Repertory › Remedies in the repertory

Bufo rana (Bufo)

Bufo rana (Bufo) appears in the repertory in 523 rubrics. Of these, 36 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 34 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Laughing, Children, Anxiety, Indifference, Screaming and Speech. The picture is that of a person with narrowly limited ability, childish in behavior, prone to convulsions, who laughs, screams and moans, withdraws, and when alone is ruled by instinct and rage.

Laughing, screaming and convulsions

Laughing is manifold. It is spasmodic and giggling, occurs before, during and after epileptic convulsions, and giggling is at trifles. Screaming alternates with moaning, goes to the point of unconsciousness and runs through the house screaming; moaning alternates with shrill screaming, moaning with weeping. Speech becomes unintelligible before epileptic convulsions and is lost in stupor. In infants, convulsions arise that are triggered by the anger or fright of the nursing mother; only this remedy is listed for this connection. Sighing precedes convulsions, and irritability in children precedes them.

Limited ability and childlike nature

A striking group concerns intellect and development. Only for this remedy are listed good intelligence in a small field and good memory in a narrow, confined field; the small rubrics list one-sided talent and one-sided intelligence. Against this stands idiocy, with idiotic actions, and childish bodily growth in which only the body grows. The person behaves childishly, is archaic and expresses himself little. Peculiar is a tendency to odd poetry-making, to verses and rhymes. He talks to plants. Monomania occurs in children.

Being alone, instinct and shame

The rubrics on being alone are unmistakable: the person falls into rage when alone, has the wish to go to bed early in order to masturbate, and withdraws from company for this purpose. He is shameless during masturbation, and idiocy follows after it. Sexuality appears compulsive. Also striking is that the person licks up cow dung, mud and saliva.

Stimuli and aversions

There are aversions: to the night, to shiny objects, which are avoided, to the condition of being misunderstood. Sensitiveness is directed at classical music, and anxiety arises from music; at the same time nursing infants have a desire for music. On waking there is excessive joy. Eating, too, is fussy. Anguish stands with meningitis with red and purple streaks on neck and back.

Delusions

There are only few delusions: that the house is turned upside down, and that the person will faint if she goes on hesitating, with a feeling of emptiness in the stomach. Delirium occurs with a hot head, and indifference shows in fever with heat and cold feet, after coma and with a hot head.

Summary

The picture of Bufo rana combines a tendency to convulsions, laughing and screaming with a narrowly limited ability in a childlike nature and with an instinct that is uninhibited when alone. The numerous single-remedy rubrics on poetry-making, intelligence and convulsions in infants make the remedy distinguishable. A king-pin symptom is not identified in the available data.

A reference work for professionals; it does not replace diagnosis or treatment.