Cantharis
Spanish Fly
Back
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Pain in loins, with incessant desire to urinate.
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better, heat. Must have something hot to back Thirst before
Blood
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homesickness; intermittent fever).
Chest
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Pleurisy, as soon as effusion has taken place. Intense dyspnoea ; palpitation ; frequent, dry cough. Tendency to synco.pe. Short, hacking cough, bloodstreaked tenacious mucus. Burning pains.
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[Bry.; Kal. c.; Squilla.] Pleurisy, with exudation.
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arrests breathing. Hoarseness. Dry, hacking cough, expelling an offensive breath from lungs. Dyspnoea. Feels as if chest and head would fly to pieces. Explosive cough. Threatening gangrene of lung. Pain in distant parts on coughing — bladder, legs, ears, etc.
Compare
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Pulsat.; Lycop.; Bell.; Centaurea (surging of
Dose
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Third to sixth attenuation. In delirium tremens, dram doses of tincture in milk.
Ears
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Sensation as if wind v/ere coming from ear, or hot air. Bones about ear painful. [ Capsic.]
Extremities
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Tearing in
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Pain from hips to feet. Sciatica, worse bending backward; worse, coughing. Tensive pain in the knee.
Eyes
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Yellow vision. [Santon.] Fiery, sparkling, staring look. Burning in
Face
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Pale, wretched, death-like appearance. Itching vesicles on face, burning when touched. Erysipelas of face, with burning, biting heat with urinary symptoms. Hot and red.
Female
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Retained placenta with painful urination. Expels moles, dead foetuses, membranes, etc. Nymphomania. {Plat.; Hyos.; Lach.; Stram.] .Puerperal metritis, with inflammation of bladder. Menses too early and too profuse; black swelling of vulva with irritation. Constant discharge from uterus ; worse false step. Burning pain in ovaries; extremely sensitive. Pain in os coccyx, lancinating and tearing.
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Uterine haemorrhage near the menopause, with nausea. Sticking sensation in left ovarian region.
Fever
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Coldness, with ill-humor. Shwcring after drinking. Chill begins in
Guiding symptoms
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This powerful drug produces a furious disturbance in the animal economy, attacking the urinary and sexual organs especially, perverting their function, and setting up violent inflammations, and causing a frenzied delirium, simulating hydrophobia symptoms. [Anagallis.] Puerperal convulsions. Produces most violent inflammation of the whole gastro-intestinal canal, especially lower bowel. Oversensitiveness of all parts. Irritation. Raw, burning pains. Haemorrhages. Intolerable, constant urging to urinate is most characteristic. Gastric, hepatic and abdominal complaints that are aggravated by drinking coffee. Gastric derangements of pregnancy. Dysuria, with other complaints. Increases secretion of mucous membranes, tenacious mucus.
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or drinking water. Constantly attempts to do something, but accomplishes nothing. Acute manta, generally of a sexual type; amorous frenzy; fiery sexual desire. Paroxysms of rage, crying, barking. Sudden loss of consciousness with red
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Stool. — Shivering with burning. Dysentery; mucus stools, like scrapings of intestines. Bloody, with burning and tenesmus and shuddering after stool. Urine. — Intolerable urging and tenesmus. Nephritis with bloody urine. Violent paroxysms of cutting and burning in whole renal region, with painful urging to urinate; bloody urine, by drops. Intolerable tenesmus; cutting before, during, and after urine. Urine scalds him. and is passed drop by drop. Constant desire to urinate. Membranous scales looking like bran in water. Urine jelly-like, shreddy.
Head
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Burning in brain. Sensation as if boiling water in brain. Vertigo; worse in open air.
Heart
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Palpitation; pulse feeble, irregular; tendency to syncope. Pericarditis, with effusion.
Larynx
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Inflammation of
Limbs
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Ulcerative pain in soles; cannot step.
Male
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Strong desire; painful erections. Pain in glans. [Prunus; Parcira.] Priapism in gonorrhoea.
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Coldness of scrotum, with impotency, loss of sensibility in testicles, with softening and dwindling. Gonorrhoea, with chordee, excessive burning, pain in prostate.
Mind
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Furious delirium. Anxious restlessness, ending in rage. Crying, barking; worse touching larynx 190
Modalities
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Better, while eating, from heat. W orse, open air, uncovering, draughts.
Mouth
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Great diificuUy tn swalloioing liquids. Very tenacious mucu.s. [Kal. hxch.] Violent spasms reproduced by touching
Relationships
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Antidote: Cina; Calad.
Respiratory
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Voice low ; weak feeling. Stitches in
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Constriction of
Skin
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Dermatitis venenata with bleb formation. Secondary eczema about scrotum and genitals, follow* ing excessive perspiration. Tendency to gangrene. 194 CAPSICUM — CARBO ANIMALIS
Stomach
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Burning sensation of oesophagus and
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[Carh.] Disgust for everything — drink, food, tobacco. Burning thirst, with aversion to all fluids. Very sensitive, violent burning. Vomiting of blood-streaked membrane and violent retching. Aggravation from drinking coffee; drinking the .smallest qu|intity increases pain in bladder, and is vomited. Thirst unquenchable.
Throat
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vesicles in
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feels on fire. Constriction ; aphthous ulceration. [Hydr. mur.; Nit. ac.]
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Tongue covered with vesicles; deeply furred ; edges red. Burning in mouth, pharynx, and
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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