COLOCYNTHIS.
Citrullus colocynthis, Schrader (Cucumis colocynthis, L.).
Natural order
, Cucurbitaceæ.
Common name
, Bitter apple.
Preparation
, Tincture of the pulp of the fruit.
Authorities.
1, Hahnemann,
Chr. Kr., III; 2, Ægidi, ibid.; 3, Fr. H-n, ibid.; 4,
Hornburg, ibid.; 5, Gutmann, ibid.; 6, Langhammer, ibid.; 7,
Stapf, ibid.; 8, Rückert, ibid.; 9, Alibert, in Med. Nat. Zeit., 1799 (not obtainable), ibid.; 10, Bresl-Samml., 1727, p. 48 (nothing about Col. here), ibid.; 11, Hoffmann, Eph. Nat. Cur., X, 0,
30 (poisoning by a whole apple), ibid.; 12, Hoyer, Misc.
Nat. Cur., Dec., III, Ann., 7, 8, 0, 178 (from
decoction), ibid.; 13, Kölpin, Hufel. J., III, 577
(critical phenomena in a rheumatic paralysis, getting well under Coloc.), ibid.; 14, Orfila, Toxicologie (from apples taken to cure chronic
gonorrhœa), ibid.; 15, Plater, Obs. III, 858
(poisoning), ibid.; 16, Salmuth, Obs. III, 2
(poisoning), ibid.; 17, Schenk, Obs. med., lib. VII (in
a case of apoplexy, where Col. had been injected), ibid.; 18,
Schneider, Annal. d. Heilk., Apr. 1811 (from Coloc. given in apoplexy), ibid.; 19, Stalpaart von der Weil, Cent. I., 0,
41 (poisoning), ibid.; 20, Tulpius, Obs., lib. IV, 25
(poisoning), ibid.; 21, Valentine, Eph. Nat. Cur. Ann.
III, 0, 78 (not found); 22,
Zacutus Lusitanus, in Schenk, VII, 4 (effect of an enema containing Coloc.), ibid.; (23 to 44, Austrian provings,
Œst. Zeit. f. Hom. I); 23, Arneth, repeatd doses of
tinct., 1 to 80 drops; 24, same, provings with 2d, 3d,
and 4th dils.; 25, Böhm, took tinct., repeated doses, 2
to 12 drops; 26, Fleischmann, tinct., 5 to 15 drops; 27, Fröhlich, 5 to 60 drops of tinct.; 28,
Amalie Ph., aged 22, took 3d dil.; 29, Caroline Ph.,
aged 24, proved the same; 30, Gerstel made several
provings with single doses of tinct., 15 to 80 drops; 31,
Hausmann, 30 to 100 drops of tinct., and once a drachm at a dose; 32,
Maschauer, 5 to 30 drops of tinct.; 33, Puffer took 3d
dil. daily for six days; 34, Reisinger began with 10
drops of tinct., increased to 25, then decreased to 1st trit.; 35,
Rothausl took 3 to 35 drops of tinct.; 36, Wachtel took
1 to 10 drops of tinct.; 37, same, took 10 grains of 1st
dec. trit.; 38, Weinke, 12 to 60 drops of tinct; 39, Wurstl, three provings with tinct., doses, 1 to 10 drops; 40, Wurm, tinct., 1 to 60 drops; 41,
same, provings with 1st dec. and cent. trits. and 1st dil.; 42,
Watzke, proving with 1 to 95 drops of tinct.; 43, same,
1st dec. trit.; 44, same, with tincture applied
externally to abdomen; 45, J. O. Muller took 4th dil.,
Z. f. V. Hom., Æzt. Œst. I, p. 43, 1857; 46,
Krumbholz, repeated doses of tinct., Martin’s provings, Hom. V. J. S., 10, 77; 47, Martin, 2 to 10 drops of tinct., ibid.; 48, Mayer, 1 to 3 drops tinct., ibid.; 49,
Runge, 2 to 30 drops tinct., ibid.; 50, Lembke, repeated
doses of tinct., 5 to 10 drops, N. Z. f. H. Kl., 15; 51,
Caroline Le Beau, provings with 200th dil., A. J. H. M. M., 1870, and N. Am. J. of Hom., N.
S., 1, 61; 52, Hechenberger, “Colocynthology,”
1840, provings with 1 to 8 drops of tinct. daily, in the morning, fasting (from original); 53, effects of a teaspoonful of tincture in a pregnant woman,
ibid.; 54, Caron D’Ancey, effects of 2 glasses of
infusion taken for dyspeptic symptoms, Orfila, Toxicologie; 55,
Goodno, symptoms produced by Col. 200th (F.) on a girl aged nine, A. J. H. M. M., 4, 83.
MIND.
► Emotional. ► After a bottle of Bavarian beer I felt much intoxicated; a
most unusual thing, [49]. ►
He could not, without difficulty, get rid of the idea that he was not in his own room, but
in another, [41]. ►
*Disinclined to talk the whole day, [6]. ► Despondent, joyless, disinclined to talk, [5]. ► Extreme anxiety, [10], [12]. ► Irritable disposition, [43].
