Cantharis Vesicatoria

General

CANTHARIS. [Canthar.] Spanish Fly. Hahnemann. Cantharis vesicatoria.

Mind

► Sudden loss of consciousness, face red. θ Dentition. ► Forgetfulness. ► Confusion of head and pulsation in forehead, in morning. ► Confusion ; distraction of mind ; inability to concentrate thought. ► Furious delirium. ► Irritable, dissatisfied with every one and everything. ► Whining, and complaining, with anxious restlessness, worse on motion, better lying quiet. ► Paroxysms of rage, with crying, barking and beating ; renewed by the sight of dazzling, bright objects ; when touching the larynx, or when trying to drink water. ► Despondent and low-spirited, says she must die. ► Insolent and contradictory mood in the afternoon. ► Anxious restlessness.

Sensorium

► Vertigo ; and staggering ; and fainting ; while walking in the open air, with transient attacks of unconsciousness ; appearance of a fog before the eyes.

Inner Head

► Headache in the forehead. ► Burning in the sides of the head, ascending from the neck, with soreness and giddiness ; worse morning and afternoon ; when standing or sitting ; better while walking or lying down. ► Heaviness in the occiput, with drowsiness and incapacity to think ; heaviness of the head. ► Inflammation of brain. ► Pains deep in the brain, with constant expression of anguish on the face resembling a sullen scowl or frown, with eyes closed ; or without expression, if open. ► Painful tearing on the vertex, with sensation as if some one were pulling a lock of hair upwards. ► Stitching, tearing or drawing pains in bones of skull. ► Headache from washing or bathing.

Outer Head

► Hair falls out when combing.

Eyes

► Objects look yellow. ► Eyes look yellow. ► Dimness of sight. ► Inflammation of the eyes ; from a burn. ► Smarting in the eyes. ► Eyes protruding ; fiery, sparkling, staring look. ► Eyes sunken, surrounded by blue rings. ► Lachrymation in the open air ; must close the eyes ; on opening lids, the margins pain as if sore, like raw flesh.

Ears

► Ringing, humming or roaring in the ears. ► A hot exhalation passes, at intervals, and frequently from the ears. ► Tearing in the right ear and right mastoid process.

Nose

► Nosebleed early in morning. ► Erysipelatous inflammation of the dorsum of the nose, spreading to both cheeks, but more to the right ; followed by desquamation. ► Secretion of much tenacious mucus from nose without sneezing ; hoarseness and painful hawking of touch mucus from chest ; nightly dry, cutting stitches along trachea externally. ► Mucus collects in posterior nares, difficult to dislodge.

Face

► Expression of extreme suffering. ► Death-like look during and after-pains. ► Face : much swollen and puffy ; flushed when stooping ; yellow, or very pale.

Lower Face

► Dry lips, without thirst.

Teeth

► Painful red spot, size of a pin's head, over the carious root of an upper incisor ; discharges pus from a small opening in the centre, when pressed. ► Lock-jaw with grinding of the teeth.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : bitter ; of pitch ; lost. ► Gold tooth-plate tastes coppery. ► Speech weak and timorous. ► Tongue : thickly furred, red at the edges ; swollen and thickly coated ; at base, in part excoriated, in part covered with blisters ; trembling of the tongue.

Mouth

► Mucous membrane red and covered with small blisters ; sore, burning or smarting. ► Dryness in the mouth extending into posterior nares. ► Burning pain in the mouth, throat and stomach. ► Salivation ; copious, tasteless ; disgusting, sweet.

Throat

► Burning sensation in throat ; throat feels "on fire". ► Throat inflamed and covered with plastic lymph. ► Throat swollen. ► Stinging, dryness in pharynx. ► Constriction and intense pain at the back of the throat. ► Burning soreness of the throat, which is inflamed. ► Aphthous ulcer at the back part of the fauces, covered with a whitish adherent crust ; a similar one on right tonsil. ► Swallowing of liquids very difficult.

Desires And Aversions

► Aversions to all kinds of nourishment, particularly in the evening. ► Immediately on cessation of pains, patient feels hungry. ► Great thirst with burning pain in throat and stomach. ► Thirst, with aversion to all fluids. ► Disgust for everything.

Eating And Drinking

► After drinking coffee, sensation of fulness. ► Drinking, even small quantities of water, increases the pain in the bladder.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Eructations of sour, frothy mucus, tinged bright red. ► Nausea and vomiting. ► Vomiting : of the water drunk, also of blood ; greenish, offensive ; or bile and ingesta ; of frothy mucus, tinged bright red ; with violent retching and severe colic.

