BENZOIC ACID

BENZOIC ACID. [Benz. ac.] Benzoic acid C6 H5, CO, OH.

► Omits words while writing. ► Confused head. ► Inclined to dwell on unpleasant things. ► Child cross, wants to be nursed in the arms. ► Anxiety ; while sweating.

► Vertigo, as if he must fall sideways, mostly in the afternoon.

► Pain and heat in the region of the so-called organs of reverence and firmness. ► Head symptoms worse from mental emotions, exposure to a draft of air, uncovering one self ; in the morning on awaking.

► Cold sweat on the head.

► Burning in the eyes and lids. ► Throbbing in the eyeball. ► Worse reading by artificial light ; walking, in the open air.

► Sneezing and hoarseness. ► Takes cold in the head readily.

► Coppery spots on the face. ► Face red, with little blisters. ► Burning heat of the face ; or of one side. ► Circumscribed redness. ► Tension in one side of the face. ► Numb feeling in the face. ► Symptoms relieved by external heat, pressure, or friction. ► Cold sweat on the face.

► Taste : bitter ; of blood. ► Extensive ulceration of the tongue, with deeply chapped fungoid surfaces. ► Tongue coated with white mucus ; morning.

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

► Angina faucium and tonsillaris with the characteristic high-colored, strong urine. ► Mouth and throat symptoms relieved by eating. ► Heat in the oesophagus, as from acid eructations.

► Appetite in the evening ; lost in the morning ; nausea. ► Thirst with sleepiness ; evening.

► Loathing sickness at the stomach, pain and discomfort ; with gagging. ► Vomiting of a salty or bitter substance.

► Weak digestion. ► Burning or warmth ; pressure in the stomach. ► Gastric symptoms increased when walking, especially ascending.

► In region of liver constant fine stitching midway in upper portion thereof, not increased by pressure. ► Obstruction of the liver.

► Heat through the abdomen. ► Cutting about the navel ; tearing bellyache. ► Pressure of clothing makes him feel wearied.

► Stools copious, watery, greyish-white, like dirty soap-suds ; excessively offensive, scenting whole house. ► Stools of a strong, pungent smell, like that of the urine. ► Putrid, bloody stools.

► Sore pain in back ; burning in left kidney, with drawing when stooping ; dull pain in the kidneys, loins stiff ; right knee swollen. ► Nephritic colic ; urine deep red, of a strong odor. ► Irritability of bladder : with muco-purulent discharges, enlarged prostate ; with concretions of urate of ammonia ; calculus. ► Old persons : dribbling of strong smelling urine. ► Dysuria senilis gravel trifling, irritable bladder. ► Urine high-colored ; increased specific gravity ; hot, scalding ; ammoniacal ; very offensive in many diseases. ► A granular kind of mucus mixed with phosphates in the sediment ; urine dark, reddish-brown ; acid reaction, or very offensive ; fleeting pains in bladder, not when urinating, but at other times ; vesical catarrh, from suppressed gonorrhoea, calculi or gout. ► White flocculent sediment immediately after voiding urine, composed of phosphate and carbonate of lime, without uric acid ; pale, languid ; weak loins. ► Enuresis nocturna of children ; urine strong.

► Gleet ; urine offensive. ► Gonorrhoea suppressed by Copaiva, with offensive urine.

► Prolapsus uteri with fetid urine.

► Gastric derangements when ascending a height. ► Retention of urine ; infants.

► Slight hoarseness in the morning, sneezing.

► Difficult of breathing on awaking. ► Asthma with inflammatory rheumatic complaints. ► Mucous oppression of the lungs.

► Dry constant, hacking cough after suppressed gonorrhoea ; cough followed by expectoration of green mucus.

► Pneumonia, asthenic forms, great weakness, difficult breathing increasing every hour. ► Stitches in chest, especially on breathing deeply ; evening. ► Pain about the third rib, right side, midway between sternum and side, increased by breathing. ► Pain in left side, about sixth rib, increased by deep inspiration and bending to either side.

► Pains change place incessantly, but are most constant about the heart. ► Awakens after midnight with violent pulsations of the heart and temporal arteries, 110 per minute ; internal but no external heat ; cannot go to sleep. ► Sense of weakness in the praecordia. ► Palpitation while sitting ; worse after drinking. ► Palpitation worse at night, lying ; at times tearing, rheumatic pains in the extremities, relieving the heart. ► Pulse : accelerated ; full ; slower and weaker ; intermittent. ► Gout affecting the heart.

► Pressure of clothing on chest is annoying.

► Deep, penetrating pain in posterior part of left side, at about the sixth rib. ► Pain right side of back between tenth dorsal vertebra and side. ► Dull pain in region of kidneys ; stiffness in the loins. ► Trembling in the lumbar region.

► Tearing pains apparently in the bones. ► Ganglion of the wrist. ► Fingers swollen ; tearing and the fine stitching pains in various parts of the limbs. ► Red spots on the fingers. ► Cold hands, with head symptoms.

► Pain in left hip, knee and toes ; thence in muscles of calf, and then in the knee ; after it has left these parts, appears in the right thigh and ankle. ► Swelling of the right knee, ulcerative pain in the whole leg ; with pains in the kidneys. ► Pain in the right knee ; then in the left. ► Cracking or sense of dryness in the knee-joints. ► Tearing and stitches especially in the metatarsal-joints or the right great toe. ► Pain in right, later in left tendo-achillis. ► During the night gout commences in the right great toe. ► Gout going from left to right. ► Cold feet ; cold sweat.

► Gouty concretions. ► Nodes on the joints of upper and lower limbs, cracking and kinking on motion. ► Tearing, fine stitches in various parts of the limbs. ► Syphilitic rheumatism.

► Rest : 4. Motion : 34. Walking : 5, 17, 40. Ascending : 17, 24. Bending to either side : 28. Stooping : 21. Sitting : 29. Lying : 29.

► Trembling : with palpitation of heart ; in loins. ► Weariness, lassitude : 4, 21.

► Sleepiness, with dulness of the head. ► Awakens : with difficulty of breathing ; with palpitation. ► Starting up from sleep.

► Morning : 3, 11, 14, 25, 40. Afternoon : 2. Evening : 14, 28. Night : 29, 33, 40. Midnight : 29.

► Heat : 8. Draught of air : 3. Uncovering : 3. Open air : 5.

► Cold hands ; feet ; back ; knees, as from cold wind. ► Violent internal heat on awaking. ► Sense of heat in oesophagus ; stomach ; belly. ► Heat : with sweat ; with cold in the head ; with nightly palpitation. ► Sweat while eating ; while walking ; morning in bed, especially in face. ► Cold sweat. ► Sweat with itching.

► Periodically : 4.

► Symptoms, in the sick, go from left to right, and from below upwards ; especially in rheumatism and gout. ► Right : 21, 28, 31, 33. Left : 12, 21, 28, 31, 33.

► Emaciation.

► Pressure : 8, 18, 19, 30. Friction : 8. Scratching : 46.

► Itching on various parts, yielding a rather agreeable sensation on being scratched, but leaving a burning. ► Slightly elevated, wart-like, round surfaces about the anus, varying from a half to one and a half inches in diameter ; with smarting soreness ; urine strong-scented and high-colored ; after using Copaiva for chancre. ► Syphilitic spots and marks.

► Gouty diathesis. ► Rheumatic diathesis in syphilitic or gonorrhoeal patients.

► Useful in gout after Colchic. fails. ► Bad effects from Copaiva : 22, 46.