INSECT GROUP
DR PREETHI JAMES P
PART 1 MD SCHOLAR
MATERIA MEDICA
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Insecta are invertebrate animals – without back bone – and are included in arthropods., Slides of Medicine
Insects are invertebrate animals – without back bone – and are included in arthropods. Arthropoda is the largest, most dominant group and includes about 80% of known animal species. They are capable of flying. Entomology refers to study of insects. Insects are grouped in the kingdom under phylum arthropod & the class insects. o Phylum: Arthropoda o Class: Insect Man had started the use of insects and insect products since time immemorial even at the cost of animal ‘s life. Insects have been under use inhuman civilization since prehistoric period as mentioned in our religious literatures like Vedas, puranas, the Ramayana, Mahabharata and charka Samhita. As far as Homeopathy is concerned insects have a major role in the preparation of medicines. They are potentially huge in number and so studying the themes of many insect families is a challenging but fascinating process , especially as there are so many different types of insects with their own unique behavior.
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INSECT GROUP
DR PREETHI JAMES P PART 1 MD SCHOLAR MATERIA MEDICA
INTRODUCTION
- Insects are invertebrate animals without back bone and are included in arthropods.
- Entomology refers to study of insects. Insects are grouped in the kingdom under
- PHYLUM : ARTHROPOADA CLASS : INSECTA
- ENTOMPHOBIA OR HELMINTHOPHOBIA—FEAR OF INSECTS
1. HYMENOPTERA
- APIS MELLIFICA – honey bee
- (^) APIUM VIRUS – poison of bee
- FORMICA RUFA – crushed live ants
- VESPA CRABRO – common wasp
2. ORTHOPTERA
- BLATTA AMERICANA – Great American cockroach
- (^) BLATTA ORIENTALIS – Indian cockroach
4. COLEOPTERA
- CANTHARIS VESICATORIA – Spanish fly
- (^) COCCINELLA SEPTUM PUNCTATA – Indian lady bug
- DORYPHORA DECEMLINEATA – Colorado potato bug
- TRIATEMA – kissing bug
5. HEMIPTERA
- CHENOPODIUM GLAUCI APHIS – plant lice from Chenopodium.
- CINEX ACANTHIA – Indian bed bug
- COCCUS CACTI – Coccineal insect (insect affecting Cactus).
- PEDICULUS CAPITIS – head louse
7. SIPHONOPTERA
- PULEX IRRITANS – common flea
GENERAL FEATURES OF INSECTA I. SIDE AFFINITY
- Right
- Apis Mellifica
- Blatta Americana
- Cantharis Vesicator
- Coccinella Septumpunctata
- Formica Rufa
- Left
- Cimex Acanthia
- Pulex Irritans
- Vespa Crabro
- Left
III. SENSITIVENESS
- 1. Apis Mellifica:- Great sensitiveness to touch.
- (^) 2. Cantharis vesicator :- Over sensitiveness of all parts. The slightest touch or approach aggravates the mental symptoms.
- Coccus cacti :- General sensitiveness to touch and pressure. Fauces are very sensitive. Brushing teeth causes cough.
- 4.Doryphora Decemlineata: < touch and pressure
IV. THIRST
- 1. Apis Mellifica: Thirstles s except during chill stage of intermitted fever.
- 2. Cantharis Vesicator: Burning thirst with aversion to drinking (picture of hydrophobia). In fever, thirst only after the shivering.
- 3. Coccinella septum punctata: Symptoms of hydrophobia.
- 4. Cocus cacti: Mouth and tongue dry, with much thirst. After dinner much thirst and when he drinks water, then chilliness.
- 5. Cimex acanthia: Thirst during apyrexia, but little during chill stage, still less during heat stage and none during sweating.
- 6. Pulex Irritans:- Thirsty , especially during headach
VI. URINARY COMPLAINTS
- 1. Apis mellifica :- burning and soreness when urinating. Can scarcely retain urine. When passed scalds severly. Incontinence of urine when coughing and sneezing. Frequent, painful, scanty, blody urine, stinging pain and strangury.
- 2. Blatta Americana:- pain in urethra while micturating.
- 3.Doryphora decemlineata:- burning in urinary passages, strangury, urethritis itching and burning.Inflammation of glans penis. Urethritis due to local irritation.
- 4.Formica rufa :- urine bloody. Albuminous with urates. Paralysis of bladder. Double the quantity of urine, even at night. Urine like saffron bright yellow
- 5.Cantharis Vesicator:- Constant urging to urinate, passing but a few drops at a time, which is mixed with blood like molten lead. Intolerable urging before, during and after urination. Burning, cutting pain in urethra during micturation.
- 6.Cocus cacti :- Burning pain in urethra while urinating. Frequent urination. Black red sediment, urinary calculi, urates and uric acid, haematuria, dysuria, lassinating pain from kidney to bladder.
- 7.Chenopodii glauci Aphis : Burning in urethra. Frequent copious frothy micturation.
- 8. Pulex Irritants:- Urine scanty with frequent urging with pressure on bladder. Flow stops suddenly followed by pain, can’t retain urine. Irritable bladder before menses.
- (^) 9.Vespa crabro :- burning micturation in females. Dysurea with backache.
VIII. SKIN MANIFESTATIONS
- 1. Apis mellifica:- Urticaria like bee stings or stings from other insects with intolerable itching at night. Erysipelas with sensitiveness, rosy hue.Carbuncle. Eruptions like nettle rash all over the body.
- 2.Formica rufa:- Nettle rash, red itching and burning. Profuse sweat without relief.
- 3. Vespa crabro:- Erythema with intense itching and burning > bathing with vinegar. Wheals, swelling and macules with stinging burning and soreness. Cold water application first >, then <.
- 4.Bomyx Processionoea :- Urticaria- intense irritation, hard large areola formed. Tubercle with a red areola. Sensation as of a foreign body were under the skin. Itching <evening not relieved by anything.
- 5. Cantharis Vesicator:- Vesicular sore and suppurating eruptions with burning and itching. Erythema from exposure to sunrays. Burns, scalds with rawness and smarting relieved by cold application.
- 6. Pediculus:- Psoric manifestation in children,. Milliary eruption on inside of forearms and thigh. Horropilation(erected hair due to cold or excitement) all over.
IX. HAMORRAGE:
- 1. Apis mellifica:- Dark hemorrhage from rectum, urine, uterus, respiratory organs.
- 2.Cocus cacti :- Hemorrhage in large black clots especially from kidneys and uterus. menses too, too profuse lasts too long.
- 3.Cantharis:- Hemorrhage from nose, mouth, intestine, genital and urinary organs. Emission of blood in drops from urinary organs. Menses early, copious, black blood.