Castoreum cast.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

NERVES. Female generative organs.

Worse

Emotions. Cold. During menses. Debilitating diseases.

Better

Pressure.

General

Weak and lacks reaction. Nervous and spasmodic effects of uterine origin. Fibrillar twitchings. Hysteria. Irritability.

Particulars

Twitching in tongue. Abdominal symptoms, with yawning. Colics, with sudden weakness, > pressure. Summer diarrhœa of green mucus stools (Asar.). Violent cutting dysmenorrhœal colic, then cold sweat. Exhausting sweats after fevers.

Related

Related: Mos. Val.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

The Beaver (CASTOREUM)

General

A great remedy for hysteria. Prostration marked.

Hysterical symptoms. Day-blindness; cannot endure the light. Nervous women who do not recover fully, but are continually irritable, and suffer from debilitating sweats. Spasmodic affections after debilitating diseases. Constant yawning. Restless sleep with frightful dreams and starts.

Tongue

Swollen. Rounded elevation size of a pea in center, with drawing sensation from center to hyoid bone.

Female

Dysmenorrhœa; blood discharged in drops with tenesmus. Pain commences in middle of thighs. Amenorrhœa, with painful tympanites.

Fever

Predominant chilliness. Attacks of chilliness with ice-coldness in back.

Relationship

Compare: Ambra; Moschus; Mur acid; Valeriana.

Antidote: Colch.

Dose

Tincture, and lower potencies.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

The Beaver. N. O. Rodentia. Tincture of secretion, found in preputial sacs of beaver.

Clinical

Chorea. Convulsions. Digestion, disordered. Dysmenorrhœa. Eclampsia. Flatulence. Hernia. Hysteria. Ileus. Paralysis. Pregnancy, vomiting of. Reaction, deficient. Sexual organs, inflammation of; spasms of. Sycosis. Tetanus. Typhoid, lack of recuperation after. Typhus. Warts. Yawning.

Characteristics

Castoreum resembles Ambra, Moschus, Ignatia , and Valerian . It is suited to nervous women, with pains, cramps, weakness after severe illness; hysterical individuals; abdominal soreness; nervous attacks when the aura starts from abdomen. The pains are > by pressure. Menstrual colic, with pallor and cold sweat. Prostration is a leading feature in the effects of the drug. There is also a feeling of fulness in the stomach as if too much had been eaten.

Castoreum when fresh is yellow and of the consistence of syrup when dry it is dark red or brown and of the consistence of hard wax. Teste remarks that it has been regarded as a resinous substance, and he observes, moreover, that the beaver feeds almost entirely on the resinous bark of pine-trees. In Siberia beavers feed on the bark of the birch, which may make a difference in the effects of Castoreum from different countries. Caspari proved Russian Castor ., Nenning that of Southern Europe. Teste concluded from analogy that Castor . would be an antisycotic, and he proved his point by initiating with it the cure of a case of pedunculated vegetations around the anus in a hysterical young woman. Thuja completed the cure. Teste places Castor . in the Thuja group with Plat . and Bism . He quotes from Trousseau and Pideux the following indications, which he confirms: ─ ( 1 ) "Amenorrhœa, accompanied with painful and tympanitic swelling of the abdomen. We mean the cases where only a few drops of blood escape from the uterus, with a sort of uterine tenesmus ." ( 2 ) "The cases of colic to which Castoreum seems to be principally adapted are of the nervous kind, that seem to be particularly seated in the small intestine. They are accompanied with paleness and cold sweats, a sudden sinking of strength, as if the very principle of life had been struck down. They are without any alvine evacuations, come suddenly, after lively emotions, a cold on the bowels or by the feet, as after long exposure to a cold rain; they constitute a sort of that passion termed by authors miserere ." Castor . causes jerking in small groups of muscular fibres; a sensation of heaviness of whole body; trembling of limbs.

