# Copaiva Officinalis

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

## Keynote Indications
The chief action is on the genito -urinary organs and rectum. Irrita tion accompanying 
thickening of bladder. Burning at neck of bladder and in urethra, discharge milky, corrosive, meatus tumid and 
inflamed. 
Affects the mucus membranes of the respiratory organs and the skin , producing a well -marked nettle-rash. 
Chronic bronchitis, with profuse, greenish -gray, disgusting-smelling sputa. Colds and ca tarrhs. Excessive 
discharge. Foul, blenor- rhea, bronchorrhea, suppuration.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from morning. Worse taking cold.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Weeps on hearing a piano.
- Bladder - Catarrh of bladder.
- Dysuria.
- Retention with pain in bladder, anus and rectum.
- Burning pressure, 
painful urination by drops.
- Constant desire to urinate.
- Urine acrid, scanty, bloody, odor of violets.
- Greenish, 
turbid color, peculiar pungent odor.
- Swelling of orifice.
- Urethra feels wide open.
- Suppuration, ascends urinary 
tract.
- Purulent or acrid milky gonorrhea.
- Constitutions - Suited to the irritable bladder of elderly women.
- Weeps on hearing a piano.
- Bladder - Catarrh of bladder.
- Dysuria.
- Retention with pain in bladder, anus and rectum.
- Burning pressure, 
painful urination by drops.
- Constant desire to urinate.
- Urine acrid, scanty, bloody, odor of violets.
- Greenish, 
turbid color, peculiar pungent odor.
- Swelling of orifice.
- Urethra feels wide open.
- Suppuration, ascends urinary 
tract.
- Purulent or acrid milky gonorrhea.
- Constitutions - Suited to the irritable bladder of elderly women.

### Head
- Flushes of blood to the head and face.
- Scalp sensitive.
- Excessive sensitive- 
ness, pain in occiput.
- Occipital headache, better gentle hand pressure.
- Dull, frontal headache, passes to 
occiput and back again with throbbing.
- Worse right side and motion.
- Flushes of blood to the head and face.
- Scalp sensitive.
- Excessive sensitive- 
ness, pain in occiput.
- Occipital headache, better gentle hand pressure.
- Dull, frontal headache, passes to 
occiput and back again with throbbing.
- Worse right side and motion.

### Ears
- Excessive sensitiveness to sharp sounds.

### Face
- Acne, disfiguring the face.
- Face red, flushed.

### Mouth
- Teeth cold.
- Nose - Rawness and soreness of nostrils with stopped-up feeling, dryness of posterior sinuses.
- Burning and 
dryness, crusts on turbinated bones.
- Profuse, thick, fetid discharge from nasal passages, running down throat 
at night.
- Marked catarrhal condition in upper respiratory tract.
- Nosebleed, lasting several days in small boys.

### Throat
- Chronic catarrh of the throat.

### Chest
- Bronchial catarrh with profuse, greenish, offensi ve discharge.
- Bronchi ectasis.
- Tickling in larynx, 
trachea and bronchials.
- Painful cough with heat and oppression of chest.
- Burning in lungs.
- Cough with profuse, 
gray, purulent, greenish, offensive sputum.
- Foul bloody expectoration.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Food seems too salty.
- Gastric troubles during menstruation or following urticaria.
- Gas and intestinal 
flatulence, urging to stool and difficult passage with pain.
- Tastes too salty.

### Urinary & Genital
- Prostatitis.
- Testicles sensitive and swollen.
- Blenorrhagia.
- Pulsations in penis.
- Itching of vulva and anus with bloody purulent discharge.
- Profuse, strong -smelling menstrual 
discharge with pains radiating to hip bones, with nausea.

### Skin
- Hives with fever and constipation.
- Roseola.
- Erysipelatous inflammation, around the abdomen.
- Bullous 
eruptions.
- Circumscribed, lenticular patches with itching, mottled appearance.
- Chronic urticaria in children.