Coccus Cacti coc-c.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: FAUCES. Throat. Larynx. Chest. Genito-urinary. Left side.

Worse

IRRITATING FAUCES. Periodically. Heat. Lying. Awaking. Cold exposure.

Better

Washing in cold water.

General

Catarrh. Spasms. Hæmorrhage. Uric acid. Gouty-rheumatic. STRINGY DISCHARGES, EXPECTORATION, hanging from mouth, urine, feeling in throat, black menses, etc. Sensitive, fauces, vulva, skin, etc. Intolerable internal tickle. Pulsations; in glans; as of a fluid forcing its way. Dark blood.

Particulars

Sad; on waking at 2-3 A.M. Hawking, brushing teeth, etc., excites cough, retching or vomiting. Profuse post-nasal discharge. Constricted throat. Violent kidney pain, with dysuria. Nephritic colic. Irritated bladder. Sticking along ureters. Urging to urinate; > bloody clots from vagina. Urine scanty, thick, heavy, sour; sediment; sandy, dark red, brown or white; bloody mucus. Nephritis. REGULAR PAROXYSMS OF VIOLENT TICKLING, RACKING COUGH, ENDING IN VOMITING OR RAISING MUCH CLEAR, ROPY MUCUS (Kali-bi.); with a purple, red face and internal heat; periodically; with kidney symptoms; slowly increasing, then gradually declining; > cold air or drinks. Whooping cough. Soreness or stitches in apices of lungs. Coldness in back. Burning; as of pepper in nostrils, at tip of tongue, etc. (Lach.).

Related

Related: Ap. Berb. Lach. Pho.

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Common name

Cochineal

General

The clinical application of the symptoms of this remedy, place it among the medicines for spasmodic and whooping coughs, and catarrhal conditions of the bladder; spasmodic pains in kidneys, with visceral tenesmus. Anuria, anasarca, ascites.

Mind

Early morning or afternoon sadness.

Head

Suboccipital soreness; worse after sleep and exertion. Headache, worse from lying on back, better with the head high. Dull pain over right eye in morning. Sensation of a foreign body between upper lid and eyeball. Distress from cinders lodged in eye.

Respiratory

Constant hawking from enlarged uvula; coryza, with inflamed fauces; accumulation of thick viscid mucus, which is expectorated with great difficulty. Tickling in larynx. Sensation of a crumb behind larynx, must swallow continually; brushing teeth causes cough. Fauces very sensitive. Suffocative cough; worse, first waking, with tough, white mucus, which strangles. Spasmodic morning cough. Whooping cough attacks end with vomiting of this tough mucus. Chronic bronchitis complicated with gravel; large quantities of albuminous, tenacious mucus, are expectorated. Walking against wind takes breath away.

Heart

Sensation as if everything were pressed toward the heart.

Urinary

Urging to urinate; brick-red sediment. Urinary calculi, hæmaturia, urates, and uric acid; lancinating pains from kidney to bladder. Deep-colored, thick urine. Dysuria.

Female

Menses too early, profuse, black and thick; dark clots, with dysuria. Intermittent menstruation; flow only in evening and at night. Large clots escape when passing water. Labia inflamed.

Modalities

Worse, left side, after sleep, touch, pressure of clothing, brushing teeth, slightest exertion. Better, walking.

Relationship

Compare: Canth; Cact; Sars.

Dose

Lower triturations.

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Leaders

We now leave the spider family, but as we are dealing with small fry of the insect order we will notice the Coccus cacti, a small bug or insect which infests the plants of the cactus species of Mexico and Central America. It has made its best record in curing affections of the respiratory organs.

Whooping cough with expectoration of much tough, ropy white mucus. This mucus comes in large quantities and is often accompanied with gagging and vomiting, which seems to expel the mucus from the stomach. Sometimes a bronchial catarrh remains after whooping cough, which has this kind of expectoration. Here this remedy will sometimes clear up the whole case. This is all I know of its virtues ab usu in morbis. Now we come to a little pest of womankind all over.

Is another animal remedy often found valuable in whooping cough. With this remedy the aggravations generally come on in the after part of the night or in the morning when the child awakens. The paroxysms are not confined to this time, but the worst one comes then. The paroxysm ends in vomiting of clear ropy mucus in large quantities, hanging in long strings from the mouth. For such a cough Coccus cacti is excellent.

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Mind and Disposition

Ill-humored, irritable.

Head

Giddiness ; the head feels dull, as if he had drank too much, with a white-coated tongue. Congestion of blood to the head when entering a warm room ; better in the open air.

Eyes

Sensation as if a foreign body were lodged between the eyelid and the eye. Sensation as if the edges of the eyelids were swollen.

Ears

Sudden violent stitch in the left internal ear, extending to the left side of the neck and into the sternum. Intolerable itching in the left ear.

Nose

Dryness of the nose with inclination to sneeze. Swelling of the nose, with itching, violent sneezing and increased secretion of mucus. Redness of the edges of the nostrils. Crusts on the edges of the nostrils.

Mouth and Throat

Sensation as if cold air were blown on the teeth. Great soreness of the teeth to contact. Scraping and dryness in the throat. Sweetish, metallic taste in the mouth. Dry, brown-coated tongue. Stitches and burning in the throat and on the tongue. Swelling and redness of the right tonsil. Sensation as if the palate were elongated, with continuous hawking. Swelling of the tonsils, with continuous desire to swallow, and sensation as if a plug were lodged in the throat.

Appetite and Taste

Desire to cat often and much at a time. Sensation of hunger, with colic. Canine hunger. After dinner much thirst, and when he drinks water then chill.

Stomach and Abdomen

Spasmodic empty eructations. Heartburn. Sensation as if something indigestible were lying in the stomach. Nausea and vomiting ; vomiting of mucus. Stitches in the pit of the stomach when inhaling. Fulness in the abdomen, as if he had eaten too much, with swelling and tenderness of the pit of the stomach.

Stool and Anus

During stool, burning in the rectum ; stitches in the rectum. Itching at the anus, with tenesmus, from slight exertion. Stitch from the anus, extending into the urethra.

Urinary Organs

Stitches extending from the kidneys through the urethra into the bladder. Spasmodic pain in the bladder, with alternate coldness and heat. Itching at the end of the urethra. Great desire to urinate in the morning (with erection). Frequent micturition. The discharge of urine is slow, in small quantities, with violent burning pain. Red sediment like brick-dust.

