Cantharis

Spanish fly

A handsome green beetle found in Northern France and Spain.
If touched, these beetles cause unpleasant blisters on the skin.


Compare with Apis and Arsenicum - all have restlessness and burning pains; inflammations come on rapidly and violently; burning thirst but aggravated by cold drinks.

SECOND DEGREE BURNS: with blisters; pains are burning; better for cold compresses.

Scalds.

Sunburn.

INSECT BITES: where wound burns; great pain and excitability.

CYSTITIS: constant, frequent, ineffectual, urgent desire to urinate; burning, cutting pains; urine hot and red; bladder never feels empty; worse for drinking cold water; feels angry and excited.
Compare with Apis.

Micturition in drops with violent burning and cutting pains.

Intolerable urging before, during and after urination.

Mainly affects urinary and sexual organs.

Inflammations are VIOLENT and ACUTE.

Pains are CUTTING, SMARTING, BURNING or BITING, as if raw.

Repeat in 6c or 30c potency every 2-3 hours for 1-2 days. Stop when symptoms improve.


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