Curare
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General EN
Curare.
Curara, Woorara. Woorali. Hoorali. Oorari. (An arrow poison used by South American Indians. Accounts differ as to its actual composition, into which the juice of different species of Strychnos are said to enter, or of Cocculus toxiferos with serpent poison. Others have said it is prepared from the venom of toads. In appearance it is something like the extract of liquorice. That used in C. Wesselhoeft's provings was obtained from Merck of Darmstadt.) N. O. Loganiaceae (?). Tincture.
Clinical EN
Cancer. Catalepsy. Corns. Cough. Debility. Diabetes. Dysmenia. Dyspnoea. Ears, affections of. Eczema. Emphysema. Epilepsy. Face, paralysis of. Fainting. Headache. Hydrophobia. Liver spots. Locomotor ataxia. Nervous debility. Neuralgia. Otitis. Ozaena. Paralysis. Phthisis. Pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis. Ptosis. Scrofula. Tetanus. Ulceration. Uterus, affections of. Vaginitis. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics EN
Curare produces muscular paralysis, probably through its action on the nerve endings in the muscles, without affecting either the muscle substance or the nerve substance, and without impairing sensation and consciousness. It is thus in many ways the opposite, in its action, of Nux vomica, though it is said to have the juice of a Strychnos in its composition. It causes death by paralysis of the respiratory muscles. Reflex action is diminished or abolished (opp.
Nux), and this is one great indication for its employment in homoeopathic practice. A cure of pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis by the 200th has been recorded. A condition resembling catalepsy has been induced by it; immobility with fixed gaze on waking. Fetidity characterises many of the secretions and discharges.
Two cases of diabetes in middle-aged men have been cured by Burkhardt with Cur. 4. It is suited to scrofulous children; producing scrofulous eruptions on skin, eczema, especially of face and behind ears; also liver-spots, yellow-brown. It favours the formation of corns. Debility short of paralysis indicates it; debility of the aged, and nervous debility from loss of fluids.
Its relation to hydrophobia and tetanus is probably antipathic. It causes a sensation as if the brain were full of fluid. Piercing, lancinating pains. Throbbing pains.
Weakness; heaviness; numbness; numbness with tingling. < By movement; walking; ascending. < Dampness, cold air, cold weather, cold wind, change of weather. < 2 a.m. and 2-3 p.m.
Many symptoms appear on right side.
Relations EN
In cases of poisoning artificial respiration must be resorted to. Bromine and Chlorine antidote its effects. If the poisoning is due to a punctured wound, rubbing in tobacco or salt will neutralise it. It is an antidote to: Strychnia and to the poison of rabies.
Compatible: After Arn. (paralysis from injury) after Bell. (paralysis after epistaxis). Follows well in debility of the aged: Bar. c.
Compare: Nux v.; Aran. d. (fever < in damp weather; Ferr.
(hammering pains in head). Crotal (blows in region of cerebellum). In yellow-brown spots on skin (Sep., Lyc., Nux, Sul.).
Mind EN
Inability to think or study; forgetful; stupid; sleepy; indolent
Indecision
Excited, hurried feeling
Depressed; desire to be alone.
Head EN
Instant giddiness; falling in swoon while standing or walking
Dizzy when looking at near objects or at water
Head confused, great weight in vertex
Nervous headache; lancinating, piercing pains all over head compelling to lie down and stretch; head drawn backward with stiffness of neck; painful oscillation of brain, as if it were full of fluid; neuralgic pain starting in front and radiating to neck and face; violent blows in region of cerebellum
Darting through temples, < r
Headache from base of brain up, < from mastication
Headache: despairing of power of thought;
< vigorous movement, or stooping
Shattered, torn feeling on coughing, side of head must be held
Sharp sticking over r. eye extending backwards over l. side of head
Head beats like a hammer, with vomiting of bile
Rush of blood to head.
Eyes EN
Heavy eyes lids can hardly be kept open; ptosis (r.)
Eyes haggard, sunken
Red, hot sensitive to light
Feel as if full of sticks
Black spots before vision, esp.
< from reading.
Ears EN
Different noises as of whistling, or crying of animals; ringing in r. ear
Lancinating pains starting from ears and reaching down legs, compelling to lie down
Otitis interna, driving crazy, purulent discharge.