Relations

Compare: Ambra, Mosch., Nux v.; in lack of reaction, Pso.; Thuja (sycosis). Antidoted by: Colch.

Mind

Peevish; indisposed to talk, very sensitive to all kinds of impressions. ─ Irritable in morning and cheerful abandon in evening. ─ Great sadness and excessive susceptibility, with easily provoked lachrymation.

Head

Headache with giddiness and fainting; headache leaving head very sensitive to touch. Pain at the vertex and throbbing in the head as if there were an ulcer in the brain, aggravated by contact and external pressure. ─ Fulness and heaviness of the head as if it were going to burst. ─ Acute drawing pains in the forehead and eyes.

Eyes

Pressure in the eyes, on viewing fixedly a distant object. ─ Nocturnal lachrymation and agglutination of the eyes. ─ Stars, clouds, and on viewing fixedly a distant object, mist before the sight. ─ Susceptibility of the eyes to the light of the sun, and to that of candles.

Ears

Acute dragging in the ears. ─ Tinkling, buzzing, and gurgling in the ears, dispersed by boring the ear with the finger.

Nose

Obstruction of the nose. ─ Flow of aqueous, acrid, corrosive mucus from the nose.

Teeth

Toothache when eating, provoked by cold and mitigated by hot things. ─ Odontalgia, with acute drawing pains, or successive pullings, provoked or aggravated by the touch. ─ Swelling of the gums at night, with acute pulling in the temples.

Mouth

Fetid odour from the mouth, perceptible to the patient. ─ Pulling and quivering in the tongue. ─ Swelling of tongue. ─ Rounded elevation in centre of tongue size of pea, surrounded by angry, suspicious-looking base, size of a 5-cent piece, extremely sensitive to touch or food, with drawing sensation, as if a string were pulling centre of tongue towards hyoid bone, with burning in tongue.

Throat

Dryness of œsophagus. ─ Burning pain in the throat, as from pyrosis.

10, 11. Appetite and Stomach. ─ Burning thirst. ─ Thirst so violent that she could not drink enough water after dinner. ─ Bitter risings. ─ Regurgitation of a bitter acidity. ─ Repugnance to food and constant nausea. ─ Vomiting of white, bitter mucus. ─ Weight, griping; tenesmus with constricting pains under sternum. ─ Sensation in stomach as though it would go to sleep. ─ Sensation of contraction, and pain of ulceration, in the epigastrium.

Abdomen

Pressure in region of liver from within outwards. ─ Flatulent colic, painful inflation, esp. after a meal. ─ Colic, redness of face, and yawning in abdominal complaints, > by external heat and by bending oneself double. ─ Umbilical hernia with ulcer, in a screaming infant. ─ Pain and soreness in l. side of abdomen. ─ Constant violent rollings in abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Urgent inclination to evacuate. ─ Diarrhœa accompanied by shivering and by yawning, with burning in the anus, and preceded by pain in the abdomen, with grumbling and borborygmi. ─ Evacuations of sanguineous mucus. ─ Stools: whitish, watery; greenish mucus; contain pus; patient is compelled to sit bent; feels gagged when lying down. ─ Before stool: cutting or pinching colic; painful rumbling; dragging in groin. ─ During stool: fetid flatus, burning at anus. ─ After stool: burning at anus.

Urinary Organs

Frequent emission of urine, with burning thirst, day and night. ─ After the emission of urine desire to vomit, and disgust.

Male Sexual Organs

Seminal emissions with great excitability.

Female Sexual Organs

Menstruation premature, pains in head and loins, pale, sickly complexion. ─ Pain commences in middle of thighs, extending over limbs and more or less over whole body. ─ Uterine tenesmus, with scanty flow. ─ Leucorrhœa watery or thick; burning. ─ Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, with disposition to clear throat. ─ Breathing: short, difficult; short breath when ascending; very deep with heat in heart and in face; slow, deep inspiration with short expiration. ─ Stitches in chest; heat as if fire were burning in it. ─ On taking deep breath sensation as though something heavy lay under sternum.