Genitals

Men. Genitals hot, red, swollen. Sexual desire increased. Women. Catamenia too early and too profuse.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarse voice, with roughness and scraping sensation in the throat. Hawking and coughing, with increased thirst. Cough, in a warm room ; better, in a cold room. Periodical attacks of cough, with expectoration of mucus. Hooping-cough ; nightly, periodical attacks of cough from tickling in the larynx, ending with expectoration of a large quantity of viscid, stringy mucus. Morning cough ; first barking, dry cough, followed by the expectoration of viscid mucus ; the difficult expectoration causes vomiturition and vomiting. Cough, with expectoration of viscid, stringy, yellow, sour-tasting or reddish mucus. The bronchial tubes are loaded with mucus. Burning under the sternum. In the chest sensation of heat, of soreness. Sensation as if ever thing were pressed towards the heart. Heavy pressure in the region of the heart.

Extremities

Upper. Sensation as if a fine glass splinter were sticking in the tips of the fingers, under the nails. Lower. Violent stitches in the right hip-joint. Hot swelling of the knees. Pain in the right patella when walking.

Sleep

Frequent awaking during the night, with excitement as if he had taken too much coffee. Great sleepiness (after dinner). Vivid dreams.

Fever

Chilliness all day ; cold feet in the morning, with perspiration of the whole body. Chill in the evening, with heat in the head, followed by general heat, and then perspiration all night, which relieves. Perspiration, when walking, on the lower extremities, in the morning.

Conditions

Especially affects the mucous membranes. Aggravation on from motion and heat (headache).

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General

Cochineal. N. O. Hemiptera. An insect infesting cactus plants. The dried bodies of the female insects are used for making a tincture or trituration. They also constitute a well-known dye. ( Coccus Cacti has sometimes been confounded with Coccinella septempunctata , both insects being known as "Cochenille" in French.)

Clinical

Asthma. Backache. Catarrh. Gonorrhœa. Gravel . Hæmorrhages. Heart, affections of. Impotence. Irritation. Labia, inflammation of . Menorrhagia. Nephritis. Phthisis. Spasms. Tinnitus. Uric acid diathesis. Whooping-cough .

Characteristics

Coccus cacti acts more especially on mucous membranes. It compares with Cantharis in its action on the renal organs, and with Cactus in causing hæmorrhages, in disturbing the heart and in causing lancinating, stitching, and pricking sensations. Itching, sticking and biting in various parts of the skin; red spots and itching pimples. Sensations of irritation predominate, especially in throat and respiratory organs, eyes and urino-genital organs. In the throat there is a sensation as if a hair or crumb were lodged behind larynx, and as if a thread were hanging down the back of the throat causing a cough. Hæmorrhages are apt to be in large black clots, especially hæmorrhages from kidneys and uterus. Lancinating pains and itching of glans penis, symptoms of the passage of small calculi. The cough exactly corresponds to the whooping-cough type, there is no remedy which has a wider range in this affection. "Cough < in morning; the child awakens and is immediately seized with a paroxysm of coughing ending in vomiting clear, ropy mucus hanging in long strings from the mouth," Hoarseness. Fatigue of vocal organs. Violent tickling in larynx. Stitching and ulcerating pains below clavicles, especially left. Peculiar sensations are: As if a ball or stone lying in stomach; raging pain as though a fluid were injected into a small blood-vessel; as if something ascending towards stomach; as of mucus ascending and descending trachea; as of a plug of mucus moving in chest; as if head would split. Kunkel records the case of a man, 75, an who had suffered from nocturnal enuresis up to the age of seven. When almost 20 he frequently passed large quantities of uric acid, and at the same time he began to have symptoms of chronic catarrh of the colon, frequent scanty stools, much mucus, cross humour, itching anus, threatening of piles but no bleeding. Insomnia soon followed. Coc. c . 2 and 3 was given without benefit. Aqua calcis did some good but not much. In three successive years he was sent to Carlsbad with good result to the intestinal catarrh, but the sleeplessness was untouched. Gradually all kinds of arthritic symptoms developed, especially in knees. There was occasionally considerable flow of urine, and the more copious it was the better the patient slept, and the less pain in the joints. The same relief followed an attack of diarrhœa. Four weeks at Assmanhausen caused the excretion of large quantities of uric acid one year, but had no effect the next, and the knee got worse. Wiesbaden did good one year and none the next. Half a tumbler of Kronenquelle water drunk every morning did good to the knee and enabled him to walk better than he had done for a long time. In three or four years the excretions of uric acid had ceased and the patient's state grew worse: insomnia recurred, diarrhœa became much more frequent. A fortnight previous to such attack, patient noticed he had great aversion to butcher's meat. Coc. c. 30 gtt. i. morning and evening was given. Gradually sleep returned. There was almost daily excretion of uric acid, sometimes in the form of large shot; the diarrhœa ceased and the patient went about his work with pleasure. Berridge cured with Coc. c . a case of gonorrhœa, guided by the symptom: "Excruciating pain in left iliac region extending to groin and halfway down thigh, as if a fluid were forcing its way there ."

There is general sensitiveness to touch and pressure; rinsing mouth or brushing teeth causes cough and vomiting. Warmth < most symptoms; cough < entering warm room; throat < by warmth of bed. Tickling in trachea and cough > open air. Teeth very sensitive to cold. Catarrh < on slightest exposure. Catarrh from autumn till warm weather. Symptoms < night and early morning; cough < on waking. Symptoms are often periodic. The symptoms are < lying down. But the least exertion causes lassitude and tendency to perspire or cough, < during exercise. Mental exertion < pain in occiput. Rising up = hæmorrhage with passage of large clots from uterus.

Relations

Compare: Canth., Cact., Ocim. can., Sars.; apices of lungs sore, tenacious mucus, Kali bi. Many of the Cactus symptoms -pricking and sticking pains, heart disturbances, &c. ─ reappear in the pathogenesis of this Cactus-fed insect.

Mind

Ill-humoured, irritable, apprehensive.

Head

Giddiness; the head feels dull (pressive headache, also in frontal region), as if he had drunk too much, with a white-coated tongue. ─ Congestion of blood to the head when entering a warm room; > in the open air. ─ Throbbing, pressing, or sticking pains in temples. ─ Violent raging pain extending from r. eye along squamous portion of temporal bone on its inner side to occiput; it seems as though a fluid were injected paroxysmally into a small blood-vessel. ─ Sensation as though a hot constricting band extended from one mastoid process across occiput to the other; this region seemed tense and constricted; the condition became worse, until at last it affected the whole skull, in which the pain seemed to fix itself, and it seemed as though the bones became drawn closer and closer together; the whole scalp was also involved and seemed to be drawn tighter about the skull.

Eyes

Sensation as if a foreign body were lodged between the eyelid and the eye. ─ Sensation as if the edges of the eyelids were swollen. ─ Conjunctivitis; increased lachrymation.

