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bovista lycoperdon
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Has a marked effect on the skin, producing eruption like eczema, also upon the circulation, predisposing to haemorrhages; 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.
Mind: Enlarged sensation (Arg n). Awkward; everything falls from hands. Sensitive.
Head: 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.
Face: 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.
Stomach: Sensation as of a lump of ice. Intolerant of tight clothing around waist.
Female: Diarrhoea before and during menses. Menses too early and profuse; worse at night. Voluptuous sensation. Leucorrhoea 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.
Abdomen: Colic, with red urine; relieved by eating. Must bend double. Pain around umbilicus. Stitches through perineum towards rectum and genitals.
Chronic diarrhoea of old people; worse at night and early morning.
Extremities: Great weakness of all joints; clumsiness with her hands, drops things from hands. Weariness of hands and feet. Sweat in axillae; onion smell. Tip of coccyx itches intolerably. Moist eczema on back of hand. Itching of feet and legs. Å’dema in joints after fracture.
Skin: Blunt instrument leave deep impression on the skin. Urticaria on excitement, with rheumatic lameness, palpitation and diarrhoea (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.
Compare
Calc; Rhus; Sepia; Cicuta
Relationship
Bovista antidotes tar applications. Suffocation from gas. After Rhus in chronic urticaria