► Excited, irritable state of temper, taciturnity, [42]. ► Extreme
fretfulness; nothing seems right; he is extremely impatient, and angry at every word that he
is obliged to answer, and becomes most painfully confused; everything annoys him, even the
merest trifles, [1]. ►
*Morose mood; becomes offended at everything; is not inclined to answer, [8]. [10.] ► Return of the vexatious thoughts which he had forgotten, but
which soon yielded to an unusual cheerfulness, [20]. ► Intellectual. ►
Dulness in the morning, with late waking and dislike to get up, [38]. ► No inclination to search
after and grasp objects of interest, [21]. ► He was somewhat confused by the beer drunk in the evening, [30]. ► Difficulty in
collecting his thoughts, [31]. ►
A peculiar state of mind; I could not pursue any train of thought, [49]. ► Absent-mindedness, [30]. ► Unusual weakness
of memory, [30].
HEAD.
► Confusion and Vertigo.
► Confusion of the head, [37],
[46]. ► Confusion
of the head, for an hour, [36]. [20.] ► Confusion of the head,
especially of the forehead, [5]. ► Confusion of the head, in the frontal region, [30]. ► Confusion of the
head, most perceptible in the right frontal region, continuing the whole day, [40]. ► Confusion of the head, with
pressure in the orbits, in the afternoon, [36].
► Confusion of the head, most severe after dinner, nearly
disappearing towards evening, [40]. ► Confusion of the head, with transitory attacks of vertigo;
frequently recurring in the course of the day, [39]. ► Confusion and gloominess of the head, [9]. ► Confusion and dulness of
the head, as after a debauch, [4]. ► Confusion and heaviness of the head, with feeling as if a
catarrh were coming on, [39]. ►
Confusion in the forehead, [30]. [30.] ► Confusion of the
forehead, [47]. ►
Confusion of the right side of the head, especially in the temple (after half an hour), [30]. ► Confusion of the left
side of the head; with pressing-burning pain in the left orbit, temple, and nose, on the
dorsum nasi, and in the upper teeth; it seemed as if the eye and nose were
swelling (these symptoms were clearly marked and persistent), [30].
► Head befogged, [31].
► Vertigo on suddenly turning the head, as if arising in
the left temple; it seems as if he would fall; with tottering of the knees, [7]. ► Slight vertigo, in the
evening, [39]. ►
Sudden, very transient vertigo, with darkness before the eyes, in the evening, on sitting
down, [35]. ►
Frequent attacks of vertigo, [39]. ► Symptoms of vertigo, soon after breakfast, when walking
rapidly, [30]. ►
Intimations of vertigo and nausea, [30]. [40.] ► Almost giddy for a few
minutes, after dinner, [49]. ►
General Head. ► Head a little affected, soon
after the dose, [42]. ►
Dulness of the head, early in the morning, especially in the frontal region; returning in
the forenoon, when walking, [30]. ► Dulness and vertigo in the head, with commencing colic, [3]. ► Stupefied feeling
in the head, after dinner, lasting a few minutes, [49].
► Heaviness of the head, [47].
► Painfulness of the whole head and eyes, very much
aggravated by bending forwards, [42]. ► Painfulness of the whole head, most troublesome in the
frontal region, aggravated by stooping or turning the head, with incapacity for mental
exertion, continuing a few hours, [44]. ► Headache, [35]. ► Slight headache, early, in bed, [35]. [50.] ►
Considerable headache, in the evening, [35]. ► Violent headache, [35]. ► Violent headache,
lasting half an hour (after three-quarters of an hour), [47].
► Headache very violent, as from a draft of air,
disappearing on walking in the open air, [6]. ► Transient headache, [27].
► Pressing-pinching pain in the upper part of the brain, [5]. ► Sensitiveness of the
head, during the whole day, as though it were compressed; especially in the forehead and temples, with painfulness of the
eyeballs, aggravated by bending forwards; better in the open air, [42]. ► Boring in different parts
of the head, right side (twenty-second to thirty-first day), [50].
► Boring in the bones of the skull, especially on the
right side (fourteenth to fifteen day), [50]. ► *Painful tearing digging through the brain, which became intolerably
severe on moving the upper lid (after a few hours), [2]. [60.] ►
Drawing and boring in the head, when walking (thirteenth to fifteenth day), [50]. ► Pressure within the head,
paroxysmal, slight, now here, now there, [8]. ► Pain in the head, occupying the space of about half a crown,
in the region of the linea semicircularis, about its middle; it felt like a kind of
pressure, [48]. ►
Pressing headache, [35]. ►
Pressive headache along the sagittal suture, more violent on moving or shaking the head, and
on stooping, [7]. ►
*Tearing headache in the whole brain; in the forehead it becomes a pressure, as
if the forehead would press outward; more violent on moving the head, [5]. ► The headache and pains in
the knees and foot came on daily at about 8 A.M., and continued until afternoon, when a soft
stool took place, [39]. ►
Forehead. ► Heaviness and stupefaction of the
forehead, [30]. ►
Heaviness and pressure in the forehead, towards evening (seventeenth day), [50]. ► Frequent attacks of
painfulness and aching in the forehead and eyeballs, [42].
