BOVISTA.
Lycoperdon Bovista, Pers. Nat. order,
Fungi; Common names, Warted Puff ball, Kugelschwamm. Preparation, Triturations.
Authorities.
1, Hb,
Hartlaub and Trinks, Arzneimittellehre, 3; 2, Ng.,
ibid.; 3, S., ibid.; 4,
Petroz, Journ. d. l. soc. gal., 4, 82, symptoms observed by M. Gerard from inhaling the
fumes of the burning fungus; 5, Ibid., symptoms observed
by a young woman from olfaction of the tincture.
MIND.
► 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 pleasant to her, in
the morning, but, towards evening, out of humor and peevish, [3].
► Very courageous and vigorous; he would like to fight
with everybody, [3]. ►
Melancholy the whole day, [3]. ►
Dull and depressed; and towards evening she became very weary, [3]. ► Very much depressed (after
three hours); then alternating moods and (after seven hours) great sadness, amounting to
melancholy, [1]. ►
Anguish; she felt as if enveloped in a black vapor, [5].
[10.] ► Great
sensitiveness; became easily offended at everything, [3]. ► Very apprehensive, and at
the same time fretful; she was disinclined to do any work, [2].
► Very irritable; everything affected her, [3]. ► Peevish mood, for an hour
in the morning after rising (fifth day), [2]. ► Ill-humored, fretful, and apprehensive, with confusion of the
head, [2]. ►
Ill-humor, confusion of the head, gloominess, also peevishness and irritability, for
fourteen days, [1]. ►
Peevish, fretful, and ill-humored during a violent headache in the afternoon, [2]. ► Fretful, ill-humored, and
indifferent to life, [3]. ►
At one time life seemed very exciting to him, at another very hateful, [3]. ► In company she was lively;
alone, sad, depressed, and not interested in anything, [3].
[20.] ► Extremely
indifferent to all external objects (ninth day), [1]. ► Intellectual. ►
Confused thoughts, [5]. ►
Stupid feeling, [2]. ►
Very absent-minded, so that it was impossible for her, even on great exertion, to pay
attention to what one was saying or doing (after thirteen days), [1]. ► She is very absent-minded,
makes mistakes in writing, leaves out whole syllables, and writes several words entirely
wrong (after five days), [1]. ►
Lost in thought; he often looked vacantly for several minutes, [3]. ► Weak memory, [3]. ► He recollected only with
difficulty the transactions of a few hours previous, [3].
► Feeling of stupefaction at times, [3].
HEAD.
► Confusion and Vertigo.
[30.] ► The head is
somewhat confused and heavy, [3]. ► The head was very much confused and dizzy after coition; he
was unable to sleep for a long time, [3]. ► Head very much confused and empty, with drawing about the
whole head, especially in the morning, [1]. ► Head very much confused; he could not think correctly, with
heaviness and pressure in the forehead, [3]. ► The head was very much confused and painful on stooping,
mostly in the left temple, [2]. ►
Vertigo for several minutes, [3]. ► Vertigo; the whole room seemed to turn about with him, [3]. ► Frequent transient
vertigo, [3]. ►
Frequent vertigo, wherewith all his senses left him, [1].
► Vertigo, even to falling forward, towards evening, [3]. ► Vertigo, which
drew him backward, [3]. [40.]
► Vertigo, on rising, as if everything turned around in a
circle with her, and she could not trust herself to stand upright, [3]. ► A kind of vertigo, with
stupefaction, in the morning on rising from his chair, so that he nearly fell down (second
day), [1]. ► *Sudden
attacks of vertigo and feeling of stupidity in the head, on rising; she loses consciousness
for a moment, preceding and following a headache, in the morning, [2]. ► Vertigo and feeling of
heaviness in the head, while standing, followed by sudden jerking of the head backward, [2]. ► Dizziness, in the
morning, [1]. ►
Dizzy and stupid, and a feeling of whirling in the head, after rising from stooping (first
day), [2]. ►
Sensations. ► Heaviness of the head, [5]. ► Heaviness of the
head (after a few moments), [4]. ►
Stupefying headache, especially in the forehead, [3]. ► In the evening, the head is stupid and heavy, and feels as if
bruised (second day), [2]. [50.]
