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Easily angered and ill effects therefrom.
Intense neuralgias, with chilliness > pressure.
Agonising pain in abdomen, causing patient to bend double.
Cramps, contractions, twitching, shortening of muscles.
Sensations - Cutting, twisting, grinding, contracting, bruised, as if clamped
with iron bands.
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COMMON NAME
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Bitter Cucumber
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A/F
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MODALITIES
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| < | From anger and indignation
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| < | Before and after urination potato, starchy food (flatus)
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| < | After eating, drinking least amount
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MIND
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| - | Ailments after anger and silent grief.
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| - | Greatly affected by the misfortunes of others.
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| - | Anger easily, vexed during pain.
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| - | Want of religious feeling.
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| - | Screams with pain; wants to walk about, disinclined to talk, to answer.
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| - | Does not want to meet the friend.
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| - | Morose; becomes offended at everything.
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| - | Irritable; throws things out of his hand.
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| - | Mortification, caused by offense.
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| - | Confusion trom beer; after wine.
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| - | Restlessness before menses. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | It is left sided drug, except sciatica which is on
right side. All symptoms are 4-9 p.m.
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| - | Suited to easily angered, irritable persons, with tendency to corpulency, to
women of sedentary habits, with copious menstruation.
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| - | It is useful in acute affections of digestive tract and intestines but it
has a long lasting action on nerves, especially trigeminal, facial, sciatica,
spinal nerves.
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| - | Different types of pain > PRESSURE > WARMTH.
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| - | Pains come suddenly, go suddenly.
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| - | Neuralgic pains, cutting, pinching, clamping, gnawing or boring.
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| - | Pains like electric shocks.
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| - | Throbbing throughout the whole body.
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| - | Constrictions, cramps and twitchings.
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| - | Vertigo - When quickly turning head, especially to the left, as if he would
fall.
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| - | Vertigo from stimulants.
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| - | Head - Lateral cutting headache with nausea, vomiting.
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| - | Pains with soreness of scalp.
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| - | Pain < stooping, lying on back and moving eyelids.
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| - | Eyes - On stooping feeling as if eyes would fall out.
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| - | Violent pain before development of glaucoma.
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| - | Ears - Sounds re-echo in ears.
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| - | Face - Left side affection of face.
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| - | Tearing shooting and swelling of face > from pressure.
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| - | Neuralgia with chilliness, teeth seems too long.
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| - | Prosopalgia with eye symptoms and chilliness.
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| - | Face distorted, cheeks cold.
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| - | G.I.T. - Bitter taste in mouth.
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| - | Agonizing, violent, cutting, cramping, griping, tearing, clutching, or
radiating pain, comes in waves. Pain compels patient to cry out and wriggle
for relief, or double up and particularly press something hard against
abdomen.
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| - | < Least food or drink, except coffee and tobacco smoking.
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| - | Intestines feel squeezed between stones.
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| - | Sensation as of being encircled with an iron band.
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| - | Colic with cramps in calves. Pains are accompanied by nausea vomiting and
diuresis.
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| - | Each paroxysm is attended with general agitation and a chill over the
cheeks, ascending from the hypogastrium.
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| - | Pressure ameliorates pain in abdomen in acute stage, but when pain remains
for a long time, parts become tender, then the pressure aggravates the pain.
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| - | Stools - frothy, watery, shreddy, yellow or gelatinous with flatulence and
pain.
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| - | Slippery bubbles escape from anus.
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| - | Dysenteric stool, renewed each time by the least food or drink.
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KEYNOTES
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- Cystospasm after operation of orifices.
- Urinous odour of perspiration.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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| - | Useful in irritable persons, easily angered and ill
effects therefore.
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| - | Not only is it useful in acute affection of digestive tract and intestines,
but it has a long lasting action on nerves especially trifacial, sciatica and
spinal.
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| - | In abdomen, produces sudden, atrocious, cramping, griping, tearing pain
which makes the patient twist and turn, cry out and bend double.
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| - | Pains are accompanied by nausea and vomiting from intensity of pain.
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| - | Neuralgic pains are cutting, pinching, cramping, gnawing or boring, followed
by numbness > pressure. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- Left sided affection.
- Pain in abdomen < least food < anger, vexation > hard pressure
> doubling up.
- Neuralgia pains - cutting, shooting, electric shock-like, followed by
numbness.
- Trigeminal neuralgia alternates with chilliness and colicky pain in
abdomen.
- Sciatica pain with contraction of muscles, shortning of muscles and
tendens < gentle motion > pressure.
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CLINICAL
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| - | In menstrual colic, Causticum will cure after the
failure of Colocynth.
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| - | In the beginning cases of paraphimosis, you may give Colocynth which will
sometime relieve the spasm - Dr.Farrington.
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| - | Best antidote to lead poisoning - Boericke. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Complementary: Merc
Compare: Ars, Bell, Bry, Caust, Cham, Chel, Cocc, Coff, Dios, Lyc, Merc,
Nux-v, Puls, Stann
Antidoted By: Camph, Caust, Cham, Coff, Op, Staph
It Antidotes: Caust, Mag
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