Bovista Lycoperdon

Puffhall. Fungi.

Hartlaub, Sen., proved in 1S28 the spores of this fungus, following the example of Hahnemann, with Lycop. He pubhshed it in 1831 as an anti- psoric ; 640 symptoms. It belongs to the most important remedies for the treatment of chronic diseases. Aegidi's case of urticaria, Knerr's transla- tion of which was published in the May number of the North Amer. Journal, 1880, is a model cure and the symptoms are decidedly corroborative, par- ticularly those of the mind. The symptoms are included in our collection.

^ Mind. I Absence of mind and difficulty in fixing his attention. d Urticaria. Misapplies words in speaking or writing.

■ Awkwardness, whicli makes him drop things from his hands.

6 Urticaria. 1 I Slowness of understanding and comprehension ; does not hear well.

■ Vacant, thoughtless staring. ^Urticaria.

1 1 Sad, depressed and desponding when alone. Doleful ; restless ; distressed.

■ Sensitiveness; great irritability; takes everything amiss.

6 Urticaria. I I Moroseness ; ill-humor ; aversion to all things. 0 Urticaria. I Quarrelsome and contentious. 6 Urticaria.

■ Weak memory.

^ Sensorium. Absence of mind, abstraction. Mental dullness.

Stupefying giddiness, with vanishing of senses. Stares vacantly into space.

Vertigo early in morning, falls over to one side, loses his senses for awhile.

■ Sudden attacks of vertigo and feeling of stupidity in head

while standing ; she loses consciousness for a moment ; pre- ceding and following a headache in the morning. ^ Inner Head. Great sensitiveness.

■ ■ Sensation as if head were much enlarged ; headache, deep in. Head seems bruised inside.

Beating in head as if there were an abscess there, attended with a sensation of wild confusion ; the beating is excited by cold air, particularly early in morning, or only in right side.

Stupefying pain, particularly in forehead and vertex.

Pressing pains in head.

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Pressure from side to side.

Headache : right side in morning, left, evening ; at night ; at 3 A.M.; worse on raising the head, with increased secretion of urine ; < from sitting up ; < from pressure.

Pains in head pressing inward ; pains from side to side press- ing outward.

Dull headache with weariness.

Distensive pain in head.

Pain in occiput, as if a wedge would be pressed in.

Lacerating pain in sinciput and forehead.

On awaking the head aches, as from too much sleep. ^ Outer Head. ' Sensation as if the head were enlarging.

Scalp tender to touch.

Sore spots on head.

Beating in a small spot on left side ; itching in hairy scalp, particularly on getting warm in bed, obliging one to scratch until the parts bleed, but not relieved by scratching, particu- larly early in the morning.

Itching over whole scalp, extending to neck, especially if he became warm, so that he was obliged to scratch the forehead, which was not relieved by scratching.

Pimples or reddish vesicles on hairy scalp with itching ; painful blister on temple ; itching, suppurating blister on forehead ; objects seem too near the eye.

Falling off of the hair. ^ Sight and Eyes. I Blindness of right eye from paralysis of op- tic nerve.

Objects appear too near.

Perpendicular half-sight.

Pressure in the orbits, in the bones.

Staring at one point.

Eyes dim, without lustre.

■ Inflammation of eyelids, with nightly agglutination. ^Urti-

caria. ® Hearing and Ears. Hearing indistinct, misunderstands much

that is spoken. Itching in ears relieved by boring with finger in ear. Discharge of fetid pus from ears. Boil in right ear, with pain when swallowing. Thick oozing scurfs on ears. ^ SmeU and Nose. Every time the nose is blown, drops of blood

issue from it. I A few drops of blood from nose every time on sneezing.

■ Bleeding of the nose in the morning. Nosebleed during morning sleep, with vertigo. Watery coryza, with dizziness.

Stoppage of the nose with fluent coryza. Nose stopped up, cannot breathe.

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Soreness and redness of septum narium ; scurfs and crusts

about the nostrils ; scurfy pustules under the nose, ® Face. I The face is very pale in morning on rising.

