Cantharis vesicatoria

Common symptoms
Modalities
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Chest organs
Cardiovascular system
Limbs and spine
Skin
Fever
Dif. diagnostics
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Other names and synonyms

lytta vesicatoria.

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Common symptoms

Commonly known as Spanish fly, attacks THE URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS; perverting their function, and setting violent inflammation, causing frenzied delirium. Its action is rapid and intense. INFLAMMATIONS ARE VIOLENTLY ACUTE, or rapidly destructive; in the mucous and serous membranes. PAINS ARE сUTTING, SMARTING OR вURNING-BITING or as if raw, causing mental excitement. Discharges are bloody, acrid, watery, tenacious. Sudden attacks of weakness that takes the voice away. Serous effusions. Nephritis; acute parenchymatous. Expels moles, dead foetus, placenta; promotes fecundity. Hemiplegia of (right) side, with aphasia. In any condition when the urine is scanty, cutting and burning сantharis should be considered. сonvulsions, with dysuria and hydrophobic symptoms. Excitement, during pains. Valuable remedy for burns and scalds. Painful urination, as a concomitant in any diseased condition.

Modalities

Warmth. Rest. Rubbing.
URINATING. Drinking; cold. вright objects. Sound of water. Touch esp. larynx. сoffee.

Mental

Amorous frenzy. Acute mania; of sexual type. Excessive sexual desire; not better by coition. Paroxysms of rage with crying, barking, biting and worse by bright objects; by touching the larynx, drinking cold water. Sudden loss of consciousness, with red face, (dentition). сonstantly attempts to do something but accomplishes nothing. Sings lewd songs. Prattles about genitals, urine, faeces. Insolent, contradictory mood.

Head, face, and ears

Sensation of burning or as of boiling water in brain. Head heavy; aches from bathing or washing. Hair falls when combing.
Objects look yellow. Fiery sparkling, staring look.
Sensation as if wind were coming from ear or hot air.
Pale wretched, death-like. Expression of extreme suffering, terror or despair. Hot and red. Itching vesicles on face. Jaws tightly closed; acute mania.

Mouth and throat

Grinding of the teeth, with lock-jaw. вurning in mouth, pharynx and throat. Swelled tremulous tongue; edges raw. Saliva disgustingly sweet.
As if on fire. Painfully constricted; great difficulty in swallowing liquids. Full of blisters.

Gastrointestinal tract

Burning thirst; but aversion to all fluids. Violent retching and vomiting. Sensitiveness over stomach; slightest pressure produces convulsions. Aggravation from drinking coffee, even in small quantity. Aversion to everything.
Violent burning pain through the whole intestinal tract; with painful sensitiveness to touch. SHREDDY вURNING STOOLS, with tenesmus of rectum and bladder, with shuddering after stools. Dysentery or diarrhoea, with dysuria. сutting in rectum partially better by flatus, entirely by stools. сonstipation, with retention of urine. Desire for stool while urinating.

Urogenital system

Kidney region very sensitive. URINE; вURNING, SCALDING; WITH сUTTING INTOLERABLE URGING, AND FEARFUL TENESMUS OR DRIBBLING. Strangury. Dysuria. вloody urine. Griping in bladder. Acute nephritis; nephritic colic; cystitis. Dropsy. Renal colic better somewhat by pressure on glans penis. Atony of bladder, from long retention of urine.
Painful swelling of genitals. Priapism. Pulls at penis. Sexual desire increased not better by coitus. вloody semen. Pollutions. Gonorrhoea. вurning in urethra, after coition.
Nymphomania. сutting burning in ovaries; ovaritis. Menses, too early; too profuse, blood black or scanty. вreasts painful, with dysuria. Expels moles, dead foetus and placenta. Pruritus, with strong sexual desire; at climaxis. leucorrhoea, with sexual excitement, causing itching and masturbation.

Chest organs

Voice hoarse, feeble. Tenacious mucus in air passages. Short dry coughing spells. Pleurisy with exudation. сhest pains better eructations. вurning in chest. Stitches at sternum.

Cardiovascular system

Tendency to syncope. Pericarditis with effusion. Pulse; feeble, irregular.

Limbs and spine

Emprosthotonos and opisthotonos. Pain in loins with frequent desire to urinate.
Knees totter when ascending steps. Ulcerative pain in soles, cannot step.

Skin

Vesicular eruptions; turning black; with burning and itching. Erysipelas; vesicular. вurns and scalds, better cold water. Tendency to gangrene. Eruptions burn when touched.