COCCULUS


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


For women and children with light hair and eyes; nausea from riding in a carriage, railroad car, or boat, or even looking at a boat in motion.

Disease peculiar to drunkards.

Attacks of paralytic weakness, with pain in the back. Great lassitude of the whole body; it requires exertion to stand firmly.

Vertigo as if intoxicated, when rising up in bed; must lie down.

Sensation in abdomen of cutting rubbing as of sharp stones on every movement.

During the effort to menstruate she is so weak she is scarcely able to stand from great weakness of lower limbs.

Confusion of the head, most increased by eating and drinking.

Whirling vertigo, on rising up in bed, with inclination to vomit, which compelled him to lie down again.

Metallic taste, with loss of appetite.

Extreme aversion to food even the smell of food.

Unusual nausea and inclination to vomit while riding in a wagon, or when becoming cold.

Griping in the upper abdomen, taking away the breath.

Flatulent colic about midnight; awakened by incessant accumulation of flatulence, which distended the abdomen, causing oppressive pain here and there.

Menstruation seven days too early with distention of the abdomen, and cutting contracting a pin in abdomen on every motion and every breath.

Menstruation too scanty consisting of only a few drops of black coagulated blood.

Menses irregular and scanty, retarded and painful.

Leucorrhoea in place of the menses.

Great weakness and fainting spells during menses.

Leucorrhoea gushing our on the bending or squatting down.

Anxiety, as if she had committed some great crime.

Weakness of the cervical muscles, with heaviness of the head.

At one time the feet are asleep at another the hands.

The hand trembles while eating.

Now one hand now the other seems insensible and asleep.

His knees sink down from weakness he totters while walking and threatens to fall to one side.

The soles of both feet to sleep while sitting.

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.