Cantharis canth.

MEMBRANES (Mucous and serous): URINARY ORGANS. Bladder. Pharynx. Brain. Pleura. Lower bowel. Pomum adami. Skin. Right side.

URINATING. Drinking; cold. Bright objects. Sound of water. Touch; larynx.

Warmth. Rest.

Rapid and intense action. Excitement during the pains. CUTTING-SMARTING or BURNING-BITING PAINS; as if raw. VIOLENTLY ACUTE INFLAMMATION, or rapidly destructive. Discharge of bloody, acrid water. Serous effusion. Gangrene. Weak attacks, that take the voice away.

Amorous frenzy. Rage. Yellow vision. Swelled, tremulous tongue; raw edges. Throat: full of blisters; painful swallowing. Throat and larynx painfully constricted, and as if afire. Burning thirst, but averse to liquids. Violent retching and vomiting. Sensitive over stomach and kidneys (Solid). Shreddy, burning stools, with tenesmus of rectum and bladder. BURNING, SCALDING URINE, WITH CUTTING, INTOLERABLE URGING AND FEARFUL TENESMUS OR DRIBBLING. Strangury. Dysuria. Bloody urine. Acute nephritis. Nephritic colic. Cystitis. Griping in bladder. Gonorrhœa. Dropsy. Painfully swelled genitals. Painful priapism. Pulls at penis. Sexual irritation. Pollutions. Many, short, dry coughing spells. Chest pains, > eructations. Pleurisy. Pericarditis. Vesicular erysipelas; turning dark (Ran-b.). Bullæ. Chill, during stool. Urinous sweat; on genitals.

Complementary: Apis. Antidote: Aco. Cam. Related: Ap. Ars. Merc-c.

Oversensitiveness of all parts. Haemorrhages from nose, mouth, intestines, genital and urinary organs. Pain; raw, sore, burning in every part of the body, internally and externally; with extreme weakness. Disgust for everything; drink, food, tabacco. Drinking even small quantities of water increases pain in the bladder. Constant urging to urinate, passing but a few drops at the time, which is mixed with blood (sudden desire to urinate and intense itching in urethra, Petros.). Intolerable urging, before, during and after urination; violent pains in bladder. Burning, cutting pains in urethra during micturition; violent tenesmus and strangury. Stool: passage of white or pale, red, tough mucus, like scrapings from the intestines, with streaks of blood (Carb. an., Colch.). Bloody, nocturnal emission (Led., Mer., Petr.). Sexual desire: increased both sexes; preventing sleep; violent priapism, with excessive pain (Pic. ac.). Tenacious mucus in the air passages (Bov., Kali bi.); compare Cantharis if vesical symptoms correspond. Skin: vesicular erysipelas; vesicles all over body which are sore and suppurating. Erythema from exposure to sun's rays (sunburn). The burning pain and intolerable urging to urinate, is the red strand of Cantharis in all inflammatory affections.

Similar: to, Apis, Ars., Equis., Mer. Burns before blisters form and when they have formed. In the skin be unbroken, apply an alcoholic solution of any potency and cover with cotton; this will promptly relieve pain and often prevent vesication. If the skin be broken use in boiled or distilled water, and in each case give potency internally.

The chief key-notes are found in the urinary functions.

Moaning; lamenting; barking; restless; not disposed to do anything; dulness; constantly attempting to do something, but accomplishing nothing.

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.

Much mucus; suppuration of tongue. Fistula dentalis of upper incisors.

Difficult to swallow liquids. Tonsils inflamed.

Nausea while eating; after taking coffee. Appetite, loss of; aversion to drinks; to all kinds of nourishment. Sensation of fulness extending into chest and abdomen after coffee.

Pains in, after taking coffee; heat and burning in inflammation. Incarcerated flatus.

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.

Affections of penis, as erections; urethra. Ovaries; female sexual desire too strong.

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.

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.

While drinking; from coffee; from drinking cold water; while urinating; after having urinated.

From rubbing.

Bellad., Phosphor., Mercur., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur.

Pulsat., Camphor.

Scales on scalp, enormous dandruff. Intense burning pains in the mouth, throat, stomach and intestinal tract. Dysentery of blood and mucus, or like scrapings from the intestines accompanied by burning in anus and dysuria. Violent pains in bladder, with frequent urging to urinate, and intolerable tenesmus and burning; urine passed drop by drop. Violent, burning cutting pains in the urethra, before, during and after urination. Urine bloody,. or dark coloured as if mixed with blood. Strong, persistent, and painful erections; or painless and without voluptuous sensations; with sore pain along urethra. Pruritus in women. with strong sexual desire. Pain in the loins, kidneys and abdomen, with such pain on urinating that he could not pass a single drop without moaning or screaming. Erysipelatous inflammation forming blisters, or burns before blisters have formed.

Spanish Fly (CANTHARIS)

This powerful drug produces a furious disturbance in the animal economy, attacking the urinary and sexual organs especially, perverting their function, and setting up violent inflammations, and causing a frenzied delirium, simulating hydrophobia symptoms (Anagallis). Puerperal convulsions. Produces most violent inflammation of the whole gastro-intestinal canal, especially lower bowel. Oversensitiveness of all parts. Irritation. Raw, burning pains. Hæmorrhages. Intolerable, constant urging to urinate is most characteristic. Gastric, hepatic and abdominal complaints that are aggravated by drinking coffee. Gastric derangements of pregnancy. Dysuria, with other complaints. Increases secretion of mucous membranes, tenacious mucus. The inflammations cantharis produces (bladder, kidneys, ovaries, meninges, pleuritic and pericardial membranes)are usually associated with bladder irritation.

Furious delirium. Anxious restlessness, ending in rage. Crying, barking; worse touching larynx or drinking water. Constantly attempts to do something, but accomplishes nothing. Acute mania, generally of a sexual type; amorous frenzy; fiery sexual desire. Paroxysms of rage, crying, barking. Sudden loss of consciousness with red face.

Burning in brain. Sensation as if boiling water in brain. Vertigo; worse in open air.

Yellow vision (Santon). Fiery, sparkling, staring look. Burning in eyes.

Sensation as if wind were coming from ear, or hot air. Bones about ear painful (Capsic).

Pale, wretched, death-like appearance. Itching vesicles on face, burning when touched. Erysipelas of face, with burning, biting heat with urinary symptoms. Hot and red.

Tongue covered with vesicles; deeply furred; edges red. Burning in mouth, pharynx, and throat; vesicles in mouth. Great difficulty in swallowing liquids. Very tenacious mucus (Kali bich). Violent spasms reproduced by touching larynx. Inflammation of throat; feels on fire. Constriction; aphthous ulceration (Hydr mur; Nit ac). Scalding feeling. Burnt after taking too hot food.

Pleurisy, as soon as effusion has taken place. Intense dyspnœa; palpitation; frequent, dry cough. Tendency to syncope. Short, hacking cough, blood-streaked tenacious mucus. Burning pains.

Burning sensation of œsophagus and stomach (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 drinking coffee; drinking the smallest quantity increases pain in bladder, and is vomited. Thirst unquenchable.

Shivering with burning. Dysentery; mucous stools, like scrapings of intestines. Bloody, with burning and tenesmus and shuddering after stool.

Intolerable urging and tenesmus. Nephritis with bloody urine. Violent paroxysms of cutting and burning in whole renal region, with painful urging to urinate; bloody urine, by drops. Intolerable tenesmus; cutting before, during, and after urine. Urine scalds him, and is passed drop by drop. Constant desire to urinate. Membranous scales looking like bran in water. Urine jelly-like, shreddy.

Strong desire; painful erections. Pain in glans (Prunus; Pareira). Priapism in gonorrhœa.

Retained placenta (Sep), with painful urination. Expels moles, dead fœtuses, membranes, etc. Nymphomania (Plat; Hyos; Lach; Stram). Puerperal metritis, with inflammation of bladder. Menses too early and too profuse; black swelling of vulva with irritation. Constant discharge from uterus; worse false step. Burning pain in ovaries; extremely sensitive. Pain in os coccyx, lancinating and tearing.

Voice low; weak feeling. Stitches in chest (Bry; Kal c; Squilla). Pleurisy, with exudation.

Palpitation; pulse feeble, irregular; tendency to syncope. Pericarditis, with effusion.

Pain in loins, with incessant desire to urinate.

Tearing in limbs. Ulcerative pain in soles; cannot step.

Dermatitis venenata with bled formation. Secondary eczema about scrotum and genitals, following excessive perspiration. Tendency to gangrene. Eruption with mealy scales. Vesicular eruptions, with burning and itching. Sunburn. Burns, scalds, with rawness and smarting, relieved by cold applications, followed by undue inflammation. Erysipelas, vesicular type, with great restlessness. Burning in soles of feet at night.

Cold hands and feet; cold sweat. Soles burn. Chill, as if water were poured over him.

Worse, from touch, or approach, urinating, drinking cold water or coffee. Better, rubbing.

Antidotes: Acon; Camph; Puls.

Compare: Cantharidin--(Glomerular nephritis). The immediate pharmacological action of Cantharidin is irritability of the capillaries, rendering the passage of nutritive fluids through them less difficult. This is most marked in the capillaries of the kidneys. The increase of blood sugar coincident with the glomerular nephritis appears to be a valuable observation. Vesicaria--(Urinary and kidney remedy. Smarting, burning sensation along urethra and in bladder with frequent desire to void urine often 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, red urine; red, profuse diarrhœa, with severe abdominal pains). Androsace lactea (urinary troubles, diuretic; dropsy). Apis; Ars; Merc cor.

