Cocculus Indicus

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What is Cocculus?

It is a member of the Menispermacece family, and the tincture is made from the dried fruit; its alkaloid is called Picrotoxin.

What is the general action of Cocculus ?

Many spasmodic symptoms — cramps, etc. — characterize this drug. Paretic affections, notably of one-half of the body. It produces a condition much like sea-sickness — nausea, faintness; vertigo, prostration.

When is Cocculus indicated in debility ?

When it is spinal in origin and comes from loss of sleep; useful in those who nurse the sick.

What is the Headache of Cocculus?

Headaches in the back part of the head and nape, with tendency to stretch the head backwards, and a sensation as if the head were opening and shutting. Give two other drugs also useful for occipital headache. Gelsemium and Juglans cathartica. Give Headache of Onosmodium. Pain in occiput with vertigo. Headaches caused straining the eyes, with strained feeling in the eyes.

When is Cocculus indicated in nausea?

When it is caused by riding in the cars; it is also a remedy for seasickness.

What are the characteristic symptoms of Pareira brava ?

Constant urging to urinate, with pain in the glans penis; patient sometimes has to get down on all fours to urinate, the straining is so severe; urine passes in drops and contains much thick and viscid mucus.

What is the characteristic use of Agnus castus ?

Spermatorrhoea and sexual excesses in ' ' old sinners, ' ' with loss of sexual power and coldness of the genital organs. ^ÆSCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM.

What is our principal use of this remedy ?

Abdominal plethora throbbing deep in the abdomen. Hemorrhoids accompanied by a feeling of dryness in the rectum as though little sticks, splinters or burrs were sticking in the mucous membrane. They are purple in color and accompanied by backache.

What drug has a symptom that the Rectum seems as if full of pounded glass ?

Ratanhia ; another symptom of this drug is that the anus aches and burns for hours after stool. Give throat symptoms of aesculus, There is a dry, rough, burning in throat and pharynx but no swelling. It resembles Kali bich. but lacks the tenacious, stringy mucus, sallow face, slow digestion, etc. Give the Backache of ^æsculus. Backache during pregnancy where the pain is in sacroiliac synchondroses, and that part of the back gives out compelling her to sit.

When is Ailanthus indicated in Scarlet fever ?

When the patient lies in a stupor; rash is imperfect, dark and purplish; swollen throat and infiltration of the cellular tissue about the netyk; excoriating nasal discharge; drowsiness and prostration. Thin, bloody, offensive stools.

What is the main use of Cedron ?

Neuralgias, which return with clock-like periodicity; supraorbital neuralgias or chills of malarial origin, which are regular as a clock. Give the cough of Aralia racemosa. Spasmodic cough at night, coming on after the first sleep. Relief after expectoration of tough mucus.

What are some symptoms of Asarum?

Feeling as if the body was hovering in the air; noises intolerable ; the thought of scratching silk sends a shudder through the patient. Chilly persons who are always shrinking from cold. Give the grand heart characteristic of Cactus grandiflorus. Constriction about the heart as if grasped by an iron hand; sharp pains in the hearty hemoptysis, with cardiac affections.

What do we use Caladium for ?

Effects of sexual excesses, where there are emissions without any excitement. Give the nasal symptoms of Arum triphyllum. Excoriating discharge; the nose is very sore and excoriated.

What are laryngeal symptoms of Arum ?

Hoarseness and rawness in the larynx; the control over the voice is lost; the voice suddenly changes; dry cough; patient cringes under it, it hurts so. Give the symptoms of Camphor in cold in the head. First stage, when the nose is stuffed up and the inspired air feels cold; the patient feels chilly.

What are the indications for Camphor in Cholera?

Body cold as ice; great prostration; voice squeaky or husky; upper lip retracted; indicated more at the beginning without any vomiting or diarrhoea. Tongue, nose and ears are cold; collapse, with scanty or absent discharges.

Give an indication for Cistus Canadensis. Swollen glands, which are very hard and inflamed. What are the hemorrhoids of Collinsonia?

Where there is a sensation of sticks in the rectum; constipation, with prolapsus uteri and hemorrhoids. Give an indication for Teucrium marum verum. Catarrh, with expectoration of solid chunks from the posterior nares; nasal polypi.

What are the two great characteristics of Crocus sativum?

1. Sensation as if something were alive and moving about in the abdomen. 2. A hemorrhage of dark tarry blood from the uterus, which is clotted in strings.