- Colocynth was used as a drastic purgative in allopathic practice.
- Coloc should be compared to Bry as they both have the same general features.
- Pain in muscles, nerves and joints, gastro enteric disturbance and the same condition in regard to rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. joints, worse by move ment.🌿 Ment.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Great irritability and ailments from mental emotion, though the latter feature is more marked in Coloc is useful in acute disorders of di gestive tract and intestines.
- It develops most of its symptoms in the abdomen and head, causing intense neuralgias.
- NeuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. pains are cutting, pinching, clamping, gnawing or boring.
- Neuralgic pains followed by numbness, better by pressure.
- Long-lasting action on large nerves, especially tri-facial, sciatic and spinal nerves.
- Agonizing pain in abdomen.
- ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. causing patient to bend double.
- Cries out from pains, wriggles for relief, or must bend him double.
- Sudden, atrocious, crampings, tearing pains which make the patient twist and turn.
- The patient will press something hard against the abdomen.
- Sensations of cutting, twisting, grinding, contracting and bruised pains as if clamped with iron🌿 IronMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. bands.
- Pains are accompanied by nausea and diuresis and the patient vomits from intensity o f pain.
- Faints with pain and with coldness.
- Rheumatic pain Colocynthis in the limbs is better by discharge of flatus.
- Cramps and twitching and shortening of muscles.
- Constrictions and contractions.
- Formication in affected part.🌿 Part.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Bladder cramps or spasms following operations on orifices (Hyper.).
- Urine odor of perspiration (Berb.🌿 Berb.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Nit-ac.).
- ProstrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness., as if all his strength was failing.
- Especially suitable for irritable persons easily angered and ill effects there from Women with painful, profuse menstruation and of sedentary habits.
- COMMENTS-Guernsey wrote ‘ The strongest characteristic calling for the use of this remedy is an agonizing pain in the abdomen causing the patient to bend over double.
- Relief is obtained by motion, such as twisting, turning and wriggling around and the motion is kept up steadily while the pain lasts.
- The pain is worse by eating or drinking the least amount.
- This pain may occur alone or in the dysenteryIntestinal infection with severe bloody diarrheaInfection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces., cholera🩺 CholeraClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., etc.
- The doubling over the patient is the chief characteristic.” The patient bends double or presses something hard against the abdomen, leans over chairs, the table or bed-posts to get relief.
- The characteristic griping, forcing the patient to bend double, may be accompanied by cramps in other parts, with or without stool.
- If a stool occurs it gives immediate relief (Nux-v the opposite), worse any attempt to eat or drink.
- Griping, cutting, tearing and spasmodic pains in the body, burning pains, pulsations through the body, sensation as of hard stones or potatoes in the body.
- Pa ins accompanied by stiffness and retarded motion of the affected parts, especially the hip joints.
- Pains affecting joints are worse from motion.
- Sciatica🩺 SciaticaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- ArthritisJoint inflammation causing pain and stiffnessPainful inflammation and stiffness of the joints, often worsening with age. and gouty headaches with ophthalmiaSevere eye inflammationInflammation of the eye, especially conjunctivitis..
- Facial neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves. with pains extending to eye.🌿 Eye.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Neuralgic pains are better by rest.
- Cramps occur in the legs, uterus and ovaries.
- A sensation as if clamped with iron bands is very characteristic in coxalgia and dysmenorrhea🩺 DysmenorrheaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Dragging in uterus and vagina.
- Suppressed lochia from indignation.
- Diabetes with milky, gelatinous or colloid urine.
- Perspiration may smell like urine.
- Bitter🌿 BitterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. taste in mouth, strong aversion to food.
- Worse raw fruits or something cold on a hot day (Bell-p., Ruta.🌿 Ruta.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Worse tobacco, better coffee.
- Easily intoxicated by any stimulants.
- DiarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. from grief, indignation, or chagrin.
- Severe, painful dysentery.
- As if hard stones are rubbing the intestines, or hot knifes stabbing the intestines.
- Vomiting yellow🌿 YellowMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., bitter fluid.
- Tension of the bowels as they are forced inward right below the navel, for cing the person to bend double.
- Babies with colic may have severe pain radiating from the umbilicus.
- According to Nash, Mag-p comes nearest to it in colic and neuralgic disorders.
- Cham, is also very close, both having colic from disturbing emotions, but the Cham, child does not double up, they toss about The Staph, patient is likely to have black🌿 BlackMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. or decayed teeth and sore eyelids and there is a chronic tendency to colic.
- Verat has colic better bending double, but it has also cold sweat.
- Dioscorea🌿 DioscoreaMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. has wind colic, but is better by stretching out.
- The Stann child wants to be carried with the abdomen on the mother's shoulder.
- ChillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets., sensitive to cold and damp, cold winds.
- Better heat.🌿 Heat.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Affections of the left side generally.
- 4 p.m aggravationWorsening of symptomsAn increase in severity or intensity of symptoms, often caused by environmental factors or after taking a remedy. (Lyc.🌿 Lyc.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Hell.🌿 Hell.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., C aust.).
- One prover experienced that “at 4 p.m the colic came on, six days in succession.”
