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Cocculus Indica
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Cocculus Indica

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Cocculus Indica Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Tubercular Miasm The Tubercular miasm is a combination of Psora and Syphilis. It manifests as a susceptibility to respiratory illnesses, rapid weight loss, and a constant desire for mental and physical change.
🧠 General & Mental Health
GENERAL
MODALITIES ETC
  • Better from sitting.
  • Better lying quiet, on side.
  • Better in a warm room.
  • Worse eating or drinking.
  • Worse from motion of trains, boat, cars.
  • Worse from motion.
  • Worse exertion.
  • Worse rising from bed.
  • Worse bending over or stooping.
  • Worse kneelin g, walking.
  • Worse swimming.
  • Worse swallowing saliva.
  • Worse from loss of sleep.
  • Worse from touch, pressure.
  • Worse jar, pain.
  • Worse emotions, anxiety.
  • Worse from nursing others.
  • Worse at menses.
  • Worse eating.
  • Worse noise.
  • Worse sun, cold, open air.
  • Worse eve ning, night.
  • Worse midnight and 1 a.m.
  • Worse warmth of bed
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  • 2 Symphoricarpus morning sickness.
  • 3 Petr., Calad., Puls.. Ign
MIND
  • Mind benumbed with vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement., nausea.
  • Mental fatigue from sleep deprivation.
  • Heavy and stupid feelings.
  • Ailments from loss of sleep.
  • Spacey.
  • Dazed.
  • Night-watching.
  • Things seem unreal.
  • Slowness of comprehension, must read apassage over several times in order to understand it.
  • Memories are bad or blank out at times.
  • Memory lost.
  • Distracted easily forgets what he has just thought.
  • When her mind is turned away from herself her sufferings are forgotten.
  • Generally very sympathetic to others.
  • Ailments from the nursing of loved ones.
  • Thoughts fixed on one unpleasant subject.
  • Profound grief and sadness as if from insult.
  • Depression.
  • Despair feels as if incurable.
  • Mild, indolent and despondent in the face of difficulties.
  • Sits as if absorbed in deep and sad thoughts and observes nothing about her.🌿 Her.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
  • Indulges in sad reveries.
  • Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences.
  • Answers slowly reflects long.
  • Tearful chagrin about least trifle.
  • Weeping spells, especially if they can't function and do the things they want to Cocculus indicus🌿 Cocculus IndicusMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. Mental confusion after drinking and eating.
  • Very anxious about health of others, but little concerned as to his own health.
  • Sudden great anxiety before men ses.
  • Anxiety from night-watching.
  • Anxiety during sleep.
  • Mind is worse from suppressed menses.
  • Weeping during menses.
  • Fear of not getting proper amount of sleep.
  • Fear of death.
  • Fears the unknown, danger.
  • Especially fear surrounding health and illness of others.
  • Fear of ghosts and specters.
  • Excitement after hearing horrible things.
  • Frighten easily from noises.
  • Fear of sudden noises.
  • Oversensitive to everything.
  • Very sensitive to fear, anger, grief and all mental disturbances.
  • Sensitive moods, everything worries and of fends.
  • Startles very easily offended, cannot bear contradiction.
  • Sentimental.
  • Sensitive to noise and touch.
  • Intolerance of noise.
  • Intolerance of any disturbing influence.
  • Sensitive to insults, slights and disappointment.
  • Capricious.
  • Vacillatory, doesn't accomplish anything at her work.
  • Excessive irritability, excited by loud talking or least increase of temperature.
  • Anger from any interruptions.
  • Anger from contradiction.
  • Enlargement of liver after anger.
  • Starting, with trembling all over body, from slight noise or slight unexpected touch.
  • Irresistible inclination to sing.
  • Absorbed in reveries.
  • Sensitive to all external impres sions.
  • Speaks hastily.
  • Talkative, witty, jok ing, dancing, gesticulating.
  • Sees something alive on walls, floor, chair etc.
  • Time passes too quickly.
  • Alcoholics, reeling, roaring, quarrelsome, singing.
  • Loud cries of despair and irritation, alternating with stupefaction of brain.
  • Feeling as after committing a wicked deed, with desire to escape.
  • Spacey.
  • Dazed.
SLEEP
  • Loss of sleep, complaints from night-watching, nursing.
  • Slightest loss of sleep aggravates.
  • Coma vigil.
  • Insomnia.
  • Sleepless from mental orphysical exhaustion.
  • Constant drowsiness, after loss of sleep, night-watching, nursing.
  • Sleep deprivation.