Nose EN
Nasal catarrh.—Ozaena; fetid lumps of pus.
Face EN
Paralysis of muscles of expression
Red face, head beats like a hammer; after fever; with cough
Aching r. side of face
Facial and buccal paralysis; in some cases with difficulty of swallowing.
Mouth EN
Tongue and mouth drawn to r
Tongue coated
On waking tongue yellowish at base, papillae raised, light pink anteriorly, bitter or bloody taste, yellow-white
Mouth dry.
Stomach EN
Thirst and great hunger with fever
Sudden hunger almost to faintness
Great thirst esp. evening and night
Craves acids
Aversion to bread.—> After first mouthful of food
Chill after eating
Hiccough frequent and annoying
Nausea in morning; after eating
Vomits green bile all night; so weak can hardly stand
Empty, gone feeling in stomach
Sharp rheumatic pain in pit of stomach, followed by nausea
Shooting in stomach
Pyrosis, pain and distension after eating ever so little.
Abdomen EN
Weary ache from throat to l. hip
Bowels feel sore and bruised
Pain in groin low down with heaviness in limbs while walking
Neuralgic pain in hypogastrium with pressure in vagina.
Stool And Anus EN
Diarrhoea with constant urging; fetid, thin faeces, excessive pain in piles.—Extreme watery diarrhoea.
Urinary Organs EN
Clear and frequent urine, with digging, crampy pain in kidneys; shooting in stomach; dry mouth; great thirst, esp. evenings and night; sugar in urine; great emaciation;
(acute diabetes)
Urine copious, urgent; bladder feels distended.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Menses seven days too early, griping in r. ovary, bearing-down, dragging, tired, in all pelvic organs, severe (causing faintness) in lumbo-sacral spine, running down thighs, flow scanty, very dark, lasting three days instead of five
Ulcerations of os uteri (scirrhus), ichorous, corroding discharge; bearing-down pains in womb; shocks, sharp shooting stitches, quivering
Ulcerations, smarting in vulva and thighs; shooting and digging pains in womb
Indolence, night sweats, repugnance to sexual intercourse (vaginitis)
During menses: colic, headache, pains in kidneys, malaise, hypochondriasis
Leucorrhoea, thick, purulent, offensive, in clots.
Respiratory Organs EN
Dyspnoea, stitching pains r. side
Dyspnoea from weakness of motor nerves as in phthisis or emphysema
Paralysis of respiration
Dyspnoea < ascending
Short, hacking cough, always dry, with soreness of chest walls, < damp weather, or laughing; spasmodic, shakes whole body, = vomiting, is often followed by vomiting; = headache, red face
Cough always troublesome in morning
Cough < breathing cold air; laughing; moving; eating
Burning heat in throat with sensation of distension
Severe pains in lungs, esp. l.; sharp, piercing pain through chest, always much < in damp weather; dyspnoea, chronic cough.
Chest EN
Chest sore, can hardly bear pressure of stethoscope.
Heart EN
Precordial anguish, with palpitation and stinging pains in heart.
Neck And Back EN
Stiffness in neck, head drawn back
Stiffness of muscles of r. neck and shoulder
Dull, tired ache in shoulders and across back; numb, tired pains up and down spine and in head
Chills running up back and all over body.
Limbs EN
Paralysis of extremities burning with heat and chills
Aching in all the limbs and body
Numbness and tingling.
Upper Limbs EN
Complete paralysis of r. deltoid
Pain and numbness l. side of chest and l. arm
Leaden heaviness in arm increasing difficulty in playing piano
In evening, arms and hands swollen, more painful and heavy
Great weakness, esp. of wrists and hands.
Lower Limbs EN
Legs tremble and give way in walking
Sciatica with great stiffness
Corns.
Skin EN
Body blue, and yet fever
Itching with hunger
Eczema
Liver-spots.
Sleep EN
Drowsy; cannot keep awake
Nights restless, always desiring to put feet out of bed, esp. towards morning
Cannot sleep late enough to obtain a good night's rest; dreams of fire and the business of day;
< from lying long in bed, must get up as her feet and back ache.
Fever EN
Chill; creeping up back; from stomach, on abdomen, and spreading all over; without thirst
Heat < at night and in open air
Sweat with every exertion
Sweat, cold and bloody, esp. at nights.