► Headache, on waking, as after too much sleep, [3]. ► Headache, with
heaviness of the head, which makes her ill-humored and unable to think continuously; the
pain is increased on lying, and is most severe on waking from the midday nap, and is
combined with a kind of pulsating beating in the head; its chief seat is in the forehead
over the nose, which is at the same time stopped (after fifteen days), [1]. ► She did not dare to raise
the head at night, from dread of unendurable pains, which were somewhat relieved toward
morning (after twelve days), [2]. ► Headache as if suppurating; a raging in the whole brain,
coming on in the cold air and continuing in the room at 8 A.M., [2]. ► The whole head seems larger
than usual, with the headache, [2]. ► On waking, at 3 o’clock in the morning, very violent
headache, with which he feels every pulsation, and which threatens to burst the head
asunder; it gradually disappears on the outbreak of sweat, especially on the head
(seventeenth day), [1]. ►
A contractive sensation and a feeling of dulness in the head, disappearing after breakfast
(first day), [2]. ►
The brain feels as if screwed together, with a heavy sensation, in the morning, disappearing
in the open air (eighth day), [2]. ► Dull headache, frequently returning, [2]. ► Dull headache, with
weariness, [3]. [60.]
► After walking in the open air, violent pressive
headache, with a feeling of heaviness, mostly in the occiput, in the morning; this pain
disappeared at night, but immediately returned when she went into the open air in the
morning, and disappeared again in the room (fifth and sixth days), [2]. ► Violent pressive headache
on coming into the room from the open air, on both sides, with some throbbing, in the
evening, [2]. ►
Dull pressive headache, in the morning, [3]. ► Head feels as if compressed by a tight bandage, but without
pain (after a few moments), [4]. ►
Tearing in the whole head, with heaviness and bruised sensation continuing almost
constantly, [1]. ►
All the pains are felt deep in the brain, [2]. ► Forehead. ► Painful
boring outward in the left side of the forehead, at 8 P.M., [2].
► Pressure in the forehead, [3]. ► Heavy pressure on the
forepart of the head, especially the temples, [5]. ► Dull headache, like a pressure, above the right eye,
extending toward the temporal region, [1]. [70.] ► Pressive pain and a
feeling of heaviness in a small spot on the left side of the forehead, deep internally and
pressing upon the eye, for four minutes; the pain returns soon with redoubled severity,
whereby it seems as if there were a cloud before the left eye, which disappeared by frequent
wiping; in the morning on moving about, [2]. ► Stitches in the middle of the forehead, rather externally, in
the evening (first day), [2]. ►
First stitches, then pressure, in the forehead, [3]. ► Stitches and tearing in the right frontal eminence, which
extend toward the right ear, [2]. ► Sharp stitches in the right side of the forehead, twice in
succession, [2]. ►
Sharp stitches in the right frontal eminence, in frequent succession, [2]. ► Extremely painful fine
stitches, deep in the forehead, in the evening (fourth day), [2].
► A painful twitching in the brain, in a small spot above
the right frontal eminence, which frequently remits and returns, with peevish mood, at 2
P.M., [2]. ►
Tearing pain in the forehead, extending to the left side of the occiput, and then back again
to the forehead, and becomes seated in the left temple, where it remains several days (tenth
day), [1]. ► Fine
tearing in the middle of the forehead, rather externally, in the morning (first day), [2]. [80.] ► Violent unendurable tearing in the forehead, with heaviness
in the head, on stooping, and burning in the right eye (fourth day), [2]. ► Pressive-tearing in the
forehead, especially above the orbits, which extends into the root of the nose (sixth and
seventh days), [1]. ►
Temples. ► Heaviness in the temples, [3]. ► Compressive
headache starting from both temples, [3]. ► Intolerable painful pressure and throbbing in the right
temple, with great fretfulness; the pain extends down to the neck, and there disappears, in
the morning, [2]. ►
Sticking and jerking in the left temple, [3]. ► Several fine stitches in the left temporal bone, [2]. ► Fine tearing in
the left temple, extending towards the ear (after three-quarters of an hour), [2]. ► A raging or digging-tearing
in the left temple, deep in the brain, in the afternoon, [2].
► Violent tearing in the right temple and in the right
half of the forehead, frequently intermitting (tenth day), [2].
► Vertex. [90.]
► Stupefying headache of the whole vertex, with heat in
the eyes, [3]. ►
Constant slight drawings in the whole top of the head, [1].
► Pressure upon the vertex, [1]. ► Violent sharp stitches on
the vertex; they extend over the whole head; in the afternoon, [2]. ► Frequent, fine, extremely
painful stitches on the left side of the vertex; this place is also very painful to touch;
in the evening, [2]. ►
Violent tearing on the vertex, which is painful on touch, as if bruised, together with fine
tearing on the margin of the right concha; in the morning, [2].
