Causticum


Causticum – symptoms and materia medica of homeopathy remedy Causticum. from Keynotes and Characteristics by H C Allen…


Causticum is Adapted to persons with dark hair and rigid fibre; weakly, psoric, with excessively yellow, sallow complexion; subject to affections of respiratory and urinary tracts.

Children with dark hair and eyes, delicate, sensitive, skin prone to intertrigo during dentition ( Lycopodium ), or convulsions with eruption of teeth ( Stannum ).

Disturbed functional activity of brain and spinal cord, from exhausting disease or severe mental shock, resulting in paralysis.

Causticum has Rawness or soreness: of scalp, throat, respiratory tract, rectum, anus, urethra, vagina, uterus (as if bruised, Arnica; as if sprained, Rhus ).

Melancholy mood: sad, hopeless; from care, grief, sorrow; with weeping, “the least thing makes the child cry.”

Intense sympathy for sufferings of others.

Causticum has Ailments: from long-lasting grief and sorrow ( Phosphorus ac. ); from loss of sleep, night watching ( Cocculus indicus, Ignatia ); from sudden emotions, fear, fright, joy ( Coffea, Gelsemium ); from anger or vexation; from suppressed eruptions.

Causticum Children are slow in learning to walk ( Calcarea phosphorica ).

Unsteady walking and easy falling of little children.

Constipation: frequent, ineffectual desire ( Nux ); stool passes better when person is standing; impeded by haemorrhoids; tough and shining, like grease; in children and nocturnal enuresis.

Causticum has Urine involuntary: when coughing, sneezing, blowing the nose ( Pulsatilla, [Squil.], Verbascum ).

Causticum Cough: with rawness and soreness in chest; with inability to expectorate, sputa must be swallowed ( Arnica, Kali carb. ); relieved by swallow of cold water; on expiration ( Aconite ); with pain in hips; remaining after pertussis; with expectoration chiefly at night.

Hoarseness with rawness, and aphonia < in the morning (< in the evening, Carbo vegetabilis, Phosphorus ).

At night, unable to get an easy position or lie still a moment ([Eup.], Rhus ).

Must move constantly, but motion does not relieve.

Cannot cover too warmly, but warmth does not >.

Faint-like sinking of strength; weakness and trembling.

Cicatrices, especially burns, scalds, freshen up, become sore again; old injuries re-open; Causticum patients say “they never have been well since that burn.”

Menses: too early; too feeble; only during the day; cease on lying down.

Causticum Paralysis: of single parts; vocal organs, tongue, eyelids, face, extremities, bladder; generally, of right side; from exposure to cold wind or draft; after typhoid, typhus or diphtheria; gradually appearing.

Drooping of upper eyelids; cannot keep them open ( Caulophyllum, Gelsemium, Graphites – of both lids, Sepia ).

Rheumatic affections, with contraction of the flexors and stiffness of the joints; tension and shortening of muscles ( Ammonium muriaticum, [Cimex], Guaiac., Nat. mur. ).

Causticum Warts: large, jagged, often pedunculated; bleeding easily; exuding moisture; small, all over the body; on eyelids, face; on the nose.

Patient improves for a time, then comes to a “standstill” ( Psor, Sulphur ).

Causticum Relations. – Complementary: Carbo veg., Petros.

Incompatible: Phosphorus Must not be used before or after Phosphorus, always disagrees; the Acids; Coffea.

Compare: Arnica, must swallow mucus; Gelsemium, Graphites, Sepia in ptosis; hoarseness, Rumex and Carbo vegetabilis when < changes to evening; Sulph. in chronic aphonia.

Causticum antidotes paralysis from lead poisoning (bad effects of holding type in mouth of compositors). and abuse of Mercurius or Sulph. in scabies.

It affects the right side most prominently.

Aggravation. – In clear, fine weather; coming from the air into a warm room ( Bryonia ); cold air, especially draft of cold air; on becoming cold; from getting wet or bathing.

Causticum Amelioration. – In damp, wet weather; warm air.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.