{"id":16071,"remedy_name":"Bovista Gigantea","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Hot","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"Source: Derived from the whole fungus of Bovista lycoperdon (puffball mushroom), a member of. the  Agaricaceae  family,  prepared  for  homeopathic  use  through  potentization  involving  serial. dilution and succussion. Traditional Context : Historically employed in homeopathy for  hemorrhagic, dermatological,. and neurological disorders , particularly those involving bleeding tendencies, skin eruptions, and. mental dullness. It is noted for symptoms such as epistaxis, metrorrhagia, urticaria, and clumsiness,. often aggravated by warmth, menses, or full moon, and ameliorated by cool air, rest, or eating. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  hemorrhagic  conditions (e.g.,  epistaxis,  menorrhagia),. dermatological  disorders (e.g.,  urticaria,  eczema),  neurological  complaints (e.g.,  vertigo,. coordination issues), and psychological conditions (e.g., mental dullness, mild depression). It suits. patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by  bleeding tendencies ,  skin eruptions ,. clumsiness, and  mental fog , typically exacerbated by warmth, hormonal changes, or emotional. stress, and often seen in individuals with a history of recurrent bleeding, allergic skin conditions, or. neurological sensitivity. The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a sensitive, sluggish. constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like hives or nosebleeds alongside emotional. traits  like  apathy  or  confusion,  commonly  observed  in  women  with  menstrual  irregularities,. individuals  with  allergic  tendencies,  or  patients  with  chronic  dermatological  or  hemorrhagic. complaints.","modalities":"Worse from: Warmth (air, weather, rooms), menses, full moon, motion, scratching, damp. weather, night, emotional stress, tight clothing, exertion, lying down, sudden movement.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Awkward in speech and action, drops things. Everything falls from hands.  Absentminded. Weak \nmemory. Inattentive. Slowness of understanding and comprehension. Dullness, with restlessness.  \nAlternating moods. Laughs and cries alternately. Sensitive, takes offense at ev erything. Ill-humor, aversion \nto all things. Quarrelsome. Wants to fight. Fear of insanity on waking from a dream. Irritable, takes everything \namiss. \nConfusion on waking. Confusion while standing. Confus ion when stooping. Enlarged sensation  (Arg-n.). \nStares vacantly into space. Sad when alone. Cheerful in company. Mental symptoms from sexual excesses. Awkward in speech and action, drops things. Everything falls from hands.  Absentminded. Weak \nmemory. Inattentive. Slowness of understanding and comprehension. Dullness, with restlessness.  \nAlternating moods. Laughs and cries alternately. Sensitive, takes offense at ev erything. Ill-humor, aversion \nto all things. Quarrelsome. Wants to fight. Fear of insanity on waking from a dream. Irritable, takes everything \namiss. \nConfusion on waking. Confusion while standing. Confus ion when stooping. Enlarged sensation  (Arg-n.). \nStares vacantly into space. Sad when alone. Cheerful in company. Mental symptoms from sexual excesses.","Vertigo":"V ertigo with feeling of stupidity in head on rising. Vertigo and confusion of head after sex. Vertigo, \nfalls over, momentarily unconscious in morning. Sudden attacks of vertigo while standing. \nCOMMENTS - Relaxation of entire capillary system. The heart feels enormously large. Hemorrhagic diathesis. \nHemorrhage from menstrual irregularities, from trauma. Hemorrhage between the periods. Menstrual flow \noccurring only or chiefly at night. Ovarian cysts. \nPuffy condition of the body, surface instruments (e.g., scissors) indent the fingers in an unusual degree. Sweat \nof axilla, smells like onions. Early morning sweat, worse on chest. Many symptoms are worse in early morning, \nincluding the diarrhea. Sensitive to touch, cannot bear clothing. Sensitive to drafts, chilliness predominates.  \nWarts and corns with shooting pains. Ebullitions with great thirst. \u201cItching at top of coccyx.\u201d The corners of the \nmouth are broken out. N umb, pithy feeling in mouth. There is stuttering and stammering speech. \nAwkwardness, misapplies words in speaking and writing. \nColic, causing the patient to bend double (Coloc.), better by eating, sometimes accompanied by voiding of red \nurine. \nM. L. Sircar recorded a striking cure of such a case with Bov. 3x, the pain being griping -twisting intermittent, \nstarting be- \nlow umbilicus and diffusing itself towards epigastrium, some constipation, urine scanty and reddish. Nothing \ngave relief except eating. \nTeste observed psoric eruptions appear on the hands and feet of a patient to whom he gave Bov. for a \nheadache. He cured with it \u201cred, crusty eruptions on thighs and bends of knees of eighteen years' duration.