# Coccinella Septempunctata

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

## Keynote Indications
Neuralgias in teeth, gums, mouth. Uvula feels too long. Awakened by profuse accumulation 
of saliva, vomits and complains of sore throat. Hydrophobia (Canth.). Worse by any bright object.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse by any bright object.

## Symptoms by System

### Vertigo
- Vertigo after cessation of toothache.
- COMMENTS - Most of the symptoms appear in the teeth and nerves of the face and mouth.
- Neuralgia, worse 
at night, accompanied by icy cold limbs and cold, moist skin, the right side is most affected.
- Pains extend from 
one part to another and may jump from side to side.
- Attacks recur periodically, often of brief duration but quickly recurring.
- Attacks are generally worse at night, but 
may be entirely absent in the night.
- Returning every eight, ten, twelve, fourteen or twenty days.

### Head
- Dull headache, as from an enlarge ment of the brain towards the occiput.
- Tearing and shooting pains.
- Pain in fore head over right eye, sensitive to touch from superior molars to forehead.
- Aching in temples and 
occiput.
- Periodical attacks of frontal neuralgia.
- Pain worse from any bright object, better sleep.
- Dull headache, as from an enlarge ment of the brain towards the occiput.
- Tearing and shooting pains.
- Pain in fore head over right eye, sensitive to touch from superior molars to forehead.
- Aching in temples and 
occiput.
- Periodical attacks of frontal neuralgia.
- Pain worse from any bright object, better sleep.

### Eyes
- Cannot open eyes during paroxysm.

### Face
- Rush of blood to face.
- Cheeks red, especially right.
- Face ache.
- Pressure and heaviness, especially 
over right eye.

### Mouth
- Cold sensation in teeth and mouth (Cist.).
- Tobacco aggravates the tongue severely.
- Swollen gums.

### Throat
- Sensation in the throat as though the uvula was too long (Nux -v., w hen the uvula is bluish and 
inflamed).

### Chest
- Subdued, intermittent pulse, with remission of pain in face.
- Contracted pulse, during toothache.
- Dyspnea.
- Oppressed breathing with disappearance of pain in face.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Hiccough and burning in stomach.
- Teeth - Chronic pain extending from superior molars to forehead.
- Throbbing toothache.
- Sensation of 
coldness in all the teeth.
- Painful sensation in back teeth as if they were hol low and air were forced into them.
- Pulsative jerking in back teeth.
- Appetite lost.

### Extremities
- Icy cold limbs during neuralgia.

### Neck & Back
- Pain in region of kidneys and loins.

### Sleep
- Nocturnal attacks of pain entirely preventing sleep, but could not sleep even when pain did not appear.
- Pain ends in a general heat and sleep of two or three hours, from which he wakes without any pain.