# Cedron

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Petroz and Teste intro duced Cedr. into homeopathic practice, because of its powers of 
antidoting snakebites and also of its traditional reputation in intermittent fevers. 
Clock-like periodicity is the most marked characteristic of this remedy. It has been found curative in malarial 
affections, espe cially neuralgias. Neuralgias occurring at exact periodicity.  Hysterical spasms regu larly 
night and morning. Chills in persons returned from tropical climates. 
Mania. Complaints after sex, chorea ' in women, neuralgia in men. Trembling.  
Numbness of the whole body. Convulsions during menses. Chorea after menses. Lec - tophobia. Bluish-red 
face, forearm to elbow and hands and feet cold, sweat beneath axilla and on chest.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from standing erect. Worse periodically. Worse at the same hour. Worse open air. Worse 
before a storm. Worse lying down. Worse after sleep.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Nervous excitement, followed by depression.
- Restlessness, as driven from place to place.
- Lectophobia.
- Body heavy, mind depressed.
- Mental symptoms are worse at night.
- Abdomen - Abdomen hard and distended.
- Stitches in spleen and liver.
- Flatulence, colic and cramp.
- Borborygmi (left side).
- Nervous excitement, followed by depression.
- Restlessness, as driven from place to place.
- Lectophobia.
- Body heavy, mind depressed.
- Mental symptoms are worse at night.
- Abdomen - Abdomen hard and distended.
- Stitches in spleen and liver.
- Flatulence, colic and cramp.
- Borborygmi (left side).

### Head
- Orbital neuralgia.
- Roaring in ears produced by quinine.
- Stammers after sex.
- Crazy feeling from pain 
across forehead, worse working on black.
- Pain from temple to te mple across eyes.
- Whole body feels numb 
during headache.
- Head feels as if swollen.
- Pain over whole right side of face, coming on about 9 a.m.
- Orbital neuralgia.
- Roaring in ears produced by quinine.
- Stammers after sex.
- Crazy feeling from pain 
across forehead, worse working on black.
- Pain from temple to te mple across eyes.
- Whole body feels numb 
during headache.
- Head feels as if swollen.
- Pain over whole right side of face, coming on about 9 a.m.

### Eyes
- Eyes red.
- Burn like fire.
- Shooting over left eye.
- Severe pain in eyeballs with radiating pains around the 
eye, scalding lachrymation.
- Periodic supra -orbital neuralgia.
- Pain over the eye, worse sex.
- Iritis, choroiditis.
- Objects appear red at night and yellow by day.

### Ears
- Tinnitus.
- Hardness of hearing at night.

### Face
- Animated red face.
- Flying heat of face alternating with chills.
- Tumid face, pupils much dilated.
- Prosopalgia (right).
- Wandering pains, spasmodic distortion of muscles.
- Lips cold, bluish, dry during menses.

### Mouth
- Prickling itching of tongue.
- Painful pricking of tongue with sensation of heat.
- Feels paralyzed.
- Difficulty 
of speech.
- Stammering after sex.
- Mouth and tongue dry, breath fe tid during menses.
- Profuse ptyalism after 
menses.
- Nose - Point of nose cold with chilliness and yawning, 9 a.m.
- Profuse secretion.
- Glassy-looking mucus or thin, 
clear, acrid.

