CANTHARIS VESICATORIA
Spanish Fly
(CANTHARIS)
This effective drug produces a livid disturbance in the animal economy, attacking the urinary and sexual organs especially, perverting their function, and putting up violent inflammations, and inflicting a frenzied delirium, simulating hydrophobia signs and symptoms (Anagallis). Puerperal convulsions. Produces most violent irritation of the total gastro-intestinal canal, mainly decrease bowel. Oversensitiveness of all parts. Irritation. Raw, burning pains. Haemorrhages. Intolerable, steady urging to urinate is most characteristic. Gastric, hepatic and stomach complaints that are aggravated with the aid of ingesting coffee. Gastric derangements of pregnancy. Dysuria, with different complaints. Increases secretion of mucous membranes, tenacious mucus. The inflammations cantharis produces (bladder, kidneys, ovaries, meninges, pleuritic and pericardial membranes)are normally related with bladder irritation.
Mind.–Furious delirium. Anxious restlessness, ending in rage. Crying, barking; worse touching larynx or consuming water. Constantly tries to do something, however accomplishes nothing. Acute mania, usually of a sexual type; amorous frenzy; fiery sexual desire. Paroxysms of rage, crying, barking. Sudden loss of focus with crimson face.
Head.–Burning in brain. Sensation as if boiling water in brain. Vertigo; worse in open air.
Eyes.–Yellow imaginative and prescient (Santon). Fiery, sparkling, staring look. Burning in eyes.
Ears.–Sensation as if wind had been coming from ear, or warm air. Bones about ear painful (Capsic).
Face.–Pale, wretched, death-like appearance. Itching vesicles on face, burning when touched. Erysipelas of face, with burning, biting warmth with urinary symptoms. Hot and red.
Throat.–Tongue included with vesicles; deeply furred; edges red. Burning in mouth, pharynx, and throat; vesicles in mouth. Great subject in swallowing liquids. Very tenacious mucus (Kali bich). Violent spasms reproduced by means of touching larynx. Inflammation of throat; feels on fire. Constriction; aphthous ulceration (Hydr mur; Nit ac). Scalding feeling. Burnt after taking too warm food.
Chest.–Pleurisy, as quickly as effusion has taken place. Intense dyspnoea; palpitation; frequent, dry cough. Tendency to syncope. Short, hacking cough, blood-streaked tenacious mucus. Burning pains.
Stomach.–Burning sensation of oesophagus and belly (Carb). Disgust for everything-drink, food, tobacco. Burning thirst, with aversion to all fluids. Very sensitive, violent burning. Vomiting of blood-streaked membrane and violent retching. Aggravation from consuming coffee; ingesting the smallest extent will increase ache in bladder, and is vomited. Thirst unquenchable.
Stool.–Shivering with burning. Dysentery; mucous stools, like scrapings of intestines. Bloody, with burning and tenesmus and shuddering after stool.
Urine.–Intolerable urging and tenesmus. Nephritis with bloody urine. Violent paroxysms of slicing and burning in entire renal region, with painful urging to urinate; bloody urine, by way of drops. Intolerable tenesmus; slicing before, during, and after urine. Urine scalds him, and is surpassed drop with the aid of drop. Constant want to urinate. Membranous scales searching like bran in water. Urine jelly-like, shreddy.
Male.–Strong desire; painful erections. Pain in glans (Prunus; Pareira). Priapism in gonorrhoea.
Female.–Retained placenta (Sep), with painful urination. Expels moles, useless foetuses, membranes, etc. Nymphomania (Plat; Hyos; Lach; Stram). Puerperal metritis, with infection of bladder. Menses too early and too profuse; black swelling of vulva with irritation. Constant discharge from uterus; worse false step. Burning ache in ovaries; extraordinarily sensitive. Pain in os coccyx, lancinating and tearing.
Respiratory.–Voice low; vulnerable feeling. Stitches in chest (Bry; Kal c; Squilla). Pleurisy, with exudation.
Heart.–Palpitation; pulse feeble, irregular; tendency to syncope. Pericarditis, with effusion.
Back.–Pain in loins, with incessant want to urinate.
Extremities.–Tearing in limbs. Ulcerative ache in soles; can’t step.
Skin.–Dermatitis venenata with bled formation. Secondary eczema about scrotum and genitals, following immoderate perspiration. Tendency to gangrene. Eruption with mealy scales. Vesicular eruptions, with burning and itching. Sunburn. Burns, scalds, with rawness and smarting, relieved by using bloodless applications, accompanied by means of undue inflammation. Erysipelas, vesicular type, with splendid restlessness. Burning in soles of toes at night.
Fever.–Cold arms and feet; bloodless sweat. Soles burn. Chill, as if water had been poured over him.
Modalities.–Worse, from touch, or approach, urinating, consuming bloodless water or coffee. Better, rubbing.
Relationship.–Antidotes: Acon; Camph; Puls.
Compare: Cantharidin–(Glomerular nephritis). The instantaneous pharmacological motion of Cantharidin is irritability of the capillaries, rendering the passage of nutritive fluids thru them much less difficult. This is most marked in the capillaries of the kidneys. The extend of blood sugar coincident with the glomerular nephritis seems to be a treasured observation. Vesicaria–(Urinary and kidney remedy. Smarting, burning sensation alongside urethra and in bladder with ordinary want to void urine regularly with strangury. Cystitis, irritable bladder. Tincture 5-10 drop doses). Fuschina coloring substance used in adulteration of wine (Cortical nephritis with albuminuria, 6th-30th potency. Redness of ears, mouth, swollen gums; deep, pink urine; red, profuse diarrhoea, with extreme belly pains). Androsace lactea (urinary troubles, diuretic; dropsy). Apis; Ars; Merc cor.
Complementary: Camph.
Dose.–Sixth to thirtieth potency. Bears repeated doses well. Locally, in burns and eczema, 1x and 2x, in water, or as cerate.
