Basic Information:
- Common Name: Poison of the Toad
- Source: Animal kingdom – secretion from the skin of Bufo (toad)
- Miasm: Psoro-syphilitic
- Preparation: Trituration of dried secretion
- Acts on: Nervous system, sexual organs, and skin
- “The Toad Poison – Suited to Epileptic, Mentally Retarded, and Sexual Excess Patients”
Keynote Symptoms:
Epileptic convulsions after sexual excitement
Stupor before and after epilepsy
Low vitality, filthy ulcers, offensive discharges
Intense sexual desire with idiotic behavior
Clinical Indications:
Nervous System:
- Epilepsy, especially related to puberty or sexual excitement
- Aura starts from genital organs
- Convulsions: sudden, violent, with foam at the mouth and biting of tongue
- Stupor and prostration after seizures
- Weak memory, mental dullness, idiocy
- Fits come during sleep or after coition
Male Sexual System:
- Excessive sexual desire, with frequent erections
- Masturbation in boys leading to epilepsy
- Chronic gleet, offensive discharge
- Swelling and inflammation of penis, prepuce
- Gonorrhea, chancres, phimosis with burning pain
Female Sexual Organs:
- Nymphomania, especially in young girls with idiocy
- Inflammation of vulva, purulent discharge
- Sexual excitement with mental confusion
Skin Affections:
- Burning, itching vesicles – may ulcerate
- Skin eruptions with bluish vesicles, burning pain
- Eczema, herpes, pemphigus, carbuncles, ulcers with fetid, ichorous discharge
- Tendency to gangrene in wounds
Mental Symptoms:
- Idiocy, mental dullness, slow comprehension
- Childish behavior in adults
- Restlessness, craving for solitude
- Low moral tone, shameless exposure of genitals in children
- Depression after sexual indulgence
Modalities:
|
Worse From |
Better From |
|
Sexual excitement, masturbation |
Open air |
|
Sleep, touch, motion |
Pressure (in ulcers) |
|
During coition |
Discharges occurring |
Potency & Dosage:
- 6C, 30C, or 200C depending on intensity of symptoms
- High potencies for epilepsy, used cautiously under observation
- Frequent repetition in low potencies for skin and ulcers
Mnemonic – “BUFO = Brain Unstable From Overindulgence”
- B – Brain disorders (epilepsy, idiocy)
- U – Uncontrolled sexual desire
- F – Fits after masturbation or during sleep
- O – Offensive ulcers, eruptions, and discharges
One-Line Summary:
“Bufo is suited to epileptic, mentally slow, and sexually over-excited individuals with low vitality and filthy, ulcerating skin conditions.”
Compare With:
|
Remedy |
Key Differences |
|
Hyoscyamus |
Mania with lewdness, but more loquacious |
|
Cuprum |
Epilepsy, but with blue face and spasms start in fingers |
|
Tarentula |
Hyperactive with strong sexual desire |
|
Bufo |
Epilepsy from sexual causes, idiotism, skin ulcers |
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