# Cenchris Contortrix

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

## Keynote Indications
Cenchris has the main features of all the serpent poisons. Cench. is a wonderful restorative 
and deep acting remedy. Like Ars., it has a dyspnea, mental and physical restlessness, thirst for small 
quantities of water. Needs clothing loose (Lach.). 
Coma, semi-consciousness. Insensibility of cornea. Swelling of upper lip. General swelling, paralysis. Cold, 
clammy sweat. Increased sexual desire in both sexes. Inef- 
fectual attempts to recline. Right ovarian region painful.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse on waking. Worse ly ing down. Worse pressure. Worse in the afternoon. Worse evening 
and all night. 
Nose - Catarrh, scabs, obstruction.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Forgetful.
- Memory lost.
- Dreamy, absent-minded.
- Marked alteration of moods, vivid dreams.
- Took the 
wrong car without realizing where she was going.
- When riding in the car, rode past the place she intended to 
get off at.
- Time passes too slowly.
- Lethargy.
- Anxiety, feels she will die suddenly.
- Anxiety in evening in bed.
- Anxiety while lying.
- Presentiment of death.
- Fear 
of apoplexy.
- Jealousy.
- Quarrelsome from jealousy.
- Suspicious, thinks her husband is going to put her in an insane asylum, every day, 3 p.m.
- to 8 p.m., for ten 
days, yet knew it was a delusion.
- Delusion of being in two places at the same time.
- Forgetful.
- Memory lost.
- Dreamy, absent-minded.
- Marked alteration of moods, vivid dreams.
- Took the 
wrong car without realizing where she was going.
- When riding in the car, rode past the place she intended to 
get off at.
- Time passes too slowly.
- Lethargy.
- Anxiety, feels she will die suddenly.
- Anxiety in evening in bed.
- Anxiety while lying.
- Presentiment of death.
- Fear 
of apoplexy.
- Jealousy.
- Quarrelsome from jealousy.
- Suspicious, thinks her husband is going to put her in an insane asylum, every day, 3 p.m.
- to 8 p.m., for ten 
days, yet knew it was a delusion.
- Delusion of being in two places at the same time.

### Head
- Aching pain in left frontal eminence and left side of teeth.
- Swelling around eyes, aching and itching in 
eyes.
- Aching pain in left frontal eminence and left side of teeth.
- Swelling around eyes, aching and itching in 
eyes.

### Eyes
- Swelling like bags over eyes and under brows.
- Redness of margins and twitching.
- Aching and itching 
in eyes.
- Left eye waters from cough.
- Dim vision.
- Insensibility of cornea.

### Face
- Expression bloated, besotted.
- Face sallow.
- Burning face.
- Blue circles around eyes.

### Throat
- Accumulation of glossy, thick, tough mucus.
- Difficult empty swallowing, but easy swallowing of solids 
and liquids.
- Warm drinks grateful.
- COMMENTS - Marked alternation of moods.
- Dreamy absentmindedness.
- Swelling above eyes, below brow 
like an over-hanging bag of water.
- Diarrhea with pain before stool, stool papescent, cold but not chilly.
- Yellow 
leucorrhea.
- Pain in right ovary.
- Herpetic eruption on labia.
- Hard, dry, tickling cough, worse 3 p.m.
- Restlessness and sense of suffocation, palpitation, sensation of dying.
- Chokes, must lie with head drawn back.
- Tight clothing is unbearable.
- Chill or fever beginning in afternoon.
- Feeling as if whole body were enlarged to bursting, worse in region of 
heart.
- “Awoke with throbbing in vulva and anus, followed by a dull aching in the sacral region, better by walking 
about.”

### Chest
- Feels as if heart were distended or swollen to fill the whole chest.
- Strongly conscious of heart.
- Palpitations.
- Hard aching and sudden sharp stitching in heart.
- Throbbing or fluttering under left scapula.
- At 3 
p.m., sensation of fluttering followed by feeling that heart fell down into abdomen.
- Then, pulse feeble with heat 
lasting until after midnight.
- Hard, dry, tickling cough, worse 3 p.m., even causing escape of urine.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Nausea better by ice, worse by water, causes vomiting.
- Intolerance of tight clothing.

### Urinary & Genital
- Violent sexual desire.
- Increased desire.
- Yellow leucor- rhea.
- Pain inright ovary.
- Herpetic eruption on labia.
- Menstrual flow 
very profuse, light with dark clots.

### Sleep
- Vivid, horrible and lascivious dreams, cannot be shaken off during waking hours.