Pulex irritans
Animal
Pulex Irritans suits irritable, impatient patients with marked urinary urgency tied to the menstrual cycle, foul-smelling discharges, and a prematurely aged appearance. The remedy has pronounced affinity for the bladder and female organs with intense burning sensations.
Key symptoms
- Irritable bladder before menses; cannot retain urine, must attend immediately
- Scanty urine with frequent urging, pressure on bladder, burning in urethra
- Intense burning in vagina; profuse foul greenish-yellow leucorrhea
- Stains of menses and leucorrhea very hard to wash out
- Intense nausea with vomiting, purging, and faintness; stool very offensive
- Face wrinkled and old-looking; very impatient, cross, and irritable
- Prickly itching with sore spots all over; skin emits foul odor
Worse (aggravation)
- Left side
- Moving about
Better (amelioration)
- Sitting or lying down
Common Flea
Marked urinary and female symptoms.
Head
Very impatient, cross, and irritable. Frontal headache, with enlarged feeling of eyes. Face wrinkled and old-looking.
Mouth
Metallic taste. Sensation of a thread in throat. Thirsty, especially during headache.
Stomach
Breath and taste foul. Intense nausea, with vomiting, purging, and faintness. Stool very offensive. Abdomen bloated.
Urine
Scanty with frequent urging, with pressure on bladder and burning in urethra. Flow stops suddenly followed by pain. Urine foul. Cannot retain urine; must attend to the call without delay. Irritable bladder before menses.
Female
Menses delayed. Increased flow of saliva during. Intense burning in vagina. Leucorrhœa, profuse, foul, staining a greenish yellow; stains of menses and leucorrhœa very hard to wash out. Backache (Oxal ac).
Back
Aches, weak; drawing of muscles below scapulæ.
Fever
Feels a glow all over, like being over steam; chilly, while sitting beside the fire.
Skin
Prickly itching. Sore spots all over. Skin emits foul odor.
Modalities
Better, sitting or lying down. Worse, left side, moving about.
Dose
The higher potencies.
Phatak's chapter on Pulex irritans is available in the app.
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