Bovista bov.

CIRCULATION: HEART. Uterus. Kidneys. SKIN.

Menses. Full moon. Getting warm.

Doubling up. Eating.

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

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: Ap. The Carbons. Ustil.

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.

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.

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

Sadness, ill-humor, vexed mood.

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

Blood flows from, when blowing it.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

Calc. carb., Rhus tox., Sepia.

Camphor.

Puff-Ball (BOVISTA)

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Compare: Calc; Rhus; Sepia; Cicuta.

Third to sixth potency.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bleeding of the gums, (when sucking them).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Sleepiness after dinner, and early in the evening.

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

Moist tetters. Blunt instruments make deep impressions.

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

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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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.).

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

Paroxysm: Without heat or sweat (Aran.).

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.

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.

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

Coated yellow. Taste putrid; bitter.

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.

Misapplies words in speaking or writing.
Awkwardness, which makes him drop things from his hands.
Absence of mind and difficulty in fixing his attention.
Slowness of understanding and comprehension.
Sad, depressed and desponding when alone.
Sensitiveness, great excitability, takes everything amiss.
Moroseness.
Ill-humor, aversion to all things.

States vacantly into space.
Vertigo, early in the morning, falls over, losing his senses for awhile.

Headache deep in; sensation as if the head were much enlarged.
Headache at night, worse from sitting up.
Head seems bruised.
Pressing pains in the head.
Headache, right side in the morning; left, evening.

Violent itching of the scalp, especially when getting warm, scratches on forehead until sore; not relieved by scratching.
Scalp tender to the touch.
Falling off of the hair.

Inflammation of eyelids, with nightly agglutination.
Eyes dim, without lustre.
Staring at one point.
Blindness of right eye from paralysis of optic nerve.
Objects appear too near.

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

Scabby nostrils.
Nose stopped up, cannot breath.
Watery coryza, with dizziness; on blowing the nose drops of blood come out.
Nosebleed during morning sleep, with vertigo.

Alternating red and pale.
Cheeks hot, feel as if they would burst.
Convulsive motions of facial muscles, before asthma.
Pale swelling of cheek after toothache.

Lips cracked, in some places blistered.
Corners of the mouth sore.
Pale swelling of the upper lip.
Stitching like from a needle or splinter, in the lips.

Scorbutic gums; bleed easily.
Tearing in the lower jaw anterior to the ears; glands under the jaw swollen and throbbing.
Violent drawing-aching in carious teeth, less in the air and in warmth; worse in the evening.

Taste; putrid; bitter.
Stammering, stuttering speech.
Cutting pain in tongue, as with a knife, before asthma.

Numb feeling in the mouth.
Putrid smell from mouth.
Increased flow of saliva.

Burning in the throat.
Sore throat, with scratching and burning in œsophagus.
Great dryness in throat; when awaking in morning.
Tongue feels almost like wood.
Stitching in the throat.

No appetite for breakfast, relish for other meals.
Hunger, even after meals.
Longing for cold drink.
No appetite for cooked food, desire for bread only.

A little wine intoxicates.
After eating: 16, 19.

Hiccoughing before and after dinner.
Frequent empty eructations.
Nausea with shivering all forenoon.
Morning sickness, vomits only water; always relieved by taking breakfast.

Pressure and fulness in the pit of the stomach; tension in the temples; mental anguish.
Tension as if a lump of ice lay in the stomach, with pain.

Stitches in region of last rib, either side.

Cutting pains around navel.
Griping worse when at rest.
Stitches in the abdomen.
Cutting colic, with coldness, teeth chattering, limbs tremble; worse after stool.
Colic, with bright red urine; relieved by eating.

Disposition to diarrhœa, frequent attacks, each evacuation being followed by tenesmus; diarrhœa before and during menses.
Fruitless urging to stool.
Diarrhœa with cutting pains.
Stools first hard and difficult; last thin, even watery, with much pain in belly.
After stool, tenesmus and burning at the anus, the latter continues long after the watery stool.
Stinking flatus.
Itching in the rectum, as from worms.
Darting from the perineum to the rectum and genitals.

Frequent desire to urinate, even immediately after urination.
Urine: bright-red, with violent sediment.
In the urethra, stinging, itching, burning; orifice inflamed, feels glued up; hard node in the urethra.

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

Voluptuous sensation in genitals.
Menses: every two weeks, much dark and clotted blood; too late; only at night, or only in the morning.
During the intervals, occasional show of blood.
Burning in the genitals.
Leucorrhœa: like the white of egg, a few days before or after the menses; while walking; yellow-green, acrid, corrosive, leaving green spots on clothes; thick, slimy, tough.
Painful bearing down in vulva and weight in small of back, after midnight.

