- Doryphora in its general effects bears a strong resemblance to Cantharis.
- An extensive provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. has been made and to this have been added the effects of poisoning from handling the insects and from inhaling the vapor when they have been burned or scalded.
- Two children inha led vapor from a kettle in which some beetles had been placed, one died and the other recovered after a serious illness resembling typhoid fever.
- Local application causes ulceration.
- The blood will not coagulate, blood globulesSmall medicated sugar pillsTiny spherical pills made of sucrose/lactose, used as a carrier for liquid homeopathic dilutions. disorganized, enormous swelling of the whole body, swelling of the feet with burning, elastic swelling of whole body which will not pit on pressure (suggesting its applicability in myxedema).
- Acts on the urinary organs.
- Burning sensations.
- Burning and inflammation of glans penis.
- Burning in mouth, throat, gullet, stomach, abdomen, rectum and urinary passages (Canth.), strangurySlow, painful, drop-by-drop urinationA painful condition characterized by the slow, spasmodic discharge of urine drop-by-drop, accompanied by a constant urge. with urethritis and itching.
- Urethritis in children from local irritation.
- Gonorrhea and gleet.
- Swelling of body.
- A feeling of weight or heaviness.
- Great trembling in limbs.
- Fainting, weakness, prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness., collapse.
- Weakness, worse by talking (Stan.).
- Prostration after typhoid and diphtheria have been cured