Materia Medica de A a Z

BOLETUS LARICIS = POLYPORUS OFFICINALE (Bol-la)

Quotidian intermittent fever. Sweat is light, and without relief. Night-sweat in phthisis

Head

Feels light and hollow with deep frontal headache. Thick, yellow coating of tongue; teeth indented. Constant nausea.

Fever

Chilliness along spine, with frequent, hot flashes. Yawns and stretches when chilly. Severe aching in shoulders and joints and small of back. PROFUSE PERSPIRATION AT NIGHT, with hectic chills and fever.

Skin

Hot and dry, especially in palms. Itching more between scapulae and on forearms.

Relationship

Compare: Agaricin (Agarin), active constituent of Polyporus officinale (phthisical and other enervating night-sweats 1-4 to 1-2 gr. doses; also in chorea, in dilatation of heart with pulmonary Emphysema, fatty degeneration, profuse perspiration and erythema.) Boletus luridus (Bol-lu). (Violent pain in epigastrium, urticaria tuberosa.) Boletus satanas (Bol-s) (dysentery, vomiting, great debility, cold extremities, spasm of extremities and face).

Dose

First attenuation.