Bovista lycoperdon
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Bovista
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, tenaciozis (Kali bi.).
Usually deep impression on finger, from using blunt instruments, scissors, knife, etc.
Intolerance of tight clothing around the waist (Calc., Lach., Sulph.).
Sweat in axilla, smells like onions.
Haemorrhage: after extraction of teeth (Ham.); from wounds; epistaxis.
'BO\I^TA-~(Co?i^mued) .
Great weakness of joints and weariness of hands and feet.
Awkwardness, inclined to drop things from hands (Apis) ; objects fall from powerless hands.
Menses : flow only at night , not in the daytime (Mag. c. — only during day, ceases lying, Cac., Caust., Lil.) ; diarrhoea before and during menses (Amm. c.) ; occasional show every few days between periods (Bor.) ; every two weeks, dark and clotted; with painful bearing down (Sep.).
Intolerable ithing at tip of coccyx; must scratch till parts become raw and sore.
Sep., in menstrual irregularities.
Bovista antidotes, effects of local applications of tar; suffocation from gas.
When Rhus seems indicated, but fails to cure, in chronic urticaria.
What the other books say about Bovista lycoperdon
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Bovista lycoperdon in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Bovista lycoperdon in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Bovista lycoperdon — Keynotes, pp. 63–64. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/bovista-lycoperdon. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.