- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Puffball (Fungi.) Persons who suffer from tettery eruptions, dry or moist. Adapted to old maids; with palpitation. Stammering children (Stram.). Discharge from nose and all mucous membranes; very tough, stringy, tenacious (Kali bi.). Usually deep impression on finger, from using blunt instruments, scissors, knife…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Lycoperdon Bovista, Pers. Nat. order , Fungi; Common names , Warted Puff ball, Kugelschwamm. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. Emotional. Talkative, 3. Very open-hearted; she spoke of her own failings, contrary to her custom, 3. Averse to everything after dinner, 2. Very much exhilarated; life seems very…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Puff-Ball (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…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“CLOTHES, pressure of, Agg. DIRECTION of sensations, Outward PUFFINESS STICKY, stringy, etc.(Comp. Adhesive.) TIME, 8 P.M. to 12 Night. 6 A.M. 5 P.M. 7 P.M. 8 P.M. 9 P.M. 10 P.M.”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Lycoperdon bovista. Warted puff-ball. N. O. Fungi. Trituration. Coccyx, itching of / Corns / Cysts / Diabetes / Diarrhœa / Ear, eczema of / Eczema / Ganglion / Gleet / Hæmorrhages / Hæmorrhagic diathesis / Headache / Heart, affections of / Jaundice / Joints, affections of / Menstruation, disordered / Metrorrhagia /…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“We may always think of this remedy when we see a very "tettery person." Tetters, moist or dry. Mental.--Sadness, ill-humor, vexed mood. Head.--Vertigo in the morning; particularly where the patient falls over to one side, early in the morning, and seems to lose his senses for a time. Pains in the head pressing inward…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Puffball. Fungi. Hartlaub, Sen., proved in 1828 the spores of this fungus, following the example of Hahnemann, with Lycopodium . He published it in 1831 as an antipsoric ; 640 symptoms. It belongs to the most important remedies for the treatment of chronic diseases. Ægidi's case of urticaria, Knerr's translation of…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“Lycopirdon Bofvista^ Sow. PufF-ball. Nat. Ord., Fungi, 1. Pro^vings, — i. A young woman, very sensitive to medicinal action, experienced from olfaction of mother tincture : — Anxious respiration ; loss of strength, so as to be unable to get up or raise the head ; anguish, feeling as if in a black fog ; confused ideas…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Great weakness in the joints. Ebullitions with much thirst. Chilliness predominating during the pain. Dull instruments produce deep impressions on the flesh, for instance, the scissors on the fingers in using them. Pale swelling of the upper lip. Moist tetter.”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Sad, depressed and desponding. Awkwardness; she lets every thing drop out of her hand. Weak memory. Headache deep in the brain, sensation as if the head were enlarged. Sensation as if bruised in the head. Dim eyes, without lustre. Objects seem to be too near the eye. Itching in the ears. Discharge of fetid us from the…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: puff ball. Headache (deep in the brain), with a feeling as though the head were enormously large or swollen (F.). Discharge from the nose and all mucous membranes very tough, stringy and tenacious (Kali-B.) (A.). Pale swelling of the upper lip. Found it useful in epistaxis. Whether the hæmorrhage be…”
