Cantharis vesicatoria
cant-vesSpanish 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. Hæmorrhages. Intolerable, constant u
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Pain in loins, with incessant desire to urinate.
Great amativeness ; amorous frenzy. Inflammation of eyes, particularly when caused by a burn. Burning sensation in throat, which feels as if on fire. Passage of white or pale red tough mucus with stool, like scrapings from intestines, with streaks of blood. 1 9 8 Paroxysmal cutting and burning pains in both kidneys, the region very sensitive to slightest touch, alternating with pain in tip of penis ; urging to urinate ; painful evacuation, by drops of bloody urine, and at times, of pure blood. Violent tenesmus vesica and strangury. Painful discharge of a few drops of bloody urine, causing very severe sharp pain, as if a red-hot iron was passing along urethra : this pain was most acutely felt at membranous portion of canal, and in meatus urinariius. Violent burning, cutting pains in neck of bladder, extending to fossa navicularis, < before and after urinating. Violent pains in bladder with frequent urging ; intolerable tenesmus. Urging to urinate from smallest quantity of urine in bladder. Dribbling discharge, reddish, sometimes mixed with blood. Ardor urina. Before, during, and after urinating fearful cutting pains in urethra ; she must double herself and scream from pains. Burning, when urinating, and when not. Retention of urine, causing pain. Suppressed gonorrhoea. Sexual desire ; increased ; disturbing sleep at night. Frightful satyriasis ; violent, painful pria* ism, with excessive pains. Retained placenta or membranes, usually with painful urination. Burning in chest. Pain in loins, with incessant desire to urinate. Pain in loins, kidneys and abdomen, with such pain on urinating that he could not pass a single drop without moaning and screaming. In third stage, when there is complete insensibility ; cramps in abdomen, muscles and legs ; suppression of urine ; haemorrhages from stomach and intestines ; cold sweat on hands and feet. (Yellow fever.) Scalds and Burns. Burns, before blisters form, and when they have formed.
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