Marked alternation of color efface, now very red then pale. Cheeks hot, feel as if they would burst. 1 Convulsive motions of facial muscles. ^Before asthma. Pale swelling of cheek after toothache. Eruption on face and cheeks. ^ Lower Face. BPale swelling of upper lip. 6 After toothache. Stitching like from a needle or splinter, in lips. Chapped or blistered lips. Corners of mouth sore, broken out, BLips cracked, in some places crusty. ^Urticaria. ^^ Teeth and Gums. Tearing in lower jaw anterior to ears ;

glands under jaw swollen and throbbing. Violent drawing-aching in carious teeth ; > in air and in

warmth ; <^ in evening. After toothache, pale, swollen cheeks. Violent drawing pain in hollow back teeth of lower jaw for two

evenings in succession in bed.

■ Scorbutic gums ; bleed easily. ^Urticaria.

^^ Taste, Speech, Tongue. Taste : putrid ; bitter.

Stammering, stuttering speech.

1 Cutting pain in tongue, like with a knife. 6 Before asthma.

Sores or ulcers on edge of tongue, ^^ Inner Mouth. Sensation, as if inner mouth were numb (pithy) and crisp early in morning on waking, sometimes with dry- ness of mouth and bitter, slimy taste.

Putrid smell from mouth.

Increased flow of saliva.

Great dryness of mouth, as if sand were in it ; burning in tip of tongue and numbness of posterior portion early in morn- ing on waking; deep ulcers in right border of tongue, pain- ful like a sore; stuttering, especially when reading, with in- ability to pronounce several words rapidly. ^^ Palate and Throat. Burning in throat.

Sore throat, with scratching and burning in oesophagus.

Great dryness in throat ; when awaking in morning, tongue feels almost like wood.

I Stitching in throat, d Before asthma. ^^ Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. No appetite for breakfast, relish for other meals.

■ Little appetite. 6 Urticaria. Hunger, even after meals. Longing for cold drink.

No appetite for cooked food, desire for bread only.

Loss of thirst.

Desire : for brandy ; for wine ; for milk.

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Worse from : spirituous liquors, -wine, cold food ; > from hot victuals. ^^ Eating and Drinking. I Better after breakfast, d Diarrhoea.

Hiccough before and after eating.

While eating : stitches through chest ; tired ; sleepy ; crawls or flushes.

After eating : stitches in chest ; tired ; sleepy ; colic ; amelio- ration of gagging ; cutting in belly. ^® Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Hiccough- ing; before and after dinner.

Frequent empty eructations.

Nausea, with shivering all forenoon.

iNausea in the morning. 6 Diarrhoea.

I Vomits a watery fluid ; nausea relieved by eating breakfast.

6 Morning sickness. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Pressure and fullness in pit of stomach ; tension in temples ; mental anguish. Cold feeling in stomach, as if a lump of ice were lodged there, with pain, mostly mornings.

I I Intolerance of tight clothing around the waist.

^^ Hypochondria. Stitches in region of last rib, either side. ^^ Abdomen. Cutting pains around navel. Griping ; worse when at rest. Stitches in abdomen. Cutting colic, with coldness, teeth chattering, limbs tremble ;

worse after stool. Colic, with bright red urine ; relieved by eating. Abdomen : bloated ; puff"ed up at single spots. Bloatedness of the abdomen ; with softness, flatulency, or

rumbling ; with constipation. Abdomen tender, most in the mornings. Coldness moving about in abdomen.

BDistension of abdomen, with rumbling, shifting of flatulence and emission of much flatus. ^Diarrhoea.

I Colic, which causes the patient to double over; sometimes

voiding red urine (not in Coloc), and relief by eating (not in Coloc).

^^ Rectum and Stool. Stinking flatus.

■ Disposition to diarrhoea, frequent attacks, each evacuation be- ing followed by tenesmus, d Urticaria. Diarrhoea before and during menses. Fruitless urging to stool. Diarrhoea with cutting pains.

I I Stools first hard and difficult ; last thin, even watery. 6 Af- fections of the prostate gland.