Ears

Sudden violent stitch in l. internal ear, extending into l. side of neck and into sternum. ─ Intolerable itching in l. ear. ─ Tickling and itching in ears. ─ Cracking in ears on swallowing. ─ Great roaring in ears as from a storm.

Nose

Dryness of the nose, with inclination to sneeze. ─ Swelling of nose, with itching, violent sneezing, and increased secretion of mucus. ─ Redness on the edges of the nostrils. ─ Crusts (yellow) on the edges of the nostrils.

Face

Crawling sensations in the face.

Teeth

Sensation as if cold air were blown on the teeth. ─ Great soreness of the teeth to contact. ─ Drawing and jerking pains in teeth; teeth sensitive to cold things. ─ Loud speaking or brushing teeth causes cough and vomiting.

Mouth

Sweetish, metallic taste in the mouth (with accumulation of water in the mouth). ─ Taste: metallic; bitter; sweetish; sour. ─ Dry, brown-coated tongue. ─ Mouth and tongue dry, with much thirst. ─ Burning in mouth and throat. ─ Rawness of mouth and throat. ─ Stitches and burning in the throat and on the tongue. ─ Great sensitiveness of mouth and fauces, so that rinsing of the mouth caused cough and vomiting of thick masses of mucus. ─ Sensation as if the palate were elongated, with continuous hawking. ─ The arches of the palate are very irritable.

Throat

Swelling of the tonsils, with continuous desire to swallow, and sensation as if a plug were lodged in the throat. ─ Swelling and redness of r. tonsil. ─ Dryness and burning in throat and fauces. ─ Rawness and scraping in throat, with expectoration of mucus. ─ Sensation as if uvula were elongated, causing constant hawking. ─ Throat symptoms < from warmth, esp. in bed. ─ Difficult deglutition.

Appetite

Desire to eat often and much at a time; much thirst. ─ After dinner much thirst, and when he drinks water then chill. ─ Sensation of hunger, with colic. ─ Canine hunger.

Stomach

Spasmodic empty eructations. ─ Heartburn. ─ Sensation as if something indigestible were lying in the stomach. ─ Nausea and vomiting; vomiting of mucus. ─ Retching; inclination to vomit. ─ Distension of stomach. ─ Heaviness and pressure in stomach; sticking pains. ─ Stitches in the pit of the stomach when inhaling. ─ Epigastric region sensitive to touch.

Abdomen

Fulness in the abdomen, as if he had eaten too much, with swelling and tenderness of the pit of the stomach. ─ Pains in l. hypochondrium, as from incarcerated flatulence; pains extend to l. side of back and lumbar vertebræ. ─ Burning drawing in region of spleen. ─ Flatulent distension of abdomen, with much rumbling. ─ Griping in abdomen followed by diarrhœa.

Stool and Anus

During stool, burning in rectum; stitches in rectum. ─ Itching in anus, with tenesmus from slight exertion. ─ Stitch from the anus, extending into the urethra. ─ Copious, soft or pasty stools.

Urinary Organs

Stitches extending from the kidneys through the urethra into the bladder. ─ Dull, pressive pain and soreness in region of kidneys. ─ Pressure in bladder. ─ Spasmodic pain in the bladder, with alternate coldness and heat. ─ Itching at the end of the urethra. ─ Stitches and itching in urethra. ─ Burning pain in urethra while urinating. ─ Frequent and great desire to urinate. ─ Great desire to urinate in the morning (with erection). ─ Frequent micturition. ─ Frequent and copious urination, urine clear as water. ─ Red sediment like brickdust. ─ The discharge of urine is slow, in small quantities, with violent burning pain.

Male Sexual Organs

Genitals hot, red, swollen. ─ Frequent erections, with increased desire. ─ Lascivious mood, nocturnal emissions. ─ Loss of sexual power with constant dull burning pains in l. hypochondrium and pains across loins as if broken.

Female Sexual Organs

Swelling and heat of pudenda. ─ Soreness of vulva; cannot bear pressure of clothing. ─ Inflammation of labia. ─ Great tenderness and irritation in extreme lower part of vagina, < when urinating; can walk a long distance, but is < after sitting in the house all day. ─ Menses too early; too profuse; and last too long. ─ Hæmorrhage from uterus, with passage of large clots, which escape when quiet, or when getting up to pass water. ─ Enormous black clots pass from vagina. ─ Mucous leucorrhœa, preceded by drawing, thrusting pain in inguinal, vesical, and pubic regions.

Respiratory Organs

Fatigue of the vocal organs, even after speaking without exertion; the voice becoming rough and hoarse; respiration somewhat laborious. ─ Scraping sensation in the throat. ─ Hawking and coughing, with increased thirst. ─ The bronchial tubes are loaded with mucus. ─ Rawness in air-passages, causing cough. ─ Sensation of a crumb the size of a walnut sticking behind the larynx, obliging him to swallow constantly. ─ Whooping-cough; nightly, periodical attacks of cough from tickling in the larynx, ending with expectoration of a large quantity of viscid, stringy mucus. ─ Morning cough (6 am.); first barking, dry cough, followed by expectoration of viscid mucus; the difficult expectoration causes retching and vomiting. ─ Cough with expectoration of viscid, stringy, yellow, sour-tasting or reddish mucus. ─ Cough, in a warm room; > in a cold room. ─ Short paroxysms of cough, followed by easy expectoration of globules of mucus.

Chest

Burning under the sternum. ─ In the chest sensation of heat, of soreness. ─ Oppression and soreness in chest. ─ Stitches and sticking pains in sides of chest.

Heart and Pulse

Pressive pain in precordial region. ─ Sensation as if everything were pressed towards the heart. ─ Heavy pressure in the region of the heart. ─ Irregular beating and palpitation of the heart, with anxiety after eating. ─ Pulse accelerated.

Back

Stitches between the shoulders. ─ Bruised pain in small of back and region of kidneys. ─ Violent pressive pain in region of kidneys.

Limbs

Drawing, tearing pains in the limbs.

Upper Limbs

Sensation as if a fine glass splinter were sticking in the tips of the fingers, under the nails.

Lower Limbs

Violent stitches in the r. hip-joint. ─ Hot swelling of the knees. ─ Pain in the r. patella when walking.

Generalities

Great weariness and prostration. ─ Itching and prickling sensations in the skin.

Sleep

Irresistible desire to sleep. ─ Great sleepiness (after dinner). Vivid dreams. ─ Uneasy, restless sleep, interrupted by vivid dreams. ─ Frequent awaking during the night, with excitement, as if he had taken too much coffee.

