# Colocynthis ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Herbal Remedy - **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm - **Temperament:** Chilly - **Aggravation Time:** Night ## Keynote Indications Source: Derived from the dried pulp of the fruit of Citrullus colocynthis , a creeping plant in the. Cucurbitaceae family, native to the Mediterranean, Africa, and Asia, prepared for homeopathic use. through maceration, serial dilution, and succussion to enhance therapeutic action and eliminate. toxicity. Traditional Context : Historically employed in homeopathy for gastrointestinal, neurological,. and psychological disorders , particularly those involving colicky abdominal pain, neuralgia, and. irritability. It is noted for symptoms such as cramping pains, nerve pain, and vexation, often. aggravated by anger, emotional stress, or cold, and ameliorated by warmth, pressure, or doubling. up. Modern Context: Indicated for gastrointestinal conditions (e.g., colic, irritable bowel syndrome),. neurological symptoms (e.g., neuralgia, sciatica), musculoskeletal complaints (e.g., cramps, joint. pain), psychological conditions (e.g., irritability, anger), renal symptoms (e.g., renal colic,. dysuria), and systemic symptoms (e.g., fatigue, chills). It suits patients with acute or subacute. symptoms characterized by cramping pains, neuralgic pain, irritability, or emotional sensitivity,. typically exacerbated by anger, emotional stress, or cold, and often seen in individuals with acute. abdominal distress, sciatic pain, or stress-related irritability. The remedy is particularly relevant for. those with a chilly, sensitive constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like spasmodic. pain or neuralgia alongside emotional traits like anger or indignation, commonly observed in adults. with digestive or neuropathic complaints, or children with colicky episodes. ## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations) Worse from: Anger, emotional stress, cold (air, weather, drinks), motion, touch, sensory. stimuli (e.g., noise, light), night, eating, contradiction, rest, dietary indiscretions (e.g., fruits,. cold drinks), exertion. ## Symptoms by System ### Mind - Angerwith indignation (Staph., Cham., Bry.,Nw-v.). - Extremely irritable . - Impatient. - Anger, easily vexed during pain. - Humiliation causedby offense. - Ailments after anger, with silent grief. - Children are worse when reprimanded (Cham.). - Easily offended, aggravated when questioned (Bry.). - Morose, becomes offended at everything. - Greatly affected by the misfortunes of others. - Want of religious feeling. - Wants to be alone, even friends irritate. - Offended at everything. - Screams with pain, wants to walk about. - Restlessness before menses. - Restlessness, anguish, agony, suppressed rage. - Depressed and joyless. - Disposition to weep and cry. - Complaining bitterly day and night. - Walks about room in great agony from headache. - Delirium alternating with sopor, with constant desire to escape, eyes half closed. - Disinclined to talk, to answer. - Becomes angry when questioned. - Confusion from beer, wine. - Angerwith indignation (Staph., Cham., Bry.,Nw-v.). - Extremely irritable . - Impatient. - Anger, easily vexed during pain. - Humiliation causedby offense. - Ailments after anger, with silent grief. - Children are worse when reprimanded (Cham.). - Easily offended, aggravated when questioned (Bry.). - Morose, becomes offended at everything. - Greatly affected by the misfortunes of others. - Want of religious feeling. - Wants to be alone, even friends irritate. - Offended at everything. - Screams with pain, wants to walk about. - Restlessness before menses. - Restlessness, anguish, agony, suppressed rage. - Depressed and joyless. - Disposition to weep and cry. - Complaining bitterly day and night. - Walks about room in great agony from headache. - Delirium alternating with sopor, with constant desire to escape, eyes half closed. - Disinclined to talk, to answer. - Becomes angry when questioned. - Confusion from beer, wine. ### Vertigo - Vertigo when quickly turning head. - Vertigo when turning head to the left. - Vertigo with nausea. - Vertigo with slight delirium and deafness. - Vertigo from stimulants. - COMMENTS - Guernsey wrote β€˜ The strongest characteristic calling for the use of this remedy is an agonizing pain in the abdomen causing the patient to bend over double. - Relief is obtained by motion, such as twisting, turning and wriggling around and the motion is kept up steadily while the pain lasts. - The pain is worse by eating or drinking the least amount. - This pain may occur alone or in