- Clarke stated “This globular fungus, which, according to repor t is eaten in Italy before it is ripe, becomes filled, while ripening with a black dust that breaks the husk which contains it with a slight noise.” Corresponding to this signature, “bloated, puffy condition of body surface,” and a sense of “enlargement,” leading features of the Bov pathogenesis include flatulent disten tion and noisy passage of flatus.
- Guernsey added “We may always think of Bov when we see a very ‘tettery' person, one who has tetters here and there, all over the body.
- These tetters may be either moist or dry.” The puffball exerts its influence on the circulation, causing relaxation of the capil lary system, thereby ptoducinghemorrhagic diathesis.
- There is a general puffiness, bloated condition of body surface, which produces easy indentations with a blunt instrument (scissors etc.).
- EczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches. -like eruption.
- Herpes.
- Marked languor and lassitude.
- Laxity, especially felt in joints, which seem loose.
- Gre at weakness of the joints (has cured where Rhus -t seemed indicated and failed).
- Nervous joints.
- Enlarged or swollen feeling in head, heart, etc.
- Stage of numbness and tingling in multiple neuritisInflammation of a nerveInflammation of one or more nerves, causing pain, tenderness, numbness, or tingling in the affected area..
- Asphyxia due to charcoal fumes.
- Effects of over -exertion and application of tar locally