CANTHARIS

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Bladder affections
  • Burns
  • Chordee
  • Diphtheria
  • Dysentery
  • Eczema
  • Emissions
  • Erotomania
  • Erysipelas
  • Eyes, inflammation of
  • Gastritis
  • Gonorrhea
  • Herpes zoster
  • Hydrophobia
  • Kidneys, affections of
  • Mania
  • Neuralgia
  • Nymphomania
  • Ovaries, affections of
  • Peritonitis
  • Pleurisy
  • Pregnancy, disorders of
  • Retained placenta
  • Satyriasis
  • Scarlatina
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Strangury
  • Thirst
  • Throat, sore
  • Tongue, inflammation of
  • Urine, abnormal
  • Vesication of skin
  • Anger
  • Paroxysms of rage
  • Irritation
  • Burning pains
  • Sharp pains
  • Lancinating pains
  • Neuralgia of head and face from taking cold
  • Loud screams
  • Jerking of muscles
  • Violent spasms reproduced by touching larynx
  • Amorous frenzy
  • Unbounded sexual desire
  • Sexual erethism
  • Sexual excitability
  • Inflammation of brain tissues
  • Bright eyes
  • Widely dilated pupils
  • Erysipelas commencing in nose
  • Pale face
  • Yellowish face
  • Deep-seated suffering
  • Diphtheritic inflammation of throat
  • Severe burning in throat
  • Constriction in throat
  • Aversion to drinking
  • Inflamed stomach
  • Colic-like pain in abdomen
  • Cutting pain in abdomen
  • Burning pain in abdomen
  • Lancinating pain in abdomen
  • Dysenteric stools with tenesmus
  • Extreme superficial sensitiveness in hypogastrium
  • Unbearable tenesmus vesicae
  • Cutting pain from kidney to urethra
  • Burning pain from kidney to urethra
  • Can pass only a few drops of urine
  • Sexual appetite aroused to point of mania
  • Pleurisy with effusion
  • Burning stitches
  • Shooting pains
  • Exudation
  • Frequent micturition with burning cutting pain
  • Tenacious mucus
  • Ropy mucus
  • Symptoms worse when urine is scanty
  • Increased secretions of membranes
  • Expels moles
  • Expels dead fetus
  • Expels placentae
  • Promotes fecundity
  • Dejected humour
  • Lachrymose humour
  • Anxious inquietude
  • Agitation
  • Want of confidence
  • Pusillanimity
  • Timidity
  • Disposition to be angry
  • Paroxysms of rage with cries, blows, and barkings
  • Delirium
  • Insanity
  • Mania with extravagant acts and gestures
  • Constantly attempting to do something, but accomplishing nothing
  • Vertigo with loss of consciousness
  • Mist before the sight
  • Headache that interrupts sleep
  • Pressive lancinations in the head
  • Acute drawing pains in the head
  • Vertigo
  • Congestion in the head
  • Throbbing in the brain
  • Heat ascending to the head
  • Sensation of burning in the head, as if the interior were raw
  • Inflammation of the brain
  • Drawing, jerking, and gnawing in the bones of the head
  • Headache, as if the hair were pulled
  • Hair standing on end
  • Headache, as if coming from the nape of the neck, and wishing to escape by the forehead
  • Burning in the sides of the head, ascending from the neck
  • Soreness in head
  • Giddiness
  • Pain in the eyes
  • Sensation as if the eyelids were excoriated
  • Inflammation of the eyes with burning smarting
  • Yellowish colour of the eyes
  • Prominence and convulsive movements of the eyes
  • Fiery look
  • Sparkling look
  • Staring look
  • Objects seemed to be tinged with a yellow hue
  • Inflammation and burning heat of the ears
  • Swelling of the nose
  • Redness of the nose
  • Burning heat of the nose
  • Erysipelatous inflammation of the dorsum of the nose
  • Extending to the cheeks (r.)
