- 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🌿 RhusMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. 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 diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day., 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 ophthalmiaSevere eye inflammationInflammation of the eye, especially conjunctivitis., ulceration and hypopion.
- Croton tiglium Affects the mucus membranes of the intestines.
- ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. before stool, constant urg ing, worse from eating, drinking, and every movement.
- Stool is yellowish or yellowish green🌿 GreenMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Characteristic sudden evacuation in one gush, like a shot, followed by great prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness..
- COMMENTS-On the skin, Croto-t produces erythemaRedness of the skin from inflammationAn abnormal redness of the skin caused by congestion and dilation of the capillaries, often from inflammation., erysipelas🩺 ErysipelasClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches., and herpes pustules.
- Large, copper🌿 CopperMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.-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 antidoteNeutralizing substance or remedyA remedy or substance that stops, counteracts, or neutralizes the action of a previously taken remedy. poison ivy and poison oak🌿 OakMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., 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.
- ErysipelasAcute bacterial skin infectionAn acute, sometimes recurrent, bacterial skin infection characterized by large, raised red patches, especially on the face. that itches exceedingly.” He also gives “otorrheaDischarge of fluid from the earAny drainage or discharge of fluid, pus, or blood exiting the ear canal. 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🩺 GoutClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. 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 exudationDischarge of fluid or pus from tissueThe process of fluid, cells, or other cellular substances slowly discharging from blood vessels or inflamed tissues., 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 goutArthritis with severe joint pain and swellingA disease in which defective metabolism of uric acid causes arthritis, especially in the smaller joints of the feet. nor eczema, butadry, racking, almost convulsive and unceasing cough.
- Skin was rather hot, there was thirst, a little headache, heat in the chest, no dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions..
- Sometimes, especially in the evening🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., but only for a few days, he showed a tendency to syncopeTemporary fainting or loss of consciousnessA sudden, temporary loss of consciousness and muscle strength, caused by a temporary drop in blood flow to the brain..
- 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🌿 WhiteMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. 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🌿 ParisMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., 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 tenesmusPainful urge to empty bladder or bowelsA distressing, constant, and ineffectual urge to evacuate the bowels or bladder, accompanied by pain..
- The pills were stopped and Nux-v given, and she was well in a week
