Bovista Lycoperdon

(BOVISTA)

Has a marked effect on the skin, producing eruption like eczema, also upon the circulation, predisposing to hæmorrhages; marked languor and lassitude. Adapted to stammering children, old maids with palpitation; and "tettery" patients. Stage of numbness and tingling in multiple neuritis. Asphyxia due to charcoal fumes.

Mind

Enlarged sensation ( Arg n ). Awkward; everything falls from hands . Sensitive.

Head

Sensation as if head were enlarging , especially of occiput. Distensive headache; worse early morning, open air, lying. Discharge from nose stringy , tough. Dull, bruised pain in brain. Stammering ( Stram; Merc ). Scalp itches; worse, warmth; sensitive; must scratch until sore.

Face

Scurf and crusts about nostrils and corners of mouth. Lips chapped. Bleeding of nose and gums. Cheeks and lips feel swollen. Acne worse in summer; due to use of cosmetics.

Stomach

Sensation as of a lump of ice. Intolerant of tight clothing around waist.

Female

Diarrhœa before and during menses . Menses too early and profuse; worse at night . Voluptuous sensation. Leucorrhœa acrid, thick, tough, greenish, follows menses. Cannot bear tight clothing around waist (Lach). Traces of menses between menstruation . Soreness of pubes during menses. Metrorrhagia; Parovarian cysts.

Abdomen

Colic , with red urine; relieved by eating . Must bend double. Pain around umbilicus. Stitches through perineum towards rectum and genitals.

Chronic diarrhœa of old people; worse at night and early morning.

Extremities

Great weakness of all joints; clumsiness with her hands, drops things from hands. Weariness of hands and feet. Sweat in axillæ; onion smell . Tip of coccyx itches intolerably . Moist eczema on back of hand. Itching of feet and legs. Œdema in joints after fracture.

Skin

Blunt instrument leave deep impression on the skin. Urticaria on excitement , with rheumatic lameness, palpitation and diarrhœa ( Dulc ). Itching on getting warm. Eczema, moist; formation of thick crusts. Pimples cover the entire 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 chronic urticaria.

Compare: Calc; Rhus; Sepia; Cicuta .

Dose

Third to sixth potency.