COCCULUS INDICUS

HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Remedy Origin / Source
Natural

Clinical Applications

Antidotes:; Coffee; Nux .

Related Remedies
Picrotoxin-alkaloid of Cocculus--(epilepsy, attacks in the morning on leaving horizontal position, hernia, locomotor ataxia, night-sweats) Symphoricarpus (morning sickness) Petrol Puls Ignat.

Key Symptoms & Indications

  • Within the sphere of action of Cocculus are many spasmodic and paretic affections, notably those affecting one-half of the body. Affects the cerebrum, will not cure convulsive seizures proceeding from the spinal cord (A. E. Hinsdale) Painful contracture of limbs and trunk; tetanus. Many of the evil effects of night-watching are relieved by it. It shows a special, attraction for light-haired females, especially during pregnancy, causing much nausea and backache. Unmarried and childless women, sensitive and romantic girls, etc. All its symptoms are worse riding in a carriage or on shipboard; hence its use in seasickness. Sensation of hollowness, or emptiness, as if parts had gone to sleep. Feels too weak to talk loud.

Mental & Emotional Symptoms

Capricious. Heavy and stupid. Time passes too quickly ; absorbed in reveries. Inclination to sing irresistible. Slow of comprehension. Mind benumbed. Profound sadness . Cannot bear contradiction. Speaks hastily. Very anxious about the health of others.

Physical Symptoms

Head

Vertigo, nausea, especially when riding or sitting up. Sense of emptiness in head. Headache in occiput and nape; worse, lying on back of head. Sick headache from carriage riding, cannot lie on back part of head. Pupils contracted. Opening and shutting sensation, especially in occiput. Trembling of head. Pain in eyes as if torn out of head.

Face

Paralysis of facial nerve. Cramp-like pain in masseter muscle; worse, opening mouth . Prosopalgia in afternoon, with wide radiations of pain.

Stomach

Nausea from riding in cars, boat, etc, or looking at boat in motion; worse on becoming cold or taking cold. Nausea, with faintness and vomiting. Aversion to food , drink, tobacco. Metallic taste . Paralysis of muscles preventing deglutition. Dryness of œsophagus. Seasickness ( Resorcin . 1x). Cramp, in stomach during and after meal. Hiccough and spasmodic yawning. Loss of appetite. Desire for cold drinks, especially beer. Sensation in stomach as if one had been a long time without food until hunger was gone. Smell of food disgusts ( Colch ).

Abdomen

Distended, with wind, and feeling as if full of sharp stones when moving ; better, lying on one side or the other. Pain in abdominal ring , as if something were forced through. Abdominal muscles weak ; it seems as if a hernia would take place.

Female

Dysmenorrhœa, with profuse dark menses. Too early menses, clotted, with spasmodic colic. Painful pressing in uterine region, followed by hæmorrhoids. Purulent, gushing leucorrhœa between menses; very weakening , can scarcely speak. So weak during menstruation, scarcely able to stand.

Respiratory

Sensation of emptiness and cramp in chest. Dyspnœa as from constriction of trachea, as if irritated by smoke. Choking constriction in upper part of œsophagus, oppressing breathing and inducing cough.

Back

Cracking of cervical vertebræ when moving head. Paralytic pain in small of the back . Pain in shoulder and arms as if bruised . Pressure in scapula and nape. Stiffness on moving shoulders.

Extremities

Lameness; worse by bending. Trembling and pain in limbs. Arms go to sleep. One-sided paralysis; worse after sleep. Hands are alternately hot and cold; numbness and cold sweat now of one, now of the other hand. Numb and unsteady. Knees crack on motion . Lower limbs very weak. Inflammatory swelling of knee. Intensely painful, paralytic drawing. Limbs straightened out, painful when flexed.

Sleep

Spasmodic yawning. Coma vigil. Constant drowsiness. After loss of sleep, night-watching, nursing.

Fever

Chill, with flatulent colic, nausea, vertigo, coldness of lower extremities, and heat of head. Sweat general. Nervous form of low fever. Chilliness, with perspiration, and heat of skin .

Modalities (Better / Worse)

Worse (Aggravation)

, eating, after loss of sleep, open air, smoking, riding, swimming, touch, noise, jar; afternoon. Menstrual period. After emotional disturbance

Better (Amelioration)

No specific amelioration factors listed.

Remedy Relationships

Follows Well

Ars., Bell., Hep., lgn., Lyc., Nux-v., Puls., Rhus-t., Suiph.

Inimicals (Incompatible)

Coff.

Antidotes

Camph., Cham., Cupr., Ign., Nux-v.

Mentions in Classic Materia Medicas

Explore detailed descriptions for this remedy across famous historical textbooks:

COCCULUS INDICUS

Indian Cockle (COCCULUS)

Within the sphere of action of Cocculus are many spasmodic and paretic affections, notably those affecting one-half of the body. Affects the cerebrum, will not cure convulsive seizures proceeding from the spinal cord (A. E. Hinsdale) Painful contracture of limbs and trunk; tetanus. Many of the evil effects of night-watching are relieved by it. It shows a special, attraction for light-haired females, especially during pregnancy, causing much nausea and backache. Unmarried and childless women, sensitive and romantic girls, etc. All its symptoms are worse riding in a carriage or on shipboard; hence its use in seasickness. Sensation of hollowness, or emptiness, as if parts had gone to sleep. Feels too weak to talk loud.

Mind

Capricious. Heavy and stupid. Time passes too quickly; absorbed in reveries. Inclination to sing irresistible. Slow of comprehension. Mind benumbed. Profound sadness. Cannot bear contradiction. Speaks hastily. Very anxious about the health of others.

Head

Vertigo, nausea, especially when riding or sitting up. Sense of emptiness in head. Headache in occiput and nape; worse, lying on back of head. Sick headache from carriage riding, cannot lie on back part of head. Pupils contracted. Opening and shutting sensation, especially in occiput. Trembling of head. Pain in eyes as if torn out of head.

Face

Paralysis of facial nerve. Cramp-like pain in masseter muscle; worse, opening mouth. Prosopalgia in afternoon, with wide radiations of pain.

Stomach

Nausea from riding in cars, boat, etc, or looking at boat in motion; worse on becoming cold or taking cold. Nausea, with faintness and vomiting. Aversion to food, drink, tobacco. Metallic taste. Paralysis of muscles preventing deglutition. Dryness of œsophagus. Seasickness (Resorcin. 1x). Cramp, in stomach during and after meal. Hiccough and spasmodic yawning. Loss of appetite. Desire for cold drinks, especially beer. Sensation in stomach as if one had been a long time without food until hunger was gone. Smell of food disgusts (Colch).

Abdomen

Distended, with wind, and feeling as if full of sharp stones when moving; better, lying on one side or the other. Pain in abdominal ring, as if something were forced through. Abdominal muscles weak; it seems as if a hernia would take place.

Female

Dysmenorrhœa, with profuse dark menses. Too early menses, clotted, with spasmodic colic. Painful pressing in uterine region, followed by hæmorrhoids. Purulent, gushing leucorrhœa between menses; very weakening, can scarcely speak. So weak during menstruation, scarcely able to stand.

Respiratory

Sensation of emptiness and cramp in chest. Dyspnœa as from constriction of trachea, as if irritated by smoke. Choking constriction in upper part of œsophagus, oppressing breathing and inducing cough.

