Bovista Lycoperdon made easy! Keynotes + a smart mnemonic to remember this remedy for clumsiness, profuse early menses & urticaria 🌿 Perfect for materia medica revision & exams 🧠✨
🌼 BOVISTA LYCOPERDON – KEYNOTES
1. Constitution
Suited to old maids with palpitation
Stammering children
Awkward, clumsy persons
Tendency to drop things from hands
2. Mental Generals
Marked awkwardness
Objects fall from powerless hands
Cannot manage tools, scissors, knife properly
3. Physical Generals
Discharges thick, stringy, tenacious from all mucous membranes
Axillary sweat smells like onion
Hemorrhagic tendency
After tooth extraction
From wounds
Epistaxis
Intolerance of tight clothing around waist
4. Gastro-Intestinal System
Cannot bear tight waistbands
Diarrhea before & during menses
🔹 Female Reproductive System (VERY IMPORTANT)
Menses only at night, absent in daytime
Flow every two weeks
Dark, clotted menses
Bearing-down pains
Diarrhea before and during periods
Occasional show between periods
5. Extremities
Great weakness of joints
Weariness of hands and feet
Deep impressions from blunt instruments
6. Skin (STRONG KEYNOTE)
Intolerable itching at tip of coccyx
Scratching until parts become raw and sore
Tetter, dry or moist
⭐ SUPER EXAM KEYNOTES (ONE-LINERS)
Awkward, drops things
Night-only menses
Onion-smelling axillary sweat
Stringy, tenacious discharges
Coccyx itching
Bleeding after tooth extraction
🧠 B O V I S T A – L Y C O P E R D O N
(Letter-wise mnemonic)
B – Bleeding
Hemorrhage after tooth extraction
Epistaxis, bleeding from wounds
O – Old maids
Adapted to old maids with palpitation
V – Viscid discharges
Very tough, stringy, tenacious mucus from nose & mucous membranes
I – Itching
Intolerable itching at tip of coccyx
Scratches till raw and sore
S – Sweat
Axillary sweat smells like onion
T – Tight clothing intolerant
Cannot tolerate tight clothes around waist
A – Awkward
Awkwardness
Drops things from powerless hands
L – Loose stools
Diarrhea before & during menses
Y – Young stammering children
Stammering children (like Stramonium)
C – Clotted menses
Menses dark, clotted
Occur every two weeks
O – Only at night
Menses flow only at night
P – Palpitation
Old maids with palpitation
E – Extremity weakness
Weak joints
Weariness of hands & feet
Deep impressions from blunt instruments
R – Raw eruptions
Tetter, dry or moist
Skin becomes raw from scratching
D – Drops objects
Inclined to drop things
Cannot hold scissors, knife properly
O – Onion smell
Axillary sweat smells like onion
N – Night aggravation
Menses appear at night, absent in daytime
🌟 ONE-LINE MASTER MNEMONIC
👉 “Old maid with palpitation, onion-smelling sweat, drops things, stringy mucus, night menses with diarrhea, clots, coccyx itching, bleeding easily.”
WORKED BY STEPHEN RYAN BHMS 3RD YR BHMS
