Bovista bov.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

CIRCULATION: HEART. Uterus. Kidneys. SKIN.

Worse

Menses. Full moon. Getting warm.

Better

Doubling up. Eating.

General

Hæmorrhagic-herpetic diathesis. Oozing hæmorrhage, < night. Laxness; joints seem loose; easy indentation. General puffiness. Enlarged feeling, head, heart, etc.

Particulars

Awkward in speech and action; drops things, stutters, etc. Inattentive. Weak memory. Confusion on awaking. Weak jointed and nervous. A wedge presses into occiput. Nose stops on lying down. Numb mouth. As of a lump of ice in stomach. Colic, > eating. Bloating. Diarrhœa, < menses. Menses early; more at night, less if in motion; flow between periods. Thick, pussy, acrid leucorrhœa. Short breath on using hands. Visible palpitation. Itching coccyx. Weak hands. Heavy painful legs. Itching eruptions; oozing; forming thick crusts or scabs, with pus beneath (Mez.). Hives, with diarrhœa or menorrhagia. Eczema. Chill during pains.

Related

Related: Ap. The Carbons. Ustil.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Medi-T HTML text; edition not stated by the mirror (first edition 1898, Allen d. 1909)

Keynote

Persons who suffer from tettery eruptions, dry or moist. Adapted to old maids; with palpitation. Stammering children (Stram.). Discharge from nose and all mucous membranes; very tough, stringy, tenacious (Kali bi.). Usually deep impression on finger, from using blunt instruments, scissors, knife, etc. Intolerence of tight clothing around the waist (Calc., Lach., Sulph.). Sweat in axilla, smells like onions. Haemorrhage: after extraction of teeth (Ham.); from wounds, epistaxis. Great weakness of joints and weariness of hands and feet. Awkwardness, inclined to drop things from hand (Apis); objects fall from powerless hands. Menses: flow only at night; not in the daytime (Mag. c. - only in the day, ceases lying, Cac., Caust., Lil.); every two weeks, dark and clotted; with painful bearing down (Sep.). Intolerable itching at tip of coccyx; must scratch til parts become raw and sore.

Relations

Compare: Am. c., Bell., Calc., Mag. s., Sep., in menstrual irregularities. Bovista antidotes, effects of local applications of tar; suffocation from gas. When Rhus seems indicated, but fails to cure, in chronic urticaria.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Guernsey d. 1885; public domain)

General

We may always think of this remedy when we see a very "tettery person." Tetters, moist or dry.

Mental

Sadness, ill-humor, vexed mood.

Head

Vertigo in the morning; particularly where the patient falls over to one side, early in the morning, and seems to lose his senses for a time. Pains in the head pressing inward; pains from side to side, pressing outward; as if both sides were pressed towards each other.

Lips

Lips ulcerated or chapped, with sensation of a splinter, or of something sticking there.

Nose

Blood flows from, when blowing it.

Gastric

No appetite for breakfast. Nausea in the morning, generally vomiting a watery fluid, and relieved by eating breakfast. Sensation as of a lump of ice in the stomach.

Abdomen

Colic, which causes the patient to double over, and accompanied by the voiding of red urine, relieved by eating. (In Coloc. the pain is aggravated by eating, and there is no red urine.)

Stool and Anus

The first portion of the stool is hard, and the latter part, thin and watery. Diarrhœa early in the morning; in the evening; before and during menstruation. After stool, tenesmus and burning in anus. Darting pain from perineum to rectum.

Generalities

Cough, with so viscid an expectoration that it can scarcely be discharged. Visible palpitation of heart. Menses last all night and do not flow in daytime. Affections of the wrist joints. Stammering. Intolerable itching of the coccyx. Chill after going to bed at night.

Remedies following

Calc. carb., Rhus tox., Sepia.

Antidote

Camphor.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Puff-Ball (BOVISTA)

General

Has a marked effect on the skin, producing eruption like eczema, also upon the circulation, predisposing to hæmorrhages; marked languor and lassitude. Adapted to stammering children, old maids with palpitation; and "tettery" patients. Stage of numbness and tingling in multiple neuritis. Asphyxia due to charcoal fumes.

Mind

Enlarged sensation (Arg n). Awkward; everything falls from hands. Sensitive.

Head

Sensation as if head were enlarging, especially of occiput. Distensive headache; worse early morning, open air, lying. Discharge from nose stringy, tough. Dull, bruised pain in brain. Stammering (Stram; Merc). Scalp itches; worse, warmth; sensitive; must scratch until sore.

Face

Scurf and crusts about nostrils and corners of mouth. Lips chapped. Bleeding of nose and gums. Cheeks and lips feel swollen. Acne worse in summer; due to use of cosmetics.

Stomach

Sensation as of a lump of ice. Intolerant of tight clothing around waist.

Female

Diarrhœa before and during menses. Menses too early and profuse; worse at night. Voluptuous sensation. Leucorrhœa acrid, thick, tough, greenish, follows menses. Cannot bear tight clothing around waist (Lach). Traces of menses between menstruation. Soreness of pubes during menses. Metrorrhagia; Parovarian cysts.

Abdomen

Colic, with red urine; relieved by eating. Must bend double. Pain around umbilicus. Stitches through perineum towards rectum and genitals.

Chronic diarrhœa of old people; worse at night and early morning.

Extremities

Great weakness of all joints; clumsiness with her hands, drops things from hands. Weariness of hands and feet. Sweat in axillæ; onion smell. Tip of coccyx itches intolerably. Moist eczema on back of hand. Itching of feet and legs. Œdema in joints after fracture.

