{"id":1369,"remedy_name":"Bovista Lycoperdon","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Night","keynote_indications":"Clarke stated \u201cThis globular fungus, which, according to repor t is eaten in Italy before it is \nripe, becomes filled, while ripening with a black dust that breaks the husk which contains it with a slight noise.\u201d \nCorresponding to this signature, \u201cbloated, puffy condition of body surface,\u201d and a sense of \u201cenlargement,\u201d \nleading features of the Bov. pathogenesis include flatulent disten tion and noisy passage of flatus. Guernsey \nadded \u201cWe may always think of Bov. when we see a very \u2018tettery' person, one who has tetters here and there, \nall over the body. These tetters may be either moist or dry.\u201d \nThe puffball exerts its influence on the circulation, causing relaxation of the capil lary system, thereby \nptoducinghemorrhagic diathesis.  There is a general puffiness, bloated condition of body surface, which \nproduces easy indentations with a blunt instrument (scissors etc.). Eczema -like eruption. Herpes. Marked \nlanguor and lassitude. \nLaxity, especially felt in joints, which seem loose. Gre at weakness of the joints (has cured where Rhus -t. \nseemed indicated and failed). Nervous joints. Enlarged or swollen \nfeeling in head, heart, etc. \nStage of numbness and tingling in multiple neuritis. Asphyxia due to charcoal fumes. Effects of over -exertion \nand application of tar locally.","modalities":"Better from bending double. Better eating, hot food. Worse before and during menses. Worse \nhot weather, getting warm. Worse full moon. Worse from cold food, coffee, and wine. Worse at night. Worse \nafter eating. Worse when blowing nose. Easily intoxicated, worse wine.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Awkward in speech and action, drops things. Everything falls from hands.  Absentminded. Weak \nmemory. Inattentive. Slowness of understanding and comprehension. Dullness, with restlessness.  \nAlternating moods. Laughs and cries alternately. Sensitive, takes offense at ev erything. Ill-humor, aversion \nto all things. Quarrelsome. Wants to fight. Fear of insanity on waking from a dream. Irritable, takes everything \namiss. \nConfusion on waking. Confusion while standing. Confus ion when stooping. Enlarged sensation  (Arg-n.). \nStares vacantly into space. Sad when alone. Cheerful in company. Mental symptoms from sexual excesses. Awkward in speech and action, drops things. Everything falls from hands.  Absentminded. Weak \nmemory. Inattentive. Slowness of understanding and comprehension. Dullness, with restlessness.  \nAlternating moods. Laughs and cries alternately. Sensitive, takes offense at ev erything. Ill-humor, aversion \nto all things. Quarrelsome. Wants to fight. Fear of insanity on waking from a dream. Irritable, takes everything \namiss. \nConfusion on waking. Confusion while standing. Confus ion when stooping. Enlarged sensation  (Arg-n.). \nStares vacantly into space. Sad when alone. Cheerful in company. Mental symptoms from sexual excesses.","Vertigo":"V ertigo with feeling of stupidity in head on rising. Vertigo and confusion of head after sex. Vertigo, \nfalls over, momentarily unconscious in morning. Sudden attacks of vertigo while standing. \nCOMMENTS - Relaxation of entire capillary system. The heart feels enormously large. Hemorrhagic diathesis. \nHemorrhage from menstrual irregularities, from trauma. Hemorrhage between the periods. Menstrual flow \noccurring only or chiefly at night. Ovarian cysts. \nPuffy condition of the body, surface instruments (e.g., scissors) indent the fingers in an unusual degree. Sweat \nof axilla, smells like onions. Early morning sweat, worse on chest. Many symptoms are worse in early morning, \nincluding the diarrhea. Sensitive to touch, cannot bear clothing. Sensitive to drafts, chilliness predominates.  \nWarts and corns with shooting pains. Ebullitions with great thirst. \u201cItching at top of coccyx.\u201d The corners of the \nmouth are broken out. N umb, pithy feeling in mouth. There is stuttering and stammering speech. \nAwkwardness, misapplies words in speaking and writing. \nColic, causing the patient to bend double (Coloc.), better by eating, sometimes accompanied by voiding of red \nurine. \nM. L. Sircar recorded a striking cure of such a case with Bov. 3x, the pain being griping -twisting intermittent, \nstarting be- \nlow umbilicus and diffusing itself towards epigastrium, some constipation, urine scanty and reddish. Nothing \ngave relief except eating. \nTeste observed psoric eruptions appear on the hands and feet of a patient to whom he gave Bov. for a \nheadache. He cured with it \u201cred, crusty eruptions on thighs and bends of knees of eighteen years' duration.