BOVISTA

Bovista is a valuable and important homoeopathic medicine prepared from the warted puff-ball fungus, Bovista lycoperdon, belonging to the Fungi family. It is known for its distinct action on the skin, circulatory system, and nervous system, predisposing individuals to eczema, hemorrhages, and numbness or tingling sensations. The medicine is especially suited for stammering children, old maids with palpitations, and tettery or eczematous constitutions. It is also notable for its effects on the female reproductive system, mind, and extremities, making it a multifaceted medicine for both acute and chronic conditions involving nervous irritability, eczema, diarrhoea, and fatigue.

Common Name: Puff-Ball

SBL’s Bovista can be helpful in the following conditions:

Numbness, Tingling and Nervous Sensitivity

• Aids in numbness and tingling sensations as seen in multiple neuritis.
• Bovista lycoperdon assists in general awkwardness; patient drops everything from the hands.
• Supports nervous sensitivity and clumsiness in manual actions.
• Useful in asphyxia due to charcoal fumes.

Mental and Emotional Changes

• Helps in enlarged sensations in the body or limbs.
• Manages increased emotional sensitivity and awkwardness.
• Supports patients who feel everything slips from their grip.
• Indicated in stammering speech.

Headache and Scalp Discomfort

• Assists in sensation of head enlargement, especially in the occiput.
• Manages distensive headache, worse in the early morning, open air, or lying down.
• Aids in dull, bruised pain in the brain.
• Helps in stringy, tough nasal discharge.
• Supports scalp itching, worse from warmth, with sensitivity and soreness from scratching.

Facial Swelling and Nasal Crusting

• Aids in crusts and scurf about the nostrils and corners of the mouth.
• Helps in chapped lips and facial swelling sensations.
• Manages nosebleeds and bleeding gums.
• Supports acne, especially in summer or after use of cosmetics.

Stomach and Clothing Intolerance

• Assists in the peculiar sensation as if a lump of ice is in the stomach.
• Helps individuals who are intolerant to tight clothing around the waist.

Irregular Menses and Leucorrhoea

• Manages diarrhoea before and during menses.
• Aids in early and profuse menstruation, worse at night.
• Supports voluptuous sensations during menstrual period and parovarian cysts.
• Helps in acrid, thick, greenish leucorrhoea following menses.
• Assists in soreness of pubes and metrorrhagia.
• Useful for traces of menstrual flow between periods.

Abdominal Pain and Perineal Discomfort

• Assists in colic with red urine, relieved by eating.
• Helps in abdominal pain around the umbilicus and need to bend double from cramping pain.
• Supports sharp stitching pains through the perineum toward the rectum and genitals.
• Indicated in chronic diarrhoea of old people, worse at night and early morning.

Joint Weakness and Limb Complaints

• Supports great weakness of all joints.
• Aids in clumsiness of hands, with tendency to drop objects.
• Manages weariness and heaviness in hands and feet.
• Helps in sweating in axillae with onion-like odor.
• Supports moist eczema on back of hands.
• Assists in intolerable itching of the tip of the coccyx and of feet and legs.
• Manages oedema in joints following fracture.

Skin Eruptions and Itching

• Bovista lycoperdon helps when blunt instruments leave deep impressions on the skin.
• Supports urticaria triggered by excitement, with rheumatic lameness, palpitation, and diarrhoea.
• Manages itching on getting warm with condition like pellagra.
• Indicated in moist eczema with thick crust formation.
• Assists in pimples all over the body, scurvy, and herpetic eruptions.
• Useful in pruritus ani and urticaria on waking in the morning.