Skin

Blunt instrument leave deep impression on the skin. Urticaria on excitement, with rheumatic lameness, palpitation and diarrhœa (Dulc). Itching on getting warm. Eczema, moist; formation of thick crusts. Pimples cover the entire body; scurvy; herpetic eruptions. Pruritus ani. Urticaria on waking in the morning, worse from bathing. Pellagra.

Relationship

Bovista antidotes tar applications. Suffocation from gas. After Rhus in chronic urticaria.

Compare: Calc; Rhus; Sepia; Cicuta.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Sad, depressed and desponding. Awkwardness ; she lets every thing drop out of her hand. Weak memory.

Head

Headache deep in the brain, sensation as if the head were enlarged. Sensation as if bruised in the head.

Eyes

Dim eyes, without lustre. Objects seem to be too near the eye.

Ears

Itching in the ears. Discharge of fetid us from the ears. Ulcer in the (right) ear.

Nose

Scurfs and crusts about the nostrils. Stoppage of the nose with fluent coryza. Bleeding of the nose early in the morning, (during sleep).

Face

Chapped lips. Eruptions in the corners of the mouth. Swelling of the upper lip (and chock, after toothache) in scrofulous subjects.

Teeth

Bleeding of the gums, (when sucking them).

Stomach and Abdomen

Bloatedness of the abdomen ; with softness, flatulency, or rumbling, with constipation.

Stool and Anus

Ineffectual urging to stool. Stool hard and difficult. After stool, tenesmus and burning at the anus. In the rectum, itching, as from worms. Darting from the perinæum to the rectum and the genital organs.

Urinary Organs

Frequent desire to urinate, even immediately after urination. (Diabetes mellitus). In the urethra, stinging, itching, burning ; the orifice is inflamed, and feels as if glued up.

Sexual Organs

Catamenia too early and too profuse, or too late, too scanty, too short ; flowing only at night. Before the catamenia, diarrhœa. Leucorrhœa thick, slimy, tenacious, acrid, corrosive.

Extremities

Perspiration in the arm-pits, smelling like onions. Sensation in the wrist-joint, as if sprained. Weakness of the hands ; they let the least thing drop. Tremor of the hands, with palpitation of the heart and oppressive anxiety. Blunt instruments (scissors) make deep impressions in the skin of the fingers.

Generalities

Ebullitions, with much thirst. Great weakness of the joints.

Sleep

Sleepiness after dinner, and early in the evening.

Fever

Chilliness and heat, with thirst. Morning sweat, especially on the chest.

Skin

Moist tetters. Blunt instruments make deep impressions.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Lycoperdon bovista. Warted puff-ball. N. O. Fungi. Trituration.

Clinical

Coccyx, itching of. Corns. Cysts. Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Ear, eczema of. Eczema . Ganglion. Gleet. Hæmorrhages. Hæmorrhagic diathesis. Headache . Heart, affections of. Jaundice. Joints, affections of. Menstruation, disordered. Metrorrhagia. Ovaries, affections of. Rheumatic affections. Stammering. Tongue, ulcerated. Tumours. Urticaria. Warts. Whitlow. Wounds.

Characteristics

"This globular fungus, which, according to report, is eaten in, Italy before it is ripe, becomes filled, while ripening, with a blackish dust that breaks the husk which contains it, with a slight noise." Corresponding to this signature, "bloatedness," puffy condition of body surface," and a sense of "enlargement," flatulent distension and noisy passage of flatus, are leading features of the Bovista pathogenesis. Bovista has cured cases of ovarian cyst; and also warts and corns, with shooting pains. There are ebullitions with great thirst. The corners of the mouth are broken out. Numb, pithy feeling in mouth. There is stuttering and stammering speech. Awkwardness, misapplies words in speaking and writing. Relaxation of entire capillary system; hæmorrhagic diathesis; hæmorrhage from menstrual irregularities; from traumatism. Menstrual flow occurring only or chiefly at night. Hæmorrhage between the periods. The puffy, expanding properties of the remedy are shown in a puffy condition of the body surface; instruments ( e.g ., scissors) indent the fingers in an unusual degree. The heart feels enormously large. Bovista has colic like Coloc ., causing the patient to bend double, but it differs from Coloc . in that the colic is > by eating and is sometimes accompanied by voiding of red urine. M. L. Sircar has recorded a striking cure of such a case with Bov . 3x, the pain being griping-twisting, intermittent, starting below umbilicus and diffusing itself towards epigastrium; some constipation; urine scanty and reddish. Nothing gave relief except eating. "Itching at top of coccyx" is another characteristic symptom. A case of cyst in broad ligament was cured, presenting these symptoms: ─ Metrorrhagia, flow at night or early morning, easily provoked from slight over-exertion during menses; can bear nothing tight round body; menses preceded and followed by diarrhœa; acrid corrosive leucorrhœa, flowing at night only, follows menses. ─ "We may always think of Bovista when we see a very "tettery" person, one who has tetters here and there, all over the body. These tetters may be either moist or dry" (Guernsey). Teste observed psoric eruptions appear on the hands and feet of a patient to whom he gave Bov . for headache. He cured with it a "red, crusty eruption on thighs and bends of knees of eighteen years' duration. It disappeared for weeks, reappearing in hot weather and at the full moon. W. S. Gee cured with Bovist . 4, after the failure of Rhus , the following case. A widow, 55, had an eruption, which she thought to be erysipelas, on right foot. Some years before she had had an eruption on left foot, which discharged much water, and was "cured" by the use of a salve. A few months later the left knee became affected and the limb was amputated above the joint. The present eruption was fiery red, covered with yellowish-brown scales, thick as an old-fashioned wafer. There were also rheumatic pains in the leg. After Rhus had been given without benefit, Dr. Gee elicited these additional symptoms: "Occasional spells of short breathing, especially from working with the hands. Sleep disturbed by burning and itching, and also by anxious, frightful dreams; headache when waking from sleep. Frequent desire to urinate, even immediately after urinating." These symptoms being found under Bovist . in addition to "moist vesicular eruptions, with formation of thick crusts," the latter put in heavy type by Lilienthal, this medicine was given with steady improvement and eventual cure. Great weakness of the joints. Sensitive to touch, cannot bear clothing. Sensitive to draught, chilliness predominates. Early morning sweat < on chest. Many symptoms are < in early morning; the diarrhœa occurs then. Sweat of axilla smells like onions. Symptoms generally are < morning; < cold food; > hot food. < Hot weather; < at full moon. Effects of over-exertion. Bending double > colic; straightening up > shooting pains between shoulders. Bovista antidotes effects of charcoal fumes. Easily intoxicated; < from wine. < From coffee.

