COLOCYNTHIS

COLOCYNTHIS. [Coloc.] Bitter Cucumber. Hahnemann. Cucurbitaceae.

► Confusion in the left side of head, with pressing burning pain in the left orbit, temple and nose, on dorsum nasi and in the upper teeth. ► Greatly affected by the misfortunes of others as well see as her own. ► Depressed, joyless ; disinclined to talk, to answer, to see friends. ► Extreme irritability ; nothing seems right to him ; extremely impatient ; every word provokes him. ► Anger with indignation ; also bad effects therefrom particularly vomiting and diarrhoea.

► Vertigo, when quickly turning the head, as if he would fall, tottering of the knees. ► Dulness of head and giddiness, at beginning of colic.

► Pressive frontal headache, worse while stooping, or lying on the back. ► Painful tearing through the whole brain, becoming unbearable when moving the upper eyelid. ► Severe burning pain, on right side of forehead. ► Tearing in the left side of forehead. ► Pressure in both temples. ► Boring stitches in the right temple, disappearing on touch. ► Pressing and dull throbbing in left temple, growing gradually more acute and cutting.

► Roots of the hair painful. ► Smarting, burning on the scalp, left side.

► Vision obscured. ► Painful pressure in the eyeballs, especially on stooping. ► Sharp cutting in the right eyeball, with pain in the eyes. ► Smarting in the eyes. ► Discharge of acrid fluid from the eyes.

► Roaring and throbbing in both ears, especially the left. ► Crawling ; itching ; stitching ; cutting or aching in the ears, relieved by putting the fingers into the ear.

► Fluent coryza, worse in open air than in the room. ► Beating and digging pain, from left side of nose to glabella.

► Face : dark red ; or pale, with relaxed muscles and sunken eyes. ► Tensive tearing pain, with heat and swelling, especially of left side ; worse from touch or motion, better in perfect rest, and from external application of warmth. ► Left-sided tearing, or burning and stinging pain, extending to the ear and head ; tearing in the cheeks. ► Constriction and pressing in the left malar bone, extending into the left eye. ► Transient stitches in the upper jaw recurring frequently.

► Drawing and twitching toothache. ► Beating toothache, first in one, then in another tooth of left side.

► Taste : bitter of food and drink, less frequently offensive or metallic. ► Tongue : coated white, or yellow ; rough ; burning on tip. ► Scalded sensation of the tongue.

► Dryness ; rawness ; roughness ; or scraping in throat.

► Canine hunger, with longing for bread and beer. ► Aversion to food, with scraping in the throat. ► Diminished appetite, without thirst, still great inclination to drink ; succeeded by a putrid taste in the mouth.

► After the least food or drink, diarrhoea. ► Potatoes cause bellyache ; coffee relieves the colic.

► Nausea arising from the stomach. ► Vomiting of bitter tasting, yellow fluid.

► Feeling of emptiness in the stomach. ► Burning pain in the stomach. ► Feeling of fulness in the epigastric region. ► Griping in the epigastrium, after each meal, worse toward evening. ► Cramp in the stomach at night, relieved by belching. ► Pit of stomach very sensitive to touch. ► Violent cutting, tearing pains, which from different parts of chest and abdomen, concentrate in the pit of stomach, better from hard pressure and bending double ; brought on by vexation and indignation.

► Transient stitches in the hepatic region.

► Abdomen distended and painful ; tympanitic. ► Incarcerated flatus. ► Cramp-like pain in both sides of abdomen, worse after pressure or leaning with belly on a table. ► Collection of fat in abdomen since her first confinement. ► Severe colicky pains, mostly around the navel ; has to bend double, being worse in any other posture ; great restlessness and loud screaming on changing position ; worse at intervals of five or ten minutes. ► Colic so distressing that they seek relief by pressing the corner of a table, or head of bed post, against abdomen. ► Colic-like, spasmodic pain after vexation. ► Colic spreading from the navel, better from frequent discharge of flatus. ► Isolated, deep stitches, sometimes in felt, at others in right flank, apparently connected with the ovaries. ► Pain in the groin, like from hernia, and on pressure, sensation as if a hernia were receding.

► Chronic watery diarrhoea, mornings, with pain in sides of abdomen. ► Dysentery-like diarrhoea, renewed each time by the least food or drink. ► Bloody diarrhoea, with violent pain in the bowels, extending down into the thighs. ► Frequent urging to stool, with sensation as if the anus and rectum were weakened by long continued diarrhoea. ► Stools : copious fecal diarrhoea, accompanied by great discharge of wind ; fluid ; after eating, with discharge of flatus and painful feeling in abdomen, better after getting warm in bed ; thin, frothy, saffron-yellow, of musty odor ; slimy, bloody, like scrapings of the bowels, with tenesmus during stool ; relief of pain after stool. ► Constipation, stools hard ; also when caused by cheese, painfully swollen hemorrhoids, in rectum and at anus.

► Sudden violent pressure upon the bladder, which was full, passed off suddenly on the emission of flatus. ► Abundant urine ; frequent desire to pass water, with burning in bladder and stitches ; alternating with stitches in the rectum. ► Frequent tenesmus vesicae, with scanty emission. ► Urine : fetid ; brown ; viscid ; deposits copious sediment which becomes jelly-like ; faint flesh-colored, with light brown, flocky, unequally translucent sediment and depositing small, hard, reddish crystals, which adhere to the vessel, and are not easily removed by water.

