Curare cur.

Arrow-poison (WOORARI)

Muscular paralysis without impairing sensation and consciousness. Paralysis of respiratory muscles. Reflex action diminished. Debility of the aged (Baryta) and from loss of fluids. Catalepsy. Nervous debility. Trismus. Glycosuria with motor paralysis. Curare decreases the output of adrenaline. Vomiting of bile in cirrhosis of liver. Diabetes mellitus, 4th dilution (Dr. Barkhard).

Indecision; no longer wishes to think, or act for herself.

Lancinating pains all over head. Head drawn backward. Falling out of hair. Brain feels full of fluid.

Sharp, stitching pains over right eye. Black spots before vision. Ptosis of right side.

Noises; unbearable earache. Lancinating pains start from ears; extending down to legs. Swelling of lobes of ear.

Ozæna. Tubercles on nose; fetid lumps of pus.

Facial and buccal paralysis. Tongue and mouth drawn. Red face. Tongue and mouth drawn to right.

Dysmenorrhœa. Menses too early, during menses, colic, headache, kidney pain. Leucorrhœa, thick, purulent, offensive.

Threatened paralysis of respiration on falling asleep. Short breath. Short dry cough; provokes vomiting, followed by fainting. Chest sore to pressure. Very distressing dyspnœa.

Tired pain up and down spine. Arms weak, heavy. Cannot lift the fingers. Weakness of hands and fingers in pianists. Legs tremble; give way in walking. Debility; paralysis. Catalepsy. Favors development of corns. Reflexes lessened or abolished.

Leprosy. Dirty-looking skin. Boils. Tubercles on nose. Liver spots. Blood oozes through. Itching.

Worse, dampness, cold weather, cold wind; 2 am; right side.

Compare: Cystisin (motor paralysis); Conium; Causticum; Crotalus; Nux. Curare antidotes Strychnin.

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Curara, Woorara. Woorali. Hoorali. Oorari. (An arrow poison used by South American Indians. Accounts differ as to its actual composition, into which the juice of different species of Strychnos are said to enter, or of Cocculus toxiferos with serpent poison. Others have said it is prepared from the venom of toads. In appearance it is something like the extract of liquorice. That used in C. Wesselhoeft's provings was obtained from Merck of Darmstadt.) N. O. Loganiaceæ (?). Tincture.

Cancer. Catalepsy. Corns. Cough. Debility. Diabetes. Dysmenia. Dyspnœa. Ears, affections of. Eczema. Emphysema. Epilepsy. Face, paralysis of. Fainting. Headache. Hydrophobia. Liver spots. Locomotor ataxia. Nervous debility. Neuralgia. Otitis. Ozæna. Paralysis. Phthisis. Pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis. Ptosis. Scrofula. Tetanus. Ulceration. Uterus, affections of. Vaginitis. Whooping-cough.

Curare produces muscular paralysis, probably through its action on the nerve endings in the muscles, without affecting either the muscle substance or the nerve substance, and without impairing sensation and consciousness. It is thus in many ways the opposite, in its action, of Nux vomica , though it is said to have the juice of a Strychnos in its composition. It causes death by paralysis of the respiratory muscles. Reflex action is diminished or abolished (opp. Nux ), and this is one great indication for its employment in homœopathic practice. A cure of pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis by the 200th has been recorded. A condition resembling catalepsy has been induced by it; immobility with fixed gaze on waking. Fetidity characterises many of the secretions and discharges. Two cases of diabetes in middle-aged men have been cured by Burkhardt with Cur . 4. It is suited to scrofulous children; producing scrofulous eruptions on skin, eczema, especially of face and behind ears; also liver-spots, yellow-brown. It favours the formation of corns. Debility short of paralysis indicates it; debility of the aged, and nervous debility from loss of fluids. Its relation to hydrophobia and tetanus is probably antipathic. It causes a sensation as if the brain were full of fluid. Piercing, lancinating pains. Throbbing pains. Weakness; heaviness; numbness; numbness with tingling. < By movement; walking; ascending. < Dampness, cold air, cold weather, cold wind, change of weather. < 2 a.m. and 2-3 p.m. Many symptoms appear on right side.

In cases of poisoning artificial respiration must be resorted to. Bromine and Chlorine antidote its effects. If the poisoning is due to a punctured wound, rubbing in tobacco or salt will neutralise it. It is an antidote to: Strychnia and to the poison of rabies. Compatible: After Arn. (paralysis from injury) after Bell. (paralysis after epistaxis). Follows well in debility of the aged: Bar. c. Compare: Nux v.; Aran. d. (fever < in damp weather; Ferr. (hammering pains in head). Crotal (blows in region of cerebellum). In yellow-brown spots on skin (Sep., Lyc., Nux, Sul.).