► Bruised pain on the left side of the vertex, when
touched and when not, [2]. ►
Parietals. ► Painful pressive heaviness in the
right side of the head, [2]. ►
Beating and roaring in the right side of the head at 7 A.M., when coming into the room from
the cold air, [2]. ►
Pressure in both sides of the head, [1]. [100.] ► Pain as though the
brain would be pressed together from both sides, in the afternoon (fourth day), [2]. ► Compressive pain
in both sides of the head on coming into the room after walking in the cold air (eighth
day), [2]. ► Dull
pressure in the left side of the head, [3]. ► Sharp stitches on the right side near the vertex, [2]. ► Some fine stitches
in the right side of the head at 7 A.M., [2]. ► Sensitive dull stitches in the upper part of the right side
of the head, [2]. ►
Sudden dull stitches, like boring, deep in the right side of the head, so that she was
obliged to cry out, [2]. ►
Violent tearing in the right side of the head, [2]. ► Severe bruised pain in the whole right side of the head,
which even affected the eye, at 10 A.M., [2]. ► Painful throbbing, as in an ulcer, in the right side of the
head, [2]. [110.] ► Headache, almost like a throbbing, on a small spot on the
left side of the head, in the afternoon, at 1 o’clock, [2].
► Occiput. ►
Confusion and heaviness in the occiput, with inclination of the lids to fall down, and
feeling as if the eyes would be drawn backwards, especially in a bright light, in the
evening, together with anxiety and uneasiness of the body, [1].
► Dull headache in the occiput, with tension in the
temples, [3]. ►
Pressive pain in the occiput, which extends over the vertex to the forehead, in the
forenoon, [3]. ►
Severe pressure on both sides of the occiput, from which place the pain extends to the
forehead; a feeling in the occiput as if everything would protrude; in the afternoon till
evening (fifth day), [2]. ►
Pain in the occiput, as if a wedge would be pressed in, [3].
► Violent sticking and tearing in the left side of the
occiput, continuing a long time, [2]. ► Dull, boring-pressive stitches in the occiput, extending to
the forehead over the left eye; in a warm room in the afternoon, [2]. ► Violent fine stitches in
the left side of the occiput, in the morning, at 7 o’clock, [2].
► Tearing in the occiput, and at the same time in the
lower jaw, [2]. ►
External Head. [120.] ►
The hair falls out, [3]. ►
Small sore spots on the scalp, with itching, [1]. ► Small reddish blisters, with severe itching, on the scalp, [3]. ► Great
sensitiveness of the scalp generally to touch; she could not even endure the comb, [2]. ► Itching on the
head as if the whole head was full of lice, especially in the morning, [3]. ► Itching over the whole scalp,
extending to the neck, especially if he became warm, so that he was obliged to scratch the
forehead, which was not relieved by scratching, [1].
EYE.
► Objective. ► Redness of the eyes, [4].
► Inflammation of the left eye, [3]. ► The eyes are closed
involuntarily, though without drowsiness (after a few moments), [4]. ► Lost in thought; she looked
a long time at one point, [2]. ► Subjective. [130.] ► Weak eyes, without lustre, or snap, [3]. ► A feeling as if something
was in the right eye, with lachrymation in it (first day), [1].
► Burning in the eyes, and such great heat in the cheeks
that she thought they would burst, [3]. ► Heat in the right eye, and a painful contractive feeling in
it, for an hour, [1]. ►
Pressure in the eyes, as if something were in them; with which the left eye is red (after
eight days), [1]. ►
Stitches over the left eye, as with a pointed instrument, [3].
► Excessively painful tearing, deep in the right eye,
which extends above it to the forehead, [2]. ► Smarting in the eyes, so that he had to keep them shut, [4]. ► Orbit, Etc.
► Tension in the left eyebrow, [2]. ► Extremely painful pressure
and twisting deep in the right orbit; the bone is very sensitive to pressure, during
menstruation, [2]. [140.]
► Pressive sticking in the right orbit, [3]. ► A sudden turning when
sitting, or a sensation of a sudden current of air above the left eye, above the root of the
nose, [2]. ► A
feeling of painful contraction, with stitches over the left eye, as if the left frontal
eminence would be screwed together; the pain began at the root of the nose, and extended
outward behind the left frontal eminence, with lachrymation of the left eye; afterwards the
place above the eye was sensitive to pressure; after the pain ceased heat arose over the
whole body, with a feeling as if sweat would break out during dinner (fifth day), [2]. ► Sticking in a
small spot above the left eye, with redness of the cheek, without external heat, after
dinner, [2]. ► Lids.
