# Croton Tiglium ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Herbal Remedy - **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, therefore causing watery discharges. Croto-t. has a strong affinity for skin, face and external genitals. It is one of the antidotes to rhus poisoning, as is evident from its wide and intense action upon the skin and mucus surface, causing irritation and inflammation with formation of vesicles and mucus discharges. Croto-t. is a valuable remedy in diarrhea, summer complaints and skin disorders. Skin symptoms alternating with internal symptoms, diarrhea etc. Many symptoms spread from below upwards. Peculiar feeling as if parts were drawn backwards, eyes, nipples, etc. Skin feels hide -bound, tight all over. Burning in the esophagus. Marked eye symptoms include purulent ophthalmia, ulceration and hypopion. Croton tiglium Affects the mucus membranes of the intestines. Colic before stool, constant urg ing, worse from eating, drinking, and every movement. Stool is yellowish or yellowish green. Characteristic sudden evacuation in one gush, like a shot, followed by great prostration. ## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations) Better after sleep. Better gentle rubbing. Many symptoms are worse at night. Worse least food or drink. Worse Croton tiglium during summer. Worse night, morning. Worse receding eruptions. Worse washing. Worse touch, pressure. Worse motion, and when sitting or crouching. Dizzin ess and faintness are worse in open air. Drinking cold water while heated causes complete loss of voice. Colic worse hot milk. Diar rhea is worse in summer. ## Symptoms by System ### Mind - Morose, dissatisfied. - Cannot think outside himself. - Feels all spent up. - Feeling of anxiety, as though some personal misfortune would befall him. - Not disposed to work. - Morose, dissatisfied. - Cannot think outside himself. - Feels all spent up. - Feeling of anxiety, as though some personal misfortune would befall him. - Not disposed to work. ### Vertigo - Vertigo, worse drinking. - COMMENTS - On the skin, Croto -t. - produces erythema, erysipelas, eczema, and herpes pustules. - Large, copper-colored spots almost like liver-spots. - Small, red blotches that are not very apparent in thighs, abdomen and genitals, all accompanied with intolerable itching. - Useful to antidote poison ivy and poison oak, particularly on the face and groin. - Croto-t. - antidotes Rhus-t. - and the antidote to Croto-t. - is Ant-t. - Guernsey gave the skin indications as “in any skin disease which itches very much, but the patient cannot bear to scratch very ha rd as it hurts, a very slight scratch, a mere rub suffices to allay the itching. - Erysipelas that itches exceedingly.” He also gives “otorrhea when there is much itching.” Teste, who was among the first to use Croto -t. - homeopathically, gave a very inter esting account of it. - He quoted Trousseau and Pidoux as saying that it often happens that eruptions are developed on parts not touched by the remedy in those who have been engaged in making Croto-t. - ointments on patients. - The face and the scrotum especially have been thus attacked. - The itching which it causes, according to Teste, is at first more tingling than burning (the contrary taking place with Rhus -t.). - The itching changes to burning (like Rhus-t.). - Teste recorded the case of a delicate, cachectic, psoric girl of four who had suf fered for two years without interruption from a fetid discharge from the nose, less in winter, more in summer. - Before this, she had a vesicular eruption on chest and neck, which disappeared by itself, followed in three or fo ur days by the discharge. - After the failure of Sulph., Merc., Calc., on the indication of the previous eruption. - Teste gave Croto -t., and in less than a fortnight the disease lost three-fourths of its intensity, although it was in mid -summer. - Six months completed the cure, the only other remedies given during the time were Lob. - and Kreos. - A second case from Teste records a man of forty, very fleshy, who for fifteen years had been subject to attacks of gout returning every spring, except on two occasions w hen a most fatiguing and obstinate rash appeared instead. - This consisted of an intense redness of the whole body, accompanied with a burning itching, especially in the hollow of the hands, at the chest, and behind the ears. - These parts were the seat of a y ellowish, plastic exudation, emanating from a multitude of small vesicles in close contact with each other. - They were only distinctly •perceived in places where they were less numerous and where a greater degree of resistance on the part of the epidermis imparted to them a certain persistence. - Each time this eruption broke out, it lasted three months in spite of purgatives and the baths of Bareges and Aix les Bains. - When Teste saw the patient, he had neither gout nor eczema, butadry, racking, almost convulsive and unceasing cough. - Skin was rather hot, there was thirst, a little headache, heat in the chest, no dyspnea. - Sometimes, especially in the evening, but only for a few days, he showed a tendency to syncope. - At the end of three weeks, having received no benefit from Teste's treatment, the patient took of his own accord three tablespoonfuls of the “Syrup of White Poppy,” at bedtime. - The cough ceased entirely for some hours and then returned in its old intensity. - But during the intermission the malady had come out on the skin, and at daybreak the patient found himself covered from head to foot with his old horrible eczema. - He was almost unrecognizable and in a state of the deepest anxiety and despair. - He expected three or four months of it. - Teste then gave Croto-t. - The itching disappeared the same day. - Within five or six days there remained not a trace of either cough or eruption. - As the patient left Paris, Teste was not able to follow the case in subsequent years. - Conrad Wesselheft cured a case of proctalgia in a woman of thirty with Croto-t. - 3x. - The attacks came on after stool, lasting half a day and preventing her from fulfilling her duties as a teacher. - There were no hemor rhoids, only sensitiveness of rectum to touch. - He was led to the remedy by having previously had another patient who suffered from a similar pain after using Croton pills. - Pain in the rectum came on with extreme intensity after straining at stool and the patient (also a woman) was in agony for three hours afterwards with frequent tenesmus. - The 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. - Kidneys - Night urine, foaming, dark orange colored, turbid on standing, greasy particles floating on top. - Day urine is pale with white sediment. - Pressing pain in forehead, especially orbits. - Weight of hat causes head ache. - Kidneys - Night urine, foaming, dark orange colored, turbid on standing, greasy particles floating on top. - Day urine is pale with white sediment. ### Eyes - Purulent ophthalmia, red and raw appearance. - Pustules on cornea with erup tions around eyes. - Granular 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. - Constitutions - Psoric and allergic constitutions. - Asthma with cough, as soon as he touches the pillow, must sit up. - Could not expand the lungs. - Feels as 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. - Breasts - Nodes in breasts with pain from nipple to scapula. - Breast hard, swollen. - Inflamed breasts. - Nipples very 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. - Vesicular erysipelas. - Confluent, oozing, vesicles. - Pustular eruptions, clustered blisters, which burst and form crusts, especially on face and genitals with fearful itching, followed by painful burning. - Intense itching, but scratching is painful. - Violently itching, burning, red skin, sore if scratched, better gentle rubbing. - Feels hide- bound. ### Generalities - As if the skin were hide-bound. - Mentally hide-bound, can't think outside of himself. - As of a string pulling from one part to another, from eyeball to back of head, from nipple to back, with pain in nipple when the child nurses. - Cutting, sticking, stinging, stitching pains and burning stitches. - Writhing in transverse colon. - As if a plug were forcing outwards at anus.