Inability to think or study; forgetful; stupid; sleepy; indolent. — Indecision. — Excited, hurried feeling. — Depressed; desire to be alone.

Instant giddiness; falling in swoon while standing or walking. — Dizzy when looking at near objects or at water. — Head confused, great weight in vertex. — Nervous headache; lancinating, piercing pains all over head compelling to lie down and stretch; head drawn backward with stiffness of neck; painful oscillation of brain, as if it were full of fluid; neuralgic pain starting in front and radiating to neck and face; violent blows in region of cerebellum. — Darting through temples, < r. — Headache from base of brain up, < from mastication. — Headache: despairing of power of thought; < vigorous movement, or stooping. — Shattered, torn feeling on coughing, side of head must be held. — Sharp sticking over r. eye extending backwards over l. side of head. — Head beats like a hammer, with vomiting of bile. — Rush of blood to head.

Heavy eyes lids can hardly be kept open; ptosis (r.). — Eyes haggard, sunken. — Red, hot sensitive to light. — Feel as if full of sticks. — Black spots before vision, esp. < from reading.

Different noises as of whistling, or crying of animals; ringing in r. ear. — Lancinating pains starting from ears and reaching down legs, compelling to lie down. — Otitis interna, driving crazy, purulent discharge.

Nasal catarrh. — Ozæna; fetid lumps of pus.

Paralysis of muscles of expression. — Red face, head beats like a hammer; after fever; with cough. — Aching r. side of face. — Facial and buccal paralysis; in some cases with difficulty of swallowing.

Tongue and mouth drawn to r. — Tongue coated. — On waking tongue yellowish at base, papillæ raised, light pink anteriorly, bitter or bloody taste, yellow-white. — Mouth dry.

Thirst and great hunger with fever. — Sudden hunger almost to faintness. — Great thirst esp. evening and night. — Craves acids. — Aversion to bread. — > After first mouthful of food. — Chill after eating. — Hiccough frequent and annoying. — Nausea in morning; after eating. — Vomits green bile all night; so weak can hardly stand. — Empty, gone feeling in stomach. — Sharp rheumatic pain in pit of stomach, followed by nausea. — Shooting in stomach. — Pyrosis, pain and distension after eating ever so little.

Weary ache from throat to l. hip. — Bowels feel sore and bruised. — Pain in groin low down with heaviness in limbs while walking. — Neuralgic pain in hypogastrium with pressure in vagina.

Diarrhœa with constant urging; fetid, thin fæces, excessive pain in piles. — Extreme watery diarrhœa.

Clear and frequent urine, with digging, crampy pain in kidneys; shooting in stomach; dry mouth; great thirst, esp. evenings and night; sugar in urine; great emaciation; (acute diabetes). — Urine copious, urgent; bladder feels distended.

Menses seven days too early, griping in r. ovary, bearing-down, dragging, tired, in all pelvic organs, severe (causing faintness) in lumbo-sacral spine, running down thighs, flow scanty, very dark, lasting three days instead of five. — Ulcerations of os uteri (scirrhus), ichorous, corroding discharge; bearing-down pains in womb; shocks, sharp shooting stitches, quivering. — Ulcerations, smarting in vulva and thighs; shooting and digging pains in womb. — Indolence, night sweats, repugnance to sexual intercourse (vaginitis). — During menses: colic, headache, pains in kidneys, malaise, hypochondriasis. — Leucorrhœa, thick, purulent, offensive, in clots.

Dyspnœa, stitching pains r. side. — Dyspnœa from weakness of motor nerves as in phthisis or emphysema. — Paralysis of respiration. — Dyspnœa < ascending. — Short, hacking cough, always dry, with soreness of chest walls, < damp weather, or laughing; spasmodic, shakes whole body, = vomiting, is often followed by vomiting; = headache, red face. — Cough always troublesome in morning. — Cough < breathing cold air; laughing; moving; eating. — Burning heat in throat with sensation of distension. — Severe pains in lungs, esp. l.; sharp, piercing pain through chest, always much < in damp weather; dyspnœa, chronic cough.

Chest sore, can hardly bear pressure of stethoscope.

Precordial anguish, with palpitation and stinging pains in heart.

Stiffness in neck, head drawn back. — Stiffness of muscles of r. neck and shoulder. — Dull, tired ache in shoulders and across back; numb, tired pains up and down spine and in head. — Chills running up back and all over body.

Paralysis of extremities burning with heat and chills. — Aching in all the limbs and body. — Numbness and tingling.

Complete paralysis of r. deltoid. — Pain and numbness l. side of chest and l. arm. — Leaden heaviness in arm increasing difficulty in playing piano. — In evening, arms and hands swollen, more painful and heavy. — Great weakness, esp. of wrists and hands.