Complementary: Camph.

Sixth to thirtieth potency. Bears repeated doses well. Locally, in burns and eczema, 1x and 2x, in water, or as cerate.

Frequent urging to urinate, with straining and cutting, burning pains.

Small unsatisfactory quantity passed at a time, or bloody urine.

Excessive burning pains (eyes, mouth, throat, stomach, intestinal tract; all the mucous surfaces and skin).

Stringy and tenacious discharges from the mucous membranes.

Nearly all complaints accompanied with the characteristic urinary symptoms.

Erysipelas, with blebs or large blisters filled with water and burning pain; useful for surface burns (locally).

Uncontrollable anguish, furious rage, frenzied delirium; strong sexual desire, both sexes.

Disgust for everything; drink, food, tobacco.

Dysenteric stools, bloody and shreddy, like scrapings from intestines, with tenesmus in rectum and bladder.

If I were to select the one remedy with which to prove the truth of the formula similia, etc., I think this would be the one. There is no remedy that so surely, and so violently, irritates and inflames the urinary organs, and no remedy so promptly cures such irritation when it puts on, the Cantharis type or form, which it often does.

H N. Guernsey wrote: "It is a singular fact, though known to most practitioners, that there be frequent micturition attended with burning, cutting pain, or if not so frequent and the cutting, burning pain attends the flow, Cantharis is almost always the remedy for whatever other suffering where may be, even in inflammation of the brain or lungs." He might have added in the throat, and mucous membranes all through the intestinal tract, even to the rectum and anus, and in the pleura or on the skin.

He also wrote: "Cantharis should always be remembered and studied in treating affections of the air passages when the mucus is tenacious." (Hydrastis, Kali bichrom. Coccus cacti, etc.) I had the pleasure of verifying the truth of this in the case of a lady who had suffered a long time with bronchitis.

The mucus was so profuse, and tenacious, and ropy, that I thought of Kali bichromicum, and thought it must be the remedy; but it did not even ameliorate, and she got worse all the time, until one day she mentioned that she had great cutting and burning on urinating, which she must do very frequently.

On the strength of the urinary symptom, for I knew nothing of its curative powers on the respiratory organs at that time, I gave her Cantharis. The effect was magical.

It is needless to describe the mutual delight of both physician and patient in such a case, for it was astonishing the rapidity with which the perfect and permanent cure of the case was accomplished.

Let us notice still further the effects of this remedy upon the urinary organs by calling attention to a few symptoms that have been both produced in proving and cured ab usu in morbis.

I have learned to place the highest estimate upon such symptoms. To be sure there are many symptoms in our great Materia Medica that have come to us through clinical sources only, and very valuable ones, too. But they cannot be received with such implicit confidence on short acquaintance as those that are both pathogenetic and clinical. They should always be separated when possible, as they were in "Hull's Jahr" of old. Here are a few of them. "Violent pains in bladder, with frequent urging to urinates with intolerable tenesmus." "Violent burning cutting pains in the neck of the bladder." "Before, during and after urinating fearful cutting pains in the urethra" "Constant urging to urinate; urine passed drop by drop with extreme pain." "Urine scalds him; it is passed drop by drop."

No homœopathist meeting these symptoms in a case would fail to think of Cantharis at once, no matter what else ailed the patient, as it has cured the most diverse and varied diseases when occurring in conjunction with these urinary symptoms. How any physician of any school can deny the truth of similia similibus curantur in the light of such testimony of proof can only be accounted for on the principle of "none so blind as those who will not see."

Cantharis has also very decided action upon the skin. In erysipelas it is sometimes the best remedy, and choice has to be made between it and Apis, which also sometimes has great urinary irritation in such cases. In the Apis cases there is apt to be more œdema; in Cantharis more blistering. In Cantharis the burning is more intense than under the Apis, while in the latter there is more stinging. The urinary symptoms, if present, are very much more intense under Cantharis.- Again, the mind symptoms of the two remedies are quite different. In the Apis cases, aside from the stinging pains which make the patient cry out sharply at times, especially if the eruption inclines to "go in" and attack the membranes of the brain, the patient may not be so very restless and complaining; but in the Cantharis case the patient is uneasy, restless, dissatisfied, distressed, sometimes moaning or violently crying; wants to be moved about constantly. The mind symptoms actually make one think of Arsenicum album, and when we take into account the intense burning it is doubly so. So that it would be very easy to get confused between these two remedies, as well as Cantharis and Apis. If great thirst is also present it would make us think of Arsenic, And now we are upon the skin, Cantharis is a great remedy for burns, both locally as an application and internally for the more chronic conditions and sequelæ. In all skin troubles where blebs or watery vesicles form, which burn and itch, or when touched burn and smart, we do well to remember Cantharis, and look further to find more symptoms, if present, to corroborate it. Hering used to challenge skeptics to burn their fingers, and then cure them by dipping the fingers into water medicated with Cantharis. So great was his faith in it.

I will call attention to a sensational symptom of Cantharis which I believe is underestimated in practice. It is the sensation of Burning. If any remedy deserves to be placed alongside Arsenicum for burning it is this one. I will quote so as to bring all together, in a way to impress upon our memory the burnings of Cantharis. "Inflammation of the eyes particularly when caused by a burn." "Burning in mouth, throat, and stomach." Great thirst, with burning pain in throat and stomach. "Violent burning pain in stomach in region of pylorus." "Violent burning pain and heat through whole intestinal tract." "Passage of white or pale-red tough mucus with the stool like scrapings from intestines, with streaks of blood; after stool colic relieved, burning, biting, and stinging in the anus." "Great burning pain in the ovarian regions." "Peritonitis with burning pain, abdomen sensitive and tenesmus of the bladder." "Burning and stinging of the larynx, especially when attempting to hawk up tough mucus." "Burning in the chest."

We have already spoken of the burnings connected with affections of the urinary organs, and also of the burnings of the skin in erysipelas and other eruptions upon the surface.

This seems to me to be sufficient to impress upon the reader the value of this symptom belonging to this remedy. I will close by calling attention to its effect upon the membranes to increase their secretion. This action is positive and is a valuable indication for its use.

Anxious restlessness, ending in rage. Paroxysms of rage, with crying, barking and beating ; they are renewed by the sight of dazzling, bright objects ; when touching the larynx ; when trying to drink water. Amorous frenzy, with shameless, unchaste gesticulations. Delirium. Hydrophobia.

Soreness and burning in the brain. Burning in the sides of the head, ascending from the neck, with soreness and giddiness ; worse in the morning and afternoon ; when standing or sitting ; better when walking or lying down.

Eyes protruding ; fiery, sparkling, staring look. Involuntary spasmodic movement of the eyes. The eyes look yellow. Burning and soreness in the eyes. Things look yellow.

Erysipelatous inflammation of the dorsum of the nose, tending to the cheeks (right side) with hardness subsequent desquamation.

Death-like appearance ; expression of terror and despair. Sunken, hippocratic countenance. Yellow complexion. Hot, red, swollen face.

Suppuration of the gums. Fistula dentalis (suppurating) (upper incisors). Burning in the mouth, extending down the pharynx, œsophagus and stomach ; worse from drinking cold water. Inflammation of the mouth and pharynx. Inflammation arid suppuration of the tonsils, with inability to swallow. Painless inability to swallow. Expectoration of frothy saliva, streaked with blood. Feeble voice, from debility of the organs. Inflammation arid suppuration of the tongue.

Thirst, with aversion to all fluids.

Violent burning pain (inflammation) in the stomach. Sensitiveness of the stomach ; also externally. Inflammation of the liver.

Diarrhœa of mucus, followed by pun in the abdomen, or bloody discharges. Dysentery ; discharges of blood-streaked mucus, or white mucus, looking like the scraping from the intestines. During stool, burning in the anus ; prolapsus ani. After stool, chilliness and tenesmus.

Burning, stinging and tearing in the kidneys. (Inflammation of the kidneys). Pressing pain in the kidneys, extending to the bladder ; along the ureters ; relieved by pressing upon the glans. Desire to urinate constant, with inability to urinate, or with difficult emission of a few drops only. Discharge of blood by drops ; hæmorrhage from the urethra. Spasmodic pain in the bladder, with suppression of urine. Discharge of bloody mucus from the bladder. (Inflammation of the bladder). During micturition, burning or cutting pain in the urethra. (Inflammation of the urethra).

Men. Inflammation of the genitals. Painful erection (with gonorrhœa) with strong sexual desire (priapism). Women. Catamenia too early and too profuse (blood black). Inflammation of the ovaries. Swelling of the neck of the uterus.

Sensation of weakness in the respiratory organs. Oppression of breathing, with sensation of constriction of the pharynx. Stitches in the chest, during air inspiration. (Inflammation of the lungs). Burning and stinging in the larynx, especially when attempting to hawk up tough mucus. Hoarseness ; weak, indistinct voice.

Tearing in the back (after rising from a seat). Stiffness in the nape of the neck, with tension when bending it over. Opisthotonos.

Lower. Coxalgia, with spasmodic pains in the bladder, and strangury. Soles of the feet sore (ulcerating pain).

Over-sensitiveness of all parts. Burning, with soreness, especially in the cavities of the body. Tearing (rheumatism) in the limbs ; relieved by rubbing.

