# Cochlearia Armoracia

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Evening

## Keynote Indications
Affects the mucus mem branes. Frontal bone and sinus, antrum and salivary glands are 
specifically affected by this remedy. Mucus stools. Bloated sensa tion. Gonorrhea. Leucorrhea. Asthma and 
tuberculosis. 
The peculiar symptoms are in connection with the teeth. Some violent abdo minal pains were experienced. 
Colic with backache. Wandering chronic rheumatism. Tearing pains from the belly through to back, down the 
back and settling in sacrum.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Bending forward better. Touch or slight pressure aggravates many symptoms. Worse evening 
and night.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Anxiety, driven to despair by pain.
- Difficult thinking in evening.
- Irresolution.
- Melancholy alternating with 
merriness.
- Worse from nervous excitement.
- Worse from vexation.
- Anxiety, driven to despair by pain.
- Difficult thinking in evening.
- Irresolution.
- Melancholy alternating with 
merriness.
- Worse from nervous excitement.
- Worse from vexation.

### Head
- Pressing, boring pain as if frontal bone wouldfall out.
- Violent headache with vomiting.
- Headache, now 
one side now the other, worse opening the eyes (wide), but not on reading or motion.
- Violent headache with 
nausea, worse sitting up.
- Aching, boring pains in head, as if brain bursting.
- Impaired hearing.
- Kidneys - Burning and cutting at glans penis before, during, and after urination.
- Frequent urination.
- Increased 
desire and increased secretion.
- Urination difficult, causing burning, tenderness and inflammation of urethra as 
in first stage of gonorrhea.
- Strangury.
- Gravel.
- Albuminuria.
- Uneasiness in region of kidneys.
- Pressing, boring pain as if frontal bone wouldfall out.
- Violent headache with vomiting.
- Headache, now 
one side now the other, worse opening the eyes (wide), but not on reading or motion.
- Violent headache with 
nausea, worse sitting up.
- Aching, boring pains in head, as if brain bursting.
- Impaired hearing.
- Kidneys - Burning and cutting at glans penis before, during, and after urination.
- Frequent urination.
- Increased 
desire and increased secretion.
- Urination difficult, causing burning, tenderness and inflammation of urethra as 
in first stage of gonorrhea.
- Strangury.
- Gravel.
- Albuminuria.
- Uneasiness in region of kidneys.

### Eyes
- Traumatic inflammation of eyes and cataract.
- Lachrymation.
- Swelli ng of eyes.
- Sore and scrofulous.
- Spots on cornea.
- Copious running from eyes.
- Obscuration of sight for some minutes.
- Styes.
- Rheu matic 
ophthalmia.

### Face
- Twitching of left corner of mouth, 4 a.m.
- Soreness of upper lip.

### Mouth
- Paralysis of tongue.
- Biting sensation on tongue.
- Tongue furred white.
- Very offensive odor from mouth 
and lungs.

### Throat
- Dryness of pharynx, larynx and posterior sinuses.
- Scraping in throat with nausea.
- Hawkin g thick, 
viscid mucus.

### Chest
- Chest painful to touch.
- Promotes expectoration and relieves cough, increases activity of respiratory organs.
- Dry, hacking, 
laryngeal cough, also after influenza cough, dry or loose, worse lying down.
- Coryza with hoarse ness.
- Mucus 
asthma and tuberculosis.
- Edema of lungs.
- Throat feels rough and hoarse.
- Aphonia with blood-spitting, op- 
pressed breathing.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Belching and cramps.
- Belchings of sulphurous odor like garlic.
- Bilious regurgitations.
- Pain towards 
back, worse pressure on dorsal vertebrae.
- Colic with backache.
- Violent cramp from stomach through both 
sides around to back.
- Gripping around navel.
- Cramp in stomach, pain drives to despair.
- Teeth - Dull sensation in teeth, as if they were soft and became bent and moved in their sockets on chewing.
- Scurvy of salt-eaters.
- Dental fistula.
- Spasms through to back and loins.
- Borborygmi in morning.
- Crampy, tensive pain above 
epigastrium apparently in diaphragm, better by bending forward.
- Unnatural craving for food with profuse, painless diarrhea.

### Urinary & Genital
- Burning or cutting at glans before, during or after urination.
- Gonorrhea.
- Impotence.
- Stringy black blood passes from the vagina when urinating, also during the night.
- Menses every ten 
or fifteen days.
- Menses suppressed with chlorosis.
- Leucorrhea.
- Since menopause, cramp in stomach.

### Extremities
- Twitching in limbs.
- Towards morn ing, pain in all joints when lying still, worse lying on side, better on 
motion and when getting up.
- Suppressed foot sweat.

### Neck & Back
- Pain in back as from incarcerated flatulence from abdomen through to back and down into sacrum.
- Causations - Checked foot sweat.
- Nervous excitement.
- Cold.

### Sleep
- Very refreshing, awoke with clearer mind than usual.