COLOCYNTHIS


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


Constrictive pain in the umbilicus immediately after dinner.

Terrible contractive twisting pains in bowels immediately about umbilicus.

Griping around the navel increased by eating fruit.

Violent griping in the umbilical region.

Violent colic-like pains emanating from the umbilicus, with frequent discharge of flatulence, which afforded relief.

Isolated deep stitches, as if from a needle sometimes in the left, sometimes in the right flank, apparently connected with the ovaries.

Abdomen greatly distended and painful.

Violent griping distended and painful

Pinching pain in the abdomen as if the bowels were pressed inward with cutting, extending toward, the pelvic region, so severe below the navel that the muscles of the face are distorted and the eyes drawn together; the pain is only relieved by pressure upon the bowels with the hands and bending himself inward.

pinching in the bowels as if the intestines were squeezed between stones.

Colic of the most violent character.

Stool: saffron yellow frothy, liquid; first watery and mucous, then bilious and lastly bloody thing, greenish, slimy and watery sour; putrid; musty like brown paper burning from eating or drinking; from fruit after vexation, indignation, or grief from ill-treatment; during dentition.

Weakness, paleness, and great prostration.

Intense griping cutting or squeezing in the intestines, coming up into the stomach and causing nausea.

Pain are aggravated by eating or drinking.

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.