INTRODUCTION
COLOC. Cucumis Colocynthis. Wild Cucumber. Hahnemann’s “Chronic Diseases,” III. Duration of Action: from thirty to forty days.
COMPARE WITH
Arnica, Belladonna Cantharis, Causticum, Chamomilla, Coffea, Digitalis, Staphysagria, Veratrum
ANTIDOTES
Camph., Causticum, Chamomilla, Coffea, Staphysagria It antidotes: Causticum Large does are counteracted by tepid milk, infusion of Galls, Camph.,.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
Contraction of the limbs and muscles. Fainting fits, with coldness of the external parts. Deadly swoon. Lassitude in all the limbs, when walking in the open air, as after a long journey, with great heaviness of the legs, and trembling.
CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES
According to Jahr, Colocynth removes complaints arising from indignation or from internal gnawing grief about unworthy treatment, such as: cramp in the calves and bowels, spasmodic colic, bilious colic, bilious fever, sleeplessness,.
SKIN
Itching of the whole body, as after violent sweat. Smarting itching in various places. Itch-like eruption.
SLEEP
Drowsiness and want of disposition to intellectual labor. Uneasy sleep. Sleeplessness the whole night. A kind of flatulent colic about midnight. Night-sleep interrupted by many dreams.
FEVER
Coldness of the whole body. Icy-cold hands in the evening, with warm feet. Violent chilliness. Feverish heat. Night-sweat. Slow, full pulse. Quick and full pulse. Palpitation of the heart. When lying still, he feels the beating of the heart and the arteries in the whole body.
MORAL SYMPTOMS
Apathy with lassitude. Dejection of spirits. Peevish. Out of humor. Great anguish. Want of religious feelings. Delirium with open eyes, and de sire to escape (in puerperal fever).].
SENSORIUM
Dullness of the head especially the forehead. Dullness of the head and vertigo, at the commencement of the colic. Giddiness, with slight delirium and deafness.
HEAD
Violent headache, as if brought on by a draft of air, disappearing gradually when walking in the open air. Pressing headache in the fore part of the head, most violent when stooping, or when lying on the back. Drawing, semi-lateral headache. Painful and lacerating digging through the whole brain, becoming intolerable when moving the eye-lids. Pressure in the left side of the head, with burning in the temple. Head and eyes sensitive to the least movement. Head feels hot. Burning pain in the integuments of the forehead, above the eye-brows. Smarting burning in the hairy scalp, on the left side. The roots of the hairs are painful.
EYES
Burning cutting in the eye, also in the lower lid of the right eye when at rest. Cuttings as with knives, in the right eye- balls, extending to the root of the nose and in the forehead, from without inwards. Pain in the eye-lids as from excoriation. Burning pain in the whole of the right eye-ball. Discharge of an acrid fluid from the eyes. Ophthalmia, in arthritic individuals. Obscuration of sight. Sparkling before the eyes.
EARS
Rushing in the ears. Rushing and beating in the ears Ringing in one or both ears. Dullness of hearing, with giddiness and slight delirium. Painful, long-continued drawing behind the left ear.
NOSE
Digging, pulsative pain from the left side of the nose to its root. Fluent coryza, early in the morning.
FACE
Lacerating and tension, or burning and stinging in one side of the face, particularly the left, extending to the ear and head face pale and relaxed; eyes look dull. Dark redness of the face in puerperal fever. Swelling of the face, with redness and heat of one cheek, and violent pains. Furunculi on the face. Herpes faciei. Eruption of pimples, with burning pain when touched. Searching, burning pain, more when at rest than when in motion. Cramp-like sensation in the left malar bone, extending into the left eye. Feeling of pressure in the orbits near the root of the nose, with confusion of the head and chilliness. Swelling of the upper lip. Burning of the lower lip.
JAWS AND TEETH
Dartings in the upper jaw. Throbbing toothache, on the left side. Stinging-beating in the right lower molars, as if one beat upon them with a wire.
MOUTH
Tongue coated yellow (in puerperal fever). Tongue feels scalded. Burning at the tip of the tongue. Tongue red. Edges of the tongue sore while eating. Burning in the mouth as if from pepper.
THROAT
Sore throat. Scraping and burning in the throat. Scraping in the throat with nausea. Redness in the throat, with difficult deglutition. Dryness of throat, with ardent thirst. Feeling of constriction in the throat. Rawness in the throat, with hoarseness and constriction of the chest. Rawness in the throat, with burning.
GASTRIC SYMPTOMS
Eructations, with burning in the throat. Bitter eructations. Empty eructations, occasioning palpitation of the heart and spasm in the oesophagus, with constant disposition to gag and vomit. Nausea. Vomiting of food, without nausea. Frequent vomiting. Greenish vomiting. Vomiting with diarrhoea.