the dysentery, cholera, etc. - The doubling over the patient is the chief characteristic.” The patient bends double or presses something hard against the abdomen, leans over chairs, the table or bed- posts to get relief. - The characteristic griping, forcing the patient to bend double, may be accompanied by cramps in other parts, with or without stool. - If a stool occurs it gives immediate relief (Nux -v. - the opposite), worse any attempt to eat or drink. - Griping, cutting, tearing and spasmodic pains in the body, burning pains, pulsations through the body, sensation as of hard stones or potatoes in the body. - Pa ins accompanied by stiffness and retarded motion of the affected parts, especially the hip joints. - Pains affecting joints are worse from motion. - Sciatica. - Arthritis and gouty headaches with ophthalmia. - Facial neuralgia with pains extending to eye. - Neuralgic pains are better by rest. - Cramps occur in the legs, uterus and ovaries. - A sensation as if clamped with iron bands is very characteristic in coxalgia and dysmenorrhea. - Dragging in uterus and vagina. - Suppressed lochia from indignation. - Diabetes with milky, gelatinous or colloid urine. - Perspiration may smell like urine. - Bitter taste in mouth, strong aversion to food. - Worse raw fruits or something cold on a hot day (Bell-p., Ruta.). - Worse tobacco, better coffee. - Easily intoxicated by any stimulants. - Diarrhea from grief, indignation, or chagrin. - Severe, painful dysentery. - As if hard stones are rubbing the intestines, or hot knifes stabbing the intestines. - Vomiting yellow, bitter fluid. - Tension of the bowels as they are forced inward right below the navel, for cing the person to bend double. - Babies with colic may have severe pain radiating from the umbilicus. - According to Nash, Mag-p. - comes nearest to it in colic and neuralgic disorders. - Cham, is also very close, both having colic from disturbing emotions, but the Cham, child does not double up, they toss about. - The Staph, patient is likely to have black or decayed teeth and sore eyelids and there is a chronic tendency to colic. - Verat. - has colic better bending double, but it has also cold sweat. - Dioscorea has wind colic, but is better by stretching out. - The Stann. - child wants to be carried with the abdomen on the mother's shoulder. - Chilly, sensitive to cold and damp, cold winds. - Better heat. - Affections of the left side generally. - 4 p.m. - aggravation (Lyc., Hell., C aust.). - One prover experienced that β€œat 4 p.m. - the colic came on, six days in succession.” ### Head - Head hot, red face, glistening eyes. - Dullness of head and giddiness at beginning of colic. - Lateral cutting pains with nausea, vomiting. - Headache better coffee. - Pains, better pressure and heat. - Burning pains, digging, rending and tearing. - Headache with nausea and vomiting. - Headache with soreness of scalp. - Roots of hair painful. - Head pains worse stooping. - Headache worse lying on back and moving eyelids. - Heaviness in forehead with stupefaction. - Pressure in both temples. - Head hot, red face, glistening eyes. - Dullness of head and giddiness at beginning of colic. - Lateral cutting pains with nausea, vomiting. - Headache better coffee. - Pains, better pressure and heat. - Burning pains, digging, rending and tearing. - Headache with nausea and vomiting. - Headache with soreness of scalp. - Roots of hair painful. - Head pains worse stooping. - Headache worse lying on back and moving eyelids. - Heaviness in forehead with stupefaction. - Pressure in both temples. ### Eyes - Pain and twitching in eyelids. - Burning eyelids. - Severe burning, sticking and cutting pains. - Pains sharp, boring, better from pressure. - Violent pain in eyeballs which precede the development of glaucoma. - Sensation as if eye would fall out on stooping. - Gouty disorders of eyes. - Smarting in eyes, with pain in eyeballs. - Great itching in right eyeball, must rub. - Discharge of acrid fluid. - Bluish -white ring around cornea, in rheumatic form of iritis. - Redness and lachrymation. - Dimness of vision. - Region around eye very sensitive to touch, during headache. - Conjunctivitis, with tendency to ulceration. ### Ears - Sounds re-echo in ears. - Crawling, itching, stitching, aching, better by putting finger into ear. - Roaring and throbbing, especially in left ear. ### Face - Face distorted from pains. - Cheeks cold. - Tearing, shooting and sw elling of face, left side great soreness, relieved by pressure (Chin.). - Prosopalgia with eye symptoms. - Neuralgia with chilliness. - Pain anywhere is reflected on the face. - Sensation as if left side of face were