Bovista lycoperdon
Bovista (puffball); Lycoperdon bovista historically · Fungus
Bovista Lycoperdon is especially suited to stammering children, old maids with palpitation, and tettery patients with a marked disposition to skin eruptions and haemorrhages. There is a characteristic sensation of enlargement of body parts and great awkwardness, with things constantly falling from the hands.
Key symptoms
- Skin eruptions resembling eczema; tettery skin conditions
- Predisposition to haemorrhages; bleeding from nose and gums
- Sensation as if head were enlarging, especially occiput
- Everything falls from hands; extreme awkwardness
- Diarrhoea before and during menses; menses too early and profuse
- Intolerance of tight clothing around waist
- Acne worse in summer or from use of cosmetics
- Stammering; adapted to stammering children
- Scalp itches worse from warmth; must scratch until sore
Worse (aggravation)
- Menses
- Full moon
- Hot weather
- Getting warm
- Cold food
- Wine
- Coffee
Better (amelioration)
- Bending double
- Hot food
- Eating
Puff-Ball (BOVISTA)
Has a marked effect on the skin, producing eruption like eczema, also upon the circulation, predisposing to hæmorrhages; 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
Diarrhœa before and during menses. Menses too early and profuse; worse at night. Voluptuous sensation. Leucorrhœa 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 diarrhœa 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 axillæ; onion smell. Tip of coccyx itches intolerably. Moist eczema on back of hand. Itching of feet and legs. Œdema in joints after fracture.
Skin
Blunt instrument leave deep impression on the skin. Urticaria on excitement, with rheumatic lameness, palpitation and diarrhœa (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.
Lycoperdon bovista. Warted puff-ball. N. O. Fungi. Trituration.
Clinical
Coccyx, itching of. Corns. Cysts. Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Ear, eczema of. Eczema. Ganglion. Gleet. Hæmorrhages. Hæmorrhagic diathesis. Headache. Heart, affections of. Jaundice. Joints, affections of. Menstruation, disordered. Metrorrhagia. Ovaries, affections of. Rheumatic affections. Stammering. Tongue, ulcerated. Tumours. Urticaria. Warts. Whitlow. Wounds.
Characteristics
"This globular fungus, which, according to report, is eaten in, Italy before it is ripe, becomes filled, while ripening, with a blackish dust that breaks the husk which contains it, with a slight noise." Corresponding to this signature, "bloatedness," puffy condition of body surface," and a sense of "enlargement," flatulent distension and noisy passage of flatus, are leading features of the Bovista pathogenesis. Bovista has cured cases of ovarian cyst; and also warts and corns, with shooting pains. There are ebullitions with great thirst. The corners of the mouth are …
Puffball (Fungi.)
Persons who suffer from tettery eruptions, dry or moist. Adapted to old maids; with palpitation. Stammering children (Stram.). Discharge from nose and all mucous membranes; very tough, stringy, tenacious (Kali bi.). Usually deep impression on finger, from using blunt instruments, scissors, knife, etc. Intolerence of tight clothing around the waist (Calc., Lach., Sulph.). Sweat in axilla, smells like onions. Haemorrhage: after extraction of teeth (Ham.); from wounds, epistaxis. Great weakness of joints and weariness of hands and feet. Awkwardness, inclined to drop things from hand (Apis); objects fall from powerless hands. Menses: flow only at night; not in the daytime (Mag. c. - only in the day, ceases lying, Cac., Caust., Lil.); every two weeks, dark and clotted; with painful bearing down (Sep.). Intolerable itching at tip of coccyx; must scratch til parts become raw and sore.
Female Sexual Organs
Menses flow only at night or only in the morning.
Female Sexual Organs
Menses flow only at night (only during the day, cease lying, Cact., Caust., Lil.).
Phatak's chapter on Bovista lycoperdon is available in the app.
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