“In this way, and in this way only, can the inestimable curative powers for the most incurable diseases that have hitherto lain concealed in the heroic-much less in the weaker-medicines called poisons by those afflicted with intellectual poverty, be elicited in a perfectly sure and mild manner to the advantage of suffering humanity. By means of the knowledge so obtained we may effect results in the treatment of acute and chronic diseases such as the whole medical school has hitherto failed to effect. This method, so childishly simple, of rendering the strongest medicinal substances mild and useful never occurred to the minds of physicians, and they were consequently forced to dispense with the aid of the grandest and most useful remedies.
“Guided by the following peculiar pathogenic effects produced in the healthy by Colocynth, I have been enabled by means of it to perform extraordinary cures on the homoeopathic principle by the administration of a small portion of a drop of the octillion-or decillion-fold dilution of the above tincture as a dose.
“Thus, to mention only a single example, many of the most violent colics may, under the guidance of symptoms 69 to 109. be often very rapidly cured, when at the same time the other characteristic symptoms of the disease, or a portion of them, are to be found in similarity among the symptoms of Colocynth.”.
BLACK LETTER SYMPTOMS
(Hahnemann and Allen)
i.e. the pre-eminent characteristic symptoms of the drug, produced in the healthy and cured in the sick of a “like’ sickness.
Pressing, aching pain in the sinciput, most violent on stooping and when lying on the back.
Tearing pain in the whole brain, which became a pressure in the forehead, as if it pressed out the forehead-more violent on moving the eyelids.
Burning pain in the skin of forehead above eyebrows.
Sharp cutting pain in right eyeball.
Throbbing and digging pain from middle of the left side of nose, to the root of nose.
Pain in lower row of teeth, as if the nerve were tugged and stretched.
Empty eructations.
Constrictive pain in umbilicus, immediately after dinner.
Seized with terrible, contractive, twisting pain in the bowels, immediately about umbilicus.
Griping about umbilicus.
Griping around the navel, increased by eating fruit.
Griping and cutting in umbilical region.
Violent griping in the umbilical region.
Violent colic-like pains, emanating from the umbilicus, with frequent discharge of flatus, which afforded relief. Isolated deep stitches, as if from a needle, sometimes in the left, sometimes in the right flank, apparently connected with the ovaries.
Abdomen greatly distended and painful.
Griping in the abdomen, especially about the navel.
Griping and pinching in abdomen.
Violent griping pains in abdomen, worst about three fingers’ breadth below the navel, obliging him to bend over.
Griping in the intestines as if the bowels would be forcibly gripped.
Pinching pain in the abdomen, as if the bowels were pressed inward, with cutting extending towards the pubic region, so severe below the navel that the muscles of the face are distorted and the eyes drawn together (closed): the pain is only relieved by pressure upon the bowels with the hands and bending himself forward.
Pinching in the bowels as if the intestines were squeezed between stones.
Cutting in the abdomen.
Colic very violent in paroxysms, obliging him to bend forward.
Colic of the most violent character. Griping colic.
Urging to urinate.
(Heavy weight in lumbo-dorsal region with some increase of temperature) and sensibility on the part affected. The origin of the trouble lay in the sacral region, corresponding to the plexus ischiadicus, thence it extended through the incisura ischiadica major towards the hip-joint, down the posterior portion of the thigh into the fossa poplitea.
Tensive shooting pain in the right loin only felt on inspiration and most violent when lying on the back.
Short cough when smoking tobacco.
Sore pain in left scapula, when at rest.
In region of right scapula, an internal drawing sensation, as if the nerves and vessels were stretched.
Severe drawing, sharp pain in the left cervical muscles, still more severe on movement.
Violent drawing pains in the thumb of the right hand.
Only when walking, pain in the right thigh, as if the psoas muscle that raises it were too short; on standing it ceased, but on walking it returned.
Tearing pain in the sole of the right foot, most violent when at rest.
Dr. George Royal (Iowa) writes about Colocynth, “Few remedies have been as thoroughly proven as Colocynthis. Hahnemann proved it and recorded the result upon himself, six fellow provers and twenty-six authors and we may truthfully say that Colocynth has a greater per cent of verified symptoms than any other remedy in our Materia medica.”.
