COLOCYNTH [Coloc]:

- Tarkas P. and Ajit Kulkarni.


Bitter Cucumber

Region

Digestive tract

stomach; colon

Trifacial

Nerves Abdominal

(Large) Spinal

Sciatic

Solar plexus

kidneys

Ovaries

One side; L.,or R.

Worse

Hot sun and cold air

Drafts.4 am and pm

5pm.Night, in bed

Lying on painless side

Touch. Lifting

Emotions; vexation,

grief chagrin, anger

Eating; long after

Cold drinks. Raw food

Heavy food. Millets

New corn. Potato (Alu.)

Lead. Mercury

Better

Heat

Gentle motion

Exercise

Touch

Hard pressure

Bending double

Deflation

Stool

Coffee

Walking in open air

Neuralgic. Apprehensive.Flatulent. Calcareous

Make-up: Plethoric. Choleric (Bry.). Gouty (Colch.).Rheumatic. Neurotic. Bilious. Women with copious menses and of sedentary habits.

Action: Acts chiefly on the ganglionic ( or sympathetic group of the autonomic) system, sensory portion of the spinal cord; more particularly upon the trigeminus, the solar plexus/ coeliac plexus, the lumbar and crural nerves, and on the tissues supplied by them.

The result is on the one hand an irritation causing neuralgias (at times passing into true and true inflammation esp. in alimentary tract); or on the other hand a state of neurosis, when emotions press upon the epigastrium producing a state of apprehension or goneness therein, the main emotions being anger or shock which achieve this effect by incarceration of flatus at once. Nux-v. offers here a parallel; but it acts first on the spinal cord and also renders the action of muscles spasmodic and incoordinated.

Pains: Crampy. Griping. Pinching. Clamping. Neuralgic. Constrictive. Tearing. Screwing. Cutting. Twisting. Bruised. Paroxysmal. Perodical. Increase and decrease suddenly/ quickly (except headache). Pains wander, but return soon. With restlessness, anxiety, anger, despair, screaming, weakness, faintness, nausea, vomiting or diuresis. Followed by numbness.

Cramps: sudden, atrocious; arms; hand; fingers; hip; leg; thigh; calf; foot; toes.

Acute irregular spasms of the circular fibres. Internal spasms. Convulsions reflex from abdominal irritation (diarrhea).

Numbness: after pains. Numb r. forearm, leg (while walking; calf; foot; l. foot goes to sleep (i.e. numbness with sometimes tingling); toes (1.).

Weakness: more pronounced in legs, when walking staggers and totters; of knees (with stiffness). Malaise (weariness) from indigestion. W. with faint feeling and coldness. Legs appear too weak, heavy and tremble (when standing erect) or totter on walking. Disinclined for any work.

Trembling; from fright, anger, indignation or frustration.

Pulsations through the body.

Physical depresssion while walking in open air. Faintness with coldness.

Contraction of muscles and tendons.

Dropsy: ascitic; ankles; feet; anasarca.

Glands: swelling and suppuration of axillary.

Growths: broad ligament tumors. Cystic tumors of ovaries. Painless tumor on r. tarsus. Corns.

Emaciation; wasting, wrinkled skin.

Alternating: Colic and vertigo. Faceache and cramps in calves. Flatulence and other symptoms. Stitches or tenesmus in rectum and in bladder. Headache and chest pain.

Select Particulars

Mind: Extremely irritable(Cham.).Impatient, suspense-hater. Anger with indignation, with silent grief (Ign., Nat-m.); from mortification and insults (on others as well); from pains. Introvert. Depressed and joyless (from reverses or frustrations). Wants to be alone. Averse to doing anything, nervous exhaustion. Anxious; after stool. Anguish; from incarcerated flatulence; by sudden emotions; in pit of stomach. Pyschoneurosis. Absence of religious feeling (Anac.). Confusion from beer.

Head: Vertigo on jerking head (to 1.) ; after stimulants; from flatulence; at beginning of colic. Attacks of violent unilateral pinching headache, with nausea/ vomiting, piercing pain from head to feet. Pressing, aching in sinciput; (<) moving eyelid, stooping, lying on back, (>) eructations.

Eyes: Pressure in eyeballs; on stooping. Heavy l. eyelid. Burning.Smarting. Ophthalmia; arthritic. Choroiditis; arthritic. Pains of glaucoma and iritis, spasmodic, burning. Photophobia.

Vision: obscured.

Ears: Itching. Pain,(>) putting finger in. Throbbing in (l.). Roaring in. Crawling in, (>) boring.

Nose: Throbbing and digging from middle of the l. side of nose, to the root of nose. Coryza more fluent in open air than in house.