Legs tremble and give way in walking. — Sciatica with great stiffness. — Corns.

Body blue, and yet fever. — Itching with hunger. — Eczema. — Liver-spots.

Drowsy; cannot keep awake. — Nights restless, always desiring to put feet out of bed, esp. towards morning. — Cannot sleep late enough to obtain a good night's rest; dreams of fire and the business of day; < from lying long in bed, must get up as her feet and back ache.

Chill; creeping up back; from stomach, on abdomen, and spreading all over; without thirst. — Heat < at night and in open air. — Sweat with every exertion. — Sweat, cold and bloody, esp. at nights.

Indecision, no longer wishes to think and act for herself. θ Nervous debility.
Very much depressed about herself, desire only to shut herself up away from people. θ Nervous debility.
Despairing. θ Ulcer of os uteri.
Hydrophobia.

Instant giddiness ; falling down in a swoon or fainting while standing or walking.

Nervous headache ; lancinating, piercing pains all over head, forcing him to lie down and stretch himself ; head drawn backward, with stiffness of neck ; painful oscillation of brain, as if it were full of fluid ; neuralgic pains, starting in front and
radiating to neck and face ; violent blows in region of cerebellum.
Sharp sticking pains over right eye, extending backwards over right side of head. θ Nervous debility.
Head beats like a hammer, with vomiting of bile.
Vertical and frontal headache. θ Paralysis.
Occasional rush of blood to head. θ Nervous debility.
Congestion of blood to head, with pulsative vibrative pains and loss of consciousness.

Head drawn backward, with stiffness of neck, swinging and trembling of hands. θ Headache.

Eyes haggard, sunken. θ Nervous debility.
Black spots before vision (patient quite myopic), especially < from reading. θ Nervous debility.
Ptosis on right side.

Different noises in ears, as of whistling, or crying of animals.
Unbearable earache ; loses consciousness.
Lancinating nervous pains, starting from ears, and reaching down to legs, obliged to lie down.
Internal otitis, driving one crazy ; purulent discharge.

Ozæna, with fetid lumps of pus, of six years standing.

Dull, anxious expression, with clay-colored skin. θ Ulcer of os uteri.
Redness of face, head beats like a hammer, after fever.
Aching of right side of face. θ Paralysis.
Facial and buccal paralysis ; in some cases with difficulty in swallowing.

Blueness of lips, body purple, with fever.

Tongue deep red, cracked and bleeding.
Tongue and mouth drawn to right side. θ Paralysis.

Dry mouth. θ Diabetes.

Paralytic failure of power to swallow.

Appetite variable. θ Paralysis.
Thirst and great hunger with the fever.
Great thirst, especially evenings and at night. θ Diabetes.

Amelioration after first mouthful of food.

Hiccough frequent and annoying. θ Nervous debility.
Nausea in morning. θ Nervous debility. θ Paralysis.
Gastric troubles, nausea after eating, or in morning.
Dry, spasmodic cough provokes vomiting.
Vomits green bile all night, nasty taste ; bad feeling in stomach ; so weak, cannot stand or her feet.

Rheumatic pain in pit of stomach, at times quite sharp, followed by nausea.
Shooting in stomach. θ Diabetes.
Digestive functions entirely prostrate, cannot bear anything on stomach, pyrosis, pain and distension after eating ever so little ; can eat only cornmeal mush and drink coffee. θ Ulcer
of os uteri.

Wearing ache from throat to left hip. θ Paralysis.

Diarrhœa, with constant urging, fetid, thin, mush-like feces, excessive pain in hemorrhoidal tumors. θ Ulcer of os uteri.
Extreme watery diarrhœa.

Clear and frequent urine, with digging, crampy pains in kidneys ; shooting in stomach ; dry mouth ; great thirst, especially evenings and at night ; sugar in urine, with great emaciation.
Diabetes, acute cases.

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Debility of old age, great failure of strength. Nervous debility, from loss of fluids, or exhausting illness.

Spinal lesions, idiopathic or traumatic; sensation acute, motion paralyzed; painless paralysis.

Dampness, damp weather, change of weather, cold wind, or the least movement.

After the first mouthful of food. (Compare with Aran.)

Quotidian. Type not marked.

2 or 3 P. M., every day, and continuing well into the night.

Without thirst. Coldness commencing on the abdomen and spreading all over. Sensation of shivering, starting from the stomach and spreading over the whole body. Constant chilliness.

With thirst; especially in the head, on the back and legs; burning in the hips; great weakness and prostration, crampy pains on the least movement. Fever with thirst and great hunger; yawning and stretching, hot head and hands, convulsive paroxysms and fainting. Daily fever, commencing at 2 or 3 P. M., and con- tinuing well into the night; burning heat, accompanied by partial and transient chills, incoherent speech, and often by paralysis of the extremities. Lips get blue and body purple; after fever very red face, hammering headache. Pernicious fever, with constant chilliness (Petr.); heat increased at night or in the open air; less in the morning.