Pulse hard, full and rapid. Pulsation through the trembling limbs. Chilliness, principally in the evening ; not relieved by heat. Burning heat, with anxiety and thirst. Perspiration ; cold, especially on the hands and feet ; on the genitals. Perspiration smells like urine.

Erysipelatous inflammation ; burning ; raising blisters. Itching pustules, burning when tone touched. Itching and tearing in the ulcers. Blisters, from burns.

The conditions return every seven days. The right side is mostly affected. Aggravation from coffee (and oil). Amelioration, from lying down.

Cantharis vesicator. Lytta vesicator. Spanish fly. N. O. Insecta, Coleoptera. Tincture or trituration of living insects.

Bladder affections. Burns . Chordee. Diphtheria. Dysentery. Eczema. Emissions. Erotomania . Erysipelas. Eyes, inflammation of. Gastritis. Gonorrhœa. Herpes zoster . Hydrophobia. Kidneys, affections of . Mania. Neuralgia. Nymphomania. Ovaries, affections of. Peritonitis. Pleurisy. Pregnancy, disorders of . Retained placenta. Satyriasis. Scarlatina. Spermatorrhœa. Strangury. Thirst. Throat, sore. Tongue, inflammation of. Urine, abnormal . Vesication of skin.

Cantharis belongs to the animal kingdom and finds its most prominent sphere of action in exciting the animal passions. There is anger in a very acute degree amounting to paroxysms of rage; and a corresponding condition of the bodily tissues. The word " irritation " best expresses the totality of the Cantharis effects. The pains are burning, and sharp, lancinating along the course of a nerve. Neuralgia of head and face from taking cold, with loud screams and jerking of muscles. The slightest touch or approach aggravates the mental symptoms. Violent spasms reproduced by touching larynx. There is also < from dazzling objects and by water — completing the hydrophobia picture. It may be well to remember in this connection the violent erotic action of Canth ., for many have maintained that rabies only arises among domesticated animals where sexual functions are under more or less abnormal conditions. Guernsey gives as the special indications in hydrophobia: "Moaning and violent cries, interspersed with barking." Canth . produces amorous frenzy, unbounded sexual desire; also sexual erethism and excitability. It acts on the brain, producing inflammation of the tissues. The eyes are bright, pupils widely dilated. Erysipelas commencing in nose. The face is generally pale or yellowish, with an expression of deep-seated suffering. There is diphtheritic inflammation of throat, severe burning, constriction; thirst, with aversion to drinking. The stomach is inflamed. Pain in abdomen colic-like, doubling the patient up, cutting, burning, lancinating. Dysenteric stools with tenesmus. In the genito-urinary region the most intense action is developed. There is extreme superficial sensitiveness in hypogastrium (especially when the bladder is full), attended with unbearable tenesmus vesicæ. Cutting, burning pains from the kidney down to urethra. Strangury. Can pass only a few drops, like molten lead. Irritation of all grades. The sexual appetite is aroused to the point of mania. Coitus does not always reduce it. On the skin and serous membranes the irritating effects of the remedy are equally pronounced. Pleurisy with effusion has been cured by the remedy given internally. Burning, stitches, shooting pains and exudation are the indications. So the fly-blister treatment of olden days had more to say for itself than those who used it knew. Vesication is the note of its effects on the skin and indicates its use in burns of the first degree, erysipelas, blisters. In burns the part may be treated with a lotion containing a few drops of the tincture to the ounce of water, a dilution being given internally. An ointment made with the 3x is a good application for herpes zoster. H. N. Guernsey observed that Canth . is almost always the remedy for whatever other sufferings there may be, when there is as well frequent micturition with burning, cutting pain; or if cutting burning pain attends the flow, even when micturition is not very frequent. Guernsey also pointed out that Canth . should be studied in treating affections of the air-passages when the mucus is tenacious. Nash records a case in which this observation led him to make a pretty cure. Kali bich . had completely failed to relieve a lady who had suffered long from bronchitis. The mucus was profuse, tenacious, and ropy. One day the patient mentioned that she had great cutting and burning on urinating, which she was obliged to do very frequently. Canth , made a rapid cure. Canth . has cured a case of malarial cachexia in which the symptoms were always < when the urine was scanty. "Burning" runs through the Canth . pathogeneses in a very striking way. Another marked feature of the remedy is its effect in increasing the secretions of membranes. Canth . "expels moles, dead fetus, placentæ; promotes fecundity" (Guernsey). The < is: from drinking; from coffee; from drinking cold water; whilst urinating; after urinating; from touch. > From rubbing; from warm applications.

Antidotes: Camph. antidotes the strangury and retention of urine of Canth., Apis the cystitis, Kali nit. the renal symptoms. For its throat symptoms it is nearest to Capsicum. Other antidotes: Acon., Lauro., Puls. Canth. is antidote to: Camph., Vinegar, Alcohol. Compatible: Bell., Merc., Pho., Pul., Sep., Sul. Incompatible: Coffea. Compare: Doryph., Coccus cact., Coccionella, Apis, Bell., Bry., Can. s. (more burning and smarting; Canth. more tenesmus); Petros. (sudden urging); Caps; Puls. (retained placenta); Ars. (delayed urination after parturition); Thuja (erections; those of Canth. prevent urination; those of Thuja do not); Merc. (semen mixed with blood); Sarsapar. (urine burns like fire, shreddy particles and blood in it); Arum, Arn., Rhus, Ranunc. scel. (Teste classes Canth. with Senega and Phos. ac. in his Conium group.)

Dejected and lachrymose humour. — Anxious inquietude, with agitation, which necessitates constant motion. — Want of confidence in one's self. — Pusillanimity and timidity. — Disposition to be angry, and to fly into a rage. — Paroxysms of rage, with cries, blows, and barkings, renewed on feeling the gullet, and at the sight of water. — Delirium. — Insanity. — Mania, with extravagant acts and gestures. — Constantly attempting to do something, but accomplishing nothing.

Vertigo, with loss of consciousness, and mist before the sight, chiefly in the open air. — Headache, which interrupts sleep at night. — Pressive lancinations in the head, which disappear on walking. — Acute drawing pains in the head, with vertigo. — Congestion in the head. — Throbbing in the brain, and heat, which ascends to the head. — Sensation of burning in the head, as if the interior were raw, with inflammation of the brain. — Drawing, jerking, and gnawing in the bones of the head. — Headache, as if the hair were pulled. — Hair standing on end. — Headache, as if coming from the nape of the neck, and wishing to escape by the forehead. — Burning in the sides of the head, ascending from the neck, with soreness and giddiness; < in the morning and afternoon; when standing or sitting; > when walking or lying down.

Pain in the eyes, with sensation as if the eyelids were excoriated, chiefly when they are opened. — Inflammation of the eyes, with burning smarting. — Yellowish colour of the eyes. — Prominence, and convulsive movements of the eyes; fiery, sparkling, staring look. — Objects seemed to be tinged with a yellow hue.

Inflammation and burning heat of the ears.

Swelling of the nose, even in the interior, with redness and burning heat. — Erysipelatous inflammation of the dorsum of the nose, extending to the cheeks (r.) with hardness and subsequent desquamation. — Fetid and sickly smell before the nose. — Coryza of long duration, and catarrh, with copious flow of viscid mucus from the nose.

Paleness of the face. — Face hollow, hippocratic, with features which express anguish and despair. — Yellowish colour of the face. — Erysipelatous inflammation and desquamation of the cheeks. — Burning redness and swelling of the face. — Swelling at one side of the face (r.), with tension. — Swelling and inflammation of the lips. — Fissure and exfoliation of the lips. — Trismus.

Toothache, generally drawing, < by eating. — Fistula in the gums. — Ulceration of the gums.

Taste of cedar pitch in the mouth. — Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth. — Inflammation of the mouth and pharynx. — Inflammation and suppuration of the tonsils, with inability to swallow. — Burning in the mouth, extending down the pharynx, œsophagus and stomach; < from drinking cold water. — Phlegmonous inflammation of the interior of the cheek. — Aphthæ in the mouth. — Frothy salivation, with streaks of blood. — Foam at the mouth. — Coagulated blood coming from the mouth. — Inflammatory swelling and suppuration of the tongue. — Suppuration of the gums. — Fistula dentalis (suppurating) (upper incisors). — Weakness of the organs of speech, and languid diction.

Sore throat, on swallowing. — Difficult deglutition, with strangulation in the throat, and nocturnal regurgitation of food. — Impeded deglutition, esp. in the case of liquids. — Burning in the throat, on swallowing. — Inflammation and ulceration of the tonsils and of the throat; with inability to swallow. — Burning pains in the throat, < by drinking water.

Loss of taste. — Taste of pitch in the mouth and in the throat. — Thirst, from dryness of the lips, with repugnance to all drinks. — Want of appetite, with disgust and repugnance to all sorts of food.

Risings, with burning sensation, as if from pyrosis, aggravated by drinking. — Sob-like risings, which seem to take an inverse direction and to return towards the stomach. — Vomiting of undigested food. — Vomiting of bilious and slimy substances, or of blood. — Great sensitiveness of the precordial region. — Pressive fulness, with anxiety and inquietude in the stomach. — Smarting and burning pains in the stomach. — Inflammation of the stomach.

Pains in abdomen, after taking coffee. — Inflammation of the liver. — Shootings and contraction in r. hypochondrium. — Great sensibility of the abdomen to the touch. — Burning pain in the abdomen, from the gullet to the rectum. — Burning pain above the navel, on coughing, on sneezing, on blowing the nose, with yellowish spots on the part affected. — Inflammation of the intestines. — Dropsical swelling of the abdomen. — Incarceration of flatulency under the hypochondria.

