Benzoic acid
Allen, Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 3rd ed., 1910, p. 60
C,H,,CO,OH.
Keynotes
A gouty, rheumatic diathesis engrafted on a gonorrhoeal or syphilitic patient.
Gouty concretions; arthritis vaga; affects all the joints, especially the knee, cracking on motion; nodosities (Berb., Lith. c., Lys.).
Urine dark brown, and the urinous odor highly intensified.
Enuresis nocturnal of delicate children ; dribbling urine of old men with enlarged prostate; strong characteristic odor; excess of uric acid. Catarrh of bladder after suppressed gonorrhoea. Diarrhoea of children ; white, very offensive, exhausting liquid stools, running “right through the diaper” (Pod.) ; urine offensive and of a deep red color.
Cough; with expectoration of green mucus (Natr. s.) ; extreme weariness, lassitude.
Pains, tearing, stitching, in large joints of big toe; redness and swelling of joints; gout < at night.
Relation. — Similar: to, Cop.,Nitr., Fer., Thuja, especially in enuresis after Nitr. has failed; Berb., Lith. c. in arthritic complaints.
Useful after Colch. fails in gout; after abuse of Cop. in suppression of gonorrhoea.
Incompatible : wine, which aggravates urinary, gouty and rheumatic affections.