BOVISTA LYCOPERDON

Puff-Ball


  • Has a marked effect on the skin, producing eruption like eczema, also upon the circulation, predisposing to hemorrhages; marked languor and lassitude. 
  • Adapted to stammering children, old maids with palpitation; and "tettery" patients. 
  • Stage of numbness and tingling in multiple neuritis. 
  • Asphyxia due to charcoal fumes.

Mind

  • Enlarged sensation (Arg n). 
  • Awkward; everything falls from hands. 
  • Sensitive.

Head

  • Sensation as if head were enlarging, especially of occiput. 
  • Distensive headache; worse early morning, open air, lying. 
  • Discharge from nose stringy, tough. 
  • Dull, bruised pain in brain. 
  • Stammering (Stram; Merc). 
  • Scalp itches; worse, warmth; sensitive; must scratch until sore.

Face

  • Scurf and crusts about nostrils and corners of mouth. 
  • Lips chapped. 
  • Bleeding of nose and gums. 
  • Cheeks and lips feel swollen. 
  • Acne worse in summer; due to use of cosmetics.

Stomach

  • Sensation as of a lump of ice. 
  • Intolerant of tight clothing around waist.

Female

  • Diarrhea before and during menses. 
  • Menses too early and profuse; worse at night. 
  • Voluptuous sensation. 
  • Leucorrhea acrid, thick, tough, greenish, follows menses. 
  • Cannot bear tight clothing around waist (Lach). 
  • Traces of menses between menstruation. 
  • Soreness of pubes during menses. Metrorrhagia; Parovarian cysts.

Abdomen

  • Colic, with red urine; relieved by eating. Must bend double. 
  • Pain around umbilicus. 
  • Stitches through perineum towards rectum and genitals.
  • Chronic diarrhea of old people; worse at night and early morning.

Extremities

  • Great weakness of all joints; clumsiness with her hands, drops things from hands. 
  • Weariness of hands and feet. 
  • Sweat in axillae; onion smell. 
  • Tip of coccyx itches intolerably. 
  • Moist eczema on back of hand. 
  • Itching of feet and legs. 
  • Edema in joints after fracture.

Skin

  • Blunt instrument leave deep impression on the skin. 
  • Urticaria on excitement, with rheumatic lameness, palpitation and diarrhea (Dulc). 
  • Itching on getting warm. 
  • Eczema, moist; formation of thick crusts. 
  • Pimples cover the entire body; scurvy; herpetic eruptions. 
  • Pruritus ani. 
  • Urticaria on waking in the morning, worse from bathing. 
  • Pellagra.

Relationship

  • Bovista antidotes tar applications. 
  • Suffocation from gas. 
  • After Rhus in chronic urticaria.
  • Compare: Calc; Rhus; Sepia; Cicuta.

Dose

  • Third to sixth potency.