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COCCULUS INDICUS (Cocc.)

KEY

  • > - Better for
  • < - Worse for
  • CAPITALS = Frequent or intense symptoms * Neurological symptoms. Seasickness.

    MIND

  • Mild manner. Sensitive to rudeness.
  • Anxiety about the health of others.
  • Deep sadness.
  • Sympathetic.
  • CARES ABOUT OTHERS.
  • Ailments from nursing the sick or from grief.
  • SERIOUS AND INTROVERTED. Sentimental.
  • Broods on past unpleasant events (Nat-m.).
  • Sensitive or romantic mood.
  • Easily worried or offended.
  • Offended by contradiction
  • Starting at trifles.
  • Later stages: Dullness, difficulty in thinking, stupefaction.
  • Slow to answer a question (Alum., Hell., Ph-ac.). Slow thinking.
  • Time seems to pass too quickly.
  • Poor memory for what has just thought.
  • CONFUSION AFTER EATING, DRINKING,
  • In a state of excitement
  • talkativeness, dancing, singing.

    GENERALITIES

  • < LOSS OF SLEEP FROM CARING FOR OTHERS OR GRIEF.
  • < RIDING IN A CAR, ON SHIPBOARD (ie, motion sickness).
  • < MOTION.
  • < Cold air, menses.
  • < Emotional disturbances.
  • NERVOUS SYSTEM AFFECTED: Paralysis, slowing down of functions, slow reaction to pin pricks (Alum., Hell., Plb.).
  • Can be suitable for types of multiple sclerosis (M.S.), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (A.L.S.), Alzheimer's Disease.
  • Numbness of single parts, as if gone asleep.
  • Complaints from physical and emotional stress leading to loss of sleep.
  • Convulsions after loss of sleep.
  • Paralysis of one side of body
  • Paralyses of parts that have been at rest.
  • Convulsions, twitchings.
  • Weakness: < riding in a car < rising from the bed < during menses, can scarcely stand < from alcohol
  • tremendous drunken state, confusion.
  • Stretching after lying down, at night in bed.
  • Painful contracture of limbs and truck.
  • Sensation of hollowness, or emptiness.
  • Sensitive to the cold.
  • TREMBLING FROM EXCITEMENT, OVEREXERTION, PAIN.
  • Often suits light haired females and those who suffer complaints after sleep-loss from nursing the sick.

    FOOD AND DRINKS

  • Desire: Beer, cold drinks, mustard.
  • Aversions: Food, drink, tobacco
  • < : Alcohol.
  • VERTIGO
  • Spinning in all directions.
  • < WATCHING MOVING OBJECTS (Jab.).
  • < RIDING IN A CAR, looking at objects outside.
  • < Loss of sleep.
  • HAS TO LIE DOWN. NAUSEA & vomiting on rising.
  • Feels drunken.

    HEAD

  • OCCIPITAL HEADACHE with vertigo, nausea; < Lying on back of head, from riding in a car, loss of sleep, coffee, alcohol, eating or drinking, cold air. > warm room, warm bed, bending backwards.
  • Headache in occiput and nape (cf, cerebrospinal meningitis)
  • Headache where least light or noise leads to nausea and vomiting.
  • Sensation of emptiness.
  • Opening and shutting sensation of occiput.
  • Sensation of constriction of brain; feels rolled up into a small ball.

    EYE:

  • Objects seem to move up and down.

    EAR:

  • Noises and impaired hearing. Blocked sensation.

    FACE:

  • One-sided paralysis.
  • Neuralgia
  • radiating. May extend to fingers.
  • Heaviness of eye lids.
  • Cramping in jaw, < opening mouth.

    MOUTH:

  • Tongue feels paralysed, difficult speech.
  • Metallic taste with loss of appetite.

    STOMACH:

  • NAUSEA FROM RIDING IN CARS, ON BOAT, LOOKING AT MOVING OBJECTS, motion. From thought or smell of food` (Colch.); WITH VERTIGO.
  • Aversion to food.
  • NAUSEA WHEN THINKING OF, LOOKING AT, OR SMELLING FOOD.
  • Vomiting and nausea, with vertigo, on rising from bed
  • has to lie down.
  • Emptiness, weak feeling.
  • Stomach pain from suppressed menses.
  • CONFUSION AFTER EATING OR DRINKING.
  • Contraction in pit of stomach.

    ABDOMEN:

  • Flatulent colic, from nervousness. Not > passing flatus, < night, coughing, menses, pregnancy.
  • Pain as if sharp stones on moving, > lying on side.
  • Pain in hepatic region, < coughing, stooping, anger.
  • Pain in abdominal ring.
  • Weakness of muscles: umbilical and inguinal hernia.
  • Hollow sensation.

    RECTUM:

  • Diarrhea from riding in cars.
  • Constipation from paralytic problems.
  • Hemorrhoids after menses.
  • Contraction of rectum with too early menses.

    BLADDER:

  • Frequent desire to urinate in pregnant women.
  • Paralysis.

    FEMALE GENITALIA:

  • Severe DYSMENORRHEA with weakness, cramps, distention and colic.
  • Menses too early, profuse, dark.
  • Discharge of bloody mucous from cervix during pregnancy.

    RESPIRATION:

  • Hysterical asthma.
  • Choking constriction in trachea or upper part of oesophagus, causing cough

    CHEST:

  • Sensation of emptiness.
  • Palpitation with vertigo and faintness, < quick motion, excitement.

    BACK:

  • Weakness: Neck is too weak to support the head.
  • Weakness with neurological problems.
  • Paralysis from small of back downward (bladder, rectum, lower limbs).

    EXTREMITIES:

  • Heaviness and weakness, progressing towards paralysis.
  • Trembling of hands on eating and on raising hand higher.
  • One-sided paralysis, < after sleep.
  • Incoordination. Awkwardness. Trembling.
  • Numbness of feet. Numbness of hand on holding objects.
  • Feet and hands go to sleep alternately.
  • Painful stiffness joints.
  • Knees crack on motion. Knees give way on walking.
  • Arthritic conditions with oedema.

    SLEEP:

  • SLEEPLESSNESS from mental or physical exhaustion, from cares and worries.

    FEVER:

  • Chilliness with perspiration and heat of skin.

    SKIN:

  • Red pimples, itching at night in bed, < undressing.
  • Ulcers, very sensitive to touch.

    REMEDIES WITH SIMILAR SYMPTOMS

    Agar., Alum., Ant-c., Bry., Calc., Con., Gels., Hell., Ign., Ip., Nat-m., Puls., Ph-ac., Plb., Sil., Staph., Sym-r., Tab., Valer., Zinc.
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