Constipation and hard fæces. — Diarrhœa, with evacuation of frothy matter, or of greenish mucus, with cutting pains after the evacuation and burning pains in the rectum. — During stool, burning in the anus; prolapsus ani. — After stool, chilliness and tenesmus. — Dysenteric diarrhœa, with nocturnal evacuation of whitish mucus, and of solid pieces, like false membranes, with streaks of blood. — Sanguineous evacuations.

Retention of urine, with cramp-like pains in the bladder. — Urgent and ineffectual efforts to make water, with painful emission, drop by drop. — Difficult emission of urine, in a weak and scattered stream. — Increased secretion of urine. — Urine, pale yellow, or of a deep red colour. — Flow of sanguineous mucus from the bladder. — Emission of blood, drop by drop. — Purulent urine. — Burning smarting, on making water. — Incisive pains in the front part of the urethra, during the emission of urine, and afterwards. — Sharp, tearing, and incisive pains, successive pullings and pulsations in the urinary organs. — Burning, stinging and tearing in the kidneys. — Pressing pain in the kidneys, extending to the bladder; along the ureters; relieved by pressing upon the glans. — Inflammation and ulceration of the kidneys, of the bladder, and of the urethra. — Exceedingly painful sensibility of the region of the bladder on its being touched.

Draggings in the spermatic cord, on making water. — Inflammation and gangrene of the genital parts. — Painful swelling of the testes. — Sexual desire greatly increased, with painful, frequent erections (with gonorrhœa), of long continuance, as in priapismus. — Ready emission, during amorous caresses. — Spermatorrhœa. — After coition, burning pain in the urethra.

Catamenia premature and too copious, with black blood and pains during the flow. — Voiding of moles, of fœtus, and of placentæ. — Inflammation of the ovaries. — Swelling of the cervix uteri. — Corrosive leucorrhœa, with burning sensation on making water, and excitement of sexual desire.

Hoarseness, with painful rattling of viscid mucus, copious, and coming from the chest, and with incisive shootings in the trachea. — Oppression of breathing, with sensation of constriction of the pharynx. — Stitches in the chest during air inspiration. (Inflammation of the lungs.). — Inflammation of the larynx. — Sensation of excessive weakness in the organs of respiration, on speaking and on breathing deeply. — Voice feeble, timid, and trembling.

Respiration rendered difficult and oppressed by constriction of the throat, and dryness of the nose. — Suspension of respiration in going up a hill, with rattling in the chest and nausea. — Shootings in the chest, and in the sides. — Burning pains in the chest, from whence small clots of blood are at times detached. — Palpitation of the heart.

Stiffness in the nape of the neck, with tension when bending it over. — Acute drawing pains in the back. — Tearing in the back (after rising from a seat). — Sensation of constriction in the spine. — Emprosthotonos and opisthotonos.

Weakness and swelling of limbs. — Dropsical swelling of hands and feet. — Cold sweat of hands and feet.

Acute tractive pains in the arms. — Want of strength in the hands. — Eczematous eruption on dorsum of hand and between fingers, itching and burning fearfully, < from cold water, > from warmth.

Pains in the hips, with spasmodic sufferings in the urinary passages. — Acute tractive, piercing pains, in the legs, from the feet to the hips. — Trembling of the legs. — Darting pain from r. foot to r. side of h cad in paroxysms.

Burning pains, as from excoriation, in all the cavities of the body. — Acute shootings towards the interior in different parts. — Drawing, arthritic pains in the limbs, with affection of the urinary ducts, mitigated by rubbing. — Violent pains, with groans and lamentations. — Sensation of dryness in the joints. — Want of flexibility of the whole body. — Dejection and weakness, with excessive sensibility in all parts of the body, trembling, and desire to lie down. — Prostration of strength, proceeding even to paralysis. — Convulsions, tetanus. — The sufferings show themselves chiefly on the r. side, and are mitigated in a recumbent posture. — The symptoms are renewed every seven days.

Itching vesicles, with burning pain on being touched. — Blisters, from burns. — Erysipelatous inflammations. — Acute drawing pains in ulcers, with increased suppuration.

Great drowsiness, esp. in the afternoon, with yawnings and stretching. — Sleeplessness without apparent cause. — At night, half sleep, with frequent waking.

Pulse hard, full and rapid. — Fever, which manifests itself only by cold. — Cold and shivering, with cutis anserina and paleness of the face. — Thirst only after the shivering. — Perspiration; cold, esp. on the hands and feet; on the genitals. — Sweat, of the smell of urine. — Pulsation through the trembling limbs.

Unconsciousness, lies with outstretched arms ; sudden starting up, screaming, throwing arms about. θ Metritis.
Sudden loss of consciousness with red face. θ Dentition.
Lies in a stupor with cold surface and occasional jerks.
Uremic coma, delirium and convulsions.
Forgetfulness.
Strange ideas crowd on him against his will.
Confusion ; distraction of mind ; inability to concentrate thought.
Confusion of head and pulsation in forehead, in morning.
Hallucinations, especially at night ; deliria of people long dead.
Furious delirium, with crying, barking and biting ; confusion of head, anxious restlessness ; cold sweat, especially on hands and feet.
Almost frenzied delirium.
Paroxysms of rage, renewed by sight of dazzling, bright objects, or touching larynx when trying to drink water.
Whining and complaining, with anxious restlessness, < from motion, > lying quiet.
Constantly attempting to do something, but accomplishing nothing.
Despondent and low-spirited, says she must die.
Fear, confusion of ideas, she could not think clearly. θ Vesical hemorrhoids.
Great amativeness ; amorous frenzy.
Unbounded frantic sexual desire. θ Mania.
Exceedingly sensitive to all impressions ; irritable and blaspheming. θ Traumatic neuralgia.
Insolent and contradictory mood, in afternoon.
Uneasiness day and night, with hot head.
Anxious restlessness, ending in rage.
Great restlessness, obliging him to move constantly ; great activity of mind.

Vertigo : and staggering ; and fainting ; while walking in open air, with transient attacks of unconsciousness ; appearance of fog before eyes.
Heaviness of head.

Soreness and burning in brain.
Dull heavy pain in forehead.
Confusion of head in morning with pulsations in forehead.
Burning in sides of head, ascending from neck, with soreness and giddiness ; < morning and afternoon ; when standing or sitting ; > while walking or lying down.
Stitches in side of head and occiput.
Painful tearing on vertex, with sensation as if some one was pulling a lock of hair upward.
Violent lancinating pains deep in brain, especially in occiput. θ Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Heaviness in occiput, with drowsiness and incapacity to think.
Head and throbbing in head.
Sensation of fulness, with head rising up into head, with anxiousness.
Headache from washing or bathing.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis : paroxysms of rage and fury ; pain deep in brain, with an expression of great suffering ; base of brain is chief seat of pain ; urine dribbles or passes with burning-cutting pain.

Hair falls out when combing. θ During confinement or lactation.
Scales on scalp ; enormous dandruff.

Objects look yellow.
Eyes look yellow.
Burning in eyes and glowing heat, as from coals.
Biting sensation, as of salt in eyes.
Smarting in eyes.
Lachrymation in open air ; must close eyes ; on opening lids, margins pain as if sore, like raw flesh.
Inflammation of eyes, particularly when caused by a burn.
Eyes protruding ; fiery, sparkling, staring look.
Involuntary spasmodic movement of eyes.
Eyes sunken, surrounded by blue rings.
Eyes restlessly in motion, at times staring, always, however, with a frightful look ; pupils contracted. θ Acute mania.
Right eye looks bleared, congested, inflamed ; pain < night, cannot red then ; sight quite good ; commenced with feeling as of lashes in eye ; urine scalds.

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The most important feature of this medicine is the inflammatory condition, and the most important characteristic in the inflammation is the rapidity with which it develops into a gangrenous state. inflammation conditions usually follow a definite course for days, but when this medicine is put upon a part or taken internally the inflammatory state terminates in death of the part with great rapidity.

When taken internally it proceeds almost immediately to attack the urinary tract and establish a uraemic state which brings about the mental symptoms; the local inflammatory condition comes on with great rapidity, and this brings the patient down violently sick in a great hurry.

From strong doses in the poisonous effect we get startling and alarming symptoms; the whole economy is in disorder; grievous symptoms commonly of the urinary tract. The parts become gangrenous at an early stage.

The mental symptoms are striking. Among those that are guiding are sudden loss of consciousness with red face. Suddenly goes into stupor. Confusion of mind. Overwhelmed with strange ideas. Thoughts run riot, and go whatever way they will, as if possessed by outside influence.

Head hot, frenzy, delirium, with great excitement and rage, paroxysms renewed by dazzling or bright objects, by touching the larynx or by trying to drink water as in rabies.

Fear and confusion of ideas. The mind often runs towards subjects that the inflamed parts would suggest.

The bladder and genitals are inflamed and the excitement and congestion of the parts often arouse the sexual instinct, so that there are sexual thoughts and sexual frenzy. Violent amorous frenzy, an excitement such as accompanies inflammation attended with thoughts that correspond. The sexual instinct has gone mad, the erections in the male are painful and violent.

The penis is inflamed and sore and it would be painful to have coitus, yet there is this frenzy. Insolence. Blasphemy. Restlessness ending in rage. Restlessness causing him to move constantly, a rage and delirium intermingled with amorous frenzy.

