CAUSTICUM


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Causticum from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Adapted to persons with dark hair, rigid fibre weakly scrofulous person with excessively sallow complexion, subject to affections of respiratory and urinary tracts.

Children with dark hair and eyes delicate sensitive skin, prone to intertrigo during dentition.

Ailments from long-lasting grief and sorrow; from night- watching.

Melancholy, sad, hopeless; looks on the dark side of everything.

Constipation frequent, ineffectual efforts; stool passes better when standing.

Urination involuntary, when coughing, sneezing, blowing the nose.

Cough with inability to raise the sputa; must be swallowed; relieved by a swallow of cold water.

At night cannot get an easy position, nor lie still a moment.

cannot cover too warmly, but warmth does not relieve.

Cicatrices, especially burns and scalds freshen up, become sore again; patients say “they have never been well since that burn.”

Paralysis of single parts; vocal organs, tongue, eyelids, face, extremities, bladder; generally of night side.

Pressure in the eyes if sand were in them.

Inclination to close the eyes; lids seem heavy paralysis of upper lids.

Feeling as though the scalp was too tight.

Words and step re-echo in her ears.

Face of a yellowish, sickly appearance, with pale, bluish lips.

Sensation of tension and pain in the jaws so that she could only with difficulty open the mouth, and could not eat well because a tooth seemed too long.

Salt waterbrash.

Vomiting followed by sour eructations.

Aversion to sweet things, which disagree.

Fresh meat causes nausea and waterbrash; smoked meat agrees.

Sensation in the chest as if the clothes were too tight.

painful stiffness in the back.

Aching pain in the smell of the back when sitting.

Anxiety about the heart while sitting she is obliged to get up and walk about.

At night she cannot get in a quiet position; she cannot lie still a moment.

Chill without thirst, lessened in bed and by drinking no subsequent heat.

Flushes of heat, followed by chill.

Sweat immediately after the chill, without intervening heat.

Profuse sweat when walking in the open air; from motion.

sour smelling night-sweat all over. Viscid sweat of strong urinous odor.

Left-sided chill.

Urinates so easily not sensible of the stream.

Sore sensation in a streak down along trachea, where every cough pains.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.