\u201d It \ndisappeared for weeks, reappearing in hot weather and at the full moon. \nW. S. Gee recorded a case concerning a widow, 55. She had an eruption, which she thought to be erysipelas, \non her right foot. . Some years before, she had an eruption on her left foot, which discharged much water and \nwas \u201ccured\" by the use of a salve. A few months later, the left knee became af fected and the limb was \namputated above the joint. \nThe current eruption was fiery red, covered with yellowish-brown scales, thick as an old-fashioned wafer. There \nwere also rheumatic pains in  the leg. After Rhus -t. had been given without benefit, she was cured with Bov. \n4c. \nDr. Gee elicited additional symptoms including \u201cOccasional spells of short breathing, especially from working \nwith the hands. Frequent desire to urinate, even immediately a fter urinating. Sleep disturbed by burning and \nitching and also by anxious, frightful dreams, headache when waking from sleep.\u201d  \nLilienthal noted \u201cmoist vesicular erup tions with formation of thick crusts\u201d; Bov. was given with steady \nimprovement and eventual cure. \nA case of cyst in the broad ligament was cured. It was accompanied by metrorrha gia, flow at night or early \nmorning, easily provoked from slight over -exertion during menses. Could bear nothing tight around body. \nMenses were preceded and followed by  diarrhea. Acrid, corrosive leucorrhea, flowing at night only, follows \nmenses.","Head":"Dull, bruised pain in brain. Confu sion on waking. Staggering, confusion and numbness in head after \nsex. Tension headaches, worse early morning, open air, lying. Stupefying headache in forehead and vertex. \nSensation as if head were enlargin g, especially of occiput. As if wedge is pressed in occiput. Scalp itches, \nworse warmth, sensitive, must scratch until sore. Falling out of hair. Scalp tender to touch. Dull, bruised pain in brain. Confu sion on waking. Staggering, confusion and numbness in head after \nsex. Tension headaches, worse early morning, open air, lying. Stupefying headache in forehead and vertex. \nSensation as if head were enlargin g, especially of occiput. As if wedge is pressed in occiput. Scalp itches, \nworse warmth, sensitive, must scratch until sore. Falling out of hair. Scalp tender to touch.","Eyes":"Eyes look weak and dim. Inflammation of eyelids, with nightly agglutination. Pressure in orbits. Vertical \nhalf-sight. Objects seem to be nearer than they really are. Stares at one point. Loss of vision from paralysis of \noptic nerve.","Ears":"Boil in right ear with pain, worse swallowing. Discharge of fetid pus. Indistinct hearing, misunderstands \nmuch \nBovista lycoperdon that is spoken.","Face":"Frequent violent alternations of color. Acne, worse in summer, due to use of cosmetics. Cheeks and \nlips swollen. Crusts about corners of mouth. Twitching of muscles, before asthma. Pale swelling of cheek after \ntoothache.","Mouth":"Putrid taste. Stammering when reading with inability to pronounce several words rapidly. Stammering \n(Stram., Merc.). Mouth dry, as if sand were in it. Numbness. Increased saliva. Offensive odor from mouth. \nGums bleed easily on sucking them. Bleeding after tooth extrac tion. Lips chapped, cracked, crusty.  Pale \nswelling of upper lip. Scurf and crusts about nostrils and corners of mouth. Corners of mouth sore.  \nNose - Nose stopped up, cannot breathe, worse lying down. Scurf and crusts about nostrils and corners of \nmouth. Discharge from nose, stringy, tough. Watery coryza \nwith dizziness. Bleeding of nose and gums. Nosebleed with menstrual irregularity, or from trauma. Bleeding \nearly in the morning (during sleep), a few drops escape on sneezing. \nPerspiration - Sweat in axilla, onion smell. Sweats in morning, most profuse on chest.","Throat":"Burning pain in throat. Sharp pain in throat before asthma. Sore throat with scratching and burning in \n \n \nesophagus. Scratching sensation in larynx with viscid mucus.  