COCCULUS.
Anamirta Cocculus, Wight and Arnott (Menispernum
cocculus, Linn., Cocculus Indicus).
Natural order
, Menispermaceæ.
Preparation
, Tincture of the powdered
seeds.
Authorities.
1,
Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., 1, 160; 2,
Baehr, ibid.; 3, Flüming, ibid.; 4, Gross, ibid.; 5,
Haynel, ibid.; 6, Hornburg, ibid.; 7, Langhammer, ibid.; 8, Hartlaub and Trinks, ibid.; 9, Wohle, ibid.; 10,
Amatus Lusitanus, Cur. Med. Cent., iv, Cur., 79, poisoning of a man by 4
grammes, ibid.; 11, Hill, Hist. of
Mat. Med., general account, ibid.; 12,
Rumpfig, Herb. Amboia, v., 7, 18, general statement, ibid.; 13, Berridge, a patient took one dose of
200th, N. Y. J. of Hom., 2, 460 (one symptom); 14,
Berridge, effect of 30th sol., N. Am. J. of Hom., N. S., 3, 501 (one
symptom); 15, Schöller, Œst.
Woch., 1843, a lad twelve years old, took 2 scruples (Fr. Mag., 1, 717);
16, Thompson, effects of application
of infusion to porrigo of scalp, Med. Examiner, 1852; 17, Della Sudda, Gaz. Méd. d’Orient., 1859
(N. Z., 102, 168), effects of infusion taken for hæmorrhoids; 18, Dutzmann, N. Z. f. H. Kl., 14, 136, a
woman aged sixty, ate some berries; 19,
Poma, Gaz. Lomb. (Hirschel’s Kl., 1871), a young man took some with
suicidal intent.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► *Irresistible
inclination to sing and tra la; a kind of mania, [1]. ►
Weeping, [1]. ► Cheerful and contented, [7]. [Curative action. -Hahnemann.] ► After a few hours, he became lively and
jocose, [6]. ►
Frolicsome, contented, joyous; he became witty and jocose, [1]. [In part curative action.
-Hahnemann.] ► Earnest and little
concerned as to his own health; he is very anxious about other’s
sickness, [1]. ► Extremely earnest, after which he breaks
out into complaints, [1]. ► Discouraged, [1]. ► *Constant
sad thoughts, as though he had suffered an insult, [3]. [10.]
► She is absorbed in the saddest
thoughts, and affronts sink deep into her heart, [1]. ► Thoughts
directed to an unpleasant object; she is absorbed in herself, and
notices nothing about her, [1].
► Despairing mood, [1]. ►
“Anxietas,” [10]. ► Anxiety, [1];
(after six hours, and third day), [15].
► Anxiety concerning the curability
of a slight complaint, in the morning, [1].
► *Anxiety, as if she had committed a
great crime, [1]. ► Great anxiety, as though he had done some
evil (after twenty-nine hours), [7].
► Frightful anxiety, like a dream,
which prevented every attempt to sleep, [1].
► Sudden excessive anxiety, [1]. [20.]
► Hypochondria, especially in the
afternoon, [1]. ► Overpowered with the most frightful
fearfulness, which increased every second (soon after), [15]. ►
Excessive sensitiveness (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► *Very
sensitive mood; everything worries him, [1]. ►
Excessive irritability of mind, every trifle offends him, [5]. ►
Extremely inclined to be offended, the slightest trifle offends her
(after one hour), [1]. ► She is offended at the slightest
circumstance, often to weeping, with contraction of the pupils; after
weeping, loss of appetite, [1]. ► Very much affected and offended by slight
obliquities and untruths of others, [1].
► Everything makes him angry and
peevish, [1]. ► She is easily angered, takes everything
in bad part (after twenty-four hours), [4].
[30.] ►
Great dissatisfaction with himself, [6].
► He has no desire, and takes
pleasure in nothing, [3]. ► No pleasure in anything, desire for
nothing, [1]. ► Time passes too rapidly, several hours
seem as short as one hour, [4]. ► No desire to work, [1]. ► *Distracted
(loss of memory); he easily forgets of what he has just thought,
[4]. ►
She sits in deep thought, [1].
► Stupidly dumb (after six hours), [15]. ►
Stupefied (after six hours), [15].
► Overpowering stupefaction as from
sleep, while awake (coma vigil), [1].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. [40.]
►► *Confusion and stupefaction of
the head (third day), [15].
► Confusion of the head, in the
morning; humming in it as after a debauch in the evening, [1]. ►►
*Confusion of the head, most increased by eating and drinking,
[1]. ►
Inclination to vertigo (eighth day), [5].
