Pulex Irritans pulx.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Common Flea

General

Marked urinary and female symptoms.

Head

Very impatient, cross, and irritable. Frontal headache, with enlarged feeling of eyes. Face wrinkled and old-looking.

Mouth

Metallic taste. Sensation of a thread in throat. Thirsty, especially during headache.

Stomach

Breath and taste foul. Intense nausea, with vomiting, purging, and faintness. Stool very offensive. Abdomen bloated.

Urine

Scanty with frequent urging, with pressure on bladder and burning in urethra. Flow stops suddenly followed by pain. Urine foul. Cannot retain urine; must attend to the call without delay. Irritable bladder before menses.

Female

Menses delayed. Increased flow of saliva during. Intense burning in vagina. Leucorrhœa, profuse, foul, staining a greenish yellow; stains of menses and leucorrhœa very hard to wash out. Backache (Oxal ac).

Back

Aches, weak; drawing of muscles below scapulæ.

Fever

Feels a glow all over, like being over steam; chilly, while sitting beside the fire.

Skin

Prickly itching. Sore spots all over. Skin emits foul odor.

Modalities

Better, sitting or lying down. Worse, left side, moving about.

Dose

The higher potencies.