Causticum



Stomach

Empty risings, with a taste of undigested food. Abortive rising, with strangulation in the gullet. Nausea, especially after a meal, or during one, or else in the morning. Sensation of faintness, as though about to swoon. Water-brash. Vomiting of acidulated water, followed by acid rising. Vomiting of food. Nocturnal vomiting of coagulated blood. Pains in the stomach with heat in the head, increased by every quick movement, mitigated by a recumbent posture, and shuddering when the pains are aggravated. Pressive squeezing, as if from claws, constriction and cramp-like pains in the stomach, and in the epigastrium. Shooting pains in the epigastrium.

Abdomen

Pressure of the clothes on the hypochondria painful Tension and shootings in the hepatic region. Pains in the abdomen in the morning. Pressure on the superior and inferior part of the abdomen. Painful and tensive inflation of the abdomen. Violent

distension of the abdomen after a meal (breakfast). Swelling of the navel, which is painful on being touched. Enlargement of the abdomen in children. Contractive pains in the abdomen. Susceptibility to cold in the abdomen, whence results diarrhoea, or pressure at the stomach. Incarceration of flatus, with hard faeces. Frequent expulsion of offensive flatus, in small quantities.

Stool and Anus.

Chronic constipation. Frequent and ineffectual efforts to evacuate, with pains, anxiety, and redness of the face. The faeces are passed more easily, an erect posture. faeces knotty, or of a very small size. faeces hard, tough, covered with mucus, viscid, and shining, as if with fat, or of a bright and whitish colour. Diarrhoea in the evening and at night. Diarrhoea with tenesmus and burning in the rectum. Diarrhoea, after the abdomen has been chilled. Flow of blood and incisive pains in the rectum, during the evacuation. After the evacuation, anguish, with palpitation of the heart and burning in the anus. Itching in the anus. In the anus, appearance of haemorrhoidal tumors, which are hard, swollen, painful, and which impede evacuation. Walking and meditation aggravate the haemorrhoidal pains, so as to render them insupportable. Varices of the rectum, hindering stool, large, painful, stinging, burning when touched. Pressure in the haemorrhoidal tumors of the rectum, so as to cause them to protrude. Pulsation in the perineum. Fistula in the rectum. Abscess in the anus. Pain of excoriation, and moisture in the anus.

Urinary Organs

Frequent inclination to urinate, with thirst and scanty emission. More copious emission of urine. Emission of urine at night, and wetting the bed. Involuntary emission of urine (as in cases of children who wet the bed at night, in women, when urines spouts from them in walking, coughing, etc.), day and night. Acrid and corrosive urine, or pale, aqueous, of a deep-brown, or reddish colour. Stringy mucus in the urine. The urine becomes turbid, after settling. Sensation of burning in making water. Itching of the orifice of the urethra. Flow of blood from the urethra.

Male Sexual Organs.

Increase of sexual desire. Absence of erections. Frequent pollutions. Escape of prostatic fluid after a stool. Emission of sanguineous semen, during coition. Pressure and shooting in the testes. Ulcers and itching scabs on the interior part of the prepuce. Red spots on the penis. Copious secretion of smegma behind the glans penis. Itching at the scrotum, glans, and prepuce.

Female Sexual Organs.

Catamenia retarded, but more copious, with flow of blood in large clots. Difficult first menstruation. During the menses no blood is passed at night. Before the catamenia, melancholy, sacral pains, and colic. Catamenia too feeble, sexual desire too weak. During the catamenia, pains in the loins, cuttings, and paleness in the face, yellowness of the face, vertigo. Excoriation between the legs, at the vulva. Dislike to coition. Cramps of the matrix. Profuse leucorrhoea, having the smell of the catamenia, or which flows in the night. Leucorrhoea flows at night and not during the day. Nipples excoriated, cracked, and surrounded with tetters. Want of secretion of milk.

