# Boletus Laricis

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Burt proved the crude substance and the third trituration. The gastro enteric irritation 
common to the fungus was very well marked. Motion will aggrava te the headache. Disposition to yawn and 
stretch when chilly. Great resdessness after midnight. Faintness after stool. Aching distress in all joints.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Very gloomy and despondent.
- Irritated at the least trifle.
- Absent-minded.
- Very gloomy and despondent.
- Irritated at the least trifle.
- Absent-minded.

### Head
- Head feeling very light and hollow with deep frontal headache and great faintness.
- Liver - Heavy dragging pains in liver, more in right lobe.
- Dull, burning distress, drawing, aching in right lobe of 
liver with frontal headache.
- Sharp cutting pains in right lobe of liver and whole dorsal region on full inspiration.
- Sharp cutting pains near gallbladder.
- Burning distress in region of gallbladder all afternoon with sharp pains in 
stomach and heavy aching in liver.
- Head feeling very light and hollow with deep frontal headache and great faintness.
- Liver - Heavy dragging pains in liver, more in right lobe.
- Dull, burning distress, drawing, aching in right lobe of 
liver with frontal headache.
- Sharp cutting pains in right lobe of liver and whole dorsal region on full inspiration.
- Sharp cutting pains near gallbladder.
- Burning distress in region of gallbladder all afternoon with sharp pains in 
stomach and heavy aching in liver.

### Eyes
- Agglutination of eyelids morning with dull, aching pains in eyeballs.

### Face
- Hot and flushed with severe frontal headache.
- Hands hot and dry.

### Mouth
- Teeth and gums very sore.
- Perspiration - Profuse perspiration at night  with hectic chills and fever.
- Sweat is light and without relief.
- Night-sweat in tuberculosis.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Constant nausea and vomiting.
- Feeling in fauces as if would vomit.
- Great faintness at epigastrium.
- Severe cutting pains in stomach.
- Temperature - Quotidian intermittent fever.
- Chilliness along spine with frequent, hot flashes.
- Y awns and 
stretches when chilly.
- Severe aching in shoulders andjoints and small of back.
- Waking at midnight in a profuse 
perspiration.
- Tongue - White coat, thick yellow coat showing marks of teeth.
- Taste is flat, cop pery, unnatural of all food, 
lost.
- COMMENTS - Anshutz noted two cases.
- The first consisted of a case of fever.
- “Intermit tent fever: Type 
Quotidian Duplex.
- In a large lymphatic woman, weight about 180 lbs., aged thirty-nine.
- November 4th.
- For the 
last five weeks has had the ague.
- At first it was simple quotidian.
- Took quinine, which broke it for four days, 
when it returned took quinine in massive doses, which checked it for one week.
- “It returned two weeks since in the form of a double quotidian.
- The chill comes on every day at 10 a.m.
- and 5 
p.m.
- The chill lasts from one to two hours each time, hands and feet get icy cold, chills run up and down the 
spine with severe pains in the head, back a nd limbs, followed by high fever for three hours and then profuse 
sweat.
- “Tongue furred whitish yellow with large fissures in the tongue, flat, bitter taste, has had no appetite for five 
weeks, craves cold water all the time, bowels rather costive, has nau sea during every chill, but no vomiting, 
very weak, can only sit up about one hour in the morning.
- Great depression, cried during the whole examination, face very much jaundiced.
- “Treatment: Ars.
- 2c, every two hours, for three days.
- It produced constant nausea and lessened the chills, but 
aggravated the fever.
- I then determined to try the Boletus 1c, two grains every two hours .Took two doses 
when the chills came on, she then ceased to take the medicine until 5 p.m.
- Took three doses and then fell asleep.
- 8th.
- She says she is feeling a little Better continued treatment, 10 a.m., 
commenced to have a severe diarrhea, an effect of the medicine, discontinued the powders until 5 p.m.
- “The fever did not come on until 3 p.m., had no chill, fever lasted three hours,  perspired profusely all night, 
slept well for the first time in a number of weeks.
- 9th.
- Feeling much better.
- Fever came on at 4 p.m., had no 
chill, fever lasted four hours, nausea all the evening, sweat all night.
- 10th.
- Feeling quiet well.
- Had no more 
fever, but had night sweats for a week after.
- Convalescence was very slow, she had no more fever it was three 
weeks before she felt perfectly well.
- “This case demonstrated the fact to us that the Boletus is superior to our greatest remedial agents in the case 
of intermittent fevers.
- I believe if I had not been acquainted with the therapeutic properties of the Bol etus I 
would have been compelled to treat this lady every few weeks for two or three months with our usual remedies.” 
 
 
His second case, “Intermitt ent fever: Type quotidian.
- November first, Mrs.
- B., aged fifty -six.
- Temperament 
nervous.
- Three weeks since had an abscess in left ear, which made her quite sick for a week.
- “Since then has had fever every afternoon and night.
- Feels chilly whenever she move s.
- Walking produces 
nausea.
- Does not perspire any.
- Tongue coated white.
- Loss of appetite, bowels loose.
- Very restless at night, 
cannot sleep any, getting very weak, keeps to her bed most of the time.
- Gave Boletus laricis.
- She had the 
fever but one day after.” Aching in liver and umbilicus.
- Severe cutting pains in abdomen every few minutes.
- Dull, aching 
distress in umbilicus and loud rumbling in bowels all night.
- Severe, aching pain just below stomach, causing 
great faintness.

### Neck & Back
- Chilliness along spine with frequent hot flashes of fever.
- Dull, aching distress in back and legs.

### Skin
- Hot and dry, especially in palms.
- Itching more between scapulae and on forearms.