  • Hardness of nose
  • Subsequent desquamation of nose
  • Fetid smell before the nose
  • Sickly smell before the nose
  • Coryza of long duration
  • Catarrh
  • Copious flow of viscid mucus from the nose
  • Paleness of the face
  • Hollow face
  • Hippocratic face
  • Features which express anguish and despair
  • Yellowish colour of the face
  • Erysipelatous inflammation and desquamation of the cheeks
  • Burning redness and swelling of the face
  • Swelling at one side of the face (r.)
  • Tension in face
  • Swelling and inflammation of the lips
  • Fissure and exfoliation of the lips
  • Trismus
  • Toothache, generally drawing
  • Fistula in the gums
  • Ulceration of the gums
  • Taste of cedar pitch in the mouth
  • Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth
  • Inflammation of the mouth and pharynx
  • Inflammation and suppuration of the tonsils
  • Inability to swallow
  • Burning in the mouth, extending down the pharynx
  • Esophagus and stomach
  • Phlegmonous inflammation of the interior of the cheek
  • Aphthae in the mouth
  • Frothy salivation
  • Streaks of blood in saliva
  • Foam at the mouth
  • Coagulated blood coming from the mouth
  • Inflammatory swelling and suppuration of the tongue
  • Suppuration of the gums
  • Fistula dentalis (suppurating) (upper incisors)
  • Weakness of the organs of speech
  • Languid diction
  • Sore throat, on swallowing
  • Difficult deglutition
  • Strangulation in the throat
  • Nocturnal regurgitation of food
  • Impeded deglutition, esp. in the case of liquids
  • Burning in the throat, on swallowing
  • Inflammation and ulceration of the tonsils and of the throat
  • Burning pains in the throat
  • Loss of taste
  • Taste of pitch in the mouth and in the throat
  • Thirst, from dryness of the lips
  • Repugnance to all drinks
  • Want of appetite
  • Disgust and repugnance to all sorts of food
  • Risings, with burning sensation
  • Pyrosis
  • Sob-like risings, which seem to take an inverse direction and to return towards the stomach
  • Vomiting of undigested food
  • Vomiting of bilious and slimy substances, or of blood
  • Great sensitiveness of the precordial region
  • Pressive fullness, with anxiety and inquietude in the stomach
  • Smarting and burning pains in the stomach
  • Inflammation of the stomach
  • Pains in abdomen, after taking coffee
  • Inflammation of the liver
  • Shootings and contraction in r. hypochondrium
  • Great sensibility of the abdomen to the touch
  • Burning pain in the abdomen, from the gullet to the rectum
  • Burning pain above the navel, on coughing, on sneezing, on blowing the nose, with yellowish spots on the part affected
  • Inflammation of the intestines
  • Dropsical swelling of the abdomen
  • Incarceration of flatulency under the hypochondria
  • Constipation and hard faeces
  • Diarrhoea, with evacuation of frothy matter, or of greenish mucus
  • Cutting pains after the evacuation
  • Burning pains in the rectum
  • During stool, burning in the anus
  • Prolapsus ani
  • After stool, chilliness and tenesmus
  • Dysenteric diarrhoea, with nocturnal evacuation of whitish mucus, and of solid pieces, like false membranes, with streaks of blood
  • Sanguineous evacuations
  • Retention of urine, with cramp-like pains in the bladder
  • Urgent and ineffectual efforts to make water, with painful emission, drop by drop
  • Difficult emission of urine, in a weak and scattered stream
  • Increased secretion of urine
  • Urine, pale yellow, or of a deep red colour
  • Flow of sanguineous mucus from the bladder
  • Emission of blood, drop by drop
  • Purulent urine
  • Burning smarting, on making water
  • Incisive pains in the front part of the urethra, during the emission of urine, and afterwards
  • Sharp, tearing, and incisive pains, successive pullings and pulsations in the urinary organs
  • Burning, stinging and tearing in the kidneys
  • Pressing pain in the kidneys, extending to the bladder; along the ureters; relieved by pressing upon the glans
  • Inflammation and ulceration of the kidneys, of the bladder, and of the urethra