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

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

Evening loose; morning, dry.
Dry cough from tickling in throat.
Cough from tickling in the chest, mornings, after coming into the room from cold air.

Stitches in various localities of chest.

Palpitation of heart, with tremor of hands.
Visible palpitation after going up stairs; as if the heart was working in water; after over-exertion.
Pulse accelerated.

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

Stitching, boring and tearing pains.
Heaviness and powerlessness in arms and hands; drops even light things from the hands.
Joints of arms and hands feel disabled and wrenched.
Itching on the arms.
Moist tetter on back of hand.
Whitlow on fingers.

Sensation of soreness in the hip-joints.
Limbs "go to sleep", cannot stand on them.
Stitching pains in the knees.
Muscles of the calves feel too short, cramp in the morning.
Œdematous swelling of (right) foot even years after a sprain.
Violent stitching in outer malleolus of right foot, with painfulness of the inner.

Great weakness of the joints.
Sensation: as if beaten; lame, aching; tearing; tension; stitches.

Rest: 19. Exertion with hands: 26. Overexertion: 29. Walking: 23. After ascending: 29. On rising: 37. Standing: 33. Must straighten up: 31. Sitting: 3. Stooping: 31.

Rheumatic lameness.
General languor and enervation, particularly in the joints.
Drops things from the hands, as from weakness.

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

Morning: 2, 7, 13, 16, 23, 25, 27, 31, 33, 37, 40. Forenoon: 16. Afternoon: 37, 40. Evening: 10, 27, 37, 40. Night: 3, 23, 37, 40. After midnight: 23.

Warmth: 4, 10, 46. Hot weather: 46. Coming in room from cold air: 27. Open air: 10. Very sensitive to draughts.

Chill predominating, even near a warm stove, morning and evening, and even at night, generally with thirst.
Chill, with pains.
Shivering in the evening, spreading from the back; drawing pains in bowels.
Heat in evening, daily at 7 P.M.
Alternate shuddering and flying heat, most in afternoon with burning thirst, more with the shuddering.
Sweat every morning, 5-6 A.M., -most profuse on chest.
Sweat in axilla smells like onions.

Full moon: 46.

First right, then left: 3. Right: 3, 4, 6, 33.

Ebullitions, with much thirst.

Touch: 4. Scratching: 4, 31, 46.
Boring in ear: 6.
Unusually deep impression on finger from using blunt instruments (as scissors or knife).
Sensitiveness to touch, pressure with hand is painful.
Cannot bear clothing.

Urticaria covering nearly the 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; vesicles forming thick crusts.
Tetter on back of hand; after bright red pimple, rough, dark red, moist spots.

Old maids; palpitation.
Children stammering.

Where Rhus tox. seemed to be indicated, but did not relieve; urticaria: 46.
Bad consequence of external application of tar: 46.
Coffee disturbs action of Bovist.
Alum. followed Bovist. well in rheumatic pains after asthma.
Antidote to Bovist.: Camphor.

A tincture is made of the entire puff-ball (Lycoperdon bovista, L.).

Its most market action seems to be upon circulation predisposing to hæmorrhages (Compare Ergot, Ustilago and other allied fungi).

Carbo veg. (and the Carbons), Aloes, Magnes. c. Secale, phosph.

▶ Awkwardness, everything falls from his hands. ▶ Stretching without sleepiness. ▶ Fell down and remained motionless, with despair. ▶ Fell down in a swoon when trying to walk, and her limbs and body became stiff.

Bruised feeling in whole body on motion and touch, especially in joints of arms and in abdominal muscles. ▶ (Sensation as if intoxicated with wine.). ▶ General anxiety, and weakness of body, eructations, nausea, distention of abdomen, passage of flatus, yawning, stretching of limbs and irresistible sleepiness. ▶ Restlessness; with anxiety, unpleasant warmth, heaviness in abdomen and alternating sensations of coldness through body. ▶ Sudden attack like faintness at noon when sitting down, as if objects turned bottom upward. ▶ Weariness; in morning on rising later than usual, especially in limbs; in evening after eating; after a walk; during and after dinner; obliging her to sleep.

▶ Sensitiveness, offense at everything. ▶ Ill humor; in morning after rising; in afternoon during headache; with indifference to life; with apprehension and confusion of head. ▶ Apprehension, with fretfulness and disinclination to work. ▶ Anguish, sensation as if enveloped in black vapor. ▶ Melancholy; and towards evening weariness; then alternating moods. ▶ Life seemed very charming to him at one time, at another very hateful. ▶ Liveliness in company, but when alone sadness and indifference to everything. ▶ Exhilaration in morning, but peevishness in evening.

