COCCULUS


COCCULUS symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy COCCULUS…


INTRODUCTION

COCC. Menispermum Cocculus. Indian Cockle. Hahnemann’s Mat. Medorrhinum Pura.” II. Duration of Action: from eight to fourteen days.

COMPARE WITH

ant., As., Carb-v., Chamomilla, Coffea, Colchicum, Cuprum, Ignatia, Ipecac., Iodium, Laur., Mercurius, Mosch., Natr. mur., Nitr., Nux vomica, Oleand.., Pulsatilla, Rhus., Sabin., Sarsaparilla, Spongia, Stramonium, Tarax., Tart.em., Valer.., Veratr. Cocc. is sometimes indicated after Ipecac.

ANTIDOTES

Camph., Nux v.. It antidotes: Chamomilla, Cuprum, Ignatia, Nux v.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Intolerance of both cold and warm air. Pain in the muscles, when touched. the limps are painful when moved, as if they would be broken r crushed by bending. Subsultus of muscular parts, especially the lower limbs, as after a long journey on foot. Intensely painful paralytic drawing in various parts of the limbs, apparently in the bones. Digging-up bone pain, in. he interior of the limbs. Pain in the interior of he limbs, increased by contact and external pressure. DRawing pain in the muscles, s after a cold. Causing in. the joints. Painful stiffness of the joints. Alternate going to sleep of the feet and hands, in transitory paroxysms. Spasms and convulsions of the limbs and of the wounds and ulcers which makers them painful, or by moving injured parts. Disposition to tremble. Trembling of all the limbs. Want of vital energy. the limbs feel paralyzed. paralytic immobility of the limbs, with drawing pains, apparently in the bones. Attacks of paralytic weakness, with pain in. the small of the back. Apoplexy of the left side.

A sort of epilepsy: he enters the room with a cheerful continuance and sits down, feeling intoxicated, as if were; afterwards the becomes quite still, an starts for a long time at one spot without answering and muttering he then falls down without consciousness writing and muttering unintelligible; wrote; involuntary emission of urine; spasmodic, paroxysms; consciousness, writhing and muttering unintelligible words; involuntary emission of urine spasmodic, paroxysmal concessions of he limbs and the whole body, convulsive clenching of the finger, s with hand being stretched out; paroxysmal choking in the throat, the mouth being half open, as if the would vomit., with foam at the mouth, in the shape f bubbles the hands are cold, the face is covered with cold sweat and spasmodically distorted, the eyes look glassy and protruded;after this if he rises, without, however, r answering any questions, clenches his teeth, looking at those who interrogate him, with his teeth clenched, does not sulphur himself to be touched, tries face has an expression of wild rage; finally he groans and moans; after fifteen minute she gradually recovers from his fit, and recovers his sense, s feeling, however, an aversion toe very kind of food or drink, even those that he was generally very fond of. Red, bloated hot face after he convulsions. he feels weak after the least motion every trifle affects him. Painful paralytic weakness in. arms and legs; she is scarcely able to rise; with want of appetite Languor in the body especially when sitting. Great weakness of the body, he found it difficult to stand firmly, Nervous weakness,. Fainting if Fainting if,, with spasmodic distortion of the facial muscles, when is moving the body. Hemiplegia., Paralysis of the lower limbs, from the small oil the neck, with nervous irritation Emaciation. Haemorrhage.

CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES

All the symptoms and pains, especially in the head, are aggravated by drinking, eating, sleeping, or talking by smoking, and coffee. The symptoms, especially the headache, are extremely aggravated by cold air.

SKIN

Burning, dull stitches. Itching and burning of the skin, especially the inner side of he thighs, as of nettles;that part is also covered with pimples with a stinging pin the touched. Red, miliary pimple in the face, on the back and chest itching in warmth, but not when undressing. A sort of hard blotches, containing no fluid, surrounded with a red border, burning and itching and whole excites lactating pains in hard glandular swelling. Excites sticking pains and heat in cold glandular swellings. at least when touched.

SLEEP

Violent yawning. Sopor. Coma-vigil. Frequent waking with a start. Sleepless night, restlessness of the whole body; sting and biting in various parts. Vivid and painful drams. Sleep is interrupted by frequent starting’s. Frightful anguish, which seems like a dream, hindering sleep. Drowsiness during the day, with a feeling of indolence in the morning.

