Pulex irritans
Common Flea
Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 535
Marked urinary and female symptoms.
Head
Very impatient, cross, and irritable. Frontal headache, with enlarged feeling of eyes. Face wrinkled and old-looking.
Mouth p. 536
Metallic taste. Sensation of a thread in throat Thirsty, especially during headache.
Stomach p. 536
Breath and taste foul. Intense nausea, with vomiting, purging, and faintness. Stool very offensive. Abdomen bloated.
Urine p. 536
Scanty with frequent urging, with pressure on bladder and burning in urethra. Flow stops suddenly followed by pain. Urine foul. Cannot retain urine; must attend to the call without delay. Irritable bladder before menses.
Female p. 536
Menses delayed. Increased flow of saliva during. Intense burning in vagina. Leucorrhœa, profuse, foul, staining a greenish yellow; stains of menses and leucorrhœa very hard to wash out. Backache. [Oxal. ac.]
Back p. 536
Aches, weak; drawing of muscles below scapule.
Fever p. 536
Feels a glow all over, like being over steam; chilly, while sitting beside the fire.
Skin p. 536
Prickly itching. Sore spots all over. Skin emits foul odor.
Modalities p. 536
Betier, sitting or lying down. Worse, left side, moving about.
The book’s Dose section is left out: Samepath quotes the books but gives no dosing advice.