BENZOIC ACID


Benzoic Acid homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Introduction

Benzoic acid, C6H5, CO, OH.

Obtained, by sublimation, from Gum benzoin, or artificially from several aromatic hydrocarbons.

Preparation for use, Tincture or trituration.

Mind

The mind is inclined to dwell upon unpleasant things.

If he saw any one who was deformed it made him shudder.

Sadness.

Sense of anxiety.

Sense of anxiety while sweating.

Activity of mind while at work, afterwards anxiety.

He was much surprised that, while writing, he omitted words every moment, which never was the case before (sixth and seventh day).

Comatose condition. (Ilisch, Medorrhinum Zeit. Russl).

Head

Confusion of the head.

Confusion of the head, and sleepiness.

Vertigo, making him fearful of falling sidewise, usually in the afternoon.

Excitement and lightness of the head, when sneezing in the morning.

Sensation as if there were air in the head.

Tired feeling in the head, as from night-watching.

Sensation of coldness in the head.

Sensation of shaking in the head.

The head-symptoms are generally accompanied with depression, lassitude, and loss of appetite.

After mental emotions, headache.

The head-symptoms are worse during rest, return periodically, and are often accompanied with pains in the stomach, nausea, gagging, and cold hands.

Pain and heat in the organs of reverence and firmness.

Pressure upon the whole upper part of the head and on the spinal column, as if it were pressed together like an elastic body, so that he stretched himself involuntarily and bent forward.

This sensation, without being painful, produces extreme anxiety, two days in succession in the forenoon, while sitting.

Rheumatic pain on the outside of the head.

Formication in the forehead.

Hard throbbing of the temporal arteries.

Pain in the temples, in the region of the organ of constructiveness.

Pain in the left temple.

Hammering pain in the temples, obliging him to lie down.

Tearing pain in the vertex.

Internal pain and bruised feeling in the sides of the head.

Itching of the hairy scalp.

Eyes

Distress in the eyes, as from want of sleep.

Burning heat in the eyes.

Burning heat in the lids.

Itching in the outer, and then in the inner, angle of the right eye.

Throbbing in the eyeballs.

Ears

Swelling behind the ears, which seems to reach the periosteum.

Starting in the ear.

Itching in the left ear.

Puffing in the ears from pulsation of thee temporal arteries.

When swallowing, noise in the ears.

Sensation in the ears like a sound of confused voices, especially when swallowing or when walking in the open air.

Nose

Redness at the angles of the nose.

Pain in the nasal bones.

Irritation in the left nostril, such as precedes sneezing, yet without being able to sneeze.

Sneezing and hoarseness.

A cold in the head readily occurs from exposure to cold; is renewed every day.

Epistaxis.

Pressure at the root of the nose.

Sensitiveness of the nose.

Itching of the septum of the nose.

Diminution of the sense of smell.

It seemed to him that he smelled dust, cabbage, or something stinking.

Face

Circumscribed redness of the face.

Numb feeling in the face.

Burning heat of the face.

Burning heat on only one-half of the face.

Tension in one side of the face.

Pressive sensation in the face.

Trembling of the lips.

Itching of the chin.

Mouth

Involuntary biting of the lower lip at dinner, on two successive days.

Stitches in a right lower hollow molar.

Slight cutting pain in the teeth.

Slow jerking in a right upper molar.

The Benzoic oil has been given for toothache.

The resin has been used as a chewing-gum in toothache.

(Schroeder).

Extensive ulcerations of the tongue, with deeply-chapped or fungoid surfaces.

Velvety coating on the tongue.

(*In both cases there was not the least suspicion of syphilitic affection; in both cases high-colored, strong-smelling urine.*) Tongue with a white mucous coat in the morning. tongue of a slightly bluish color.

Soreness on the back part of the tongue.

Soreness of the back part of the tongue, felt most while swallowing.

Sensation of soreness and rawness at the root of the tongue and on the palate.

An ulcerated tumor in the left side of the mouth, upon the soft commissure of the jaws, behind the last molar teeth.

Heat around the mouth.

After-taste of the food.

Slightly acid mucus.

Taste of blood.

The bread tastes smoky.

Flat, soapy taste after drinking water.

Salty taste of food.

Bitter taste, with pressure at the stomach and eructation.

Bitter taste on drinking coffee or milk.

Throat

Collection of mucus in the throat.

The thyroid gland feels swollen.

Sensation of swelling or of contraction in the throat.