Relations

Compare: Calc., Rhus, Sep., Pho., Puls., Staph., Sul., Ver., Bell., Bry., Carbo v., Caust., Kali c., Lyc., Merc., Nat. m., Sil., Spi., Stront., Valer. ─ Aur., Pul., Lyc., Stram. (laughter alternately with weeping); Ars., Lyc., Sul. (sinking immediately after eating); Bufo (sensation as if heart in water); Zn. ( < from wine); Coloc. (colic > bending double); Am. c. (poisoning by charcoal fumes); Stram. (stammering); Ambra (hæmorrhage between periods); Sec., Ust. It has cured where Rhus seemed indicated and failed. Antidoted by: Camph. It antidotes: Effects of Tar applied locally. Followed well by: Alum., Calc., Rhus, Sep. Teste puts Bovist. in his Sulphur group.

Mind

Dejection and sadness, when alone. ─ Placid melancholy, with inquietude and sombre thoughts. ─ Sad, depressed, and desponding. ─ Great sensitiveness; irritable, takes everything amiss. ─ Great loquacity and unreserved conversation. ─ Weakness of memory. ─ Absence of mind. ─ Awkwardness; allowing everything that is taken hold of to fall. ─ Misapplication of words in speaking and writing. ─ Laughs and cries alternately.

Head

Intoxication after having drunk but very little wine. ─ Vertigo as if everything turned round in a circle. ─ Stunning dizziness, with loss of sense. ─ Sudden attacks of vertigo and feeling of stupidity in bed; on rising, loses consciousness for a moment preceding and following a headache in morning. ─ Pains in the centre of the brain, with a sensation as if the head were enlarged. ─ Pains in the head pressing inward; pains from side to side pressing outward; as if both sides were pressed towards each other. ─ Headache on waking, as after too long a sleep. ─ Stunning headache with heat in the eyes. ─ Nocturnal cephalalgia, with insupportable pain on raising the head. ─ Aching pains in the head, with throbbing, as in an abscess. ─ Compressive cephalalgia. ─ Sharp pains in the head, with heaviness and a bruise-like sensation. ─ Excessive sensibility in the scalp to the touch. ─ Falling off of the hair. ─ Excoriated spots on the scalp.

Eyes

Painful twisting in the eyes, with pressure in the sockets; bone sensitive to pressure, during menstruation. ─ Nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids. ─ Eyes dull, without brightness, and without fire. ─ Objects seem to be nearer than they really are.

Ears

Ulcer in the r. ear. ─ Ulcers in the ears, with pain on swallowing. ─ Scabby and humid eruption in the ears. ─ Oozing of fetid pus from the ears. ─ Itching in the ears. ─ Diminution and hardness of hearing, with frequent mistakes.

Nose

Excoriation in the nostrils. ─ Nostrils scabby, with burning pain. ─ Scurfs and crusts about nostrils. ─ Stoppage of the nose, which impedes respiration. ─ Fluent coryza, with secretion of serous mucus and confusion in the head. ─ Bleeding of the nose early in the morning (during sleep).

Face

Heat in the cheeks, as if they were going to burst. ─ Face alternately pale and red. ─ Extreme paleness on getting up in the morning. ─ Piercing and digging in the cheek-bones. ─ Very pale swelling of the upper lip, of the nose, and of the cheeks. ─ Swelling of the upper lip (and cheek, after toothache) in scrofulous subjects. ─ Sensation of a splinter, or of something sticking in lips. ─ Lips cracked. ─ Corners of the mouth ulcerated. ─ Rheumatic pains in the lower jaw, with swelling and pulsative pains in the sub-maxillary gland.

Teeth

Pains in the upper incisor teeth, followed by swelling of the upper lip. ─ Drawing odontalgia, esp. in the hollow teeth, in the evening and at night, mitigated by heat and walking in the open air. ─ Piercing and digging in the teeth. ─ The gums bleed easily at night, or on sucking them.

Mouth

Accumulation of saliva in the mouth. ─ Sensation of torpor in the buccal cavity. ─ Stuttering. ─ Incisive pains in the tongue. ─ Ulcers on the edges of the tongue, with pain like excoriation. ─ Putrid smell from the mouth. ─ Sore throat, with scraping and burning pains.

Appetite

No appetite for breakfast. ─ Nausea in the morning, generally vomiting a watery fluid and relieved by eating breakfast. ─ Putrid taste in the mouth. ─ Taste of blood. ─ Desire for cold drinks, esp. in the afternoon and evening. ─ Eager and continual hunger, even after a meal. ─ Great sleepiness after having eaten, esp. after dinner and in the evening. ─ Hiccough before and after a meal.

Stomach

Nausea, with chilly disposition from morning till noon. ─ Sensation of cold in the stomach, as if a piece of ice were there. ─ Pressure and fulness in the precordial region, with tension in the temples and anxiety.