Stomach

► Acute pain in region of stomach and bladder, with such exquisite sensibility that the slightest pressure produces convulsions. ► Violent burning pain in stomach ; also in pyloric region. ► Patient tosses about, as if in despair, with pains in stomach. ► Stomach feels as if it were screwed together. ► Sensation of fulness extending to chest and abdomen, after taking coffee.

Hypochondria

► Incarceration of flatus under the short ribs.

Abdomen

► Abdomen swollen and tympanitic above ; yields a dull sound below. ► Great distention and tenderness of the belly. ► Cutting in the abdomen, as from knives, with burning. ► Violent burning pain through the whole intestinal tract, with painful sensitiveness to touch. ► Cutting, stitching or burning in the groins. ► Abdominal symptoms are apt to be in sympathy or consonance with those in distant parts. ► Hard tumefaction above the symphysis pubis, with burning pains in the loins.

Stool, Etc

► Violent burning in the anus, after the diarrhoea. ► Pain in the perineum, seemingly arising from the neck of the bladder. ► Desire for stool while urinating. ► Diarrhoea, of blood and mucus. ► Dysentery, or diarrhoea, with dysuria ; feces red, slimy. ► Passage of white, tough mucus with stool, like scrapings from intestines with streaks of blood ; slimy and bloody stools. ► Constipation, with retention of urine, or with frequent urination, attended with cutting, burning pains, but little urine being passed at a time. ► During stool : colic, pressing, cutting or burning pains in the anus, causing the patient to cry out. ► After stool : cutting colic, burning, biting or stinging in anus ; chilliness, as if cold water were poured over body. ► Passage of pure blood from the anus and urethra. ► Cutting in the rectum partially relieved by discharge of flatus, entirely relieved by stool.

Urine

► Pain in the region of the kidneys and urging to urinate, steadily increasing in severity. ► Constant, dull, painful sensation in region of kidneys, late in evening. ► Pain in the kidney extending into the abdomen, the axilla, along the urethra into the bladder. ► Paroxysmal cutting and burning pain in both kidneys, the region very sensitive to the slightest touch, alternating with pain in tip of penis ; urging to urinate ; painful evacuation, by drops, of bloody urine, and at times of pure blood. ► Cutting and contracting pains from the ureters down toward the penis ; at times the pains pass from without inwards ; pressure on the glans relieves pain somewhat. ► Heaviness in bladder, feels sore on slightest motion. ► Urging to urinate from the smallest quantity of urine in the bladder. ► Violent pains in the bladder with frequent urging ; intolerable tenesmus. ► Violent burning-cutting pains in neck of bladder, extending to fossa navicularis, worse before and after urinating. ► With the urging to urinate, stitching pain in forepart of neck of bladder ; on continued urging, only a few drops pass. ► Urging, worse when standing, and still more when walking ; better when sitting. ► Fruitless effort to urinate. ► Urine passes in a thin and divided stream. ► Retention of urine, causing pain. ► Urine : turbid and scanty ; cloudy during the night, like mealy water, with white sediment ; albuminous, containing cylindrical casts, mucus and shreds ; looks jellylike ; contains large quantities of pus in vesical catarrh. ► Before, during and after urinating, cutting pains in urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

► Sexual desire : increased ; disturbing sleep at night. ► Strong and persistent erection, painless and without voluptuous sensation. ► Bloody semen. ► Erection at night, with contraction and sore pain along urethra. ► Painful gonorrhoea with chordee ; painful priapism. ► Drawing pain in the spermatic cord, while urinating. ► Testicles drawn up.

Female Sexual Organs

► Ovarian region ; stitches, arresting the breathing ; violent pinching pains, with bearing down towards the genitals ; great burning pain. ► Inflammation of the ovaries, with cutting or burning. ► Swelling of neck of uterus. ► Uterine hemorrhage, with great irritation in neck of the bladder. ► Menses : too early, too profuse, blood black or scanty breasts painful. ► Amenorrhoea, with fulness and pain in the head. ► Violent itching in the vagina. ► Swelling and irritation of the vulva. ► Pruritus, with strong sexual desire.

Pregnancy

► Vomiting, with violent retching and severe colic and burning at the pylorus. ► Promotes (when other symptoms agree) fecundity, expels moles, dead foetuses and the placenta. ► Retained placenta or membranes, usually with painful urination. ► Puerperal convulsions : 36.

Larynx

► Voice : hoarse ; feeble. ► Burning in the larynx ; larynx sensitive to touch. ► Irritation in larynx, causing short paroxysms of coughing, with hurried and difficult breathing ; sometimes with pain in abdomen, or with bloody expectoration. ► Burning or biting about the larynx, with contraction, or construction almost to suffocation. ► Profuse catarrh of the air-passages, the mucus being tenacious, with painful hawking and nightly lancinating and dryness in the trachea.

