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Colocynthis

Bitter cucumber

14 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Often indicated in the transition season when the air is cold, but the sun is still powerful enough to heat the blood.
  • Develops most of its symptoms in the abdomen and head, causing intense neuralgias.
  • It is especially suitable for irritable persons easily angered, and ill effects therefrom.
  • Women with copious menstruation, and of sedentary habits.
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  • Persons with a tendency to corpulency.
  • The neuralgic pains are nearly always relieved by pressure.
  • Cramps and twitching and shortening of muscles.
  • Constrictions and contractions.
  • Cystospasm following operations on orifices. Urinous odor of perspiration. Sensations; cutting, twisting, grinding, contracting and bruised; as if clamped with iron bands.

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Mind & mood

  • Extremely irritable.
  • Becomes angry when questioned.
  • Mortification caused by offense.
  • Anger, with indignation.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

From anger and indignation

Better

Doubling upHard pressureWarmthLying with head bent forward

Symptoms by body part

Head

Dizziness when turning head to the left. Lateral cutting headache, with nausea, vomiting. Pains (better pressure and heat), with soreness of scalp. Burning pains, digging, rending, and tearing. Frontal headache; worse, stooping, lying on back, and moving eyelids.

Eyes

Pains sharp, boring, better pressure. Sensation on stooping, as if eye would fall out. Gouty affections of eyes.

Face

Tearing, shooting, and swelling of face; left side great soreness. Get relief from pressure. Neuralgia, with feeling cold; teeth seems too long. Sounds re-echo in ears. Pain in stomach, always with pain of teeth or head.

Stomach

Very bitter taste. Tongue rough, as from sand, and feels scalded. Extreme hunger. Feeling in stomach as if something would not yield; drawing pain.

Abdomen

Agonizing cutting pain in abdomen causing patient to bend over double, and pressing on the abdomen. Sensation as if stones were being ground together in the abdomen, and would burst. Intestines feel as if bruised. Colic with cramps in calves. Cutting in abdomen, especially after anger. Each paroxysm is attended with general agitation and a chill over the cheeks, ascending from the hypogastrium. Pain in small spot below navel. Dysenteric stool renewed each time by the least food or drink. Jelly-like stools. Musty odor. Distention.

Female

Boring pain in ovary. Must draw up double, with great restlessness. Wants abdomen supported by pressure. Bearing-down cramps, causing her to bend double.

Urine

Intense burning along urethra during stool. Vesical mucus discharge, discharge like fresh white of egg. Viscid. Fetid; small quantities, with frequent urging. Itching at orifice. Red, hard crystals, adhering firmly to vessel. Constant urge to pass stool of bladder. Pains on urinating over whole abdomen.

Extremities

Contraction of muscles. All the limbs are drawn together. Pain in right deltoid. Cramp-like pain in hip; lies on affected side; pain from hip to knee. Spontaneous luxation of the hip-joints. Stiffness of joints and shortening of tendons. Sciatic pain, left side, drawing, tearing; better, pressure and heat; worse, gentle touch. Contraction of the muscles. Pain down right thigh; muscles and tendons feel too short; numbness with pains. Pain in left knee joint.

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