The Bufo child sleeps badly, because of the itching. Sleep is poor and he often lies awake the whole night. He bites his nails and may have inflammation of the nail beds. The child plays with his penis, and bores his finger into his nose.
This remedy is indicated for convulsions in children and infants. Convulsions in children may occur while the angered or frightened mother is nursing. The attack may start with the face turning very gray and the eyes rolling back. The arms and legs move back and forth.
A child can have one seizure after another, sitting on the floor playing with a set of toy drums. During such play he may repeatedly go into a seizure and begin to fall backwards, and then come out of the seizure before actually falling over, sitting up again and returning to his play, seemingly unaware of what has happened. Most of the seizures are partial in their expression. They may start with a facial grimace that looks like he is straining at stool or straining in the way that strong-willed young children sometimes do to assert themselves and demand their way. The right arm may frequently extend out to the side and back and he may also make a fist.
Generalities
Bufo causes low grades of inflammatory action, foetid exhalations and discharges. Removes the foetor in terminal cases of cancer. Guernsey commends it in panaritium and also when the fingers have been injured and look black, with pain running in streaks up the arm.
E. E. Case has reported a cure with Bufo cinereus of ‘epistaxis daily for several weeks with flushed face, heat and pain in forehead ameliorated by the bleeding; there was also easy perspiration in general, apt to be offensive, especially on the feet.’