  • Spasmodic yawning with hiccough.
  • Sleepless from nursing ofothers.
  • Sleeplessness from business thoughts, from anxiety and restlessness.
  • Anxious frightful dreams.
  • Sleep frequently inter rupted by waking and starting.
  • Sleep un refreshing.
  • Maniacal sleeplessness.
  • Dreams are anxious, frightful
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👁️ Head & Sensory Organs
VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Vertigo, nausea when riding or sitting up.
  • Seasickness and motion sickness (Tab.).
  • Vertigo and dizziness, with nausea and vomiting.
  • Vertigo when riding in a car or train.
  • Vertigo on sit ting up.
  • Vertigo worse watching moving surroundings.
  • Vertigo with palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions., worse in morning, ra ising head, felt in forehead.
  • Vertigo from loss of sleep.
  • Constant sensation as if about to faint.
  • Vertigo as if intoxicated.
  • Vision-Dim vision with black🌿 BlackMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. spots before eyes.
  • Dark spots before eyes, though objects appear clearly.
  • While reading, can only see left half of line of writing.
  • Black spots seen after reading
HEAD
  • Congestion of blood to head, with mental derangement.
  • Sick headachefrom carriage riding, cannot lie on back part of head.
  • Pain in occiput and nape worse lying on it, better bending backwards, worse coffee.
  • Migrain headaches unable to bear least light, noise causes nausea and vomiting.
  • Headaches from working in sun.
  • Headache as if skull would burst.
  • Headache returning at each menstrual period.
  • Sensation of emptiness or hollow ness in head.
  • Opening and shutting sensa tion, especially in occiput.
  • Dullness and confusion of head, worse reading.
  • Heavy head.
  • Convulsive trembling of head from weakness of muscles of neck.
  • Cramps in left temporal muscles.
  • Trembling of the head.
  • Throbbing in forehead.
  • Tossing of head and incessant trembling of hands.
EYES
  • Pain as if eyes torn out of head, during headache.
  • Eyes open and immov able.
  • Eyes dull and glassy.
  • Eyes closed with the balls constantly rolling about in spasms.
  • Protruding eyes.
  • Jerking of eyelids.
  • Pressure as from dust in eyes.
  • Eyelids inflame 4.
  • Dryness of lids.
  • Eyelids feel as if paralyzed.
  • Bruised pain in eyes, with inability to open lids at night.
  • Sharp or shooting pains in eyes from within outward.
  • Pupils, contracted or dilated
EARS
FACE
  • Bloated, distorted and cold to touch.
  • Blue🌿 BlueMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. margins around eyes.
  • Flushed hot face and head during vertigo or unconsciousness.
  • Countenance devoid of any signs of mental activity.
  • Heat in face, and redness of cheeks, even in a cold room.
  • Earthy countenance, with painful expres sion.
  • Paralysis of facial nerve of one sided.
  • Lines of face deepened, it seems drawn.
  • Cramp-like pain in masseter muscle, worse opening the mouth.
  • Prosopalgia in afternoon with wide radiations of pain.
  • Tearing pains.
  • Swelling of parotid glands.
  • Swelling and indurationHardening of body tissueThe hardening of normally soft organic tissues, usually due to chronic inflammation, infiltration, or scarring. of submaxillary glands
🫁 Respiratory & Throat
MOUTH
  • Dryness and burning of mouth and throat.
  • Dryness of mouth at night, without thirst.
  • Metallic taste with loss of appetite.
  • Coppery, metallic, sour taste after coughing.
  • Taste, sour, offensive.
  • Taste like sulphur🌿 SulphurMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., putrid, nauseous.
  • Food tastes as if salted too little, tobacco tastes bitter.
  • Tremor of lower jaw and chattering of teeth, when attempting to speak.
  • Foamy phlegm from mouth.
  • Salivation during nausea and vertigo.
  • Thick saliva.
  • Corner of mouth, wing of nose and tip of tongue distorted.
  • Lips parched and dry.
  • Corners of mouth sore.
  • Nose-Swelling of the nose.
  • CoryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge., with ulcerated nostrils.
  • Very acute sense of smell.
  • Worse from strong odors.
  • Sense of smell weak.
  • Ulcerated nostrils.
  • Discharge from nose bloody, pus-like.
  • Perspiration-Sweat from slight exertion, on affected part.🌿 Part.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
  • Cold sweat now of one, now of the other hand.
  • Cold sweat only on face.
  • Sweat stands out in drops on face, is now cold and then again hot.
  • Exhausting sweat over whole body.
