HomeoRemedyCoccus cacti
Cochineal
Main symptoms
- The clinical application of the symptoms of this remedy, place it among the medicines for spasmodic and whooping coughs, and with mucus conditions of the bladder; spasmodic pains in kidneys, with visceral constant urge to pass stool.
- Anuria, anasarca, ascites.
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Symptoms by body part
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; runny nose (cold), 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.
Heart
Sensation as if everything were pressed toward the heart.
Urinary
Urging to urinate; brick-red sediment. Urinary calculi, haematuria, 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.
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