Cantharis
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
Cantharis
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Keynotes
Rapid and intense action. Excitement during the pains. CUTTING-SMARTING or BURNING- BITING PAINS; as if raw. VIOLENTLY ACUTE INFLAMMATION, or rapidly destructive. Discharge of bloody, acrid water. Serous effusion. Gangrene. Weak attacks, that take the voice away. .................... Amorous frenzy. Rage. Yellow vision. Swelled, tremulous tongue; raw edges. Throat: full of blisters; painful swallowing. Throat and larynx painfully constricted, and as if afire. Burning thirst, but averse to liquids. Violent retching and vomiting. Sensitive over stomach and kidneys (Solid). Shreddy, burning stools, with tenesmus of rectum and bladder. BURNING, SCALDING URINE, WITH CUTTING, INTOLERABLE URGING AND FEARFUL TENESMUS OR DRIBBLING. Strangury. Dysuria. Bloody urine. Acute nephritis. Nephritic colic. Cystitis. Griping in bladder. Gonorrhœa. Dropsy. Painfully swelled genitals. Painful priapism. Pulls at penis. Sexual irritation. Pollutions. Many, short, dry coughing spells. Chest pains, > eructations. Pleurisy. Pericarditis. Vesicular erysipelas; turning dark (Ran-b.). Bullæ. Chill, during stool. Urinous sweat; on genitals.
Worse
URINATING. Drinking; cold. Bright objects. Sound of water. Touch; larynx.
Better
Warmth. Rest.
Region
MEMBRANES (Mucous and serous): URINARY ORGANS. Bladder. Pharynx. Brain. Pleura. Lower bowel. Pomum adami. Skin. Right side.
Relationships
Complementary: Apis. Antidote: Aco. Cam. Related: Ap. Ars. Merc-c.
What the other books say about Cantharis
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Cantharis in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Cantharis in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Cantharis in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Cantharis in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Cantharis — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/cantharis. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.