Boletus laricis
Laricifomes officinalis (syn. Fomitopsis officinalis) · Fungus
Boletus Laricis suits patients with intermittent fevers, phthisical night-sweats, and gastro-enteric disturbances. The typical patient experiences profuse nocturnal perspiration with hectic chills and fever alongside nausea and digestive complaints.
Key symptoms
- Quotidian intermittent fever with light sweat without relief
- Night-sweats in phthisis; profuse perspiration at night
- Head feels light and hollow with deep frontal headache
- Thick yellow coating on tongue; teeth indented
- Constant nausea
- Chilliness along spine with frequent hot flashes
- Severe aching in shoulders, joints, and small of back
- Skin hot and dry, especially in palms
- Itching more between scapulae and on forearms
White Agaric (POLYPORUS OFFICINALE)
Quotidian intermittent fever. Sweat is light, and without relief. Night-sweat in phthisis.
Head
Feels light and hollow with deep frontal headache. Thick, yellow coating of tongue; teeth indented. Constant nausea.
Fever
Chilliness along spine, with frequent, hot flashes. Yawns and stretches when chilly. Severe aching in shoulders and joints and small of back. Profuse perspiration at night, with hectic chills and fever.
Skin
Hot and dry, especially in palms. Itching more between scapulæ and on forearms.
Relationship
Compare: Agaricin, active constituent of Polyporus officinale (phthisical and other enervating nightsweats 1-4 to 1-2 gr doses; also in chorea, in dilatation of heart with pulmonary Emphysema, fatty degeneration, profuse perspiration and erythema). Boletus luridus (Violent pain in epigastrium, urticaria tuberosa). Boletus satanus (dysentery, vomiting, great debility, cold extremities, spasm of extremities and face).
Dose
First attenuation.
B. purgans. N. O. Fungi. Trituration.
Clinical
Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Fever. Gall-bladder, affections of. Headache. Liver, diseases of.
Characteristics
Burt proved the crude substance and the 3rd trituration. The gastro-enteric irritation common to the Fungi was very well marked. Motion < headache.
Relations
Compare. Agaric., &c. Coccul. (head hollow).
1. Mind
Very gloomy and despondent.─Irritated at the least trifle.─Absent-minded.
2. Head
Head feeling very light and hollow, with deep frontal headache and great faintness.
3. Eyes
Agglutination of eyelids every morning, with dull, aching pains in eyeballs.
8. Mouth
Teeth and gums very sore.─Tongue: white coat; thick yellow coat showing marks of teeth.─Taste: flat; coppery; unnatural, of all food; lost.
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