  • Exceedingly painful sensibility of the region of the bladder on its being touched
  • Draggings in the spermatic cord, on making water
  • Inflammation and gangrene of the genital parts
  • Painful swelling of the testes
  • Sexual desire greatly increased, with painful, frequent erections (with gonorrhoea), of long continuance, as in priapismus
  • Ready emission, during amorous caresses
  • Spermatorrhoea
  • After coition, burning pain in the urethra
  • Catamenia premature and too copious, with black blood and pains during the flow
  • Voiding of moles, of foetus, and of placentae
  • Inflammation of the ovaries
  • Swelling of the cervix uteri
  • Corrosive leucorrhoea, with burning sensation on making water, and excitement of sexual desire
  • Hoarseness, with painful rattling of viscid mucus, copious, and coming from the chest, and with incisive shootings in the trachea
  • Oppression of breathing, with sensation of constriction of the pharynx
  • Stitches in the chest during air inspiration
  • Inflammation of the lungs
  • Inflammation of the larynx
  • Sensation of excessive weakness in the organs of respiration, on speaking and on breathing deeply
  • Voice feeble, timid, and trembling
  • Respiration rendered difficult and oppressed by constriction of the throat, and dryness of the nose
  • Suspension of respiration in going up a hill, with rattling in the chest and nausea
  • Shootings in the chest, and in the sides
  • Burning pains in the chest, from whence small clots of blood are at times detached
  • Palpitation of the heart
  • Stiffness in the nape of the neck, with tension when bending it over
  • Acute drawing pains in the back
  • Tearing in the back (after rising from a seat)
  • Sensation of constriction in the spine
  • Emprosthotonos and opisthotonos
  • Weakness and swelling of limbs
  • Dropsical swelling of hands and feet
  • Cold sweat of hands and feet
  • Acute tractive pains in the arms
  • Want of strength in the hands
  • Eczematous eruption on dorsum of hand and between fingers, itching and burning fearfully
  • Pains in the hips, with spasmodic sufferings in the urinary passages
  • Acute tractive, piercing pains, in the legs, from the feet to the hips
  • Trembling of the legs
  • Darting pain from r. foot to r. side of h cad in paroxysms
  • Burning pains, as from excoriation, in all the cavities of the body
  • Acute shootings towards the interior in different parts
  • Drawing, arthritic pains in the limbs, with affection of the urinary ducts, mitigated by rubbing
  • Violent pains, with groans and lamentations
  • Sensation of dryness in the joints
  • Want of flexibility of the whole body
  • Dejection and weakness, with excessive sensibility in all parts of the body, trembling, and desire to lie down
  • Prostration of strength, proceeding even to paralysis
  • Convulsions, tetanus
  • The sufferings show themselves chiefly on the r. side, and are mitigated in a recumbent posture
  • The symptoms are renewed every seven days
  • Itching vesicles, with burning pain on being touched
  • Blisters, from burns
  • Erysipelatous inflammations
  • Acute drawing pains in ulcers, with increased suppuration
  • Great drowsiness, esp. in the afternoon, with yawnings and stretching
  • Sleeplessness without apparent cause
  • At night, half sleep, with frequent waking
  • Pulse hard, full and rapid
  • Fever, which manifests itself only by cold
  • Cold and shivering, with cutis anserina and paleness of the face
  • Thirst only after the shivering
  • Perspiration; cold, esp. on the hands and feet; on the genitals
  • Sweat, of the smell of urine
  • Pulsation through the trembling limbs

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

  • Inflammatory condition
  • Rapid gangrenous state
  • Attacks urinary tract
  • Uraemic state
  • Sudden loss of consciousness with red face
  • Stupor
  • Confusion of mind
  • Strange ideas
  • Thoughts run riot
  • Head hot
  • Frenzy
  • Delirium
  • Excitement and rage
  • Paroxysms renewed by dazzling or bright objects, touching larynx, or trying to drink water