I Stool at first hard, the last part thin, with pain in abdomen. After stool tenesmus and burning at anus. Itching in rectum, as from worms.

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Darting from perineum to rectum and genitals.

Itching on tip of os coccjgis, has to scratch the parts raw and

sore. I Stools: liquid, yellow, fecal. Morning diarrhoea, with urging pain.

■ Before stool : urging; colic. ^Diarrhoea.

■ During stool: twisting pain in abdomen. ^Diarrhoea.

■ After stool: languid; tenesmus; burning at anus. ^Diarrhoea. After stool : burning and itching in anus, as if worms were

crawling. ^^ Urinary Organs. Frequent desire to urinate, even immedi- ately after urination, with emission of a few drops. Urine : bright red ; yellow-green ; becomes turbid ; bright yel- low, with slowly forming cloud; turbid, like loam water, with violet sediment.

■ ■Diabetes mellitus.

Stinging-itching burning in the urethra; orifice inflamed, feels

glued up. Hard node in the urethra.

■ Gleet.

^"^ Male Sexual Organs. Seminal emissions. After coition, reeling and confusion in head. Complaints from sexual excess. " Female Sexual Organs. Voluptuous sensation in genitals. Burning in genitals.

Menses : four days too soon and more profuse than usual ; every two weeks much dark and clotted blood ; too late and scanty ; only at night, or only in morning ; during intervals occasional show of blood.

■ Ovarian cyst, tapped twice within a few months.

■ Every few days a show between the menses.

■ The menses flow most profusely in morning, but scanty dur-

ing day and night. After midnight painful urging toward genitals, with great heavi- ness in small of back, which was somewhat relieved the next day with discharge of menstrual blood.

■ Diarrhoea frequently before and during menstruation. Before catamenia : spasm in the chest; painful bearing down

in genitals ; diarrhoea. Before, during and after menses : pain as if bruised, and weary in loins, belly and thighs, impeding going up stairs.

■ iLeucorrhoea a few days before or a few days after the

monthly ; while walking like white of eggs ; yellow-green, ■ acrid, Bcorrosive, leaving green spots in the clothes; thick, slimy, tough. Soreness between the labia and thighs. 24 Pregnancy. ■ Jaundice of new-born children. Voice and Larynx. Hoarseness in morning.

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Roughness in throat, mornings, with catarrhal speech. Scratching sensation in larynx, with viscid phlegm. ^^ Respiration. 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. ^'^ Cough, Evening, loose ; morning, dry. Dry cough from tickling in throat. Cough from tickling in chest, mornings, after coming into the

room from cold air. I Cough, with so viscid an expectoration that it can scarcely be

discharged. ^* Inner Chest and Lungs. Stitches in various localities of chest.

Stitches in 1. side, extending through to back, ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Ebullitions, with much thirst. Palpitation: with tremor of hands ; restlessness; vertigo; chilli- ness ; sick headache ; profuse catamenia. Visible palpitation, after going up stairs ; a,s if the heart was

working in water ; after over-exertion. Pulse accelerated. ^^ Outer Chest. Burning in outer chest. ^^ Neck and Back. Stitches in neck. Stiffness of neck in morning. Backache, with stiffness after stooping. Shooting and other pains between shoulders, along borders of

the scapulge; has to "straighten up" to be relieved. Intolerable itching at tip of os coccygis; must scratch until the

parts become raw and sore. ^^ Upper Limbs. Sweat in arm-pits, smelling like onions. Tension in shoulder-joint, cannot write. Stitching, boring and tearing pains in upper limbs. Joints of arms and hands feel disabled and wrenched. Itching on the arms. ■ Affections of the wrist-joints. Sharp stitches in right external malleolus. Tremor of hands, with palpitation of heart and oppressive

anxiety. I Great weariness in the hands and feet the whole day.

I She has no power in hands, especially in right, and almost

allowed the slightest objects to fall from weakness.

I I Hygroma on hand. Moist tetter on back of hand.