Abdomen

Pains in the umbilical region after having eaten, as if the abdomen were cut by knives. ─ Colic > by eating. ─ Twisting colic causing patient to bend over; sometimes voiding red urine; > by eating. ─ Cutting in fore part of abdomen, > by eating. ─ Colic < by rest. ─ Violent cutting, aggravated by repose. ─ Painful sensibility of the exterior and interior of the abdomen. ─ Violent colic, with coldness, to such an extent as to cause shuddering and chattering of the teeth, esp. after going to stool. ─ Pains of ulceration and shooting in the abdomen. ─ Frequent escape of fetid wind. ─ Colic, which causes the patient to double over, and accompanied by the voiding of red urine, > by eating.

Stool and Anus

Ineffectual urging to stool. ─ Stool hard and difficult. ─ After stool, tenesmus and burning at the anus. ─ Constipation. ─ Hard and compact fæces. ─ In the rectum, itching as from worms. ─ Darting from the perinæum to the rectum and the genital organs. ─ Diarrhœa with colic, cuttings, and pain of ulceration in the abdomen. ─ The first portion of the stool is hard, and the latter part thin and watery.

Urinary Organs

Frequent inclination to make water. ─ Frequent desire to urinate, even immediately after urination (diabetes mellitus). ─ In the urethra, stinging, itching, burning; the orifice is inflamed, and feels as if glued up. ─ Pain of ulceration in the urethra on making water.

Male Sexual Organs

Increase of sexual desire. ─ Frequent pollutions. ─ After coition, staggering, confusion, and numbness in the head. ─ Hard, painful and suppurating node in the penis. ─ Burning pains in the genital parts. ─ Gleet.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia premature and too copious. ─ Catamenia flow only in the night. ─ Catamenia, too early and two profuse, or too late, too scanty, too short; flowing only at night. ─ Before the catamenia, diarrhœa. ─ Flow of blood during the intervals. ─ Leucorrhœa: a few days before or a few days after menses; while walking; like white of egg; yellow-green, acrid, corrosive, leaving green spots on clothes; thick, slimy, tough. ─ Excoriation in the inguinal fold during the catamenia.

Respiratory Organs

Spasmodic laughing and crying, with asthma. ─ Hoarseness in the morning, and speaking through the nose as from coryza. ─ Scraping and excoriation in the throat, with accumulation of tenacious mucus. ─ Cough, with so viscid an expectoration that it can scarcely be discharged. ─ Dry cough, produced by a tickling in the throat and in the chest.

Chest

Difficult and short respiration during manual labour. ─ Constrictive oppression of the chest; everything seems to be too tight. ─ Stitches in the chest.

Heart

Beating of the heart, with inquietude, trembling, vertigo, nausea, and headache. ─ Palpitation as if heart working in water. ─ Palpitation accompanies many symptoms. ─ Visible palpitation of heart.

Neck and Back

Sweat of a strong smell under the arm-pits. ─ Swelling of the glands of the neck, with tensive and drawing pains. ─ Pain in the back, with heaviness after stooping. ─ Itching of tip of coccyx.

Upper Limbs

Paralytic weakness and pains of dislocation in the joints of the arms and hands. ─ Sensation in the wrist-joint, as if sprained. ─ Affections of wrists. ─ Ganglion. ─ Tension in the shoulder-joints, as if the tendons were too short. ─ Sensation of paralysis, as from excessive fatigue. ─ Tremor of the hands, with palpitation of the heart and oppressive anxiety. ─ Blunt instruments (scissors) make deep impressions in the skin of the fingers. ─ Cramp-like drawing in the joints of the hands. ─ Shooting pains in the joints of the hands on laying hold of anything. ─ Want of strength in the hands, so that they allow the lightest objects to fall from them. ─ Humid tetters on the back of the hand. ─ Perspiration in the arm-pits, smelling like onions.

Lower Limbs

Tingling and numbness in the legs, with inability to stand upright. ─ Shootings in the joints of the knees and of the feet. ─ Strong tension in the calves of the legs, and in the legs, as if the tendons were too short. ─ Cramps in the calves of the legs, in bed, in the morning. ─ Miliary eruption in the legs.

Generalities

Great lassitude and want of strength, esp. in the joints. ─ Ebullition of the blood, with much thirst.

Skin

Skin flabby; blunt instruments leave a deep impression in it. ─ Itching, esp. when the body is warm, and of that kind which receives no relief from scratching. ─ Urticaria, covering whole body. ─ Pimples and miliary eruption, with burning itching. ─ Oozing eruptions and with a thick crust; in bends of elbows and knees. ─ Humid tetters. ─ Whitlows. ─ Warts. ─ Violent shootings in corns.

Sleep

Great sleepiness in the morning, and early in the evening. ─ Sleepiness after dinner and early in the evening. ─ Nocturnal sleep, agitated by anxious and frightful dreams.

Fever

Chill after going to bed at night. ─ Shivering, with thirst, even near a fire, and at night in bed. ─ Chilliness and heat, with thirst. ─ Heat with thirst, anguish, agitation, and oppression of the chest. ─ Sweat in the morning, esp. on the chest. ─ In the evening, fever with shivering and shuddering in the back, with drawing pains in the abdomen.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Absence of mind and difficulty in fixing his attention. θ Urticaria.
Misapplies words in speaking or writing.
Awkwardness, which makes him drop things from his hands. θ Urticaria.
Slowness of understanding and comprehension ; does not hear well.
Vacant, thoughtless staring. θ Urticaria.
Sad, depressed and desponding when alone.
Doleful ; restless ; distressed.
Sensitiveness ; great irritability ; takes everything amiss. θ Urticaria.
Moroseness ; ill humor ; aversion to all things. θ Urticaria.
Quarrelsome and contentious. θ Urticaria.
Weak memory.

