Condensed Materia Medica

Cocculus Indicus cocc.

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Mind

Stupid feeling in the head.
Slowness of comprehension.
Time passes too quickly.
Thoughts fixed on one unpleasant subject; she is absorbed and observes nothing about her.
Sobbing, moaning and groaning.
Sudden great anxiety.
Vacillating, cannot accomplish anything at her work or finish anything; with contracted pupils.
Very easily affronted; every trifle makes him angry.
Startles very easily.

Sensorium

Vertigo: as from intoxication, or with inclination to vomit, when rising up in bed; must lie down.
Head befogged, generally increased by eating and drinking.
Dulness of the head, as after being drunk.
Sensation of emptiness and hollowness in the head, worse in open air and after eating, better when getting warm in bed.

Inner Head

Headache, with nausea and inclination to vomit.
Headache as if the eyes were being torn out.
Pressing headache from without inwards; or as if compressed by a bandage; or, as if screwed together.
Pressing pain in forehead, from without inwards, with nausea; aggravated by riding in a wagon; from eating; drinking and sleeping; from thinking; ameliorated during rest, in-doors.
Violent headache, cannot lie on back of head, must lie on side; worse least light; noise excites vomiting.
Beating in forehead, evenings, worse before and after eating; also when riding, especially in cold air; from talking; better in-doors.
Headache in occiput and nape, sensation of opening and shutting like a door; even in spotted fever.

Outer Head

Convulsive trembling of the head from weakness of the muscles of the neck; worse in the open air and after sleeping; from coffee and tobacco; better in warm room.
Cramp-like pain in left temporal muscle.

Eyes

Dimsightedness; obscured vision.
Dark spot before the eyes, though objects appear clearly.
Bruised pain in eyes, with inability to open lids, at night.
Pupils: dilated; contracted.
Eyes protruding.
Eyes closed, with the balls constantly rolling about.
Eyelids inflamed.

Ears

Sensitiveness of hearing.
Noise in the ears like rushing of waters, with hardness of hearing.

Nose

Sense of smell either acute or weak.
Discharge from nose bloody; pus-like.
Worse from strong smells.

Face

Face: pale; blue around the eyes; sweat in face, cold.
Red cheeks and heat of face, in cold room.
Pressive, benumbing and cramp-like pains in region of malar bones and masseter muscles; worse opening jaw.

Lower Face

Pustule below the right angle of mouth, with tensive pain when touched.
Swollen hard glands under the lower jaw, and nodes on the forearm, which are painful when stroked.

Teeth

Hollow tooth, pains only when chewing, even soft food; not when biting with empty mouth.

Tongue, etc

Taste: bitter; putrid; sour; offensive; metallic; like sulphur.
Food tastes as though salted too little; tobacco tastes bitter.
Yellow-coated tongue with aversion to food.
Tongues as if paralyzed; pains at base when protruded.

Mouth

Dryness of the mouth, at night, without thirst.
Sensation of dryness in mouth, with frothy saliva and violent thirst.

Throat

Dryness in the pharynx.
Pressive pain in the tonsils, worse when swallowing the saliva than when swallowing food.
Burning in the œsophagus, extending into the fauces, with taste of sulphur in the mouth.
A sort of paralysis, preventing swallowing.
Choking constriction in upper part of fauces, with difficult breathing and irritable cough, or disposition to cough.

Desires and Aversions

Hunger without appetite.
Thirst with aversion to drink.
Thirstless.
Disgust for beer; aversion to sour things.
Longing for cold drink, especially beer.

Eating and Drinking

All symptoms and affections, particularly of the head, increased by eating or drinking.
Coffee aggravates the headache.

Nausea and Vomiting

Frequent empty eructations; then she wants to eat.
Nausea which is felt in the head, and inclination to vomit, in morning, can scarcely rise on account of faintness.
Nausea and vomiting when riding in a carriage or getting cold.
Disposition to vomit, with profuse flow of saliva, on getting a chill or taking a cold; also, in connection with headache and pain in the bowels, as if bruised.
Vomit: sour; bitter; of bad odor.

Stomach

Violent cramp of stomach; also with flatulency and much saliva; gastralgia.
Contractive pain in the epigastrium, taking the breath.
Painful sensation of fulness in the stomach.

Hypochondria

Pain as if beaten in hypochondria.
Pressive pain in the hepatic region, increased by coughing and bending over.
Stitches in hepatic region.

Abdomen

Emptiness and sensation of hollowness in the abdomen.
Sensation in abdomen as if sharp stones rubbed together on every movement.
Great rumbling in the bowels.
Spasmodic flatulent colic about midnight, flatus passed without relief; belching relieves; pain severest in epigastric, umbilical and right iliac region.

Stool, etc

Contractive pain in rectum, preventing sitting, afternoons.
Stool followed by tenesmus recti causing faintness.
Diarrhœa, with sensation in abdomen as of sharp stones rubbing together.
Diarrhœa only through the day, thin yellowish, without pain.
Incarcerated flatus; obstruction of the bowels.
Hard stool every other day, expelled with great difficulty.

Urine

Frequent desire to urinate, with small discharge.
Watery urine.