  • Fear
  • Confusion of ideas
  • Sexual thoughts
  • Sexual frenzy
  • Violent amorous frenzy
  • Painful and violent erections
  • Penis inflamed and sore
  • Insolence
  • Blasphemy
  • Restlessness ending in rage
  • Violent delirious state intermingled with sexual ideas and talk
  • Deliriously sings lewd songs
  • Prattles on the subject of genitals, urine and faces
  • Violent, bursting, lancinating headaches as if stabbed with a knife
  • Burning in the head, throbbing and stabbing
  • Unconsciousness and delirium
  • Burning in the side of the head
  • Stitches in the side of the head and occiput
  • Lancinating pains deep in the brain
  • Hair falls out
  • Burning in the eyes
  • Atmosphere looks yellow
  • Smarting in the eyes
  • Erysipelas of the eyes with gangrenous tendency
  • Eyes hot, scalding tears
  • Erysipelas of the face, dorsum of the nose, involving the lids
  • Burning in the erysipelatous area
  • Skin around burns from the touch
  • Blisters burn like fire when touched
  • Eruptions burn when touched
  • Prostration
  • Pallid
  • Hippocratic countenance
  • Gangrene and violent inflammation of bowels, bladder, brain, spine and lungs
  • Sinking
  • Inflammation of the lungs, gangrenous type
  • Prostration
  • Lung burns like fire
  • Cadaverous smelling expectoration, thin, bloody, watery
  • Nose contracted
  • Urine is suppressed
  • Drooling a bloody saliva from his mouth
  • Burning in the throat
  • Great thirst with burning in the throat and stomach
  • Aversion to all fluids
  • Violent burning in the stomach, pylorus, abdomen
  • Abdomen is swollen and tympanitic
  • Lancinating pains, cutting and stabbing
  • Diarrhoea of bloody mucus or serum, watery, bloody fluids from the bowels and stomach
  • Watery bloody fluid from the eyes
  • Watery fluid burns and excoriates the skin
  • Bloody urine
  • Desire for stool while urinating
  • Violent tenesmus to pass urine and stool
  • Parts are inflamed and on fire
  • Tenesmus and urging not only when the bladder is empty, but often when the bladder is full
  • Retention of urine
  • Violent tenesmus of the bladder
  • Cutting pains with tenesmus
  • Lancinating, stabbing like knives, in neck of bladder
  • Pains shoot off in different directions
  • Violent pains with frequent urging
  • Constant tenesmus
  • Anxious state and frenzy
  • Urging to pass urine and stool with sexual erethism
  • Urinary organs and genitalia in a state of inflammation and gangrene
  • Burning when urinating
  • Bloody urine burns like fire in the bladder and about the genitals
  • Oversensitiveness of all parts in female
  • Inflammation of the ovaries and uterus
  • Burning in the vagina
  • Membranous dysmenorrhoea
  • Menses too early, profuse, black
  • Puerperal convulsions
  • Retained placenta
  • Violent lancinating pains through the kidneys and back
  • Pains in the loins, kidneys and abdomen
  • Pain on urinating, so that he moaned and screamed on passing a drop

Allen's Keynotes

  • oversensitiveness of all parts
  • haemorrhages from nose, mouth, intestines, genital and urinary organs
  • pain; raw, sore, burning in every part of the body, internally and externally; with extreme weakness
  • disgust for everything; drink, food, tabacco
  • drinking even small quantities of water increases pain in the bladder
  • constant urging to urinate, passing but a few drops at the time, which is mixed with blood
  • intolerable urging, before, during and after urination; violent pains in bladder
  • burning, cutting pains in urethra during micturition; violent tenesmus and strangury
  • stool: passage of white or pale, red, tough mucus, like scrapings from the intestines, with streaks of blood
  • bloody, nocturnal emission
  • sexual desire: increased both sexes; preventing sleep; violent priapism, with excessive pain
  • tenacious mucus in the air passages
  • skin: vesicular erysipelas; vesicles all over body which are sore and suppurating
  • erythema from exposure to sun's rays

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