Colocynthis

Characteristic symptoms

Colocynthis. - All pains characterize neuralgic more than inflammatory affections ; affections from anger, with indigestion, especially vomiting and diarrhœa; amelioration of the pains by motion, coffee and smoking ; crampy pains, internally and externally, or tonic spasms, with squeezing; contraction of the muscles, even to the contraction of all extremities ; fainting, with coldness; hemicrania, with violent pain in eye, alternating with neuralgia of plexus cceliacus ; hemicrania, with vomiting ; desquamation of the epidermis ; glandular swellings, with suppuration ; urinous smell of the night sweat; neuralgia of the communicans facies, infraorbital and sciatic nerve ; face pale and relaxed ; eyes look dull ; eruption of pimples in the face, with burning pain when touched; bitter taste of the mouth and of 1 he food ; spasmodic, constrictive colic, as if the bowels were pressed between stones, with diarrhœa ; severe colicky pains, mostly round the navel ; has to bend double, being worse in any other posture, with great restlessness and screaming on changing his position ; pressure on epigastrium, followed by 53b loud eructations ; sharp, cutting colic, with marked aggravations and ameliorations ; tympanitic distention of the abdomen ; yellow diarrhceic stool after taking the least food or drink; dysenteric stool, with mucus and blood; weakness and prostration after stool ; frothy, thin, yellow and mouldy smelling stools ; fetid urine, which becomes turbid and jellylike, soon after standing ; spasmodic constriction of the chest.