► Could not open the eyes well in the morning (sixth
day), [1]. ► The
left eye was agglutinated in the morning, [3]. ► The eyes were always agglutinated in the morning, [2]. ► Irritation of the
eyelids (second day), [4]. ►
The canthi are red (after thirty-two days). ► Lachrymal
Apparatus. ► Lachrymation, in the morning, [1]. ► Vision. [150.] ► It seems as though
there were a veil before the eyes, in the morning, on rising (after four days), [1]. ► Illusion of
vision; she feared that a person sitting near her would stick the shears into her eyes,
although she sat two steps away and was cutting paper; all her visual perceptions were
distorted; it seemed as though the shears were close before her eyes, [3].
EAR.
► Objective. ► Twitching in the left external ear, for ten minutes, [2]. ► (A copious
purulent offensive discharge from the ear, which had lasted four years, disappeared), [1]. ► Subjective.
► Heat and burning from the right ear, extending down to
the angle of the lower jaw, [2]. ►
Drawing in the ears (after three days), [1]. ► Stitches in the ears, [3].
► Stitches in the right ear, [1]. ► Tearing in front of the
right ear, which suddenly disappears, after dinner, [2].
► Extremely painful tearing in the left ear, in the
afternoon, [2]. [160.]
► Tearing deep in the right ear, and a tensive sensation
on the border of the concha, [2]. ► A feeling of picking in the left ear, as though something
were lying in it, [2]. ►
Severe itching in the ears, with some difficulty of hearing, [1].
► Hearing. ► He
did not hear distinctly, understood many things wrongly, and also made mistakes in speaking,
[3]. ► (In the
ears, especially in the right, frequent noises, like rain), [3].
► Roaring in the left ear, with diminished hearing for a
short time, [2].
NOSE.
► Objective. ► The septum of the nose where it unites with the upper lip is
red and sore, [3]. ►
*Scabby nostrils, [1]. ►
A scab in the nostril is frequently renewed, after removal, the sore place burns, [2]. ► Coryza, for a few
moments only, [4]. [170.]
► Stopped coryza, [1].
► Stopped coryza, in the morning, after rising, with
frequent sneezing; with which she could draw air only through the right nostril, [2]. ► She is frequently
obliged to blow the nose, whereby only thin water is discharged, [3]. ► Frequent need to blow the
nose, though but little nasal mucus is discharged, [2].
► The nose is very much stopped; troubles her in
speaking, [3]. ►
Great stoppage of the nose; she could only get air through with great difficulty; with
pressure in the temples, [3]. ►
At night, the nose is stopped; she cannot draw air through it (eighteenth day), [1]. ► The left nostril
is stopped, and a few drops of water run out of it (seventeenth day), [2]. ► Fluent coryza, [3]. ► Fluent coryza;
thin mucus is discharged from the nose, [2]. [180.] ► Fluent coryza, with
confusion of the head, [3]. ►
The previously profuse, tough, yellow nasal mucus, a quantity of which was discharged,
became white and more profuse (after sixteen days), [1].
► Frequent sneezing, [2].
► Sneezing, in the morning, after waking, [2]. ► *A few drops of blood from the
nose every time on sneezing (fifth day), [2].
► *Bleeding of the nose in the morning, [3]. ► Subjective.
► Constant feeling of coryza in the nose, and swelling of
it (fifteenth day), [1]. ►
Burning in both nostrils, as if they were sore, [2]. ► A contraction over the nose, with a feeling of heaviness and
pressure as though the skin were too short, [3].
FACE.
► *The face is very pale,
in the morning, after rising, for several days (after fourteen days), [1]. [190.] ► Great changes of color in the face, which is at one time red,
at another pale, [3]. ►
Tension and heat rise into the face, [3]. ► Locally. ► Boring and
digging in both malar bones, [3]. ► Cracked lips, [2]. ► On the inner border of the left side of the lower lip
burning, as in a cut, [2]. ►
Fine stitches, as with needles, or as from splinters, in the lower lip, [3]. ► Violent tearing in the left
side of the lower jaw, and in one of the teeth, [2]. ► A feeling of throbbing on the left side below the lower jaw;
she believes that a gland must be swollen, [2].
MOUTH.
► Teeth. ► The teeth are frequently coated with mucus, [1]. ► The teeth, gums and lips
are filled with clotted blood, in the morning, on waking, [1].
