Bovista lycoperdon

Hæmorrhagic-herpetic diathesis. Oozing hæmorrhage, < night. Laxness; joints seem loose; easy indentation. General puffiness. Enlarged feeling, head, heart, etc. .................... Awkward in speech and action; drops things, stutters, etc. Inattentive. Weak memory. Confusion on awaking. Weak jointed and nervous. A wedge presses into occiput. Nose stops on lying down. Numb mouth. As of a lump of ice in stomach. Colic, > eating. Bloating. Diarrhœa, < menses. Menses early; more at night, less if in motion; flow between periods. Thick, pussy, acrid leucorrhœa. Short breath on using hands. Visible palpitation. Itching coccyx. Weak hands. Heavy painful legs. Itching eruptions; oozing; forming thick crusts or scabs, with pus beneath (Mez.). Hives, with diarrhœa or menorrhagia. Eczema. Chill during pains.

Menses. Full moon. Getting warm.

Doubling up. Eating.

CIRCULATION: HEART. Uterus. Kidneys. SKIN.

Related: Ap. The Carbons. Ustil.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Sensation as of a lump of ice. Intolerant of tight clothing around waist.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Third to sixth potency.