Bufo rana
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Bufo
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Mind
Anxious about health. Sad, restless. Propensity to bite. Howling; impatient; nervous; imbecile. Desire for solitude. Feeble-minded.
General
Poison of the Toad Acts on the nervous system and skin. Uterine symptoms marked. Lymphangitis of septic origin. Symptoms of paralysis agitans. Striking rheumatic symptoms. Arouses the lowest passions. Causes a desire for intoxicating drink, and produces impotence. Of use in feeble-minded children. Prematurely senile. Epileptic symptoms. Convulsive seizures occur during sleep at night. More or less connected with derangements of the sexual sphere, seem to come within the range of this remedy. Injuries to fingers; pain runs in streaks up the arms.
Modalities
Worse, in warm room, on awakening. Better, from bathing or cold air; from putting feet in hot water.
Head
Sensation as if hot vapor rose to top of head. Numbness of brain. Face bathed in sweat. Epistaxis with flushed face and pain in forehead, better, nosebleed.
Eyes
Cannot bear sight or brilliant objects. Little blisters form on eye.
Ears
Music is unbearable (Ambra). Every little noise distresses.
Male
Involuntary emissions; impotence, discharge too quick, spasms during
coition. Buboes. Disposition to handle organs (Hyos; Zinc). Effects of onanism.
Female
Menses too early and copious, clots and bloody discharge at other times; watery leucorrhœa. Excitement, with epileptic attacks. Epilepsy at time of menses. Induration in mammary glands. Palliative in cancer of the mammæ. Burning in ovaries and uterus. Ulceration of cervix. Offensive bloody discharge. Pains run into legs. Bloody milk. Milk-leg. Veins swollen. Tumors and polypi of womb.
Heart
Feels too large. Palpitation. Constriction about heart. Sensation of heart swimming in water.
Extremities
Pains in loins, numbness of limbs, cramps, staggering gait, feeling as if a peg were driven in joints; swelling of bones.
Skin
Panaritium; pain runs up arm. Patches of skin lose sensation. Pustules, suppuration from every slight injury. Pemphigus. Bullæ which open and leave a raw surface, exuding and ichorous fluid. Blisters on palms and soles. Itching and burning. Carbuncle.
Relationships
Compare: Baryt carb; Asterias; Salamand (Epilepsy and softening of brain). Antidotes: Laches; Seneg. Complementary: Salamandra.
Dose
Sixth potency and higher.
What the other books say about Bufo rana
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Bufo rana in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Bufo rana in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Bufo rana — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/bufo-rana. 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.