Face: Anxious, careworn, distressed appearance (Caust.). Distorted.Swollen and dark red (1.), during fever. Pain (1.), ext. to ear and head; burning like hot iron, or like cold nail; tearing; with eye symptoms; worse touch, motion, better warmth, rest or (walking) in open air.

Mouth: Wrenching or stretching toothache (l.).Dry mouth without (or with) thirst. Taste bitter. Burning in tongue and throat. Pains (l.) sterno-mastoid,(<) turning head (to r.); stiffness; pressing.As if sand in palate. Tongue red; coated white, with rawness as from too much smoking. Stomach: Appetite erratic; craving for beer, bread, fluids. Cannot stand hunger. Emaciation though good appetite. Violent or no thirst. Dyspepsia; burning in stomach (acidity). Worse after: cold things, drinks when overheated (colic), acid drinks; undigestible foods and mixed servings; raw food; stale foods, new corn or durra (epigastric,chest or back pains); millets, great and pearl; raw fruits; potatoes (colic); brinjals; cheese (constipation); cutlets. Habitual nausea and oppression.Vomiting; stereoracious from obstruction with diarrhea. Eructations; violent; after eating; sobbing; sour, bitter. Epigastrium: emptiness (also in abdomen), or a full feeling; violent pressure in stomach and precordial region; tenderness; griping, hours after each meal ; pains from chest and abdomen tend to settle in pit of stomach. Abdomen: Transient stitches in hepatic region; after emotions; after dinner; (<) motion; (>) warmth.

Colics: nervous, rheumatic, of lead poisoning, flatulent; biliary (China, as a follow-up), renal, intestinal; paroxysmal pains; in both sides of abdomen, sometimes converging on pelvis (the v-pain); psychogenic; radiating; periodical; pain more nervous than inflammatory; cramping; cutting; squeezing. (<) foods ( above mentioned), light pressure ( tenderness ) ; deflation (Lilienthal ). (>) coffee, smoking (Borland), bending double, hard pressure (temporarily), violent exertion, deflation.

Peritonitis. Tympanites. Metritis. Pelvic peritonitis.

Pain in groin ext. around pelvis to thighs; or down legs, as from hernia; or pressure, sensation as if a hernia were receding.

Flatulence: attacks of ; incarcerated- after midnight during sleep, from dietetic errors or sudden emotions, causing pressure on precordia or twinges in chest; long after eating.

Rectum: Various diarrheas, even dysentery. With colic (like Pyro.). Mucous or membranous colitis. Cholera morbus. Cholerine. Cholera infantum. Cramps before or during but always (>) after stool; tenesmus during or after stool, but also occasionally (>) after stool; but burning at the anus remains. Violent, sudden urge to stool. violent pain in the forehead during stool and colic. Stools: profuse,watery with mucus, later blood-stained; mucus and blood increases with frequency of stools.

Constipation, after abuse of drugs (Nux-v.).

Hemorrhoids, painful, (>) motion; blind.

Urinary: Cystitis, scanty urine, tenesmus. Abdominal colic while passing urine and then urge to stool. Spasm of bladder following operation on orifice (Hyper.). Kidneys: renal stone (also gall stone) colic. Urine: copious; during headache, but scanty after; in diabetes, with chyluria, milky ,colloidal, gelatinous urine; burning along urethra; during stool; after urination; after emission.

Male: Strong desire. Painful retraction of testes and priapism, with retained urine. Phimosis. Paraphimosis.

Female:L.(or alternating l. and r.) ovarian pains, crampy, tensive, boring, squeezing, stitching;(>) bending double (also dysmenorrhea), with vomiting. Ovarian tumor/ fibroid / cysts. Broad ligament cysts. Pains of cancer. Abortion. Suppressed lochia, from anger etc.; colic, tympanites , diarrhea. Puerperal fever. Metritis; after suppr. menses. Metrorrhagia. Displacements. Thick, yellow, offensive leucorrhea between periods. Painful nodosities in the mammae.

Respiratory: Irritation and constriction in larynx. Voice muffled during chest pain or colic. Nightly asthma. Slow breathing. Dyspnea; during menses. Rapid breathing; with flatulence. Titillating cough, frequently during night.

Oppression of chest, as if it were compressed; after eating; worse evening, towards 8 pm, before midnight; on inspiration, with sticking (in sides).

