{"id":16165,"remedy_name":"Curare","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Emotional Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"An arrow poison used by South American Indians, Curare affects the muscles and brain. It \nis a muscular poison, causing paralysis of muscles without impairing the sensations and consciousness.  \nMuscular paralysis without impairing any sensation or consciousness. It causes death by paralysis of the \nrespiratory muscles. Reflex action is diminished or abolished. In many ways, its action is opposite that of \nNux-v. \nParalysis, facial, mouth, threatening respiration. Catalepsy. Trismus. Nervous debility. Sensation as if the brain \nwere full of fluid. As of a heavy weight hung to th e limbs. Weakness, heaviness, numbness, numbness with \ntingling. Piercing, sharp pains. Throbbing pains. \nDebility of the aged (Bar -c.) and from loss of fluids. Glycosuria with motor paralysis. Diabetes mellitus. \nDecreases the output of adrenalin. Vomiting o f bile in cirrhosis of liver. Fetid discharges. Leprosy. Many \nsymptoms appear on right side.","modalities":"Worse from motion. Worse walking. Worse ascending, 2 a.m. and 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Worse from \ndampness. Worse cold weather, cold wind. Worse change of weather.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Indecision, no longer wishes to think or act for herself. Inability to think or study, forgetful, stupid, \nsleepy, indolent. Excited, hurried feeling. Depressed, desire to be alone. Abdomen - Weary ache from throat \nto left hip. Neuralgic pain in hypogastrium with pressure in vagina. Pain in groin low down with heaviness in \nlimbs while walking. Bowels feel sore and bruised. Indecision, no longer wishes to think or act for herself. Inability to think or study, forgetful, stupid, \nsleepy, indolent. Excited, hurried feeling. Depressed, desire to be alone. Abdomen - Weary ache from throat \nto left hip. Neuralgic pain in hypogastrium with pressure in vagina. Pain in groin low down with heaviness in \nlimbs while walking. Bowels feel sore and bruised.","Vertigo":"Instant giddiness, falling in swoon while standing or walking. Dizzy when looking at near objects or \nat water. \nCOMMENTS - Causes death by paralysis of the respiratory muscles. Reflex action is diminished or abolished \n(opp. Nux-v.). Catalepsy, immobility with fixed gaze on waking. Indicated by debility short of pa ralysis, the \ndebility of the aged and nervous, and debility from the loss of fluids. \nFetid odor of secretions and discharges. It favors the formation of corns. Its relation to hydrophobia and tetanus \nis probably antipathic. Used allopathically in tetanus treatments. \nA cure of a pseudo -hypertrophic paralysis by the 200c was recorded. Two cases of diabetes in middle -aged \nmen have been cured by Burkhardt with Cur. 4c. Diabetes mellitus. \nGrimmer noted that it is useful for cancer with weakness and a tendency to faint, ex treme debility, difficult \nbreathing, vertigo with fainting. States of catalepsy, worse by exercise, walking, etc., worse in dampness. Cold \nair, cold weather, worse 2 a.m. and 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.","Head":"Head drawn backward. Rush of blood to head. Brain feels full of fluid. Head confused, great weight in \nvertex. Head beats like a hammer, with vomiting of bile. Nervous headache. Sharp pains all over head. Falling \nout of hair. Head drawn backward. Rush of blood to head. Brain feels full of fluid. Head confused, great weight in \nvertex. Head beats like a hammer, with vomiting of bile. Nervous headache. Sharp pains all over head. Falling \nout of hair.","Eyes":"Sharp, stitching pains over right eye. Ptosis of right side. Heavy eyes, lids can hardly be kept open. \nEyes haggard, sunken. Feel as if full of sticks. Red, hot, sensitive to light. Black spots before vision, especially \nworse from reading.","Ears":"Otitis interna, driving crazy. Noises, unbearable earache. Purulent discharge. Swelling of lobes of ear. \nSharp pains start from ears, extending down to legs.","Face":"Facial and mouth paralysis. Paralysis of muscles of expression. Aching right side of face. Tongue and \nmouth drawn. Red face.","Mouth":"Mouth dry. Tongue and mouth drawn to right. Tongue coated. On waking, tongue yellowish at base, \npapillae raised, light pink anteriorly, yellow-white, bitter or bloody taste. \nNose - Nasal catarrh. Ozaena, fetid lumps of pus. Tubercles on nose.","Throat":"Burning heat in throat with sensation of distention.","Chest":"Sore to pressure or touch. \nConstitutions - Suited to scrofulous chi ldren, producing scrofulous eruptions on skin, eczema, especially of \nface and behind ears, and yellow brown liver-spots. Precordial pain, anguish with palpitations and stinging pains in heart. \nKidneys - Digging, crampy pain in kidneys, dry mouth, great thirst. Urine copious, ur gent, bladder feels \ndistended. Clear and frequent urine. Sugar in urine, great emaciation (acute diabetes). Severe pains in lungs, especially left. Shortness of breath. Threatened paralysis of the respiration \non falling asleep. Very distressing dyspnea. Dyspnea, stitching pains right side. Dyspnea, worse ascending. \nShort, dry, hacking cough, provokes vomiting, followed by fainting. Dry cough with soreness of chest walls. \n \n \nCough, worse breathing cold air, laughing, moving, eating. Cough troublesome in morning.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Empty, gone feeling in stomach. Sharp pain in pit of stomach, followed by nausea. Shooting in \nstomach. Heartburn, pain and distent ion after eating ever so little. Chill after eating. Nausea in morning after \neating. Vomits green bile all night. Frequent and annoying hiccoughs. \nTemperature - Chill, creeping up back without thirst. Body blue, and yet fever. Heat worse at night and in open \nair. Sweat \nwith every exertion. Sweat, cold and bloody, especially at nights. Thirst and great hunger with fever. Sudden hunger almost to faintness.  Better after first mouthful of \nfood. Aversion to bread. Great thirst especially evening and night. Craves acids.","Urinary & Genital":"Menses too early. During menses, colic, headache and kidney pain. Dys menorrhea. Leucorrhea,  \nthick, purulent offensive, in clots. Bearing-down, dragging, tired, in all pelvic organs. Vaginitis. Griping in right \novary. Ulcerations of os uteri, scirrhus. Aversion to sex.","Extremities":"Paralysis of limbs, burning with \nheat and chills. Aching in all the limbs and body. Numbness and tingling. Debility, paralysis. Catalepsy. \nReflexes lessened or abolished. Arms weak, heavy. Cannot lift the fingers. Weakness of hands and fingers \nin pianists. Legs tremble, give way in walking. Favors development of corns.","Neck & Back":"Tired pain up and down spine. Stiffness in neck, head drawn back. Stiffness of muscles or right neck \nand shoulder. Dull, tired ache in shoulders and across back, numb. Chills running up back and all over body.","Skin":"Leprosy. Dirty-looking skin. Itching, with hunger. Eczema. Liver-spots. Boils. Tubercles on nose. Blood \noozes through.","Sleep":"Drowsy, cannot keep awake. Nights restless, always desiring to put feet out of bed, especially towards \nmorning."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}