Respiratory Organs

Rough hoarseness, morning and evening. Prolonged hoarseness, with voice weak and stifled. Aphonia from weakness of the muscles of the larynx. Sensation of excoriation in the larynx, when not swallowing. Hawking up of abundant mucus, especially in the morning. Cough, with short breath, and difficulty of respiration. Cough, excited by speech and by cold. Cough is worse: in the evening till midnight, from exhaling, drinking coffee, cold air, drought of air, when awaking from sleep. Cough is relieved by a swallow of cold water. Matutinal or nocturnal cough. Short cough, provoked by a tickling and a sensation of excoriation in the throat. Cough, dry, hollow, shaking, with sensation of burning, and pain as of excoriation in the chest. Rattling in the chest while coughing. Pains in the hips while coughing. Cough with involuntary passage of some drops of urine. Inability to expectorate the mucus, which is detached by coughing (the expectoration comes up far enough apparently, but it cannot be spat out, greasy taste of the expectoration. The inability to expectorate is found in every species of cough, whooping-cough, etc.).

Chest

Breath short. Attacks of spasmodic asthma. Asthma, especially when sitting or lying down. Fits of suffocation on speaking and walking quickly. Oppressiveness of clothes on the chest. Pressure on the chest. Shootings in the chest and thorax, on making a full inspiration, and during corporeal exertion. Burning, stitches, and soreness in the chest. Attacks of cramp-like compression and of constriction in the chest, with feeling of suffocation.

Heart

Palpitation of the heart, with languor. Oppression of the heart, with melancholy. Shootings in the heart.

Neck and Back

Stiffness and tension in the nape of the neck. Pain, as from a bruise in the nape of the neck. Miliary eruption at the nape of the neck, between the shoulder-blades. Itching and humid tetters at the nape of the neck. Goitre-like swelling of the cervical glands. Pains in the loins which render the least movement exceedingly painful. Aching pains in the loins when seated. Painful stiffness (between the scapulae and) in the back, especially on rising from a chair. Pulling and acute drawing pains in the shoulder-blades. Itching and tingling in the back.

Upper Limbs

Pains in the arms at night. Drawing pains and acute pulling, in the arms and hands. Convulsive movements and shocks in the arms. Itching and eruptions on the arms. Warts on the arms. Pressure on the shoulders. Shooting pains in the front part of the arms, from the fingers to the elbow. Paralytic feeling in the right hand. Sensation of Fulness in the hands, on grasping an object. Tearing in right wrist-joint. Drawing pains in the hands, and the joints of the fingers. Spasmodic weakness and trembling of the hands. Paleness and painful torpor of the fingers. Tension of the posterior joints of the fingers when bending them. Contraction and induration of the tendons of the fingers. Itching tetters on the fingers.

Lower Limbs

Pain as from dislocation in the coxofemoral joint, with inability to walk and to continue standing. Pain as from a bruise in the thighs and legs, while in bed, in the morning. Tensive stiffness in the joints of the legs, and of the feet. Contraction and tension in the heel and tendo Achillis. Drawing pains and acute pulling in the thighs, the legs, the knees, and the feet, with swelling of the parts. Unsteady walk, and tendency to fall in children. Skin marbled, on the thighs and on the legs. Tension and cramp-like pain in the legs and calves of the legs. Cramps in the feet. Pains in the instep, in the ankle bones, in the soles of the feet, and in the toes, on walking. Neuralgic pains in the soles of the feet. Contraction in the instep, with tensive pain when stepping. Coldness of the feet. Swelling of the feet. Pains in the varices. Tingling in the soles of the feet. Festering vesicles and ulcerations on the heels. Whitlow on the great toe.

Generalities

Arthritic and rheumatic drawing and tearing pains, especially in the limbs. Acute and violent pulling in the joints and the bones, mitigated by the heat of a bed. Contraction of the tendons, and stiffness in the flexor muscles of the limbs. Cramp-like contraction of several limbs. Torpor and paleness of some parts, or of the entire left side of the body. Paralysis. Jerkings and convulsive movements. St. Vitus’ dance. Convulsive attacks, with cries, violent movement of the limbs, grinding of the teeth, smiles or tears, eyes half-closed, fixed look, and involuntary emission of urine, the fits are reproduced by cold water, and are preceded by pain in the abdomen and in the head, frequent emission of urine, irascibility, and tears, after the fit the eyes are closed. Epileptic convulsions (at night during sleep). Aggravation of the symptoms, generally in the evening, or in the open air, while those which have appeared in the open air disappear in a room. Coffee seems also to aggravate all the symptoms. Semi-lateral sufferings. Insupportable uneasiness in the whole body in the evening, and when seated, with anxiety in the region of the heart. In the evening, great dejection and oppression of the whole body. Paralytic weakness, with trembling and tottering of the limbs. Paralysis (one-sided). Great sensibility to currents of air, and to cold.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica