BUFO RANA

DR AISWARYA MOHAN
1ST YEAR JR
NHMCH
BUFO RANA
 BUFO RANA

 COMMON NAME: THE TOAD

 CLASS : AMPHIBIA
 PROVER : DR. MURE.
 PART USED :SOLUTION IN RECTIFIED SPIRIT
OF THE POISON EXPRESSED
FROM THE CUTANEOUS
GLANDS.
CLINICAL USES

BRAIN, SOFTENING OF. BUBOES. CANCER.

CARBUNCLES. CARIES. CHOREA. DROPSY,
EPILEPSY. HEART, AFFECTIONS OF. IMPOTENCE.
INTERMITTENTS. MALIGNANT PUSTULE.
MENINGITIS. PANARITIUM. PEMPHIGUS.
PHLEGMASIA ALBA DOLENS. PLAGUE. PODAGRA.
SELF-ABUSE. SKIN, AFFECTIONS OF. STAMMERING.
SUPPURATION. WHITLOW.
 INTRODUCTION
 Acts on the nervous system and skin. Uterine symptoms
marked.
 Lymphangitis of septic origin.
 Symptoms of paralysis agitans. Striking rheumatic
symptoms.
 Arouses the lowest passions. Causes a desire for
intoxicating drink, and produces impotence.
 Of use in feeble-minded children. Prematurely senile.
 Injuries to fingers; pain runs in streaks up the arms.
 Spasms in children, after nursing angry or frightened
mother.
 Burning is the most striking feature.
 it is an antipsoric, deep seated, vital remedy.
 The epileptic seizure and the status-epilepticus give
the clearest correspondence to the Bufo range of
action.
 Again, epilepsy is often found among the effects of
self-abuse in the young, and Bufo provokes the
tendency to the practice, and even causes impotence.
 Epileptic symptoms. Convulsive seizures occur during
sleep at night. More or less connected with
derangements of the sexual sphere, seem to come
within the range of this remedy.
 Specific in the Dropsy.
 Bufo causes low grades of inflammatory action,
 fetid exhalations and discharges.
 MIND
 Anxious about health.
 Sad, restless.
 Propensity to bite. Howling.
 impatient; nervous; imbecile.
 Desire for solitude. Feeble-minded.
 The mind remains childish, only the body grows.
HEAD
 Sensation as if hot vapor rose to top of head.
 Numbness of brain. Face bathed in sweat.
 Epistaxis with flushed face and pain in forehead,
better, nosebleed.
 Congestive headache
 Action on circular fibers of abdominal aorta furnishes
a keynote in epilepsy.
 The aura or warning first felt in abdomen.
 Conditions ranging from dizziness to a complete and
profound epilepsy.
EYES
 Cannot bear sight or brilliant objects.
 Little blisters form on eye.

EARS
 Music is unbearable (Ambra).
 Every little noise distresses.
MALE

 Involuntary emissions; Impotence, discharge too

quick.
 Spasms During Coition. Buboes.
 Disposition to handle organs (Hyos; Zinc).
 Effects of onanism.
FEMALE
 Menses too early and copious, clots and bloody
discharge at other times; watery leucorrhœa.
 Excitement, with epileptic attacks.
 Epilepsy at time of menses.
 Induration in mammary glands. Palliative in cancer of
the mammæ and uterus.Bloody milk.
 Burning in ovaries and uterus.
 Ulceration of cervix. Offensive bloody discharge.
 Pains run into legs. Milk-leg., when the veins feels like
whipcords in thighs. Veins swollen.
 Tumors and polypi of womb.
 Dysmenorrhoea especially when there are cysts and
hydatids about the ovaries.
 HEART
 Feels too large.
 Palpitation with headache during menses.
 Constriction about heart.
 Sensation of heart swimming in water.
EXTREMITIES
 Pains in loins, numbness of limbs, cramps,
staggering gait.
 feeling as if a peg were driven in joints; swelling of
bones.
SKIN

 Panaritium; pain runs up arm.

 Patches of skin lose sensation.
 Pustules, suppuration from every slight injury.
 Pemphigus, Bullæ which open and leave a raw
surface, exuding , yellow corrosive fluid.
 Blisters on palms and soles. Itching and burning.
Carbuncle.
 MODALITIES

 AGGRAVATION: in warm room, on awakening,

sexual excitement.
 AMELIORATION: from bathing or cold air; from
putting feet in hot water, bleeding.
 RELATIONSHIP
COMPARE: Baryt carb; Asterias; Salamand (Epilepsy and
softening of brain).
ANTIDOTES: Laches; Seneg.
 COMPLEMENTARY: Salamandra.
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