►► *Vertigo (third day),
[15]. ►
Vertigo, lasting six hours, [1]. ►► *Vertigo, as from intoxication, with
dulness in the forehead, as if there were a board across the head,
[4]. ►
Attack of vertigo, as from intoxication (while sitting, after one hour
and three-quarters), [7]. ► *Whirling vertigo on rising up in bed, with
inclination to vomit, which compelled him to lie down again, [1]. ►
General Head. ► *Convulsive
trembling of the head, [1].
[50.] ►
Heaviness in the head, [5]. ► Heaviness and confusion of the head, as
after intoxication the preceding day, [1].
► Dulness in the head, [1]. ►
Dulness in the head, with cold sweat on the forehead and head, with
aversion to food and drink, [1]. ► *Dulness and confusion of the head, aggravated
by reading, so that he was frequently obliged to pause in order to
understand what he was reading, [5]. ► Great
inclination to sleep, but as soon as he closed his eyes was obliged to
open them on account of a most frightful sensation in his brain, like
that produced by the most dreadful dreams (after six hours), [15]. ►►
*Headache, with inclination to vomit, as if he had taken an emetic, [1]. ►
Headache, as if the brain were constricted, [1]. ►
Headache composed of constriction, burning, tearing, digging, and
boring, [1]. ► *Feeling as if the brain were rolled up or
compressed into a smaller bulk, [14]. [60.] ► *Feeling as if the nerves in head were drawn up
tightly (after three days), [13].
► *The head is painful, as if bound up,
[1]. ►
It seemed as if his brain were bound together with a band (after six
hours), [15]. ► Severe pressure through the whole head,
mostly in the forehead, which is aggravated by reading or reflecting,
until there is loss of ideas (after sixty hours), [1]. ► Severe
pressing downward in the whole head, especially in the forehead,
aggravated by walking (after six hours and a half), [7]. ► *Pressive
headache, as if the brain were pressed together (after five
hours), [7]. ►
Sensation as if something heavy were lying upon the head, though without
pain, [9]. ►
(Painful shaking of the brain while walking, moving the head, or
speaking), [1]. ► Thinking affects the head very much, [5]. ►
Forehead. ► Dull
compression of the right half of the forehead, [7]. [70.] ► Dull wavelike compression in the left
half of the forehead, [4]. ► Pressive headache in the forehead, [9]. ►
Tearing-throbbing headache in the forehead, from 7 to 9 P.M. (after
thirty-eight hours), [1]. ► Intermitting, boring, needle-like
stitches in the right side of the forehead, [7]. ►
Frequent attacks of headache in a small spot in the left frontal
eminence, lasting several minutes, at first consisting of raging,
throbbing, sticking pains, which afterwards extend as a crawling to the
right frontal eminence, and become a crawling fine sticking in the
temples, [1]. ► *Headache, as if something forcibly closed the
eyes, [1]. ► Severe sticking in the head above the
right eye (after twelve hours), [1].
► Headache, as if the eyes would be torn
out, [1]. ► Temples. ►
Cramplike pain in the left temporal muscle (after one hour and a half), [7]. ►
Pressing inward in the right temple, as if a dull instrument were slowly
pressed deep into the brain, [4]. [80.] ►
Inward pressure in the left temple, [4].
► Headache in the temples, as if the
head were screwed in, [1]. ► Fine needle-like stitches in the left
temple (after six hours), [7]. ► Vertex. ►
Pressive headache in the crown (after ten hours), [6]. ► Parietals.
► Several stitches in the right side
of the brain (after twenty-four hours), [1].
► Occiput. ► Sensation in the left side of the
occiput, as if the hairs were being pulled up, [4].
EYE.
►
Objective. ► Blue rings
around the eyes, [2]. ► (Swelling of one eye and half the nose,
in the morning, after a violent headache through the night), [1]. ►
Eyes turned upward (third day), [15].
► Subjective. ► Pressure in both eyes, as from dust in
them (after seven hours), [7]. [90.] ►
Pressive pain in the eyes, with inability to open the lids at night, [1]. ►
Stitches in the eyes, from within outward (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ►
*Bruised pain in the eyes, with inability to open the lids, at night
(after five hours), [1]. ► Orbit. ►
Dull pressure in the outer margin of the orbit (immediately), [4]. ►
Lids. ► Dryness of the
lids, [1]. ► Pupil. ►
Contracted pupils (after five hours), [7].
► Pupils contracted to their smallest
diameter; as the spasm abated, the pupils became dilated to their
fullest extent, and again contracted as the spasm returned. By touching
the eyelids, the spasm could be produced at pleasure (after half an
hour), [16]. ► Vision. ►
*Dimness of vision, [1].
► Dark spots and objects like flies
float before the eyes, as if amaurosis would ensue, [1]. ► A black
object before the eyes; on turning it turns with her, yet she saw
everything clearly, [1].
EAR.
[100.]
► (Heat in the outer and inner right
ear, in the morning, in bed), [1].