Cold and bloody, especially at night.

Deep red, cracked and bleeding.

Neither our provings nor clinical experience of Curara are suffi- cient to define many characteristics.

The arrow-poison of S. America is triturated for use.

Loss of four pounds in weight. ▶ Tremors in afternoon and evening. ▶ Pains sharp, wandering, in all pats; needle-like through various parts, agg. left temple; needle-like at intervals through various parts during the day; fleeting, first under sternum, then in abdomen, wandering in evening, with pain under right scapula. ▶ Pulsations in all parts except feet. ▶ Restless feeling. ▶ Inclined to physical but not mental exertion in morning. ▶ Unusual feeling of well-being, as from out-door life.

Weakness; all day, with weakness of back; on waking lasting all day with headache and malaise; on waking, with stupidity, the stupidity, amel. afternoon, hurried feeling in evening; agg. arms and legs; amel. towards evening; with trembling, feeling; with trembling on trying to walk; with vertigo on trying to hold head up; with malaise and stupidity. ▶ Faintness. ▶ Numbness in all parts, agg. right arm and wrist, and in cervical region, with tingling. ▶ Discomfort, as from a combination of numbness and tingling in superficial muscles, agg. right arm, beginning in right arm and becoming general, always with pain in basilar region. ▶ Symptoms gradually amel. towards middle of forenoon, then agg. again about noon, and continue severe the remainder of the day.

It seems to have arrested the paroxysms of hydrophobia when injected under the skin. ▶ Catalepsy. ▶ Threatened paralysis of respiration, the breath stops on falling asleep, sometimes palliative. ▶ Nervous debility, especially in old people, arms and hands weak, as after long-continued sickness, numbness a if a heavy weight hung to the arms, soreness of muscles of the arms, agg. attempting to lift anything. ▶ Nervous debility, with leaden heaviness of the arms, difficulty in using the muscles, especially of the wrists and hands. ▶ Paralysis following epileptic attacks.

Laughed a great deal through the day. ▶ Changeable disposition, jesting and laughing, then shedding tears. ▶ Sensitive, the least annoyance brings tears. ▶ All; feelings intensified have to guard myself to prevent showing affection towards those I like and irritability towards those I do not like. ▶ Energetic feeling all day; and hurried. ▶ Nervous, hurried feeling all day. ▶ Discouraged and cross; and sick of living, tired of everything. ▶ Depression of spirits; and feeling like crying, desire to be alone. ▶ Inability for mental work, from heaviness on vertex; I. for mental or physical work, wish to keep quiet. ▶ Laziness. ▶ Inability to fix the thoughts, overcome by the will. ▶ Do not wish to talk or have any one talk to me. ▶ Intellect dull. ▶ Stupid, confused feeling; transiently amel. nap. ▶ Forgetful.

Aching; through the day, agg. immediately after eating, sometimes nausea; on waking, lasting all day, with irritability; on waking, agg. after breakfast, by walking, stooping and quick movements, agg. afternoon, when there was pain in occiput; after waking, agg. an hour after breakfast, varied during the day and evening, at times in occiput, shooting into neck, at other times pain in vertex, always in temples; before breakfast, and in early part of day, but gradually wore away; at base of brain and passing upward, beginning at breakfast, agg. chewing; in evening; in brain after eating; in steam cars, with nausea, the A. amel. night's sleep; during menstruation, with dragging pain in pelvic organs, leaving weariness for several days after flow has ceased; agg. noon; agg. eating, motion, light, noise and at night, amel. pressure and quiet; amel. open air; forcing her to lie down before breakfast; with tingling, prickling and nausea; with malaise; sudden, with weakness and trembling of all limbs, confused feeling and tension of head, pain indescribable at first, but soon became definable, sharp pain in forehead and left temple, with occasional pains in vertex and right temple, pains agg. stooping and motion, sensation as if ears were filled with compressed air, tingling pain along malar-bones and zygomatic processes to temple, the headache reached its climax at 11 A.M., then gradually diminished, agg. 4 P.M., pain through entire brain, confusion of thought, weakness of joints, pulsations through whole body, inability to study or think, stupidity and sleepiness; neuralgic extending down spine; radiating from base of brain to vertex and outward to ears, during the day, agg. eating; wandering; wandering all day, agg. motion and eating, located in occiput after tea; tired on waking, increasing till 8 P.M.; tired, heavy, agg. forehead and temples; heavy, all day, with occasional sharp pains through temples and lower part of occiput.

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