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Curare Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
🧠 General & Mental Health
▲ GENERAL
  • An arrow poison used by South American Indians, Curare affects the muscles and brain.
  • It is a muscular poison, causing paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. of muscles without impairing the sensations and consciousness.
  • Muscular paralysis without impairing any sensation or consciousness.
  • It causes death by paralysis of the respiratory muscles.
  • Reflex action is diminished or abolished.
  • In many ways, its action is opposite that of Nux-v.
  • Paralysis, facial, mouth, threatening respiration.
  • Catalepsy.
  • Trismus.
  • Nervous debility.
  • Sensation as if the brain were full of fluid.
  • As of a heavy weight hung to th e limbs.
  • Weakness, heaviness, numbness with tingling.
  • Piercing, sharp pains.
  • Throbbing pains.
  • Debility of the aged (Bar -c.) and from loss of fluids.
  • Glycosuria with motor paralysis.
  • Diabetes mellitus.
  • Decreases the output of adrenalin.
  • Vomiting o f bile in cirrhosis of liver.
  • Fetid discharges.
  • Leprosy.
  • Many symptoms appear on right side.
  • COMMENTS - Causes death by paralysis of the respiratory muscles.
  • Reflex action is diminished or abolished (opp.
  • Nux-v.).
  • Catalepsy, immobility with fixed gaze on waking.
  • Indicated by debility short of pa ralysis, the debility of the aged and nervous, and debility from the loss of fluids.
  • Fetid odor of secretions and discharges.
  • It favors the formation of corns.
  • Its relation to hydrophobia and tetanusBacterial disease causing lockjaw and muscle spasmsA bacterial disease marked by rigidity and spasms of the voluntary muscles, especially of the jaw. is probably antipathic.
  • Used allopathically in tetanus treatments.
  • A cure of a pseudo -hypertrophic paralysis by the 200c was recorded.
  • Two cases of diabetes in middle -aged men have been cured by Burkhardt with Cur.
  • 4c.
  • Grimmer noted that it is useful for cancer with weakness and a tendency to faint, ex treme debility, difficult breathing, vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with fainting.
  • States of catalepsy, worse by exercise, walking, etc., worse in dampness.
  • Cold air, cold weather, worse 2 a.m and 2 p.m to 3 p.m.
  • Temperature - Chill, creeping up back without thirst.
  • Body blue, and yet fever.
  • Heat worse at night and in open air.
  • Sweat with 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 food.
  • Aversion to bread.
  • Great thirst especially evening and night.
  • Craves acids
▲ MODALITIES ETC
  • Worse from motion.
  • Worse walking.
  • Worse ascending, 2 a.m and 2 p.m to 3 p.m.
  • Worse from dampness.
  • Worse cold weather, cold wind.
  • Worse change of weather
▲ RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:
ℹ️ Overview & Remedy Relations

Antidote to: Strychnia and to the poison of rabies. In cases of poison ing artificial respiration must be resorted to. Bromine and Chlorine antidote its effects. If the poisoning is due to a punctured wound, rubbing in tobacco or salt will neutralize it

📊 Side-by-Side Comparison
  • 1 Cystisin ➔ motor paralysis.
  • 2 Con., Caust., Crot -h., Nux-v
  • 3 Aran ➔ fever worse in damp weather.
  • 4 Ferr ➔ hammering pains in head.
  • 5 Crot -h ➔ blows in region of cerebellum.
  • 6 In yellow -brown spots on skin, Sep., Lyc., Nux -v., Sulph. Compatible ➔ After Arn. (paralysis from injury) after Bell, (paralysis after nosebleed)
🔄 Follows Well & Companion Remedies

in debility of the aged: Bar-c.