being torn from right side. - Deathly color of face, during colicky pains in bowels. - Face red and purple. - Pimples on face. ### Mouth - Persistent bitter taste. - Teeth feel too long. - Offensive smell from mouth from decayed teeth. - Bitter taste of food and drink. - Offensive ormetallic taste. - Stinging in velum palati. - Burning on the tip of the tongue. - Tongue rough, as from sand. - As if tongue had been scalded. - Burning on anterior surface of tongue. - Nose - Throbbing, burrowing pains from left side of nose to glabella. - Nose stopped up. - Purulent nasal discharge. - Fluent coryza, worse open air, better indoors. - Sense of smell impaired during headache. - Perspiration - Sweats at night. - Cold sweat. - Sweat smelling like urine. - Sweat causes itching of skin. - Sweats mainly on head and limbs. - Profuse, warm sweat on forehead and neck. ### Throat - Cramps in gullet, with empty belch - ings and palpitation of the heart. - Throat as if constricted, with empty eructations and palpitation of heart. - Dryness, rawness, roughness or scraping in throat. - Sensation of constriction of larynx, better open air. - Frequent tickling and irritation in larynx induces cough at night. - Urine - Urine, gelatinous, sticky, stringy. - Tough mucus sediment in urine which can be drawn out into strings. - Urine milky white. - Urine coagulates on standing. - Red hard crystals adherin g to the vessels. - Urine like brown beer, becoming turbid as soon as cold, depositing copious sediment. ### Chest - Oppression of chest. - Pain in inter costal muscles. - Stitching, in right or left side of chest. - Swelling and suppuration of axillary glands. - Constitutions - Suited to easily angered, irritable persons with tendency to cor pulence. - For women of sedentary habits with copious menstruation. - To blondes, persons of choleric temperament and those liable to cramps and colic from fruit, lead poisoning or excessive venery. - Strong throbbing in all blood vessels. - Heart feels pushed up by a distended stomach. - Stitches in cardiac region. - Pulse generally hard, full, accelerated. - Pulse small and weak. - Kidneys - Kidney colic with diuresis. - Fetid, small quantities of urine with frequent urging. - Diabetes. - Short cough when smoking tobacco. - Difficulty bre athing during menses, ovar ian tumor. - Asthmatic attacks at night with slow, difficult breathing, which provokes cough. - Anxious and oppressed, sensation as if about to smother. - Tickling cough frequently during night. - Dry cough from tickling in throat. ### Stomach & Abdomen - Burning pain in stomach. - Violent cutting, tearingpains. - Feeling in stomach as if something would not yield, drawing ,.ain. - Cramps in stomach at night, bet- ter eructations. - Sensation of fullness in epigastric region. - Pain in stomach with toothache or headache. - Sharp pains before menses, with extreme nausea and vomiting. - Nausea, with greenish vomit ing. - Retching and bending body forward. - Vomiting and diarrhea from anger, with indignation. - Vomiting of food without nausea. - Vomits from pain. - Vomiting of bitter water. - Agonizing cutting pain causing patient to bend over double and pressing on the abdomen. - Violent, cutting, gripping, grasping, clutching pains. - Radiating, colicky pains. - Cutting pain in abdomen after anger. - Colic with cramps in calves. - Cutting pains in bowels at navel. - Colic pains, come in waves, better doubling up, hard pressure. - Pains are worse least food or drink, except coffee and tobacco smoking. - Colic from drinking while overheated. - Pressure improves the pain in abdomen in acute stage but when pain remains for a long time, parts become tender and pressure ag gravates the pain. - Intestines feel squeezed between stones. - Intestines feel as if bruised. - Flatulent colic. - Colic with cramps in calves. - During colic, infant lies on abdomen and screams when he is slightly moved. - Appetite variable, mostly poor. - Ca nine hunger. - Food and drink taste bitter. - Aversion to food. - Coffee helps the colic, headache. - Desires forbread and beer. - Potatoes and starchy food disagree. - Potatoes causes bellyache. - Confusion from beer, after wine. - Constipation from cheese. - Very thirsty. - Drinks much, without thirst. ### Urinary & Genital - Sensation as if everything were flowing towards genitals from both sides of the abdomen, causing seminal emission. - Pain and swelling of testicles and spermatic cord. - Retraction of testicles and priapism, with retention of urine. - Para phimosis. - Retraction of prepuce behind glans during sleep. - Strong sexual desire with erections. - Impotency. - Amenorrhea and