► Something seems to fall before the
right ear, as if he heard with difficulty, [1]. ►
Sensation, alternately in the ears, as if they were closed and deaf, [1]. ►
Rushing in the ears, as when listening in a tube, [6]. ► *Sound in
the ears, as of the rushing of water, with difficult hearing
(after one hour), [1].
NOSE.
►
Objective. ► Swelling of
the right half of the nose, [1]. ► Sneezing, [1],
[4], [9]. ► While
walking in the open air, he began to sneeze, [1]. ► Violent
coryza, throughout the whole day, [7].
► Violent coryza for four days, [1]. [110.]
► (She blows bloody mucus from the
nose), [1]. ►
Pain in the nostril, in the anterior angle of the tip of the nose,
especially when touched, [1]. ► Pain as from an ulcer, in the left
nostril, without itching, [1].
FACE.
►
Expression rigid and irritable (after six hours), [15]. ►
*Countenance earthy, with a very painful expression (third
day), [15]. ►
Cyanosis of the face (after one hour and a half), [18]. ► Cheeks.
► *Redness of the cheeks, with heat in
the face, without thirst, in a very cold room, [6]. ► Cramp
in the zygoma, in the masseter muscles (after two hours), [1]. ►
Pressive rather benumbing than painful sensation in the left zygoma, [4]. ►
Lower Jaw. ► Cramplike
pains in the muscles of mastication, even before opening the jaws, but
aggravated thereby (after three hours), [1].
[120.] ►
Tearing-digging pain in the lower jaw, [1].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► The front teeth
seemed raised up, and so heavy that it seems as though they would fall
out, [2]. ►
A decayed tooth seems elongated, when chewing even soft food, as if it
were quite loose, but is not painful on biting the teeth together, when
not eating, [1]. ► Biting sensation in the upper and lower
back teeth, as after using much salt; it causes an unpleasant sensation
on biting together, [9]. ► Gums. ►
(The gum is sensitive and sore), [1].
► Tongue. ► *Tongue coated white, and dry upon edges
(third day), [15]. ► *Dryness of the tongue, with a whitish-yellow
coat, without thirst (after a quarter of an hour), [9]. ►
Tongue rough in the morning, [1]. ► If he passes the tongue far out, it is
painful posteriorly, as if beaten, [4].
► General Mouth. ► Whole mouth became filled with aphthæ,
which quickly became gangrenous, so that the soft parts of the mouth
were soon destroyed, and the teeth fell out (seventh day), [15]. [130.]
► *Dryness of the mouth, in
the night, without thirst, [1]. ► Dry sensation in the mouth, with frothy
saliva and great thirst, [2]. ► Sensation as if water collected in the
mouth, for a long time, without inclination to vomit, [5]. ►
Sensation as if there were a smell from the mouth (after six hours), [1]. ►
Burning in the palate, [1]. ► Saliva. ►
Water collects in the mouth, without nausea (after one hour and a half),
[5]. ►
Taste. ► Taste in the
mouth, as if he had fasted a long time, [1].
► Slimy taste in the mouth, though
food has a natural taste, [9]. ► *Metallic taste at the root of the tongue,
[1]. ►►
*Metallic taste, with loss of appetite, [4]. [140.] ► Coppery taste in the mouth, [1]. ►
Sour taste in the mouth, on coughing, [2].
► Sour taste in the mouth, after
eating, [4]. ►
Bitter taste (third day), [15]. ► *Bitter taste posteriorly at the root of the
tongue, [1]. ► Nauseous taste in mouth (soon after), [15]. ►
Food does not have a natural taste, it seems uncooked and unsalted, [2]. ►
Tobacco tastes bitter when smoking (after two hours), [1], [6]. ► Speech. ►
(On speaking she experiences a kind of contraction of the mouth, and is
obliged to speak slowly), [1].
THROAT.
►
Objective. ► Carotid
arteries beating violently (third day), [15].
[150.] ►
A kind of paralysis of the throat; the œsophagus does not seem to
permit swallowing, [1]. ► Dryness of the throat, [1]. ► Dryness
of the throat, with sensation of heat in the pharynx and stomach (after
two hours), [1]. ► Dryness of the upper and back part of the
throat, as if it were raw, and the tongue rough, [1]. ► Pain in
the upper part of the throat, with sensation of swelling at the root of
the tongue, which makes swallowing painful, [1]. ► Burning
in throat and stomach, which afterwards spreads over whole abdomen (soon
after), [15]. ► Burning like fire in the throat,
extending into the palate, together with shivering about the head, in
the evening, [1]. ► *Sensation in the pit of the throat, as
if something arrested the breathing; it constricts the throat, [8]. ► *A
kind of choking contraction in the upper part of the throat, which
impedes breathing and provokes cough (after one hour), [1]. ►
Great sensitiveness within the throat; all food seems as sharp and
biting as if it had been excessively salted or peppered, [2]. [160.] ► Scraping in the throat, disappearing on
swallowing, [8]. ► Tonsils. ►
Pressive pain in the tonsils, much worse on swallowing saliva than on
swallowing food, [1]. ► Fauces. ►
Dryness and roughness in the fauces and throat, especially noticed when
swallowing, without thirst (after two hours), [7]. ► External
Throat. ► Painless,
swollen glands beneath the jaw (after eight hours), [7]. ►
Swollen, hard glands beneath the lower jaw, with nodes on the forearm,
which are painful if one passes the hand over them, [1]. ►
Swelling of the parotid glands, [1].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Sensation of
hunger in the pit of the stomach, little diminished by eating, nearly
the whole day, [5]. ► Loss of appetite; food has no taste, [1]. ►
Aversion to eating and drinking, [1].
