Cantharis vesicatoria
автор Henry N. Guernsey — Key-Notes to the Materia Medica
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
The chief key-notes are found in the urinary functions.
Mental.--Moaning; lamenting; barking; restless; not disposed to do anything; dulness; constantly attempting to do something, but accomplishing nothing.
Head.--Violent pains in; deeply in; congestion; inflammation; tearing; stitches; throbbing. Eyes, ophthalmia; dimsightedness. Ears, humming in. Nose, bleeding of; sneezing violent, ineffectual. Face, pale; wretched; sickly appearance; eruptions and blotches on.
Mouth.--Much mucus; suppuration of tongue. Fistula dentalis of upper incisors.
Pharynx.--Difficult to swallow liquids. Tonsils inflamed.
Gastric.--Nausea while eating; after taking coffee. Appetite, loss of; aversion to drinks; to all kinds nourishment. Sensation of fulness extending into chest and abdomen after coffee.
Abdomen.--Pains in, after taking coffee; heat and burning in inflammation. Incarcerated flatus.
Urine.--Cutting, burning pain in passing water; scanty secretion of; painful; too seldom; too frequent; dribbles away very slowly; flaky; like pus; reddish; bloody; with sediment; retention of; complaints during and after voiding. Affections of the bladder. Violent cutting and burning pains in the bladder before, during, and after micturition; paralysis neck of bladder, Nephritis.
Sexual.--Affections of penis, as erections; urethra. Ovaries; female sexual desire too strong.
Stool.--Constipation with retention of urine. In dysentery, stools look like scrapings of the mucous membrane. Diarrhœa, blood streaked mucus; white or pale reddish mucus, like scrapings of intestines. Tenesmus. Burning at the anus.
Generalities.--Complaints prevailing on the right side of the head; face, right side generally; behind the ears; under jaw; lower teeth; inner region of the kidneys; in the loins; low voice; epilepsy without consciousness; pains in the kidneys, extending into the abdomen. Bleeding from inner parts; complaints in; burning in; cutting in; darting in; inflammation of; sensitiveness of.
Cantharis expels moles, dead fœtus, placenta; promotes fecundity. Hydrophobia, when attended with moaning and violent cries, interspersed with barking, as of a dog.
Worse.--While drinking; from coffee; from drinking cold water; while urinating; after having urinated.
Better.--From rubbing.
Remedies following:--Bellad., Phosphor., Mercur., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur.
Antidotes:--Pulsat., Camphor.