Back

Cracking of cervical vertebræ when moving head. Paralytic pain in small of the back. Pain in shoulder and arms as if bruised. Pressure in scapula and nape. Stiffness on moving shoulders.

Extremities

Lameness; worse by bending. Trembling and pain in limbs. Arms go to sleep. One-sided paralysis; worse after sleep. Hands are alternately hot and cold; numbness and cold sweat now of one, now of the other hand. Numb and unsteady. Knees crack on motion. Lower limbs very weak. Inflammatory swelling of knee. Intensely painful, paralytic drawing. Limbs straightened out, painful when flexed.

Sleep

Spasmodic yawning. Coma vigil. Constant drowsiness. After loss of sleep, night-watching, nursing.

Fever

Chill, with flatulent colic, nausea, vertigo, coldness of lower extremities, and heat of head. Sweat general. Nervous form of low fever. Chilliness, with perspiration, and heat of skin.

Modalities

Worse, eating, after loss of sleep, open air, smoking, riding, swimming, touch, noise, jar; afternoon. Menstrual period. After emotional disturbance.

Relationship

Antidotes:; Coffee; Nux.

Compare: Picrotoxin-alkaloid of Cocculus--(epilepsy, attacks in the morning on leaving horizontal position, hernia, locomotor ataxia, night-sweats); Symphoricarpus (morning sickness); Petrol; Puls; Ignat.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Cocculus.

Cocculus Indicus. N. O. Menispermaceæ. A tincture is prepared from the powdered seeds, which contain a crystallisable principle Picrotoxine (which see), a powerful poison.
Clinical

Anger, effects of. Bones, affections of. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Chorea. Colic. Convulsions. Debility. Faintness. Fear, effects of. Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Hernia. Intermittent fever. Knee, weakness of; cracking in. Memory, weak. Mental excitement, effects of. Menstrual headache. Menstruation, painful. Overstrain, bodily or mental. Palpitation. Paralysis. Parotitis. Phthiriasis. Rheumatism. Riding in carriage, effects of. Sea-sickness. Sleep, affections from loss of. Somnolence. Spasms. Spinal irritation. Tympany. Vertigo. Vomiting.

Characteristics

Cocculus has been used from ancient times as a poison for stupefying fish, and making them easy to catch. Correspondingly we find it produces great disturbance of the sensorium in human beings, and all the symptoms of intoxication. It is commonly used as an adulteration of beer to heighten its intoxicating properties. A very characteristic symptom is a sensation of hollowness or emptiness in the head or other parts. Allied to this is a sense of lightness of body. Another characteristic is an opening and shutting sensation, especially in the occiput. Along with the vertigo is nausea and vomiting which bring it into close relation with sea-sickness and carriage-sickness. Coccul. corresponds perfectly to the sensitive condition caused by loss of sleep and night-watching, and is the first remedy to think of for removing this. "Irritable weakness" is a leading note in the Cocculus effects. The Cocculus patient is very sensitive to fear, anger, grief, and all mental disturbances; also to noise and touch. Enlargement of liver after anger. Easily startled. Fear of ghosts and spectres. Stinging pains, stitches, constriction; in the hands a pithy feeling. Many symptoms are < at menstrual period; piles during menses. Cocculus has cured a case of delirium at onset of menses during first and second days; the patient said, "I always see something alive, on wall, floor, chairs, or anywhere, always rolling, and will roll on me." Cocculus is suited to persons of mild and sluggish temperament; light-haired persons; hypochondriacal, timid, fearful, and nervous persons. Other prominent features of Coccul. are: Paralytic pains, or pains as of dislocation. Paralytic weakness; lax-muscles. "Weakness of neck muscles with heaviness of head." Sensation as if single parts had gone to sleep. Immovability of parts affected. Of localities, the right hypochondrium (especially liver), inner hypogastrium, inner forehead, back, upper arm, and bones of arm are chiefly affected. This has been verified: "Spasmodic, flatulent colic, about midnight, flatus passed without relief," recurring several nights; promptly cured by Coccul. 3x. Lippe cured a case of enlargement of the liver after parturition, the indication being "the liver was more painful after anger." The sensitiveness to touch is very great and serves to indicate Cocculus in preference to other remedies in many affections where this is pronounced, in articular rheumatism, in ulcers, in neuralgic affections of bones. The least jar is unbearable (travelling by land or sea). < By touch, pressure, or jar. < From motion generally; moving body; rising from bed; bending over or stooping. < Kneeling; walking; swallowing saliva. Sitting > some symptoms. Many symptoms are < evening and night, especially about midnight and 1 a.m. Sensitive to air either hot or cold. Longs for cold drinks, but eating or drinking anything cold = tearing in limbs. < Open air. < From sun. < By warmth of bed. > In a room. A decoction of Cocculus is a domestic remedy used locally for destroying head- or body-lice.

Relations

Antidoted by: Camph., Cham., Cupr., Ign., Nux v., Staph. It antidotes: Alcohol, Tobacco, Cham., Cup., Ign., Nux v., and the fever of Thuj. Incompatible with: Caust., Coffee. Compatible: Follows well Aco. (endocarditis with fearfulness); Cham., Nux, Ign. Compare: Aco., Act. r.; Ant. c. (gastralgia), Agar. (somnolency), Ant. t., Ars., Bell., Calc., Carb. v. (parotitis), Cham., Coff., Cupr., Ign. (headache), Ip., Iod., Lach., Merc., Mosch., Nitr., Nux mos. (somnolency), Oleand., Petr., Puls. (headache), Rhus, Sabi., Sassafras, Scutel., Silic., Stram., Tab., Val., Ver. In effects from noise, Nux, Nit. ac. Sense of lightness, Asar., Can. ind., Calc., Gels., Sticta, Sil., Thuj.; menstrual sick headache, Lac. def.; fear of ghosts, Aco., Ars., Bro., Carb. v., Lyc., Pho., Pul., Sul., Zn. Umbilical hernia, Nux (without urging, Bry., Nat. mur., Ver.); < from kneeling, Mag. c., Sep.; nausea constant, Ip., Kali c., Sul., Ign., Acet. ac.; uterine spasm, dysmenia, dark flow, Ign. (Coccul. is distinguished by having weak, lame feeling in small of back; as if about to be paralysed; trembles on beginning to walk); weak from talking, Ver., Sul., Calc.; functional paralysis from fatigue or mental emotions, Ign., Pho., Nat. m., Collins.; in occipital headache, Gels., jug. c. Weakness of neck muscles, Ant. t.; > putting head back, Seneg. (<, Clem., Cinnab.). Compare also: Picrotoxin and Picric acid in paralytic sensations and effects of fatigue. Teste places Coccul. in his Causticum group.

Causation

Anger. Fright. Noise. Sleep, loss of. Seasickness. Travelling. Over-strain, mental or bodily. Sun. Tea-drinking.

1. Mind

Pre-occupation of mind, and sad and melancholy reflections, as if the patient had sustained wrongs.He sits as if wrapped in deep sad thoughts, and does not take notice of anything; anxiety.Loss of will and power to decide on any action.Hypochondriacal humour; despair.Strong, anxious apprehension, inquietude, and fear of death.Disposition to be frightened.Excessive susceptibility.Disposition to take everything in bad part and to be angry.Mania.Mistakes concerning the lapse of time; it passes too quickly.

