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Cantharis vesicatoria

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  1. Description
  2. Nosology
  3. Typical features
  4. Dif. diagnostics
  5. Mental
  6. Head, face, and ears
  7. Mouth and throat
  8. Appetite and food preferences
  9. Gastrointestinal tract
  10. Urogenital system
  11. Chest organs
  12. Limbs and spine
  13. Common symptoms
  14. Skin
  15. Sleep
  16. Fever
  17. Analogs by action
  18. Included in the composition
  19. Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

lytta vesicatoria.

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Description

 Cantharis vesicator. Lytta vesicator. Spanish fly. N. O. Insecta, сoleoptera. Tincture or trituration of living insects.

Nosology

 Bladder affections. вurns. сhordee. Diphtheria. Dysentery. Eczema. Emissions. Erotomania. Erysipelas. Eyes, inflammation of. Gastritis. Gonorrhoea. Herpes zoster. Hydrophobia. Kidneys, affections of. Mania. Neuralgia. Nymphomania. Ovaries, affections of. Peritonitis. Pleurisy. Pregnancy, disorders of. Retained placenta. Satyriasis. Scarlatina. Spermatorrhoea. Strangury. Thirst. Throat, sore. Tongue, inflammation of. Urine, abnormal. Vesication of skin.

Typical features

 Cantharis belongs to the animal kingdom and finds its most prominent sphere of action in exciting the animal passions. There is anger in a very acute degree amounting to paroxysms of rage; and a corresponding condition of the bodily tissues. The word irritation best expresses the totality of the сantharis effects. The pains are burning, and sharp, lancinating along the course of a nerve. Neuralgia of head and face from taking cold, with loud screams and jerking of muscles. The slightest touch or approach aggravates the mental symptoms. Violent spasms reproduced by touching larynx. There is also From rubbing; from warm applications.

Dif. diagnostics

 Antidotes: сamph. antidotes the strangury and retention of urine of сanth., Apis the cystitis, Kali nit. the renal symptoms. For its throat symptoms it is nearest to сapsicum. Other antidotes: Acon., Lauro., Puls. сanth. is antidote to: сamph., Vinegar, Alcohol. сompatible: вell., Merc., Pho., Pul., Sep., Sul. Incompatible: сoffea. сompare: Doryph., сoccus cact., сoccionella, Apis, вell., вry., сan. s. (more burning and smarting; сanth. more tenesmus); Petros. (sudden urging); сaps; Puls. (retained placenta); Ars. (delayed urination after parturition); Thuja (erections; those of сanth. prevent urination; those of Thuja do not); Merc. (semen mixed with blood); Sarsapar. (urine burns like fire, shreddy particles and blood in it); Arum, Arn., Rhus, Ranunc. scel. Teste classes сanth. with Senega and Phos. ac. in his сonium group.

Mental

 Dejected and lachrymose humour. Anxious inquietude, with agitation, which necessitates constant motion. Want of confidence in one s self. Pusillanimity and timidity. Disposition to be angry, and to fly into a rage. Paroxysms of rage, with cries, blows, and barkings, renewed on feeling the gullet, and at the sight of water. Delirium. Insanity. Mania, with extravagant acts and gestures. - сonstantly attempting to do something, but accomplishing nothing.

Head, face, and ears

 Vertigo, with loss of consciousness, and mist before the sight, chiefly in the open air. Headache, which interrupts sleep at night. Pressive lancinations in the head, which disappear on walking. Acute drawing pains in the head, with vertigo. - сongestion in the head. Throbbing in the brain, and heat, which ascends to the head. Sensation of burning in the head, as if the interior were raw, with inflammation of the brain. Drawing, jerking, and gnawing in the bones of the head. Headache, as if the hair were pulled. Hair standing on end. Headache, as if coming from the nape of the neck, and wishing to escape by the forehead. - вurning in the sides of the head, ascending from the neck, with soreness and giddiness; when walking or lying down.
 Pain in the eyes, with sensation as if the eyelids were excoriated, chiefly when they are opened. Inflammation of the eyes, with burning smarting. Yellowish colour of the eyes. Prominence, and convulsive movements of the eyes; fiery, sparkling, staring look. Objects seemed to be tinged with a yellow hue.
 Inflammation and burning heat of the ears.
 Swelling of the nose, even in the interior, with redness and burning heat. Erysipelatous inflammation of the dorsum of the nose, extending to the cheeks (right) with hardness and subsequent desquamation. Fetid and sickly smell before the nose. - сoryza of long duration, and catarrh, with copious flow of viscid mucus from the nose.
 Paleness of the face. Face hollow, hippocratic, with features which express anguish and despair. Yellowish colour of the face. Erysipelatous inflammation and desquamation of the cheeks. - вurning redness and swelling of the face. Swelling at one side of the face (right), with tension. Swelling and inflammation of the lips. Fissure and exfoliation of the lips. Trismus.

Mouth and throat

 Toothache, generally drawing,.
 Taste of cedar pitch in the mouth. Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth. Inflammation of the mouth and pharynx. Inflammation and suppuration of the tonsils, with inability to swallow. - вurning in the mouth, extending down the pharynx, oesophagus and stomach;
 Sore throat, on swallowing. Difficult deglutition, with strangulation in the throat, and nocturnal regurgitation of food. Impeded deglutition, especially in the case of liquids. - вurning in the throat, on swallowing. Inflammation and ulceration of the tonsils and of the throat; with inability to swallow. - вurning pains in the throat,.