Fever

Chilliness all day; cold feet in the morning, with perspiration of the whole body. ─ Chilliness all over the body, esp. in the afternoon and evening. ─ Increased warmth of body. ─ Greatly overpowered by moderate heat. ─ Chilliness in the evening, with heat in the head, followed by general heat, and then perspiration all night, which relieves. ─ Perspiration when walking; on the lower extremities; in the morning.

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Mind

Great indolence.
Depressed, apprehensive and anxious.
Fit of unconsciousness and absence of mind ; urine turbid. θ Morbus Brightii.
Ill-humored, fretful.
Lively, talkative mood.

Sensorium

Great confusion of head.
Dizziness.

Inner head

Rush of blood to head and spitting of dark blood. θ Menorrhagia.
Dull, pressive, burrowing or tearing frontal headache.
Tearing pain extending from left eye up into forehead, in evening after lying down.
Dull headache above right eye in morning on waking.
Headache in forehead and temples. θ Acute desquamative nephritis.
Pressive or sticking pains in both temples and sensation of fulness of head.
Violent raging pain extending from right eye along squamous portion of temporal bone, on its inner side, to occiput.
Pressive pain in right side of forehead, sometimes extending to occiput.
Indefinite drawing and pressure in occiput, temples and r. eye.
Head pains as if it would split.
Pain in head, with aching pain through small of back. θ Menorrhagia.
Pressive headache. θ Catarrh.
Pain in occiput < from mental exertion. θ Tinnitus.

Outer head

Sensation as if scalp was drawn tightly over skull.
Stitches in occiput, or crawling pain in scalp, induce scratching.

Sight and eyes

Pressure upon left eye and eyeball.
Pressive pain in orbits.
Smarting, biting pain between eyeballs and lids, as if a hair was between them.
Sensation as of a foreign body between lids and balls.
Inflammation of conjunctiva.

Hearing and ears

Roaring in ears begins in evening, lasts through night and disturbs sleep.
Sensation as if external auditory passages were closed, with crackling in right ear.
Roaring, ringing, crackling sounds in left ear.
Tickling-itching in one or both ears.
Violent stitching in ears.
Painful, cramplike drawing, especially in right ear.

Smell and nose

Dryness of nose, with inclination to sneeze.
Swelling of nose, with itching, violent sneezing and increased secretion of mucus.
Redness of edges of nostrils ; crusts on edges of nostrils.
Frequent, violent sneezing.
Discharge of thick, yellow mucus from nose. θ Catarrh.
Secretion of much mucus in nose.
Nose dry, stopped ; dryness of mucous membrane of nose, posterior nares and throat.

Upper face

Sallow complexion.
Face deeply red. θ Acute desquamative nephritis.
Purple face, with racking cough and splitting headache.
Crawling, beginning in malar bones and extending over nose to opposite cheek.

Lower face

Parotitis.

Teeth and gums

Sudden drawing pains in teeth.
Toothache, with shooting pains in hollow roots of teeth, great sensitiveness to touch.
Great sensitiveness of teeth to cold things.

Taste, speech, tongue

Offensive nauseous taste in mouth.
Unpleasant, sweetish, metallic taste in mouth.
Sweetish taste. θ Acute desquamative nephritis.
Metallic taste, with accumulation of water in mouth ; constant desire to spit.
Great dryness of tongue and of whole mouth.
Tongue rough, clean and dry.

Inner mouth

Great sensitiveness of mouth and fauces, so that rinsing the mouth causes cough and vomiting of thick masses of mucus.
Dryness of mouth and palate, causing much thirst.
Accumulation of much tasteless saliva in mouth ; constant desire to spit ; salivation.
Odor from mouth as from a disordered stomach.
Rawness of mouth, throat and pharynx.

Palate and throat

Arches of palate very irritable, so that loud speaking or brushing teeth causes cough and vomiting.
Sensation as if a crumb or hair was lodged in throat behind larynx.
Tickling in throat.
Fauces very sensitive.
Arch of palate and fauces as far as visible slightly red.
Constriction of throat.
Roughness of throat, cough and sneezing.
Burning in throat with hawking.
Frequent hawking of mucus.
Rawness and scraping in throat.
Sore throat with great dryness.
Throat < in warmth, especially in bed.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Great appetite or ravenous hunger with speedy satiety, or sensation of hunger even after eating.
Little appetite. θ Acute desquamative nephritis.
Great thirst ; drinks water often and in large quantities. θ Menorrhagia.
Thirst. θ Acute desquamative nephritis.

Eating and drinking

Anxiety after eating, from irregular action of heart.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Eructations of air.
Nausea. θ Menorrhagia.
Gagging and vomiting of food caused by expectoration of ropy mucus.
Hawking of mucus provokes vomiting.
Vomiting : of thick masses of mucus ; and cough produced by loud speaking, rinsing mouth or brushing teeth ; on account of irritability of arches of palate and sensitiveness of mouth and fauces ; with copious expectoration after midnight, caused by a spasmodic cough.
Vomiting of white, bitter tasting froth. θ Menorrhagia.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Epigastric region, especially pit of stomach, sensitive to pressure.
Distension of stomach.
Sensation of fulness and pressure in stomach.
Pain in stomach with sensation as of a ball or stone lying in it.
Severe heartburn.
Sensation as of something ascending towards stomach, which makes her think she will vomit water.
For three evenings in succession, sickness at stomach, with faintness and vomiting of white, bitter tasting froth. θ Menorrhagia.

Hypochondria

Burning and drawing in left hypochondrium.
Constant, dull, burning pain in left hypochondrium and pain across loins as if broken, < from lying on affected side, with loss of sexual power.
Pains in left hypochondrium, as from incarcerated flatulence ; the pains extending to left side of back and lumbar vertebræ.
Dull stitches in region of spleen.

Abdomen and loins

Weak forcing across lower part of bowels. θ Vaginitis.
Abdomen distended. θ Menorrhagia.
Distension with constant gurgling and rumbling of bowels.
Sensation of tension and constriction about abdomen.
Griping in abdomen followed by liquid stool.
Griping, cutting pain in umbilical region.
Sharp pains in lower part of abdomen drawing her double, first in right side, then in left θ Menorrhagia.
Insufferable abdominal pains at night. θ Acute desquamative nephritis.
Sticking, drawing, thrusting pain in inguinal, vesical and pubic regions, followed by a mucous leucorrhœa.
Bruised pain in groins and sacro-lumbar region.

Stools and rectum

Frequent ineffectual urging to stool.
Profuse, soft and pasty stools.
Hard, dry stool.
Sticking pains in rectum.
Burning, crawling or itching in anus.

