# Cenchris Contortrix

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Cenchris has the main features of all the serpent poisons. Cench. is a wonderful restorative 
and deep acting remedy. Like Ars., it has a dyspnea, mental and physical restlessness, thirst for small 
quantities of water. Needs clothing loose (Lach.). 
Coma, semi-consciousness. Insensibility of cornea. Swelling of upper lip. General swelling, paralysis. Cold, 
clammy sweat. Increased sexual desire in both sexes. Inef- 
fectual attempts to recline. Right ovarian region painful.
COMMENTS - Marked alternation of moods. Dreamy absentmindedness. Swelling above eyes, below brow 
like an over-hanging bag of water. Diarrhea with pain before stool, stool papescent, cold but not chilly. Yellow 
leucorrhea. Pain in right ovary. Herpetic eruption on labia. 
Hard, dry, tickling cough, worse 3 p.m. Restlessness and sense of suffocation, palpitation, sensation of dying. 
Chokes, must lie with head drawn back. Tight clothing is unbearable. 
 
 
Chill or fever beginning in afternoon. Feeling as if whole body were enlarged to bursting, worse in region of 
heart. “Awoke with throbbing in vulva and anus, followed by a dull aching in the sacral region, better by walking 
about.”

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse on waking. Worse ly ing down. Worse pressure. Worse in the afternoon. Worse evening 
and all night. 
Nose - Catarrh, scabs, obstruction.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Forgetful.
- Memory lost.
- Dreamy, absent-minded.
- Marked alteration of moods, vivid dreams.
- Took the 
wrong car without realizing where she was going.
- When riding in the car, rode past the place she intended to 
get off at.
- Time passes too slowly.
- Lethargy.
- Anxiety, feels she will die suddenly.
- Anxiety in evening in bed.
- Anxiety while lying.
- Presentiment of death.
- Fear 
of apoplexy.
- Jealousy.
- Quarrelsome from jealousy.
- Suspicious, thinks her husband is going to put her in an insane asylum, every day, 3 p.m.
- to 8 p.m., for ten 
days, yet knew it was a delusion.
- Delusion of being in two places at the same time.
- Forgetful.
- Memory lost.
- Dreamy, absent-minded.
- Marked alteration of moods, vivid dreams.
- Took the 
wrong car without realizing where she was going.
- When riding in the car, rode past the place she intended to 
get off at.
- Time passes too slowly.
- Lethargy.
- Anxiety, feels she will die suddenly.
- Anxiety in evening in bed.
- Anxiety while lying.
- Presentiment of death.
- Fear 
of apoplexy.
- Jealousy.
- Quarrelsome from jealousy.
- Suspicious, thinks her husband is going to put her in an insane asylum, every day, 3 p.m.
- to 8 p.m., for ten 
days, yet knew it was a delusion.
- Delusion of being in two places at the same time.

### Head
- Aching pain in left frontal eminence and left side of teeth.
- Swelling around eyes, aching and itching in 
eyes.
- Aching pain in left frontal eminence and left side of teeth.
- Swelling around eyes, aching and itching in 
eyes.

### Eyes
- Swelling like bags over eyes and under brows.
- Redness of margins and twitching.
- Aching and itching 
in eyes.
- Left eye waters from cough.
- Dim vision.
- Insensibility of cornea.

### Face
- Expression bloated, besotted.
- Face sallow.
- Burning face.
- Blue circles around eyes.

### Throat
- Accumulation of glossy, thick, tough mucus.
- Difficult empty swallowing, but easy swallowing of solids 
and liquids.
- Warm drinks grateful.

### Chest
- Feels as if heart were distended or swollen to fill the whole chest.
- Strongly conscious of heart.
- Palpitations.
- Hard aching and sudden sharp stitching in heart.
- Throbbing or fluttering under left scapula.
- At 3 
p.m., sensation of fluttering followed by feeling that heart fell down into abdomen.
- Then, pulse feeble with heat 
lasting until after midnight.
- Hard, dry, tickling cough, worse 3 p.m., even causing escape of urine.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Nausea better by ice, worse by water, causes vomiting.
- Intolerance of tight clothing.

### Urinary & Genital
- Violent sexual desire.
- Increased desire.
- Yellow leucor- rhea.
- Pain inright ovary.
- Herpetic eruption on labia.
- Menstrual flow 
very profuse, light with dark clots.

### Sleep
- Vivid, horrible and lascivious dreams, cannot be shaken off during waking hours.