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Cantharis - Hering

Spanish Fly, Cantharidin, Canth.
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HPUS indication of Cantharis: Minor burns

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Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Cantharis in traditional homeopathic usage (by Hering), not approved by the FDA.

  GENERAL

General

Spanish Fly. Hahnemann. Cantharis vesicatoria.

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  MODALITIES ETC

Desires and aversions

Aversions to all kinds of nourishment, particularly in the evening.

Immediately on cessation of pains, patient feels hungry.

Great thirst with burning pain in throat and stomach.

Thirst, with aversion to all fluids.

Disgust for everything.

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  RELATIONSHIPS

Relationship

Oil increases the pernicious effects of Canthar.

Antidotes

Antidotes Aconite Acon., Camphora Camphor, Laurocerasus Lauroc., Pulsatilla Pulsat.

Inimical

Inimical Coffea Tosta Coffea.

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  MIND

Mind

Anxious restlessness.

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  VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo; and staggering; and fainting; while walking in the open air, with transient attacks of unconsciousness; appearance of a fog before the eyes.

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  HEAD

Headache

Headache from washing or bathing.

Scalp

Hair falls out when combing.

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  EYES

Eyes

Lachrymation in the open air; must close the eyes; on opening lids, the margins pain as if sore, like raw flesh.

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  EARS

Ears

Tearing in the right ear and right mastoid process.

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  FACE

Face

Face much swollen and puffy; flushed when stooping; yellow, or very pale.

Lower face

Dry lips, without thirst.

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  NOSE

Nose

Mucus collects in posterior nares, difficult to dislodge.

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  MOUTH

Gums and teeth

Lock-jaw with grinding of the teeth.

Tongue

Tongue thickly furred, red at the edges; swollen and thickly coated; at base, in part excoriated, in part covered with blisters; trembling of the tongue.

Taste

Salivation; copious, tasteless; disgusting, sweet.

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  THROAT

Throat

Swallowing of liquids very difficult.

Larynx

Profuse catarrh of the air-passages, the mucus being tenacious, with painful hawking and nightly lancinating and dryness in the trachea.

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  CHEST

Lungs

Exudation within the pleura; dyspnoea, palpitation; scanty urine; tendency to syncope. See 44.

Respiration

When breathing deeply, and when speaking she feels as if she dare not exert herself on account of extraordinary dryness or weakness of the respiratory organs; speech therefore weak and timorous.

Heart and pulse

Pericarditis with effusion; pulse feeble, irregular; tendency to syncope.

Pulse very variable mostly hard, full and frequent, at times intermittent; frequent and small; slow, feeble and scarcely perceptible.

Outer chest

Burning on the chest.

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  COUGH

Cough

Dry, hacking.

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  SKIN

Skin

Burns, before blisters form.

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  BACK AND NECK

Back and neck

Lancinations and tearing in the os coccygis, causing him to start.

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  ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Hard tumefaction above the symphysis pubis, with burning pains in the loins.

Flatus

Incarceration of flatus under the short ribs.

Stomach

Sensation of fulness extending to chest and abdomen, after taking coffee.

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  RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Stool

Cutting in the rectum partially relieved by discharge of flatus, entirely relieved by stool.

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  GENITALS ETC

Urine

Before, during and after urinating, cutting pains in urethra.

Male

Testicles drawn up.

Genitals

Inflammation of the ovaries, with cutting or burning.

Pruritus, with strong sexual desire.

Pregnancy

Puerperal convulsions 36.

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  EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Tearing in limbs, relieved by rubbing.

Upper extremities

Tearing and stitching pains in the arms.

Lower extremities

Pain in the soles, as from an ulcer, could not step.

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  GENERALITIES

Sleep

Sleeplessness; anxious dreams.

Convulsions

Convulsions, with dysuria and hydrophobic symptoms; bright light, drink or sound of falling water, touching the larynx, or painful parts, cause or renew the spasm.

Nausea and vomiting

Vomiting of the water drunk, also of blood; greenish, offensive; or bile and ingesta; of frothy mucus, tinged bright red; with violent retching and severe colic.

Eating and drinking

Drinking, even small quantities of water, increases the pain in the bladder.

Tissues

Inflammation of serous membranes; pleurisy after Aconite Acon. and Bryonia Bryon.

Touch 19, 21, 36, 46. Pressure 10, 21, 33. Rubbing 34. When combing 4.

Sensations

Burning, stitching and tearing pains predominate.

Temperature and weather

Right side 6, 7, 13, 28, 33. Left side 29. Left to right 7, 28. Right to left 33. Below upwards 40.

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  MODALITIES ETC

Position etc

Motion 1, 21, 40. Walking 2, 3, 21. Standing 3, 21. Stooping 8, 31. Sitting 21. Lying 1, 3.

Some symptoms appear every seventh day.

General aggravation after midnight and during the day.

Morning 1, 3, 31. Afternoon 1, 3. Evening 21, 40. Night 7, 21, 22, 40.