{"id":16162,"remedy_name":"Croton Tiglium","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Syphilitic Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"Croton Tiglium was used as a powerful purgative and irritant of the skin in ordinary practice, \ntherefore causing watery discharges. \nCroto-t. has a strong affinity for skin, face and external genitals. It is one of the antidotes to rhus poisoning, \nas is evident from its wide and intense action upon the skin and mucus surface, causing irritation and \ninflammation with formation of vesicles and mucus discharges. \nCroto-t. is a valuable remedy in diarrhea, summer complaints and skin disorders. Skin symptoms alternating \nwith internal symptoms, diarrhea etc. Many symptoms spread from below upwards. \nPeculiar feeling as if parts were drawn backwards, eyes, nipples, etc. Skin feels hide -bound, tight all over. \nBurning in the esophagus. Marked eye symptoms include purulent ophthalmia, ulceration and hypopion.  \nCroton tiglium \nAffects the mucus membranes of the intestines. Colic before stool, constant urg ing, worse from eating, \ndrinking, and every movement. Stool is yellowish or yellowish green. Characteristic sudden evacuation in one \ngush, like a shot, followed by great prostration.","modalities":"Better after sleep. Better gentle rubbing. Many symptoms are worse at night. Worse least food or \ndrink. Worse \nCroton tiglium during summer. Worse night, morning. Worse receding eruptions. Worse washing. Worse \ntouch, pressure. Worse motion, and when sitting or crouching. Dizzin ess and faintness are worse in open air. \nDrinking cold water while heated causes complete loss of voice. Colic worse hot milk. Diar rhea is worse in \nsummer.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Morose, dissatisfied. Cannot think outside himself. Feels all spent up. Feeling of anxiety, as though \nsome personal misfortune would befall him. Not disposed to work. Morose, dissatisfied. Cannot think outside himself. Feels all spent up. Feeling of anxiety, as though \nsome personal misfortune would befall him. Not disposed to work.","Vertigo":"Vertigo, worse drinking. \nCOMMENTS - On the skin, Croto -t. produces erythema, erysipelas, eczema, and herpes pustules. Large, \ncopper-colored spots almost like liver-spots. Small, red blotches that are not very apparent in thighs, abdomen \nand genitals, all accompanied with intolerable itching. Useful to antidote poison ivy and \npoison oak, particularly on the face and groin. Croto-t. antidotes Rhus-t. and the antidote to Croto-t. is Ant-t. \nGuernsey gave the skin indications as \u201cin any skin disease which itches very much, but the patient cannot bear \nto scratch very ha rd as it hurts, a very slight scratch, a mere rub suffices to allay the itching. Erysipelas that \nitches exceedingly.\u201d He also gives \u201cotorrhea when there is much itching.\u201d  \nTeste, who was among the first to use Croto -t. homeopathically, gave a very inter esting account of it. He \nquoted Trousseau and Pidoux as saying that it often happens that eruptions are developed on parts not \ntouched by the remedy in those who have been engaged in making Croto-t. ointments on patients. \nThe face and the scrotum especially have been thus attacked. The itching which it causes, according to Teste, \nis at first more tingling than burning (the contrary taking place with Rhus -t.). The itching changes to burning \n(like Rhus-t.). \nTeste recorded the case of a delicate, cachectic, psoric girl of four who had suf fered for two years without \ninterruption from a fetid discharge from the nose, less in winter, more in summer. Before this, she had a \nvesicular eruption on chest and neck, which disappeared by itself, followed in three or fo ur days by the \ndischarge. \nAfter the failure of Sulph., Merc., Calc., on the indication of the previous eruption. Teste gave Croto -t., and in \nless than a fortnight the disease lost three-fourths of its intensity, although it was in mid -summer. Six months \ncompleted the cure, the only other remedies given during the time were Lob. and Kreos.  \nA second case from Teste records a man of forty, very fleshy, who for fifteen years had been subject to attacks \nof gout returning every spring, except on two occasions w hen a most fatiguing and obstinate rash appeared \ninstead. \nThis consisted of an intense redness of the whole body, accompanied with a burning itching, especially in the \nhollow of the hands, at the chest, and behind the ears. \nThese parts were the seat of a y ellowish, plastic exudation, emanating from a multitude of small vesicles in \nclose contact with each other. They were only distinctly \u2022perceived in places where they were less numerous \nand where a greater degree of resistance on the part of the epidermis imparted to them a certain persistence. \nEach time this eruption broke out, it lasted three months in spite of purgatives and the baths of Bareges and \nAix les Bains. When Teste saw the patient, he had neither gout nor eczema, butadry, racking, almost \nconvulsive and unceasing cough. \nSkin was rather hot, there was thirst, a little headache, heat in the chest, no dyspnea. Sometimes, especially \nin the evening, but only for a few days, he showed a tendency to syncope.  \nAt the end of three weeks, having received no benefit from Teste's treatment, the patient took of his own accord \nthree tablespoonfuls of the \u201cSyrup of White Poppy,\u201d at bedtime. The cough ceased entirely for some hours and \nthen returned in its old intensity. \nBut during the intermission the malady had  come out on the skin, and at daybreak the patient found himself \ncovered from head to foot with his old horrible eczema. He was almost unrecognizable and in a state of the \ndeepest anxiety and despair. He expected three or four months of it. \nTeste then gave Croto-t. The itching disappeared the same day. Within five or six days there remained not a \ntrace of either cough or eruption. As the patient left Paris, Teste was not able to follow the case in subsequent \nyears. \nConrad Wesselheft cured a case of proctalgia in a woman of thirty with Croto-t. 3x. The attacks came on after \nstool, lasting half a day and preventing her from fulfilling her duties as a teacher. There were no hemor rhoids, \nonly sensitiveness of rectum to touch. \nHe was led to the remedy by having previously had another patient who suffered from a similar pain after using \nCroton pills. Pain in the rectum came on with extreme intensity after straining at stool and the patient (also a \nwoman) was in agony for three hours afterwards with frequent tenesmus. \nThe pills were stopped and Nux-v. given, and she was well in a week.","Head":"Pressing pain in forehead, especially orbits. Weight of hat causes head ache. \nKidneys - Night urine, foaming, dark orange colored, turbid on standing, greasy particles floating on top. Day \nurine is pale with white sediment. Pressing pain in forehead, especially orbits. Weight of hat causes head ache. \nKidneys - Night urine, foaming, dark orange colored, turbid on standing, greasy particles floating on top. Day \nurine is pale with white sediment.","Eyes":"Purulent ophthalmia, red and raw appearance. Pustules on cornea with erup tions around eyes. \nGranular lids, pustules of cornea. Eyes feel drawn backward. Tensive pain above right orbit.","Ears":"Otorrhea, with great itching.","Face":"Pustular eruptions on the face. As though insects were creeping.","Mouth":"Neuralgia of the tongue. Burning in esophagus.","Chest":"Drawing-pain through the left chest into the back. \nConstitutions - Psoric and allergic constitutions. Asthma with cough, as soon as he touches the pillow, must sit up. Could not expand the lungs. Feels \nas though he could not inhale deeply enough. Sensitive to deep breathing.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Excessive nausea with vanishing of sight. Pressure on the navel causes pain in the rectum or urging for stool. Colic, better hot milk. \nBreasts - Nodes in breasts with pain from nipple to scapula. Breast hard, swollen. Inflamed breasts. Nipples \nvery sore to touch. Pain from nipple to back when child nurses.","Urinary & Genital":"Eczema of scrotum. Vesicular eruptions on scrotum and penis. Left testes retracted, right pendent. Intense itching of genitals, better by gentle rubbing.","Extremities":"Neck and shoulders painful.","Skin":"Rhus poisoning, poison ivy and oak. Eczema. Herpes zoster, stinging, smarting pains of the eruption. \nVesicular erysipelas. Confluent, oozing, vesicles. Pustular eruptions, clustered blisters, which burst and form \ncrusts, especially on face and genitals with fearful itching, followed by painful burning. Intense itching, but \nscratching is painful. Violently itching, burning, red skin, sore if scratched, better gentle rubbing. Feels hide-\nbound.","Generalities":"As if the skin were hide-bound. Mentally hide-bound, can't think outside of himself. As of a string \npulling from one part to another, from eyeball to back of head, from nipple  to back, with pain in nipple when \nthe child nurses. Cutting, sticking, stinging, stitching pains and burning stitches. Writhing in transverse colon. \nAs if a plug were forcing outwards at anus."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}