Coccus Cacti


Coccus Cacti homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


    Common name: Cochineal.

Introduction

Coccus cacti, Linn. Class, Insecta; Natural order: Hemiptera; Preparation: Tincture and triturations.

Mind.

Emotional. Great excitement after two glasses of beer, which was not relished; in the open air it seemed as though the pulses beat more violently than usual, with general sensation of heat; this lasted an hour, and gradually disappeared while walking (in the evening, beer caused no change in his condition). Unusual liveliness and clearness of mind (second day). Became lively for the first time towards evening (second day). Talkative mood, Joyous mood, Depressed mood (first day). Anxious sensation, with uneasiness. Apprehensiveness.

Apprehensiveness in the evening. Apprehension (first day).

Irritable mood. Very irritable and out of humor, morning and evening (first day). Out of humor, with irritable mood (fifth day). ill humor without cause; in the evening it was followed by a lively mood. Fretful mood (eighth day). Intellectual. Less mental activity than usual.

Head.

Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion of the head. Confusion of the head throughout the day.

Confusion of the head the whole day (second day). Confusion of the head, especially on the vertex (seventh day). Confusion of the head, as after drinking too much. Confusion of the head on the vertex (third day). Confusion of the head, with slight vertigo in the morning. Confusion of the head in the forehead, with sensation of heaviness and dulness, in the morning on rising. Confusion of the head in the evening. Confusion of the head after breakfast. Confusion of the head, as before the outbreak of violent coryza, relieved in the open air. Confusion of the head in the forehead, with pain extending across the left frontal eminence, involving a small portion of the left half of the forehead, the parietal bone, and the temple, and reaching to the zygomatic portion of the right jaw, leaving a general sensation along all those parts of a dull tearing or cutting, transient (after one hour). Slight confusion of the head. Great confusion of the head (third day). Great confusion of the head, in the evening while walking (especially on the vertex), (seventh day). Great confusion of the head in the evening, with pressive pains on the vertex, with burning in the skin of the forehead, lasting into the night.

Dizzy confusion of the head (first day). Dizzy confusion of the head, in the morning on waking. Head was confused and felt intoxicated, especially towards evening. Slight vertigo. Transient vertigo. Dizziness, as after intoxication, after eating (first day). General Head. Rush of blood to the head. Rush of blood to the head, on going into a warm room after a walk; he was obliged to leave the room, when he felt better, repeated three times in one forenoon.

Headache, not relieved in the open air (first day). Headache in the morning on waking; it soon ceased, but frequently returned for a short time through the day (sixth day). Headache, with such great weakness that she was obliged to sit down frequently during a hurried walk (after 3D trit). Headache, consisting of fullness, with increased warmth and slight stupefaction (second day). Sensation of swelling of the head. Dull pain in the whole head all the forenoon, aggravated by violent motion of it.

Pressive pain in the brain, especially at the bridge of the nose.

Pressive headache, like that frequently experienced with disordered stomach. Pressive headache, as after drinking too much, in the morning after waking, disappearing after rising.

Pressive headache in the evening (third day). Pressive headache, aggravated by stepping hard (first day). Painful stitches shoot through the brain. His accustomed beer caused headache (second day). The headache and chest symptoms were somewhat relieved after lying down, for some hours in the forenoon (fourth day). Forehead. Indefinite pain in the forehead, aggravated by shaking or turning the head, or even moving it. Dull headache above the right eye, in the morning on waking. Dull burrowing, frontal headache. Pressive pain in the right side of the forehead, sometimes extending to the occiput (first day). Dull pressive pain in the forehead (first day). Pressive frontal headache at breakfast, which was eaten without remarkable appetite (fourteenth day).

Tearings in the frontal bone. Tearing pain, extending from left eye up into the forehead, in the evening after lying down. Temples. Violent raging pain, extending from the right eye along the squamous portion of the temporal bone, on its inner side to the occiput; it seems as though a fluid were injected paroxysmally into a small blood vessel. Sensation as if the temples were too narrow. Pressure in both temples. Pressive pain in the right temple.