▲ MIND
  • Indecision, no longer wishes to think or act for herself.
  • Inability to think or study, forgetful, stupid, sleepy, indolent.
  • Excited, hurried feeling.
  • Depressed, desire to be alone.
  • Abdomen - Weary ache from throat to left hip.
  • NeuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. pain in hypogastrium with pressure in vagina.
  • Pain in groin low down with heaviness in limbs while walking.
  • Bowels feel sore and bruised.
▲ SLEEP
  • Drowsy, cannot keep awake.
  • Nights restless, always desiring to put feet out of bed, especially towards morning
👁️ Head & Sensory Organs
▲ VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Instant giddiness, falling in swoon while standing or walking.
  • Dizzy when looking at near objects or at water
▲ HEAD
  • Head drawn backward.
  • Rush of blood to head.
  • Brain feels full of fluid.
  • Head confused, great weight in vertex.
  • Head beats like a hammer, with vomiting of bile.
  • Nervous headache.
  • Sharp pains all over head.
  • Falling out of hair.
▲ EYES
  • Sharp, stitching pains over right eye.
  • Ptosis of right side.
  • Heavy eyes, lids can hardly be kept open.
  • Eyes haggard, sunken.
  • Feel as if full of sticks.
  • Red, hot, sensitive to light.
  • Black spots before vision, especially worse from reading
▲ EARS
  • OtitisEar infection or inflammationInflammation or infection of the ear, typically categorized as otitis externa (outer ear) or otitis media (middle ear). interna, driving crazy.
  • Noises, unbearable earache.
  • Purulent discharge.
  • Swelling of lobes of ear.
  • Sharp pains start from ears, extending down to legs
▲ FACE
  • Facial and mouth paralysis of muscles of expression.
  • Aching right side of face.
  • Tongue and mouth drawn.
  • Red face
🫁 Respiratory & Throat
▲ MOUTH
  • Mouth dry.
  • Tongue and mouth drawn to right.
  • Tongue coated.
  • On waking, tongue yellowish at base, papillae raised, light pink anteriorly, yellow-white, bitter or bloody taste.
  • Nose - Nasal catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane..
  • Ozaena, fetid lumps of pus.
  • Tubercles on nose
▲ THROAT
  • Burning heat in throat with sensation of distention
▲ CHEST
  • Sore to pressure or touch.
  • Constitutions - Suited to scrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. chi ldren, producing scrofulous eruptions on skin, eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches., especially of face and behind ears, and yellow brown liver-spots.
  • Precordial pain, anguish with palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions. and stinging pains in heart
🥗 Digestive & Genitourinary
▲ ABDOMEN
  • Empty, gone feeling in stomach.
  • Sharp pain in pit of stomach, followed by nausea.
  • Shooting in stomach.
  • Heartburn, pain and distent ion after eating ever so little.
  • Chill after eating.
  • Nausea in morning after eating.
  • Vomits green bile all night.
  • Frequent and annoying hiccoughs
▲ GENITALS ETC
  • Kidneys - Digging, crampy pain in kidneys, dry mouth, great thirst.
  • Urine copious, ur gent, bladder feels distended.
  • 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 on falling asleep.
  • Very distressing dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions., stitching pains right side.
  • Dyspnea, worse ascending.
  • Short, dry, hacking cough, provokes vomiting, followed by fainting.
  • Dry cough with soreness of chest walls.
  • Cough, worse breathing cold air, laughing, moving, eating.
  • Cough troublesome in morning.
  • Menses too early.
  • During menses, colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants., headache and kidney pain.
  • Dys menorrhea.
  • LeucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection., thick, purulent offensive, in clots.
  • Bearing-down, dragging, tired, in all pelvic organs.
  • Vaginitis.
  • Griping in right ovary.
  • Ulcerations of os uteri, scirrhus.
  • Aversion to sex
🦴 Musculoskeletal & Skin
▲ EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Paralysis of limbs, burning with heat and chills.
  • Aching in all the limbs and body.
  • Numbness and tingling.
  • Debility, paralysis.
  • Catalepsy.
  • Reflexes lessened or abolished.
  • Arms weak, heavy.
  • Cannot lift the fingers.
  • Weakness of hands and fingers in pianists.
  • Legs tremble, give way in walking.
  • Favors development of corns
▲ BACK AND NECK
  • Tired pain up and down spine.
  • Stiffness in neck, head drawn back.
  • Stiffness of muscles or right neck and 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 oozes through

📋 Remedy Stats

🏷️ Category 🩺 Homeopathic
🧬 Miasm Psoric Miasm
🌡️ Temperament ❄️ Chilly
🕒 Aggravation 🌇 Morning

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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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