Cantharis

canth

Common name: Spanish FliesKingdom: AnimalFamily: Cantharideæ(Allen, Keynotes (1910), p. 79)

Spanish Fly This powerful drug produces a furious disturbance in the animal economy, attacking the urinary and sexual organs especially, perverting their function, and setting up violent inflammations, and causing a frenzied delirium, simulating hydrophobia symptoms (Anagallis). Puerperal convulsions. Produces most violent inflammation of the whole gastro-intestinal canal, especially lower bowel. Oversensitiveness of all parts. Irritation. Raw, burning pains. Read on in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, General →

These texts come from 5 classic Materia Medicas dating from 1908 to 1931, now in the public domain. They record what their authors observed and taught, as historical reference for students and practitioners of homeopathy — not current clinical evidence. Nothing on this page is medical advice: for any health problem, see a qualified doctor.

Where each author writes about Cantharis

A map of the books. Each number counts the sections, or the paragraphs the author labelled himself, that one book gives a topic, and opens the first of them in that book. Kent and Farrington wrote lectures, so only what they labelled is counted.

Topic	Boger	Allen	Boericke	Kent
Keynotes	1	1	none	none
Mind	none	none	1	1
General	none	none	1	none
Modalities	2	none	1	none
Head	none	none	1	none
Face	none	none	1	none
Eyes	none	none	1	none
Ears	none	none	1	none
Throat	none	none	1	none
Stomach	none	none	1	none
Rectum	none	1	1	none
Urinary	none	none	1	none
Male	none	none	1	none
Female	none	none	1	none
Respiratory	none	none	2	none
Heart	none	none	1	none
Back	none	none	1	none
Extremities	none	none	1	none
Skin	none	1	1	none
Fever	none	none	1	none

Relationships

Complementary:: Apis mellifica (Boger),; Camphora (Boericke)
Antidoted by:: Aconitum napellus (Boericke, Boger),; Camphora (Boericke, Boger),; Pulsatilla (Boericke)
Incompatible:: Coffea cruda (Allen)
Related:: Apis mellifica (Boger),; Arsenicum album (Boger),; Capsicum annuum (Boger),; Equisetum hyemale (Boger),; Erigeron canadensis (Boger),; Mancinella (Boger),; Mercurius corrosivus (Boger),; Ocimum canum (Boger),; Ranunculus bulbosus (Boger),; Terebinthina (Boger)
Similar:: Apis mellifica (Allen),; Arsenicum album (Allen),; Berberis vulgaris (Allen),; Cannabis sativa (Allen),; Equisetum hyemale (Allen),; Mercurius vivus (Allen)

As each book states it.

Cantharis in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

Cyrus Maxwell Boger · 1931

KeynotesRapid 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.

Words in capitals are Boger's highest grade.

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Cantharis in Allen's Keynotes

H.C. Allen · 3rd edition (1910) · Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel

KeynotesCantharides Spanish Flies. Cantharidece. Oversensitiveness of all parts. Haemorrhages from nose, mouth, intestines, genital and urinary organs. Pain; raw, sore, burning in every part of body, internally and externally ; with extreme weakness. Disgust for everything; drink, food, tobacco. Drinking even small quantities of water increases pain in the bladder.

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Cantharis in Clinical Materia Medica

Ernest Albert Farrington · 4th edition, revised and enlarged by Harvey Farrington (1908) · Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel

LectureLecture VII — Cantharis The remedy which I propose to bring before you for study today is Cantharis, the so-called Spanish fly. It is my purpose to speak of the more important symptoms produced by the drug, comparing it superficially with a number of others having effects similar to it. First of all, for the sake of completeness, let me give you notes on two other drugs, the Lytta vittata and the Cantharis strygosa.

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Cantharis in Homoeopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927)

MindFurious delirium. Anxious restlessness, ending in rage. Crying, barking; worse touching larynx or drinking water. Constantly attempts to do something, but accomplishes nothing. Acute mania, generally of a sexual type; amorous frenzy; fiery sexual desire. Paroxysms of rage, crying, barking. Sudden loss of consciousness with red face.

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Cantharis in Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · 2nd edition (preface dated 1 September 1911)

LectureCantharis The most important feature of this medicine is the inflammatory condition, and the most important characteristic in the inflammation is the rapidity with which it develops into a gangrenous state. inflammation conditions usually follow a definite course for days, but when this medicine is put upon a part or taken internally the inflammatory state terminates in death of the part with great rapidity.

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Where the repertories grade Cantharis highest

Rubrics in which Cantharis has the top grade (Kent’s 3, Bönninghausen’s 4). Each page lists every remedy in the rubric with its grade.

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