Boletus Laricis
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General
Boletus Laricis.
B. purgans. N. O. Fungi. Trituration.
Clinical
Diarrhoea. Dysentery. Fever. Gall-bladder, affections of. Headache. Liver, diseases of.
Characteristics
Burt proved the crude substance and the 3rd trituration. The gastro-enteric irritation common to the Fungi was very well marked. Motion < headache.
Relations
Compare. Agaric., &c. Coccul. (head hollow).
Mind
Very gloomy and despondent
Irritated at the least trifle
Absent-minded.
Head
Head feeling very light and hollow, with deep frontal headache and great faintness.
Eyes
Agglutination of eyelids every morning, with dull, aching pains in eyeballs.
Mouth
Teeth and gums very sore
Tongue: white coat; thick yellow coat showing marks of teeth
Taste: flat; coppery; unnatural, of all food; lost.
Stomach
Feeling in fauces as if would vomit
Nausea and vomiting
Great faintness at epigastrium.
Abdomen
Severe cutting pains in stomach every few minutes, with dull, aching distress in umbilicus, and loud rumbling in bowels all night
Heavy dragging pains in liver, more in r. lobe
Dull, burning distress; drawing; aching in r. lobe of liver with frontal Headache
Sharp cutting pains in r. lobe of liver and whole dorsal region on full inspiration
Sharp cutting pains near gall-bladder
Burning distress in region of gall-bladder all afternoon, with sharp pains in stomach and heavy aching in whole liver, esp. r. lobe
Severe, dull, aching distress just below stomach, causing great faintness.
Stool
Straining after stool
Stool: Thin, yellow papescent; mixed with something looking like oil in large and small drops; followed by aching in liver and umbilicus
Black, lumpy, dry stools mixed with bile and mucus
Stools of bile, mucus, and blood, with high fever
Lienteria.
Back
Dull, aching distress in back and legs.
Generalities
Great restlessness after midnight.—Faintness after stool.—Aching distress in all joints.
Fever
Chilliness along spine with frequent hot flashes of fever
Disposition to yawn and stretch when chilly
Face hot and flushed with severe frontal headache
Hands hot and dry
Waking at midnight two different nights in a profuse perspiration.