- Clarke stated “This globular fungus, which, according to repor t is eaten in Italy before it is ripe, becomes filled, while ripening with a black🌿 BlackMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. dust that breaks the husk which contains it with a slight noise.” Corresponding to this signature, “bloated, puffy condition of body surface,” and a sense of “enlargement,” leading features of the Bov pathogenesis include flatulent disten tion and noisy passage of flatus.
- Guernsey added “We may always think of Bov when we see a very ‘tettery' person, one who has tetters here and there, all over the body.
- These tetters may be either moist or dry.” The puffball exerts its influence on the circulation, causing relaxation of the capil lary system, thereby ptoducinghemorrhagic diathesis.
- There is a general puffiness, bloated condition of body surface, which produces easy indentations with a blunt instrument (scissors etc.).
- EczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches.-like eruption.
- Herpes.
- Marked languor and lassitude.
- Laxity, especially felt in joints, which seem loose.
- Gre at weakness of the joints (has cured where Rhus🌿 RhusMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.-t seemed indicated and failed).
- Nervous joints.
- Enlarged or swollen feeling in head, heart, etc.
- Stage of numbness and tingling in multiple neuritisInflammation of a nerveInflammation of one or more nerves, causing pain, tenderness, numbness, or tingling in the affected area..
- Asphyxia due to charcoal fumes.
- Effects of over-exertion and application of tar locally.
- COMMENTS-Relaxation of entire capillary system.
- The heart feels enormously large.
- Hemorrhagic diathesis.
- HemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. from menstrual irregularities, from trauma.
- Hemorrhage between the periods.
- Menstrual flow occurring only or chiefly at night.
- Ovarian cysts🩺 Ovarian CystsClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Puffy condition of the body, surface instruments (e.g., scissors) indent the fingers in an unusual degree.
- Sweat of axilla, smells like onions.
- Early morning sweat, worse on chest.
- Many symptoms are worse in early morning, including the diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day..
- Sensitive to touch, cannot bear clothing.
- Sensitive to drafts, chilliness predominates.
- Warts and corns with shooting pains.
- Ebullitions with great thirst.
- “Itching at top of coccyx.” The corners of the mouth are broken out.
- Numb, pithy feeling in mouth.
- There is stuttering and stammering speech.
- Awkwardness, misapplies words in speaking and writing.
- ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants., causing the patient to bend double (Coloc.), better by eating, sometimes accompanied by voiding of red urine.
- M. L. Sircar recorded a striking cure of such a case with Bov.
- 3x, the pain being griping-twisting intermittent, starting be-low umbilicus and diffusing itself towards epigastrium, some constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass., urine scanty and reddish.
- Nothing gave relief except eating.
- Teste observed psoric eruptions appear on the hands and feet of a patient to whom he gave Bov for a headache.
- He cured with it “red, crusty eruptions on thighs and bends of knees of eighteen years' duration.” It disappeared for weeks, reappearing in hot weather and at the full moon.
- W. S. Gee recorded a case concerning a widow, 55.
- She had an eruption, which she thought to be erysipelas🩺 ErysipelasClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., on her right foot.
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- Some years before, she had an eruption on her left foot, which discharged much water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. and was “cured" by the use of a salve.
- A few months later, the left knee became af fected and the limb was amputated above the joint.
- The current eruption was fiery red, covered with yellowish-brown scales, thick as an old-fashioned wafer.
- There were also rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. pains in the leg.
- After Rhus-t had been given without benefit, she was cured with Bov.
- 4c.
- Dr. Gee elicited additional symptoms including “Occasional spells of short breathing, especially from working with the hands.
- Frequent desire to urinate, even immediately after urinating.
- Sleep disturbed by burning and itching and also by anxious, frightful dreams, headache when waking from sleep.” Lilienthal noted “moist vesicular erup tions with formation of thick crusts” <span style="color:#0d9488; font-weight:600; margin:0 6px;">➔</span> Bov was given with steady improvement and eventual cure.
- A case of cyst in the broad ligament was cured.
- It was accompanied by metrorrha gia, flow at night or early morning, easily provoked from slight over-exertion during menses.
- Could bear nothing tight around body.
- Menses were preceded and followed by diarrhea.
- Acrid, corrosive leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection., flowing at night only, follows menses.
- Temperature-Chills with pain.
- Chills after going to bed at night.
- Chill predominating, even near a warm stove.
- Chills all night: Shivering in evening🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., spreading from back.
- Shuddering alternating with flying heat.🌿 Heat.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Fever with thirst, anxiety and restlessness.
- Fever heat during sleep.
- Bloatedness of abdomen.
- Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist.
- FlatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind. or rumbling with constipation.
- Pain around umbilicus.
- Abdominal colic, with bright red urine.
- Flatulent colic relieved by eating and bending double.
- Offensive flatus.
- Sharp pain through perineum towards rectum and genitals.
- Coldness sensation moving about in abdomen.
- Ulceration in bowels.
- Excessive hunger, even after meals.
- No appetite for cooked food, desire for bread only.
- Desire for brandy, wine, milk.🌿 Milk.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Hot food relieves.
- Worse spirituous liquors, wine, cold food.
- Confusion from spirituous liquors, after wine.
- Thirst for cold drinks.
- Thirst during chill and heat