Rawness in larynx, mornings, with catarrhal \nspeech. Hoarseness in morning, with scraping in throat. \nTongue - Soreness or ulcers on edges of tongue. Burning in tip of tongue early in morning on waking. Cutting \npain in tongue, before asthma. Numbness of pos terior portion of tongue early in morning on waking. Tongue \nfeels almost like wood.","Chest":"Oppression of chest, as from con striction, with desire to loosen clothes. Sharp pains in various parts \nof chest. Sweat in axilla, onion smell. Burning in outer chest. \nConstitutions - Hemorrhagic diathesis. Adapted to old maids with palpitations and stammering children. Heart feels enormously large. Palpitations as if heart working in water. Palpit ations with tremor of \nhands, worse bathing, excitement. Palpitations worse after eating. Palpitations with restlessness, nausea and \nheadache. Palpitations \nBovista lycoperdon during menses. Visible palpitations of the heart. \nKidneys - Frequent desire to ur inate, even immediately after urination. Diabetes mellitus. Stinging, itching, \nburning in urethra. Bright red urine. Urine bright yellow. Urine with slowly forming cloud, turbid. Urine like loam \nwater. Urine with violet sediment. Asthma preceded by twitching of facial muscles. Shortness of breath on moving the arms. Viscid \nexpectoration. Spasmodic laughing and crying with asthma. Dry cough, caused by tickling in throat and chest. \nCough after coming into room from cold air. Loose cough in evening, dry in morning.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Empty eructations. Intolerant of tight clothing around waist. Hiccough before and after dinner. \nSensation as if a lump of ice in stomach. Pressure and fulness in pit. Nausea better breakfast. Nausea with \nchilliness, whole forenbon. Morning sickness, vomits only water. Vomits watery fluid. \nTemperature - Chills with pain. Chills after going to bed at night. Chill predominating, even near a warm stove. \nChills all \nnight: Shivering in evening, spreading from back. Shuddering alternating with  flying heat. Fever with thirst, \nanxiety and restlessness. Fever heat during sleep. Bloatedness of abdomen. Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist. Flatulence or rumbling with \nconstipation. Pain around umbilicus. Abdominal colic, with bright red urine. Flatulent colic. Colic relieved by \neating and bending double. Offensive flatus. Sharp pain through perineum towards rectum and genitals. \nColdness sensation moving about in abdomen. Ulceration in bowels. Excessive hunger, even after meals. No appetite for cooked food, desire for bread only. Desire for \nbrandy, wine, milk. Hot food relieves. Worse spirituous liquors, wine, cold food. Confusion from spirituous \nliquors, after wine. Thirst for cold drinks. Thirst during chill and heat.","Urinary & Genital":"Increased sexual desire. Reeling and confusion in head after sex. Burning pain in genitals. Menses too early. Menses too profuse, worse at night.  Menses every \ntwo weeks, much dark and clotted blood. Soreness of pubes during menses. Traces of menses between \nmenstruation. Leucorrhea a few days before or a few days after menses. Leucorrhea like white of egg, when \nwalking. Leucorrhoea acrid, thick, tough, greenish,  leaving green spots on linen worse while walking after \n \n \nmenses. Metrorrhagia. Cannot bear tight cloth ing around waist  (Lach.). Ovarian cysts. Voluptuous \nsensation.","Extremities":"Great weakness of all joints, clumsiness with her hands, drops things from hands. Weariness of hands \nand feet. Moist eczema on back of hand. Weak hands. Heavy, painful legs. Itching of feet and legs. Tip of \ncoccyx itches intolerably. Edematous swelling of (right) foot even years after a sprain. Edema of joints after \nfracture.","Neck & Back":"Pain in the back with heaviness after stooping. Tip of coccyx itches intolerably. Pain and stiffness of \nback after stooping. Stiffness of neck in morning. Shooting pains between the shoulders are better from \nbending, straightening up. Sharp pains in neck. \nCausations - Antidotes effects of charcoal fumes.","Skin":"Chronic  fatigue  or  weakness,  with  a  sensation  of  heaviness  or  sluggishness,. resembling chronic fatigue syndrome or post-inflammatory exhaustion, worse after. exertion, warmth, or bleeding episodes. Heat intolerance, with aggravation in warm, humid weather and a desire for cool air. or open spaces. Profuse,  hot,  or  sticky  sweating,  particularly  during  bleeding,  skin,  or  vertigo. episodes, worse at night or in warm conditions. Mild fever or chills during acute hemorrhagic or dermatological episodes, with a. sensation of internal heat, worse in warmth or after exertion. Gynecological:. Heavy, painful, or irregular menses, with bright red or clotted blood, resembling. menorrhagia or hormonal imbalances, worse with warmth or full moon. Premenstrual syndrome (PMS), with skin eruptions, irritability, or bloating, worse. before or during menses. Sensation of pelvic heaviness or bearing-down pain, often linked to heavy bleeding,. worse during rest or warmth.","Sleep":"Spasmodic yawning before asthma, morning sweat in bed. Night Great drowsi ness in afternoon and \nearly evening and after eating, rest disturbed by burning and itching of nettle -rash. Restless sleep with many \nanxious, frightful dreams."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}