Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Bovista bov.

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General

We may always think of this remedy when we see a very "tettery person." Tetters, moist or dry.

Mental

Sadness, ill-humor, vexed mood.

Head

Vertigo in the morning; particularly where the patient falls over to one side, early in the morning, and seems to lose his senses for a time. Pains in the head pressing inward; pains from side to side, pressing outward; as if both sides were pressed towards each other.

Lips

Lips ulcerated or chapped, with sensation of a splinter, or of something sticking there.

Nose

Blood flows from, when blowing it.

Gastric

No appetite for breakfast. Nausea in the morning, generally vomiting a watery fluid, and relieved by eating breakfast. Sensation as of a lump of ice in the stomach.

Abdomen

Colic, which causes the patient to double over, and accompanied by the voiding of red urine, relieved by eating. (In Coloc. the pain is aggravated by eating, and there is no red urine.)

Stool and Anus

The first portion of the stool is hard, and the latter part, thin and watery. Diarrhœa early in the morning; in the evening; before and during menstruation. After stool, tenesmus and burning in anus. Darting pain from perineum to rectum.

Generalities

Cough, with so viscid an expectoration that it can scarcely be discharged. Visible palpitation of heart. Menses last all night and do not flow in daytime. Affections of the wrist joints. Stammering. Intolerable itching of the coccyx. Chill after going to bed at night.

Remedies following

Calc. carb., Rhus tox., Sepia.

Antidote

Camphor.