Pulex irritans
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Common Flea Marked urinary and female symptoms.
Modalities
Better, sitting or lying down. Worse, left side, moving about.
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.
Urinary
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.
Skin
Prickly itching. Sore spots all over. Skin emits foul odor.
Fever
Feels a glow all over, like being over steam; chilly, while sitting beside the fire.
Dose
The higher potencies.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Pulex irritans — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/pulex-irritans. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.