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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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COMMON NAME |
: | Bitter
Cucumber |
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Ailments from |
: | -Anger
3 -Indignation -Chagrin -Vexation -Mortification -Grief -Overheated |
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MODALITIES |
: | < From anger and indignation < Lying on painless side < Night < In bed < Drafts < Taking cold < After eating, cheese < Before and after urination potato, starchy food (flatus) < After eating, drinking least amount < 4-9 p.m. < Rest > HARD PRESSURE on edge > Heat > Gentle motion > After stool > Doubling up |
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MIND |
: | -Ailments
after anger and silent grief. -Greatly affected by the misfortunes of others. -Anger easily, vexed during pain. -Want of religious feeling. -Screams with pain; want to walk about, disinclined to talk, to answer. -Impatient. -Does not want to meet the friend. -Morose; becomes offended at everything. -Irritable; throws things out of his hand. -Mortification, caused by offense. -Confusion trom beer; after wine. -Restlessness before menses. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -It
is left sided drug, except sciatica which is on
right side. All symptoms are 4-9 p.m. -Suited to easily angered, irritable persons, with tendency to corpulency, to women of sedentary habits, with copious menstruation. -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. -Different types of pain > PRESSURE > WARMTH. -Colicky pain. -Pains come suddenly, go suddenly. -Spasmodic -Crampy, tearing part. -Neuralgic pains, cutting, pinching, clamping, gnawing or boring. -Pains with numbness. -Pains like electric shock. -Throbbing throughout the whole body. -Constrictions, cramps and twitchings. -Vertigo-When quickly turning head, especially to the left, as if he would fall. -Vertigo from stimulants. -Head-Lateral cutting headache with nausea, vomiting. -Pains with soreness of scalp. -Pain < stooping, lying on back and moving eyelids. -Eyes -On stooping feeling as if eyes would fall out. -Violent pain before development of glaucoma. -Ears-Sound re-echo in ears. -Face-Left side affection of face. -Trigeminal neuralgia. -Tearing shooting and swelling of face > from pressure. -Neuralgia with chilliness, teeth seems too long. -Prosopalgia with eye symptom and chilliness. -Face distorted cheeks cold. -G.I.T.-Bitter taste in mouth. -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. -< Least food or drink, except coffee and tobacco smoking. -Intestines feel squeezed between stones. -Sensation as of being encircled with an iron band. -Colic with cramps in calves. Pains are accompanied by nausea vomiting and diuresis. -Each paroxysm is attended with general agitation and a chill over the cheeks, ascending from the hypogastrium. -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. -Stools-frothy, watery, shreddy, yellow or gelatinous with flatulence and pain. -Slippery bubbles escape from anus. -Dysenteric stool, renewed each time by the least food or drink. -Jelly-like stool, musty odour. -During colic, infant lies on abdomen and screams when he is moved slightly. -Urinary system-Pain on urinating over the whole abdomen. -Cysto-spasm after operation on the orifices. -Burning along urethra during stool. -Urine-viscid, fetid, small quantities with frequent urging. -Red hard crystal adhering to the vessel. -Urine milky white coagulates on standing, diabetes. -Female genitalia-Boring pain in ovary, must draw up double, with great restlessness. -Ovarian cyst with pain > flexing thigh on pelvis. -Suppression of menses or lochia from indignation. -Dysmenorrhoea < eating. -Menses copious in women with sedentary habits. -Extremities-Contradiction of muscles. All the limbs are drawn together. -Sciatica, cramps like, shooting electric-like pain in hip, lies on affected side. Pain from hip to knee. -Pain < gentle motion > pressure and heat. -Pain down right thigh, muscles and tendons feel too short, with numbness. -Stiffness of joints, with shortening of tendons. -Spontaneous subluxation of the hip joint. -Perspiration-Urinous odour of perspiration. |
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KEYNOTES |
: | 1)
Cystospasm after operation of orifices. 2) Urinous odour of perspiration. |
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -Useful
in irritable persons, easily angered and
ill effects therefore. -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. -In abdomen, produces sudden, atrocious, cramping, griping, tearing pain which makes the patient twist and turn, cry out and bend double. -Pains are accompanied by nausea and vomiting from intensity of pain. -Neuralgic pains are cutting, pinching, cramping, gnawing or boring, followed by numbness > pressure. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | -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 |
: | -In
menstrual colic, Causticum will cure after the
failure of Colocynth. -In the beginning cases of paraphimosis, you may give Colocynth which will sometime relieve the spasm- Dr.Farrington. -Best antidote to lead poisoning- Boericke. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | -Compare-Lyc,
Mag-p, Staph. -Lobelia erinus (violent cork-screw like pains in abdomen). -Complementary-Merc (in dysentery). -Antidotes-Cham, Coff, Staph. -Remedies that follow well-Bell, Bry, Cham, Nux-v, Puls, Staph, -Remedy antidotes-Caust. |