[200.] ► Slight
gnashing of the teeth, now and then, in the evening, as in a chill (after fifteen days), [1]. ► A hollow tooth
seems longer than the others, [2]. ► Toothache, as if the exposed nerves were rubbed, [1]. ► In the evening, in
bed, toothache, which was only relieved by warmth (after fourteen days), [1]. ► The toothache ceased on
going into the open air, [1]. ►
Painful boring in the teeth, in the evening, [2]. ► Digging-boring pain in a hollow tooth, with a tearing pain in
the right side of the head, and stitches in the ears, very much increased by cold, [3]. Digging pain in a hollow tooth, morning and evening, [3]. ► Tearing-digging in
the hollow teeth, extending thence into the temples, in the evening in bed, [2]. ► Drawing toothache, as if
the roots would be torn out, in the evening, [2]. [210.] ► Dull drawing pain in
the hollow teeth (after twelve hours), [1]. ► Painful drawing a few times in a hollow tooth of the right
lower jaw, in the evening, [2]. ►
Very painful drawing toothache awoke her before midnight, and lasted an hour, three nights
in succession, [2]. ►
Violent drawing pain in the hollow back teeth of the left lower jaw, for two evenings in succession, in bed, which lasted till
morning, during menstruation, [2]. ► Dull toothache, which she had not had for several years,
followed by long-continued, elevated, pale swelling of the upper lip and sweat all night,
till morning, which was especially profuse on the head (after three weeks), [1]. ► Stitches in the sound
teeth, especially at night, so that he could not sleep on account of it; the gum bled
easily; the pain was relieved if he sucked the blood out of the teeth with the tongue, [1]. ► The stitches in
the teeth extend into the eyes, [1]. ► Pain in the upper front teeth; they pain on touch, and do not
bear chewing; with the upper lip beginning to swell, the toothache was somewhat relieved;
the swelling increases so that the lip hung far over the lower one and was even with the
nose; after the swelling of the lip had somewhat subsided, the left cheek began to swell;
all the swollen parts were painful to touch (after fifteen days), [1]. ► Jerking toothache (fifth
day), [1]. ► Gums.
► Swollen, painful gum, [3].
[220.] ► The gum
retracts so that the teeth seem longer, [3]. ► An inflamed spot on the gum over a decayed root, which is
painful by itself, and still more when touched, like an ulcer, with throbbing, with a
feeling as if the root were too long, [2]. ► An ulcer on the gum, from which blood exudes on pressure, [2]. ► Clear blood oozes
from the mouth (gum) even without sucking the gum, [1].
► As often as he sucks the gum blood comes into the mouth,
with which the whole gum becomes painful, [1].
► Tongue. ►
Yellow-coated tongue in the morning (after seven days), [1].
► A red spot, painful to pressure, near the left ligament
of the tongue, where it is united to the tongue, for several days (after thirty-five days), [2]. ► A small depressed
ulcer on the left margin of the tongue, sore and painful to touch, [3]. ► In the morning, after
waking, burning in the tip and a numbness on the posterior portion of the tongue, and over
the whole mouth, for four mornings in succession (after thirteen days), [2]. ► *Cutting pain in the tongue,
repeated several days, [1]. ►
General Mouth. [230.] ►
Offensive smell from the mouth (sixth day), [1]. ► (Internally in the left cheek a swelling; this disappeared
and a burning blister developed on the cheek externally, filled with yellow fluid, which
became flattened and dried up the next day), [3]. ► Great dryness in the mouth, as if she had sand in it, with
thirst, [3]. ►
Towards evening, the mouth became very dry; in the evening he was always full and satiated,
and had no appetite, [3]. ►
Numbness of the whole mouth and tongue, in the morning, after walking; it disappears after
eating, [2]. ► The
whole mouth seemed numb and burnt, in the morning, on waking, with a bitter slimy taste and
soreness of the throat, [2]. ►
Burning and heat in the mouth, without thirst, [1]. ► Painful tension in the mouth, in the right cheek, [2]. ► Sticking pain in
the palate, which extends to the chin, for several minutes (first day), [1]. ► Saliva. ► Much collection of saliva in the mouth, [1]. ► Taste. [240.] ► Bad taste with much
mucus in the mouth, [1]. ►
Bitter taste, [3]. ►
Taste of blood in the mouth, [3]. ► Speech. ► Stammering, [3]. ► He stammered at
times, when reading; was not able to pronounce several words, [3].® 2000
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