This kind of mental conduct in Cantharis is similar to what will take place in Hyos., Phos., and Secale; a violent delirious state intermingled with sexual ideas and talk. In some instances he deliriously sings lewd songs and prattles on the subject of human genitals, urine and feces, a wild raving on subjects not talked about in health except among the depraved.

But in disease, chaste and modest persons, virgins, will speak so that it is surprising where they have picked up such language. in such cases it is well to exclude everybody from the room except the nurse and doctor. I have seen a dear old mother weep and wring her hands and say:

"Where did my daughter learn such language?"

The daughter is not to blame.

It is simply a condition of the urinary tract or the menstrual function, brought on from cold or exposure, or through the mother's neglect to tell her daughter what she should know in regard, to her menstrual function, and how there is inflammation of the ovaries or uterus, or outside parts, and the urine burns and causes an inflammatory condition of the outer parts, or the urine is retained and there is frenzy. Such in Cantharis.

Violent, bursting, lancinating headaches as if stabbed with a knife an inflammatory condition that takes hold of the mind violently.

Running all through the remedy there is burning. In the head burning, throbbing and stabbing. Unconsciousness and delirium in the mental state. Burning in the side of the head. Stitches in the side of the head and occiput. Lancinating pains deep in the brain. Hair falls out.

It is seldom indicated in eye troubles alone, except such as come with head and mind symptoms.

Erysipelas of the face with large blisters. Burning in the eyes and the whole atmosphere looks yellow. Burning and smarting in the eyes.

Erysipelas of the eyes, with gangrenous tendency. Eyes hot, scalding tears. Erysipelas of the face, dorsum of the nose, involving the lids.

Rhus is more commonly. used in this condition, but when it is violent Canth. will often be indicated and preferable to Rhus, Rhus has the blisters and the burning, but in Canth. between your two visits the erysipelas has grown black, it is dusky, a rapid change has taken place, and it looks as if gangrene would set in.

Burning in the erysipelatous area and the skin around burns from the touch. In Rhus this is not so. In Cantharis the little blisters even if touched burn like fire.

Eruptions burn when touched, ever so lightly, i.e., those eruptions such as the remedy could produce.

This patient enters into a state of prostration, is pallid, has Hippocratic countenance and dies. It corresponds to the lowest forms of disease, even gangrene and violent inflammation of the bowels, bladder, brain, spine and lungs; sinking and hippocratic countenance.

Inflammation of the lungs, gangrenous type, prostration and the lung that is affected burns like fire, and immediately he expectorates cadaverous smelling expectoration, thin, bloody, watery; it has come on in an astonishingly rapid manner, and in a little while he will die; the nose is contracted, there is the hippocratic countenance, and the urine is suppressed.

I remember one patient who had just come out of a prolonged drunk. I left the patient in the evening in just such, a state as I have described.

He was drooling a bloody saliva from his mouth and be was dying. He had had this condition come on in one night from being nearly frozen in a drunk.

It would be Cantharis or death before morning, but by morning he was expectorating a rusty sputum and went on to good recovery.

Arsenic has the burning in the lungs and he spits up black sputum, pneumonia signs are present, with the restlessness and anxiety, and other symptoms of Arsenic, and Ars enic will stop it at once. These violent remedies are needed in those cases that will die.

Burning in the throat. Great thirst, with burning in the throat and stomach. Thirst, with aversion to all fluids, that is, the craving of the mouth and throat are antagonized by the mental state. Thirst in the throat and an aversion to water in the mind. Violent, burning in the stomach, pylorus, abdomen.

The abdomen is swollen and tympanitic; lancinating pains cutting and stabbing. Wherever there is a rapid inflammation in the bowels there is diarrhoea of bloody mucus or serum, watery, bloody fluids from the bowels and stomach.

The same watery bloody fluid from the eyes. And wherever this watery fluid comes in contact with the skin it burns and excoriates. Bloody urine.

Desire for stool while urinating. The patient will sit on the commode with violent tenesmus to pass urine and stool, feels that if he could only pass a few more drops of urine or a little more bloody stool he would get relief, but no relief comes. All the parts are inflamed and on fire. Tenesmus and urging not only when the bladder is empty, but often when the bladder is full.

Retention of urine. Passes none or only a drop or two. Violent tenesmus of the bladder. Cutting pains with tenesmus, lancinating, stabbing like knives, in neck of bladder.

Pains shoot off in different directions. Violent pains with frequent urging. Constant tenesmus. An anxious state and frenzy come on; most violent suffering and be has urging to pass urine and stool with sexual erethism tantalizing in the extreme.

The whole urinary organs and genitalia are in a state of inflammation and gangrene. Burning when urinating. This bloody urine burns like fire in the bladder and about the genitals. Retention or suppression of urine.

It is rare that one suffering from gonorrhea has this violent inflammation, with burning and tenesmus of the bladder and rectum, but in such a case this remedy is indicated. The intensity and rapidity are the features of this remedy. It brings on pain and excitement found in no other remedy. Next to it comes Merc. cor.

In the female there is oversensitiveness of all parts. Inflammation of the ovaries and uterus. Burning in the vagina. Membranous dysmenorrhoea. Menses too early, profuse, black.

Puerperal convulsions. Retained placenta. Burning pains. When there have been no expulsive pains present to expel the afterbirth, with the symptoms running all through this remedy, after it has been given, normal contractions of the uterus have come on with expulsion of the membranes.

Violent lancinating pains through the kidneys and back. Pains in the loins and abdomen. Pain on urinating so that he moaned and screamed on passing a drop.

Pain; raw, sore, burning in every part of body, both internally and externally; with excessive weakness.

Over-sensitiveness of all parts.

Disgust for everything; drink, food, tobacco.

Drinking, even small quantities of water increases pain in the bladder.

Passage of white or pale-red tough mucus with stool, like scrapings from the intestines, with streaks of blood (Carb. ac., Colch.).

Constant desire to urinate, passing but a few drops at a time, which is mixed with blood (Sudden desire, itching in urethra, Petrol.).

Intolerable tenesmus vesicæ, before, during and after urination.

Burning, cutting pains in urethra during micturition; violent tenesmus and strangury.

Bloody, nocturnal emissions (Led., Mer., Petr.).

Sexual desire: increased, both sexes; preventing sleep; violent priapism, with excessive pain (Pic. ac.).

Skin: vesicular erysipelas; vesicles all over body which are sore and suppurating.

Erythema from exposure to sun's rays (sunburn).

Oil and coffee; drinking, or even sight of cold water (Lys., Stram.); after midnight and during the day.

Warmth; rubbing; lying down.

No periodicity of fever. Many conditions or symptoms appear every seventh day. Typhoid; yellow fever.

3 P. M. till 3 A. M.—long-lasting chill (Aran., 24 hours).

At all hours in afternoon, from 1 to 10 P. M.

Without thirst, in afternoon or evening, not > by external warmth or covering (Ars., Ign., Kali c., are all relieved by external heat—worse from external heat, Apis, Ipec.). General coldness of the whole body, especially the limbs. Coldness and chills as soon as she attempts to rise, or puts one limb out of bed. Shivering and chill down the spine; feeling of coldness in the vertebral column (pain all down the spine on pressure, Quinine). Shaking chill beginning in, or running up the back (Caps., Eup. purp.). Icy-coldness of hands and feet, with fearful pains in the urethra. Chill followed by thirst, without heat. Children pass urine frequently during chill.

With thirst; burning in the palms and soles; burning heat at night, which she does not feel (unbearable heat; extreme restlessness, Ars.). Burning on soles of feet, while hands are icy-cold. Burning, violent fever; great heat, with thirst, and redness all over the body. Great heat of abdomen (Apis).

Profuse, on waking at night; when walking; from every movement (Bry., Camph.); cold on the hands and feet; on the genitalia and external pelvic region; smells like urine.

Coated with thick, yellow fur; red at the edges. Taste lost; trembling tongue.

Disgust for everything. Canine hunger, especially for meat (see Arn.). Every paroxysm characterized by the Cantharis dysuria.

Irritation of the urinary organs, difficult, frequent and painful urination. Scanty and painful emission of blackish urine; then secretion of urine increased to four-fold the amount of liquids taken, with great thirst and desire for meat (aversion to meat, Arn.). Very thirsty, but disgust for all kinds of drinks.

Heaviness of the feet, a paralytic immobility of the limbs; must lie in bed.

Hemorrhages; from nose, mouth, stomach, intestines, genital and urinary organs, especially in typhoid and yellow fever.

The violent tenesmus, the burning, cutting pains in bladder and urethra is the red strand of the remedy in fevers as in all diseases. Chill followed by thirst without heat; the < of pain in bladder from drinking, the craving for meat and urinal odor of sweat are peculiar.

Sudden loss of consciousness, face red. θ Dentition.
Forgetfulness.
Confusion of head and pulsation in forehead, in morning.
Confusion; distraction of mind; inability to concentrate thought.
Furious delirium.
Irritable, dissatisfied with every one and everything.
Whining, and complaining, with anxious restlessness, worse on motion, better lying quiet.
Paroxysms of rage, with crying, barking and beating; renewed by the sight of dazzling, bright objects; when touching the larynx, or when trying to drink water.
Despondent and low-spirited, says she must die.
Insolent and contradictory mood in the afternoon.
Anxious restlessness.

Vertigo; and staggering; and fainting; while walking in the open air, with transient attacks of unconsciousness; appearance of a fog before the eyes.

