Bovista



Abdomen

Pains in the umbilical region after having eaten, as if the abdomen were cut by knives. Colic better by eating. Twisting colic causing patient to bend over, sometimes voiding red urine, better by eating. Cutting in fore part of abdomen, better by eating. Colic worse by rest. Violent cutting, aggravated by repose. Painful sensibility of the exterior and interior of the abdomen. Violent colic, with coldness, to such an extent as to cause shuddering and chattering of the teeth, especially after going to stool. Pains of ulceration and shooting in the abdomen. Frequent escape of fetid wind. Colic, which causes the patient to double over, and accompanied by the voiding of red urine, better by eating.

Stool and Anus

Ineffectual urging to stool. Stool hard and difficult. After stool, tenesmus and burning at the anus. Constipation. Hard and compact faeces In the rectum, itching as from worms. Darting from the perinaeum to the rectum and the genital organs. Diarrhoea with colic, cuttings, and pain of ulceration in the abdomen. The first portion of the stool is hard, and the latter part thin and watery.

Urinary Organs

Frequent inclination to make water. Frequent desire to urinate, even immediately after urination (diabetes mellitus). In the urethra, stinging, itching, burning, the orifice is inflamed, and feels as if glued up. Pain of ulceration in the urethra on making water.

Male Sexual Organs.

Increase of sexual desire. Frequent pollutions. After coition, staggering, confusion, and numbness in the head. Hard, painful and suppurating node in the penis. Burning pains in the genital parts. Gleet.

Female Sexual Organs.

Catamenia premature and too copious. Catamenia flow only in the night. Catamenia, too early and too profuse, or too late, too scanty, too short, flowing only at night. Before the catamenia, diarrhoea. Flow of blood during the intervals. Leucorrhoea: a few days before or a few days after menses, while walking, like white of egg, yellow-green, acrid, corrosive, leaving green spots on clothes, thick, slimy, tough. Excoriation in the inguinal fold during the catamenia.

Respiratory Organs

Spasmodic laughing and crying, with asthma. Hoarseness in the morning, and speaking through the nose as from coryza. Scraping and excoriation in the throat, with accumulation of tenacious mucus. Cough, with so viscid and expectoration that it can scarcely be discharged. Dry cough, produced by a tickling in the throat and in the chest.

Chest

Difficult and short respiration during manual labor. Constrictive oppression of the chest, everything seems to be too tight. Stitches in the chest.

Heart

Beating of the heart, with inquietude, trembling, vertigo, nausea, and headache. Palpitation as if heart working in water. Palpitation accompanies many symptoms. Visible palpitation of heart.

Neck and Back.

Sweat of a strong smell under the arm-pits. Swelling of the glands of the neck, with tensive and drawing pains. Pain in the back, with heaviness after stooping. Itching of tip of coccyx.

Upper Limbs

Paralytic weakness and pains of dislocation in the joints of the arms and hands. Sensation in the wrist-joint, as if sprained. Affections of wrists. Ganglion. Tension in the shoulder-joints, as if the tendons were too short. Sensation of paralysis, as from excessive fatigue. Tremor of the hands, with palpitation of the heart and oppressive anxiety. Blunt instruments (scissors) make deep impressions in the skin of the fingers. Cramp-like drawing in the joints of the hands. Shooting pains in the joints of the hands on laying hold of anything. Want of strength in the hands, so that they allow the lightest objects to fall from them. Humid tetters on the back of the hand. Perspiration in the arm-pits, smelling like onions.

Lower Limbs

Tingling and numbness in the legs, with inability to stand upright. Shooting in the joints of the knees and of the feet. Strong tension in the calves of the legs, and in the legs, as if the tendons were too short. Cramp in the calves of the legs, in bed, in the morning. Miliary eruption in the legs.

Generalities

Great lassitude and want of strength, especially in the joints. Ebullition of the blood, with much thirst.

Skin

Skin flabby, blunt instruments leave a deep impression in it. Itching, especially when the body is warm, and of that kind which receives no relief from scratching. Urticaria, covering whole body. Pimples and miliary eruption, with burning itching. Oozing eruptions and with a thick crust, in bends of elbows and knees. Humid tetters. Whitlows. Warts. Violent shootings in corns.

Sleep

Great sleepiness in the morning, and early in the evening. Sleepiness after dinner and early in the evening. Nocturnal sleep, agitated by anxious and frightful dreams.

Fever

Chill after going to bed at night. Shivering, with thirst, even near a fire, and at night in bed. Chilliness and heat, with thirst. Heat with thirst, anguish, agitation, and oppression of the chest. Sweat in the morning, especially on the chest. In the evening, fever with shivering and shuddering in the back, with drawing pains in the abdomen.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica