Bovista lycoperdon

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

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Mind

Enlarged sensation (Arg n). Awkward; everything falls from hands. Sensitive.

General

Puff-Ball 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Relationships

Bovista antidotes tar applications. Suffocation from gas. After Rhus in chronic urticaria. Compare: Calc; Rhus; Sepia; Cicuta.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Bovista lycoperdon in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Bovista lycoperdon — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/bovista-lycoperdon. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.