CURANN

Homœopathic Materia Medica

Cundurango cund.

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition · 138 words · Cundurango in every book →

Common name

Condor Plant (CONDURANGO)

General

Stimulates the digestive functions and thus improves the general health. Allays the pain in gastralgia accompanying cancer of stomach. Modifies secretions of digestive glands. Varicose ulcers. Lupus.

Painful cracks in corner of mouth is a guiding symptom of this drug. Chronic gastric catarrh, syphilis, and cancer. Tumors; stricture of œsophagus. The active principle (Condurangin) produces locomotor ataxia.

Stomach

Painful affections of the stomach; ulceration. Vomiting of food and indurations, constant burning pain. Stricture of œsophagus, with burning pains behind sternum, where food seems to stick. Vomiting of food, and indurations in left hypochondrium with constant burning pain.

Skin

Fissures form about the muco-cutaneous outlets. Epithelioma of lips or anus. Ulcerative stage of carcinoma cutis when fissures form.

Relationship

Compare: Asterias; Conium; Hydrast; Arsenic.

Dose

Tincture, or bark, 5-grain doses before meals in water. Also the thirtieth potency, in tumors.