What is Cocculus?
It is a member of the Menispermaceae family; its alkaloid is called Picrotoxin.
What is the general action of Cocculus?
Many spasmodic symptoms-cramps, etc.-characterize this drug. Paretic affections, notably of one-half of the body. It produces a condition much like sea sickness-nausea, faintness, vertigo, prostration.
When is Cocculus indicated in debility?
When it is spinal in origin and comes from loss of sleep; useful in those who nurse the sick.
What is the headache of Cocculus?
Headache in the back part of the head and nape, with tendency to stretch the head backwards, and a sensation as if the head were opening and shutting.
Give two other drugs also useful for occipital headache.
Gelsemium and Juglans cathartica.
Give headache of Onosmodium.
Pain in occiput with vertigo. Headaches caused by straining the eyes, with strained feeling in the eye.
When is Cocculus indicated in nausea?
When it is caused by riding in the cars; it is also a remedy for seasickness.
What is Pareira brava?
A Brazilian plant. Tincture from the dried root.
What are the characteristic symptoms of Pareira brava?
Constant urging to urinate, with pain in the glans penis; patient sometimes has to get down on all fours to urinate, the straining is so severe; urine passes in drops and contains much thick and viscid mucus.
How does it differ from Berberis?
The pains in Pareira extend down the thighs, in Berberis they do not extend below the hips.
What is Agnus castus?
It is the Chaste tree and the fresh ripe berries are used for the tincture.
What is the characteristic use of Agnus castus?
Spermatorrhoea and sexual excesses in “old sinners,” with loss of sexual power and coldness of the genital organs.
AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM.
Where is our pathogenesis of AEsculus found?
British Journal of Homoeopathy, Vol. XVIII; Hale’s New Remedies; Monthly Homoeopathic Review, 1876.
How is the tincture made?
The ripe, fresh, hulled nut of the horse chestnut is treated as described under Gelsemium.
What is our principal use of this remedy?
Abdominal plethora throbbing deep in the abdomen. Hemorrhoids accompanied by a feeling of dryness in the rectum as though little sticks, splinters or burrs were sticking in the mucous membrane. They are purple in color and accompanied by backache.
What drug has a symptom that the rectum seems as if full of pounded glass?
Ratanhia; another symptom of this drug is that the anus aches and burns for hours after stool.
Great throat symptoms of AEsculus.
There is a dry, rough, burning in throat and pharynx but no swelling. It resembles Kali bich. but lacks the tenacious, stringy mucus, sallow face, slow digestion, etc.
Give the backache of AEsculus.
Backache during pregnancy where the pain is in sacroiliac synchondroses, and that part of the back gives out compelling her to sit.
What is Ailanthus?
It is the “Tree of Heaven.” Equal parts of the fresh shoots, leaves, blossoms and the young bark are used in making the tincture.
When is Ailanthus indicated in scarlet fever?
When the patient lies in a stupor; rash is imperfect, dark and purplish; swollen throat and infiltration of the cellular tissue about the neck; excoriating nasal discharge; drowsiness and prostration. Thin, bloody, offensive stools.
What is Cedron?
A tropical American plant. The Simaruba Cedron, Tincture from the seeds.
What is the main use of Cedron?
Neuralgias, which return with clock-like periodicity; supraorbital neuralgias or chills of malarial origin, which are regular as a clock.
What is Aralia racemosa?
The American Spikenard. The tincture is made of the fresh root.
Give the cough of Aralia.
Spasmodic cough at night, coming on after the first sleep. Relief after expectoration of tough mucus.
What is Asarum Europaeum?
The European Snake Root. Tincture from entire fresh plant gathered when in flower. Imported.
What are some symptoms of Asarum?
Feeling as if the body were hovering in the air; noises intolerable; the thought of scratching silk sends a shudder through the patient. Chilly persons who are always shrinking from cold.
What is Cactus grandiflorus?
The Night Blooming Cereus. Fresh flowers and youngest stems are used.
Give the grand characteristics of Cactus grandiflorus.
Constriction about the heart as if grasped by an iron hand; sharp pains in the heart; hemoptysis, with cardiac affections. Sensation as of an iron hoop in various parts of the body. Pressive headache in vertex. Irritation of the cardiac nerves, intense palpitation and fluttering about the heart. Tobacco heart.
What is Caladium?
A poisonous American Arum. The fresh root is used.
What do we use Caladium for?
Effects of sexual excesses, where there are emissions without any excitement. Crawling sensation on genitals.
