Materia Medica
Pulex Irritans
Common Flea
Marked urinary and female symptoms.
Head
Very impatient, cross, and irritable. From- tal headache, with enlarged feeling of cyes. Face rerinklcd and old-looking.
Mouth
Metallic taste. Sensation of a thread in
Throat
Thirsty, especially during headache.
Stomach
Breath and taste foul. Intense nausea, with vomiting, purging. and faintness. Stool very of- fensive. Abdomen bloated. Urine. — Scanty with frequent urging, with pressure on bladder and burning in urethra. Flow stops sud- denly followed by pain. Urine foul. Cannot retain urine; must attend to the call without delay. Irritable bladder before menses.
Female
Menses delayed. Increased flow of saliva 617 during. Intense burning in vagina. Leucorrhocea, pro- fuse, foul, staining a greenish yellow; stains of menses and leucorrhcea very hard to wash out. Backache. [Oxal. ac.]
Back
Aches, weak; drawing of muscles below scapulxa.
Skin
Prickly itching. Sore spots all over. Skin emits foul odor.
Fever
Feels a glow all over, like being over steam; chilly, while sitting beside the fire.
Modalities
Better, sitting or lying down. Worse, left side: moving about.
Dose
The higher potencies.