2. Head

Confusion of the head, esp. after eating or drinking.Dulness in the head, increased by reading or meditation.Vertigo, as from intoxication, or on rising up in the bed, with inclination to vomit, which forces the patient to lie down again.Fits of vertigo, with nausea and loss of consciousness.Headache, with inclination to vomit or vomiting, and pain as from a bruise in the intestines.The headache is aggravated after sleeping, eating, or drinking (coffee), in the open air, while riding in a carriage; and is relieved in a warm room, or when becoming warm in bed.Violent aching pains, esp. in the forehead.Stupid feeling in the head (cold perspiration on forehead and hands).During motion, headache, as if the eyes were being torn from the sockets, with vertigo.Pain in the head, which seems, as it were, empty and hollow, or sensation of constriction in the brain.Pulsative pains, sometimes in the crown of the head, sometimes in the temples.Convulsive trembling of the head, caused by weakness of the muscles of the neck; worse after sleeping and in the open air, from coffee and tobacco; better in the warm room.

3. Eyes

Pressure and pain, as from a bruise, in the eyes, and difficulty in opening the eyelids at night.Pain in the eyes, as if they were torn out of the head (with headache).Convulsive rolling of the balls of the eyes during the spasms.Pupils very much dilated; or contracted.Dryness of the eyelids.Inflammation of the eyelids.Eyes prominent and glassy.Dim-sightedness (after reading a short time the print is all blurred).Confusion of sight, with black spots before the eyes.Phantoms before the eyes.

4. Ears

Buzzing in the ears, with hardness of hearing, and sensation as if the ears were stopped; with noise as from rushing water.The r. ear feels closed.Swelling of the parotids.

5. Nose

Swelling of the nose, sometimes semi-lateral (r.).Coryza, with ulcerated nostrils.Very acute sense of smell.

6. Face

Face of a burning red, puffed and hot.Transient heat in the cheeks.Flushes of heat in the face after drinking.Blue circles round the eyes.Face convulsively contracted.Cramps in the cheek-bone and in the masseters.Swelling and induration of the sub-maxillary glands.

7. Teeth

Pains in carious teeth, but only when eating.Looseness of the teeth, with swelling of the gums.

8. Mouth

Dryness of the mouth (in the night), without thirst.Foam before the mouth, forming bubbles.Tongue loaded with a yellow coating.

9. Throat

Difficulty of speech, as from paralysis of the tongue.Dryness of the throat.Excessive sensitiveness of the palate; the food seems to be too strong, or too salt.Constriction in the gullet, which seems to be paralysed.Burning pain in the œsophagus, and in the throat, with sulphurous taste in the mouth.

10. Appetite

Metallic, copperish taste.Acid taste, esp. after a meal, or when coughing.Acid taste of bread.Bitter taste of tobacco.Desire for cold drinks, and esp. for beer.Thirst during a meal.Excessive loathing of all food and drink.Repugnance to all acids.Bulimy.

11. Stomach

Risings, with pain in the stomach and in the epigastrium.Risings with inclination to vomit.Frequent empty eructations, leaving a bitter taste in the mouth and throat.Eructations with nausea and sticking pains in the pit of the stomach.Empty, or fetid and putrid risings.Attacks of nausea inducing syncope.Inclination to vomit on rising up in the bed, which compels the patient to lie down again.Inclination to vomit during a meal, or in consequence of a chill, with abundant accumulation of saliva.Vomiting and nausea from the motion of a carriage, or of the sea.Sensation of fulness in the stomach, with difficulty of respiration.Violent cramp-like pains, squeezing, as if from a claw and cramps in the stomach, sometimes a short time after a meal.Anxious oppression and pinchings in the epigastrium, with difficulty of respiration.

12. Abdomen

Pain in the hypochondria as from a bruise.Pressive pain in the hepatic region, aggravated by coughing or stooping.Shootings in the hepatic region.Abdominal pains, as if the intestines were bruised, or as from an internal abscess, when moving.Pressure, as from a stone, in the umbilical region, and in the abdomen.Sensation in the abdomen, as if it were hollow and empty.Inflation of the abdomen.Contractive pinchings in the upper part of the abdomen, with suspension of respiration.Burning pains, pullings and tearings in the abdomen.Cramp-like pains in the abdomen.Hysterical spasms in the abdomen, in women.Flatulent, cramp. like colic, esp. at night, aggravated by coughing, or by stooping forwards.Tendency to protrusion of inguinal hernia.

13. Stool and Anus

Constipation, with tenesmus.Evacuation hard and difficult.Ineffectual desire for stool, with constipation.Contractive pain in the rectum, preventing sitting (in the afternoon).Diarrhœa, with emission of flatulency before the stool.Loose evacuation of a putrid smell.Fæces soft and yellow, which cause burning in the anus.

14. Urinary Organs

Aqueous urine with urgent inclination.Frequent want to make water, even in pregnant women.Frequent desire to urinate, with small discharges.

15. Male Sexual Organs

Itching in the scrotum.Pulling pains as from a bruise in the testes, on their being touched.Great sensibility and excitability of the genital parts, with desire for coition.

16. Female Sexual Organs

Premature catamenia, with cramps in the abdomen.Painful catamenia, with abundant discharge of coagulated blood, followed by hæmorrhoids.Suppression of catamenia, with spasmodic and pressive colic, flatulency, paralytic debility, oppression, anxiety, cramps in the chest, fits of nausea, even to fainting, and convulsive movements of the limbs.Catamenia too scanty and irregular, with leucorrhœa in the intervals.(Metrorrhagia.).Discharge of sanguineous mucus from the uterus, during pregnancy.Leucorrhœa like blood.Leucorrhœa, similar to water in which meat has been washed, intermixed with a sanious and purulent serum.Cramps in the uterus.

17. Respiratory Organs

Fatiguing cough, from oppression of the chest, which manifests itself only during the cough.Oppressed breathing, from contractive sensation in the trachea, as if irritated by smoke, causing constant coughing.Periodical cough, every fourth night, towards midnight, or about two o'clock in the morning, with constriction in the throat which brings on coughing.

18. Chest

Suspension of respiration, which stops in the pit of the throat, as if from constriction of the throat.Tightness and constriction of r. side of chest.Stitches in the chest (sternum) when walking.Short, intermittent respiration.Pressure on the chest, as if from a stone.Hysterical spasms in chest.Cramps in chest, with sighs and groans.Tensive constriction in the chest, sometimes on one side only, with difficulty of respiration.Gurgling and sensation of emptiness in the chest.Fatigue of the chest, from reading aloud.Congestion in the chest, with anxiety.Red spots on the chest.

19. Heart

Palpitation of the heart; nervous, with anxiety.

20. Neck and Back

Cracking of the vertebræ of the neck, during movement.Weakness of the muscles of the neck, which are inadequate to the support of the head.Red spots on the neck.Paralytic tearings (in the back and) in the loins.Pullings and tearings in the back, esp. when speaking, walking, and stooping.Tremor in the back.Shootings between the shoulder-blades, and in the loins.

