Boletus laricis
White Agaric
Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 124
Quotidian intermittent fever. Sweat is light, and without relief. Night-sweat in phthisis.
Head
Feels light and hollow with deep frontal headache. Thick, yellow coating of tongue; teeth indented. Constant nausea.
Fever
Chilliness along spine, with frequent, hot flashes. Yawns and stretches when chilly. Severe aching in shoulders and joints and small of back. Profuse perspiration at night, with hectic chills and fever.
Skin
Hot and dry, especially in palms. Itching more between scapule and on forearms.
Relationship
Compare: Agaricin, active constituent of Polyporus officinale (phthisical and other enervating nightsweats 1-4 to 1-2 gr. doses; also in chorea, in dilatation of heart with pulmonary Emphysema, fatty degeneration, profuse perspiration and erythema.) Boletus luridus. (Violent pain in epigastrium, urticaria tuberosa.) Boletus satanas (dysentery, vomiting, great debility, cold extremities, spasm of extremities and face).
Dose,—First attenuation.