STOMACH
Pain in the stomach, after eating. Fullness in the epigastrium, as from repletion. Burning in the stomach, even while eating, generally with burning of the tongue. Pressure at the stomach, also as from a stone. Cramp-like feeling in the stomach, extending up by the oesophagus to the throat. Spasmodic pain in the stomach, spreading up to the throat. Squeezing pain in the stomach, depriving him of sleep. Pressure in the stomach, especially after eating, with feeling of hunger. Painfulness of the pit of the stomach when touching it (in puerperal fever). With pain in stomach were always associated pain in teeth and in head.
APPETITE AND TASTE
Canine hunger. Canine hunger, with great general weakness. Appetite diminished. Putrid and nauseous taste, more in the throat than mouth. Bitter taste in the mouth. Unusual degree of thirst. Much thirst, with dry throat. After eating, nausea
and uncomfortableness. Colic and diarrhoea after taking the least nourishment.
ABDOMEN
Pressure and flying pains in the hepatic region. Pressure in the viscera increases rather than diminishes on eating. Pressure in the lower belly, as if from fullness. Constant pain in the abdomen, made up of contusive pain and pressure. Pressure in the pit of the stomach. Feeling about the umbilicus as if from catching cold. Itching of the umbilicus. Constrictive feeling in the upper part of the abdomen, returning at short intervals, and passing into sharp griping. Dartings in the abdomen. Griping in the abdomen, especially about the umbilicus, like a cutting or squeezing; worst on moving; relieved by bending forward, or on evacuating the bowels. Griping, worst after every meal, and in the evening; or from fruit or with painful stitches in the bladder. Lacerating in the abdomen pain only felt on walking. Distensive pain in the bowels, which feel gathered into a ball. Stitching pain below the umbilicus, worst when walking on level ground, better on standing still or going down-stairs. Bruised feeling in the bowels, worst on walking, or sitting bent. Colic, with rumbling as if from bursting of large bubbles. Tenderness of the abdomen, as if its contents were raw. Rumbling, with emission of much flatulence. Warmth in the hypogastrium, preceding the gripings. Enteritis. Heat in the bowels. Tenderness of the umbilical region, with swelling. Feeling in the whole abdomen as if the intestines were being squeezed between stones, and threatened to burst out. Drawing- searching (digging) pain in the belly, increased on expiring and laughing. A cup of coffee removed the colic caused by Coloc., but it was necessary to evacuate the bowels immediately afterwards. Rumbling and constant commotion in the hypogastrium. Pain in the belly like a colic, with some distention and emission of flatus. Colic. Cutting pains in the belly, with chilliness and lacerating in the lower limbs. Continued cutting in the abdomen, so violent that he was forced to walk, bent double, with general lassitude. Violent pain in the belly. Intense pain at a small point in the belly below the umbilicus, which, after a night-sweat spread over the whole lower belly. At each access of pain in the belly, agitation all over the body, during which the cheeks are over spread with a chill, ascending gradually from the hypogastrium, and disappearing simultaneously with the subsidence of the violence of the pain. Commotion in the bowels as if he were fasting (after dinner). Emptiness in the lower belly; or as after a violent diarrhoea pain in the lower belly, as if from taking cold, or as if he had eaten ill- prepared food. Dull, tensive pain, ceasing on pressure. Gradually-increasing constriction in the intestines every ten or twenty minutes, ceasing from forcible pressure. Stabbing pain near the pubis. Cutting pain in the hypogastrium. Bowels feel empty and sore.
STOOL AND ANUS
Diarrhoea with tenesmus. Dysentery. Frequent stools. Diarrhoea day and night, with nausea, but inability to vomit. Urgent desire to go to stool; on the occurrence of the stool, the pain in the bowels almost disappeared, but soon returned. Pap- like stools, preceded by griping, with burning at the anus. Doughy stools. Viscid scanty stools. Thin mucous stools, without pain. Bile is passed with the stools. Liquid frothy stool, of a saffron-yellow, of a musty odor, like brown paper burning. Bloody stools. Faces consisting of undigested food. After an evacuation, burning and darting at the anus. Itching and rawness at the anus, with oozing of mucus, after an evacuation. Tenesmus. Itching at the anus. Burning in the anus and rectum. Pressure alternately on the anus and bladder. Blind haemorrhoids. Bleeding of haemorrhoids, leaving a burning in the anus and sacrum. Discharge of blood from the anus. Contraction of the rectum during stool. Paralysis of the sphincter.
