COLOCYNTHIS


Clarke gives the toxic effects of homeopathy drug Colocynthis and its therapeutic uses in non-toxic doses in his book The ABC Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, published in 1901….


      Bitter Apple.

CHARACTERISTICS.

      Colic the patient bends double with pain. Pains purely neurotic, worse at intervals of from five to ten minutes. Sharp, twisting neuralgic pains brought on by exposure to cold and damp weather.

TOXIC EFFECTS.

      Vomiting. Severe intestinal pain of a burning, twisting, colicy character. Muscular spasms. Serous and bloody stools. Rectum inflamed. Tenesmus.

Severe pains in the hips, and in the course of the crural and sciatic nerves.

DOSE.

      Extractum colocynthidis, 2-5 gr.

The drug is powerful and irritating in its effects.

It should be given in doses ranging from the second to the fourth decimal dilution.

THERAPEUTIC USES.

      Severe colic with bloody stools.

Colic. Patient doubles himself up with pain.

Enteralgia. Gastralgia.

Pains purely neurotic, worse at intervals of form five to ten minutes.

Sharp, twisting, neuralgic pains brought on by exposure to cold and damp weather.

George Hardy Clark
Clark, George H. (George Hardy) 1860-1941 was the author of: Homeopathic Treatment of Asthenopia; Lee and Clark's Cough and expectoration : a repertorial index of their symptoms; The A B C Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; A system for the care and training of children; The Black Plague and Its Control.