Fever
Characteristic: Sensation as if head were enlarging, or very much enlarged (elongated, Hyp.), dull, bruised pain, deep in brain.
Stool: First hard and difficult, then thin, watery, with much pain in abdomen (Podophyllum).
Diarrhea before and during menses (cholera-like symptoms during the menses, Amm-c.).
Menses: flow mostly or only at night, not in the daytime (Mag-c.- only during day, cease lying, Cactus grandiflorus, Causticum, Lilium), diarrhea before and during menses (Amm-c.), occasional show every few days between periods (Borax), every two weeks, dark and clotted, with painful bearing down (Sepia).
Intolerable itching at tip of coccyx, must scratch till parts become raw and sore.
Leucorrhea: a few days before or a few days after the menses (before, Sepia, after, Kreosotum, both before and after, Graphites), acrid, thick, tough, tenacious, yellow-green, leaving green spots on linen, causing soreness.
Adapted to old maids, subject to palpitation, leucorrhea, tettery eruptions, chronic urticaria (when Rhus fails to cure).
Great weakness of all joints: as if the muscles of lower limbs were too short (Causticum, Guai.). Drops things from the hands as from weakness (from awkwardness, Apis).
Discharge from nose and all mucous membranes very tough, stringy, tenacious (Kali bichromicum).
Sweat in axilla, smells like onions.
Hemorrhage: after extraction of teeth (Hamamelis), from wounds, epistaxis.
Usually deep impression on finger from using blunt instruments (knives or scissors).
Stammering, in children (Stramonium).
Intolerance of tight clothing around the waist (Calcarea, Lachesis, Sulphur).
Time: 5 to 8 A.M., or 7 to 10 P.M.
Paroxysm: Without heat or sweat (Aranea).
Chill: Generally with thirst. Chill predominates, even near a warm stove, constantly chilly on the uncovered parts, the neck and chest. Chilly the whole day, although she sat by a warm stove, must get near the stove as soon as chill begins (Ignatia, Lachesis). Chilly the whole day, although she sat by a warm stove, must get near the stove as soon as chill begins (Ignatia, Lachesis). Chill immediately after going to bed at night commencing in back. Severe chill every evening from 7 to 10 P.M. commencing with chilliness in the back, the first day with thirst, without subsequent heat or sweat (without heat or thirst, Aranea, Causticum ), with violent drawing pain in abdomen. Chilliness the whole evening, she could not get warm. Feet very cold at night, could not be warmed. Chill with the pains.
Heat: In the evening, daily, at 7 P.M. Frequent heat and oppression of the chest, with thirst, anxiety, restlessness, relieved by uncovering. Flying heat, alternating with shuddering, thirst with the shuddering.
Sweat: Especially upon the chest, every morning from 5 to 6 A.M. Profuse sweat in axilla – smells like onions.
Tongue: Coated yellow. Taste putrid, bitter.
Analysis: The chill predominates.
The characteristic of the bovista fever is a well-defined chill or shuddering, remaining stages of paroxysm being wanting, or if other stages occur, they are so light as not to produce inconvenience. Compare with Aranea, Camph., Drosera