Headache in the forehead.
Burning in the sides of the head, ascending from the neck, with soreness and giddiness; worse morning and afternoon; when standing or sitting; better while walking or lying down.
Heaviness in the occiput, with drowsiness and incapacity to think; heaviness of the head.
Inflammation of brain.
Pains deep in the brain, with constant expression of anguish on the face resembling a sullen scowl or frown, with eyes closed; or without expression, if open.
Painful tearing on the vertex, with sensation as if some one were pulling a lock of hair upwards.
Stitching, tearing or drawing pains in bones of skull.
Headache from washing or bathing.

Hair falls out when combing.

Objects look yellow.
Eyes look yellow.
Dimness of sight.
Inflammation of the eyes; from a burn.
Smarting in the eyes.
Eyes protruding; fiery, sparkling, staring look.
Eyes sunken, surrounded by blue rings.
Lachrymation in the open air; must close the eyes; on opening lids, the margins pain as if sore, like raw flesh.

Ringing, humming or roaring in the ears.
A hot exhalation passes, at intervals, and frequently from the ears.
Tearing in the right ear and right mastoid process.

Nosebleed early in morning.
Erysipelatous inflammation of the dorsum of the nose, spreading to both cheeks, but more to the right; followed by desquamation.
Secretion of much tenacious mucus from nose without sneezing; hoarseness and painful hawking of touch mucus from chest; nightly dry, cutting stitches along trachea externally.
Mucus collects in posterior nares, difficult to dislodge.

Expression of extreme suffering.
Death-like look during and after-pains.
Face: much swollen and puffy; flushed when stooping; yellow, or very pale.

Dry lips, without thirst.

Painful red spot, size of a pin's head, over the carious root of an upper incisor; discharges pus from a small opening in the centre, when pressed.
Lock-jaw with grinding of the teeth.

Taste: bitter; of pitch; lost.
Gold tooth-plate tastes coppery.
Speech weak and timorous.
Tongue: thickly furred, red at the edges; swollen and thickly coated; at base, in part excoriated, in part covered with blisters; trembling of the tongue.

Mucous membrane red and covered with small blisters; sore, burning or smarting.
Dryness in the mouth extending into posterior nares.
Burning pain in the mouth, throat and stomach.
Salivation; copious, tasteless; disgusting, sweet.

Burning sensation in throat; throat feels "on fire".
Throat inflamed and covered with plastic lymph.
Throat swollen.
Stinging, dryness in pharynx.
Constriction and intense pain at the back of the throat.
Burning soreness of the throat, which is inflamed.
Aphthous ulcer at the back part of the fauces, covered with a whitish adherent crust; a similar one on right tonsil.
Swallowing of liquids very difficult.

Aversions to all kinds of nourishment, particularly in the evening.
Immediately on cessation of pains, patient feels hungry.
Great thirst with burning pain in throat and stomach.
Thirst, with aversion to all fluids.
Disgust for everything.

After drinking coffee, sensation of fulness.
Drinking, even small quantities of water, increases the pain in the bladder.

Eructations of sour, frothy mucus, tinged bright red.
Nausea and vomiting.
Vomiting: of the water drunk, also of blood; greenish, offensive; or bile and ingesta; of frothy mucus, tinged bright red; with violent retching and severe colic.

Acute pain in region of stomach and bladder, with such exquisite sensibility that the slightest pressure produces convulsions.
Violent burning pain in stomach; also in pyloric region.
Patient tosses about, as if in despair, with pains in stomach.
Stomach feels as if it were screwed together.
Sensation of fulness extending to chest and abdomen, after taking coffee.

Incarceration of flatus under the short ribs.

Abdomen swollen and tympanitic above; yields a dull sound below.
Great distention and tenderness of the belly.
Cutting in the abdomen, as from knives, with burning.
Violent burning pain through the whole intestinal tract, with painful sensitiveness to touch.
Cutting, stitching or burning in the groins.
Abdominal symptoms are apt to be in sympathy or consonance with those in distant parts.
Hard tumefaction above the symphysis pubis, with burning pains in the loins.

Violent burning in the anus, after the diarrhœa.
Pain in the perineum, seemingly arising from the neck of the bladder.
Desire for stool while urinating.
Diarrhœa, of blood and mucus.
Dysentery, or diarrhœa, with dysuria; feces red, slimy.
Passage of white, tough mucus with stool, like scrapings from intestines with streaks of blood; slimy and bloody stools.
Constipation, with retention of urine, or with frequent urination, attended with cutting, burning pains, but little urine being passed at a time.
During stool: colic, pressing, cutting or burning pains in the anus, causing the patient to cry out.
After stool: cutting colic, burning, biting or stinging in anus; chilliness, as if cold water were poured over body.
Passage of pure blood from the anus and urethra.
Cutting in the rectum partially relieved by discharge of flatus, entirely relieved by stool.

Pain in the region of the kidneys and urging to urinate, steadily increasing in severity.
Constant, dull, painful sensation in region of kidneys, late in evening.
Pain in the kidney extending into the abdomen, the axilla, along the urethra into the bladder.
Paroxysmal cutting and burning pain in both kidneys, the region very sensitive to the slightest touch, alternating with pain in tip of penis; urging to urinate; painful evacuation, by drops, of bloody urine, and at times of pure blood.
Cutting and contracting pains from the ureters down toward the penis; at times the pains pass from without inwards; pressure on the glans relieves pain somewhat.
Heaviness in bladder, feels sore on slightest motion.
Urging to urinate from the smallest quantity of urine in the bladder.
Violent pains in the bladder with frequent urging; intolerable tenesmus.
Violent burning-cutting pains in neck of bladder, extending to fossa navicularis, worse before and after urinating.
With the urging to urinate, stitching pain in forepart of neck of bladder; on continued urging, only a few drops pass.
Urging, worse when standing, and still more when walking; better when sitting.
Fruitless effort to urinate.
Urine passes in a thin and divided stream.
Retention of urine, causing pain.
Urine: turbid and scanty; cloudy during the night, like mealy water, with white sediment; albuminous, containing cylindrical casts, mucus and shreds; looks jellylike; contains large quantities of pus in vesical catarrh.
Before, during and after urinating, cutting pains in urethra.

Sexual desire: increased; disturbing sleep at night.
Strong and persistent erection, painless and without voluptuous sensation.
Bloody semen.
Erection at night, with contraction and sore pain along urethra.
Painful gonorrhœa with chordee; painful priapism.
Drawing pain in the spermatic cord, while urinating.
Testicles drawn up.

Ovarian region; stitches, arresting the breathing; violent pinching pains, with bearing down towards the genitals; great burning pain.
Inflammation of the ovaries, with cutting or burning.
Swelling of neck of uterus.
Uterine hemorrhage, with great irritation in neck of the bladder.
Menses: too early, too profuse, blood black or scanty breasts painful.
Amenorrhœa, with fulness and pain in the head.
Violent itching in the vagina.
Swelling and irritation of the vulva.
Pruritus, with strong sexual desire.

Vomiting, with violent retching and severe colic and burning at the pylorus.
Promotes (when other symptoms agree) fecundity, expels moles, dead fœtuses and the placenta.
Retained placenta or membranes, usually with painful urination.
Puerperal convulsions: 36.

Voice: hoarse; feeble.
Burning in the larynx; larynx sensitive to touch.
Irritation in larynx, causing short paroxysms of coughing, with hurried and difficult breathing; sometimes with pain in abdomen, or with bloody expectoration.
Burning or biting about the larynx, with contraction, or construction almost to suffocation.
Profuse catarrh of the air-passages, the mucus being tenacious, with painful hawking and nightly lancinating and dryness in the trachea.

When breathing deeply, and when speaking she feels as if she dare not exert herself on account of extraordinary dryness or weakness of the respiratory organs; speech therefore weak and timorous.

Dry, hacking.

Stitches: in chest, more on right side, or first left then right; in the lower right chest, extending toward the middle of the sternum and axilla.
Burning in the chest.
Exudation within the pleura; dyspnœa, palpitation; scanty urine; tendency to syncope. See 44.

Anxiety about the heart.
Drawing pain in the region of the heart.
Stitch in heart followed by a crawling sensation.
Pericarditis with effusion; pulse feeble, irregular; tendency to syncope.
Violent palpitation of heart.
Pulse: very variable mostly hard, full and frequent, at times intermittent; frequent and small; slow, feeble and scarcely perceptible.

Stitches in the sternum.
Burning on the chest.

Burning, boring, stitching or lancinating pains in the back, either between or in the scapulæ, or in the small of the back; sometimes the skin over these parts burns as if a fly-blister were there.
Stiffness in the neck, with tensive pain on stooping.
Drawing, tearing or lancinating pain in the neck sometimes with burning of the skin over the parts.
Tearing pain in the back, especially morning.
Pains in the loins, kidneys and abdomen, with such pain on urinating that he could not pass a single drop without moaning or screaming.
Pain in the loins, with incessant desire to urinate.
Lancinations and tearing in the os coccygis, causing him to start.

Tearing and stitching pains in the arms.

Tearing from the right, later left hip-bone, down to the knees.
Violent pains in the knees.
Knees totter when ascending steps.
Numbness of lower limbs, first of one leg then of the other.
Pain in the soles, as from an ulcer, could not step.

Weakness and trembling of the limbs.
Violent pains of various kinds in the upper and lower extremities, first of one leg then of the other.
Tearing in limbs, relieved by rubbing.