Sensorium

Absence of mind, abstraction.
Mental dulness.
Stupefying giddiness, with vanishing of senses.
Stares vacantly into space.
Vertigo early in morning, falls over to one side, loses his senses for awhile.
Sudden attacks of vertigo and feeling of stupidity in head while standing ; she loses consciousness for a moment ; preceding and following a headache in morning.

Inner head

Great sensitiveness.
Sensation as if head was much enlarged ; headache, deep in.
Head seems bruised inside.
Beating in head as if there was an abscess there, attended with a sensation of wild confusion ; beating is excited by cold air, particularly early in morning, or only in r. side.
Stupefying pain, particularly in forehead and vertex.
Pressing pains in head.
Pressure from side to side.
Headache : right side in morning, left in evening ; at night ; at 3 A. M. ; < on raising head, with increased secretion of urine ; < from sitting up ; < from pressure.
Pains in head pressing inward ; pains from side to side pressing outward.
Dull headache with weariness.
Distensive pain in head.
Pain in occiput, as if a wedge would be pressed in.
Lacerating pain in sinciput and forehead.
On awaking, head aches, as from too much sleep.

Outer head

Sensation as if head was enlarging.
Scalp tender to touch.
Sore spots on head.
Beating in a small spot on left side ; itching in hairy scalp, particularly on getting warm in bed, obliging one to scratch until parts bleed, but not > by scratching, particularly early in morning.
Itching over whole scalp, extending to neck, especially if he became warm, so that he was obliged to scratch forehead, which was not relieved by scratching.
Pimples or reddish vesicles on hairy scalp with itching ; painful blister on temple ; itching, suppurating blister on forehead ; objects seem too near eye.
Falling off of hair.

Sight and eyes

Blindness of right eye from paralysis of optic nerve.
Objects appear too near.
Perpendicular half-sight.
Pressure in orbits, in bones.
Staring at one point.
Eyes dim, without lustre.
Inflammation of eyelids, with nightly agglutination. θ Urticaria.

Hearing and ears

Hearing indistinct, misunderstands much that is spoken.
Itching in ears relieved by boring with finger in ear.
Discharge of fetid pus from ears.
Boil in right ear, with pain when swallowing.
Thick oozing scurfs on ears.

Smell and nose

Every time nose is blown, drops of blood issue from it.
A few drops of blood from nose every time on sneezing.
Bleeding of nose in morning.
Nosebleed during morning sleep, with vertigo.
Watery coryza, with dizziness.
Stoppage of nose with fluent coryza.
Nose stopped up, cannot breathe.
Soreness and redness of septum narium ; scurfs and crusts about nostrils ; scurfy pustules under nose.

Upper face

The face is very pale in morning on rising.
Marked alternation of color of face, now very red then pale.
Cheeks hot, feel as if they would burst.
Convulsive motions of facial muscles. θ Before asthma.
Pale swelling of cheek after toothache.
Eruption on face and cheeks.

Lower face

Pale swelling of upper lip. θ After toothache.
Stitching like from a needle or splinter in lips.
Chapped or blistered lips.
Corners of mouth sore, broken out.
Lips cracked, in some places crusty. θ Urticaria.

Teeth and gums

Tearing in lower jaw anterior to ears ; glands under jaw swollen and throbbing.
Violent drawing-aching in carious teeth ; > in air and in warmth ; < in evening.
After toothache, pale, swollen cheeks.
Violent drawing pain in hollow back teeth of lower jaw for two evenings in succession in bed.
Scorbutic gums ; bleed easily. θ Urticaria.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : putrid ; bitter.
Stammering, stuttering speech.
Cutting pain in tongue, like with a knife. θ Before asthma.
Sores or ulcers on edge of tongue.

Inner mouth

Sensation, as if inner mouth was numb (pithy) and crisp early in morning on waking, sometimes with dryness of mouth and bitter, slimy taste.
Putrid smell from mouth.
Increased flow of saliva.
Great dryness of mouth, as if sand was in it ; burning in tip of tongue and numbness of posterior portion early in morning on waking ; deep ulcers in right border of tongue, painful like a sore ; stuttering, especially when reading, with inability to pronounce several
words rapidly.

Palate and throat

Burning in throat.
Sore throat, with scratching and burning in œsophagus.
Great dryness in throat ; when awaking in morning, tongue feels almost like wood.
Stitching in throat. θ Before asthma.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

No appetite for breakfast, relish for other meals.
Little appetite. θ Urticaria.
Hunger, even after meals.
Longing for cold drink.
No appetite for cooked food, desire for bread only.
Loss of thirst.
Desire : for brandy ; for wine ; for milk.
Worse from : spirituous liquors, wine, cold food.
Better from hot victuals.

Eating and drinking

Better after breakfast. θ Diarrhœa.
Hiccough before and after eating.
While eating : stitches through chest ; tired ; sleepy ; crawls or flushes.
After eating : stitches in chest ; tired ; sleepy ; colic ; amelioration of gagging ; cutting in belly.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccoughing before and after dinner.
Frequent empty eructations.
Nausea, with shivering all forenoon.
Nausea in morning. θ Diarrhœa.
Vomits a watery fluid ; nausea > by eating breakfast. θ Morning sickness.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Pressure and fulness in pit of stomach ; tension in temples ; mental anguish.
Cold feeling in stomach, as if a lump of ice was lodged there, with pain, mostly mornings.
Intolerance of tight clothing around waist.

Hypochondria

Stitches in region of last rib, either side.