Urinary organs

Dull pressing, sticking, cramplike, oppressive pains in kidneys, < from pressure or motion.
Spasmodic pains in kidneys.
Nephritis with pericarditis.
Nephritic colic, with very copious urine and dull pain in urethra.
Spasmodic pains in kidneys, with vesical tenesmus and frequent emissions of deep-colored urine.
Renal pains with spasmodic difficulties of chest.
Irregularities in urinary secretion.
Acute renal dropsy.
Sudden, acute, prolonged lancinations, extending from left renal region along ureters into bladder.
Cutting pain in region of bladder.
Pressure in bladder with constant urging to urinate.
Urging to urinate. θ Acute desquamative nephritis.
Urging to urinate, but can pass no urine until an enormous clot of black blood has passed. θ Menorrhagia.
Frequent scanty discharges of urine, difficult and slow in coming, taking place with straining and vesical tenesmus.
Urine excoriates ; falls over vulva drop by drop.
Urine contains mucus in the form of filaments, clouds, and flocks, and the sediment is entangled with much mucus.
Very acrid, irritating urine.
The urine seems to be thick like oil.
Hemorrhage from the kidneys.
Brick-dust sediment in urine, adhering to vessel.
Urine dark-colored, with white sediment, an inch deep, over which was a granular layer, half an inch thick, deeply reddened with blood. θ Acute desquamative
nephritis.
Odor of urine sometimes alkaline, often ammoniacal ; also cadaverous when it is dark-colored and cloudy.
Urethral tenesmus.
Burning in urethra when urinating and continuing after.
Very violent lancinating thrusts in the anterior portion of urethra and glans, a long time after having urinated when in bed at night ; they force him to groan and cry out, and last a minute and a half.
Violent pruritus and itching at orifice of urethra.
Gravel.

Male sexual organs

Great sexual excitement with frequent erections.
Loss of sexual power, with constant, dull, burning pain in left hypochondrium and pains across loins as if broken.

Female sexual organs

Hemorrhage from uterus with passage of large clots, which escape when quiet or when getting up to pass water.
Great tenderness and irritation in extreme lower part of vagina, < when urinating ; can walk a long distance but is < after sitting in the house all day. θ Vaginitis.
Sudden cessation of menstrual flow on second day from exposure ; non-appearance of menses for seven weeks, when she was taken with rush of blood to head and spitting of dark blood ; menses lasted but a few hours ; a week later flow returned with pain in head, aching pain
through small of back, at times chilliness, then again fever and sweat ; flow continued two weeks, but only in evening after lying down, never when stirring about ; discharge pink. θ Menorrhagia.
Menses too early and too abundant, of dark, thick blood, with a sensation of tension and constriction about abdomen and of something ascending towards stomach, which makes her think she will vomit water.
Enormous black clots pass from vagina. θ Menorrhagia.
Leucorrhœa consisting of mucus, preceded by drawing, thrusting pain in inguinal, vesical and pubic regions.
Pain in vulva so severe on going to bed that she is obliged to sit up and go to sleep in that position ; tumor of vulva increases, becomes hard and is sensitive to touch, throbbing and burning in tumor and excoriated feeling on walking.
Soreness of vulva ; cannot bear pressure of clothing.
Inflammation of labia.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Fatigue of vocal organs, even after speaking without exertion ; the voice becomes rough and hoarse ; respiration somewhat laborious.
Hoarseness.
Sensation as though a lump as large as a walnut was sticking behind larynx, which obliged him to swallow constantly.
Rawness of air passages, which frequently compels him to cough.
Tickling in larynx, very violent, waking him at 11.30 P. M., causing cough with expectoration of much tenacious mucus, for ten minutes.
Scraping sensation in larynx, causing some paroxysms of cough, with expectoration of little balls of mucus.
Scraping and dry feeling in larynx, < towards evening, with hacking cough and hawking. θ Catarrh.
Laryngeal irritation.
Feeling as of mucus ascending and descending trachea, causing tickling and cough, < in a warm room, > in open air.
Constant tickling in bronchi, about their bifurcation, caused by a feeling as if a plug of mucus was moving in chest, in spite of the profuse expectoration.
Catarrh of larynx and air passages.
Chronic bronchitis complicated with gravel ; acid diathesis.
Protracted bronchial catarrhs remaining after whooping cough.

Respiration

Respiration somewhat laborious, with fatigue of vocal organs.
Difficult breathing ; dyspnœa.
Shortness of breath. θ Catarrh.
Asthma complicated with affection of kidneys and turbid urine.

Cough

Frequent hacking cough.
Paroxysms of tickling cough, ending with expectoration of mucus.
Cough < at 6 or 7 in morning, or on first rising, in paroxysms, which do not cease until a quantity of tenacious mucus is raised. θ Whooping cough.
Cough wakes him at 6 A. M., having remissions of a minute ; it is at first dry, clear and barking ; subsequently some thick mucus is detached, and the effort of doing this causes desire to vomit, with excoriated feeling in throat and pressive headache. θ Catarrh.
Cough < when waking, at 6 A. M. clear, dry and barking ; slight expectoration of thick, viscid mucus, < an hour after dinner, 3 P. M., so violent as to cause vomiting and expectoration of a great quantity of thick, viscous and albuminous mucus.
Attacks of barking, tickling cough, particularly night and morning, after coughing awhile, expectoration of a great quantity of mucus, which is like the white of an egg, tough, white or whitish-yellow, can be drawn into threads and has a saltish taste, with nausea and vomiting of food.
Cough most constant in morning, with expectoration of slime and yellowish mucus of a salt taste. θ Catarrh.
Cough < on waking, which racks the system all over ; head pains as if it would split ; purple face.
Suffocative cough, with expectoration of much tough, ropy, white mucus, which accumulates in chest and throat and is difficult to raise, nearly causing strangulation and vomiting of food, worse during night after going to bed and after remaining long in one position, when entering a
heated room after having been in cold, open air.
Spasmodic cough after midnight causes vomiting with copious expectoration.
Coughing and vomiting follow loud speaking, rinsing of mouth or brushing teeth.
Cough more or less constant, but < when lying or during exercise. θ Catarrh.
Cough caused by a feeling as of mucus ascending and descending trachea.
Expectoration : of globular mucus, some as large as a pea ; of viscid, albuminous mucus ; ropy ; of lumpy, yellow or greyish mucus ; with a feeling as if a plug of mucus was moving in chest ; easy in morning ; of yellow mucus of an acrid taste.
Spitting of dark blood. θ Menorrhagia.
Whooping cough, < when first waking.
Catarrhal attacks, which came on early in Fall, upon first change from warm to cold weather, lasting until next Summer when weather again became warm.
Cough of drunkards.