Neck and Back

Pain as from excoriation, in the sacral region and back. ─ Drawing pains in nape of the neck.

Limbs

Nocturnal dragging in shoulders and arms. ─ Spasms of hands and feet. ─ Hands hot with swelling of veins. ─ Weakness of the lower limbs.

Generalities

Jerking of small groups of muscular fibres. ─ Chorea; epilepsy; cramps in various parts. ─ Prostration after dinner, and annoying sensation as if she had eaten too much. ─ Internal restlessness.

Sleep

Restless sleep at night, with anxious agitation and starts with fright. ─ Angry exclamations during sleep. ─ Jerking of the limbs while asleep. ─ Anxious and frightful dreams.

Fever

Predominance of cold and shuddering. ─ Fits of shivering with icy coldness in the back.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Castor Fiber. Rodentia.
Tincture of secretion in preputial sacs of the beaver.
Mentioned by Galen, Hippocrates and Pliny, and in use among the Arabians, who gave it in hepatic and uterine troubles, and in epilepsy and convulsions. Recommended later for hysterical complaints by Pomet and Hill ; for deafness, by Lemery.
The only provings are by Caspari and Nenning ; the former proved the Russian, the latter the Austrian variety. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 3, p. 24 . The original in Hartlaub and Trink's Annalen, vol. iii, p. 314.
Clinical symptoms are from Gosewisch, Siegrist, Neidhard, Trousseau and Pidoux, and H. M., 1879.

Mind

Very peevish humor, indisposed to talk.
Very sensitive to all kinds of impressions.
Irritable in morning : cheerful abandon in evening.
Melancholic and full of anxious longing. θ Hysteria.
Angry exclamations during sleep.

Sensorium

Giddiness and fainting.

Inner head

Headache, with giddiness and fainting.
Heaviness, with drawing pain in head.
Transitory pressure in forehead.
Dull headache from in outward in right forehead.

Sight and eyes

Dimness of vision, and lachrymation. θ Catarrh.
Appearance before eyes, as though he had not slept enough.
Eyes are agglutinated nearly all night.

Hearing and ears

Earache and buzzing in ears.
Pain behind left ear.
Otorrhœa.

Teeth and gums

Pain in left lower row of molar teeth.
Swelling of gums.

Taste, speech, tongue

Swelling of tongue.
A rounded elevation in centre of tongue, size of a pea, surrounded by an angry suspicious-looking base, size of a nickel five-cent piece, extremely sensitive to touch or food, with a drawing sensation as if a string was pulling centre of tongue towards hyoid bone, with burning in tongue.

Inner mouth

Bad smell from mouth.

Palate and throat

Dryness of œsophagus.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Want of appetite.
Thirst is so violent that she could not drink enough water, after dinner.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Belching, with stitches in chest.
Nausea after urinating.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Weight at stomach.
Griping in stomach.
Tenesmus in stomach, with constrictive pain under sternum.
Tension and heaviness in stomach.
Emptiness in stomach.
Sensation in stomach as though it would go to sleep.

Hypochondria

Pressure in region of liver from in outward.

Abdomen and loins

Pain in left side of abdomen.
Colic from flatulency.
Yawning, in abdominal complaints.
Abdomen distended, in afternoon.
Umbilical hernia, with colic, in a screaming infant.
Abdomen feels as though full and distended.
Above feels as though full and distended.
Above left ilium in flanks, sensation of soreness as though from an internal wound.
On taking a deep breath stitching pains on both sides in abdomen, above hips to spinal column, extending to region of liver, as though he was being stuck ; in various places above ilium, with needles.

