Cantharis - Hering
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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.
▲ 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.
≡ show all authors ...▲ 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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▲ 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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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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Face
Face much swollen and puffy; flushed when stooping; yellow, or very pale.
Lower face
Dry lips, without thirst.
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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
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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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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Back and neck
Lancinations and tearing in the os coccygis, causing him to start.
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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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Stool
Cutting in the rectum partially relieved by discharge of flatus, entirely relieved by stool.
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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
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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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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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.