(Spanish Fly)
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
gastrointestinal canal, especially lower bowel. Oversensitiveness of all
parts. Irritation. Raw, burning pains. Hemorrhages. 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. | ||
| Mind. Furious
delirium. Anxious restlessness, ending in rage. Crying, barking; worse
touching larynx or drinking water. Constantly attempts to do something, but
accomplishes nothing. Acute mania, generally of a sexual type;
amorous frenzy; fiery sexual desire. Paroxysms of rage, crying, barking.
Sudden loss of consciousness with red face. | ||
| Head. Burning
in brain. Sensation as if boiling water in brain. Vertigo; 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. [Caps.] | ||
| 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. [Kali-bi.] Violent spasms reproduced by touching larynx.
Inflammation of throat; feels on fire. Constriction; aphthous ulceration.
[Nit-ac.] Scalding feeling. Burnt after taking too
hot food. | ||
| Chest.
Pleurisy, as soon as effusion has taken place. Intense dyspnea;
palpitation; frequent, dry cough. Tendency to syncope. Short,
hacking cough, blood streaked tenacious mucus. Burning
pains. | ||
| Stomach.
Burning sensation of esophagus and stomach. [Carb-ac.] 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 tenesmus and
shuddering after stool. | ||
| Urine.
Intolerable urging and tenesmus. Nephritis with bloody urine.
Violent paroxysms of cutting and burning in whole renal region, with
painful urging to urinate; bloody urine, by drops. Intolerable
tenesmus; 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 erection. Pain in glans. Priapism in
gonorrhea. | ||
| Female.
Retained placenta [Sep.], with painful urination.
Expels moles, dead fetuses, membranes, etc. Nymphomania. [Lach.] 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. [Bry.; Kali-c.] 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 bleb formation. Secondary eczema about scrotum and
genitals, following excessive perspiration. Tendency to gangrene. Eruption
with mealy scales. Vesicular eruptions, 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. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, from touch, or approach, urinating, drinking cold water or
coffee. Better, rubbing. | ||
| Relationship.
Antidote: Acon.; Puls. Compare: Apis; Ars. | ||
| Dose. Sixth to
thirtieth potency. Bears repeated doses well. Locally, in burns and eczema,
1X and 2X, in water, or as
cerate. |