Sour belching.
Regurgitation of food, with loathing and qualmishness.
Heartburn after eating.
Feeling of a spoiled stomach.
Throbbing pain in epigastrium.
Moderate drawing and tension in the epigastrium, alternating with chilliness, during motion in the open air.
Tensive, often oppressive pressure in the stomach, after eating.
Weak feeling in the stomach.
Nightly constriction of the stomach.
Much growling with griping toward the pylorus.
Slight boring at the cardiac orifice, not infrequently followed by burning.
HYPOCHONDRIUM:
Not infrequently, fleeing stitches and tearing boring from the right to the hypochondrium; worse while lying, with painful distention of the right hypochondrium; better from eructations.
Pressure deep within the liver.
Fleeting burning in the liver.
Full feeling in the liver.
Tensive and rending asunder pain, like congestion of the liver, in the evening and on motion in bed.
Tightness and distension in the diaphragm especially on the side of the liver.
ABDOMEN :
Spasmodic drawing directly over the navel; a gnawing, drawing often passing into actual pain at night.
Very painful tension and pressive twisting about the navel; below it there is a sharply defined red, painful, tense, slightly raised swelling.
Swollen abdomen, especially on the right side.
Spasmodic retraction of the abdominal muscles.
Feeling of a load like a hundred weight on the lower abdomen, while lying.
Distension of the hypogastrium with transient stitches like needles, sometimes a sticking tearing, extending into the right side of the chest.
Outward sticking pains in the hypogastrium, excited by coughing or sneezing.
Frequent rumbling and grumbling sometimes cutting, before the advent of the menses.
Almost a drum – like tenseness of the lower abdomen, with frequent rumbling from below upward and eructations, after eating; gradually disappearing when moving about slowly in the room.
Pressive pinching in the intestines ordinarily passing into a cutting pulling, often before stool; not infrequently also in the evening.
Sense of burning heat in the whole lower abdomen, when sitting. Continuous violent pinching and cutting boring in the intestines.
Strong pressure in the hypogastrium, and rattling then profuse, first mucus and lastly black bloody stools.
STOOL :
Pinching then copious discharge of flatus.
Discharge of flatus.
Frequent ineffectual urging to stool.
Passing hard stools in the morning.
Urging to stool; thin, biting, acrid, copious, twice with much bloody mucus, in the evening.
Constipation, with drawing tension from the small of the back to the loins.
Sticking drawing in the region of the rectum.
Violent pressure or sometimes burning and cutting in the rectum.
Protruding hemorrhoidal nodes.
Biting burning in the hemorrhoids.
Excoriation and eating in about the anus.
URINE :
Occasional stitches in the region of the bladder along with pressive pains in the rectum, without stool.
Burning dribbling of urine, during stool.
Forcible urging to urinate, with violent itching and crawling in the meatus.
Discharge of much mucus.
Profuse fiery red, turbid, thick urine.
He urinates blood.
Constriction of the urethra.
Violent burning in the urethra.
Sticking from the urethra toward the abdominal cavity.
Feeling stitches and drawing tension in the ureters.
SEXUAL ORGANS :
Tearing or inward boring in the right testicle.
Spasmodic erections combined with tensive pain in penis.
Voluptuous sensations.
Inclination for coition.
Menses four days too early and very profuse.
Raw sore pain in labia, with frequent biting – itching.
Tensive drawing, pressure or sometimes fleeting stitches from the pudendum upward into the uterus.
COUGH :
Cold air as well as cold water causes an irritation to cough in the larynx.
Violent straining cough with spasmodic constriction of the twigs of the lower bronchi.
Occasionally a somewhat slimy bloody expectoration.
RESPIRATION :
Very short, irregular, panting, rattling breathing, at night while lying, diminished by raising up.
Great oppression and extraordinary anxiety along with a feeling as if the thorax were screwed together, almost to suffocation.
Very violent oppression of the chest, with a stopped feeling, as the blood could not flow freely through the larger blood vessels.
CHEST :
Occasional fleeting stitches crossing diagonally through the whole lung, the attacks of shortness of breath.
Violent pressure in the back of the lungs, sometimes a feeling as if they would be torn asunder, at night.
Active compression of the right lobe of the lung, along with it there appears sticking drawing or painful tension toward the left shoulder.