FEVER

Shivering in the back, in the evening, chilliness in the back, as if touched with ice. Shuddering of the whole body. General coldness, without shuddering, with bluish hands. Chilliness, even near the stove, with violent colic. Chilliness, although the skin feels hot. Fever: alternation of heat over the whole body, with sleeplessness. Burning heat in the cheeks, with cold feet. the pulse is not more frequent, but very small and hard. Heat in. he forehead. Increased feeling of heat in. the cheeks, with cold feet. the pulse is not more frequent, but very small and hard. Heat in the forehead. Increased feeling of heat, quick pulse. Quick alternation of heat and chilliness Frequent and violent flush of heat over the whole body. Heat and redness in the face, with thirst.

MORAL SYMPTOMS

Discouragement. Absorbed in reveries and sad thoughts. Weeping. REstless Restlessness to do something. Anxiety. Anxiety, as if he had committed a great crime. Anguish about the heart, anguish of death. palpitation of the heart. Sudden, violent anguish. Dispiriting mood. Hypochondria, especially in the afternoon. Excessive sensitiveness. A slight noise caused all his limbs to start. Excessive disposition to feel vexed and to be offended. Cheerful, contented.

SENSORIUM

Vertigo, with nausea and falling down without consciousness Apoplexy, after excessive depletions. Vertigo as from intoxication. Disposition vertigo. headache, with inclination to vomit. Stupid feeling in. he head.

HEAD

Thinking fatigues the head Cloudiness of the head mostly increased by eating or drinking. Heaviness in the herald Headache, as if the brain were constricted. (Painful concussion in the brain when walking, when moving the head, or when talking). headache, pressure through he whole head, mostly in. the forehead (forenoon), increasing to loss of sense by reading or meditating). Aching pain in the forehead. Aching pain in the vertex. Aching as if he brain were compressed. Lacerating throbbing headache in the forehead, in the evening. headache as if the eyes would be torn out, particularly during every motion, with vertigo. Pain in the head, as if the head were empty and hollow, Headache, as if the eyes would be forcibly closed. Convulsive trembling of the head.

EYES

Spasmodic rolling of the eyes under the closed lids, during apoplexy. Pressure on both eyes, as if dust had got in. Aching pain in the eyes, with ability to open the eye-lids, in. the night. Drains of the eye-lids. Dim-sightedness. Flies and black spots before the eyes. Contraction or else great dilatation of the pupils. Blue margins around the eyes.

EYES

Noise as of rushing water, with hard hearing. The right ear feels closed. Swelling of the parotid gland.

NOSE

Sneezing. Pain of the nostril when touching it. Ulcerative pain in the left nostril. Profuse coryza. (Discharge of bloody mucus from the nose.).

FACE

Stitches in the external pars of the neck. Redness of the cheeks and heat in the face, without thirst, in a room entirely cold.

JAWS AND TEETH

Swelling and hardness in the submaxillary glands, and nodosities in. the fore-arm, painful when moving the hand along them. Painless swelling of the submaxillary glands. Lacerating digging-up pain in the lower jaw. Anterior teeth feel elongated; the gums are swollen. the hollow tooth is painful only when eating soft food, as if quite loose.

MOUTH

Dryness of the mouth, in the night, without thirst. Feeling of dryness in. the mouth, with frothy saliva and violent thirst. Sensation as if the root of the tongue were swollen, with pain during deglutition.

Sensation as if he root of the tongue were swollen, with pain during deglutition.

THROAT

Sensitiveness in the throat. Dryness of the oesophagus. Dryness of the throat, with a feeling of that in. the oesophagus and stomach. Aching pain in the tonsils, worse when swallowing saliva than food. A sort of paralysis of he oesophagus, preventing deglutition. Burning in the oesophagus, extending to he fauces, with taste of sulphur in the mouth. Oesophagitis.

TASTE AND APPETITE

Sour, coppery, or metallic taste, with loss of appetite, Excessive repugnance to good, accompanied by hunger. Feeling of hunger in the pit of the stomach., little diminished by eating. Intense thirst. Aversion to food and drink.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS

Bitter, acrid, scraping eructations, especially, in the evening. Putrid eructations. Inclination to vomit, when eating. Paroxysms of nausea, with tendency to faint, Excessive nausea and inclination to vomit, when riding in a carriage, with vomiting. when becoming cold or when taking cold, an inclination to vomit, when riding in a carriage, with vomiting. When becoming cold, or when taking cold, an inclination to vomit comes on, exciting a copious accumulation of saliva. Inclination to vomit, accompanied by headache, and a pain in the intestines as if bruised. (Vomiting towards midnight, with suffocative fits, he vomits food and mucus, with bitter and sour taste in the throat.).

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.