\u201d It \ndisappeared for weeks, reappearing in hot weather and at the full moon. \nW. S. Gee recorded a case concerning a widow, 55. She had an eruption, which she thought to be erysipelas, \non her right foot. . Some years before, she had an eruption on her left foot, which discharged much water and \nwas \u201ccured\" by the use of a salve. A few months later, the left knee became af fected and the limb was \namputated above the joint. \nThe current eruption was fiery red, covered with yellowish-brown scales, thick as an old-fashioned wafer. There \nwere also rheumatic pains in  the leg. After Rhus -t. had been given without benefit, she was cured with Bov. \n4c. \nDr. Gee elicited additional symptoms including \u201cOccasional spells of short breathing, especially from working \nwith the hands. Frequent desire to urinate, even immediately a fter urinating. Sleep disturbed by burning and \nitching and also by anxious, frightful dreams, headache when waking from sleep.\u201d  \nLilienthal noted \u201cmoist vesicular erup tions with formation of thick crusts\u201d; Bov. was given with steady \nimprovement and eventual cure. \nA case of cyst in the broad ligament was cured. It was accompanied by metrorrha gia, flow at night or early \nmorning, easily provoked from slight over -exertion during menses. Could bear nothing tight around body. \nMenses were preceded and followed by  diarrhea. Acrid, corrosive leucorrhea, flowing at night only, follows \nmenses.","Head":"Dull, bruised pain in brain. Confu sion on waking. Staggering, confusion and numbness in head after \nsex. Tension headaches, worse early morning, open air, lying. Stupefying headache in forehead and vertex. \nSensation as if head were enlargin g, especially of occiput. As if wedge is pressed in occiput. Scalp itches, \nworse warmth, sensitive, must scratch until sore. Falling out of hair. Scalp tender to touch. Dull, bruised pain in brain. Confu sion on waking. Staggering, confusion and numbness in head after \nsex. Tension headaches, worse early morning, open air, lying. Stupefying headache in forehead and vertex. \nSensation as if head were enlargin g, especially of occiput. As if wedge is pressed in occiput. Scalp itches, \nworse warmth, sensitive, must scratch until sore. Falling out of hair. Scalp tender to touch.","Eyes":"Eyes look weak and dim. Inflammation of eyelids, with nightly agglutination. Pressure in orbits. Vertical \nhalf-sight. Objects seem to be nearer than they really are. Stares at one point. Loss of vision from paralysis of \noptic nerve.","Ears":"Boil in right ear with pain, worse swallowing. Discharge of fetid pus. Indistinct hearing, misunderstands \nmuch \nBovista lycoperdon that is spoken.","Face":"Frequent violent alternations of color. Acne, worse in summer, due to use of cosmetics. Cheeks and \nlips swollen. Crusts about corners of mouth. Twitching of muscles, before asthma. Pale swelling of cheek after \ntoothache.","Mouth":"Putrid taste. Stammering when reading with inability to pronounce several words rapidly. Stammering \n(Stram., Merc.). Mouth dry, as if sand were in it. Numbness. Increased saliva. Offensive odor from mouth. \nGums bleed easily on sucking them. Bleeding after tooth extrac tion. Lips chapped, cracked, crusty.  Pale \nswelling of upper lip. Scurf and crusts about nostrils and corners of mouth. Corners of mouth sore.  \nNose - Nose stopped up, cannot breathe, worse lying down. Scurf and crusts about nostrils and corners of \nmouth. Discharge from nose, stringy, tough. Watery coryza \nwith dizziness. Bleeding of nose and gums. Nosebleed with menstrual irregularity, or from trauma. Bleeding \nearly in the morning (during sleep), a few drops escape on sneezing. \nPerspiration - Sweat in axilla, onion smell. Sweats in morning, most profuse on chest.","Throat":"Burning pain in throat. Sharp pain in throat before asthma. Sore throat with scratching and burning in \n \n \nesophagus. Scratching sensation in larynx with viscid mucus.  