• Desire for solitude to practice masturbation
• Constant licking of lips, lapping of tongue or playing with tongue
• Sensation of heart swimming in water, heart seems to float in water or air

Source: Animal kingdom
Synonyms: Bufo vulgaris, Toad poison
Family: Bufonide, Batrachide
Prover: Mure, Dr Carl Heneke
Miasmatic Background: Psora
Temperament: Irritable
Thermal Relationship: Extremely sensitive to cold air

Introduction and History: Shakespeare, who seems to have known everything, was absolutely correct in speaking of the toad as having ‘sweltered venom.‘ The poison is excreted by glands in the skin of the back. ‘Quintessence of toads‘ figured largely in the therapy of Salmon’s Doron Medicon (1583), where it is commended as a ‘Specific in the Dropsy.‘ Homeopathic proving and poisonings have shown that this reputation is founded to act.

The chief laurels of Bufo have been won in the treatment of epilepsy. Bufo causes low grades of inflammatory action, foetid exhalations and discharges.

Clarke has removed the foetor in hopeless cases of cancer with this remedy. E.E. Case has reported a cure with Bufo cinereus of ‘nosebleed daily for several weeks with a flushed face, heat and pain in forehead, better by the bleeding. There was also easy perspiration in general, apt to be offensive, especially on the feet.’

Preparation and Parts Used: It is prepared by a solution of the poison expressed from the skin glands in rectified spirit.

Constitution: It is suited to feeble minded children and prematurely senile people. It is a deep acting antipsoric remedy.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): Mind, central nervous system, skin, breast, female genital organs, male genital organs, glands, eyes, ears, heart, locomotor system, lungs, mouth, nose, stomach, sleep.

Ailments From: Sexual excesses, injury.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology)

1. Bufo rana, the poison of toad, has marked action on the nervous system and sexual organs producing epileptic symptoms.
2. Bufo rana is a remedy for depraves, due to bad inheritance.
3. It arouses lowest passions; patient is not only low minded but develops low type of diseases also. It affects circulation causing hot flushes and burning in different parts.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. The mind of the patient remains childish, only the body grows.
2. He is sad, restless.
3. He walks the floor and wrings the hand.
4. He is feeble minded. Idiocy, childish, silly, tittering.
5. He is anxious about his health.
6. He has fear of animals, strangers.
7. He talks nonsense, then is angry if not understood.
8. He has a desire for solitude to practice masturbation.
9. Music is unbearable for him.
10. Has a propensity to bite.
11. He is howling, impatient, nervous and imbecile.

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Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Headache: There is a feeling of pressure like two iron hands holding the temples. One sided headache after breakfast, worse by light and noise.

Sensation: Sensation as if hot vapour rose to the top of the head. Sensation as if the heart was swimming in water. Sensation in abdomen as if cold balls were running through the bowels.

Breast: Indicated in cancer of breast in which there is induration of breast glands; violent pain in breast, worse at night.

Epilepsy: There are epileptic seizures which occur during the night, connected with the sexual sphere.

Menses: Menses too early and too copious. Occasionally clots are passed, blood discharge at other times. Watery leucorrhoea. Excitement with epileptic attacks.

Spasm: There are spasms in children after nursing from an angry and frightened mother.

Aversions: To the sight of brilliant objects.

Desires: For sweet things.

Face: Face is bloated and distorted, mouth and eyes convulsed.

Palpitations: Palpitations with headache during menses. There is rapid heart action in exophthalmos.

Sexual sphere: There is a disposition to handle the organ. Disposition to masturbation. Impotence with too quick discharge.

Sleep: Sleep is comatose after spasms.

Stomach: There is vomiting of blood, bile after drinking.

Intolerance: Music is intolerable; every noise distresses him.

Injury: Injury to fingers, pain runs in streaks up the arms.

Limbs: There are bruised pains, trembling, cramps and arthritic swellings in limbs.

Important Characteristic Features

Epilepsy: It is the best remedy in the treatment of epilepsy. There are epileptic seizures during the night, connected with the sexual sphere. Seizures at the time of menses in women when sexual desire increases. Patient falls down unconscious with a blood curdling scream. Epileptic attacks are followed by headache. A variety of symptoms occur before epileptic spasms. There are convulsions from a suppurative condition.

Sensation of a peg in a joint. There are spasms in children after nursing from an angry or frightened mother. Aversion to the sight of brilliant objects. Patient is prematurely senile with great weakness of memory. The patient is idiotic, extremely sensitive to light and noise. The latter is intolerable. Indicated in symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Worse in a warm room, light, noise and sexual excitements. Better from cold bathing, cool air.

Uterine diseases: It is an important remedy for diseases of the female genital organs. Menses are too early and too copious; clots and blood discharge at other times. There is watery leucorrhoea with milk leg. Excitement during epileptic attacks. Ulceration of cervix with offensive bloody discharge. Pain runs into the legs. Indicated in tumours and polyps of the womb. Hydatids in the ovaries. There is a cord-like swelling from the groin to the knee.

General Modalities

Aggravation: From a warm room, from sexual excitement, masturbation, least motion, injuries.

Amelioration: From cold bathing or putting feet in hot water, from bleeding, cool air.

Remedy Relationships

Complementary: Salam, Helo, Amph.

Antidoted by: Lach, Seneg.

Therapeutic Value: Brain softening, Buboes, Cancer, Carbuncles, Chorea, Decay, Dropsy, Epilepsy, Gout, Heart disorders, Imbecility, Impotence, Intermittent fever, Malignant pustules, Masturbation affects of Meningitis, Panaritum, Pemphigus, Pemphigus alba dolens, Plague, Self-abuse, Skin disorders, Stammering, Suppuration, Whitlow.