Culex musca
Animal · Culicidae
Culex musca is known chiefly for vertigo occurring every time the patient blows the nose, accompanied by a sense of fullness in the ears. Additional symptoms noted include sensation of cold air blowing through the chest or back, griping pains down over the hips into the womb, and menses that stain indelibly.
Better (amelioration)
- Better from warm applications
Mosquito. N. O. Culicidæ. Insecta. Tincture.
Clinical
Vertigo.
Characteristics
Culex was proved by Dr. Kent, but the only verification I have found is of this symptom: vertigo every time he blows his nose. W. P. Wesselhœft cured a man, forty, stout, thickset, light brunette, who had swelling on upper jaw over first right tricuspid. Slight redness of cheek. Abscess threatened, with paroxysmal throbbing, dull pain. > By warm applications. Came on after exposure to wet weather. Merc. sol. and Rhus did no good. The patient then said that whenever he blew his nose he had vertigo, with a sense of fulness in the ears. Culex promptly relieved the pain, and in forty-eight hours the swelling had gone. It might be well to prove a tincture of specimens of Anopheles well charged with malarial organisms.
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