Stools and rectum

Stools : whitish, watery ; bloody mucus ; greenish mucus ; frequent.
Stools contain pus ; patient is compelled to sit bent double ; feels gagged when lying down.
Before stool : cutting or pinching colic ; painful rumbling ; dragging in groin.
During stool : fetid flatus ; burning at anus .
After stool : burning at anus.
Accompaniments of bowel complaints : yawning ; chilliness ; bad smell from mouth ; violent thirst.

Urinary organs

Scanty urine ; heat and burning when urinating.
After urinating : nausea.

Male sexual organs

Seminal emissions, with great excitability of sexual parts.

Female sexual organs

During menses : pain commences in middle of thighs, extending over limbs, and more or less over entire body.
Dysmenorrhœa ; abdomen distended ; blood leaves uterus in drops, with tenesmus-like pain.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness with disposition to clear throat.

Respiration

Shortness of breathing, in forenoon ; when walking fast.
Short, difficult breathing, with frequent, long inspirations.
Very deep inspirations, with heat in breast and in face.
Frequent, slow, deep inspirations, with short expirations.

Inner chest and lungs

Stitches in chest, with belching.
Heat in breast, as though a fire was burning there, in evening.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Feeling of oppression about heart.

Outer chest

Cramplike pains extending across breast.
Pain under sternum, when touching it.
On taking a deep breath, sensation as though something heavy lay under sternum.
Pressure on sides of sternum, especially on expiration.
Sensation of internal heat under sternum.

Upper limbs

Pain in right shoulder when at rest and in motion, as though he has carried something heavy.
Hot hands, with distended veins.

Lower limbs

Great feeling of lassitude in lower limbs.
Pressure in left flank downward through inguinal gland, when walking.
Feet are weary, cannot walk any farther.

Limbs in general

Spasms of hands and feet.

Rest. position. motion

During rest and motion : pain in shoulder.
Lying down : feels gagged.

Nerves

Jerking of small groups of muscular fibres.
Sensation of heaviness in whole body.
Trembling of limbs.
(OBS :) Chorea, epilepsy, whooping cough, nervous palpitation, cramp in various parts of body, and tetanus.
Paralysis.

Sleep

Sleepiness.
Constant yawning, though never sleeping in daytime.
In sleep, angry exclamations.
Cannot sleep after eating.

Time

Morning : irritable.
Night : eyes agglutinated.
Afternoon : abdomen distended.

Fever

Shuddering of single parts, back, vertex, forehead, elbow, feet.
(OBS :) Typhus.

Locality and direction

Left : behind, ear, pain ; lower row of molars pain ; abdomen, pain ; ilium, soreness ; flank, pressure.
Right : forehead, dull headache ; shoulder, pain.
Within out : dull headache ; pressure in region of liver.
As if a string was pulling centre of tongue towards hyoid bone ; as though stomach would go to sleep ; as though something heavy lay under sternum.
Tearing drawing pains in various parts of body.
Burning : in tongue ; at anus ; in breast ; as of fire.
Stitching : pains on both sides of abdomen ; in chest.
Griping : in stomach.
Pain : behind left ear ; in molar teeth ; under sternum ; in r. shoulder.
Weight : at stomach.
Heat : in breast and face ; under sternum.
Drawing pain : in head.
Pressure : on sides of sternum ; in left flank ; in forehead ; in region of liver.
Heaviness : in whole body ; under sternum ; in stomach.
Cramplike pains : across breast.
Tension : in stomach.
Emptiness : in stomach.
Dryness : of œsophagus.

Tissues

(OBS :) Enteralgia, having its seat in small intestines, no evacuations ; appearing suddenly after mental emotions, or getting cold feet ; accompanied by pallor, cold sweat and fainting.
Inflammatory and spasmodic affections of digestive and sexual organs.

Stage of life, constitution

Hysterical individuals.

Relations

Antidotes : Camphor., Opium and vegetable acids.
Compare : Ambra gris., Ignat., Moschus, Valer ., especially in nervous women with pains, cramps and weakness after severe illness.