Bovista
by H. C. Allen
Puffball (Fungi.)
Bovista suited for Persons who suffer from tettery eruptions, dry or moist.
Adapted to old maids; with palpitation.
Stammering children ( Stramonium ).
Bovista has Discharge from nose and all mucous membranes; very tough, stringy, tenacious ( Kali bichromicum ).
Usually deep impression on finger, from using blunt instruments, scissors, knife, etc.
Intolerance of tight clothing around the waist ( Calcarea, Lachesis, Sulphur ).
Sweat in axilla, smells like onions.
Bovista has Haemorrhage: after extraction of teeth ( Hamamelis ); from wounds, epistaxis.
Great weakness of joints and weariness of hands and feet.
Awkwardness, inclined to drop things from hand ( Apis ); objects fall from powerless hands.
Bovista has Menses: flow only at night; not in the daytime ( Magnesia carb. – only in the day, ceases lying, Cactus grandiflorus, Causticum, Lilium ); every two weeks, dark and clotted; with painful bearing down ( Sepia ).
Intolerable itching at tip of coccyx; must scratch til parts become raw and sore.
Bovista Relations. – Compare: Ammonium carb., Belladonna, Calcarea, [Magnesia sulphurica], Sepia, in menstrual irregularities.
Bovista antidotes, effects of local applications of tar; suffocation from gas.
When Rhus seems indicated, but fails to cure, in chronic urticaria.