Indifference to external objects. ▶ A version to every thing after dinner. ▶ Courage, vigor and desire to fight with everybody. ▶ Talkative. ▶ Open hearted she spoke of her own failings. ▶ Stupid feeling. ▶ Thought confused. ▶ Absent-minded, writes several words entirely wrong and omits syllables; A., with vacant look, so that she could not remember what she had been told or ordered. ▶ Memory weak.

Tearing with heaviness and bruised sensation. ▶ Aching in morning; in open air, with heaviness, mostly in occiput the A. amel. at night, returned in morning on going into open air, amel. in room; at night, agg. raising it, agg. towards morning; with weariness; with heaviness, which makes him ill-humored and unable to think continuously, the pain agg. lying and on waking from midday nap, with pulsations in head, the pain chiefly over nose, which is stopped; intermittent.

Raging pain in brain, as if suppuration at 8 A.M., beginning in cold air and continuing in the room. ▶ Aching on waking at 3 A.M., as if the head would burst, with which he feels every pulsation, amel. sweat, especially on head. ▶ A. after waking as from too much sleep. ▶ Stupefying A., especially in forehead. ▶ All the pains are felt deep in brain. ▶ Brain feels as if screwed together in morning amel. open air, with heaviness. ▶ Contractive sensation amel. after breakfast, with dullness. ▶ Drawing around, without pain.

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This fungus, like Ergot and other allied fungi, predisposes to hæmorrhages, and has a marked action upon the uterus.

General weakness and powerlessness in the joints.
Awkwardness; everything falls from his hands.
A condition of the flesh in which instruments make creases or indentations, as, for example, the shears on the fingers.
Sudden faint-like attacks.
General sensation of parts of the body being too large, as for example, the heart, uterus, head, hands, etc.

A general sensitiveness.
Dullness, with restlessness.
Distraction.
Weak memory.

Deep-seated pains in the brain, with a feeling as if the head were too large.
Headache at night < rising up.
Sudden attacks of vertigo in the morning, following a headache, with a feeling of stupidity and unconsciousness.
Soreness of the scalp.
Itching of the scalp, extending to the nape of the neck, aggravated on becoming warm; not > scratching; must scratch until sore.

Pressure in the orbits.
Objects seem too near to the eyes.
Eyes look weak and dim.

Hearing indistinct and false, so that mistakes are made.
(An offensive, purulent discharge from the ears.)

Bleeding in the morning.
A few drops of blood always after blowing the nose.
The nostrils become scabby, with burning pain, as if sore.

Frequent, violent alternations of color.
Very pale in the morning after rising.
The cheeks feel swollen and very large, with heat.
The upper lip, nose and cheeks feel swollen.
Cracked lips.
Eruption and ulcers at the corners of the mouth.

Drawing toothache in the evening and at night, < during warmth, > when walking in the open air.
The gums bleed easily on sucking them.
Stammering.
Salivation.
Offensive odor from the mouth.
A numbness of the interior of the mouth.

Burning in the throat.

Excessive hunger.
Thirst after cold drinks afternoons and evenings.
Eructations of gas.
Nausea in the morning, > after breakfast with vomiting of water.
Nausea, with chilliness the whole forenoon.

Ulceration in the bowels.
Cutting colic, worse during rest, > bending double, flatulent colic, with chilliness, especially after stool.
Discharge of extremely offensive gas.

Constipation.
Diarrhœa, with colic.
Diarrhœa precedes and accompanies menstruation.
Diarrhœa, with tension and burning.

Excessive sexual desire.
Frequent emissions.
Vertigo and confusion of the head after coition.

Leucorrhœa follows menstruation, profuse, acrid, yellowish-green, tenacious, like the white of an egg, worse when walking.
Menstruation too early and too profuse.
Menstruation flows only at night, or early in the morning.
Uterine hæmorrhages between the menses.

Shortness of breath from any exertion.
Oppression of the chest, as from constriction.
Dry cough, caused by tickling in the throat and in the chest.
Hoarseness in the morning, with scraping in the throat.

Heart feels enormously large.
Palpitation with restlessness, nausea and headache.
Palpitation during menstruation; also worse after eating.

