COCCULUS



Tensive constriction of right side CHEST, which oppresses the breathing.

Very violent tickling in larynx, wakes him at 11.30 p.m., causes cough, with expectoration of much tenacious mucus.

Expectoration of much viscid albuminous mucus.

PARALYTIC SYMPTOMS.

Weakness of cervical muscles, with heaviness of head.

In shoulder joint and muscles of upper arm, single stitches when at rest.

Stitches in right upper arm.

Numbness and paralytic feelings in arms.

Now one hand, now the other is numb, as if asleep.

Sometimes one hand, sometimes the other is alternately hot and cold.

Hand trembles while eating, and the more the higher it is raised.

Knees sink down from weakness; totters while walking and threatens to fall to one side.

Cracking of the knee when moving.

Soles of both feet go to sleep, while sitting.

At one time the feet are asleep, at another the hands. (And, in italics Weakness in limbs as if paralysed).

Trembling from excitement, over-exertion and pain.

Sensation of seasickness.

Hysteric complaints with sadness.

Convulsions after loss of sleep.

Attacks of paralytic weakness with pain in back.

Here and there in the limbs an acute paralytic drawing, continuous and in jerks, as if in the bone.

Cracking and creaking in the joints.

Painful stiffness of the joints.

Falling asleep of feet and hands alternately, in short paroxysms.

Tendency to trouble.

Great exhaustion of the body, so that it was an exertion to him to stand steady.

Slight perspiration over the whole body on slightest exertion.

Cocculus excites shooting pains and heat in cold glandular swellings, at least when they are touched.

All the symptoms and sufferings, especially in the head, are aggravated by drinking, eating, sleeping, and speaking.

Intolerance of cold and warm air.

SLEEP disturbed by excessive anxiety and restlessness.

Sleepless from long continued nursing; from night watching.

Anxious, frightful dreams.

Ill effects from loss of sleep and night watching.

FEVER SYMPTOMS.

Chill frequently alternating with heat.

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

Insidious nervous fevers, particularly in cases which have been produced by frequent fits of anger, or are accompanied by great disposition to anger.

PECULIAR CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS

      Great excitement after two glasses of beer.

His accustomed beer caused headache.

Thirst, especially for beer.

Great sensitiveness of mouth and fauces, so that rinsing the mouth caused cough and vomiting thick masses of mucus.

Loud speaking or brushing the teeth caused cough and vomiting.

Constant desire to spit, with sweetish metallic taste.

Pain in liver after anger.

Pain in tendo achillis-only when walking. No tenderness: limped when walking in street: obliged to turn foot outwards: to stop and hold foot up to relieve the pain. Ascending steps was especially painful.

Pain, redness and swelling of great toes, like gout.

Left great toe especially affected: with fine pricking as from splinters of glass, beneath nail, and at tip of toe.

Coldness of stomach: as if cold air were blowing in it.

Spasmodic internal heaving in epigastrium.

Nausea, felt in head: seems to be mostly in mouth.

Hollowness in head: in chest: in abdomen.

Shivering over mammae.

Chilly feeling through teeth.

Rolling of eyeballs, eyes being closed.

Sleep aggravates all symptoms, especially of head.

Colic as if there were sharp stones rubbing against each other in abdomen.

Occipital headache, occiput alternately opens and shuts. (Vertex opens and shuts. Cann. ind.)

Time passes too swiftly (too slowly).

In regard to the places where nausea is felt, one is constantly adding to them:

Nausea felt in head and mouth, Cocc.

In rectum, Ruta.

In ears, Dioscorea

Besides the more usual localities, stomach, chest, abdomen.

Margaret Lucy Tyler
Margaret Lucy Tyler, 1875 – 1943, was an English homeopath who was a student of James Tyler Kent. She qualified in medicine in 1903 at the age of 44 and served on the staff of the London Homeopathic Hospital until her death forty years later. Margaret Tyler became one of the most influential homeopaths of all time. Margaret Tyler wrote - How Not to Practice Homeopathy, Homeopathic Drug Pictures, Repertorising with Sir John Weir, Pointers to some Hayfever remedies, Pointers to Common Remedies.