CASES

BENZOIC ACID

Mental:

Prone to dwell on unpleasant things in the past (nat m).Depression. Grief. Closed

people that keep all their anxieties and grief to themselves.

Deeply timid and reserved.

Persistant disagreeable thoughts.

Forgetful of words when speaking, makes mistakes when writing and omits words.

Fear that they are being followed .

Delusions hears voices.

Fear of becoming deformed or of seing any deformed person.

Hypochondriasis.

Starting during sleep.

Physical:

Weakness in the kidneys.

Profuse and strong smelling, highly coloured urine, sometimes resembling brandy.

Trembling in the left side of the lumbar region or in the loins.

Supressed gonorrhea, with complaints now mostly in the joints with a tendency to affect the heart. Agg. by weather changes, from cold drafts and cold air and amel. from heat and warm covering.

Pains change place suddenly and constantly.

Intensity of heart symptoms alternates with the intensity of the kidney symptoms.

Tendency to develop gout with high uric acid.

Gout with rheumatism with swelling of joints, joints crack and feel dry.

Symptoms tend to fluctuate according to the fluctuation of urine.

Predisposition to develop kidney stones.

Periodic asthma, esp. in rheumatic persons. The asthma makes its appearance when

the kidneys fail to eliminate properly and the urine is supressed, scanty and strong

smelling.

Rectal fistula and haemorrhoids after supressed gonorrhea.

Child wants to be nursed in arms and will not be laid down. Useful in nocturnal

enuresis in children.

Shivering before stool may be a further symptom.

Menstrual difficulties, prolapse of uterus when accompanied by the smell of the

urine.

Dribbling of urine in old men with enlarged prostrate.

Periodic headaches of rheumatic origin alternating or

accomapanied by rheumatic conditions and associated with a highly intensified

odour of the urine.

Trembling of lips, involuntary biting of lower lip.

Sweating while eating.

Sensation of heat in stomach.

Arthritic nodosities in wrists, hands, finger joints.

CASES