Cantharis vesicatoria

Cantharis vesicatoria
(spanish fly)
* This powerful drug produces a furious disturbance in the animal economy, attacking the
urinary and sexual organs especially, perverting their function, and setting up violent
inflammations, and causing a frenzied delirium, simulating hydrophobia symptoms.
[Anagallis.]
* Puerperal convulsions.
* Produces most violent inflammation of the whole gastro-intestinal canal, especially lower
bowel.
* Oversensitiveness of all parts.
* Irritation.
* Raw, burning pains.
* Haemorrhages.
* Intolerable, constant urging to urinate is most characteristic.
* Gastric, hepatic and abdominal complaints that are aggravated by drinking coffee.
* Gastric derangements of pregnancy.
* Dysuria, with other complaints.
* Increases secretion of mucous membranes, tenacious mucus.
* The inflammations cantharis produces (bladder, kidneys, ovaries, meninges, pleuritic and
pericardial membranes)are usually associated with bladder irritation.
Mind
- Furious delirium.
- Anxious restlessness, ending in rage.
- Crying, barking; worse touching larynx or drinking water.
- Constantly attempts to do something, but accomplishes nothing.
- Acute maniac, generally of a sexual type; amorous frenzy; fiery sexual desire.
- Paroxysms of rage, crying, barking.
- Sudden loss of consciousness with red face.
Head
- Burning in brain.
- Sensation as if boiling water in brain.
- Vertigo; worse in open air.
Eyes
- Yellow vision. [Santon.]
- Fiery, sparkling, staring look.
- Burning in eyes.
Ears
- Sensation as if wind were coming from ear, or hot air.
- Bones about ear painful. [Capsic.]
Face
- Pale, wretched, death-like appearance.
- Itching vesicles on face, burning when touched.
- Erysipelas of face, with burning, biting heat with urinary symptoms.
- Hot and red.
Throat
- Tongue covered with vesicles; deeply furred; edges red.
- Burning in mouth, pharynx, and throat; vesicles in mouth.
- Great difficulty in swallowing liquids.
- Very tenacious mucus. [Kali. bich.]
- Violent spasms reproduced by touching larynx.
- Inflammation of throat; feels on fire.
- Constriction; aphthous ulceration. [Hydr. mur.; Nit. ac.]
- Scalding feeling.
- Burnt after taking too hot food.
Chest
- Pleurisy, as soon as effusion has taken place.
- Intense dyspnoea; palpitation; frequent, dry cough.
- Tendency to syncope.
- Short, hacking cough, blood-streaked tenacious mucus.
- Burning pains.
Stomach
- Burning sensation of oesophagus and stomach. [Carb.]
- Disgust for everything-drink, food, tobacco.
- Burning thirst, with aversion to all fluids.
- Very sensitive, violent burning.
- Vomiting of blood-streaked membrane and violent retching.
- Aggravation from drinking coffee; drinking the smallest quantity increases pain in bladder,
and is vomited.
- Thirst unquenchable.
Stool
- Shivering with burning.
- Dysentery; mucous stools, like scrapings of intestines.
- Bloody, with burning and tenesmus and shudderingafter stool.
Urine
- Intolerable urging and tenesmus.
- Nephritis with bloody urine.
- Violent paroxysms of cutting and burning in whole renal region, with painful urging to
urinate; bloody urine, by drops.
- Intolerable tenesmus; cutting before, during, and after urine.
- Urine scalds him, and is passed drop by drop. Constant desire to urinate.
- Membranous scales looking like bran in water.
- Urine jelly-like, shreddy.
Male
- Strong desire; painful erections.
- Pain in glans. [Prunus; Pareira.]
- Priapism in gonorrhoea.
Female
- Retained placenta [Sep.], with painful urination.
- Expels moles, dead foetuses, membranes, etc.
- Nymphomania. [Plat.; Hyos.; Lach.; Stram.] Puerperal metritis, with inflammation of
bladder.
- Menses too early and too profuse; black swellingof vulva with irritation.
- Constant discharge from uterus; worse false step.
- Burning pain in ovaries; extremely sensitive.
- Pain in os coccyx, lancinating and tearing.
Respiratory
- Voice low; weak feeling.
- Stitches in chest. [Bry.; Kal.c. ; Squilla.]
- Pleurisy, with exudation.
Heart
- Palpitation; pulse feeble, irregular; tendency to syncope.
- Pericarditis, with effusion.
Back
- Pain in loins, with incessant desire to urinate.
Extremities
- Tearing in limbs.
- Ulcerative pain in soles; cannot step.
Skin
- Dermatitis venenata with bled formation.
- Secondary eczema about scrotum and genitals, following excessive perspiration.
- Tendency to gangrene.
- Eruption with mealy scales.
- Vesicular eruptions, with burning and itching.
- Sunburn.
- Burns, scalds, with rawness and smarting, relieved by cold applications, followed by undue
inflammation.
- Erysipelas, vesicular type, with great restlessness.
- Burning in soles of feet at night.
Fever
- Cold hands and feet; cold sweat.
- Soles burn.
- Chill, as if water were poured over him.
Modalities
- Worse, from touch, or approach, urinating, drinking cold water or coffee.
- Better, rubbing.
Relationship
- Antidotes : Acon.; Camph.; Puls.
- Compare : Cantharidin - (Glomerular nephritis).
- The immediate pharmacological action of Cantharidin is irritability of the capillaries,
rendering the passage of nutritive fluids through them less difficult.
- This is most marked in the capillaries of the kidneys.
- The increase of blood sugar coincident with the glomerular nephritis appears to be a
valuable observation.
- Vesicaria - (Urinary and kidney remedy. Smarting, burning sensation along urethra and in
bladder with frequent desire to void urine often with strangury. Cystitis, irritable bladder.
Tincture 5-10 drop doses).
- Fuschina coloring substance used in adulterationof wine. (Cortical nephritis with
albuminuria, 6th-30th potency. Redness of ears, mouth, swollen gums; deep, red urine; red,
profuse diarrhoea, with severe abdominal pains).
- Androsace lactea (urinary troubles, diuretic; dropsy).
- Apis; Ars.; Merc. cor.
- Complementary : Camph.
Dose
- Sixth to thirtieth potency.
- Bears repeated doses well.
- Locally, in burns and eczema, 1x and 2x, in water, or as cerate.