Materia Medica de A a Z

CANTHARIS VESICATORIA (Canth)

Region

MEMBRANES (Mucous and serous) (URINARY ORGANS. Bladder. Pharynx. Brain. Pleura. ower bowel). Pomum adami. Skin. Right side.

Worse

URINATING. Drinking; cold. Bright objects. Sound of water. Touch; larynx.

Better

Warmth. Rest.

General

Rapid and intense action. Excitement during the pains. CUTTING-SMARTING or BURNING-BITING PAINS; as if raw. VIOLENTLY ACUTE INFLAMMATION, or rapidly destructive. Discharge of bloody, acrid water. Serous effusion. Gangrene. Weak attacks, that take the voice away..................... Amorous frenzy. Rage. Yellow vision. Swelled, tremulous tongue; raw edges. Throat: full of blisters; painful swallowing. Throat and larynx painfully constricted, and as if afire. Burning thirst, but averse to liquids. Violent retching and vomiting. Sensitive over stomach and kidneys (Solid). Shreddy, burning stools, with tenesmus of rectum and bladder. BURNING, SCALDING URINE, WITH CUTTING, INTOLERABLE URGING AND FEARFUL TENESMUS OR DRIBBLING. Strangury. Dysuria. Bloody urine. Acute nephritis. Nephritic colic. Cystitis. Griping in bladder. Gonorrhoa. Dropsy. Painfully swelled genitals. Painful priapism. Pulls at penis. Sexual irritation. Pollutions. Many, short, dry coughing spells. Chest pains, amel. eructations. Pleurisy. Pericarditis. Vesicular erysipelas; turning dark (Ran-b). Bullæ. Chill, during stool. Urinous sweat; on genitals.

Complementary: Apis.

Antidote: Acon; Cam. (Camph)

Related: Apis; Ars; Merc-c.