  • Sweat in morning, principally on chest.
  • Sweat from pain in bowels.
  • Sweat during diarrheic stool
THROAT
CHEST
  • Sensation of emptiness or of cramps in chest.
  • Audible rumbling in chest (left side), as from emptiness, worse walking.
  • Hysterical cramps in chest with sighing and moaning.
  • Cramping, in chest during menstrual period.
  • Pressure under ribs, better belching.
  • Fine stitches in various parts of chest.
  • Contractive tension of right side of chest, taking away the breath.
  • Oppression in chest, better after vomiting of green🌿 GreenMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. mucus.
  • Constitutions-Suited t o light haired, timid, nervous, persons, bookworms, unmarried, childless women.
  • Sensitive, romantic girls.
  • Light-haired females, especially during pregnancy, causing much nausea and backache.
  • Cough from choking in throat.
  • Fatiguing, from oppression of chest.
  • Cough worse indulging disposition to cough.
  • Spasmodic cough, in anemic and hysterical women.
  • Palpitations, worse quick motion, mental excitement, with vertigo and faintness.
  • EndocarditisInflammation of the inner heart liningAn infection or inflammation of the inner lining of the heart chambers and valves..
  • Nervous palpitations after rheumatism.
  • During an attack of palpitation has vertigo and sensation as if about to faint.
  • Pulse small, hard and frequent.
  • Pulse often imperceptible, weak.
  • Pulse seldom hard and somewhat accelerated.
  • Feels pulse beat through whole body during heat, at times palpitation.
  • Breasts-Shivering over breasts.
  • Causations-Ill effects of anger, fright, grief, anxiety, disappointment.
  • Sleep loss.
  • Nursing loved ones.
  • Ill effects of nightwatching.
  • Overstrain mental and physical, traveling.
  • Motion sickness.
  • Noise.
  • Hot or cold air.
  • Sun.
  • Tea🌿 TeaMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.-drinking
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🥗 Digestive & Genitourinary
ABDOMEN
  • Esophagus is dry, burning.
  • Putrid eructations.
  • Gastralgia from suppression of menses.
  • Violent cramp in stomach, griping, squeezing, lacerating sensation.
  • Cramps in stomach with fl atulence and much saliva.
  • Motion sickness.
  • Seasickness.
  • Sensation of hunger or emptiness, even to fainting.
  • Nausea and vomiting from riding in cars, boats or looking at boat in motion.
  • Nausea with faintness and vomiting, worse on becoming cold or taking c old.
  • Nausea, rising to head or felt in head.
  • Retching.
  • Vomiting of sour bitter.
  • Bad odor, of vomit, with profuse flow of saliva.
  • Vomiting with headache, pain in bowels.
  • Vomiting on taking cold, with 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..
  • Vomiting from cerebral tumors.
  • Vomiting from lou d talk.
  • Cramp in stomach during and after meal.
  • Hiccough and spasmodic yawning.
  • Chronic dyspepsiaIndigestion or upper abdominal discomfortDiscomfort or pain in the upper abdomen, often associated with nausea, bloating, heartburn, or acid reflux. from prolong study.
  • Morning sickness.
  • Bloated with intestinal gas.
  • Great rumbling in bowels.
  • Colic, flatus, twisting pain with faintness and salivation.
  • Flatulent colic in pregnancy.
  • Cramps in epigastrium with difficulty in breathing.
  • Cramps deep in abdomen, instead of menses.
  • Abdominal muscles weak, as if a hernia would take place.
  • Inguinal hernia🩺 Inguinal HerniaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. is apt to protrude and become incarcer ated.
  • Umbilical hernia, with obstinate constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass..
  • Pain in abdominal ring, as if something were forced through Pains in region of spleen.
  • As if full of sharp stones, on every movement.
  • Emptiness and sensation of hollowness in abdomen.
  • Sensation as if bowels would fall out.
  • Hypochondria as if beaten.
  • Ulcerative colitis🩺 Ulcerative ColitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
  • All symptoms and affections, worse eating or drinking.
  • Loss of appetite.
  • Loath ing of food and drink.
  • Disgust for smell of food (Colch.).
  • Nausea when merely looking at the food, at the thought or smell of food.
  • Aversion to beer, acids, sour things.
  • Aversion tofood.
  • A version to drink, tobacco.
  • Desire for cold drinks, but eating or drinking anything cold causes tearing in limbs.
  • Desires beer.
  • Worse from coffee.
  • Thirst, without desire to drink.
  • Confusion and vertigo after drinking, eating.