Pain and stiffness of the back after stooping.
General weariness of the extremities.
A feeling of paralytic pain, as if strained, in the joints of the arm and hand.
Loss of power of the hands; they permit the slightest objects to fall.
A moist tetter on the back of the hand.
A feeling of tightness of the legs and calves, as if the muscles were too short.

Skin easily indented with instruments.
Itching of various parts, not > scratching, worse in warmth.
Itching over coccyx, not > scratching.
Moist tetter.
Urticaria.
Itching < warmth.

Sleepiness early in the evening and after eating.

Chill predominates; becomes chilly even with the pains.
Chill with thirst.
Chill beginning in the evening after 7 o'clock, with shivering in the back.
Heat with thirst, anxiety and restlessness.
Strong rushes of blood, with thirst, Sweat in the morning, most profuse on the chest.

Bovis. / The Bully.

Bovista,-Thine, a lauded name,
Along the line of Tetter fame.
Or when the head feels much enlarged,
As if the brain were overcharged.
Or when the feeling of distress,
Is felt from closely fitting dress.
The female looks to thee to stay,
The drain of Metrorrhagia.

The Bully,-Has an intolerance to the pressure of clothing.

The Bully, Calvin, has a lackey at his heels.

This Bully,-Who is subject to Tetter, -Is at the Salt Petre Glade, in a swarm of black headed Arabs.

Intolerance to the Pressure of Clothing: Bovis., Cal. c., Lach., Hep., Lyc., Sul. (Especially about the neck, Lach., Sep.)

Tetter-Herpes: Bovis., Nat. m., Petr., Graph., Lyc., Dul., Sul., Ars., Rhus., Mer., Sep., Hep., Dul., Ars. b., Ars. i. (On the tip of the nose, Aeth.- On the palms of hands, Kre., Nit. a. - On the tongue, Nat. m., Sani. - On the genitals, Pet.)

Distraction. Awkwardness. Weak memory. Sadness, with restlessness. Easily offended: takes everything in bad part. Unusual candor and talkativeness.

Stupefying, with vanishing of senses. Intoxication from a small quantity of wine. Reeling and confusion in head after coition.

Headache deep in brain, with feeling as if head were growing large. Ulcerative pain in. Nightly ache, worse raising up. Soreness of scalp.

Pressure in orbits. Weak, dim. Objects appear too near.

Purulent, bad - smelling discharge from. Indistinct hearing, misunderstands what is spoken.

Crusts, with burning pain in.

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.

Drawing ache in evening, and at night, ceasing in warmth and when walking in open air. Gums bleed easily and profusely.

Bad odor from. Burning in pharynx. Numbness of buccal cavity. Painfully sore ulcers on edge of tongue. Stuttering.

Coldness, as if a lump of ice lay therein.

Appetite: Violent hunger. Thirst for cold drinks in afternoon and evening.

Taste: Putrid or bloody, in mouth.

Nausea: With shivering, all forenoon.

Ulcerative pain in. Cutting bellyache, worse during rest.

Flatulence: Flatulent colic, with chill and coldness, especially after stool. Discharge of very foul smelling flatus.

Constipation. Diarrhoea, with ulcerative pain in abdomen. - during menses.

Frequent urging to urinate.

Intensified sexual desire. Frequent pollution.

Menses: Too early, and too profuse. Bloody discharge during intermenstrual period. Acrid, corroding leucorrhoea.

Short during manual labor. Oppression, as from constriction of chest.

Dry, from tickling in throat and chest.

Hoarseness early in morning, with mucus and scratching in throat.

Palpitation with restlessness, qualmishness and headache.

Pain and stiffness in, after stooping.

Neck: Swelling of cervical glans, with tension.

Axillary sweat, smelling like onions. Paralytic sprained pain in joints of arm and hands. Powerless hands. Moist tetter on dorsum of hand.

Tension in lower legs and calves, as though' the muscles were too short.

Great weariness and powerlessness in joint. Deep impressions are made by instruments, i. e., from scissors on fingers.

Itching in various parts, especially when getting warm. - better not scratching. moist tatters. Panaritia.

Sleepiness after eating, and early in morning.

Pulse: Excited, with ebullitions and palpitation. Chill: Predominant, even near a warm stove, in morning, in evening and even at night, usually with thirst. During the pain. 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. Sweat: Most profuse on chest, every morning (from 5 to 6 o'clock.).

Allied Remedies: Ap., Nit-ac., Selen., sil.

Great weakness in the joints.

Ebullitions with much thirst.

Chilliness predominating during the pain.

Dull instruments produce deep impressions on the flesh, for instance, the scissors on the fingers in using them.

Pale swelling of the upper lip.

Moist tetter.