Cantharis



Appetite

Loss of taste. Taste of pitch in the mouth and in the throat. Thirst, from dryness of the lips, with repugnance to all drinks. Want of appetite, with disgust and repugnance to all sorts of food.

Stomach

Risings, with burning sensation, as if from pyrosis, aggravated by drinking. Sob-like risings, which seem to take an inverse direction and to return towards the stomach. Vomiting of undigested food. Vomiting of bilious and slimy substances, or of blood. Great sensitiveness of the precordial region. Pressive fullness, with anxiety and inquietude in the stomach. Smarting and burning pains in the stomach. Inflammation of the stomach.

Abdomen

Pains in abdomen, after taking coffee. Inflammation of the liver. Shootings and contraction in right hypochondrium. Great sensibility of the abdomen to the touch. Burning pain in the abdomen, from the gullet to the rectum. Burning pain above the navel, on coughing, on sneezing, on blowing the nose, with yellowish spots on the part affected. Inflammation of the intestines. Dropsical swelling of the abdomen. Incarceration of flatulency under the hypochondria.

Stool and Anus

Constipation and hard faeces. Diarrhoea, with evacuation of frothy matter, or of greenish mucus, with cutting pains after the evacuation and burning pains in the rectum. During stool, burning in the anus, prolapsus ani. After stool, chilliness and tenesmus. Dysenteric diarrhoea, with nocturnal evacuation of whitish mucus, and of solid pieces, like false membranes, with streaks of blood. Sanguineous evacuations.

Urinary Organs

Retention of urine, with cramp-like pains in the bladder. Urgent and ineffectual efforts to make water, with painful emission, drop by drop. Difficult emission of urine, in a weak and scattered stream. Increased secretion of urine. Urine, pale yellow, or of a deep red color. Flow of sanguineous mucus from the bladder. Emission of blood, drop by drop. Purulent urine. Burning smarting, on making water. Incisive pains in the front part of the urethra, during the emission of urine, and afterwards. Sharp, tearing, and incisive pains, successive pullings and pulsations in the urinary organs. Burning, stinging and tearing in the kidneys. Pressing pain in the kidneys, extending to the bladder, along the ureters, relieved by pressing upon the glans. Inflammation and ulceration of the kidneys, of the bladder, and of the urethra. Exceedingly painful sensibility of the region of the bladder on its being touched.

Male Sexual Organs:-

Draggings in the spermatic cord, on making water. Inflammation and gangrene of the genital parts. Painful swelling of the testes. Sexual desire greatly increased, with painful, frequent erections (with gonorrhoea), of long continuance, as in priapismus. Ready emission, during amorous caresses. Spermatorrhea. After coition, burning pain in the urethra.

Female Sexual Organs:-

Catamenia premature and too copious, with black blood and pains during the flow. Voiding of moles, of fetus, and of placenta. Inflammation of the ovaries. Swelling of the cervix uteri. Corrosive leucorrhoea, with burning sensation on making water, and excitement of sexual desire.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, with painful rattling of viscid mucus, copious, and coming from the chest, and with incisive shootings in the trachea. Oppression of breathing, with sensation of constriction of the pharynx. Stitches in the chest during an inspiration. (Inflammation of the lungs.) Inflammation of the larynx. Sensation of excessive weakness in the organs of respiration, on speaking and on breathing deeply. Voice feeble, timid, and trembling.

Chest

Respiration rendered difficult and oppressed by constriction of the throat, and dryness of the nose. Suspension of respiration in going up a hill, with rattling in the chest and nausea. Shootings in the chest, and in the sides. Burning pains in the chest, from whence small clots of blood are at times detached. Palpitation of the heart.

Neck and Back

Stiffness in the nape of the neck, with tension when bending it over. Acute drawing pains in the back. Tearing in the back (after rising from a seat). Sensation of constriction in the spine. Emprosthotonos and opisthotonos.

Limbs:

Weakness and swelling of limbs. Dropsical swelling of hands and feet. Cold sweat of hands and feet.

Upper Limbs

Acute tractive pains in the arms. Want of strength in the hands. Eczematous eruption on dorsum of hand and between fingers, itching and burning fearfully, worse from cold water, better from warmth.

Lower Limbs

Pains in the hips, with spasmodic sufferings in the urinary passages. Acute tractive, piercing pains, in the legs, from the feet to the hips. Trembling of the legs. Darting pain from right foot to right side of head in paroxysms.

Generalities

Burning pains, as from excoriation, in all the cavities of the body. Acute shootings towards the interior in different parts. Drawing, arthritic pains in the limbs, with affection of the urinary ducts, mitigated by rubbing. Violent pains, with groans and lamentations. Sensation of dryness in the joints. Want of flexibility of the whole body. Dejection and weakness, with excessive sensibility in all parts of the body, trembling, and desire to lie down. Prostration of strength, proceeding even to paralysis. Convulsions, tetanus. The sufferings show themselves chiefly on the right side, and are mitigated in a recumbent posture. The symptoms are renewed every seven days.

Skin

Itching vesicles, with burning pain on being touched. Blisters, from burns. Erysipelatous inflammations. Acute drawing pains in ulcers, with increased suppuration.

Sleep

Great drowsiness, especially in the afternoon, with yawning and stretching. Sleeplessness without apparent cause. At night, half sleep, with frequent waking.

Fever

Pulse hard, full and rapid. Fever, which manifests itself only by cold. Cold and shivering, with cutis anserina and paleness of the face. Thirst only after the shivering. Perspiration, cold, especially on the hands and feet, on the genitals. Sweat, of the smell of urine. Pulsation through the trembling limbs.

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