22. Upper Limbs

Lancinations in the shoulder-joint, and in the arm, during repose.Lancinating pains in the arm, proceeding from a wounded finger.Convulsions of the arm, with retraction of the thumbs.Paralysis of the arms.Palpitation of the muscles of the arm.Pain, as from a bruise, in the bones of the arm, during movement (when lifting them up, and when touching them).Lameness of the arm (cannot write).Hot and arthritic swelling of the hands.Numbness, or heat and cold alternately, of one or other of the hands.Tingling of hands and paralytic trembling.Torpor of the hands.Cramp-like contractions, and starting of the fingers.

23. Lower Limbs

Paralysis of the lower limbs, proceeding from the loins.Drawing tearings in the knees, feet, and toes.Pain as if from a bruise in the thighs, during movement.Pain in the heel (os calcis) as if bruised.Cracking in l. hip-joint.Cracking of the knees, during movement.Inflammatory swelling of the knee, with transient lancinations.Burning sensation in the feet.Hot and itching swelling of the feet, sometimes in the evening.Numbness in the feet.Cold and perspiration of the feet.

24. Generalities

Pullings and paralytic tearings, by fits, or continuous, in the limbs and in the bones.Paralytic immobility of the limbs, with drawing pains in the bones.Convulsive movements of the muscles in different parts.Aching, digging pains in the limbs.Pains, as from a bruise, even in the internal organs.Sensations of hollowness; as if bruised in outer parts; same in bones; numb feeling of outer parts; sensation as if single parts had gone to sleep.Affections of the r. hypochondrium (particularly of the liver); inner hypogastrium, inner forehead, back, upper arm, bones of the arm.Aversion to open air; hysterics; paleness of the skin, red spots; shuddering in general.Sensation of hollowness or of constriction in the internal organs.Painful sensibility of the limbs to the slightest touch.Painful stiffness and crackings in the joints.Semi-lateral sufferings.Rheumatic pains, with hot swelling of the parts affected.Attacks of gout, with swelling of the affected parts.Shooting pains in lymphatic swelling.Engorgement and induration of the glands.Hæmorrhage.Cramps and convulsions of the limbs, and of the whole body, sometimes induced by ulcers, or by wounds, painfully sensitive to the touch, or on using the parts affected.Convulsive movements of the limbs and of the muscles, as in St. Vitus' dance.During the convulsive fits, face red, puffed, and hot.Trembling of the limbs.Attacks of epilepsy.Paralysis, chiefly semi-lateral, with insensibility of the parts affected.Aggravation of the sufferings by sleep, speech, drinking, and eating, but esp. on taking coffee or smoking tobacco, as well as by cold air.Hysterical spasms, with anguish.Weakness and loss of strength, after the least bodily fatigue, movement, or the interruption of sleep.Want of vital energy.Fainting fits.Numbness, sometimes of the hands, sometimes of the feet, in transient fits.The open air is insupportable, whether it be warm or cold.Emaciation.

25. Skin

Great itching, esp. in the evening, or when undressing, or at night in bed.Red pimples, like grains of millet, with itching in a warm temperature.Eruption of hard and knotty pimples, with red areolas and burning pain.Induration, cold swelling of the glands, with stinging pains.Ulcers very sensitive to contact.Red spots in the chest and on the side of the neck.Pale (chlorotic) colour of the skin.

26. Sleep

Obstinate inclination to sleep in the morning.Sleeplessness on account of anxiety and bodily restlessness.Spasmodic yawning.Sleep retarded in consequence of a great flow of ideas.Half sleep, like coma vigil.Sleep interrupted by frightful anguish and inquietude.During sleep, starts, cries, convulsive movements of the hands, of the eyes, and of the head.Vivid dreams, exciting fear.Anxious, frightful dreams, dreams of death, of disease, &c.Fear of ghosts at night.Sleep unrefreshing, with frequent waking.

27. Fever

Shivering, and sensation of cold, with trembling.In the evening, shivering and shuddering in the back.Chill in the afternoon and evening, principally on the legs and in the back; not relieved by heat.Dry heat during the night.Perspiration during the night, which is only cold on the face.Morning sweat, esp. on the chest.Intermittent fever, with colic and lameness of the small of the back.Fever, with tendency to become chilly, though the skin is hot to the touch.Chilliness alternating with heat.Burning heat and redness of the cheeks, often with cold in the feet.Fever with cramp-like pains in the stomach, and paralytic weakness in the loins.Easy perspiration during movement, with great fatigue.Sweats night and morning.Pulse full, hard, and frequent.Pulse small and spasmodic; sometimes it cannot be felt.

Cocculus indicus

Cocculus indicus

Generalities

• It is a stupefying poison, hence it causes disturbances of the sensorium and affections of cerebrospinal axis; producing paralytic muscular relaxation, with heaviness.

• The patient is very susceptible to fear, anger, grief and all mental disturbances.

• He is too weak to hold up his head, stand or even speak.

- Paralysis - of face; tongue, pharynx; paraplegia, with numbness and tingling.

• Suitable to light haired, timid, nervous, persons; book worms; unmarried, childless women; and sensitive, romantic girls.

• Hysteria.

• Numbness.

• Sensation of HOLLOWNESS of EMPTINESS; head, chest, abdomen.

• As if single parts had gone to sleep.

• Shuddering.

• Painful contractions of the limbs and the trunk.

• Tremors; or head, lower jaw; from excitement, exertion, pain.

• Intentional tremors.

- Cramps; in muscles; in masseters; in abdomen; dysmenorrhoea, in the heart.

• Spasms, through the body like electric shocks.

• Convulsions; from non-appearance or suddenly checked menses.

• Alternating symptoms.

• Ill effects of anger, fright, grief, anxiety, disappointment.

• Night watching.

• Overstrain mental and physical.

• Travelling.

• Sun.

• Tea drinking.

- Sensitive to cold.

• Falls down suddenly to ground unconscious.

• Senses acute.

• Train and sea sickness.

- Slowness; in moving; in answering; wants plenty of time to do everything.

• Unilateral affections.

• Twitching of isolated groups of muscles.

Worse

• Motion; of Boat; Cars; swimming.

• Loss of sleep.

- Touch.

• Noise.

• Jar.

• Emotions.

• Kneeling.

• Stooping.

• At menses.

• Eating.

- Anxiety.

• Cold.

• Open air.

• Exertion.

• Pain.

Better

• Sitting.

• In room.

• Lying on side.

Mind

• Dazed.

• Profound sadness.

• Thoughts fixed on one unpleasant subject, sits as if absorbed in deep and sad thoughts and observes nothing about her.

• Sudden great anxiety.

• Things seem unreal.

• Slow grasp.

• Easily offended, can not bear contradiction.

• Extremely sad, taciturn and peevish.

• Takes everything in bad part.

• Time passes too quickly.

• Drunkards; reeling, roaring, quarrelsome, singing.

• Very anxious about health of others.

• Talkative, witty, joking, dancing, gesticulating.

• Sees something alive on walls, floor, chair etc.

• Vacillatory, does not accomplish anything at her work.

• Fears death and unknown dangers.

Head

• Vertigo; with nausea; with palpitation agg. in a.m. ; raising head; felt in forehead.

• Heavy head.

• Pain in occiput and nape agg. lying on it; amel. bending backwards, agg. coffee.

• Can not lie on back during the headache.

• Opening and shutting sensation agg. occiput.

• Convulsive trembling of head from weakness of muscles of neck.

• Cramps in left temporal muscles.

Eyes

• Pain as if torn out of head (with headache).

• Eyes closed, with the balls constantly rolling about; in spasms.

