CANTHARIS
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 of 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.
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