Abdomen and loins

Cutting pains around navel.
Griping ; > when at rest.
Stitches in abdomen.
Cutting colic, with coldness, teeth chattering, limbs tremble ; < after stool.
Colic ; with bright red urine ; relieved by eating.
Abdomen : bloated ; puffed up at single spots.
Bloatedness of abdomen ; with softness, flatulency, or rumbling ; with constipation.
Abdomen tender, most in mornings.
Coldness moving about in abdomen.
Distension of abdomen, with rumbling, shifting of flatulence and emission of much flatus. θ Diarrhœa.
Colic, which causes patient to double over ; sometimes voiding red urine (not in Coloc), and relief by eating (not in Coloc.).

Stools and rectum

Stinking flatus.
Disposition to diarrhœa, frequent attacks, each evacuation being followed by tenesmus. θ Urticaria.
Diarrhœa before and during menses.
Fruitless urging to stool.
Diarrhœa with cutting pains.
Stools first hard and difficult ; last thin, even watery. θ Affections of prostate gland.
Stool at first hard, last part thin, with pain in abdomen.
After stool, tenesmus and burning at anus.
Itching in rectum, as from worms.
Darting from perineum to rectum and genitals.
Itching on tip of os coccygis, has to scratch the parts raw and sore.
Stools : liquid, yellow, fecal.
Morning diarrhœa, with urging pain.
Before stool : urging ; colic. θ Diarrhœa.
During stool : twisting pain in abdomen. θ Diarrhœa.
After stool : languid ; tenesmus ; burning at anus ; burning and itching in anus, as if worms were crawling.

Urinary organs

Frequent desire to urinate, even immediately after urination, with emission of a few drops.
Urine : bright red ; yellow green ; becomes turbid ; bright yellow, with slowly forming cloud ; turbid, like loam water, with violet sediment.
Diabetes mellitus.
Stinging-itching burning in urethra ; orifice inflamed, feels glued up.
Hard node in urethra.
Gleet.

Male sexual organs

Seminal emissions.
After coition, reeling and confusion in head.
Complaints from sexual excess.

Female sexual organs

Voluptuous sensation in genitals.
Burning in genitals.
Menses : four days too soon and more profuse than usual ; every two weeks much dark and clotted blood ; too late and scanty ; only at night, or only in morning ; too late and scanty ; only at night, or only in morning ; during intervals occasional show
of blood.
Ovarian cyst, tapped twice within a few months.
Every few days a show between the menses.
The menses flow most profusely in morning, but scanty during day and night.
After midnight painful urging towards genitals, with great heaviness in small of back, which was somewhat relieved next day with discharge of menstrual blood.
Diarrhœa frequently before and during menstruation.
Before catamenia : spasm in chest ; painful bearing down in genitals ; diarrhœa.
Before, during and after menses : pain as if bruised, and weary in loins, belly and thighs, impeding going up-stairs.
Leucorrhœa a few days before or a few days after monthly ; while walking like white of eggs ; yellow green, acrid, corrosive, leaving green spots in clothes ; thick, slimy, tough.
Soreness between labia and thighs.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Jaundice of newborn children.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness in morning.
Roughness in throat, mornings, with catarrhal speech.
Scratching sensation in larynx, with viscid phlegm.

Respiration

Shortness of breath from every exertion with hands.
Oppression of chest, desires to loosen clothes.
Spasmodic laughing and crying, with asthma, face dark red.

Cough

Evening, loose ; morning, dry.
Dry cough from tickling in throat.
Cough from tickling in chest, mornings, after coming into room from cold air.
Cough with so viscid an expectoration that it can scarcely be discharged.

Inner chest and lungs

Stitches in various localities of chest.
Stitches in left side, extending through to back.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Ebullitions, with much thirst.
Palpitation : with tremor of hands ; restlessness ; vertigo ; chilliness ; sick headache ; profuse catamenia.
Visible palpitation, after going up-stairs ; as if heart was working in water ; after overexertion.
Pulse accelerated.

Outer chest

Burning in outer chest.

Neck and back

Stitches in neck.
Stiffness of neck in morning.
Backache, with stiffness after stooping.
Shooting and other pains between shoulders, along borders of scapulæ ; has to "straighten up" to be relieved.
Intolerable itching at tip of os coccygis ; must scratch until parts become raw and sore.

Upper limbs

Sweat in arm pits, smelling like onions.
Tension in shoulder joint, cannot write.
Stitching, boring and tearing pains in upper limbs.
Joints of arms and hands feel disabled and wrenched.
Itching on arms.
Affections of wrist joints.
Sharp stitches in right external malleolus.
Tremor of hands, with palpitation of heart and oppressive anxiety.
Great weariness in hands and feet the whole day.
She has no power in hands, especially in right, and almost allowed lightest objects to fall from weakness.
Hygroma on hand.
Moist tetter on back of hand.
The skin of fingers becomes unusually dented by the instruments with which she was working.
The hands are covered with small, dry, reddish pimples, which gradually disappear after a few days.
Runaround, or whitlow, on fingers.

Lower limbs

Sensation of soreness in hip joints.
Limbs "go to sleep," cannot stand on them.
Stitching pain in knees.
Muscles of calves feel too short ; cramp in morning.
Œdematous swelling of (r.) foot even years after a sprain.
Violent stitching in outer malleolus of right foot, with painfulness of inner.
Cramp in leg.
Eruption on both feet of small, red, rashlike pimples, with an itching burning pain, with which feet are covered, as far as half way up calves, lasting two days ; scratching does not affect them.