• Protruding eyes.

• Pupils; contracted or dilated.

• Objects seem to move up and down.

• Jerking of eyelids.

Ears

• Sensitive to hearing; dreads sudden noise.

• Feel closed (R).

• Noises as from rushing water.

• Hardness of hearing.

Nose

• Sense of smell acute.

Face

• Paralysis, of one side.

• Cramps in masseter muscles agg. opening mouth.

• Prosopalgia, with wide radiating pain to fingers.

• Tremor of lower jaw, and chattering of teeth, when attempting to speak.

• Bloated, distorted and cold to touch.

Mouth

• Tongue; as if paralysed, speech difficult; or hasty; pains at the base when protruded.

• Metallic taste.

• Food tastes as if salted too little; tobacco bitter.

• Pain in teeth amel. when biting, with empty mouth.

• Teeth feel chilly.

Throat

• Paralysis preventing swallowing.

• Tickling in throat, with lachrymation.

• Oesophagus dry, burning.

• Constriction in throat; with difficult breathing and inclination to cough.

Stomach

• Loathing of all food and drink.

• Nausea; rising to head or felt in head.

• Retching.

• Vomiting; with profuse flow of saliva; with headache, pain in bowels; on taking cold; of sour, bitter bad odour.

• As if a worm moving in.

• Hiccough and spasmodic yawning.

• Disgust for smell of food.

• Vomiting, with syncope.

• Vomiting from cerebral tumours; from loud talk.

• Craves beer.

• Sensation as if one has been a long time without food, until hunger was gone.

Abdomen

• Bloated.

• Seems full of sharp stones; on every movement; with diarrhoea amel. lying on sides.

- Colic; wind, twisting, hysterical, nervous, with faintness, with salivation.

• Cramps in epigastrium, with difficulty in breathing.

• Liver more painful, after anger agg. least jar.

• Abdominal muscles weak.

• Pain abdominal ring as if something were forced through.

Urinary

• Frequent desire to urinate, with small discharge, in pregnant women.

• Urine watery.

Male

• Drawing sore pain in testes when touched.

• Genitals sensitive, with desire for coition.

Female

• Menses; early, profuse, too often, gushes out in stream when rising on feet on tip toe.

• Very weak during menses, can scarcely stand.

• Purulent, gushing leucorrhoea between menses; or in place of menses; weakening; can scarcely speak.

• Dysmenorrhoea followed by haemorrhoids.

• Clutching in uterus.

• Shivering over mammae.

• Leucorrhoea gushing, when squatting and stooping; during pregnancy, with frequent urging to urinate.

Respiratory

• Sensation of emptiness or of cramps in chest.

• Hysterical asthma.

• Cough from choking in throat.

• Audible rumbling in chest (L) as from emptiness agg. walking.

Heart

• Palpitation agg. quick motion, mental excitement; with vertigo and faintness, then stretching of arms, thumbs drawn inwards.

Neck and back

• Weak neck, can not hold up head.

• Pain in neck or cracking in cervical vertebras when moving head, and on yawning.

• Spinal weakness; in lumbar region; agg. walking.

• Paralytic pain in small of the back.

Extremities

• Pain in shoulder and arms as if bruised.

• Hands; numb; or hot and cold alternately; become numb on grasping objects; trembles while eating.

• Takes hold of things awkwardly and drops them.

• Limbs go to sleep.

• Trembling and pain in limbs.

• Knees weak; crack, on motion.

• Paraplegia.

• Alternation between arms.

• Limbs straightened out, painful when flexed or vice versa.

• Clumsy gait.

• Oedema of feet with paralysis of lower limbs.

• Humerus feels broken.

• Soles numb; while sitting.

• Involuntary motion of right arm and right leg amel. during sleep.

Sleep

• Sleepless from mental or physical exhaustion.

• Constant drowsiness; after night watching, nursing.

• Spasmodic yawning, with hiccough.

• Anxious frightful dreams.

Skin

• Much itching agg. undressing; in a feather bed.

• Ulcers very sensitive to touch.

Fever

• Chilliness, with perspiration and heat of skin.

• Chill alternating with heat.

• Nervous form of low fever; from fits of anger.

• Chill with colic, nausea, vertigo.

• Sweat; from slight exertion, on affected part.

Complementary

• Petr.

Related

• Gels; Ign.

COCCULUS INDICUS

  1. Anxiety as if she had committed a great crime, startles easily.
  2. Very sensitive mood, everything worries her.
  3. Choking constriction in upper part of throat, which impedes breathing and provokes cough.
  4. Excessive nausea and other affections caused by the motion of a carriage, swing or ship.
  5. During the menses so weak that can scarcely stand or talk.
  6. Intolerance of open air whether cold or warm.
  7. Hysteria and other nervous troubles arising from over anxiety, night watching and consequent loss of sleep.
  8. Sensation of hollowness in one or more cavities of the body, especially the abdomen.

Cocculus

Head:

The symptoms of the head are all aggravated by talking, laughing, crying, walking, smoking, riding, or drinking coffee.

Head:

Violent headache; is unable to lie on back of the head; is forced to lie on the side; unable to bear the least light; noise excites nausea and vomiting.

Head:

Paroxysms of vertigo as from intoxication, with nausea.

Stomach:

Nausea while riding in a boat, cars, carriage, etc.; aversion to food, and loathing when merely looking at it.

Abdomen:

Flatulent colic, with sensation as if sharp stones rubbed together at every movement.

Abdomen:

Emptiness and sensation of hollowness in abdomen.

Female Sexual Organs:

Discharge of bloody mucus from uterus during pregnancy.

Female Sexual Organs:

Leucorrhoea in place of menses, or between periods, or during pregnancy.

Neck and Back:

Paralytic pain in lower back with weakness of hips, knees and legs.

Neck and Back:

Weakness of cervical muscles; unable to support head.

Extremities:

Much paralytic pain in the small of the back, rendering walking quite difficult and sometimes impossible; numbing feet and hands.

Sleep and Dreams:

Sleeplessness; from night watching; business thoughts; anxiety, restlessness.

Sleep and Dreams:

Ill effects of loss of sleep from long continued watching.

Generalities:

Sense of emptiness in head, abdomen, bowels, chest; heart, stomach, internal parts generally.

Causes and Modalities:

Affections caused or < by the motions of a carriage, cars, or swing of a ship.

Cocculus Indicus

We will study the general system and The mind as usual. Cocculus slows down all the activities of the body and mind, producing a sort of paralytic weakness. Behind time in all its actions.

Slowly

: All the nervous impressions are slow in reaching the centres. If you pinch this patient on the great toe he wants a minute and then says "oh," instead of doing it at once. In response to questions he answers slowly, after apparent meditation, but it is an effort to meditate.

And so with all nervous manifestations, thought, muscular activity, etc. He cannot endure any muscular exertion, because he is weak; he is tired. First comes this slowness, then a sort of visible paralytic condition, and then complete paralysis. This may be local or general. There are certain causes which produce these effects. A wife nursing her husband, a daughter nursing her father, becomes worn out by the anxiety, worry and loss of sleep.