The skin of fingers becomes unusually dented by the instru- ments with which she was working. iThe hands are covered with small, dry, reddish pimples, which

gradually disappear after a few days. Runaround, or whitlow on fingers. ^' Lower Limbs. Sensation of soreness in hip-joints.

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Limbs "go to sleep," cannot stand on them.

Stitching pains in knees.

Muscles of calves feel too short; cramp in morning.

CEdematous swelling of (right) foot even years after a sprain.

Violent stitching in outer malleolus of right foot, with painful- ness of the inner.

I Cramp in leg.

BEruption on both feet of small, red, rash-like pimples, with an itching- burning pain, with which the feet are covered, as far as half way up the calves, lasting two days ; scratching does not affect them. ^* Limbs in GeneraL Great weakness of the joints.

Sensation: as if beaten; lame, aching; tearing; tension; stitches.

■ Rheumatic paresis and marked muscular atrophy of the af- fected leg. 6 Urticaria. ^® Rest. Position. Motion. Rest : griping worse.

Sitting up : headache worse.

Must straighten up to relieve pains between scapulae.

Colic causes patient to double up.

While stooping : head dull and heavy ; stitches in belly.

After stooping : backache and stiffness ; vertigo worse.

Exertion with hands : shortness of breath.

Walking : leucorrhoea like white of eggs. ^® Nerves. Rheumatic lameness.

General languor and enervation, particularly in joints.

Drops things from the hands, as from weakness.

Hysteria, with abdominal symptoms. ^^ Sleep. Great sleepiness early in evening.

Spasmodic gaping before asthma ; morning sweat in bed.

Great drowsiness in afternoon and early in evening.

I 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. ^^ Time. 3 a.m.: headache.

5 to 6 A.M.: sweat.

Early morning : Bl stools.

Morning : vertigo ; rightsided headache ; itching of scalp < ; nosebleed ; face pale ; sensation as if mouth were numb ; tongue feels like wood ; nausea ; cold feeling in stomach ; abdomen tender ; menses most profuse ; hoarseness ; rough- ness in throat ; dry cough ; stiffness of neck ; cramp in calves ; sweat in bed.

Forenoon : nausea and shivering.

During day: menses scanty.

Whole day : weariness of hands and feet.

Afternoon : drowsiness ; alternate shuddering and flying heat.

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Evening: leftsided headache; toothache ■< ; cough loose; great sleepiness; chilliness; llstools.

7 P.M.: chill with thirst.

Night : headache ; menses scanty ; rest disturbed by nettle- rash ; agglutination of eyes ; Istools. '' Temperature and Weather. Cold air : beating in head worse.

Air : toothache better.

Warmth of bed : itching of scalp < ; toothache better.

Hot weather : red, scabby eruption appears on thighs and bends of knees, and again with the full moon.

Hot food : symptoms better.

Cold food : symptoms worse.

Coming in room from cold air : cough worse.

Very sensitive to drafts. *" Chin. Fever. Sweat. Chill predominating, even near a warm stove, morning and evening, and even at night; gener- ally with thirst.

Chill with the pains.

Shivering in evening, spreading from the back ; drawing pains in bowels.

I Chills : immediately after going to bed at night, commencing in back ; every evening at 7 p.m. with thirst, followed by drawing pains in abdomen, d Intermittent.

Alternate shuddering and flying heat, most in afternoon, with burning thirst, more with the shuddering.

Heat, with thirst, anxiety, restlessness; oppression of chest.

Fever-heat during sleep.

Sweat every morning, 5-6 a.m., most profuse on the chest.

Sweat in axilla smells like onions.

Chilliness whole evening. *^ Attacks. Full moon : red, scabby eruption appears on thighs

and bends of knees ; also in hot weather. ^^ Locality and Direction. Right : beating in head ; morning headache ; boil in ear ; deep ulcers on border of tongue ; stitches in external malleolus ; no power in hand ; oedema- tous swelling of foot.

Left: evening headache ; beating in a small spot in side; pain in side ; swelling in groin.

Right to left: headaches, right in a.m., left in P.M. ^^ Sensations. As if head were enlarged.

