Cahinca cahin.

Brazilian Plant-Chiococca (CAHINCA)

This remedy has been found of use in dropsical affections. Its urinary symptoms are well marked. Albuminuria, with dyspnœa on lying down at night. Ascites and anasarca, with dry skin.

Constant desire to urinate. Polyuria while travelling. Urine fiery. Burning pain in urethra, especially glandular portion.

Drawing in of testicles and spermatic cord. Pain worse during passage of pungent smelling urine.

Pain in region of kidneys; better lying bent backward. General fatigue.

Compare: Apocyn; Ars; Coffea (similar botanically and in relieving effects of fatigue)

Third potency or lower.

Want of disposition for intellectual labor.
Ennui, forgetful.
Violent and angry in evening.
Mental effort increases headache.
Weeping with cough.

Vertigo : with desire to vomit ; when going up-stairs.
Dulness, fulness and pressure in frontal region, and in sinciput.

Sensations in head like those produced by ether.
Head dull and heavy.
Dulness, pressure, and afterwards weight in sinciput.
Pressure from above downward in sinciput.
Lancinating shocks in left frontal eminence.
Tearing in middle of forehead.
Lancination in right temple and right side of chest.
One sudden and severe pain in left side of head and forehead.
Pulsating pain in forehead over left eye.
Pains in head ; dull, heavy, dragging, steady pains from forehead to vertex, through central line.
Weight in temples and occiput.
Weight and pressure in occiput.
Very violent headache, especially in occiput ; < in evening.

Appearance like clouds before eyes.
Goes to sleep at 3 P. M., in consequence of an inclination to do so ; on waking an hour afterwards he could see nothing, even in open air, in consequence of a mist before his eyes.
Increased sensibility of eye.
Pressure in middle of globe of eye, first from above downward, and then in opposite direction, with a feeling as if pupil was turned up and light only came from above, impeding vision for five minutes ; same symptom half an hour afterwards.
Pressive pain ; shooting deep into left eye.
Pupils very much dilated.
Burning in eyes.
Eyes appear and feel suffused.
Inflammation of eyes, with fluent coryza.
Œdematous swelling of right inferior eyelid ; a small purulent point was afterwards formed, but soon absorbed.
Œdema of left upper eyelid for five days ; it subsequently became uniformly red and puckered, with frequent itching.
Supraorbital pain manifests itself alternately on right and l. side.
Pressure in orbital bones ; soon afterwards, pressure from above downward in upper half of right orbital margin ; pressive drawing along course of supraorbital nerve, with vomiturition and uneasiness in abdomen ; same symptoms subsequently appeared on left side.

Roaring and tingling in ears.

Violent catarrh of thin mucus, excoriating nose, especially in daytime.

Heat in face.

Tearing in lower teeth, in evening.
Teeth set on edge.
Pasty mucus on teeth, in afternoon.

Taste in mouth, resembling that of wild plums, bitter.
Greasy, insipid taste in mouth.
(In sick :) Red tongue, equally red all over, without any soreness in epigastric region.
Very dry tongue, covered with dirty white fur.
Tongue furred white.
White mucus covering tongue.

Increased secretion of saliva and of urine.
Abundant, thick saliva.
Irritation of buccal membrane as far as larynx.

Dryness of fauces.
Feeling of scraping in pharynx.
Scraping in uvula, pressure in stomach, which mounts into œsophagus, and is not relieved by eructations ; accompanied by slight vomiturition, and a little while afterwards, borborygmi in abdomen, such as precede a diarrhœa.
Pressure with scraping in uvula not relieved by eructation.
Roughness in throat, almost peppery.
Sensation of scraping and roughness in throat, which subsequently becomes dry and obliges him to hawk.
Sensation of cold along course of œsophagus.
Sensation of burning in pharynx.
Dry, burning heat in œsophagus, with hoarseness.
Painful dryness in throat.
Difficulty of swallowing, which arises from upper part of pharynx.
Inflammation of throat, with foul-smelling salivary flow.
Angina scarlatinosa. Compare œdema and Bright's disease.
Ulcers in throat to Eustachian tube.

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