Dull sticking in the left chest, toward the spine.
EXTERNAL CHEST :
Slight, dull pressure in the external chest.
Swelling of the female breasts.
Feeling of heat in them, sometimes burning.
Frequent fleeting stitches in the right female breast.
Occasional tensive drawing in the left (breast) at night.
Flaccidity and pricking superficially in both breasts in the forenoon.
Continuous itching in the nipples, turning to burning after scratching, in the morning.
Violent digging in the sternum, forcing its way into both clavicles.
Sudden, violent tearing or drawing from within the thorax down into the hypogastrium, alternating with burning, intolerable from the heat of the bed.
HEART :
Intense pain in the heart with pressure toward the abdominal cavity.
Pressive crowding from the heart into the hepatic region, with fearful anxiety and a bluish red or brown face, at night.
Heart beat weak, suppressed, unequal.
BACK :
Violent tearing in the left side of the back.
Jerks of lightning rapidity in the spine, leaving a bruised feeling behind.
He lies on the back.
Formication in the spine, especially the lumbar region.
A circumscribed, intensely painful spot about the middle of the spine, on tough it burns unbearably, at midnight.
Sense of weakness in lumbar region.
Drawing from the ribs of the right side into the right loin.
NECK :
Stiffness of the neck (anterior).
Tension from the nape into both shoulders.
Occasional slight chilly feeling between the shoulders, in the morning.
Boring pain in the shoulder – joints.
Burning as from hot water, in the nape.
UPPER EXTREMITIES :
A lame feeling, with formication in both arms.
Occasional and thrusts from the chest out into both arms.
Stiffness of the entire right arm.
Biting and gnawing deep in the left humerus, as if in the periosteum, worse at night.
Digging boring in the wrist, with an outward tearing pain as far as the bones of the forearm.
Swelling of the wrists, with redness and inward sticking pains.
The hands go to sleep.
Burning on the dorsae of both hands.
Tensive pains in the fingers of the right had, severest in the thumbs.
Numb feeling of the tips of the fingers of the left hand.
Find stitches in the little finger of the right hand, with drawing toward the hand.
LOWER EXTREMITIES :
Violent burning itching close under the hip joint of the right thigh, worse from rubbing.
In the knee and ankle joint the most maddening, tearing, burning, often forcibly distending pains, as from a glowing hot wire thrust into the bone or the whole leg were split.
Swelling and purple redness of the ankle joints, extremely painful on pressure; even the bed cover is unbearable, at night.
Boring digging throughout the whole shine bone into the ankle joint.
Boring and smarting pain on the right outer ankle bone.
Boring pain in heels (Boger).
Complete numbness of the dorsum of the right foot, almost an insensibility.
Shaking – buzzing in the soles of the feet alternating with burning.
Tearing sticking in the toes.
Fine sticking in the left little toe.
Swelling and marked redness of the left great toe with violent tensive pain, after midnight.
Acts from 8 to 12 hours in acute, and about 12 days in chronic diseases.
Coffee seems to intensify its action.
This symptom complex appears on pp. 186-190 of Vol II of the Real Lexicon, published in Leipzig, in 1836. If we are to judge of its value by the other article contained in this valuable work I should say it is very great, and that the pathogenesis is genuine even although the original provings are not available now. Several of the symptoms have proven very reliable in my hands, particularly the shortness of breath on exposure to cold air, cardio vascular spasm – of sclerosis. Stille saw no advantage in using it, over Cimicifuga, but these symptoms look genuine and have an individuality which bespeaks great usefulness, in spite of having been hidden so long in a little known work. A little experience will soon set the proper stamp of value upon them.
Born in Western Pennsylvania, he graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and subsequently Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. He moved to Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1888, practicing there, but also consulting worldwide. He gave lectures at the Pulte Medical College in Cincinnati and taught philosophy, materia medica, and repertory at the American Foundation for Homoeopathy Postgraduate School. Boger brought BÅ“nninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory into the English Language in 1905. His publications include :
Boenninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory
Boenninghausen's Antipsorics
Boger's Diphtheria, (The Homoeopathic Therapeutics of)
A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915
General Analysis with Card Index, 1931
Samarskite-A Proving
The Times Which Characterize the Appearance and Aggravation of the Symptoms and their Remedies