Cotyledon.
Cotyledon umbilicus. Umbilicus pendulinus. Pennywort. Navelwort.
Kidneywort. Le Nombril de Venus. N. O. Crassulaceæ (Houseleek-family). Tincture of the
plant.Clinical.─
Heart affections. Hysteria. Sinuses.
Spleen, affections of. Rheumatism.
Characteristics.─
Cotyledon
has had a considerable proving, but I am not aware of any clinical experience with it having
been recorded. The whole houseleek family are deserving of careful study by homœopathists.
Among the most peculiar symptoms of Cotyl. are: a
feeling as if some part of the body─a foot or the head─were
absent. The senses of sight and hearing are dulled. A yellow patch follows the sight.
Disagreeable surging in ears; ears feel stuffed. A number of pains in the region of the
spleen appear. The breathing is oppressed, the heart is disturbed. Rheumatic symptoms are
prominent. Weak, faint feeling. Stitching, pricking, jerking pains are predominant
sensations. Cooper considers it a cancer remedy. He has cured with it sinuses in buttock. A
patient to whom he gave it for polypus said it made him “stagger as if drunk.”
Symptoms are < morning and evening.
Relations.─
Compare:
Sedum acre.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
On waking disagreeable sensation running
down back of r. thigh and leg, with a feeling, as if there were no foot.─Head
felt exceedingly light for some time as if there were no solid head; could not articulate
for some time though she tried; followed by pressing vertical headache > by tea.─On waking, sensation as if going
out of, mind, followed by trickling as of blood down l. arm from shoulder to finger-joints.─Exhilaration.─Difficulty
of collecting ideas.─Feels lost before headache comes on.
2. Head.─
Headache, causing desire for open air,
which >.─Dull headache with cold
feet.─Dull, heavy, stupefying pain in forehead and vertex, shifting
suddenly between them.
9. Throat.─
Constant choking in throat-pit, and
feeling as if he would burst into tears.─Back of throat feels as if
covered with thick mucus.
11. Stomach.─
Pain at epigastrium through to
shoulder with nausea.─On swallowing, the morsel seems to pass and press
against some swelling in cardiac region (in evening) recurring during the pain.
12. Abdomen.─
Long stitch in l. hypochondrium.─Dull
pains in l. hypochondrium.─Dull pushing in region of spleen recurring at
intervals.
13. Stool.─
Bowels freely opened, later,
constipation.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Calls to urinate frequent.─Increased
flow of clear urine.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Tickling in larynx with
dry cough.─Oppressed breathing.─Shooting in all
directions in chest, particularly under r. scapula and l. nipple during evening.─Stitches
below both nipples.
19. Heart.─
Heat about heart.─Uneasiness.─Clawing,
dragging pain, on riding, > by compressing side.─A
troublesome palpitation and fulness at sternum on walking up-hill, consisting of one or two
jumps or rolls of heart with occasional intermission.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Between attacks of headache,
gnawing, rheumatic pain in r. shoulder.─Aching, bruised pain in wrists.─Aching,
tingling in hands, esp. at night, preventing sleep; tingling down arm when the nerve is
struck.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Aching in l. thigh followed by
numbness.─Stinging pain under l. gluteus maximus in region of sciatic
nerve.
24. Generalities.─
Occasionally during the day
attacks of faintness with green shadows before the eye.─Creeping in the
flesh, and feeling as before severe cold or rheumatic attack.® 2000
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