Inner chest and lungs

Bruised pain in left clavicular region, < from motion.
Tensive pain in upper part of left chest, near clavicle.
Feeling as of a plug of mucus moving in chest.
Sensation of burning, soreness or pressure beneath sternum.
Stitches in upper part of chest.
Soreness and pain of whole chest, < at superior portion. θ Catarrh.
Oppression of lower part of chest, difficult breathing.
Pressure upon chest, with hoarseness.
Spasmodic difficulties of chest, with renal pains.
Transient, very painful stitches, at times in left, at times in r. side of chest.
Sudden pulmonary congestion, with profuse mucous secretion and spasmodic suffocative cough.
Accumulation of mucus in chest, difficult to raise, nearly causing strangulation and vomiting of food.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Severe pressive pain in precordial region, with palpitation at night.
Irregular beating of heart in rapid succession, causing anxiety after eating.
Tumultuous action of heart while lying down after dinner.
Pulse accelerated.

Neck and back

Slight sticking pain in both scapulæ.
Stitches between shoulders.
Aching pain through small of back. θ Menorrhagia.
Region of kidneys painful to pressure. θ Acute desquamative nephritis.
Pain across loins as if broken, with loss of sexual power.
Fleeting stitches in loins. θ Acute desquamative nephritis.
Bruised pain in sacro-lumbar region and in groins.

Upper limbs

Tension, drawing and tearing in right shoulder.
Burning, tearing, pressive pain near left elbow.
Severe stitches in tip of left elbow.

Lower limbs

Great lassitude and weariness of lower limbs.
Drawing down the thighs and calves, with great weariness in latter.
Pressive stitching pain in patellæ.
Pain and stiffness in right leg. θ Menorrhagia.
Tearing stitches along muscles of right calf, frequently repeated.
Great weariness of feet ; burning pain in soles of feet.

Limbs in general

Sensation of weakness or prostration in limbs.
Pain in limbs. θ Acute desquamative nephritis.

Rest. position. motion

When quiet : hemorrhage from uterus, with passage of large clots.
After sitting in house all day : tenderness and irritation in extreme lower part of vagina <.
While lying down : after dinner, tumultuous action of heart.
After lying down : tearing from left eye up into forehead ; cough <.
Menstrual discharge takes place in evening and only when lying down, never when stirring about.
After remaining long in one position in bed ; suffocative cough <.
Pain in left hypochondrium and across loins < from lying on affected side.
Pain in vulva so severe on going to bed that she is obliged to sit up and go to sleep in that position.
Motion : < pain in kidneys ; < bruised pain in left clavicular region.
From least exertion : lassitude and tendency to perspire.
When getting up : hemorrhage from uterus with passage of large clots.
On walking : excoriated feeling in tumor of vulva.
During exercise : cough <.

Nerves

General lassitude. θ Acute desquamative nephritis.
Lassitude, with a tendency to perspire from least exertion.
Great weariness, weakness and prostration.
Hemiplegia with numbness.
(In sick :) Spasms of chest with renal pains.
Nervousness.
Spasms.

Sleep

Inclination to yawn ; great sleepiness.
Uneasy sleep, with extreme restlessness during night.
Vivid dreams.

Time

After midnight : spasmodic cough with copious expectoration and vomiting.
At 11.30 P. M. : violent tickling in larynx, followed by cough with expectoration.
At 6 A. M. : cough wakes him.
At 6 or 7 in morning : cough <.
In morning : on awaking, dull headache above right eye ; cough < on first rising ; attacks of barking, tickling cough, with vomiting and expectoration of mucus ; cough most constant.
At 3 P. M. : violent cough, with vomiting and expectoration of mucus.
In evening : after lying down, tearing in left eye up into forehead ; scraping and dry feeling in larynx < ; attacks of barking, tickling cough, with vomiting and expectoration of mucus.
At night : insufferable abdominal pains ; in bed, very violent lancinating thrusts in anterior portion of urethra and glans ; suffocative cough < ; pressive pains in precordial region with palpitation ; extreme restlessness.

Temperature and weather

Warmth : throat <.
In warm room : tickling in trachea and cough <.
When entering heated room from cold open air : suffocative cough <.
Warmth of bed : < throat.
In open air : tickling in trachea and cough >.
Slightest exposure aggravates catarrh severely.
Cold things : great sensitiveness of teeth.
Catarrhal attacks come on early in Fall, upon first change from warm to cold weather, lasting until next Summer when weather again became warm.

Fever

General heat over whole body followed by slight perspiration.
Sensation of coldness in various parts of body.
Chilliness, then again fever and sweat. θ Menorrhagia.
Profuse sweat.

Attacks, periodicity

Sudden : drawing pains in teeth ; lancinations from renal region along ureters into bladder ; cessation of menstrual flow on second day, from exposure ; pulmonary congestion, with profuse mucous secretion and spasmodic, suffocative cough.
Spasmodic : cough after midnight ; pains in kidneys ; difficulties of chest with renal pains ; suffocative cough.
Transient : painful stitches at times in left, at times in right side of chest ; stitches in loins.
Paroxysmal : tickling cough, ending with expectoration of mucus.
Frequent : violent sneezing ; hawking of mucus ; ineffectual urging to stool ; emissions of deep-colored urine ; scanty discharges of urine, with straining and tenesmus ; erections ; coughing ; hacking cough ; tearing stitches along muscles of
right calf.
Lasting a minute and a half : violent lancinating thrusts in anterior portion of urethra and glans at night in bed.
For ten minutes : cough with expectoration of much tenacious mucus, at 11.30 P. M.
Constant : desire to spit ; pain in left hypochondrium and pain across loins ; gurgling and rumbling of bowels ; urging to urinate ; swallowing ; tickling in bronchi about their bifurcation ; cough.
Beginning in evening and lasting through night : roaring in ears, disturbing sleep.
Protracted : bronchial catarrhs remaining after whooping cough.
For three evenings in succession : sickness of stomach, with faintness and vomiting.
For seven weeks : non-appearance of menses.
From early in Fall until next Summer : catarrhal attacks.
Chronic : bronchitis complicated with gravel.

Locality and direction

Right : dull headache above eye ; pressive pain in side of forehead ; indefinite drawing and pressure in eye ; crackling in ear ; painful, cramplike drawing in ear ; tension, drawing and tearing in shoulder ; pain and stiffness in leg ;
tearing stitches along muscle of calf.
Left : pressure upon eye and eyeball ; roaring, ringing and crackling in ear ; burning and drawing in hypochondrium ; constant, dull, burning pain in hypochondrium ; pains in hypochondrium, as from incarcerated flatus, pains extending to side of back and lumbar
vertebræ ; bruised pain in clavicular region ; tensive pain in upper part of chest near clavicle ; burning, tearing, pressive pain near elbow ; severe stitches in tip of elbow.
From right to left : sharp pains in lower part of abdomen.