Rawness in larynx, mornings, with catarrhal \nspeech. Hoarseness in morning, with scraping in throat. \nTongue - Soreness or ulcers on edges of tongue. Burning in tip of tongue early in morning on waking. Cutting \npain in tongue, before asthma. Numbness of pos terior portion of tongue early in morning on waking. Tongue \nfeels almost like wood.","Chest":"Oppression of chest, as from con striction, with desire to loosen clothes. Sharp pains in various parts \nof chest. Sweat in axilla, onion smell. Burning in outer chest. \nConstitutions - Hemorrhagic diathesis. Adapted to old maids with palpitations and stammering children. Heart feels enormously large. Palpitations as if heart working in water. Palpit ations with tremor of \nhands, worse bathing, excitement. Palpitations worse after eating. Palpitations with restlessness, nausea and \nheadache. Palpitations \nBovista lycoperdon during menses. Visible palpitations of the heart. \nKidneys - Frequent desire to ur inate, even immediately after urination. Diabetes mellitus. Stinging, itching, \nburning in urethra. Bright red urine. Urine bright yellow. Urine with slowly forming cloud, turbid. Urine like loam \nwater. Urine with violet sediment. Asthma preceded by twitching of facial muscles. Shortness of breath on moving the arms. Viscid \nexpectoration. Spasmodic laughing and crying with asthma. Dry cough, caused by tickling in throat and chest. \nCough after coming into room from cold air. Loose cough in evening, dry in morning.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Empty eructations. Intolerant of tight clothing around waist. Hiccough before and after dinner. \nSensation as if a lump of ice in stomach. Pressure and fulness in pit. Nausea better breakfast. Nausea with \nchilliness, whole forenbon. Morning sickness, vomits only water. Vomits watery fluid. \nTemperature - Chills with pain. Chills after going to bed at night. Chill predominating, even near a warm stove. \nChills all \nnight: Shivering in evening, spreading from back. Shuddering alternating with  flying heat. Fever with thirst, \nanxiety and restlessness. Fever heat during sleep. Bloatedness of abdomen. Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist. Flatulence or rumbling with \nconstipation. Pain around umbilicus. Abdominal colic, with bright red urine. Flatulent colic. Colic relieved by \neating and bending double. Offensive flatus. Sharp pain through perineum towards rectum and genitals. \nColdness sensation moving about in abdomen. Ulceration in bowels. Excessive hunger, even after meals. No appetite for cooked food, desire for bread only. Desire for \nbrandy, wine, milk. Hot food relieves. Worse spirituous liquors, wine, cold food. Confusion from spirituous \nliquors, after wine. Thirst for cold drinks. Thirst during chill and heat.","Urinary & Genital":"Increased sexual desire. Reeling and confusion in head after sex. Burning pain in genitals. Menses too early. Menses too profuse, worse at night.  Menses every \ntwo weeks, much dark and clotted blood. Soreness of pubes during menses. Traces of menses between \nmenstruation. Leucorrhea a few days before or a few days after menses. Leucorrhea like white of egg, when \nwalking. Leucorrhoea acrid, thick, tough, greenish,  leaving green spots on linen worse while walking after \n \n \nmenses. Metrorrhagia. Cannot bear tight cloth ing around waist  (Lach.). Ovarian cysts. Voluptuous \nsensation.","Extremities":"Great weakness of all joints, clumsiness with her hands, drops things from hands. Weariness of hands \nand feet. Moist eczema on back of hand. Weak hands. Heavy, painful legs. Itching of feet and legs. Tip of \ncoccyx itches intolerably. Edematous swelling of (right) foot even years after a sprain. Edema of joints after \nfracture.","Neck & Back":"Pain in the back with heaviness after stooping. Tip of coccyx itches intolerably. Pain and stiffness of \nback after stooping. Stiffness of neck in morning. Shooting pains between the shoulders are better from \nbending, straightening up. Sharp pains in neck. \nCausations - Antidotes effects of charcoal fumes.","Skin":"Eczema, red, burns, itches, disturbs sleep. Eczema, moist formation of thic k crusts. Jaundice of \nnewborns. Pellagra. Itching on getting warm. Itching eruptions, oozing, forming thick crusts or scabs with pus \nbeneath. Urticaria on excitement with rheumatic lameness, palpitations and diarrhea (Dulc.). Urticaria \ncovering whole body with diarrhea or metrorrha ; gia. Urticaria on waking in the morning, worse from bathing. \nPimples cover the entire body. Scurvy. Herpetic eruptions. Shooting pain in corns and warts. Blunt instruments \nleave deep impression on the skin. Tetter, moist or dry, red, scabby eruptions.","Sleep":"Spasmodic yawning before asthma, morning sweat in bed. Night Great drowsi ness in afternoon and \nearly evening and after eating, rest disturbed by burning and itching of nettle -rash. Restless sleep with many \nanxious, frightful dreams."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}