► The greatest disinclination for all
food and drinks (after six hours), [15].
[170.] ►►
*Extreme aversion to food, even the
smell of food causes it, although with hunger, [2]. ► He is
averse to sour things; bread tastes sour (after three hours), [1]. ►
No desire for breakfast; he seems full, [1].
► Thirst. ► Great thirst at all times, but especially
after eating, [2]. ► Unquenchable thirst (third day), [15]. ►
Thirst for cold drinks, especially beer, [1].
► Eructation and Hiccough. ► Eructations of musty bad air (after eight
hours), [1]. ►
Eructations tasting of the food (after eighteen hours), [1]. ► Empty
eructations, which leave a bitter taste in the mouth and throat (after
twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Frequent empty eructations (after
three hours and a half), [7]. [180.] ►
*Offensive eructations, in the forenoon, [1]. ► *Bitter
eructations (after a quarter of an hour), [5]. ► Very
bitter eructations, immediately, [5].
► Sharp scraping eructations,
especially in the evening, [8]. ► *Attempts to eructate, with incomplete
ineffectual eructations, instead of which there is hiccough,
lasting an hour (after three hours), [1].
► *Inclination to hiccough, [1]. ►
Hiccough (immediately), [10];
(after one-eighth of an hour), [1];
(after ten minutes), [6]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Nausea, immediately, [10], [11].
► Nausea, extending from the right
side of the abdomen towards the navel, without inclination to vomit;
immediately, [4]. ► *Nausea in the afternoon after every drink, it
seems to be mostly in the mouth, [1]. [190.] ► Nausea, on eating, [1]. ► Nausea,
as after overloading the stomach, [6].
► Nausea, amounting even to vomiting,
when smoking, to which he was accustomed (after four hours), [7]. ►►
*Unusual nausea and inclination to vomit, while riding in a wagon,
[1]. ►
*If he became cold or took cold, he was nauseated, which caused a
profuse accumulation of saliva, [1]. ► *In the
morning she is scarcely able to rise on account of sickness and
inclination to vomit (after forty-eight hours), [1]. ►
Inclination to vomit (after six hours), [15].
► *Inclination to vomit, associated with
headache, and pain in the intestines as if bruised (after
half an hour), [1]. ► Frequent inclination to vomit (after
several hours), [1]. ► Desire to vomit, [6]. [200.] ► (Vomiting toward midnight, with attacks
of suffocation; he vomited food and mucus, with bitter and sour taste in
the throat), [1]. ► Excessive vomiting, [17]. ►
Frequent vomiting of a thin, greenish fluid (third day), [15]. ►
Vomited ten times, without relief (soon after), [15]. ► Stomach.
► Sensation in the stomach as if he
had not eaten for a long time, and the hunger had passed away, [1]. ►
*Sensation as though a worm were moving in the stomach, [2]. ►
*Pain beneath the stomach immediately after eating, [1]. ►
Attempts to eructate cause pain in the stomach (after half an hour), [1]. ►
Pain in the pit of the stomach on every eructation, as if he had
received a blow or bruise, [1]. ► *Constrictive pain in the stomach,
preventing sleep, [1]. [210.] ►
*Cramp in the stomach; pinching in the stomach, [1]. ►
Cramp and tension in the pit of the stomach, when walking, [1]. ►
*Violent cramp in the stomach, griping, [1]. ►
Pressure in the pit of the stomach, [6].
► Pressure in the pit of the stomach,
which impedes breathing (after one hour), [1].
► Pressure in the stomach, after
eating, [6]. ►
Pressive pain in the stomach, pit of the stomach, and hypochondrium,
several hours after a meal, or at night in bed, [1]. ► Pain in
the pit of the stomach, almost like a stitch, on eructations, [3]. ►
Pricking and gnawing beneath the pit of the stomach, [4]. ► Stomach
exceedingly painful to touch (third day), [15].
[220.] ►
Gurgling beneath (in) the pit of the stomach, [4].® 2000
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