Sensations

As if head would split ; as if scalp was drawn tightly over skull ; as if a hair was between eyeballs and lids ; as of a foreign body between lids and balls ; as if external auditory passages were closed ; as if a crumb or hair was lodged in throat
behind larynx ; as of hunger even after eating ; as of a ball or stone lying in stomach ; as of something ascending towards stomach, which makes her think she will vomit water ; as if loins were broken ; as of incarcerated flatus in left hypochondrium, pains
extending to left side of back and lumbar vertebræ ; as if a crumb or large walnut was sticking behind larynx ; as of mucus ascending and descending trachea ; as if a plug of mucus was moving in chest ; as if head would split.
Pain : in head ; in occiput ; in stomach ; in lower part of abdomen ; in head ; of vulva ; of whole chest ; in right leg ; in limbs.
Spasmodic pains : in kidneys.
Violent lancinating thrusts in anterior portion of urethra and glans.
Lancinations : sudden, acute and prolonged, from left renal region along ureters into bladder.
Cutting : in umbilical region ; in region of bladder.
Stitches : in occiput ; in region of spleen ; in upper part of chest ; at times in left, at times in right side of chest ; between shoulders ; in loins ; in tip of elbow.
Tearing stitches : along muscles of right calf.
Stitching : in ears ; in patellæ.
Sticking : in both temples ; in inguinal, vesical and pubic regions ; in rectum ; in kidneys ; in both scapulæ ; in various parts of skin.
Thrusting : in inguinal, vesical and pubic regions.
Shooting : in hollow roots of teeth.
Tearing : frontal headache ; from left eye up into forehead ; in right shoulder ; near left elbow.
Drawing : in occiput, temples and right eye ; in teeth ; in left hypochondrium ; in inguinal, vesical and pubic regions ; in right shoulder ; down thighs and calves.
Painful cramplike drawing ; especially in right ear.
Splitting : headache.
Racking : cough.
Scraping : in throat ; in larynx.
Raging pain : from right eye along squamous portion of temporal bone, on inner side, to occiput.
Burning : in throat ; in left hypochondrium ; in anus ; in urethra when urinating and continuing after ; in tumor of vulva ; beneath sternum ; near left elbow ; in soles of feet.
Soreness : of throat ; of vulva ; beneath sternum ; of whole chest, < at superior portion.
Tensive pain : in upper part of left chest, near clavicle.
Tension : about abdomen ; in right shoulder.
Stiffness : of right leg.
Griping : in abdomen ; in umbilical region.
Smarting : between eyeballs and lids.
Biting : between eyeballs and lids ; in various parts of skin.
Burrowing : frontal headache.
Cramplike pains : in kidneys.
Constriction : of throat ; about abdomen.
Bruised pain : in groins and sacro-lumbar region ; in left clavicular region.
Excoriated feeling : in tumor of vulva when walking ; in throat.
Rawness : of mouth, throat and pharynx ; of air passages.
Roughness : of throat.
Aching : through small of back.
Pressive pains : in orbits ; in both temples ; in right side of forehead, sometimes extending to occiput ; in occiput, temples and right eye ; in precordial region with palpitation ; near left elbow ; in patellæ.
Pressive : frontal headache ; headache.
Pressing : in kidneys.
Pressure : upon left eye and eyeballs ; in stomach ; in bladder ; beneath sternum ; upon chest.
Oppressive pains : in kidneys.
Oppression : of lower part of chest.
Fulness : of head ; of stomach.
Throbbing : in tumor of vulva.
Tickling : in one or both ears ; in throat ; in larynx ; in trachea ; in bronchi about their bifurcation.
Crawling pain : in scalp ; in malar bones, or beginning in malar bones and extending over back of nose to opposite cheek ; in anus.
Numbness : with hemiplegia.
Weariness : of lower limbs ; in calves ; of feet.
Lassitude : of lower limbs.
Dull : frontal headache ; headache above right eye ; pain in l. hypochondrium ; pains in kidneys ; pain in urethra.
Coldness : in various parts of body.
Dryness : of nose ; of posterior nares and throat ; of tongue and of whole mouth ; of palate ; in larynx.
Violent pruritus : at orifice of urethra.
Itching : in one or both ears ; of nose ; in anus ; at orifice of urethra ; in various parts of skin ; pimples in various parts of skin.

Tissues

Especially affects mucous membranes ; catarrh ; whooping cough, etc.
Menorrhagia with large coagula.
Renal and vesical troubles.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : toothache with great sensitiveness ; tumor of vulva hard and sensitive.
Pressure : epigastric region, especially pit of stomach, sensitive ; pains in kidneys < ; region of kidneys painful.
Pressure of clothing : vulva cannot bear.
Scratching : pains in scalp oblige.
Rinsing mouth causes cough and vomiting on account of sensitiveness of mouth and fauces.
Brushing the teeth causes cough and vomiting, arches of palate being very irritable.

Skin

Itching, sticking and biting in various parts of skin.
Here and there, small red spots and itching pimples in various parts of skin.

Stage of life, constitution

Girl, æt. 2 1/2 ; spasms.
Miss Smith, æt. 20, sallow complexion, comparatively healthy, never any menstrual troubles ; menorrhagia.
Student, æt. 20 ; tinnitus.
Mrs. C., æt. 27, ailing for two years, < for six months ; vaginitis.
WP., æt. 40, married ; impotence and backache.
Mrs. Smith, æt. 50 ; subject for years to catarrhal attacks.

Relations

Compare : Canthar . (action on kidneys).

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Lecture

There is a little remedy and will be a relief after the study of so many difficult ones. With fuller proving it will doubtless show itself a deep-acting constitutional remedy.

Although it has cured some deep-seated chronic troubles, it has been used chiefly in acute affections. This is only because of the scantiness of its provings and our lack of knowledge concerning it in a general way.

Very few mental symptoms have been brought out. Its use, so far as demonstrated, is mostly in catarrhal conditions of the air passages, and whooping cough, with copious, ropy, jelly-like mucus.

Great quantities of this mucus form in the nose, in the throat, in the air passages generally, and in the vagina. The routine practitioner, whenever be sees thick, ropy, gelatinous mucus, thinks only of Kali bi.

That comes from the study of key-notes. But it must be remembered that other remedies besides Kali bi. have this.

