Badiaga bad.

Spongilla fluviatilis. Fresh-water sponge. Trituration of the dried sponge gathered in autumn.

Breast, cancer of. Bruises. Bubo. Catarrh. Chilblains. Coryza. Eyes, pains in. Glands, affections of. Hay-fever. Hæmorrhoids. Heart, affections of. Indurations. Ophthalmia. Palpitation. Rheumatism. Scrofula. Syphilis. Tibia, pain in. Whooping-cough.

Badiaga is the Russian name for the river sponge, which is a popular Russian remedy. Among the peculiar symptoms and indications are: Headache with aching in backs of eyeballs, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.; < motion. Severe headache in vertex > night, returning severely after breakfast. Headache with inflamed eyes. Pains in eyeballs extending to head. (J. A. Biegler cured a case with the following symptoms: A lady had for months off and on a severe pain in r. eyeball, which extended to forehead over this eye, then to temple; always < in afternoon.) Scalp sore; dry; itching; scurf; tetters. Soreness is one of the key-notes of the remedy; general soreness of integuments and muscles; as if beaten; very sensitive. Profuse coryza, coming from nostril with a gush. L. cheek and malar bone sore to touch. Lancinating pains in stomach; liver; below scapulæ; urethra; chest. Buboes. Chancres suppressed by cautery. Infantile syphilis. Carcinoma of breast. There is a cough which causes sneezing, profuse coryza. Occasional severe fit of coughing ejecting viscid mucus flying out of mouth; caused by tickling in larynx as if a particle of sugar was dissolving in throat; > in warm room. Tremulous vibrative palpitation < lying r. side. Palpitation after pleasurable emotions. Soreness of anterior muscles of legs; toes bend while walking as if extensors were paralysed. It has lessened a hard cellular swelling of both legs. Sharp stinging back of r. heel, < least pressure. Chronic rheumatism, < by cold, especially in cold air. < Stormy weather. > In warm room; < afternoon. < Pressure and touch: there is general soreness, even to touch of clothes. Sore as if beaten. Headache > at night, after sleep.

Compare: Spongia; Seneg. (cough caused by sneezing, opposite of Bad.); Grind. rob. (respiration ceases on falling asleep); Spo. (cough with much sneezing); Kali c. (phlegm flies from mouth); Calc. s. (indurations); Carb. an. (indurations, buboes); Cist. can. (scrofula); Clemat., Hep., Iod., Kali iod., Lach., Merc., Merc. iod., Nit. ac., Sil., Sul. Followed well by Lach. Complementary to Sul., Iod., Merc.

After pleasurable emotions, palpitation. ─ Mind generally clear, active in spite of headache.

Headache from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., with slight aching pains in the posterior portion of both eyeballs, and in the temples. ─ During the day more or less headache, with pain in the eyeballs (worse l.); more from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. ─ Frontal headache during the forenoon, worse in the temples, and extending into the posterior portion of the l. eyeball; < by moving the eye. ─ Pain in the temples and eyeballs; from eyeballs to temples. ─ A very severe headache on top of the head; remains the same in all positions; better at night after sleeping, and better in the morning; returning violently after breakfast; lasting several days. ─ Headache with inflamed eyes. ─ Headache < on moving eyes. ─ Excess of dandruff, or dry, tetter-like appearance of the scalp, with slight itching; hair dry. ─ Scalp sore to touch, with tetter-like eruption on forehead.

Bluish-purple margin of the eyelids, and blue under the eyes. ─ Scrofulous inflammation of the eyes, with hardening of the Meibomian glands. ─ Severe pain from eyeballs ( < l.) into temple; < turning eyes. ─ Intermittent neuralgia of r. eyeball, extending to temple, < afternoon. ─ Headache extending into the eyeballs. ─ L. eyeball quite sore, even upon closing it tightly. ─ Twitching of l. eyelid.

Slight shocks heard in the ear, as of very distant artillery; afternoons.

Profuse coryza, mostly from the l. nostril; comes with a gush; worse in afternoon and evening; with sneezing. ─ Coryza and cough. ─ Itching of l. ala nasi.

On forehead, tetter-like eruption. ─ Pale, ashy, or leaden colour of face. ─ Stiffness in the maxillary joints. ─ L. cheek and malar bone sore to touch.

Mouth and breath hot and feverish, with thirst for large quantities of water at a time. ─ Mouth and tongue feel scalded.

Hawks up, in morning, masses of gluey bloody mucus from throat, which is inflamed and sore, < swallowing, solids. ─ Tonsils red, inflamed, < swallowing solids.

Pressure in epigastrium, nausea, and rumbling. ─ Lancinating in pit of stomach 8 a.m.; extends to vertebræ, r. scapula, at times to r. side, resulting there in pleuritic pain.

Lancinating pain with a bounding movement in region of liver. ─ Indurated inguinal glands. ─ Syphilitic buboes.

Catarrh of the bowels. ─ Constipation. ─ Hæmorrhoids.

Severe, sharp, lancinating pain in or near orifice of urethra. ─ Urine high-coloured; and reddish.

Chancres, after cautery, elevated discoloured cicatrices, rhagades. ─ Syphilis of infants, whole convolutes of hard glandular swellings, buboes.

Carcinoma mammæ. ─ Metrorrhagia < night, with feeling of enlargement of head.

Breath hot and feverish. ─ Occasional severe paroxysms of spasmodic cough, ejecting viscid mucus from the bronchial tubes, which at times comes flying forcibly out of the mouth, < afternoon and evening, caused by tickling in the larynx, as if sugar was dissolving, > in warm room. ─ Cough = sneezing; profuse coryza. ─ Pain in upper part of r. chest. ─ Pleuritic pain, < on motion or on full inspiration; with soreness. ─ Severe, sharp, lancinating pain in r. supra-clavicular region. ─ Stitches in sides, esp. r. ─ While lying on r. side in bed, and at moment of becoming unconscious by sleep, severe oppressive suffocative attacks from suspended respiration, causing a quick effort to prevent suffocation by changing position. ─ Typhoid pneumonia.

Severe vibrating, tremulous palpitation of the heart, even while sitting or lying, quiet, upon any sudden elating or other emotion of mind. ─ Lying on r. side, heart is heard and felt to pulsate from chest up to neck.

Very stiff neck. ─ Soreness and lameness, with stitches in nape of neck, < by bending the head back and forth. ─ Scrofulous swelling of the glands of the l. side of the face, throat, and neck; nearly as large as a hen's egg; some hard, some suppurating. ─ Severe lancinating pains and stitches in the posterior r. side, below the scapula, much < by throwing the shoulders back and chest forward, or any contortions of the body; pain extorting at times a mean or shriek.

Palms of hands hot and dry.

Several hard, small lumps along the shin-bone. ─ Hard cellular swelling of the legs. ─ Anterior muscles of r. leg sore, as if beaten. ─ At night violent lancinating pains in the limbs. ─ Hard swellings of both legs lessened. ─ Hurts of horses' hoofs. ─ Bad ulcers of horses' feet. ─ Toes bend while walking as if extensors paralysed. ─ Checked foot-sweat.

General soreness of the muscles and integuments of the whole body; flesh sore to touch, even of the clothes; sore as if beaten.

Skin sore to touch. ─ Raised and discoloured scars. ─ Rhagades. ─ Brown and blue spots after concussions. ─ Externally applied causes checked eruptions to reappear. ─ Tetters on scalp and forehead; itching on scalp.

Restless at night; must frequently change position, body feels so sore. ─ Awake 3-4 a.m. with frightful dreams and severe cramping pains in metatarsal bones of both feet. ─ > After sleep (head).