She is exhausted; unable to sustain any mental or physical effort; weak in the knees, weak in the back, and when the times comes for her to sleep she cannot sleep. Sickness brought about in this manner is analogous to that caused by the Cocculus poison, and hence Cocculus from the time of Hahnemann to the present time has been a remedy for complaints from nursing, not exactly complaints that come on in the professional nurse, for Cocculus needs the combination of vexation, anxiety and prolonged loss of sleep, such as you have in the mother or daughter who is nursing, or the nurse when she takes on the anxiety felt by a member of the family; a wife nursing her husband through typhoid, or other long spell of sickness.

At the end of it she is prostrated in body and mind, she cannot sleep, she has congestive headaches, nausea, vomiting and vertigo. That shows how a Cocculus case begins. One who is thus exhausted in body and mind goes out for a ride. She gets sick headache, pain in the back, dizziness, nausea and vomiting. She gets into the car to take a journey. Sick headache comes on. She goes on a mile or two and will have nausea, vomiting and sick headache. She feels weak all over, feels as if she would sink away.

The Cocculus patient gets into a wagon to ride, sick headache, nausea, vertigo come on. The Cocculus patient cannot endure motion. Aggravated by talking, by motion, by the motion of the eyes, by riding. Wants plenty of time to turn the head cautiously to see things. Wants plenty of time to move, to think, to do everything. The whole economy is slowed down, inactive.

Tremulous, tired, excitable. The hands tremble when taking hold of anything, or he takes hold of awkwardly and drops it. Incoordination runs through this remedy, and hence it has been used with good effect in locomotor ataxia. It has staggering and numbness. Numbness is quite a feature of this remedy. Numbness of the lower extremities, in the fingers, in the shoulder, of the side of the face. Complaints from anxiety.

Mind

: Extreme irritability of the nervous system. The least noise or jar is unbearable. You have heard that Bell. is worse from a jar. So is Cocculus, and quite like Bell. Cocculus is also like Belladonnain its sleeplessness, and other general conditions.

This sensation of seasickness and dizziness is sometimes felt all over the body; a sort of faint feeling which is followed sometimes by loss of consciousness, or a paralytic rigidity.

Joints

: Stiffness of the joints is a common feature in Cocculus. It belongs to the limbs in general. But it is such a strong symptom I will mention it here. Limbs straightened out and held there for a while are painful when flexed. Persons who have been suffering from anxiety, prostrated, will lie on the back, straighten out the limbs, and get up only with great difficulty.

The doctor comes and he discovers what is the matter. He bends the limbs and she screams, but she is relieved after the bending, and then she can get up and move about.

You cannot find that anywhere else. It is entirely without inflammation. It is a sort of a paralytic stiffness, a paralysis of the tired body and mind. The Cocculus headaches and backaches, pains and distress are present.

A man will stretch out his leg on a chair and be cannot flex it until he reaches down with his hands to assist. Such things are strange. Faintness on moving the body, fainting from pain in the bowels, from colic. With all this slowing down of the thoughts and activities the patient remains extremely sensitive to suffering, sensitive to pain.

Spasms through the body Iike electric shocks, convulsions after loss of sleep. This patient goes on with nervousness and excitement, anxiety and loss of sleep until convulsions supervene. Tetanus. Cholera, attacks of paralytic weakness with pain, paralysis of the face, of the eyes, paralysis of the muscles everywhere, paralysis of the limbs. Even diphtheria has been known to induce a state very much like I have described as due to loss of sleep and anxiety.

I remember a case of paralysis of the lower extremities that was prescribed for by a very careful homeopathic physician many years ago. It was one of the things that surprised me in the early days of my prescribing and observation.

It was the case of a little girl with paralysis of lower extremities after diphtheria and no hope was given. But Doctor Moore (he was then an Octogenarian) looked over the case. I was acquainted with the family and with the doctor.

He studied the case carefully and gave Cocculus c.m. It was not many days before the child began to move the legs, and the condition was perfectly cleared up, and I have never ceased to wonder at it. It was a good prescription perfectly in accord with all the elements of the case.

Doctor Moore was one of the pupils of Lippe and Hering.

You can hardly see what is coming when the mental activities are slowed down, from anxiety, and loss of sleep, such as we have in nursing. The mind appears like approaching imbecility, and as you look upon the true Cocculus case you wonder if that patient has not been growing insane for a year or two, because the mind seems almost a blank. He looks into space and slowly turning the eyes toward the questioner answers with difficulty. It occurs in nervous prostration, in typhoid fever. It is so nearly like Phos. Acid., that the two remedies must be carefully individualized. Time passes quickly.

He cannot realize that it has been a whole night. A week has gone by, and it seems but a moment, he is so dazed. Slowness of comprehension; cannot find the right word to express his thoughts, so slowly does his mind work; what has passed he cannot remember; forgets what he has just read; cannot talk; cannot bear the least noise; cannot bear the least contraction.

The tongue will not respond. There is confusion of mind and difficulty of articulation. An idea comes into his mind and becomes fixed. He cannot convert it or move it, but it just stays there, and if he speaks he will say something that will cause you to realize that that same idea is holding on to him. So he appears to be in a state of imbecility.

Vertigo

: Mental derangement with vertigo. With most all the mental symptoms there is vertigo. He lies in a state of apparent unconsciousness, yet knows all that is going on and at times is even able to remember and describe what was going on, but does not even wink; does not move a muscle.

There is an appearance of ecstacy, a smile upon the face. Knows what is going on, yet with complete relaxation of the muscles without speech or apparent recognition of anyone. Perfectly relaxed, and yet knowing what is going on. That resembles catatonia. Unable to think.

Fears death. Feels as if some awful thing was about to happen. All this is the result of grief, anxiety, vexation, prolonged loss of sleep.

The vertigo is visually attended with nausea. A Cocculus case cannot look out of the car window, cannot look down from the boat and see water moving, without nausea immediately.

Perhaps you can even now surmise what the head symptoms are to be. With the headaches comes dizziness, extreme nausea and gastric symptoms.

Headaches brought on from riding in a wagon or riding in the cars or on shipboard; headache from motion. Cannot accommodate the eyes to moving objects; dizziness and whirling and headache.

Congestion of the head, pressing, throbbing headache. Headache as if the skull would burst, or like a great valve opening and shutting. Sick headache with vertigo. Headache again from working in the sun. Sick headache from riding in a carriage.

Eyes

: Dim sightedness and disturbance of vision. Paralytic weakness of the muscles of the eyes, as well as the muscles of accommodation. The face becomes pale and sickly. Pale as death, with pains in the face, vertigo and nausea.

Tearing pains in the face. Neuralgia of the face.

Face bloated. Quivering and twitching of the muscles of the face. Paralysis of the muscles of the face. Numbness of the face. Twitching, jerking, numbness, paralysis, tearing pains.

Prostration and nervous exhaustion accompany most of the complaints of Cocculus.

Stomach symptoms. Loathing of food. Metallic taste in the mouth. Bitter taste in the mouth. Sour, nauseous taste in the mouth, and no food tempts him. He lies there sick with a little fever or a "cold."

Headache, vertigo, nausea, loathing. Intermittent fevers with pains in the limbs, especially in the knees and bones of the legs, with that peculiar stiffness, nausea, and loathing of food. In intermittent fever or perhaps a low typhoid state, we have this loathing of food with nausea.

You go to the bedside and you ask the nurse,

"What have you been feeding the patient?" and the patient gags. The thought of food makes the patient gag.