Cough

Spasmodic cough; whooping cough; the cough of drunkards. The chronic catarrhal state of the Coccus cacti patient comes on especially in the winter. It comes on when the cold weather begins and lasts till the warm weather comes.

The patient is cold, and his complaints come on in cold weather. He is sensitive to cold, easily takes cold. But you must distinguish between the patient himself and his complaints, because they are entirely opposite to each other.

When he once becomes sick from exposure to cold, he is always worse in a warm room and better in the cold air. His cough is brought on in a warm room; from being too warm in bed; from drinking warm things. It is better from drinking cold things in a cold room; worse from exertion; from getting heated up; from becoming warm; that is, after the complaint has once set in, it reverses itself.

This is not unlike many other remedies. I have received many letters from doctors, saying:

"Why is it that in your repertory and in Boenninghausen's, certain remedies are put down as better from cold and worse from cold?

They certainly cannot have both."

But they do have both, sometimes under different conditions and sometimes under the same conditions. Sometimes these are primary, sometimes they are secondary symptoms. A remedy must be examined to ascertain how it is that these circumstances can be the very opposite of each other.

But commonly Boenninghausen registers both those things that belong to particulars and those things that belong to generals, and if the symptom, in his judgment, is strikingly worse by a certain circumstance, even if it is the very opposite of the general, he had that symptom in boldfaced type. Phos. is a good illustration of what we have been talking about.

If you make a careful study of Phos. you will see that the complaints of the chest are all worse from cold, from cold air and from being cold. He catches cold and it settles in the chest, and the cough and irritation in the chest are worse from cold and being exposed to cold air.

But he wants cold things in the stomach. His stomach feels better from cold things. Let him have head trouble and his head is better from cold, he wants cold things in his stomach. If he has stomach trouble, it is made worse by anything hot; he wants cold water to, drink, and as soon as it gets warm, he vomits it up. You see Phos. is worse from cold and worse from heat. The pains in the extremities are better from heat.

The chronic cough, as has been said, is likely to begin with cold weather and last all winter, with a copious formation of mucus in the chest. It is a spasmodic cough, forcing the patient into the most violent efforts. The face becomes purple. Finally he retches and vomits long strings of tough, ropy mucus filling the mouth and throat and causing him to choke.

This is due to the fact that the mucus is so tenacious that it cannot be ejected from the pharynx in the usual way, therefore he must vomit. Now, there is a striking feature of this remedy. Anything coming in contact with the pharynx, the inside of the mouth, or even the gums, produces gagging and retching and will bring on the cough.

Chest

We find this in the chronic states of sensitive persons, who are unable to brush the teeth or rinse the mouth without gagging and sometimes vomiting.

There is a general hyperesthesia of the skin and mucous membranes. Sensitive to the pressure of the clothing.

With the chest troubles there is much dyspnoea. He cannot walk without bringing on difficult breathing. He cannot ascend a height without suffocation. After the quantities of mucus are cleared out the cough is better and he goes on for two, three or four hours, when another one of these awful attacks comes on.

They are apt to be worse at night when he becomes warm in bed. If he can lie in a cool room without much covering he will go longer without coughing.

The whooping cough is of a similar character. You will see the child lying in bed with the covers off. It wants the room cold, and the mother will tell you that if she can get to it quickly enough with a drink of cold water she can ward off the paroxysm.

The chest fills up with mucus until respiration cannot be carried on any longer and it must be cleared out, yet the child will resist and hold its breath to prevent coughing. You will be astonished to see how speedily Coccus cacti will change the character of that cough.

One of the earliest signs of improvement will be observed in the easier respiration. The cough becomes less violent, the retching passes away, and in a week or ten, days the cough will go, too. Cough worse after eating, worse on waking, worse in a warm room.

In the early stages of whooping cough Carbo veg. will develop and. bring out the symptoms and furnish a good picture for a second prescription, even if it does not cure.

Discharge of thick yellow mucus from the nose; nose stopped up, with inclination to sneeze. Great dryness of the nose. The air passages burn after the mucus has been cleared away. The chest burns from the mere exhaling of air. Sore throat with redness. Tickling in the throat. Sensation of a hair or crumb lodged in the throat behind the larynx. Fauces very sensitive.

Arch of palate and fauces, as far as visible, very red. Burning in the throat < in the warmth, especially when warmed up in bed, < from warm drinks, though hot drinks are not so bad. Better from cold drinks. If the patient gets warm in bed or the room gets warm he commences to clutch the larynx and cough. The slightest touch on the palate or even the gums in examination of the throat will cause gagging sometimes when the parts look normal. He cannot hawk without gagging. On swallowing food sometimes it will come right back again and cause gagging and retching.

Great thirst; wants water often and in large quantities. Nauseous taste in the mouth; never rid of it. Nausea in the throat. Vomiting of white, bitter tasting froth. Toothache; sudden drawing pains in the teeth, worse from cold and from touch.

Mind

The mental symptoms are chiefly depression and anxiety. Great sadness; a cloud seems to hang over everything.

Apprehensiveness. especially at 2 to 4 A.M. This state may alternate with loquacity and liveliness, like Lachesis. There are other symptoms worse after sleep; wakes in the morning with basilar headache, or with headache in the forehead; < mental exertion; after lying down; sometimes > from slow motion; < on coughing and from exertion; > after sleep.

Kidneys

A strong feature is its action on the kidneys, resembling acute parenchymatous nephritis. Albumen in the urine. Dark red sediment in the urine. Pain shooting from the kidney to the bladder and down the legs; < from motion.

Renal colic. Urging to urinate, but inability to pass urine until a large clot of blood has been passed. In Coccus cacti the right side of the heart is affected, the vessels become friable and there is haemorrhage, oozing of blood, forming great black clots.

The above symptom suggests a woman with uterine hemorrhage. There are haemorrhages of the uterus where the blood flows freely, coagulates slowly and does not form much of any clot in the vagina. But in this remedy the clots form very rapidly and the vagina becomes packed, and the bladder cannot be emptied until the clot is expelled. Uterine hemorrhage is a strong feature of this remedy. Copious, frequent, prolonged menstrual flow. Large, hard, black clots fill the uterus, are expelled by labor-like pains, and form again. Inflammation of uterus and vagina, with copious, thick, white, jelly-like, ropy mucus. Soreness of the vulva; cannot bear the pressure of the clothing.

Haemoptysis, dark, clotted < from exertion.

In the male there is impotence with dull pain in the loins. Dull pains in the region of the kidneys, with albuminuria; heavy sediment in the urine, etc., just such a state as you would find in a child that had taken cold after scarlet fever.