  • Will eat nothing but bread and water, at other times eats ravenously.
  • Bulimia.
  • Food tastes as if salted too little, tobacco tastes bitter.
  • Thirstless
GENITALS ETC
  • Kidneys-Frequent desire to urinate with small discharge in pregnant women.
  • Wa tery urine.
  • Tensive, aching pain in orifice of urethra, between acts of urination.
  • Itching and stinging near fossa navicularis.
  • Invol untary urination during epileptic attack.
  • Diuresis, during prosopalgia.
  • DyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions. as from constriction of trachea, as if irritated by smoke.
  • Choking constriction in upper part of esophagus, oppressing breathing and inducing cough.
  • Hysterical asthma🩺 AsthmaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
  • Dyspnea, oppressing breathing and inducing cough.
  • Short ness of breath, on account of tension in abdomen.
  • Quick, anxious and oppressed breathing.
  • Slow, heavy and laborious breathing.
  • Panting.
  • Dy spnea from pain in bowels during diarrheic stool, in amenorrheaAbsence of menstrual periodsAn abnormal absence of menstruation..
  • Drawing, sore pain in testes when touched.
  • Genitals sensitive with desire for sex.
  • Sexual desire increased alternating with decreased.
  • Seminal emissions at night.
  • Itching of scrotum.
  • Amenorrhea causes mental alienation.
  • Sudden cessation of menses, too early, profuse.
  • Menses too often.
  • Menses gushes out in stream when rising on feet on tiptoe.
  • Menses clotted, with spasmodic colic.
  • Cutting, cramp ing pain in region of uterus and ovaries, on appearance of menses.
  • Weak during menstruation, scarcely able to stand.
  • DysmenorrheaPainful menstruation with abdominal crampsPainful menstruation, typically involving abdominal cramps. with profuse dark menses.
  • As if uterus were distended, during dysmenorrhea followed by hemorrhoidsPiles or swollen veins in the rectumSwollen, inflamed blood vessels around the anus or lower rectum, causing pain, itching, or bleeding..
  • Clutching in uterus.
  • Purulent, gushing leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection. between menses or in place of menses.
  • Leucorrhea very weakening, can scarcely speak.
  • Leucorrhea gushing, when squatting and stooping during pregnancy with frequent urging to urinate.
  • Discharge of bloody mucus from uterus during pregnancy.
  • Hour-glass contraction of uterus with ter rible pain in lumbar region.
  • Labor pains spasmodic and irregular
🦴 Musculoskeletal & Skin
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Limbs go to sleep.
  • Lower limbs are very weak, numb and unsteady.
  • Lameness, worse by bending.
  • ParaplegiaParalysis of the lower half of the bodyParalysis that affects all or part of the trunk, legs, and pelvic organs, usually due to spinal cord injury..
  • One-sided paralysis, worse after sleep.
  • Painful stiffness in all joints.
  • Acute rheumatism, pain springing from joint to joint, with redness, swelling and stiffness.
  • Limbs straightened out, painful when flexed or vice versa.
  • Trembling and pain in limbs.
  • Clumsy gait.
  • EdemaSwelling caused by excess fluid in tissuesA condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body. of feet with paralysis of lower limbs.
  • Knees crack on motion.
  • Humerus feels broken.
  • Soles numb, while sitting.
  • Involuntary motion of right arm and right leg, better during sleep.
  • Alternation of pain between arms.
  • Pain in shoulder and arms as if bruised.
  • Hands, numb or hot and cold alternately become numb on gras ping objects, trembles while eating.
  • Hands and feet become cold after change of position.
  • Violent spasms of armstand legs.
  • Takes hold of things awkwardly and drops them.
  • Bones feel as if they were broken.
  • Liver more painful after anger, worse least jar.
  • Enlargement of liver after anger.
  • Sharp pains in liver region.
  • Pressive pain in hepatic region worse coughing and bending over
BACK AND NECK
  • Drawing, lacerating or boring pains.
  • Pressure in scapula and nape.
  • Pain in shoulder and arms as if bruised.
  • Stiffness on moving shoulders.
  • Stiffness in cervical muscles, with great weakness.
  • Paralytic pain in small of the back.
  • Paralysis from lumbar region downward.
  • Spinal weakness in lumbar region, worse walking.
  • Weak neck, cannot hold up head.
  • Trembling in back.
  • Cracking or stiffness of vertebrae
SKIN

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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This clinical profile has been prepared, peer-reviewed, and verified by the Herbalhomeo expert homeopathic team in accordance with authoritative medical references.

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