Cantharis Vesicatoria

CANTHARIS · Guernsey - Key-notes to the Materia Medica · Henry Newell Guernsey · 2,418 chars

General

The chief key-notes are found in the urinary functions.

Mental.-- Moaning; lamenting; barking; restless; not disposed to do anything; dulness; constantly attempting to do something, but accomplishing nothing.

Head

Violent pains in; deeply in; congestion; inflammation; tearing; stitches; throbbing.

Eyes, ophthalmia; dimsightedness.

Ears, humming in.

Nose, bleeding of; sneezing violent, ineffectual .

Face, pale; wretched; sickly appearance; eruptions and blotches on.

Mouth

Much mucus; suppuration of tongue. Fistula dentalis of upper incisors.

Pharynx.-- Difficult to swallow liquids. Tonsils inflamed.

Gastric.-- Nausea while eating; after taking coffee.

Appetite, loss of; aversion to drinks; to all kinds of nourishment.

Sensation of fulness extending into chest and abdomen after coffee.

Abdomen

Pains in, after taking coffee; heat and burning in inflammation. Incarcerated flatus.

Urine

Cutting, burning pain in passing water; scanty secretion of; painful; too seldom; too frequent; dribbles away very slowly; flaky; like pus; reddish; bloody; with sediment; retention of; complaints during and after voiding.

Affections of the bladder.

Violent cutting and burning pains in the bladder before, during, and after micturition; paralysis neck of bladder, Nephritis.

Sexual.-- Affections of penis, as erections; urethra. Ovaries; female sexual desire too strong.

Stool

Constipation with retention of urine.

In dysentery, stools look like scrapings of the mucous membrane.

Diarrhoea, blood streaked mucus; white or pale reddish mucus, like scrapings of intestines.

Tenesmus.

Burning at the anus.

Generalities

Complaints prevailing on the right side of the head; face, right side generally; behind the ears; under jaw; lower teeth; inner region of the kidneys; in the loins; low voice; epilepsy without consciousness; pains in the kidneys, extending into the abdomen. Bleeding from inner parts; complaints in; burning in ; cutting in; darting in; inflammation of; sensitiveness of.

Cantharis expels moles, dead foetus, placenta; promotes fecundity. Hydrophobia, when attended with moaning and violent cries, interspersed with barking, as of a dog.

Worse.-- While drinking; from coffee; from drinking cold water; while urinating; after having urinated.

Better.-- From rubbing.

Remedies following:-- Bellad., Phosphor., Mercur., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur.

Antidotes

Pulsat., Camphor .