► Sexual desire strong ; with erections.

► Cramp-like pain in the left ovarian region, as though the parts were squeezed in a vice. ► Intense boring or tensive pain in ovary, causing her to draw up double, with great restlessness. ► Deep stitches, worse in left ovary. ► Suppression of the menses, caused by chagrin. ► Dysmenorrhoea, cramping pains, must bend double, sometimes worse after eating or drinking. ► Swelling of labia, with dragging pain and heat to vagina. ► Metritis, from indigestion, colicky pains bend her double ; cutting, as from knives, in the bowels, great distress, distention of the abdomen ; feeling as if the intestines were being squeezed between stones. ► May be indicated in some cases of very painful cancer.

► During pregnancy, frequent attacks of colic, which draws the patient nearly double. ► Suppression of the lochia ; with violent colic ; from anger of indignation ; with tympanitic swelling of the abdomen and diarrhoea.

► Frequent tickling and irritation in the larynx.

► Asthmatic attacks at night, with slow, difficult breathing, which provokes cough. ► Oppression of chest, worse evenings and before midnight.

► Titillating cough, frequent during the night.

► Stitching pains in right or left side of chest.

► Stitches in the cardiac region. ► Pulse : generally full, hard and accelerated ; less frequently, small and weak. ► Strong throbbing in all the blood-vessels.

► Feeling of stiffness in the muscles of the nape, when moving the head. ► Drawing in the nape. ► Violent tensive drawing in the left cervical muscles, worse on motion. ► Pressure in left side of nape, worse from turning. ► Drawing pain, internally, in region of right scapula, as if the nerves and vessel were made tense. ► Tensive stitches in the right loin, felt only during inspiration, and most violent when lying on the back. ► Painful lassitude in small of back and lower extremities, in the evening. ► Pain in the small of the back.

► Swelling and suppuration of the axillary glands. ► Drawing, lancinating in left shoulder from the face and neck. ► Rheumatic pains through the arms. ► Pains in the palms, as if the muscles were contracted. ► Tearing in joint of left hand. ► Tensive pain in left thumb, impending motion. ► Violent drawing pain in left thumb, like in the tendons, beginning in the ball and passing off at the lip.

► Crampy pain in the affected hip, as though the parts were screwed in a voice ; lies upon the affected side, with knee drawn up. ► Drawing, twitching, with dull throbbing in region of left hip, and right loin. ► Pain as if the hips were screwed together. ► Shooting pain, like lightning, down the whole limb. ► Pain in right thigh only when walking, as if the psoas magnus were too short. ► Dancing in inner side of left thigh, afternoons. ► Drawing pain in right thigh, down to the knee. ► Drawing in external condyle of right femur. ► Continuous pain left knee-joint, impeding walking. ► Cramp in the left calf. ► Drawing, aching in the left foot. ► Left foot "goes to sleep".

► Tearing or drawing pains in all limbs.

► Rest : 8. Walking : 33.

8, 31. Moving the head : 31. Turning the head : 2, 31. Moving the upper eyelid : 3. Stooping : 3, 5. Bending double : 17, 19, 23, 24. Bending the knee : 33. Lying on back : 3, 31. Lying on effected side : 33. ► Motion generally relieves drawing, tearing and burning pains.

► Great tendency of the muscles of all parts of the body top to become painfully cramped. ► Sensation of weakness, of faint feeling.

► Yawning and sleepiness. ► Sleeplessness and restlessness, with the pains. ► Dreams : disturbing sleep ; vivid ; anxious.

► Morning : 20, 26. Afternoon : 33. Evening : 17, 26, 31. Night : 17, 27, 40. Before midnight : 26.

► Warm applications : 8. Warmth of bed : 20. Open air : 7.

► Chill and coldness of the whole body, frequently with heat of the face. ► Coldness of hands, of soles, of the feet, rest of body warm. ► Chill and shivering, with the pains. ► External dry heat. ► Internal sensation of heat, with external flushes. ► Sweat at night, smelling like urine, causing itching of the skin. ► Sweat principally of the head and extremities.

► Increasing gradually : 3.

► Right : 3, 5, 18, 19, 26, 31, 32, 33. Left : 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 19, 23, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33.

► Rheumatism, with all sorts of pains, with formication and numbness.

► Touch : relieves pain in temples : 3 ; in ear : 6 ; increases faceache ; stomach sensitive to it : Hard pressure relieves : 17, 19. Pressure relieves, but after is worse.

► Itching ; prickling ; crawling ; formication. ► Desquamation over the whole body.

► Coloc. antidotes Caustic. ► Antidotes to Coloc. : Camphor., Coffea, Staphis. ► Large doses are counteracted by tepid milk, infusion of galls, Camphor., Opium. ► Staphis. is very similar with regard to mind symptoms and pains in abdomen. ► Smoking relieves pain in bowels. ► In aggravations of colic, give a cup of coffee to palliate, and repeat Coloc. if necessary.