Male Sexual Organs

Seminal emissions at night.
Excitement of the genitals, with desire for coition.
Increased sensitiveness of the genitals.
Drawing, sore pain in the testicles when touched.
Itching of scrotum.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses profuse and too often, when rising upon the feet it gushes out in a stream.
Scanty discharge of black blood.
During the effort to menstruate, she is so weak that she is scarcely able to stand.
Leucorrhœa in place of the menses.
Leucorrhœa, like serum, mixed with a purulent, ichorous liquid.
Dysmenorrhœa followed by hemorrhoids. Also with severe cutting in the womb, or sensation as if later was distended; seasick feeling flatulent gastralgia.
Painful pressure in uterus, with cramps in chest, nausea and vomiting.

Pregnancy

Shivering over the mammæ.
Discharge of bloody mucus from the uterus, during pregnancy.
Spasmodic and irregular labor-pains.
Terrible pain in small of back, with hour-glass contraction of uterus.
Spasms following difficult labor, and brought on by changing the position of the patient.

Larynx

Tightness in the larynx.
Talking aggravates all the symptoms, particularly of head.

Breathing

Obstruction of breath at the throat-pit, as if the throat were constricted.

Cough

Fatiguing cough from oppression of the chest.
Cough increased by indulging the irritation.

Lungs

Contractive tension of right side of chest taking the breath.
Cramps in the chest, also hysteric.
Audible rumbling in the left side of chest, as if from an emptiness, especially noticeable when walking.

Heart and Pulse

Pulse small and spasmodic, often imperceptible, seldom hard, somewhat accelerated.
Palpitation of the heart, from quick motion and mental excitement, with dizziness and faintness.

Neck and Back

Painful stiffness of neck when moving it.
Disabling drawing in the small of the back.
Paralytic pain extending over hips; with anxiety and apprehension.
Spasmodic constriction through the length of the spine; worse on motion.

Upper Limbs

Stitches in the shoulder-joint and muscles of upper arm, during rest.
Stitches in the right upper arm.
Now one hand, and again other, is numb and as if asleep.
Now one hand, and again other, is alternately hot or cold.

Lower limbs

Pain as if beaten in the thighs.
Inflammatory swelling of knee, with transitory stinging pains.
Cracking in the knees when moving.
Lower limbs: nearly paralyzed; paralytic feeling and drawing in thighs.
Hot, itching swelling of the feet.
Cold feet.
Œdema of feet, with paralysis of lower limbs, after a cold.

Limbs in General

Involuntary motions of right arm and right leg, cease during sleep.
Here and there in the limbs, a laming drawing, as if in the bones, continuous or in attacks.
Cracking and creaking in joints; painful stiffness of joints.
Now the hands, and again the feet, "go to sleep", alternately, in short attacks.

Position, etc

Rest: 3, 32. Motion: 19. Walking: 28. Moving: 33. Moving head: 31. Quick motion: 29. Slight exertion: 40. Rising on the feet: 23. Rising up in bed: 2. Bending over: 18. Change of position: 24. Must lie down: 2. Sitting: 20. Cannot stand: 23, 36. Lying: 3.

Nerves

Great lassitude of the whole body, it is an exertion to stand firmly.
Feels to weak to talk loud.
Epilepsy in the morning on rising from bed; fever afterwards.
Hysteric complaints, with sadness.
Paralysis of face, tongue, or pharynx; paraplegia, with numbness and tingling.

Sleep

Sleeplessness from night watching; also from pure mental activity.
Sleep disturbed by excessive anxiety and restlessness.
Sleep aggravates all the symptoms, particularly of head.
Anxious, frightful dreams.

Time

Morning: 16, 40. Afternoon: 20, 40. Evening: 3, 40, 46. Night: 5, 12, 22, 40, 46. Evening till morning: 40. Midnight: 19. Day: 20.

Temperature and Weather

Cannot bear the cold or warm (open) air.
Getting cold: 16. Cold room: 8. Cold air: 3. Open air: 2, 4. Getting warm: 2. External warmth: 40. Warm room: 4. In-doors: 3, 4.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chill frequently alternating with heat.
Internal chill in afternoon and evening; attended with shivering through whole body, but more in back and on legs; not relieved by external warmth.
Continuous chilliness, with hot skin.
Dry heat the whole night through.
Flushes of heat, with burning heat of cheeks and cold feet.
Sweat of the body from evening till morning, attended with cold sweat on the face.
Morning sweat principally on the chest.
Sweats over the whole body from the slightest exertion.
Sweat of the affected parts.

Attacks

Every other day: 20.

Sides

Right: 9, 18, 19, 28, 32, 34. Left: 28. Without inwards: 3, 44. Above downwards: 33.

Tissues

Emaciation.
Anæmic states.
Gouty pains or cracking in the joints.
Paralysis of inner parts.
Paralytic pain; tearing; soreness; digging; or as if beaten in the bones.
Glands: burning; pressure from out inwards; hot swelling; cold; stinging.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Touch: 9, 22, 46. Stroking affected part: 9. Riding in carriage or sailing: 3, 16.

Skin

Much itching, especially in the evening when undressing, or at night in a feather-bed.
Ulcers very sensitive to touch; pains in thin peripheries.

Stages and States

Often indicated with children and women.
Light hair.
Drunkards.

Relationship

Ailments from: Chamom., Cuprum, Ignat., Mercur., Nux vom. in gastralgia.