Colocynthis

Squirting Cucumber. CucurhitacccE.

Keynotes

Agonizing pain in abdomen causing patient to bend double, with restlessness, twisting and turning to obtain relief; > by hard pressure (> by heat, Mag. p.).

Pains: are worse after eating. or drinking; compel patient to bend double (Mag. p. — < by bending double, Dios.) ; menses, suppressed by chagrin, colic pains.

Extremely irritable, impatient ; becomes angry or offended on being questioned. Irritable; throws things out of his hands. Affections from anger, with indignation — colic, vomiting, diarrhoea and suppression of menses (Cham., Staph.).

Vertigo: when quickly turning head, especially to the left, as if he would fall; from stimulants.

Sciatica: crampy pain in hip, as though screwed in a vise; lies upon affected side.

Shooting pain, like lightning-shocks, down the whole limb, left hip, left thigh, left knee, into popliteal fossa.

Relationship p. 106

Complementary: Merc, in dysentery, with great tenesmus.

Compare : Gnaph. intense pain along right sciatic nerve, darting, cutting, from right hip joint down to foot; < lying down, motion, stepping; > by sitting.

Compare with Staph, in ovarian or other diseases from bad effects of anger, reserved indignation or silent grief.

Aggravation. — Anger and indignation; mortification caused by offense (Staph., Lyc.) ; cheese < colic.

Amelioration. — From doubling up; hard pressure.