INTRODUCTION
COPAIV. Balsam of Copaiva. See Hahnemann’s “Fragmenta de Viribus Medicamentorum,”., I Noack and Trinks.
COMPARE WITH
Cubeb., Mercurius, Terebintha
ANTIDOTES
Mercurius Mercurius-corr.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
Burning pain. Itching (skin, urethra). Stinging. Pressure. Feeling of heaviness (stomach, perinaeum. Lacerating and drawing (abdomen, thighs). Increased secretion of mucus from the mucous membranes, particularly those of the urinary, genital, and respiratory organs. Acute rheumatism; gonorrhoeal rheumatism (thickening and induration of the synovial membranes of the knee, swelling of the dorsum of the foot and torturing pain in the foot, which impedes the use of the part). Violent jaundice during the whole of its course. Hemiplegia (after the disappearance of a measle-shaped exanthem which was breaking out all over the body). Apoplexy. Haemorrhage. Inflammatory affections of the intestinal canal, of the urinary and genital organs. Discharge of several yards of taenia.
SKIN
Stinging and itching of the skin. Dark-colored, or bright-red, elevated, in tolerable itching, lentil-sized, measle-shaped exanthem, clustering in various places, and flowing into one another like grapes, in the face, on the chest, abdomen, hands, feet, sometimes with, sometimes without fever. Scarlet-red, or else dark rose-colored eruption, of an irregular, broad shape, like the spots on a tiger, with troublesome itching, and raised either entirely or only in the centre. Nettlerash, consisting of isolated blotches over the whole body, commencing on the face. Roseola. Rash. Eczema, consisting of vesicles which are smaller and flatter than the mercurial eczema.
FEVER
Quotidian fever: chilliness and coldness in the forenoon, in the after heat and thirst. Violent febrile motions in the inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea. Quick pulse.
HEAD
Headache, as if from congestion, with heat in the face. Tremulous sensation in the head, delirium.
MOUTH
Slight, painful swelling of the lips and buccal cavity inflammation of the tongue, with swelling of the submaxillary glands. Increased flow of saliva.
APPETITE
Loss of appetite. (Increased appetite and digestion.).
STOMACH
Gastric symptoms. Frequent, troublesome eructations. Great loathing, nausea, constant inclination to vomit in the throat, strangulation and vomiting, with loss of appetite, painful colic, and diarrhoea. Pressure and burning in the region of the stomach and umbilicus.
ABDOMEN
Pressure and burning in the abdomen. Colic, pains in the bowels, with inclination to vomit and diarrhoea. Colic and watery diarrhoea. Rumbling and writhing in the bowels, as if colic would come on. Painful swelling of the inguinal glands.
STOOL AND ANUS
Constipation. Copious stools, with loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, colic, and tenesmus. Exhausting diarrhoea. White diarrhoeic stools, generally in the morning, with chilliness and drawing-lacerating colic. Involuntary stools. Bloody stools. Tenesmus. Intolerable burning in the region of the sphincter-ani. Sense of heaviness in the perinaeum.
URINE
Excessive irritation of the bladder. Inflammation of the urinary organs. Inflammation, swelling, and dilatation of the orifice of the urethra, with pulsative pains throughout the penis. Pain as from soreness in the orifice of the urethra. Itching, biting, and burning in the urethra, before and after micturition. Contraction of the urethra. Constant ineffectual urging to urinate. Increased emission of urine, a sort of diabetes. Retention of urine. The urine is emitted in drops. Haematuria. Foaming urine. The urine is greenish-turbid, with a peculiar pungent (balsamic) smell; or like violets; or tastes bitter.
GENITAL ORGANS
The sexual organs are irritated. Constant weakness of the sexual organs, and loss sexual desire. Burning or sensation of dryness in the region of the prostate gland and in the urethra. Induration of the prostate gland, with great pain on urinating. Swelling and induration of the testicles. Yellow purulent gonorrhoea. Metrorrhagia. Discharge of bloody and thick, purulent mucus from the womb, with pressing towards the vagina.
LARYNX AND TRACHEA
Constant irritation in the larynx, with desire to cough. Dry, painful cough with feeling of dryness in the larynx. Profuse expectoration of a greenish-gray, purulent mucus.
CHEST
Spitting of blood. Oppression of the chest and difficult breathing, as if the air-passages were clogged with mucus. Pressure and anxiety in the chest, with flushes of heat in the face and burning in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. Burning sensation in the chest. Palpitation of the heat.
LEGS
Pain and swelling of the knees and malleoli.