[70.] ► *Severe
boring-burning pain on the right side of the forehead (eighteenth day), [50]. ► Transitory headache
in the left side of the forehead, [34]. ► Boring on the left side of the forehead (twenty-second to
thirty-first day), [50]. ►
A great deal of boring in the forehead (fourteenth day), [50].
► *Frequent boring on the right side of the forehead
(sixteenth day), [50]. ►
Boring and tearing pains in the forehead, very frequently during the day, also in the
evening (fourteenth to fifteenth day), [50]. ► *Severe boring pains on the right side of the forehead
(twenty-second to thirty-first day), [50]. ► Tearing-boring pains in the forehead during a walk (sixteenth
day), [50]. ►
Drawing in the forehead (twelfth day), [50]. ► Pressing-drawing pain in the left side of the forehead, [5]. [80.] ► Pressure in the forehead, [37].
► Waking after midnight, he perceived, as he lay on the
right side, pressure and weight in the left side of the forehead, [31]. ► Pressing in the forehead and
at the root of the nose, as though a violent catarrh were coming on; continuing
three hours, [35]. ►
Violent pressing over the forehead, from the temples towards the nose, with feeling of
dryness in the latter (after half an hour), [39]. ► At 1 P.M. a pressive pain in the left side of the forehead,
occasionally slightly vibrating; it was clearly traceable in an arch which defined the
lateral and superior boundaries of the left frontal sinus, [31].
► Pressive headache in the frontal region (after half an
hour), [39]. ► Pressive
headache in the forehead, most severe when stooping, and lying on the back; lasting six
hours, [5]. ►
Drawing-pressing pains in the forehead (twenty-first day), [50].
► *Sudden stickling pain in the forehead, towards
the nose, [39]. ►
Dull stickling pain internally in the forehead, in the morning, after rising (after a
quarter of an hour), [6]. [90.]
► Tearing in the forehead, during the evening, [50]. ► *Tearing in the
forehead (tenth day), in the left side
(eleventh to thirteenth day), in different parts of the forehead, in the morning (twelfth
day), [50]. ►
Tearing in forehead, right side (seventeenth day), [50].
► Severe and frequent tearing on the right side of the
forehead (seventeenth day), [50]. ► Violent pressing-throbbing headache in the forehead. Although
the pain went off on sitting up and moving his head, still his head was very much confused
all the forenoon, [41]. ►
Temples. ► Aching in both temples, aggravated
at first in the open air, then entirely disappearing, [3],
[5]. ► Tensive
headache in the right temple, [35]. ► Boring in the right temple; severe boring in the left temple,
continuous and frequently repeated, at 2 P.M. (fifth day); severe boring, as if from a plug,
in the left temple, in the evening (eleventh day); boring in the temples (twelfth day), [50]. ► Pressive painful
digging in the temple, [5]. ►
Dull pain in the right temple, aggravated by stepping; with a gloomy mood, [30]. [100.] ► Pressure in both temples, [37],
[42]. ► Sensation of
violent pressure in the left temple, continuing the whole afternoon (migraine?),
better while seated, worse when standing and walking, but especially when urinating, [40]. ► *Pressing and drawing
pain in the right temple (after three hours), [50].
► Pressive headache, early, in the temples, [3]. ► Feeling as if the
temples were screwed into, [27]. ► *Boring stitches in the right temple, disappearing on touch,
[6]. ► Tearing in
both temples several times repeated (fifth day); tearing in the right (seventh day);
frequent tearing in both (eighth day); severe and frequent tearing in the right and above it
(seventeenth day), [50]. ►
Tearing and pressing in the right temple (second day), [50].
► *Pressing and dull throbbing in the left temple, growing
gradually acute and cutting; with a similar sensation about the left
shoulder-joint, [39]. ►
Vertex. ► Pain in the vertex and left eye, as
if a nervous pressure (immediately), [30]. [110.] ► Tearing on the right
side of the vertex (twelfth day), [50]. ► Parietals. ► *Boring and
drawing in the right side of the head, in the forehead (twentieth day), [50]. ► Drawing,
one-sided headache (after one hour and a half), [4]. ► Tearing in the head, left side (tenth day), [50]. ► Tearing in the left side
of the head, towards the forehead (twelfth to fifteenth day), [50].
► Occiput. ►
Boring on the right side of the occiput (tenth day), [50].
► Violent, long-continued pressure in the lateral
occipital protuberances, [31]. ►
Pressing and tension in the occiput, most sensibly felt at the inferior lateral
protuberances, [31]. ►
External Head. ► Roots of the hairs are
painful, [1]. ►
Burning pain in the skin of the forehead, above the eyebrows, [5].
[120.] ► Biting
burning on the left side of the scalp, [5]. ► Drawing in the scalp, [42].
► Soreness of the skin on the vertex, as though the hair
on this part were constantly pulled upward, accompanied on the second day by a
drawing-pressing pain in the occiput; both symptoms disappear towards evening, [37]. ► Crawling and
itching on the whole left side of the head, compelling him to scratch, [30]. ► Itching of the scalp, [39].® 2000
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