It feels as if there were little lumps in the pit of thee throat, as if food were sticking there. (Fr. Husmann). Angina faucium and angina tonsillaris, with the characteristic urine.

Heat in the oesophagus, as from acid eructations.

Sensation of heat and scratching in the oesophagus and throat.

(Pereira).

Extremely unpleasant scratching in the throat. (Lehmann, Phys. Chimie). Difficulty in swallowing.

Incomplete swallowing.

Stomach

Increased appetite in the evening.

Loss of appetite, mornings.

In the evening, thirst with sleepiness.

Singultus.

Nausea, mornings.

Nausea, with gagging; with disturbances about the head.

Nausea, with loathing, and constant malaise.

Vomiting of a salty substance.

Bitter vomiting. with pregnant women, gastric derangements when ascending a height.

Sensation of warmth in the stomach.

Burning in the stomach.

(Honigberger).

Pressure in the stomach and eructations.

Fatigued by the pressure of the clothes on the epigastrium.

Abdomen

In the region of the lever, constant, fine, but violent stitching, midway in the upper portion thereof; it seems to be superficial, and is not increased by pressure (seventh day).

Obstruction of the liver.

(Honigberger).

Cutting about the navel, relieved by stool.

Uncommon discharge of wind downward in the afternoon and evening of first day.

Pain in the left side of the abdomen, immediately below the short ribs.

Sensation of heat throughout the abdomen.

Tearing bellyache.

Tensive pain in the groins.

Stool and Anus

Contraction of the extremity of the rectum.

Stitching in the rectum.

Slightly elevated, round surfaces, of a wart like appearance, and circular form, varying in diameter form half an inch to an inch and a half, at places running into each other, nearly covered both sides and the bottom of the sulcus ani, and causes much smarting and soreness of the part, with strong-scented and highly-colored urine (after previous use of Copaiva for chancre). fine stitching in the anus, on the evening of first day.

Formication at the anus.

Urging to stool, with ineffectual straining.

Bowels freely open, with extraordinary pressure to stool.

Diarrhoea of children; the discharge is copious, watery, clear- colored, very fetid; the urine at the same time is uncommonly deep-red, and the urinous odor very strong (in very many cases curative, or at least relieving).

Frothy stool.

Fetid, watery, white stools, very copious and exhausting, in infants, the urine being of very deep-red color.

Putrid, bloody stool.

Insufficient stool.

Urinary Organs

Vesical catarrh.

(G. Bird). Irritability of the bladder.

Too frequent desire to evacuate the bladder, the urine normal in appearance.

Gleet.

(Honigberger).

Urine at first increased in quantity only, and not in frequency.

In a few days urination became exceedingly frequent, with strong pressing and discharge of a clear urine.

Urine of an aromatic odor and saline taste, the odor long retained; most in the forenoon.

Urine more copious, somewhat turbid, otherwise of a natural color and odor.

After the daily use of a drachm after dinner, no Benzoic acid was found in the urine, traces of urea, and only mere traces of Hippuric acid.

Enuresis nocturna of children, where Nitrum failed. (Young). Decrease of the quantity of urine.

Urine aromatic.

Fetid urine, with prolapsus uteri.

(C. Hg). Urine of a very repulsive odor, of a changeable color, brownish, cloudy, of an alkaline reaction; effervescing with hydrochloric acid; white, flocculent sediment in the urine immediately after its passage, consisting of the phosphate and carbonate of lime, without uric acid.

The patient was pale, languid, with a sense of weakness in the loins.

(Farquhar) Thick urine.

Bloody urine.

Hot, scalding urine, of a deep-red color, and strong odor, causing so much suffering in its passage that this was performed but once a day.

Morbid condition of the urine, as in persons with calculus or gouty diathesis, (Ure), with concretions of urate of ammonia.

(Neidhard).

Urine highly colored, sometimes of the color of brandy; the urinous odor exceedingly strong.

Urine of the above character, of a specific gravity greater than that healthy urine; passed into the same vessel, it retains its placed below the healthy urine without admixture, and, though of a very deep-red color, deposits no sediment. Dark reddish-brown urine, of greater specific gravity than normal, with an acid reaction, even after some weeks; at the same time many fleeting pains deep in the region of the bladder, not when urinating, but at other times; also with deposit of mucous granules, and when standing, becoming, in a few days, covered with a thick, filmy crust, (one-twentieth grain of the undiluted acid).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.