The nurse will say that every time she mentions food the patient gags. The thought of food or the smell of food in the other room, or in the kitchen, will nauseate the patient. Two medicines have this: Cocculus and Colchicum.

Paralysis

: Paralytic conditions. Paralysis of the oesophagus. Cannot swallow.

"Paralytic condition of the throat after diphtheria."

Sore throat with low forms of fever. The fever is gone but the patient does not rally, there is much nervous trembling, numbness, twitching of muscles and great weakness. Sensation as though a worm were crawling in the stomach.

Spasms of the stomach. Violent attacks of gastralgia, violent cramp of the stomach. Griping, pinching, constrictive pain. The pain in the bowels feels as if the intestines were pinched between sharp. stones.

This causes fainting and vomiting. Colicky pains in the bowels great distension of the abdomen, such as is found in typhoid fever tension of the abdomen after drinking; flatulent colic.

Tearing, cutting, spasmodic pains in the bowels. Radiating pains in the bowels accompanying diarrhea. A paralytic condition of the rectum. Inability to press at stool. Urging to stool and burning in rectum. Disposition to stool, but peristaltic motion in upper intestines is wanting.

Women

: Copious menstrual flow, menses too soon; last too long. Catamenia two weeks before the time. In women prostrated from grief and from anxiety, and from prolonged loss of sleep, menses come too soon, are copious and prolonged.

Headache, vertigo, nausea. Violent, cramping pains in the bowels, clutching pains in the uterus during menstruation. Again, just such a patient as described will have a suppression of the menstrual flow, or for weeks and months will have no menstrual flow; or just at the time the menstrual period should come on there is a copious leucorrhea that takes the place of the menses.

The woman is emaciated, and grows more and more sickly and chlorotic. The face is of greenish, yellow, sallow hue.

"Leucorrhea in place of the menses," or

"copious leucorrhea between the menstrual periods."

The heart is weak, pulse feeble. Paralytic weakness in the limbs, numbness, jerking of the muscles, twitching, quivering, loss of sensation, loss of power, muscular weakness in all the limbs. Numbness and paralytic feeling in the limbs.

Awkwardness of the fingers and hands. On attempting to grasp the one band with the other there is migratory numbness, or a more permanent numbness associated with paralytic weakness, sometimes changeable; sometimes one side is numb and the other paralyzed.

The soles of the feet go to sleep. Numbness of the soles of the feet, such as we have in locomotor ataxia; cold feet. The knees give way from weakness. Totters while walking and threatens to fall to one side. Knees stiff. Paralysis of the lower extremities, proceeding from the small of the back. Arising from cold, from the abuse of Mercury.

Paralysis of the lower limbs, with stiffness, numbness and bruised feeling.

Sleeplessness from long nursing and from night watching; that is a symptom that I have called your attention to so often. Anxious, frightful dreams; ill effects from loss of sleep and night watching.

"Slightest loss of sleep tells on him."

Cocculus.

Cocculus Indicus (Menispermaccae)

For women and children with light hair and eyes, who suffer severely during menstruation and pregnancy; unmarried and childless women. Adapted to book-worms; sensitive, romantic girls with irregular menstruation; rakes, onanists and persons debilitated by sexual excesses. Nausea or vomiting from riding in carriage, boat or railroad car (Arn., Nux m.), or even looking at at a boat in motion; sea- sickness; car-sickness. Headache: in nape and occiput; extending to the spine; as if tightly bound by a cord; with nausea, as if at sea; at each menstrual period; < lying on back of head. Sick-headache from carriage, boat or train riding. Diseases peculiar to drunkards. Loss of appetite, with metallic taste (Mer.). Time passes too quickly (too slowly, Arg. n., Can. I.). Great lassitude of the whole body; it requires exertion to stand firmly; feels too weak to talk loudly. Bad effects: from loss of sleep, mental excitement and nigh watching; feel weak if they lose but one hour's sleep; convulsions after loss of sleep; of anger and grief. Trembling of arms and legs; from excitement, exertion or pain. Vertigo, as if intoxicated upon rising in bed; or by motion of the carriage (Bry.). Sensation: in abdomen of cutting and rubbing on every movement, as of sharp stones; of hollowness in head and other parts (Ign.). During the effort to menstruate she is so weak she is scarcely able to stand from weakness of lower limbs (Alum., Carbo an.); after each period haemorrhoids. Leucorrhoea in place of menses, or between periods (Iod., Xan.); like the washings of meat; like serum, ichorous, bloody; during pregnancy. Cannot bear contradiction; easily offended; every trifle makes him angry; speaks hastily (Anac.). When fever assumes a slow, "sneaking," nervous form, with vertigo; with disposition to anger.

Relations

. - Compare: Ign., Nux, in chorea and paralytic symptoms; Ant. t. in sweat of affected parts. Has cured umbilical hernia with obstinate constipation after Nux failed.

Aggravation

. - Eating, drinking, sleeping, smoking, talking, carriage riding, motion or swing of ship; rising up during pregnancy.

Cocculus (Menispermum cocculus).

Mind and Disposition.

He sits as if wrapped in deep, sad thoughts, and does not take notice of any thing ; anxiety.

The time passes too quickly.

Head.

Giddiness, with nausea, when raising himself up in bed.

Vertigo, as from intoxication.

[5] Stupid feeling in the head (cold perspiration on forehead and hands).

Cloudiness in the head, increased by eating and drinking.

Sensation of emptiness in the head.

Headache, with nausea.

The headache is aggravated after sleeping, eating or drinking (coffee), in the open air, while riding in a carriage ; and is relieved in a warm room, or when becoming warm in bed.

[10] Spasmodic trembling of the head, caused by weakness of the muscles of the neck ; worse after sleeping and in the open air, from coffee and tobacco better in the warm room.

Eyes.

Pain in the eyes, as if they were torn out of the head (wit headache).

At night the eyes cannot be opened ; they are aching.

Dim-sightedness (after reading a short time the print is all blurred).

Black spots before the eyes.

[15] Dryness of the eyelids.

Ears.

Hardness of bearing, with noise.

The right ear feels closed.

Nose.

Very acute sense of smell.

Swelling of the right half of the nose.

Face.

[20] Heat in the face and redness of the cheeks.

Flushes of heat in the face after drinking.

Swelling and induration of the submaxillary glands.

Mouth and Throat.

Dryness of the mouth (in the night, without thirsty).

Dryness of the oesophagus, with feeling of heat.

[25] Inability to swallow ; the oesophagus feels paralyzed.

Difficulty of speech, as from paralysis of the tongue.

Foamy phlegm before the mouth.

Taste in the mouth coppery, metallic, sour (after eating and coughing).

Stomach and Abdomen.

Aversion to food, drinking, tobacco and acids.

[30] Intense thirst, especially while eating.

Frequent empty eructations, leaving a bitter taste in the mouth and throat.

Eructations, with nausea and sticking pains in the pit of the stomach.

Paroxysms of nausea with tendency to faint.

Excessive nausea and vomiting when riding in a carriage, or from becoming cold.

[35] Nausea, with headache and pains in the intestines, as if bruised.

Spasm of the stomach (cramp) during and after a meal, with griping tearing.

Fulness and pinching in the stomach, with oppressed breathing.

Constrictive pain in the stomach, preventing sleep.

Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen.

[40] Hysterical spasms in the abdomen, in women.

Distention of the abdomen.