Limbs in general

Great weakness of joints.
Sensation : as if beaten ; lame, aching ; tearing ; tension, stitches.
Rheumatic paresis and marked muscular atrophy of affected leg. θ Urticaria.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : griping worse.
Sitting up : headache worse.
Must straighten up to relieve pains between scapulæ.
Colic causes patient to double up.
While stooping : head dull and heavy ; stitches in belly.
After stooping : backache and stiffness ; vertigo worse.
Exertion with hands : shortness of breath.
Walking : leucorrhœa like white of eggs.

Nerves

Rheumatic lameness.
General languor and enervation, particularly in joints.
Drops things from hands, as from weakness.
Hysteria, with abdominal symptoms.

Sleep

Great sleepiness early in evening.
Spasmodic gaping before asthma ; morning sweat in bed.
Great drowsiness in afternoon and early in evening.
Night rest disturbed by burning and itching of nettlerash.
Restless sleep, with many anxious, frightful dreams.
On awaking, head aches as from too much sleep ; on rising, face pale.

Time

At 3 A. M. : headache.
From 5 to 6 A. M. : sweat.
Early morning : stools.
Morning : vertigo ; right-sided headache ; itching of scalp < ; nosebleed ; face pale ; sensation as if mouth was numb ; tongue feels like wood ; nausea ; cold feeling in stomach ; abdomen tender ; menses most profuse ;
hoarseness ; roughness in throat ; dry cough ; stiffness of neck ; cramp in calves ; sweat in bed.
Forenoon ; nausea and shivering.
During day : menses scanty.
Whole day : weariness of hands and feet.
Afternoon : drowsiness ; alternate shuddering and flying heat.
Evening : left-sided headache ; toothache < ; cough loose ; great sleepiness ; chilliness ; stools.
At P. M. : chill with thirst.
Night : headache ; menses scanty ; rest disturbed by nettlerash ; agglutination of eyes ; stools.

Temperature and weather

Cold air : beating in head worse.
Air : toothache better.
Warmth of bed : itching of scalp < ; toothache better.
Hot weather : red, scabby eruption appears on thighs and bends of knees, and again with the full moon.
Hot food : symptoms better.
Cold food : symptoms worse.
Coming in room from cold air : cough worse.
Very sensitive to draughts.

Fever

Chill predominating, even near a warm stove, morning and evening, and even at night ; generally with thirst.
Chill with the pains.
Shivering in evening, spreading from back ; drawing pains in bowels.
Chills : immediately after going to bed at night, commencing in back ; every evening at 7 P. M. with thirst, followed by drawing pains in abdomen. θ Intermittent.
Alternate shuddering and flying heat, most in afternoon, with burning thirst, more with shuddering.
Heat, with thirst, anxiety, restlessness ; oppression of chest.
Fever heat during sleep.
Sweat every morning, 5-6 A. M., most profuse on chest.
Sweat in axilla smells like onions.
Chilliness whole evening.

Attacks, periodicity

Full moon : red, scabby eruption appears on thighs and bends of knees ; also in hot weather.

Locality and direction

Right : beating in head ; morning headache ; boil in ear ; deep ulcers on border of tongue ; stitches in external malleolus ; no power in hand ; œdematous swelling of foot.
Left : evening headache ; beating in a small spot in side ; pain in side ; swelling in groin.
Right to left : headaches, right in A. M., left in P. M.

Sensations

As if head was enlarged ; as if there was an abscess in head ; as if sand was in mouth ; as if a lump of ice was lodged in stomach ; as if a wedge would be pressed in ; as if heart was working in water.
Lacerating : in forehead ; in sinciput.
Cutting : in tongue ; around navel ; in abdomen ; with diarrhœa.
Darting : from perineum to rectum and genitals.
Stitching : in lips ; in throat ; through chest ; in region of last ribs ; in abdomen ; in chest ; in left side through to back ; in neck ; in upper limbs ; in right external malleolus ; in knees ; in outer malleolus ; in
limbs.
Stitches : in chest ; in neck.
Shooting : between shoulders.
Boring : in upper limbs.
Tearing : in lower jaw ; in upper limbs ; in limbs.
Beating : in head.
Twisting : in abdomen.
Griping : in abdomen.
Wrenched feeling : in joints of arms and hands.
Bruised feeling : in head ; in loins, belly and thigh.
Beaten feeling : in limbs.
Pressing : in head ; from temple to temple ; in orbits ; in pit of stomach.
Distensive pain : in head.
Wedge pain : in occiput.
Drawing : in lower molars ; in bowels.
Drawing-aching : in carious teeth.
Burning : in tip of tongue ; in throat ; in œsophagus ; at anus ; in outer chest ; nettlerash ; in genitals.
Stinging-itching burning : in urethra.
Soreness : in hip joints ; between labia and thighs ; of nose.
Cramp : in calves ; in leg.
Scratching : in larynx ; in œsophagus.
Roughness : in throat.
Throbbing : in head, as of an abscess ; in submaxillary glands.
Fulness : in pit of stomach.
Heaviness : in arms and hands.
Tension : in temples ; in shoulder joint ; in muscles of calf ; in limbs.
Stiffness : of neck ; of back.
Crawling : in anus.
Tickling : in throat ; in chest.
Numbness : in mouth ; of posterior portion of tongue.
Weariness : in hands and feet.
Coldness : in stomach ; moving about in abdomen.
Itching : over scalp ; in ears ; in rectum ; on tip of os coccygis ; in anus ; on arms ; nettlerash.
Dryness : in throat ; of mouth.