Pressive pain in the left temporal region soon after rising, which frequently extended to the left eye and lasted nearly the whole day. Slight pressive pain, extending from the temples towards the vertex, which completely disappeared after the customary washing with cold water (second day). Sticking pain in both temples, with painful sensation of fullness of the whole head (3rd trit).. Dull sticking pain in the left temporal region, lasting several minutes, disappearing on pressure, but returning on leaving off the pressure (seventh day). Violent throbbing and pressive pains in both temples, lasting more than an hour, equally during rest and motion, frequently alternating with heat and redness of the face (second day). Vertex. A painful elevation on the vertex as large as a pea, lasting the whole day. Severe pressure and burning pain in the vertex, in the morning on waking, lasting an hour, but on rising after a short subsequent sleep it disappeared. Sensitiveness of the head on the vertex. Parietals. Dull burrowing headache in the posterior portion of the right parietal bone, paroxysmal, continuing only a short time. while lying in bed in the morning (one hour after 25 drops). Rather severe sticking in the head, in the coronal suture of the right side. Occiput. Sensation as though a hot constricting band extended from one mastoid process across the occiput to the other; this region seemed tense and constricted; the condition became worse, until at last it affected the whole skull, in which the pain seemed to fix itself, and it seemed as though the bones became drawn closer and closer together, also involving the whole scalp (in which the pain appeared to be seated), and which seemed to be drawn tighter and tighter about the skull (second day). Dull boring pain in the left side of the occiput towards the ear. Indefinite drawing and pressing in the occiput, temples, and right eye. Pressure and sensation of warmth in the occiput, at 6 P.M. in a warm room.

Pressing pain in the occiput, with sensation as if the scalp were swollen; this sensation extended to the left cheek and side of the nose. External Head. Gooseflesh at the roots of the hairs and bristling of the hair (second day). Sensation as if the scalp were drawn tightly over the skull (after one hour). Stitches in the occiput like the bite of a leech woke him from sleep and caused scratching. Crawling pain in the scalp on walking, which obliges him to scratch (eleventh day).

Eye.

Pressure upon the left eye, especially at the inner canthus. Brow and Orbit. Frequent pressive pain in the superciliary ridges during the whole proving. Pressive pain in the orbits. Lids. Slight agglutination of the eyes. Frequent twitching like jerking in the left lower eyelid. Slight burning in the margins of the lids. Feeling as though the margins of the lids were swollen. Lachrymal Apparatus. Increased lachrymation, especially in the open air, so that the eyes were constantly swimming in tears of a thicker consistence than natural. Conjunctiva. Inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eyes, to which he was subject. Conjunctiva of the right eye inflamed. Ball. Sensation as of a foreign body in the eyes between the lids and balls. Pressure in the left eyeball. Frequent smarting pain between the left eye and lid, as though a hair were between them. Smarting biting between the eyeballs, and lids, as if a hair were between them, on waking in the morning, obliging him to rub them. Vision. Sight much weaker than usual.

Ear.

External. Constant pressive tensive pain in the left mastoid process. Drawing pain on the convex surface of the left concha, especially severe on touch. Violent biting sticking in the left antitragus.

A pressive sticking pain above and behind the left ear, increased to a painful burrowing congestion, that only seldom remitted, and when worst extended not only to the left side of the neck and clavicular region, but also to the last back teeth of the left lower jaw and the left side of the occiput. Drawing tearing pain upon and behind the left ear, followed by constant roaring in it. Severe and deep stitches in front of the left ear, between the antitragus and zygoma. Frequent biting stitches in the left antitragus. Violent, pressive, throbbing pain in the left mastoid process, which at times increases to a burrowing from within outward, when warm in bed before midnight; when most severe it extends into the left ear, in the left occipital region, the last back teeth of the lower jaw, and along the sternocleidomastoid muscle to the left claviculo pectoral region; on touch the parts pain as if suppurating. Pain in the region of the right parotid gland, followed by a similar pain in the sub maxillary gland under the tongue, with constant accumulation of saliva in the mouth. Internal. Stoppage of both ears, with sensation of pressure in the meatus auditorius (sixth day). Sensation as if the external auditory passages were closed, with crackling in the right ear (aggravation of the usual roaring in the ear). Feeling as though the left ear were stopped, or the hearing impeded, with tensive pressive pain in the left mastoid process, extending to the clavicular region of the left side and to the last back teeth of the lower jaw; aggravated by lying upon the ear, lasting the whole day, with short intervals. Pressive pain in the right Eustachian tube, aggravated by turning the head to the right side and on swallowing; this occurred suddenly an hour before dinner, and suddenly and completely disappeared after warm soup (seventh day). Drawings in the right ear, and also at times in the left.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.