BENZOINUM ODERIFERUM

Benzoinum Oderiferum

Spicebush

Pharmacy

Benzo. Benzoinum oderiferum. Spicebush. Fever-bush. Lindera benzoin. Laurus benzoïn. Benzoc. N. O. Lauraceae. Tincture of twigs. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies.

Clinical

Fever. Hair, oily. Hip, pain. Vertigo.

Homeopathic

The symptoms of Benz.o.. as shown in a short proving, somewhat resemble those of Laur. Sense of touch fine, quick, and pleasant. The hair is oily. Feverish.

Empty sensation at the stomach and lower part of bowels. Wakes from sleep with a sick feeling in stomach and bowels, tired feeling, turns often in bed at night.

Mind

Unpleasant, fearful feeling.

Head

Hair oily.

Limbs

Hips feel crushed. Pains in knees. Feet and legs cold up to knees, remained cold in bed.

Modalities

Worse after sleep. Worse on lying down. Head swims with sinking sensation, which makes lying down in bed unpleasant.

Stool

Soft stool, with pain before stool in lower bowel.

Urine

Urine more frequent, small quantity, dark color. Had to rise twice in night to urinate.

Vertigo

Head swims with sinking sensation, worse lying down.

Relations

• Compare: (1) Laur. (2) Lach.
• Worse after sleep.

References

Clarke.

Mind

Hallucination as of a great white hand appeared to him in darkness.

Eyes

Illusion of vision with wide-open eyes. Twitching of lids. Photophobia, objects blurred. Aching in eyes and lids. Marked dilation of pupils. Failure to react to light, particularly daylight.

Head

Sense of falling through bed and floor. Dizzy. Tired and nervous. Pains from below upward. Pressing feeling in head. Frontal headache to root of nose. Right-sided headache.

Limbs

Heavy limbs and cold legs, exaggerated knee-jerk. Pains from below upward.

Male

Swelling of right testicle. Severe pain in testicles. Itching of scrotum. Profuse urination.

Modalities

Worse at night, right side.

Nose

Profuse fluent coryza, especially in afternoon. Violent sneezing.

Skin

Eruption like measles. Perspiration on side not lain upon. Itching all over back.

Comments

Benz. caused a profound disturbance of mind and body, weeping at trifles, irritability, pain darting upwards in occiput. Could not turn eyes upward without severe aching and throbbing.

A sort of clairvoyant state in which a great white hand appeared to him in the darkness, coming outspread towards his face, causing him in terror to scream for the watcher. A sense of falling through the bed and floor. Insomnia and visual illusions. Pains travel from below upward (headache, pain in anus), chills.

Relations

• Compare: (1) T. N. T. (2) Benzin.
• Petroleum ether, not as pure a compound as Benzene (Benzol). It is the same, but with a mixture of various hydrocarbons. Oxyhemoglobinemia. It seems to exercise a special influence on the nervous system and the blood. Physical weakness, cramps, exaggeration of knee jerks, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, heaviness, and coldness of limbs. Tremor of eyelids and tongue.
• (3) Benzin. dinitricum.

References

• Boeneke.
• Clarke.