COLOCYNTH

Colic may be accompanied by vomiting, which is usually reflex from severity of the pain.

Colocynth is a good antidote to lead colic.

LEADING INDICATIONS.

      (1) Neuralgias : trigeminal, sciatic, ovarian, nephritic, rheumatic and gouty.

(2) Colic and diarrhoea.

(3) Colic : relieved by bending double and pressing against something hard, and by passing flatus.

(4) pains sharp, cutting boring or as squeezed in a vice.

(5) Pains: relieved by hard pressure.

(6) Complaints brought on by anger and indignation, especially colic and neuralgia.

(7) People who are debilitated by long suffering of annoyances and vexation.

(8) Blonds. persons of choleric temperament. Persons who have become irritable from constant annoyances and provocations.

AGGRAVATION:

      From rest (prosopalgia and sciatica); cold, damp weather; after eating and drinking, 4 p.m.; anger or indignation; straightening the body up (colic), movement (limbs, except sciatica), hard pressure (pains).

AMELIORATION:

      From discharge of flatus, hard pressure, bending double (colic), warmth, coffee, smoking tobacco, movement (sciatica).

Edwin Awdas Neatby

Edwin Awdas Neatby 1858 – 1933 MD was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital, Consulting Physician at the Buchanan Homeopathic Hospital St. Leonard’s on Sea, Consulting Surgeon at the Leaf Hospital Eastbourne, President of the British Homeopathic Society.

Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,