HomeoRemedyCantharis vesicatoria
Spanish fly
Main symptoms
- This powerful drug produces a furious disturbance in the animal economy, attacking the urinary and sexual organs especially, perverting their function, and setting up violent inflammations, and causing a frenzied delirium, simulating hydrophobia symptoms.
- Puerperal convulsions.
- Produces most violent inflammation of the whole gastro-intestinal canal, especially lower bowel.
- Oversensitiveness of all parts.
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- Irritation.
- Raw, burning pains.
- Haemorrhages.
- Intolerable, constant urging to urinate is most characteristic.
- Gastric, hepatic and abdominal complaints that are aggravated by drinking coffee.
- Gastric derangements of pregnancy.
- Dysuria, with other complaints.
- Increases secretion of mucous membranes, tenacious mucus.
- The inflammations cantharis produces (bladder, kidneys, ovaries, meninges, pleuritic and pericardial membranes)are usually associated with bladder irritation.
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- Furious delirium.
- Anxious restlessness, ending in rage.
- Crying, barking; worse touching larynx or drinking water.
- Constantly attempts to do something, but accomplishes nothing.
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- Acute maniac, generally of a sexual type; amorous frenzy; fiery sexual desire.
- Paroxysms of rage, crying, barking.
- Sudden loss of consciousness with red face.
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Symptoms by body part
Head
Burning in brain. Sensation as if boiling water in brain. Dizziness; worse in open air.
Eyes
Yellow vision. Fiery, sparkling, staring look. Burning in eyes.
Ears
Sensation as if wind were coming from ear, or hot air. Bones about ear painful.
Face
Pale, wretched, death-like appearance. Itching vesicles on face, burning when touched. Erysipelas of face, with burning, biting heat with urinary symptoms. Hot and red.
Throat
Tongue covered with vesicles; deeply furred; edges red. Burning in mouth, pharynx, and throat; vesicles in mouth. Great difficulty in swallowing liquids. Very tenacious mucus. Violent spasms reproduced by touching larynx. Inflammation of throat; feels on fire. Constriction; aphthous ulceration. Scalding feeling. Burnt after taking too hot food.
Chest
Pleurisy, as soon as effusion has taken place. Intense dyspnoea; palpitation; frequent, dry cough. Tendency to syncope. Short, hacking cough, blood-streaked tenacious mucus. Burning pains.
Stomach
Burning sensation of oesophagus and stomach. Disgust for everything-drink, food, tobacco. Burning thirst, with aversion to all fluids. Very sensitive, violent burning. Vomiting of blood-streaked membrane and violent retching. Aggravation from drinking coffee; drinking the smallest quantity increases pain in bladder, and is vomited. Thirst unquenchable.
Stool
Shivering with burning. Dysentery; mucous stools, like scrapings of intestines. Bloody, with burning and constant urge to pass stool and shuddering after stool.
Urine
Intolerable urging and constant urge to pass stool. Nephritis with bloody urine. Violent paroxysms of cutting and burning in whole renal region, with painful urging to urinate; bloody urine, by drops. Intolerable constant urge to pass stool; cutting before, during, and after urine. Urine scalds him, and is passed drop by drop. Constant desire to urinate. Membranous scales looking like bran in water. Urine jelly-like, shreddy.
Male
Strong desire; painful erections. Pain in glans.
Female
Retained placenta, with painful urination. Expels moles, dead foetuses, membranes, etc. Nymphomania. Puerperal metritis, with inflammation of bladder. Menses too early and too profuse; black swelling of vulva with irritation. Constant discharge from uterus; worse false step. Burning pain in ovaries; extremely sensitive. Pain in os coccyx, lancinating and tearing.
Respiratory
Voice low; weak feeling. Stitches in chest. Pleurisy, with exudation.
Heart
Palpitation; pulse feeble, irregular; tendency to syncope. Pericarditis, with effusion.
Back
Pain in loins, with incessant desire to urinate.
Extremities
Tearing in limbs. Ulcerative pain in soles; cannot step.
Skin
Dermatitis venenata with bled formation. Secondary eczema about scrotum and genitals, following excessive perspiration. Tendency to gangrene. Rash with mealy scales. Vesicular rashes, with burning and itching. Sunburn. Burns, scalds, with rawness and smarting, relieved by cold applications, followed by undue inflammation. Erysipelas, vesicular type, with great restlessness. Burning in soles of feet at night.
Fever
Cold hands and feet; cold sweat. Soles burn. Chill, as if water were poured over him.
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