Bovista lycoperdon bov

← Boenninghausen's Characteristics Materia Medica
Mind
  • Distraction. Awkwardness. Weak memory. Sadness, with restlessness. Easily offended: takes everything in bad part. Unusual candor and talkativeness.
Vertigo
  • Stupefying, with vanishing of senses. Intoxication from a small quantity of wine. Reeling and confusion in head after coition.
Head
  • Headache deep in brain, with feeling as if head were growing large. Ulcerative pain in. Nightly ache, worse raising up. Soreness of scalp.
Eyes
  • Pressure in orbits. Weak, dim. Objects appear too near.
Ears
  • Purulent, bad - smelling discharge from. Indistinct hearing, misunderstands what is spoken.
Nose
  • Crusts, with burning pain in.
Face
  • Frequent, rapid changes of color. Head of, with sense of swelling in cheeks. Pale swelling of upper lip, nose and cheeks. Fissured lips. Angles of mouth ulcerated.
Teeth
  • Drawing ache in evening, and at night, ceasing in warmth and when walking in open air. Gums bleed easily and profusely.
Mouth
  • Bad odor from. Burning in pharynx. Numbness of buccal cavity. Painfully sore ulcers on edge of tongue. Stuttering.
Stomach
  • Coldness, as if a lump of ice lay therein.
Nausea
  • With shivering, all forenoon.
Appetite
  • Violent hunger. Thirst for cold drinks in afternoon and evening.
Taste
  • Putrid or bloody, in mouth.
Abdomen
  • Ulcerative pain in. Cutting bellyache, worse during rest.
Flatulence
  • Flatulent colic, with chill and coldness, especially after stool. Discharge of very foul smelling flatus.
Stool
  • Constipation. Diarrhoea, with ulcerative pain in abdomen. - during menses.
Urine
  • Frequent urging to urinate.
Sexual Organs
  • Intensified sexual desire. Frequent pollution.
Female
Menses
  • Too early, and too profuse. Bloody discharge during intermenstrual period. Acrid, corroding leucorrhoea.
Respiration
  • Short during manual labor. Oppression, as from constriction of chest.
Cough
  • Dry, from tickling in throat and chest.
Larynx
  • Hoarseness early in morning, with mucus and scratching in throat.
Chest
  • Palpitation with restlessness, qualmishness and headache.
Back
  • Pain and stiffness in, after stooping.
Neck
  • Swelling of cervical glans, with tension.
Upper Extremities
  • Axillary sweat, smelling like onions. Paralytic sprained pain in joints of arm and hands. Powerless hands. Moist tetter on dorsum of hand.
Lower Extremities
  • Tension in lower legs and calves, as though' the muscles were too short.
Generalities
  • Great weariness and powerlessness in joint. Deep impressions are made by instruments, i. e., from scissors on fingers.
Skin
  • Itching in various parts, especially when getting warm. - better not scratching. moist tatters. Panaritia.
Sleep
  • Sleepiness after eating, and early in morning.
Fever
Heat
  • With thirst, anguish and restlessness. Daily evening fever (about 7 o'clock) consisting only of chill with thirst. Shuddering proceeding from back, in evening.
Pulse
  • Excited, with ebullitions and palpitation.
Sweat
  • Most profuse on chest, every morning (from 5 to 6 o'clock.).
Chill
  • Predominant, even near a warm stove, in morning, in evening and even at night, usually with thirst. During the pain.
Relationship
Allied Remedies
  • Ap., Nit-ac., Selen., sil.