Motion: 1, 21, 40. Walking: 2, 3, 21. Standing: 3, 21. Stooping: 8, 31. Sitting: 21. Lying: 1, 3.

Weakness, prostration, faintness.
Convulsions, with dysuria and hydrophobic symptoms; bright light, drink or sound of falling water, touching the larynx, or painful parts, cause or renew the spasm.

Light sleep; full of wakeful illusions.
Sleeplessness; anxious dreams.

Some symptoms appear every seventh day.
General aggravation after midnight and during the day.
Morning: 1, 3, 31. Afternoon: 1, 3. Evening: 21, 40. Night: 7, 21, 22, 40.

Warm applications relieve pains in knees.
Rays of sun: 46. Open air: 2, 5. Washing and bathing: 3.

Chill in evening not relieved by external warmth.
Chill, succeeded by thirst without heat.
Chill running up the back.
Cold extremities.
Burning heat at night, which she does not feel.
Burning in the palms and soles.
Heat with thirst.
Sweat from every movement.
Cold sweat especially on hands and feet.
Sweat on the genitals.
Sweat smells like urine.
Intermittent fever, every paroxysms being characterized by the Cantharis dysuria.

Right side: 6, 7, 13, 28, 33. Left side: 29. Left to right: 7, 28. Right to left: 33. Below upwards: 40.

Raw and sore pain in the whole body, internally and externally.
Every part oversensitive, and accompanied by excessive weakness.
Burning, stitching and tearing pains predominate.

Inflammation of serous membranes; pleurisy after Acon. and Bryon.
Ulcerations and erosion of internal parts; patient lies in a stupor, with occasional twitches of the hands; symptoms of collapse.

Touch: 19, 21, 36, 46. Pressure: 10, 21, 33. Rubbing: 34. When combing: 4.

Erythema, from exposure to the rays of the sum.
Burning, itching pains.
Erysipelatous inflammation of the skin; forming blisters.
Eczema rubrum.
Ulcerative pain when touched.
Gangrenous ulcers with itching and tearing pains.
Pemphigus.
Itching, as from lice, changing place.
Tearing pain in ulcers.
Burns, before blisters form.

Antidotes: Acon., Camphor, Lauroc., Pulsat.
Oil increases the pernicious effects of Canthar.
Inimical: Coffea.

A tincture is prepared by digesting one part of the pulverized dried Spanish flies (Cantharis vesicatoria) in five parts of alcohol.

Spanish flies applied to the skin produce blisters (vesication, with inflammation and even sloughing). ▶ It produces (taken internally) the most violent inflammation of the whole gastro-intestinal canal, especially of the lower bowel. ▶ It is eliminated by the kidneys, and causes acute inflammation of that organ, and of the entire urinary tract. ▶ In some cases it produces sexual excitement. ▶ Delirium and convulsions occasionally result from large doses.

Merc. cor., Terebinth., Caps., Ars., Apis, Nit. ac.

▶ Marasmus. ▶ Emaciation. ▶ Bent almost double, with arms folded across hypogastrium. ▶ Increased plasticity of blood drawn from veins. ▶ Trembling. ▶ Throwing herself about as if on fire. ▶ Twitching of tendons; intermittent, painful twitching, now on right side of occiput, now on external surface of left knee. ▶ Catalepsy. ▶ Epilepsy; complicated with hysterical symptoms. ▶ Convulsions; with horror of liquids; in paroxysms, with priapism.

Convulsions almost constantly, sometimes he tossed about in despair, sometimes he got up, rushed like a madman to another bed in the same room, bent the curtain rods like reeds, screamed, eight men could scarcely hold him sometimes emprosthotonos, sometimes opisthotonos, sometimes mouth open, sometimes trismus, with grinding of teeth, running of frothy, at times blood-streaked saliva, face expressive of fright and despair, in the convulsions the hair bristled, the gaze fixed, eyes sparkled, then rolled frightfully, pulse full and slow, abdominal muscles contracted when pressing on umbilical region, that part of abdomen seemed glued to spine, especially recti, which were like tightened cords (Plumbum), then spasms became general and head was thrown back, on attempting to make applications to most painful part of abdomen, he broke away like a madman, frothing at the mouth more than ever, eyes became fiercer, the constriction of throat almost choked him, howled like the barking of a dog, then general convulsions, which ended in fainting and stupor, renewal of these attacks on pressure upon painful places in hypogastrium and at sight of liquids.

Stitches over whole body; now here, now there in body, in afternoon; now here, now there, with tearing; all extend inward; are generally combined with tearing; in left lower ribs, then tearing near right wrist, then S. in left upper arm; in afternoon, in right side of chest, then tearing between scapulæ, then S. in right shoulder, then in right hypochondrium, then in right scapula, whence it passes into right hypochondrium. ▶ Tearing in affected parts, for example, in ulcers; in forehead, then in region of right ear, then in lower jaw, then on ear again. ▶ Violent pains. ▶ Raw and sore pain internally and externally. ▶ Crushed feeling, with sensitiveness of every part, internally and externally, and weakness.

General tension, with dryness in mouth, thirst, anxiety and pains in limbs. ▶ Pulsation in whole body, so that the limbs tremble. ▶ Restlessness; with heat in head; walking the room screaming; seeming to originate in stomach, with prostration, shiverings and nausea. ▶ Feeling as if dying. ▶ Indefinable illness. ▶ General discomfort. ▶ Weakness; in morning after sweat at night; in morning after emission, then restless, unrefreshing sleep, amel. wine, with emptiness in stomach and hunger; progressive (amel. drinking freely of alcoholic liquors, which produced no intoxication); as in beginning of nervous fever; restless, at night; so that muscles were almost unable to contract; agg. on right side of body; so that she could hold nothing in her hands; W., especially in legs. ▶ Faintness.

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Spanish flies applied to the skin produce blisters (vesication, with inflammation and even sloughing.) It produces (taken internally) the most violent inflammation of the whole gastro-intestinal canal, especially of the lower bowel. It is eliminated by the kidneys, and causes acute inflammation of that organ, and of the entire urinary tract. In some cases it produces sexual excitement. Delirium and convulsions occasionally result from large doses.

Emaciation.
Convulsions like epilepsy.
Convulsions, with howling, like a dog, ending in stupor.
General burning pains, associated with soreness of all parts of the body.
Tearing pains in the limbs, > rubbing.
A feeling of dryness in the joints.
Extreme weakness and faintness.
Extreme sensitiveness of all parts.
General aggravation on the right side, < coughing, > lying down, > warmth.

Anxiety and restlessness.
Furious delirium.
Insolent, contradictory mood.

Clinical:
Acute mania, generally of a sexual type; amorous frenzy, fiery desire for sexual intercourse, with persistent, painful erections, paroxysms of rage, crying and barking, even convulsions.
Acute mania after erysipelas.
(Mania in a woman, with occasional spasms, attempts to bite, with strangury, which seemed to have resulted from applying turpentine to the feet, immediately ameliorated by Canthar.)
Delirium, with dread.

General feeling of burning, deep-seated in the brain, with soreness.
Tearing pains in the head.
Headache seeming to come from the nape of the neck, extending to the forehead.

Inflammation, with soreness and burning.
Involuntary spasmodic motions of the eyes.
All objects seem yellow.
Eyes look yellow.

Swelling, with redness and soreness and burning of the nose.
Sneezing.

Burning redness and swelling of the face.
Face becomes deathly pale during and after the pains.
Jaws become tightly closed, like trismus.

Gums spongy and swollen; suppurated.
(Dental fistula.)
Mucous membrane of the mouth inflamed, with burning, or covered with blisters, < taking water.
Foul, frothy saliva, streaked with blood.
Tongue swollen, thickly furred, red at the edges; covered with blisters.
General burning, extending into the throat and stomach.

Internally swollen, inflamed, covered with plastic lymph, or with ulcers.
A feeling of constriction, with difficult swallowing.

Aversion to, and dread of food.
Thirst, with dread of drinking.
Burning pains in the stomach.
Heartburn, < drinking.
Eructations like a hiccough, which seem to go downward again towards the stomach.
Inflammation, with violent, burning pain.
Anxiety and uneasiness in the stomach, with great sensitiveness.

Distended and tympanitic.
Tenderness.
Cutting pains towards evening during a stool; after the stool shivering.
Burning along the whole alimentary canal.
Incarceration of flatus under the short ribs.
Burning pains here and there, especially in the upper part of the abdomen.
Pains in the hypochondria, as from incarceration of flatus.

Tenesmus.
Evacuation of pure blood from bowels and from bladder.
After the stool, burning.
Loose stools, with burning in the anus.
Stools of blood and mucus.
Stools red and slimy.
Mucus with the stools like scrapings from intestines, with streaks of blood.

Clinical:
Diarrhœa like scrapings of intestines; reddish, mucous or bloody, flaky; during stool extreme burning at anus, dysenteric, bloody stools, with intolerable burning tenesmus, with chill as if water were poured over one (Caps.).
Acute dysentery, with unquenchable thirst; even the lips, mouth and throat feel raw and burning, with canker, tendency to collapse, cold hands and feet.

