Boletus satanas
Rubroboletus satanas · Fungus
Boletus Satanas suits acute cases of severe gastro-enteric poisoning with violent vomiting, bloody diarrhoea, and extreme muscular cramps. The remedy is indicated where there is profound prostration with cold extremities and cold sweats.
Key symptoms
- Fear and restlessness
- Sparks before eyes alternating with obscuration of vision
- Troublesome dryness in mouth and throat; violent burning in throat
- Unquenchable thirst; sudden violent desire to vomit
- Vomited twenty times in three hours
- Frightful pain in stomach; sunken and painful abdomen
- Profuse diarrhoea of blood and mucous intestinal lining
- Violent, extremely painful cramps in muscles of limbs and face
- Cold limbs with cold sweat over whole body
N. O. Fungi. Trituration.
Clinical
Diarrhœa membranosa. Dysentery.
Characteristics
There are two fragmentary provings of this fungus, and observations on six persons poisoned. It produces gastro-enteric disturbances very similar to that of its two relatives.
1. Mind
Fear and restlessness.
3. Eyes
Sparks before eyes alternating with obscuration of vision.
8, 9. Mouth and Throat
Troublesome dryness in mouth and throat.─Violent burning and scraping in throat.
11. Stomach
Unquenchable thirst.─Sudden desire to vomit; no nausea between attacks.─Vomited twenty times in three hours.─Frightful pain in stomach.
12. Abdomen
Abdomen sunken and frightfully painful.─Obstinate tension of abdomen.
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