Breathing

► When breathing deeply, and when speaking she feels as if she dare not exert herself on account of extraordinary dryness or weakness of the respiratory organs ; speech therefore weak and timorous.

Cough

► Dry, hacking.

Lungs

► Stitches : in chest, more on right side, or first left then right ; in the lower right chest, extending toward the middle of the sternum and axilla. ► Burning in the chest. ► Exudation within the pleura ; dyspnoea, palpitation ; scanty urine ; tendency to syncope. See 44.

Heart And Pulse

► Anxiety about the heart. ► Drawing pain in the region of the heart. ► Stitch in heart followed by a crawling sensation. ► Pericarditis with effusion ; pulse feeble, irregular ; tendency to syncope. ► Violent palpitation of heart. ► Pulse : very variable mostly hard, full and frequent, at times intermittent ; frequent and small ; slow, feeble and scarcely perceptible.

Outer Chest

► Stitches in the sternum. ► Burning on the chest.

Neck And Back

► Burning, boring, stitching or lancinating pains in the back, either between or in the scapulae, or in the small of the back ; sometimes the skin over these parts burns as if a fly-blister were there. ► Stiffness in the neck, with tensive pain on stooping. ► Drawing, tearing or lancinating pain in the neck sometimes with burning of the skin over the parts. ► Tearing pain in the back, especially morning. ► Pains in the loins, kidneys and abdomen, with such pain on urinating that he could not pass a single drop without moaning or screaming. ► Pain in the loins, with incessant desire to urinate. ► Lancinations and tearing in the os coccygis, causing him to start.

Upper Limbs

► Tearing and stitching pains in the arms.

Lower Limbs

► Tearing from the right, later left hip-bone, down to the knees. ► Violent pains in the knees. ► Knees totter when ascending steps. ► Numbness of lower limbs, first of one leg then of the other. ► Pain in the soles, as from an ulcer, could not step.

Limbs In General

► Weakness and trembling of the limbs. ► Violent pains of various kinds in the upper and lower extremities, first of one leg then of the other. ► Tearing in limbs, relieved by rubbing.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 1, 21, 40. Walking : 2, 3, 21. Standing : 3, 21. Stooping : 8, 31. Sitting : 21. Lying : 1, 3.

Nerves

► Weakness, prostration, faintness. ► Convulsions, with dysuria and hydrophobic symptoms ; bright light, drink or sound of falling water, touching the larynx, or painful parts, cause or renew the spasm.

Sleep

► Light sleep ; full of wakeful illusions. ► Sleeplessness ; anxious dreams.

Time

► Some symptoms appear every seventh day. ► General aggravation after midnight and during the day. ► Morning : 1, 3, 31. Afternoon : 1, 3. Evening : 21, 40. Night : 7, 21, 22, 40.

Temperature And Weather

► Warm applications relieve pains in knees. ► Rays of sun : 46. Open air : 2, 5. Washing and bathing : 3.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chill in evening not relieved by external warmth. ► Chill, succeeded by thirst without heat. ► Chill running up the back. ► Cold extremities. ► Burning heat at night, which she does not feel. ► Burning in the palms and soles. ► Heat with thirst. ► Sweat from every movement. ► Cold sweat especially on hands and feet. ► Sweat on the genitals. ► Sweat smells like urine. ► Intermittent fever, every paroxysms being characterized by the Cantharis dysuria.

Sides

► Right side : 6, 7, 13, 28, 33. Left side : 29. Left to right : 7, 28. Right to left : 33. Below upwards : 40.

Sensations

► Raw and sore pain in the whole body, internally and externally. ► Every part oversensitive, and accompanied by excessive weakness. ► Burning, stitching and tearing pains predominate.

Tissues

► Inflammation of serous membranes ; pleurisy after Acon. and Bryon. ► Ulcerations and erosion of internal parts ; patient lies in a stupor, with occasional twitches of the hands ; symptoms of collapse.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 19, 21, 36, 46. Pressure : 10, 21, 33. Rubbing : 34. When combing : 4.

Skin

► Erythema, from exposure to the rays of the sum. ► Burning, itching pains. ► Erysipelatous inflammation of the skin ; forming blisters. ► Eczema rubrum. ► Ulcerative pain when touched. ► Gangrenous ulcers with itching and tearing pains. ► Pemphigus. ► Itching, as from lice, changing place. ► Tearing pain in ulcers. ► Burns, before blisters form.

Relationship

► Antidotes : Acon., Camphor, Lauroc., Pulsat. ► Oil increases the pernicious effects of Canthar. ► Inimical : Coffea.