chronic diarrhea. - Suppression of menses or lochia from indignation. - Menses copious in women with sedentary habits. - Menses increased and too frequent. - Dysmenor rhea, worse eating and drinking. - Bearing-down cramps, causing her to bend double (Sep.). - Metritis from indignation. - Boring pain in ovary. - Must bend over double with great pain and restlessness. - Uterus prolapsed. - Clutching pain in ovarian region. - Ovarian tumors, cysts. - Ovaritis. - Round, small cys tic tumors in ovaries or broad ligaments. - Ovarian cysts with pain better flexing thigh on pelvis. - Wants abdomen supported by pressure. - Puerperal fever brought on by indignation or grief because of unkind treatment. - Swelling of labia with dragging pain and heat in vagina. - Yellow, thick, offensive leucorrhea between menses. ### Extremities - Cramps or spasms, with sudden, intense contractions, resembling muscle spasms or. - tetany, worse with cold, motion, or exertion. - Joint pain or stiffness, with tearing or stitching sensations, resembling arthritis,. - aggravated by cold, rest, or emotional stress. - Muscle soreness or aching, with a sensation of tightness, resembling fibromyalgia,. - worse with cold or prolonged sitting. - Tendency to spasmodic musculoskeletal pain, with aggravation from emotional upset. - or physical strain. - Psychological:. - Irritability or anger, with sensitivity to contradiction or injustice, resembling. - adjustment disorder or intermittent explosive disorder, worse with emotional stress,. - cold, or night. - Restlessness or indignation, with a tendency to brood, resembling generalized. - anxiety disorder, aggravated by physical pain, anger, or sensory stimuli. - Emotional sensitivity or mood swings, with a sensation of vexation, resembling. - somatic symptom disorder, worse with chronic pain or fatigue. - Colocynthis (Bitter Apple) 723. - Tendency to emotional outbursts, with aggravation during gastrointestinal or. - neurological flare-ups. - Renal:. - Renal colic, with sharp, cutting pains radiating to the bladder, resembling ureteral. - colic, worse with cold, motion, or suppression of urine. - Dysuria or burning urination, with frequent urging, resembling cystitis, aggravated. - by cold, emotional stress, or night. - Scanty or suppressed urine, with aching in the renal region, resembling nephritis,. - worse with cold or dietary indiscretions. - Tendency to urinary tract irritability, with aggravation from emotional or physical. - stress. - Systemic:. - Chronic fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of exhaustion, resembling chronic. - fatigue syndrome or post-viral exhaustion, worse after exertion, cold, or emotional. - stress. - Cold intolerance, with aggravation in cold, damp conditions and a desire for warmth. - or pressure. - Chills or cold sweats, particularly during pain or emotional episodes, worse at night. - or with cold exposure. - Tendency to hypersensitivity to environmental stimuli (e.g., cold, noise), with. - aggravation in spasmodic or neuralgic states. ### Neck & Back - Pain under right scapula, better pressure. - Lumbar ache, better pressure. - Bruised pain in lumbar region. - As of a heavy weight in lumbar-dorsal region, better lying on left side. - Cramp like pains in the hips, better lying on the affected side. - Neck stiff, worse moving head. - Muscles of nape as if stiff when moving head. - Bladder - Tenesmus of bladder. - Bladder catarrh, discharge like fresh white of egg, viscid (Ph-ac.). - Pains on urinating over whole abdomen. - Burning along urethra during stools. - Itching at orifice. - Bladder spasms after operation on the orifices. - Sud den violent pressure upon bladder, which was full, passed off suddenly on emission of flatus. - Retention of urine. - Breasts - Painful nodes in breasts. - Sharp pains. - Causations - Ill effects of anger indignation, chagrin, grief, catching cold, or excessive venery. ### Skin - Chronic fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of exhaustion, resembling chronic. - fatigue syndrome or post-viral exhaustion, worse after exertion, cold, or emotional. - stress. - Cold intolerance, with aggravation in cold, damp conditions and a desire for warmth. - or pressure. - Chills or cold sweats, particularly during pain or emotional episodes, worse at night. - or with cold exposure. - Tendency to hypersensitivity to environmental stimuli (e.g., cold, noise), with. - aggravation in spasmodic or neuralgic states. ### Sleep - Sleepless and restless, with pains af ter anger. - Y awning and sleepiness. - Sleeps badly, often wakes tired and irritable. - Dreams disturb sleep. - Vivid, anxious, voluptuous dreams.