As if sand were in mouth.

As if a lump of ice were lodged in stomach.

Lacerating : in forehead ; in sinciput.

Cutting : in tongue ; around navel ; in abdomen ; with diar- rhoea.

Darting : from perineum to rectum and genitals.

Stitching : in lips ; in throat ; through chest ; in region of last

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ribs ; in abdomen ; in chest ; in 1. side through to back ; in

neck ; in upper limbs ; in r. external malleolus ; in knees ;

in outer malleolus ; in limbs. Shooting : between shoulders. Boring : in upper limbs.

Tearing: in lower jaw; in upper limbs ; in limbs. Twisting : in abdomen. Griping : in abdomen.

Wrenched feeling : in joints of arms and hands. Bruised feeling : in head. Beaten feeling : in limbs. Pressing : in head : from temple to temple ; in orbits ; in pit

of stomach. Distensive pain : in head. Wedge pain : in occiput. Drawing : in lower molars ; in bowels. Drawing-aching : in carious teeth. Burning : in tip of tongue ; in throat ; in oesophagus ; at anus ;

in outer chest ; nettle-rash. Soreness : in hip-joints ; between labia and thighs. Cramp : in calves ; in leg. Scratching: in larynx; in oesophagus. Roughness : in throat.

Throbbing : in head, as of an abscess ; in submaxillary glands. Fullness : in pit of stomach. Heaviness : in arms and hands. Tension: in temples; in shoulder-joint ; in muscles of calf; in

tough, tenacious ; also the pus from ulcers. 1 (Weakness of all joints.

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Exertions with hands : shortness of breath.

Overexertion : palpitation.

Unusually deep impression on finger from using blunt instru- ments (as scissors or knife).

Sensitiveness to touch, pressure with hand is painful.

Cannot bear clothing.

In bleeding gums after extraction of tooth, apply pieces of the fungus to the cavity ; two or three applications will cure the worst case of hemorrhage ; for any other kind of wound, a piece large enough to cover the wound, held firmly on, or bandaged on, will arrest the flow of blood ; in epistaxis, hold a good-sized piece of the fungus close to the nostrils, and di- rect the patient to inhale with all possible force the fumes arising from it under pressure of the hand. *® Skin. I Urticaria covering nearly the whole body ; some blotches nearly two inches in diameter, caused by tar.

Rash, pimples, with burning-itching.

I 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.

Tetter on back of hand ; after bright red pimples, rough, dark red, moist spots.

■ Urticaria, with rheumatic lameness; disposition to diarrhoea, each evacuation being followed by tenesmus ; scorbutic gums ; inflammation of eyes and nightly agglutination ; morning sweat in bed, together with ill-humor, moroseness, irritability, sensitiveness, great excitability ; takes everything amiss ; aversion to all things ; quarrelsome and contentious ; stares vacantly into space; awkwardness, which makes him drop things ; absence of mind and difficulty in fixing his attention.

Intolerable itching at tip of os coccygis ; he must scratch till the parts become raw and sore. *^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Woman, set. 36, married ; after inflammation of the bowels, a swelling in 1. groin ; tapped a pint of fluid from ovarian cyst; after some time again, five, six pints ; after some time a third tapping was considered necessary, but Bovista^ cured. 6 Unilocular ovarian cyst.

Old maids ; palpitation.

Bovista antidotes bad eff'ects of tar, externally applied.

Useful when Rhus tox fails in urticaria.

Alumina followed well in rheumatic pains after asthma.

Calc. ostr., Rhus tox. and Sepia follow Bovista with good' effect.

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Suffocation from carbon vapors.

The smoke from burning Bovista acts more on bees than other

smoke. (How would smoke of Rlius tox. act on bees ?) Compare: iiCale. ostr., MJius tox., jSejna, I Phosphor., Pul-

sat., Staphis., Sulphur., Veratr., II Bellad., Bryon., Carh.

veg., Caustic, Kali carh., Lycop., Mercur., ISlatr. mur.,

Silica, Spigel., Strontian, Valer. Incompatible: coffee.