# Cotyledon Umbilicus

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

## Keynote Indications
Cotyledon has had aconsid - erable proving. Cooper considered it a cancer remedy. He 
cured with it sinuses in buttock. A patient to whom he gave it for polyps said it made him stagger as if drunk.  
Marked action on the heart, oppression of the chest, and fullness in the throat. Oppressed breathing, disturbed 
heart. Catarrh of larynx and trachea. Well -marked pains through the breast to scapula. Pains in the region of 
the spleen. 
Rheumatic symptoms. Sciatica. Hysterical joint. Numb aching in muscular and fibrous tissue. Weak, faint 
feeling. 
Stitching, pricking, jerking pains are predominant sensations. 
A feeling as if some part of the body, like a foot or the head, were absent. The senses of sight and hearing are 
dulled. A yellow patch follows the eyesight. Disagreeable surging in ears, ears feel stuffed. 
Pressing vertex headache. Epilepsy.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse morning and evening.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Lost and confused feeling.
- Could not articulate for some time on awaking.
- Feeling as if a part of the 
body were absent.
- Ailments from suppressed emotion.
- Lost and confused feeling.
- Could not articulate for some time on awaking.
- Feeling as if a part of the 
body were absent.
- Ailments from suppressed emotion.

### Head
- Headache, causing desire for open air, which ameliorates.
- Dull headache with cold feet.
- Dull, heavy, 
stupefying pain in forehead and vertex, shifting suddenly between them.
- Headache, causing desire for open air, which ameliorates.
- Dull headache with cold feet.
- Dull, heavy, 
stupefying pain in forehead and vertex, shifting suddenly between them.

### Throat
- Constant choking in throat, feeling as if he would burst into tears.
- Back 
of throat feels as if covered with thick mucus.

### Chest
- Full, bursting feeling, as if from obstruction at heart.
- Heat about heart.
- Uneasiness.
- Clawing, dragging pain on riding, better by compressing side.
- Kidneys - Calls to urinate frequent.
- Increased flow of clear urine.
- Oppressed breathing.
- Tickling in larynx with dry cough.
- Shooting in all directions in chest, particularly 
under right scapula and left nipple during evening.
- Stitches below both nipples.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Pain at epigastrium through to shoulder, with nausea.
- On swallowing, the morsel seems to pass 
and press against some swelling in cardiac region.
- Long stitching in left hypochon drium.
- Dull pains in left hypochondrium.
- Dull pushing in region of 
spleen recurring at intervals.

### Extremities
- Aching in back and thighs.
- Aching in all joints.
- Skin sensitive, rubbing o f trousers causes an acute 
sting.
- Aching in left thigh followed by numbness.
- Stinging pain under left gluteus maximus in region of sciatic 
nerve.
- Legs and arms feel heavy and sore.
- Between attacks of headache, gnawing, rheumatic pain in right 
shoulder.
- Aching, bruised pain in wrists.
- Aching, tingling in hands, especially at night, preventing sleep, tingling 
down arm when the nerve is struck.

### Neck & Back
- Pain through to scapula from region of left breast.
- Pain at angles of scapulae.
- Breasts - Pain under left nipple and aching in right breast.