CANTHARIS

Source indications

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

  • Inflammatory condition
  • Rapid gangrenous state
  • Attacks urinary tract
  • Uraemic state
  • Sudden loss of consciousness with red face
  • Stupor
  • Confusion of mind
  • Strange ideas
  • Thoughts run riot
  • Head hot
  • Frenzy
  • Delirium
  • Excitement and rage
  • Paroxysms renewed by dazzling or bright objects, touching larynx, or trying to drink water
  • Fear
  • Confusion of ideas
  • Sexual thoughts
  • Sexual frenzy
  • Violent amorous frenzy
  • Painful and violent erections
  • Penis inflamed and sore
  • Insolence
  • Blasphemy
  • Restlessness ending in rage
  • Violent delirious state intermingled with sexual ideas and talk
  • Deliriously sings lewd songs
  • Prattles on the subject of genitals, urine and faces
  • Violent, bursting, lancinating headaches as if stabbed with a knife
  • Burning in the head, throbbing and stabbing
  • Unconsciousness and delirium
  • Burning in the side of the head
  • Stitches in the side of the head and occiput
  • Lancinating pains deep in the brain
  • Hair falls out
  • Burning in the eyes
  • Atmosphere looks yellow
  • Smarting in the eyes
  • Erysipelas of the eyes with gangrenous tendency
  • Eyes hot, scalding tears
  • Erysipelas of the face, dorsum of the nose, involving the lids
  • Burning in the erysipelatous area
  • Skin around burns from the touch
  • Blisters burn like fire when touched
  • Eruptions burn when touched
  • Prostration
  • Pallid
  • Hippocratic countenance
  • Gangrene and violent inflammation of bowels, bladder, brain, spine and lungs
  • Sinking
  • Inflammation of the lungs, gangrenous type
  • Prostration
  • Lung burns like fire
  • Cadaverous smelling expectoration, thin, bloody, watery
  • Nose contracted
  • Urine is suppressed
  • Drooling a bloody saliva from his mouth
  • Burning in the throat
  • Great thirst with burning in the throat and stomach
  • Aversion to all fluids
  • Violent burning in the stomach, pylorus, abdomen
  • Abdomen is swollen and tympanitic
  • Lancinating pains, cutting and stabbing
  • Diarrhoea of bloody mucus or serum, watery, bloody fluids from the bowels and stomach
  • Watery bloody fluid from the eyes
  • Watery fluid burns and excoriates the skin
  • Bloody urine
  • Desire for stool while urinating
  • Violent tenesmus to pass urine and stool
  • Parts are inflamed and on fire
  • Tenesmus and urging not only when the bladder is empty, but often when the bladder is full
  • Retention of urine
  • Violent tenesmus of the bladder
  • Cutting pains with tenesmus
  • Lancinating, stabbing like knives, in neck of bladder
  • Pains shoot off in different directions
  • Violent pains with frequent urging
  • Constant tenesmus
  • Anxious state and frenzy
  • Urging to pass urine and stool with sexual erethism
  • Urinary organs and genitalia in a state of inflammation and gangrene
  • Burning when urinating
  • Bloody urine burns like fire in the bladder and about the genitals
  • Oversensitiveness of all parts in female
  • Inflammation of the ovaries and uterus
  • Burning in the vagina
  • Membranous dysmenorrhoea
  • Menses too early, profuse, black
  • Puerperal convulsions
  • Retained placenta
  • Violent lancinating pains through the kidneys and back
  • Pains in the loins, kidneys and abdomen
  • Pain on urinating, so that he moaned and screamed on passing a drop