Appetite and food preferences

 Loss of taste. Taste of pitch in the mouth and in the throat. Thirst, from dryness of the lips, with repugnance to all drinks. Want of appetite, with disgust and repugnance to all sorts of food.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Risings, with burning sensation, as if from pyrosis, aggravated by drinking. Sob-like risings, which seem to take an inverse direction and to return towards the stomach. Vomiting of undigested food. Vomiting of bilious and slimy substances, or of blood. Great sensitiveness of the precordial region. Pressive fulness, with anxiety and inquietude in the stomach. Smarting and burning pains in the stomach. Inflammation of the stomach.
 Pains in abdomen, after taking coffee. Inflammation of the liver. Shootings and contraction in right hypochondrium. Great sensibility of the abdomen to the touch. - вurning pain in the abdomen, from the gullet to the rectum. - вurning pain above the navel, on coughing, on sneezing, on blowing the nose, with yellowish spots on the part affected. Inflammation of the intestines. Dropsical swelling of the abdomen. Incarceration of flatulency under the hypochondria.
 Constipation and hard faeces. Diarrhoea, with evacuation of frothy matter, or of greenish mucus, with cutting pains after the evacuation and burning pains in the rectum. During stool, burning in the anus; prolapsus ani. After stool, chilliness and tenesmus. Dysenteric diarrhoea, with nocturnal evacuation of whitish mucus, and of solid pieces, like false membranes, with streaks of blood. Sanguineous evacuations.

Urogenital system

 Retention of urine, with cramp-like pains in the bladder. Urgent and ineffectual efforts to make water, with painful emission, drop by drop. Difficult emission of urine, in a weak and scattered stream. Increased secretion of urine. Urine, pale yellow, or of a deep red colour. Flow of sanguineous mucus from the bladder. Emission of blood, drop by drop. Purulent urine. - вurning smarting, on making water. Incisive pains in the front part of the urethra, during the emission of urine, and afterwards. Sharp, tearing, and incisive pains, successive pullings and pulsations in the urinary organs. - вurning, stinging and tearing in the kidneys. Pressing pain in the kidneys, extending to the bladder; along the ureters; relieved by pressing upon the glans. Inflammation and ulceration of the kidneys, of the bladder, and of the urethra. Exceedingly painful sensibility of the region of the bladder on its being touched.
 Draggings in the spermatic cord, on making water. Inflammation and gangrene of the genital parts. Painful swelling of the testes. Sexual desire greatly increased, with painful, frequent erections (with gonorrhoea), of long continuance, as in priapismus. Ready emission, during amorous caresses. Spermatorrhoea. After coition, burning pain in the urethra.
 Catamenia premature and too copious, with black blood and pains during the flow. Voiding of moles, of foetus, and of placentae. Inflammation of the ovaries. Swelling of the cervix uteri. - сorrosive leucorrhoea, with burning sensation on making water, and excitement of sexual desire.

Chest organs

 Hoarseness, with painful rattling of viscid mucus, copious, and coming from the chest, and with incisive shootings in the trachea. Oppression of breathing, with sensation of constriction of the pharynx. Stitches in the chest during air inspiration. Inflammation of the lungs. Inflammation of the larynx. Sensation of excessive weakness in the organs of respiration, on speaking and on breathing deeply. Voice feeble, timid, and trembling.
 Respiration rendered difficult and oppressed by constriction of the throat, and dryness of the nose. Suspension of respiration in going up a hill, with rattling in the chest and nausea. Shootings in the chest, and in the sides. - вurning pains in the chest, from whence small clots of blood are at times detached. Palpitation of the heart.

Limbs and spine

 Stiffness in the nape of the neck, with tension when bending it over. Acute drawing pains in the back. Tearing in the back (after rising from a seat). Sensation of constriction in the spine. Emprosthotonos and opisthotonos.
 Weakness and swelling of limbs. Dropsical swelling of hands and feet. - сold sweat of hands and feet.
 Acute tractive pains in the arms. Want of strength in the hands. Eczematous eruption on dorsum of hand and between fingers, itching and burning fearfully, from warmth.
 Pains in the hips, with spasmodic sufferings in the urinary passages. Acute tractive, piercing pains, in the legs, from the feet to the hips. Trembling of the legs. Darting pain from right foot to right side of h cad in paroxysms.

Common symptoms

 Burning pains, as from excoriation, in all the cavities of the body. Acute shootings towards the interior in different parts. Drawing, arthritic pains in the limbs, with affection of the urinary ducts, mitigated by rubbing. Violent pains, with groans and lamentations. Sensation of dryness in the joints. Want of flexibility of the whole body. Dejection and weakness, with excessive sensibility in all parts of the body, trembling, and desire to lie down. Prostration of strength, proceeding even to paralysis. - сonvulsions, tetanus. The sufferings show themselves chiefly on the right side, and are mitigated in a recumbent posture. The symptoms are renewed every seven days.

Skin

 Itching vesicles, with burning pain on being touched. - вlisters, from burns. Erysipelatous inflammations. Acute drawing pains in ulcers, with increased suppuration.

Sleep

 Great drowsiness, especially in the afternoon, with yawnings and stretching. Sleeplessness without apparent cause. At night, half sleep, with frequent waking.

Fever

 Pulse hard, full and rapid. Fever, which manifests itself only by cold. - сold and shivering, with cutis anserina and paleness of the face. Thirst only after the shivering. Perspiration; cold, especially on the hands and feet; on the genitals. Sweat, of the smell of urine. Pulsation through the trembling limbs.

Analogs by action

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