Bovista Lycoperdon
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General
Bovista.
Lycoperdon bovista. Warted puff-ball. N. O. Fungi. Trituration.
Clinical
Coccyx, itching of. Corns. Cysts. Diabetes. Diarrhoea. Ear, eczema of. Eczema. Ganglion. Gleet. Haemorrhages. Haemorrhagic 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; haemorrhagic diathesis; haemorrhage from menstrual irregularities; from traumatism. Menstrual flow occurring only or chiefly at night. Haemorrhage 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 diarrhoea; acrid corrosive leucorrhoea, 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 diarrhoea 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 (haemorrhage 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 faeces
In the rectum, itching as from worms
Darting from the perinaeum to the rectum and the genital organs
Diarrhoea 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, diarrhoea
Flow of blood during the intervals
Leucorrhoea: 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.