BUFO RANA

Poison of the Toad


  • Acts on the nervous system and skin. 
  • Uterine symptoms marked. 
  • Lymphangitis of septic origin. 
  • Symptoms of paralysis agitans. 
  • Striking rheumatic symptoms.
  • Arouses the lowest passions. 
  • Causes a desire for intoxicating drink, and produces impotence.
  • Of use in feeble-minded children. 
  • Prematurely senile. 
  • Epileptic symptoms. 
  • Convulsive seizures occur during sleep at night. 
  • More or less connected with derangements of the sexual sphere, seem to come within the range of this remedy. 
  • Injuries to fingers; pain runs in streaks up the arms.

Mind

  • Anxious about health. 
  • Sad, restless. 
  • Propensity to bite. 
  • Howling; impatient; nervous; imbecile. 
  • Desire for solitude. 
  • Feeble-minded.

Head

  • Sensation as if hot vapor rose to top of head. 
  • Numbness of brain. 
  • Face bathed in sweat. 
  • Epistaxis with flushed face and pain in forehead, better, nosebleed.

Eyes

  • Cannot bear sight or brilliant objects. 
  • Little blisters form on eye.

Ears

  • Music is unbearable (Ambra). 
  • Every little noise distresses.

Heart

  • Feels too large. 
  • Palpitation. 
  • Constriction about heart. 
  • Sensation of heart swimming in water.

Female

  • Menses too early and copious, clots and bloody discharge at other times; watery leucorrhea. 
  • Excitement, with epileptic attacks. 
  • Epilepsy at time of menses. 
  • Induration in mammary glands. 
  • Palliative in cancer of the mammae. 
  • Burning in ovaries and uterus. 
  • Ulceration of cervix. 
  • Offensive bloody discharge. 
  • Pains run into legs. 
  • Bloody milk. 
  • Milk-leg. 
  • Veins swollen. 
  • Tumors and polypi of womb.

Male

  • Involuntary emissions; impotence, discharge too quick, spasms during coition. 
  • Buboes. 
  • Disposition to handle organs (Hyos; Zinc). 
  • Effects of onanism.

Extremities

  • Pains in loins, numbness of limbs, cramps, staggering gait, feeling as if a peg were driven in joints; swelling of bones.

Skin

  • Panaritium; pain runs up arm. 
  • Patches of skin lose sensation. 
  • Pustules, suppuration from every slight injury. 
  • Pemphigus. 
  • Bullae which open and leave a raw surface, exuding and ichorous fluid. 
  • Blisters on palms and soles. 
  • Itching and burning. 
  • Carbuncle.

Relationship

  • Compare: Baryt carb; Asterias; Salamand (Epilepsy and softening of brain).
  • Antidotes: Laches; Seneg.
  • Complementary: Salamandra.

Modalities

  • Worse, in warm room, on awakening. 
  • Better, from bathing or cold air; from putting feet in hot water.

Dose

  • Sixth potency and higher.