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Bovista Lycoperdon

30CBovista
Puffball Mushroom · Giant Puffball · "The Clumsy Haemorrhage Remedy"
bov.PlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 Acts primarily on the skin, circulation, and nervous system, particularly useful for skin eruptions, hemorrhages, and clumsiness.
📖 Boericke writes:
Puff-Ball
(BOVISTA)
Has a marked effect on the skin, producing eruption like eczema, also upon the circulation, predisposing to ; marked and . Adapted to stammering children, old maids with ; and "tettery" patients. Stage of numbness and tingling in multiple . due to charcoal fumes.
👤 Constitution
Often indicated for stammering children, old maids with heart palpitations, and patients with chronic skin issues.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Awkward; everything falls from hands.
mind
Sensation as if head were enlarging, especially of .
head
before and during .
female
Cannot bear tight clothing around waist (Lach).
female
Traces of between .
female
Tip of itches intolerably.
extremities
on excitement, with , and (Dulc).
skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for individuals who feel physically enlarged and suffer from significant clumsiness.
Enlarged sensation (Arg n).
Awkward; everything falls from hands.
Sensitive.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

3X
Decimal
6
Centesimal
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Calcarea CarbonicaCicuta VirosaRhus ToxicodendronSepia Officinalis

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Bovista Lycoperdon is listed in 128 rubrics across 18 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 34 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Female Sexual System33Skin22Abdomen14Locomotor System12Head9Generalities7Nose5Mind5Mouth4Modalities3Urinary System3Male Sexual System2Respiratory System2Ears2Stomach2Nervous System1Eyes1Face1

See all 128 rubrics for Bovista Lycoperdon