Tissues

The phlegm from nose, bronchia, vagina, is very tough, tenacious ; also pus from ulcers.
Weakness of all joints.
As if muscles were too short in lower limbs.
Tettery constitution, eruptions moist or dry.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : scalp tender.
Scratching : does not relieve itching of scalp ; causes soreness of os coccygis ; itching continues.
Pressure : headache worse.
Boring in the ear with finger : itching better.
Raising head : headache worse.
Exertions with hands : shortness of breath.
Overexertion : palpitation.
Unusually deep impression on finger from using blunt instruments (as scissors or knife).
Sensitiveness to touch, pressure with hand is painful.
Cannot bear clothing.
(OBS :) In bleeding gums after extraction of tooth, apply pieces of fungus to cavity ; two or three applications will cure worst case of hemorrhage ; for any other kind of wound, a piece large enough to cover wound, held firmly on, or bandaged on, will arrest flow of
blood ; in epistaxis, hold a good-sized piece of fungus close to nostrils, and direct patient to inhale with all possible force fumes arising from it under pressure of hand.

Skin

Urticaria covering nearly whole body ; some blotches nearly two inches in diameter, caused by tar.
Rash, pimples, with burning itching.
Warts and corns, with shooting pains.
Itching on getting warm, continues after scratching.
Red scabby eruption on thighs and bends of knees, appears with hot weather and with full moon.
Moist or dry herpes.
Tetter on back of hand ; after bright red pimples rough, dark red, moist spots.
Urticaria, with rheumatic lameness ; disposition to diarrhœa, each evacuation being followed by tenesmus ; scorbutic gums ; inflammation of eyes and nightly agglutination ; morning sweat in bed, together with ill humor, moroseness,
irritability, sensitiveness, great excitability ; takes everything amiss ; aversion to all things ; quarrelsome and contentious ; stares vacantly into space ; awkwardness, which makes him drop things ; absence of mind and difficulty in fixing his attention.
Intolerable itching at tip of os coccygis ; he must scratch till the parts become raw and sore.

Stage of life, constitution

Woman, æt. 36, married ; after inflammation of bowels, a swelling in left groin ; tapped a pint of fluid from ovarian cyst ; after some time again, five, six pints ; after some time a third tapping was considered necessary, but Bovista [6] cured. θ Unilocular
ovarian cyst.
Old maids ; palpitation.
Children : stammering.

Relations

Antidote to Bovista : Camphor .
Bovista antidotes bad effects of tar, externally applied.
Useful when Rhus tox . fails in urticaria.
Alumina followed well in rheumatic pains after asthma. Calc. ostr., Rhus tox . and Sepia follow Bovista with good effect.
Suffocation from carbon vapors.
The smoke from burning Bovista acts more on bees than other smoke. (How would smoke of Rhus tox . act on bees ?)
Compare : Calc. ostr ., Rhus tox., Sepia , Phosphor ., Pulsat., Staphis., Sulphur, Veratr ., Bellad ., Bryon.,
Carb. veg., Caustic., Kali carb., Lycop., Mercur., Natr. mur., Silica, Spigel., Strontian, Valer .
Incompatible : coffee.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

Sensation as if head were enlarging, or very much enlarged (elongated, Hyp.); dull, bruised pain, deep in brain.

Stool; first hard and difficult; then thin, watery, with much pain in abdomen (Pod.).

Diarrhœa before and during menses (cholera-like symptoms during the menses, Amm. c.).

Menses: flow mostly or only at night, not in the daytime (Mag. c.—only during day, cease lying, Cac., Caust., Lil.); diarrhœa before and during menses (Amm. c.); occasional show every few days between periods (Bor.); every two weeks, dark and clotted; with painful bearing down (Sep.).

Intolerable itching at tip of coccyx; must scratch till parts become raw and sore.

Leucorrhœa: a few days before or a few days after the menses (before, Sep.; after, Kreos.; both before and after, Graph.); acrid, thick, tough, tenacious, yellow-green, leaving green spots on linen, causing soreness.

Adapted to old maids, subject to palpitation, leucorrhœa, tettery eruptions, chronic urticaria (when Rhus fails to cure).

Great weakness of all joints: as if the muscles of lower limbs were too short (Caust., Guai.). Drops things from the hands as from weakness (from awkwardness, Apis).

Discharge from nose and all mucous membranes very tough, stringy, tenacious (Kali bi.).

Sweat in axilla, smells like onions.

Hemorrhage: after extraction of teeth (Ham.); from wounds; epistaxis.

Unusually deep impression on finger from using blunt instruments (knives or scissors).

Stammering; in children (Stram.).

Intolerance of tight clothing around the waist (Cal., Lach., Sulph.).

Time

5 to 8 A. M., or 7 to 10 P. M.

Paroxysm: Without heat or sweat (Aran.).

Chill

Generally with thirst. Chill predominates, even near a warm stove; constantly chilly on the uncovered parts, the neck and chest. Chilly the whole day, although she sat by a warm stove; must get near the stove as soon as chill begins (Ign., Lach.). Chill immediately after going to bed at night commencing in back. Severe chill every evening from 7 to 10 P. M., commencing with chilliness in the back, the first day with thirst, without subsequent heat or sweat (without heat or thirst, Aran.,

L. of C.

Caust.); with violent drawing pain in abdomen. Chilliness the whole evening; she could not get warm. Feet very cold at night; could not be warmed. Chill with the pains.

Heat

In the evening, daily, at 7 P. M. Frequent heat and oppression of the chest, with thirst, anxiety, restlessness; relieved by uncovering. Flying heat, alternating with shuddering; thirst with the shuddering.

Sweat

Especially upon the chest, every morning from 5 to 6 A. M. Profuse sweat in axilla—smells like onions.

Tongue

Coated yellow. Taste putrid; bitter.

Analysis

The chill predominates.

The characteristic of the Bovista fever is a well-defined chill or shuddering; remaining stages of paroxysm being wanting, or if other stages occur, they are so light as not to produce inconvenience. Compare with Aran., Camph., Dros.