Animal
Cantharis
Spanish Fly
Repertory abbreviation: Canth.
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. [Anagal- iis.] Puerperal convulsions. Produces most violent in- fammation of the whole gastro-intestinal canal, espe- cially lower bowel. Oversensitiveness of all parts. Ir- ritation. Raw, burniny pains. Hemorrhages. Into- crable, constant urging to urinate is most characteristic. Gastric, hepatic and abdominal complaints that are ag- gravate
Mind
Furious delirium. Anxious restlessness, end- ing in rage. Crying, barking; worse touching larynx or drinking water. Constantly attempts to do some- thing, but accomplishes nothing. Acute mania, gen- erally of a sexual type; amorous frenzy; fiery sexual desire. Paroxysms of rage, crying, barking. Sudden loss of consciousness with red face.
Head
Burning in brain. Sensation as if boiling water in brain. Vertigo; worse in open air.
Eyes
Yellow vision. [Santon.] Fiery, sparkling, staring look. Burning in eyes.
Ears
Sensation as if wind were coming from ear, or hot air. Bones about ear painful. [ Capsic.]
Face
Pale, wretched, death-like appearance. Itch- ing vesicles on face, burning when touched. Erysipelas of face, with burning, biting heat with urinary symp- toms. Hot and red.
Throat
Tongue covered with vesicles; deeply furred: edges red. Burning in mouth, pharynx, and. throat; vesicles in mouth. (ircat drthculty in swallozw- ing liguids. . Very tenacious mucus. [Kal. brch.] Vio- lent spas:ns reproduced by touching larynx. Inflamma- tion of throat; feels on fire. ( Constriction ; aphthous ulceratioll. [Hydr. mur.; Nit. ac.]
Stomach
Burning sensation of cesophagus and [Carb.] Disgust for everything —drink, food, tobacco. Burning thirst, with aversion to all fluids. Very sensitive, violent hurnina. Vomiting of blood-streaked menibrane and violent retching. Ag- gravation from drinking coffee; drinking the smallest quantity increases pain in bladder, and is vomited. Thirst unquenchable.
Stool
Shivering with burning. Dysentery; mucus stools, like scrapings of intestines. Bloody, with burn- ing and tenesmus and shuddering after stool. Urine.—- Intolerable urging and tenesmus. Nephritis with bloody urine. Violent paroxysms of cutting and burning in whole renal region, with painful urging to urinate; bloody urine, by drops. Intolerable tenesmus ; cutting before, during, and after urine. Urine scalds him, and is passed drop by drop. Constant desire to urinate. Membranous scales looking like bran in water. Urine jelly-like, shreddy.
Male
Strong desire; painful erections. Pain in glans. [Pru nus; Parcira.] Priapism in gonorrhoea. Coldness of scrotum, with impotency, loss of sensibility in testicles, with softening and dwindling. Gonorrhoea, with chordee, excessive burning, pain in prostate.
Female
Retained placenta [Sep.], with painful urinatio. Expels moles, dead foetuses, membranes, etc. Vymphomania. [Plat.: Hyos.; Lach.: Stram.] Puerperal metritis, with inflammation of bladder. Merses too early and too profuse; black swelling of vulva with irritation. Constant discharge from uterus; worse false step. Burning pain in ovaries; extremely sensitive. Pain in os coccyx, lancinating and tearing. Uterine hamorrhage near the menopause, with nausea. Sticking sensation in left ovarian region.
Respiratory
Voice low; weak feeling. S Stitches in chest. [Bry.; Kal. c.; Squilla.] Pleurisy, with ex- udation. Constriction of chest; arrests breath- ing. Hoarseness. Dry, hacking cough, expelling an offensive breath from lungs. Dyspncea. Feels as if chest and head would fy to pieces. Explosive cough. Threatening gangrene of lung. Pain in distant parts on coughing — bladder, legs, ears, etc.
Chest
Pleurisy, as soon as effusion has taken place. Intense dyspnoea; palpitation; frequent, dry C couigh. Tendency to syncope. S Short, hacking cough, blood- streaked tenacious mucus. Burning pains.
Heart
Palpitation; pulse feeble, irregular; ten- dency to syncope. Pericarditis, with effusion.
Back
Pain in loins, with incessant desire to urinate.
Extremities
Tearing in limbs. Ulcerative pain in soles; cannot step. Pain from hips to feet. Sciatica, worse bending backward; worse, coughing. Tensive pain in the knee.
Skin
Dermatitis s venenata with ble formation. Secondary eczema about scrotum and genitals, follow- ing excessive perspiration. Tendency to gangrene.
Fever
Coldness, with ill-humor. Shivering after drinking. Chill begins in back; better, heat. Must have something hot to back Thirst before chill.
Modalities
Better, while eating, from heat. Worse, open air, uncovering, draughts.
Relationships
Antidote: Cina; Calad. Compare: Pulsat.; Lycop.; Bcll.; Centaurea (urg- ing of blood; homcsickness; intermittent fever).
Dose
Third to sixth attenuation. In delirium tremens, dram doses of tincture in milk.