{"id":680,"remedy_name":"Bufo Rana","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Hot","aggravation_time":"Night","keynote_indications":"Source: Derived from the venom or skin secretions of the common toad ( Bufo bufo  or related. species),  prepared  for  homeopathic  use  through  potentization  involving  serial  dilution  and. succussion to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic action. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for neurological, psychological, and. dermatological disorders, particularly those involving convulsive tendencies, mental dullness, and. skin eruptions. It is noted for symptoms such as seizures, intellectual impairment, and pustular skin. conditions, often aggravated by warmth, sexual excitement, or menses, and ameliorated by cool air,. rest, or solitude. Modern Context : Indicated for  neurological conditions  (e.g., epilepsy, developmental delay),. psychological  disorders (e.g.,  intellectual  disability,  behavioral  disorders),  dermatological. complaints (e.g.,  acne,  eczema),  and  sexual  dysfunctions (e.g.,  hypersexuality,  premature. ejaculation).  It  suits  patients  with  acute  or  chronic  symptoms  characterized  by  convulsive. tendencies, mental dullness, skin eruptions, and sexual disturbances, typically exacerbated by. warmth, emotional stress, or hormonal changes, and often seen in individuals with a history of. neurological  disorders,  developmental  challenges,  or  chronic  skin  conditions.  The  remedy  is. particularly relevant for those with a sluggish, sensitive constitution, often presenting with physical. symptoms like seizures or pustular eruptions alongside emotional traits like apathy, impulsivity, or. sexual  preoccupation,  commonly  observed  in  children  with  neurodevelopmental  disorders,. adolescents  with  behavioral  issues,  or  adults  with  chronic  neurological  or  dermatological. complaints.","modalities":"Worse from: Warmth (air, weather, rooms), emotional stress, menses, sexual excitement,. night, crowded environments, sensory overload, exertion, touch, hormonal changes, lying. down.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Confusion and loss of memory, bordering on imbecility. Prematurely se nile. Great weakness of \nmemory, idiotic. The mind remains childish, only th e body grows. Of use in feeble -minded children. Feeble-\nminded. Idiocy, silly, tittering. Talks nonsense, then angry if not understood.  \nAnxious about health. Fears animals, strangers. Fear of mirrors in room. Biting nails. Nervousness and \ntrembling worse open air. Music is unbearable. Lamenting alternating with crying. Easily laughs or cries. Cries \nmuch with epilepsy. Easily startled. \nSad, restless. Sadness on waking. Dullness better evening. Walks the floor and wrings the hands. Ill -humour \nafter menses. Irritability in morning on waking. Irritability at night after retiring. Irritability after menses.  \nDelirium or apathy, with hot head. Stupor and inability to speak. Deceitfulness. Rage while alone. Propensity \nto bite. Howling, impatient, nervous, imbecility. Longs for solitude, yet dreads being alone. \nAnger before convulsions. Stupefaction between convulsions. Unconsciousness after convulsions. \nMoral depravity. Derangements of the sexual sphere. Depravities due to bad inheritance. Desire for solitude \nto practice masturbation. It arouses lowest passions, patient is not only low minded but develops low type \nof disease also. Confusion and loss of memory, bordering on imbecility. Prematurely se nile. Great weakness of \nmemory, idiotic. The mind remains childish, only th e body grows. Of use in feeble -minded children. Feeble-\nminded. Idiocy, silly, tittering. Talks nonsense, then angry if not understood.  \nAnxious about health. Fears animals, strangers. Fear of mirrors in room. Biting nails. Nervousness and \ntrembling worse open air. Music is unbearable. Lamenting alternating with crying. Easily laughs or cries. Cries \nmuch with epilepsy. Easily startled. \nSad, restless. Sadness on waking. Dullness better evening. Walks the floor and wrings the hands. Ill -humour \nafter menses. Irritability in morning on waking. Irritability at night after retiring. Irritability after menses.  \nDelirium or apathy, with hot head. Stupor and inability to speak. Deceitfulness. Rage while alone. Propensity \nto bite. Howling, impatient, nervous, imbecility. Longs for solitude, yet dreads being alone. \nAnger before convulsions. Stupefaction between convulsions. Unconsciousness after convulsions. \nMoral depravity. Derangements of the sexual sphere. Depravities due to bad inheritance. Desire for solitude \nto practice masturbation. It arouses lowest passions, patient is not only low minded but develops low type \nof disease also.","Vertigo":"Vertigo, as if house was turned upside down. Vertigo with heaviness of head. Vertigo, as if floating \n \n \nor swimming in water or air. Dizzy, drunken feeling after dinner. \nVision - Dim vision, with itching in eyes. Can't bear sight of brilliant objects. Objects  appear crooked. Objects \nappear as if seen through a veil. \nCOMMENTS - Bufo provokes the tendency to the practice, or even causes impotence. The Indian women