Bovista plumbea

The puff ball

(also known as Lycoperdon bovista) Sycotic

(Group: Drug-like Massimo)

NTS
Clumsiness
Body Swellings
Not so irritablemore weepy than Ustilago
Hormonal
DD: Ustilagoif feel fungus
Mostly female
Hormonal, worse menses
Not so irritable, A little weepy
REALLY BIG OVERALL BODY SWELLINGS *
Huge swelling and bloating pre-menstrually
In Menses, gets Really clumsy
Really clumsy in terms of dropping things (usually hands) or tripping and fallingtypically of girls
in puberty
Slow (vs. Apis is busy)
SKIN: Will produce eczema, Where eczema also some swelling
Feels like my head is swollen cant think because so intense
Mental awkwardness too thinking not clear to themspeech is awkward, just not a coherent
Feeling some better in company (Fungi) (Lyc better with someone in the house)
Bunches of mushrooms running across the pastures
Tendency to dictatorialness
Swelling like a balloon
Weak state can blow on it and spores blow away
Irritable in Fungi
(Lyc Chel) both can be irritable, Lyc found out for their stupidity, Chel a feeling of guilt they are not
taking care of themselves, Im sick cause havent taken care of myself, or havent taken care of family well enough, or family isnt listening to them
Feeling some better in company (fungi)
Can be Dictatorial (Fungi)
SankaranConsiders Sycotic
(See CASE Massimo)
Feature of the Plant
Roundish, sometimes flattened or lobed fruiting body
Double skinned, outer layer smooth, inner layer brown, exposed with age

Bovista plumbea

The puff ball

Stemless
Attached to soil by a cord-like mycelia strand
Flesh (Spore mass) at first white and firm and cheesy,
becoming yellowish and smelling of old urine, finally
brown and powdery
Spores brown in massive amounts, discharged in pufflike clouds
Found solitary or scattered in large circles in fields, forest, etc.
Often reappearing for many years in same locality
Late summer and fall

Very common fungi found in meadows

Themes, Topics
Umbilical Cord
Attached to ground by strand that looks like umbilical cord
Has been called Babys navel
The word navel and mushroom are linguistically related
Spiritual concentration centers apon the navel in some contexts
Navel-gazing: refers to unproductive self-analysisthis vacancy (Lost in thought) found in Bovista
Bleeding
Puffballs have been used thru years as treatment for cuts and nosebleeds
Rupture
The slightest knock is sometime enough to rupture them and disperse their spores
Fragility
Future
Connected to fortune-telling, knowing the future
In case has prophetic dreams
Elves and fairies links to toadstools
Relation to Aluminum
They are rich in Aluminum
All Puffballs are BONE DRY
Bovista and Alumina have over 1000 symptoms in common
(See Vermeulen for list)

Key Features

Puffiness
Puffing vs Discharging
Clouds of spores, like smoke or fog
Projects when agitated, when touched, jarred, pressed. Great irritability
Tearing open
The ability of person to express ones feelings unreservedly
Dryness
Double-skinned
Gone with the wind, Left empty
Hemorrhages
Anaesthetic/narcotic (Pain-killer)

Puffiness/Enlarged

Bovista plumbea

The puff ball

Delusion distances are enlarged

Distension
Headache, sensation head is enlarged
As if everything protrude form occiput
Swelling, lips, glands, abdomen, feet

Discharging

Headache with feeling head will burst asunder

Lachrymation, copious urine during headache
Constant inclination to blow nose, w/o discharge
Flatus, after lying down

Clouds, Smoke, Fog

Anguish, as if in black fog

On rising, as if veil before eyes

Touch, Jar, Pressure

Great sensitiveness, easily offended at everything

Bruised feeling in whole body, esp joints of arms, abdominal muscles
Great sensitiveness to scalp being touched
Stitching bruising pain on vertex when touched
Abdomen sensitive so can not bear to be touched
Cannot tolerate touch

Tearing open

Talkative
Very openhearted
Indiscretion, revealing secrets
Speech by jerks (puffs)

Opposite, enclosed
Frightful dreams she was in cellar and could not get out, walls falling in

Dryness

Burning on tongue, tip and all over

Dryness of throat
So tongue seemed like wood
Unquenchable thirst
Desire for bread

Skin

Extraordinary itching on right arm, with biting and burning

Much itching w/o eruption
Formation of thick crusts

Emptiness (Deflation)

Lively when in company, sad depressed when alone

Absent-minded, leaves out whole syllables
So absent cannot pay attention
Lost in thought, looked vacant
Looked a long time at one point

Bovista plumbea

The puff ball

Vertigo, as if senses left him

Sudden attack of faintness
Head confused and empty
Feeling in stomach as if one had fasted
Sensation of emptiness in chest

Hemorrhages

Drops of blood everytime she sneezes

Nosebleed in morning
Bleeding of gums, easily, just when sucking
gums
Menses profuse during morning, scanty at night
and day
Spotting between menses
Dreams that serpents bit her and would die of
bleeding wound

Anaesthetic/Narcotic

Leg falls asleep

Desire for sleep
Falls into state where feels no pain