Pains in the region of both kidneys, with tenesmus of the bladder.
Paroxysmal burning pains in the kidneys; the region becomes sensitive to the slightest touch; evacuation of bloody urine.
Cutting pain in the urethra from the kidneys towards the penis.
Acute inflammation of the kidneys, with tenesmus of the bladder; bloody urine.
Pain in the bladder, with frequent and intolerable tenesmus.
Intense burning in the bladder, < before urinating.
Burning, cutting pain in the neck of the bladder, extending forward.
Extreme tenesmus, with constant urging and burning.
Intense burning in the urethra, < motion, > lying on the back.
Constant urging to urinate; micturition painful, in drops; urging, and always but one spoonful; also in morning, with passage of a few drops, causing smarting and burning along urethra, especially near fossa navicularis; finally, after long straining, a few drops of bloody and albuminous urine; a convulsive tremor of all limbs, cold sweat on forehead and chest, sinking back in bed half-exhausted; no rest on account of immediate return of these sufferings.
Ineffectual urging, then several drops, with bloody streaks and pain.
Urethra inflamed, with burning, cutting, smarting, pains before, during and after micturition.
The urine scalds as it is passed drop by drop.
Urine bloody, turbid, albuminous, depositing a white, mealy sediment.

Clinical:
Most violent cystitis, with intense tenesmus; constant desire to urinate; the urine is bloody, scanty, etc.
The cystitis calling for Cantharis is of a most highly inflammatory character; it may be associated with general fever, chill, always with most terrible distress in the neck of the bladder.
Acute nephritis, with extreme distress in the bladder, urine scanty, bloody, albuminous, etc.
(Compare Tereb.)
In renal calculi, with the acute bladder symptoms of the drug, hæmaturia, etc.
Gravel in children, constant pulling at the penis.
In gonorrhœa, with most intense suffering, sexual excitement, chordee, with constant distress in bladder, discharge of blood.

Inflammation of the sexual organs, increasing even to gangrene of the penis.
Swelling and pain even to external pressure.
Priapism.
Severe, painful erections at night, with contraction and sore pain in the whole of urethra.
Erections persistent, without any voluptuous sensation.
Violent sexual desire, with incessant painful erections.

Inflammation and swelling of the external genitals, with irritation.
Menstruation too early and too profuse, of black blood.

Clinical:
Constant discharge from uterus, aggravated by false step, with discharge from bladder.
Inflammation of the ovaries, with burning pain, especially worse during menstruation, ovaries extremely sensitive.
Puerperal metritis, especially mania of a sexual character, with inflamed bladder, etc.
Pruritus of vagina.
Menstruation too early and dark, with great soreness of breasts, etc.

A feeling of great weakness of all the vocal organs.
Breathing oppressed on account of constriction of the larynx.
Larynx inflamed, with internal heat and burning.

Sticking pains in the sides of the chest, from side to side, and from before backward.
Burning pains in the chest.

Pulse hard, generally small, rapid, sometimes intermittent; rarely hard and full, as in inflammation.

Tearing pains in the back.
Spasmodic pains in the muscles on bending forward and backward.
Violent, burning pains in the region of the kidneys, with sensitiveness to the lightest touch, with urinary symptoms.
Pains in the lumbar region, with urinary symptoms, or with dysenteric symptoms.
Stitching, tearing pains in the coccyx.

Tearing pains through the limbs.

Vesicular eruptions; itching and burning when touched.
Inflammation like erysipelas.

Great sleepiness in the afternoon and sleeplessness at night.

Cold stage predominates; thirst after the chill.
Sweat of an urinous odor.

Cant. / (Cant.) / Spaniard.

Cantharis, burns where'er he acts,
His choice, the urinary tracts.
But in the stomach bowel or skin,
He burns-alike without or in.
Voids scalding urine, drop by drop,
Or causes urine flow to stop.
Blisters-and ulcers from the same-
And erysipelas, are his game.
His stools are bloody, skinny shreds.
To take a drink he greatly dreads.
A drink of coffee disagrees,
But rubbing may induce some ease.

The Spaniard,- Has hot, scalding urine.

The Spaniard,-Clem Ber-Can,-is toying with Captain Stephen's Mistress.

This Spaniard,-Who is affected with Blisters,-Is at Croton, in Russia, with the Arab, Urti Crotalus, of Euphorbia.

Hot, Scalding Urine: Canth., Clem., Berb., Can. s., Tereb., Apis., Caps., Stap., Mer., Sul., Thuj.

Blisters-Vesication: Canth., Crot., Rhus., Ars., Urti., Crotalus, Euphorb., Versicar.-(Blood blisters, Crotalus.)

Indicated in inflammation of the urinary and sexual organs; also certain forms of inflammation of the throat and (lower) bowel.

Furious delirium, with rage, crying, howling, barking, and intense sexual excitement.

Extreme difficulty of swallowing.

Throat feels as though on fire, especially the back of the throat.

Aphthous ulcers in (posterior) throat, especially right tonsil, covered with white adherent crust.

Spasmodic constriction of the larynx, excited by touching it.

Burning thirst, with aversion to all fluids.

Burning in stomach and oesophagus, with burning thirst, violent retching and vomiting of blood-streaked mucus.

Dysenteric stools, with mucus, like scrapings of the intestines; bloody; with shivering and tenesmus after stool.

Intestinal symptoms accompanied with pain in perinaeum which seems to start from neck of the bladder.

Constant desire to urinate, drop by drop, or passing little at a time, with cutting, burning pain in urethra; vesical tenesmus during and after urinating.

Urine bloody, turbid; cloudy; like mealy water, with white sediment.

Urine jelly-like; shreddy.

Burning pains in every part of the body.

Sleep disturbed on account of the constant urging to urinate.

Internal burning, with external coldness and pale face.

Madness like hydrophobia, renewed by looking at glistening things (water), and by touching larynx. Foolish gestures. Attacks of rage. Restless anxiety with timorousness. Pusillanimous and fainthearted. Angriness. Madness with shrieking, barking and striking about. lamenting, whining and anxious restlessness. Amorous insanity with lewd, shameless behavior.

Painful soreness and burning in brain. Tearing ache. Meningitis, with a sense of burning, rawness and smarting in head. Inward striking most violent in forehead and occiput. Headache, as if it arose from the nape and would pass out at forehead, with vertigo. Worse: Morning and afternoon, talking, motion, standing and sitting, Better: Walking, lying quietly.

Painful soreness and burning in. Involuntary spasmodic motion of. All objects appear yellow, with yellowness in eyes.

Redness, burning and swelling of.

Glowing redness and swelling of. Yellow. Trismus.

Suppurating gums. Dental fistula.

Inflammation in buccal cavity and throat. Burning in throat worse drinking water. Foamy saliva streaked with blood flows from. Painless inability to swallow, especially liquids. Sore throat when swallowing from inflammation and suppuration of tonsils. Feeble voice from weakness of vocal organs.

Appetite: Repugnance and aversion to all food. Thirst with aversion to all fluids.

Eructations: Hiccoughy, which recede toward stomach. Heartburn worse drinking pains. Agony and restlessness in, with sensitiveness of pit.

Hypochondria: Inflamed kidneys with intense burning pains. Stitches and tearing in region of kidneys. Inflammation of liver. Pain in, from obstructed flatulence.

Inflamed, with burning pain and sensitiveness to touch. Burning here and there, especially in upper, with yellow spots upon painful parts.

Dysenteric, mucus, like scrapings of intestines. Diarrhoea: Bloody, foamy followed by cutting in abdomen.

Retained with spasmodic pains in bladder. Suppressed secretion of, with ineffectual urging. He urinates blood drop by drop. Discharge of bloody mucus from bladder. Inflammation of bladder and urethra.

Inflamed, tending to gangrene. Painful gonorrhoea. Suppressed gonorrhoeal discharge. Intense sexual desire with incessant painful erections. Inflamed ovaries.

Menses: Of black blood, too early and too profuse.

Great sense of weakness in respiratory apparatus. Tightness of breathing from constriction of larynx.

Burning and sticking in trachea when hawking tenacious mucus loose. Hoarseness. Weak, indistinct voice.

Burning and sticking in. Inflammation of.

Tearing in. Spasm, with alternate emprosthotonos and opisthotonos.

Tearing arms.

Tearing in legs. Gout in hip joints, with spasmodic bladder and urinary symptoms.

Intense, painful soreness combined with burning in all parts of, especially the cavities, of the body. Urinary symptoms with tearing in limbs, better rubbing. Sense of dryness in joints. Most intense debility, bordering on paralysis. Over - sensitiveness of all parts. Jaundice. Dropsy. Most complaints occur on right side. Symptoms are better when lying down. Attacks recur every seven days. Coffee and oil worse the symptoms. Raw, burning soreness.

Scabious, itching vesicles which burn when touched. Erysipelatous inflammations.

Great sleepiness in afternoon. Nightly sleeplessness.

Pulse: Very variable, mostly hard, full and accelerated, sometimes, also intermittent, more seldom weak, slow and almost imperceptible. Pulsation throughout the trembling limbs. Chill: With general coldness, attacks mostly in evening, not relieved by external warmth. Fever often consisting of chill only, with subsequent thirst, without heat. Running up the back. Heat: Burning, with anxiety and thirst. At night merely external, not sensible to patient. Sweat: From every movement. Cold especially on hands and feet. On genitals, of a urinous odor.

Allied Remedies: ACO., AP., Bell., Calad., Cam., Cann, Laur., LYC., PULS.

Violent burning with soreness in all parts of the body, especially in the cavities.

Sensation of cutting in inner parts.

Sensation of dryness in the joints.

Tearing and stinging from without to within.

Tetanic spasms compelling to bend forward or backward often aggravated by the sight of water.

Debility bordering on paralysis.

Voice low.

Pricking in inner parts.

Satyriasis.

Aggravation from coffee, during and after micturition.