BUTHUS AUSTRALIS

Buthus Australis

(Scorpion Venom)

Pharmacy - buth-aust. Buthus australis. Scorpion venom. Buthus prionuris. Androctonus funestus. Buthus occitanus. Algerian scorpion. Common yellow scorpion.

N.O: Arachnida. Tincture is prepared from the scorpion venom.

Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies.

Clinical: 

Chills. Fever. Headaches. Hypotension. Prostration. Salivation.

Homeopathic

Buthus Australis is a scorpion belonging to the arthropod order of the arachnid class.

The scorpions are insects distinguished by the division of their bodies into three sections: the head and thorax, the pre-abdomen (seven segments) of the same form as the head and thorax, and the post-abdomen (six segments), mistakenly called the tail, which is very mobile and ends with a venomous, curved sting.

The chelicerae have three joints, the last sections forming the pincers. The leg-jaws are very long and end in fat pincers. These animals are viviparous, carnivorous, feed on insects and spiders, which they catch with their pincers and have a defense organ.

Azam first carried out a proving on himself by taking one drop of pure venom orally. A second proving was undertaken by Azam and carried out with the help of eight provers (three women and five men), using the 6x potency for thirty days. Only four provers continued to the end of the thirty days.

Symptoms included an inhibition of will power and reduced activity. Head heavy, frontal headache. Vertigo on walking. Excessive salivation. Attacks of fever with shivering. Limbs are cold with burning pain in the skin. Upset by climatic changes with mental depression and shivering.

Anguish, thoracic constriction. Sensation of a piece of wood nailed between the heart and lungs. Hypotension in infectious conditions. Infectious conditions with fever, shivering, prostration, aggravated at night. Respiratory difficulty during pulmonary or cardiac illnesses.

MIND

Intellectual work arduous or trying. Alternating moods. At times, loquacious. At times taciturn. Sometimes prostrate, sometimes restless. Irresistible need to speak. Anguish. Indecision and worry. Weepy. Fear of the future, especially after 7 p.m. Sensation of being in a dream.

Abdomen

Pain and chill.

Back

Cervical muscular pains and stiffness of the nape of the neck.

Eyes

Red, weeping with photophobia.

Eyeballs sunken. Strabismus.

Head

Throbbing headaches, wandering, very intense.

Heart

Feeling of heat in heart of a piece of wood nailed between heart and lungs.

Limbs

Trembling of the limbs. Hands cold, especially during shivering. Walking painful, and the legs seem to want to move backwards instead of forwards.

Lungs

Difficult respiration. Palpitations.

Male

Erection not achieved.

Modalities

Better from eating, rest. Worse from effort, intellectual work. Worse in the late afternoon. Periodicity is worse yearly.

Mouth

Profuse salivation. Difficult swallowing.

Nose

Sneezing.

Rectum

Diarrhea.

Skin

Red spots. Fomication. Itching. Cold sweating, especially at night. Sensation of coldness, like icy needles pricking the skin.

Sleep

Strong feeling of fatigue, sleepiness, and insensitivity.

Throat

Constriction in the throat.

Vertigo

Vertigo on walking.

Relations

Compare:

1. Lach. - Aggravated by lying down. Spontaneous hematoma.
2. Mere. - Excessive salivation and tongue has a yellowish coating, which retains the imprint of the teeth.
3. Apis - Sensation of being pierced by red hot needles, but with a predominance of coldness at the limbs and sensation of icy needles.
4. Verat. - Sensation of icy coldness.
5. Sil. - Throbbing headache, weeping, sneezing, difficulty in swallowing, chilliness, shivering, and sweating, but without the feeling of a piece of wood nailed between the heart and lungs.

References

Julian.