of \nBrazil are aware of this last property and administer the venom to their husbands in food or dri nk when they \nwish to free themselves from their marital attentions. \nL. Guthrie told a story of an Italian peasant, apparently dying of dropsy, whose wife, weary of the interminable \nlength of his illness, thought to hasten his end by putting a toad into his wine. The man was completely cured. \nAccording to Lippe, Bufo is especially indicated in epilepsy when the attacks oc cur during sleep at night. The \npatient may or may not be awakened by the attack, if not, when he does awaken he will have a violent \nheadache. \nEpileptic symptoms are worse in warm room, but there is also great sensitiveness to cold air and wind. Epilepsy \nthat's worse with a full moon. For epilepsy in children with delayed development (Bar-c.). Keynote masturbation \nin children or with epilepsy. \nLymphangitis. Swollen glands, buboes, particularly in groin and armpits. May go systemic, pus and \nsuppuration. Infection leading to swollen glands and fever (Carban.). \u201cLow state,\u201d decomposition, breakdown \nin tissues with pus and septic states. Difficult to heal. Cancers with deterioration (Kreos.) in the late stages. \nGreasy skin, foul discharges and odors. Carbuncles, boils, large water -filled vesicles (bullae). Marked \nperiodicity, quartan fevers. Hemorrhages. Boericke noted a \u201cdesire for solitude\u201d in order to masturbate. \nGuernsey commended it in panaritium where the pain runs in streaks, all the way up the arm. Also when the \nfingers have been injured and look black, with pains running in streaks up the arm.  \nE. E. Case reported a cure with Bufo cinereus of \u201cnosebleed daily for several weeks with flushed face, heat \nand pain in forehead better by the bleeding, there was also easy, perspiration in general, apt to be offensive, \nespecially on the feet.\u201d","Head":"Face bathed in sweat. Congestive headaches with flushed face. Pillow hurts occiput. Pressure like two \niron hands holding temples. Headaches after breakfast. One -sided headaches, worse by light and noise. \nNumbness of brain before epileptic attack. Headache with epilepsy. Head at first drawn to one side, then \nbackwards before an attack. Lancinating pain in occiput, inclining head \nto fall backward, in meningitis. Violent orgasm in head. Profuse sweat on head. Hair falls out. Sensation as if \nhot vapor rose to top of head. Face bathed in sweat. Congestive headaches with flushed face. Pillow hurts occiput. Pressure like two \niron hands holding temples. Headaches after breakfast. One -sided headaches, worse by light and noise. \nNumbness of brain before epileptic attack. Headache with epilepsy. Head at first drawn to one side, then \nbackwards before an attack. Lancinating pain in occiput, inclining head \nto fall backward, in meningitis. Violent orgasm in head. Profuse sweat on head. Hair falls out. Sensation as if \nhot vapor rose to top of head.","Eyes":"Eyes red, injected. Itching, swollen, painful. Eyes sunken during epileptic at tack. Burning, itching and \nulceration of lids. Left eyelid paralyzed. Little blisters form on eye. Right eye open, left nearly closed. Eyeballs \nrolled upward and to left before attack. Strabismus. Aversion to the sight of brilliant objects. Pupils dilated.","Ears":"Music is intolerable (Ambr.). Every little noise distresses. Purulent otorrhea, ulceration and bleeding of \nexternal ears. Heartbeats reverberate in ears, in menin gitis. Pains worse cold washing. Swelling of ears and \nparotids.","Face":"Face greyish. Burning and redness of swollen face. Lips black. Face bloated and distorted, mouth and \neyes convulsed. Bathed in sweat during spasms. Sweat runs down face. Momentary hot flushes of face. \nPhlegmonous erysipelas, which leaves face deformed. Cold water causes pricking of face.","Mouth":"Burning in mouth, as from acid, worse cold water. Bloody saliva. Constant licking of lips. Fetid odor \nfrom mouth. Stuttering and stammering, angry when not understood. Falling out of teeth. Con vulsions after \nextracting teeth. Mouth wide open before epil eptic attack. Ejection of frothy, bloody saliva from mouth during \nepileptic attack. \nNose - Nosebleed with flushed faced and pain in forehead. Better after nosebleed. Nosebleed almost \nproducing faintness. Sneezing in evening, when going to bed. Coryza, pimp les on upper lip. Discharge of \ngreenish-yellow, putrid mucus, worse evening. Mucus descends into posterior nares. Ulcerated, burning \nnostrils. Loss of smell. \nPerspiration - Profuse sweat, oily, on head and face. Profuse sweat with weakness. Sweats during s pasms. \nSweats during sleep, towards morning. Cold sweat. Copious, clammy sweat, on hands and arms. Sweats \nduring epilepsy.","Throat":"Convulsive and constrictive motion in throat, with sensation like a stone there. Dryness in throat, \nimpeding swallowing, in morning. Difficult swallowing, can hardly swallow saliva. Burning, excoriation in larynx. \nBleeding fissures, causes quick, jerking cough. \nTongue - Tongue is cracked, bluish black. Lapping of or playing with tongue.  