Sixth to thirtieth potency. Bears repeated doses well. Locally, in burns and eczema, 1x and 2x, in water, or as cerate.
Reason for useBoericke
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. The inflammations cantharis produces (bladder, kidneys, ovaries, meninges, pleuritic and pericardial membranes)are usually associated with bladder irritation.
▲ Worse from touch, or approach, urinating, drinking cold water or coffee
▼ Better rubbing
By regionBoericke
Mind Furious delirium. Anxious restlessness, ending in rage. Crying, barking; worse touching larynx or drinking water. …
Head Burning in brain. Sensation as if boiling water in brain. Vertigo; worse in open air.
Stomach Burning sensation of oesophagus and stomach (Carb). Disgust for everything-drink, food, tobacco. Burning thirst, with aversion to all fluids. …
Female Retained placenta (Sep), with painful urination. Expels moles, dead foetuses, membranes, etc. Nymphomania (Plat; Hyos; Lach; Stram). …
Respiratory Voice low; weak feeling. Stitches in chest (Bry; Kal c; Squilla). Pleurisy, with exudation.
Back Pain in loins, with incessant desire to urinate.
Extremities Tearing in limbs. Ulcerative pain in soles; cannot step.
Skin Dermatitis venenata with bled formation. Secondary eczema about scrotum and genitals, following excessive perspiration. Tendency to gangrene. …
Fever Cold hands and feet; cold sweat. Soles burn. Chill, as if water were poured over him.
Books*
Antidoted by Camphora 3, Aconitum Napellus 2, Pulsatilla Pratensis 2+9
Complementary Camphora
Follows well—
Compare Arsenicum Album, Apis Mellifica, Mercurius Corrosivus +21
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works. homeopathylibrary.com/remedy/cantharis-vesicatoria