Flatulent colic, at night, aggravated when coughing.

Stool and Anus.

Constipation ; the hard stool is expelled with difficulty.

After the evacuation, violent tenesmus.

[45] Ineffectual desire for stool, with constipation.

Contractive pain in the rectum, preventing sitting (in the afternoon).

Diarrhoea, with emission of flatulency before the stool.

Urinary Organs.

Frequent desire to urinate, with small discharges.

Watery (pale) urine.

Sexual Organs.

[50] Men. Increased excitability of the sexual organs.

The testicles feel bruised, especially when touched.

Women. Menstruation too early, blood coagulated, or suppressed, with violent uterine spasms or abdominal colic.

Discharge of bloody mucus during pregnancy.

Respiratory Organs.

Oppressed breathing, from contractive sensation in the trachea, as if irritated by smoke, causing constant coughing.

[55] Oppression of the chest, caused by cough.

Tightness and constriction of the right side of the chest.

Stitches in the chest (sternum) when walking.

Burning in the chest, extending into the throat.

Sensation of emptiness of the chest.

[60] Hysterical spasms in the chest, with sighing and moaning.

Palpitation of the heart, nervous, with anxiety.

Back and Neck.

The muscles of the neck are weak ; they do not support the head.

Cracking of the cervical vertebrae.

Tremor in the back.

[65] Paralytic pain and paralysis of the back and small of the back.

Extremities.

Upper. Pain, as if bruised, in the shoulder and bones of the arms, when lifting them up, and when touching them.

Lameness of the arm (cannot write).

The arms go to sleep, are insensible.

Hot swelling of the hands.

[70] The hands are alternately hot and cold.

Lower. Cracking in the left hip-joint.

Paralytic immobility of the lower limbs.

Paralysis of the lower limbs, from the small of the book downwards.

The thighs feel paralyzed and bruised.

[75] Cracking of the knee during motion.

Inflammation and swelling of the knee, with stitches.

Hot swelling of the feet (evening, the left foot).

Burning of the feet.

Cold perspiration of the feet.

[80] Pain in the heel (os calcis), as if bruised.

Generalities.

Paralysis, one sided with numbness in the limbs.

Paralytic immobility of the limbs, with drawing pains in the bones.

Sensation of emptiness, or of constriction in internal parts.

Disposition to tremble (trembling of all the limbs).

[85] Hysterical spasms, with anguish.

Great debility from slight exertion and inclination to faint.

Attacks of gout, with swelling of the affected parts.

Sleep.

Constant drowsiness.

Sleeplessness on account of anxiety and bodily restlessness.

[90] Vivid dreams, exciting fear.

Fever.

Pulse small and spasmodic ; sometimes it cannot be felt.

Chilliness alternating with heat.

Chill in the afternoon and evening, principally on the legs and in the back ; not relieved by heat.

Continuous chilliness, with hot skin.

[95] Dry heat during the night.

Flushes of heat, with burning heat of the cheeks and cold feet.

Perspiration during the night, which is only cold on the face.

Morning sweat, especially on the chest.

Slight perspiration over the whole body, from the exertion.

[100] Perspiration of the affected parts.

Intermittent fever, with colic and lameness of the small of the back.

Skin.

Induration ; cold swelling of the glands, with stinging pains.

Pale (chlorotic) skin.

Ulcers very sensitive to contact.

Conditions.

[105] Great sensitiveness to the open (cold and warm) air.

Aggravation from eating, drinking, riding in a carriage, talking and sleeping.

COCCULUS INDICUS

REGION:
SENSORIUM.
Cerebro-spinal axis: OCCIPUT. Lumbar. Muscles.
Female sexual organs.
One side.

WORSE:
Motion
: BOAT. CARS. Carriage.
Slight causes: Loss of sleep. Exertion. Pain. Noise. Touch. Emotions.
Anxiety.
Cold.
Open air.
Eating.
During menses.

Acute senses with heavy or paralytic, muscular relaxation. Too weak to hold up head, stand or even speak. Paralysis. Tremor; intention; of head; lower jaw. Cramps; in masseters; abdomen; dysmenorrhœal; in heart. Benumbed. Spasms. Alternations. EMPTY, HOLLOW FEELING. Weak, nervous women, < menses. Vomiting with syncope. Hysterical asthma. Hysteria. Sensitive to cold. .................... Dazed; things seem unreal. Slow grasp. Easily offended. Extremely sad, taciturn and peevish. VERTIGO; in forehead; in A.M.; with nausea; with palpitation; < raising head. Heavy head. Occiput; aches; < lying on it; > bending backward; OPENS AND SHUTS. Throat tickles; with lachrymation. Speaks or swallows with difficulty. Loathing. Nausea; rising into head. Retching. VOMITING. Train and sea sickness. Abdomen seems full of sharp stones; bloated. Colic; twisting (wind); nervous; hysterical; with faintness; with salivation. Clutching in uterus. Depleting menses; < standing on tip toe; replaced by gushes of leucorrhœa. Weak neck. SPINAL WEAKNESS; < lumbar; < walking. Paraplegia. Limbs go to sleep, < grasping objects. Alternations between arms. Humerus feels broken. Hands numb; alternately hot and cold. Knees weak; cracking. Clumsy gait. Sleepless, from mental or physical exhaustion. Drowsy. Low fever. Sweaty.

 

REMEDY RELATION

Complementary: Petr.
Related: Gel. Ign.

One-sided paralysis with numbness of the limbs.
Paralysis from the small of the back downward (bladder, rectum and legs).
Disposition to tremble.
Stiffness and crackling of the joints.
Sensation in inner organs of emptiness or constriction.
From little exercise be becomes very much fatigued, even to fainting.
Bones feel as if they were broken.
Tearing and gnawing in the bones.
Hard, cold swelling of the glands with stinging pains.
Intermittent fever with lameness in the small of the back and colic.
Swimming and giddiness with nausea.
Of approved valuation in sea sickness.

Aversion to the open air (warm and cold).
Bad effects from anger or from chamomilla.
Aggravation from loss of sleep, talking, riding in a carriage and smoking tobacco.

Clinical Tips & Practitioner Insights

"COCCUS CACTI - for almost any paroxysmal cough when the attacks are violent, but not very close together, and are attended by much redness of the face and a general sense of feeling too hot. If irritation of the kidneys, with scanty, thick heavy urine, passed pretty often also attends, it is doubly indicated and the results will be brilliant."

By Dr. C.M.Boger, M.D. Cough

"Aviator's disease"

By Dr. Balbir Singh (Rare Collection with Rare Medicines) Aviator's Disease

"Hemiplegia"

By Dr. Balbir Singh (Rare Collection with Rare Medicines) Hemiplegia

Remedy Profile

  • Type Remedy
  • Common Name HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
  • Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency

Third to thirtieth potency.

Pharmacy Availability

This remedy is currently available in our online shop.

Rs. 770.00
Buy Remedy

Book Your Consultation

Start your personalized journey towards natural, side-effect-free homeopathic healing today.

Book Appointment
Book Appointment WhatsApp
Shama Assistant
Online
Hello! Welcome to Shama Homeo Clinic. 🌿 I am your AI receptionist. How can I help you today?
Just now
Search Products
Start typing to search products...
Your Cart
0
Your Cart is Empty

You haven't added any homeopathic remedies to your cart yet.

Explore Shop