Paralysis of tongue, lapping \nmotion before the attacks. Bites tongue. Dry tongue.","Chest":"Sensation as if chest and heart were constricted. Burning like fire in chest. Rapid motion of diaphragm. \nConstitutions - Feeble-minded children. Prematurely senile. \nCough - Suffocative. [11] From any emotion. From burning or stitches in larynx. At night, provoked towards 3 \nor 4 AM by tickling in larynx, which he feels only at this hour. In consequence of cold feet. Violent, with vomiting. \nDry, with sharp pain or burning in chest. Feels too large. Heaviness about heart. Rapid heart action in exophthalmos. Palpitations with \n \n \nheadache during menses. Constriction about heart. Palpitations after eating. Palpitations with nausea. Palpita-\ntions on awaking. Heart seems to float in water or air. Sticking pain about apex of heart. Palpitations and \noppression from walking fast. Paralysis of heart. Pulse more rapid and threadlike as epileptic attacks multiplied. \nKidneys - Burning pain in kidneys, with oppressed breathing and  faintness. Involuntary urination. Hematuria \nin childbed. Frequent discharge of pale urine. Suppression of urine. Urine brown, offensive. Burning like fire in lungs. Suffoca tive cough. Asthma. Difficult breathing from compression of larynx, \ntrachea and heaviness of chest, must sit up or bend forward. Anxious, difficult, gets shorter and shorter, during \nfever. Dyspnea, pants like a dog. Mucus or bloody expectoration, or pure blood, raised most in morning and \nevening, with sensation of cold in chest.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Burning pain in stomach. Weak, faint feeling in stomach. Eructations, as from rotten eggs. Nausea \nand vomiting from nervou s excitement. Vomiting after drinking. Yellow fluid in vomit. Vomiting of blood and \nbile. \nTemperature - Coldness and shivering, with moist skin, nervousness and trembling, worse going into open \nair. Fever with apathy or delirium, and cold feet. Burning heat in various parts. Limbs burning hot during fever. Colicky pain after drinking milk, and after smoking. Violent colic with convulsive movements \nof jaws and limbs. Sensation as if cold balls running through bowels. Buboes in groins.  Convulsive \nmovements in abdomen after spasms. Spasms end by convulsive movements in abdomen. Epileptic attacks \noriginate in abdomen. Desire for sweet drinks. Desire for sugar-water. Longing forbrandy, delights in getting drunk. Aversion \nto food and drink.","Urinary & Genital":"Semen is discharged too quickly, without pleasurable sensation, some times with cramps or painful \nheaviness in limbs. Menses too early, too copious. Epilepsy with menses. Menses with headache. Menstrual pains run \ninto legs. After menses, ill-humored. Offensive, bloody discharge, clots. Watery leucorrhea. Offensive purulent \nleucorrhea. Burning and swelling in ovaries and uterus. Burning heat and sharp pain in ovaries. Hydatids in \novaries. Ulceration of cervix,  with burning pains. Tumors and polyps of the w omb. Milk-leg. Veins swollen. \nCord like swell ing from groin to knee, milk leg. Sexual excitement with epileptic attacks. Cancer of uterus. \nVeins swollen. Swelling and great sensitiveness of ovarian region.","Extremities":"Trembling of limbs. Limbs become stiff, numb. Cramps in limbs worse cold air. Bruised pains, \ntrembling, cramps, arthritic swellings. Arms go to sleep eas ily. Swelling of hands and arms, burning pains. \nLymphangitis, red streaks under skin. Staggering gait. Feeling as if a peg were driven in joint. Panaritium, \nswelling blue-black around nail, pain in streaks up a rm. Sciatica. Contusive pains in arms, legs and loins, \nduring motion. Arthritic pains, worse after sleep. Swelling of bones. Epileptic attacks preceded by restless \nmovements of limbs and body. \nLiver - Enlargement of liver. Pulsating, pain in liver like an abscess, with vomiting of bile.","Neck & Back":"Jerks in nape of neck, epileptic at tacks. Lumbago, worse risin g up or least motion. Swelling of bone, \nsize of a fist. Decay of dorsal vertebrae. Stiff neck after sleep. \nBreasts - Mastitis. Bloody oozing from nipples. Bloody milk. Breasts cancer. Induration in breast glands. \nViolent pain in breasts, worse at night. Palliative in cancer of breasts. Offensive bloody discharge from breast.","Skin":"Chronic fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of heaviness or prostration, resembling. chronic fatigue syndrome or post-ictal exhaustion, worse after exertion, seizures, or. heat exposure. Heat intolerance, with aggravation in warm, humid weather and a desire for cool air. or open spaces. Profuse,  hot,  or  acrid  sweating,  particularly  during  seizures,  skin  eruptions,  or. anxiety episodes, worse at night or in warm conditions. Mild fever or chills during acute neurological or dermatological episodes, with a. sensation of internal heat, worse in warmth or after exertion.","Sleep":"Irresistible sleepiness after eating. Drowsy, but can't sleep, from agitation, constantly turning in bed. \nSleepiness after smoking in forenoon. Comatose after spasms. Sleepy after meals. Sleepiness after having \nbeen in o pen air. Constant yawning, can't keep lids open. Starting in sleep, awakens as if frightened. All \nsymptoms worse on waking."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}