Cantharis Homeopathy Medicine: Uses, Benefits & Side Effects

Discover the benefits of Cantharis homeopathy medicine. Learn about its uses, dosages, and side effects. Effective for burns, urinary issues, and more

Cantharis Homeopathy Medicine: Detailed Uses and Benefits

Common Name of Source: Blistering Fly, Cantharides, Spanish Fly, Blistering Beetle

Keynotes: Minor Burns, Sunburn, Pains with Burning Sensation, Minor Urinary or Stomach Irritation

Description: Cantharis soothes symptoms of minor burns and certain pains with burning sensations. The human body often responds quickly to Cantharis, whether the cause involves sunburns, scalds, or minor burns (helping the body reduce blistering). It is effective for raw sore throats and skin irritations, scalding urine with a strong urge to go, minor abdominal, stomach, and esophageal pain, diarrhea, and indigestion. Sensations tend to come on very quickly and aggressively.

Modalities: Worse for touch, urinating, drinking coffee, or cold water. Better for gentle rubbing.

Antidote: Aconitum, Camphora, Pulsatilla

Dose: Usually 6C to 30C potency with repetitions. In local burns and eczema, 1X and 2X in water or as an ointment.

The Leading Characteristics of Cantharis:

In burns before blisters form and when they have formed, Cantharis is beneficial for the burning sensation. External applications provide immediate relief.
Effective for renal calculi (stones) with passing of urine drop by drop and a burning sensation, accompanied by constant pulling of the penis.
Useful in the first stage of gonorrhea with constant urging to urinate, passing a few drops at a time with blood, and intolerable burning in the urethra, with chordee (painful erection of the penis).
Relieves erythema from exposure to sun rays.
Treats vesicular erysipelas; vesicles all over the body that are sore and suppurating (pus-forming).
Helps inflammations rapidly developing into gangrene (dead tissue).
Assists in hydrophobia: renewal of convulsions at the sight of dazzling objects or water.
Addresses stoppage of urine in cholera.
Supports retention of the placenta.
Manages puerperal (after-delivery) mania – sexual type.
Treats sudden loss of consciousness with a red face.
Promotes fecundity and expulsions of moles, placenta, dead fetus, and foreign bodies from the uterus.

Note: If the skin is broken, alcoholic preparations should not be used. Dilutions in warm water promptly relieve the burning and pain.

Cantharis Patient Profile

The typical Cantharis patient exhibits the following symptoms

Skin	Dermatitis, Secondary eczema about scrotum and genitals, following excessive perspiration. Tendency to gangrene. Eruption with scales. Vesicular eruptions, with burning and itching. Sunburn. Burns, scalds, with rawness, relieved by cold applications, followed by undue inflammation. Erysipelas (large raised red patches on the skin caused by bacterial infection), vesicular type, with great restlessness. Burning in soles of feet at night.
Mind	Furious delirium. Anxious restlessness, ending in rage. Constantly attempts to do something.
Eyes	Burning, sensitive to bright light.
Face	Hot red burning face. Pale, wretched, death-like appearance.
Throat	Burning in mouth, pharynx, and throat; great difficulty in swallowing liquids due to inflammation. Scalding feeling. Burnt after taking too hot food. Dry hacking cough.
Stomach	Sensitive, burning sensation of esophagus and stomach. Thirst unquenchable.
Sexual Organs	Strong desire; painful erections. Pain in glans. Priapism in gonorrhea. In females, retained placenta (Sep), with painful urination. Menses too early and too profuse; black swelling of vulva with irritation. Constant discharge from uterus.

Cantharis compared with Apis Mel

Apis	Cantharis
Predominantly a Left sided remedy.	Predominantly a Right sided remedy.
Dryness of skin.	Perspires easily.
No thirst during sweat.	No thirst only during the chill.
Patient drinks often, but little at a time.	The patient does not drink, but much when he does.
Remission of complaints during the day.	Remission of complaints during the morning and evening.
Better in the open, from cold, washing with cold water.	Worse in the open, from cold, washing with cold water.

Cantharis medicinal use, benefits, side effects

Condition	Cantharis Treatment	Additional Recommendations
Prostate Enlargement	Cantharis is indicated for acute urethral tube and bladder inflammation, cystitis, and nephritis. It treats the urological tract to relieve inflammation and pain, and also increases circulation to the organs without causing side-effects. Check Adel 21 drops
Kidney and Bladder	Dull pains in the renal region, burning pains when urinating, constant urge to urinate. Urine is passed drop by drop, reddish, glairy, tinged with blood. Cystitis. Check Reckeweg R18 drops
Urinary Tract Infections	Violent and aggressive action on tissues, especially mucus membranes of the urinary tract. Rapid inflammation followed by severe, destructive pathology. Burning, scalding urine. Urine is passed drop by drop. Check Allen A70 Drops, Allen Nostone Syrup	Specifically acts on sexual and urinary organs and reduces over-sensitiveness and irritability. Treats intolerable frequent urge to urinate with possible tenesmus (recurrent inclination to evacuate the bowels), burning, sharp pain, and blood in urine. Check Schwabe Sabal Pentarkan drops
Chronic Kidney Diseases	Inflammation of the kidneys. Urine is passed in drops with burning. Acute pain in the lumbar region. Urine may or may not be bloody. Check Allen A92 Chronic Kidney Diseases Drops
Anti Hair Fall	Encourages the growth of hair in alopecia circumscripta. Check Allen Arnica Gold	Used to control hair fall, especially during confinement and lactation, with much dandruff. Check Bio Valley Arnica shampoo