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BOVISTA

Puffball

Clinical Picture:
Stammering in children (Stramonium).
Intolerance of tight clothing around the waist (Calcarea carbonica, Lachesis, Sulphur).
Sweat in axillae, smells like putrefying onions.
Hemorrhage, after extraction of teeth (Phosphorus, Hamamelis virginica); from wounds; epistaxis.
Intolerable itching at the tip of the coccyx; patient scratches compulsively till the area becomes raw and sore.
Acne worse in summer. Urticaria in the morning, worse after bathing.
Menses too early and too profuse, worse at night.
Diarrhea in old people, worse at night and early morning.
Objects fall from the hands.

Modalities:
Worse:

Night.
Early morning.
Summer.
Bathing.

Relations:
Similar to Magnesium sulphuricum and Sepia in menstrual irregularities. When Rhus toxicodendron seems indicated, but fails to cure chronic urticaria, this remedy is useful.

Summary of Indications:
Stammering hemorrhages - epistaxis - pruritus - acne - menstrual disorders - geriatric diarrheas.

Antidotes:
Camphora officinalis.