### Throat
- Larynx constricted and tender.
- Intermittent laryngitis.
- Burning and con striction, difficult swallowing.
- Prickling and tingling in throat and fauces, extending some way down esophagus.
- Pain on small spot next root 
of tongue, as of a foreign body, worse from pressure.
- COMMENTS - Characteristic clock-like periodicity in the recurrence of the symptoms.
- Rapidity of action (Bell.).
- Fevers of low, marshy regions in warm seasons and tropical countries.
- Chills in persons returned from tropical 
climates.
- Intermittent fever commencing the same hour every day or every other day.
- During the fever, there 
is a red face in the hot stage, thirst with desire for warm drinks .
- Profuse perspiration.
- Excitement before chill.
- General debility, languor and fainting.
- Malaise.
- Predominance of nervous symptoms.
- Trembling.
- Accurately periodic neural gias.
- Swollen sensations, 
numbness of the whole body.
- Enlarged sensation.
- Sensation as if paralyzed.
- Strong sexual excitement.
- Epileptiform convulsions during menses.
- Complaints after sex (chorea in women, neuralgia in men).
- A large number of symptoms appear on left side, but right side of head, face, right elbow and right deltoid are 
affected.
- Worse after sleep, lying down, night, open air, before a storm.
- Better standing erect.
- Objects appear 
red at night, yellow by day.
- Teste reported a case in which Hellert was bitten by a coral snake.
- “During the few seconds which it took him 
to take the antidote out of the little bag which he wore suspended around his neck, he was seized with violent 
pains at the heart and throat, but he had scarcely chewed and swallowed a small portion of Cedrón of the size 
of a small bean, when the pain ceased as by magic.
- An oppression and general prostra tion remained.
- “He chewed another portion of the same fruit and applied it to the wound external ly and in another quarter of 
an hour all he felt was a slight colic, which disappeared 
Cedrón 
after eating a little.
- This colic was followed immediately by a copious evacuation of a substance that looked 
like curdled milk, white with a slightly yellowish tint.” Other cases were also reported.
- Halbert related a case of malarial fever in a soldier.
- Chills and fever were clock-like in regularity of recurrence.
- Liver and spleen were much enlarged.
- Anemia was extreme and there was this additional peculiarity: in termittent stomach pain occurring with the 
febrile crises.
- In conjunction with these conditions there was a manifestation of chorea symptoms involving face and 
shoulders mostly, the twitchings being troublesome in the inter febrile state.
- Often there were debilitating 
hysterical spasms, the heart became irritable and sometimes irregular.
- After other remedies had failed to make any impression, Cedr.
- cured in only three weeks, the improvement 
setting in immediately.

### Chest
- Oppression.
- Sharp, darting-cutting pains under floating ribs and scapula.
- Constitutions - Adapted to persons of an excitable nervous temperament, especially to females.
- Palpitations and hurried breathing with headache.
- Irregular action.
- Pulse quick and full with animated, 
red face.
- Pulse uncountable.
- Kidneys - Pain in kidneys.
- Burning along ureter and in urethra.
- Feeling as if a drop of urine in urethra or a 
constant dripping from it.
- Difficult respiration with partial loss of voice, recurring at di fferent intervals.
- Suffocative fits recurring 
regularly every day 10 to 12 o'clock.
- Suffocating fits, worse after sex, sleep, better by eating.
- Troublesome cough every morning at six, lasting two hours.
- Respiration much affected after sex.
- Breath cold.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Nausea with distention of the stomach.
- Sensation as of a stone on stomach.
- Teeth - Toothache every night during men ses with bleeding gums.
- Sudden toothache in left upper molars.
- Sensation as if cold air touched the teeth on inspiration.
- Temperature - Malaria.
- Quotidian or tertian fever with marked regularity.
- Regular paroxysms of fever, 
coming at same hour,  commencing every day 6 p.m.
- by chills in back and limbs or cold feet and hands.
- Excitement before chill.
- Chill with congestion to head, hands, feet and nose remain icy cold.
- Shivering and 
chill, followed by profuse perspiration every evening.
- During sweat, coldness and heat irregularly intermingle.
- Hot stage, dryness, heaviness of head, redness 
of face, burning heat in hands, pulse full and accelerated, thirst with desire for warm drinks.
- Longing for cold drinks in some, for warm in others.
- Great thirst during menses.
- Loss of appetite.

### Urinary & Genital
- After sex, pain over left eye.
- Gonorrhea -like discharge, lasting three days.
- Gleet with formication over 
whole body.
- Desire with firm erections, all night, on waking.
- Many symptoms appear after sex and during the menses.
- Epilepsy during menses.
- Leucorrhea in 
place of menses.
- Ptyalism and leucorrhea after menses.
- Genital excitement at daybreak with discharge like 
leucorrhea and swollen breasts with pain.
- Puerperal eclampsia.

### Extremities
- Acute, sudden pain in ball of right thumb up arm to shoulder, same in right foot to knee, causing her 
to drop to the floor.
- Dropsy of knee joint.
- Sharp pain in joints, worse feet and hands.
- Pain in ball of right foot, 
extending to knee.
- Shingles with radiating pain.

### Neck & Back
- Stiff neck, pains all along spine.
- Pain in neck and loins on rising in morning.
- Pain under scapuli and in 
pelvis.
- Causations - Antidotes the effect of snakebites and stings of insects.

### Sleep
- Yawning and stretching.
- Drowsy, sometimes very profound sleep.
- Rest less, frequent waking.
- Worse 
after sleep.
- Dreamed of pleasant social interviews with female acquaintances.
- Dreamed of quarreling with a 
dead sister and other dead friends, cried about it and awoke with sensation of a stone in the stomach.