BOVISTA

BOVISTA. [Bovist.] Puffball. Hartlaub. Fungi.

► 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 oesophagus. ► 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 diarrhoea, frequent attacks, each evacuation being followed by tenesmus ; diarrhoea before and during menses. ► Fruitless urging to stool. ► Diarrhoea 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. ► Leucorrhoea : 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. ► Oedematous 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.