(Stitching) Pains in l.(or r.) side of chest, (<) talking; before stool or deflation; with cold and numb l. toes, pain in ulnar side of hand; flatulent, acidic, rheumatic or psychogenic. Bruised pain in spots anteriorly (l.); pain in spots (towards evening) in chest, hepatic region and over heart. (Griping) Pain in r. (or l.) intercostal muscles. Heart: Pressure in middle of sternum; violent pressure in epigastrium (with sensation of hunger), and precordia ( flatulent?). Heart feels pushed up (or aches) by a distended stomach. Stitches in cardiac region; before deflation; on going to bed. Strong throbbing in the blood vessels. Palpitation, when sitting. Pulse weak and frequent. Back: Backache; ext. to front, (>) bending double. Lumbar; lassitude ( and in legs) in evening, pain, (>) pressure; tensive stitches (r., or in r. dorsal region) (<) inspiring, lying on back.Tensive drawing in r. scapular region. Pain in area of sacro-iliac articulation with crawling in the whole l. side as if asleep. Locomotor: Tearing or drawing pains; (>) deflation, motion, (in open air). Joint pains (gouty) with stiffness and immobility, (<) motion. L. shoulder (and l. scapula) pain, from face and neck,(<) drawing arm back. Tensive pain(with cramp) in l. thumb impeding motion. Drawing pain in r. thumb. Constricting pain in palms. Crampy- squeezing pain in hip, (>) lying on affected side with knees drawn up; hips pain as if screwed together. Lightning- like (shooting) or drawing pains in lower limbs.

Sciatica due to nerve changes, not to inflammatory conditions;also rheumatic sciatica; pain spasmodic / paroxysmal; l. side; screwing; bandlike. Aggr.: cold wet weather, gentle touch, motion, or beginning of motion, standing, raising leg, in feather bed, rotation. Amel.: heat, pressure, continued exertion (but prolonged motion (<) ), bending double, passing flatus. Sleep : Yawning and sleepiness ;(<) noon, after dinner. Sleeplessness ; with pains, after anger, following indigestion. Dreams: vivid; anxious; voluptuous. Skin: Itching; crawling; prickling, formication in calf, foot. Itching from handling durra. Boils (on neck and face). Pimples on face. Herpes on face. Carbuncles. White rash. Desquamation of skin. Thermic: Cold body, with hot face; or warm body with cold hands (and fingertips) or soles. Cold hands, warm feet (cp.Sep.). Chill and shivering with pains. Heat of one half of body ; of upper half.Sweat; at night, towards morning, prurient, of urinous odor (Nit-ac.); from flatulence (when incarcerated); from pains; mostly on head or neck, and limbs ( leaving the trunk dry). Intermittents; quartan. Bilious fever. Puerperal fever. Relations: Counterparts: Dios. Collateral: Staph. Complementary: Arg-n., Bell., Bry., Caust., Dys-co., Kali-c. (chronic in colic), Lyc., Merc., Nux-v., Puls., Spig., Sumb. Similar: Bry. ( botanical congener, is partly Colo. and partly Dios.), Mag-p. (Colo. is a vegetable Mag- p. It contains Mag- p.). Colocynth Collateral China 1. (>) Pressure (>) Pressure

2. (<) Touch (>) Touch

3 (>) Warmth (>) Warmth

4. (<) Icy-cold food (<) Sour food 5. More colic More flatulence 6. More spasm of circular fibres More paralytic condition 7. (>) Eructations Not (>) eructations

Antidoted by: Camph., Caust., Cham., Coff., Op., Staph.

It antidotes: Caust, Lead, Magnes., Mercury.

Colo. is to Caust. or Arg-n. what Lach.is to Lyc.

Compatible: Cham., Staph.

Trio: Colo.- Staph.- Caust., Colo.- Arg-n.- Lyc.

compare in colic: Bell. (violent pains, with fever, red face, hot head,(<) touch, thirstless; Colo. has more thirst and less fever; Bell. r. sided, Colo. l. sided). Cham. (does not double up, the child tosses about, is more violent). Staph.(after lithotomy; flatulent; ovarian; biliary; diarrhoeic; with tenesmus). Ver-a. (sens. as if hernia would protrude and colic (>) bending double are similar; but Ver. has cold sweat, cold feeling in stomach and abdomen and sensitivity to pressure).

Colocynth Mag. phos.

1. L. side more marked. R. side more marked.

2. patient is irritable and impatient. Patient is disraught owing to pains rather than irritable.

3. pains (>) steady, hard pressure. Pains (>) from rubbing.

4. Less sensitive to cold air; More sensitive to cold air; marked agg. from cold agg. from cold application application. less marked.

5. Causes: Indignation, anger, Causes: deprivation of love, chagrin, vexation. anxiety, grief, fright.

6. Apprehensiveness- more marked. Apprehensiveness-less marked.

7. Tongue- slightly coated. Tongue- usually clean.

8. Numbness after pain. Not marked

9. Alternating symptoms: colic and vertigo, faceache and cramps Not marked in calves, headache and chest pain.

10.Amel. from pressure more Amel. from warmth more marked. marked.

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