ARUM TRIPHYLLUM
What is Arum?
The Indian Turnip or Jack in the Pulpit. Tincture is made from the fresh root gathered in early spring before the leaves are developed and treated as described under Gelsemium.
Give the nasal symptoms of Arum triphyllum.
Excoriating discharge; the nose is very sore and excoriated.
What are the laryngeal symptoms of Arum?
Hoarseness and rawness in the larynx; the control over the voice is lost; the voice suddenly changes; dry cough; patient cringes under it, it hurts so much.
What of its use in hoarseness of singers?
Sudden hoarseness in public speakers and singers, voice seems entirely gone, he cannot make a clear sound.
CAMPHORA.
What is Camphor and where is its pathogenesis found?
The gum of the Camphor tree, which grows in Eastern Asia. In Hahnemann’s Materia Medica Pura.
How are our preparations made?
One part, by weight, of refined Camphor dissolved in nine parts, by weight of Alcohol and then filtered forms our tincture. “Rubini’s Camphor” is a saturated solution of the gum in Alcohol.
Give the symptoms of camphor in cold in the head.
First stage, when the nose is stuffed up and the inspired air feels cold; the patient feels chilly.
What are the indications for Camphor in cholera?
Body cold as ice; great prostration; voice squeaky or husky; upper lip retracted; indicated more at the beginning without any vomiting or diarrhoea. Tongue, nose and ears are cold; collapse, with scanty or absent discharges.
What is Cistus Canadensis?
The Rock Rose, Tincture from the fresh plant in flower.
Give an indication for Cistus.
Swollen glands, which are very hard and inflamed. It is especially useful in scrofulous forms of adenitis.
What effects has Cistus on the throat?
It produces a sensation of intense dryness in the throat, patient must drink often to moisten it. Sensation of sand in the throat.
What is Collinsonia?
Stone Root. Tincture from the fresh root gathered in early spring or late autumn.
What are the hemorrhoids of Collinsonia?
Where there is a sensation of sticks in the rectum; constipation, with prolapsus uteri and hemorrhoids.
Give its heart symptoms.
Functional disorders reflex from hemorrhoidal troubles or alternating with them. Constrictive pains about the heart, rapid weak pulse. It seems to act by causing the portal system to functionate properly.
What is Teucrium marum verum?
Cat Thyme. Tincture from the fresh plant just before coming into bloom. Imported.
Give some indications for Teucrium.
Catarrh, with expectoration of solid chunks from the posterior nares; nasal polypi. A useful remedy in ascarides with sensation of creeping and crawling in the rectum, worse from warmth of bed.
What is Crocus sativus?
Common Saffron. Tincture from the dried stigmas of the flowers. Imported.
What are the two great characteristics of Crocus?
1. Sensation as if something were alive and moving about in the abdomen.
2. A hemorrhage of dark tarry blood from the uterus, which is clotted in strings.
IRIS VERSICOLOR.
Where is the pathogenesis of Iris found?
Hale’s New Remedies, Allen’s Encyclopaedia, North American Journal of Homoeopathy, Vol.I.
What is Iris?
The Blue Flag or Fleur de lis. tincture from the fresh root gathered in late autumn or early spring and treated as described under Gelsemium.
Give the headache of Iris.
Periodical sick headache, especially of students or teachers; pains intense, throbbing and supra-orbital, causing temporary blindness; at height of headaches bitter or sour vomiting; hemicrania, commencing with blurring of vision.
What are the digestive and bilious symptoms of the drug?
Severe burning distress in the stomach, vomiting of food, vomiting of excessively acid substances, with distress over the liver.
What is the diarrhoea of Iris?
Copious, associated with vomiting; worse 2 or 3 A.M., with excoriated, raw feeling about the anus; the stools are watery, yellowish-green and mixed with bile.
What is Cyclamen Europaeum?
Sow Bread. Tincture from the fresh root gathered in autumn. Imported.
What are the nasal symptoms of Cyclamen?
Similar to Pulsatilla; thick, bland discharge, but in addition sneezing.
What are the digestive symptoms?
Aggravation from fat food; desire for lemonade, and thirst; otherwise similar to Pulsatilla.
What is Drosera?
The round leaved Sun Dew. Tincture from the entire fresh plant gathered at the commencement of flowering.
Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College. Member of American Institute of Homeopathy. In addition to his editoral work he authored or collaborated on: Boericke and Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies, Essentials of Homeopathic Materia Medica, Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics and Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics.