BOVISTA LYCOPERDON
Puff-Ball
(BOVISTA)
Has a marked impact on the skin, producing eruption like eczema, additionally upon the circulation, predisposing to haemorrhages; marked languor and lassitude. Adapted to stammering children, historical maids with palpitation; and “tettery” patients. Stage of numbness and tingling in more than one neuritis. Asphyxia due to charcoal fumes.
Mind.–Enlarged sensation (Arg n). Awkward; the entirety falls from hands. Sensitive.
Head.–Sensation as if head had been enlarging, in particular of occiput. Distensive headache; worse early morning, open air, lying. Discharge from nostril stringy, tough. Dull, bruised ache in brain. Stammering (Stram; Merc). Scalp itches; worse, warmth; sensitive; ought to scratch till sore.
Face.–Scurf and crusts about nostrils and corners of mouth. Lips chapped. Bleeding of nostril and gums. Cheeks and lips experience swollen. Acne worse in summer; due to use of cosmetics.
Stomach.–Sensation as of a lump of ice. Intolerant of tight apparel round waist.
Female.–Diarrhoea earlier than and in the course of menses. Menses too early and profuse; worse at night. Voluptuous sensation. Leucorrhoea acrid, thick, tough, greenish, follows menses. Cannot undergo tight garb round waist (Lach). Traces of menses between menstruation. Soreness of pubes throughout menses. Metrorrhagia; Parovarian cysts.
Abdomen.–Colic, with pink urine; relieved by way of eating. Must bend double. Pain round umbilicus. Stitches via perineum in the direction of rectum and genitals.
Chronic diarrhoea of historical people; worse at night time and early morning.
Extremities.–Great weak spot of all joints; clumsiness with her hands, drops matters from hands. Weariness of fingers and feet. Sweat in axillae; onion smell. Tip of coccyx itches intolerably. Moist eczema on lower back of hand. Itching of toes and legs. Å’dema in joints after fracture.
Skin.–Blunt instrument depart deep influence on the skin. Urticaria on excitement, with rheumatic lameness, palpitation and diarrhoea (Dulc). Itching on getting warm. Eczema, moist; formation of thick crusts. Pimples cowl the whole body; scurvy; herpetic eruptions. Pruritus ani. Urticaria on waking in the morning, worse from bathing. Pellagra.
Relationship.–Bovista antidotes tar applications. Suffocation from gas. After Rhus in continual urticaria.
Compare: Calc; Rhus; Sepia; Cicuta.
Dose.–Third to sixth potency.
