Anus
Incessant itching and crawling in.
Urine
Increased discharge of watery u.
Sexual organs
Greatly diminished sexual desire.
Cough
In evening after lying down, a short, dry, irritating c., from tickling in upper air passages (or as from dust therein), it is by the cough itself.
Chest
Tight feeling in (not connected with breathing). Accumulation of mucus, with a sense of dryness in air passages.
Upper Extremities
The fingers are easily bent over. Burning in finger - tips. Panaritis.
Lower Extremities
Toe - nails are ulcerated and grow into the flesh.
Generalities
Rheumatic tearing in limbs, especially in bones and joints. Asleep sensation in limbs. Damp weather aggravates. Sensation of nervous agitation and trembling in entire body. Sense of general relaxation of noon. Desire for exercise in open air, which is very agreeable and does not tire.
Bones
Tearing in.
Sleep
Nightly restlessness and sleeplessness from excitement, especially before midnight. Late falling to.
Fever
Pulse: Somewhat accelerated toward evening. Chill: After each meal, seemingly spreading from abdomen. With trembling in evening, especially when speaking of disagreeable things. Want of natural vital heat. Heat: Toward evening, with great excitement and loquacity. Sweat: Wanting.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Coff., Ign.,
Complementary: Calc-c.