Remedy

Croton tiglium

Croton-oil seed

7 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Is a valuable remedy in diarrhoea, summer complaint, and skin affections.
  • These may alternate with each other.
  • Feels tight all over.
  • It is one of the antidotes to Rhus poisoning, as is evident from its wide and intense action upon skin and mucous surface, causing both irritation and inflammation, with formation of vesicles and mucous discharges.
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  • Has elective affinity for skin of face and external genitals.
  • Burning in the oesophagus.

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What makes it better or worse

Worse

Least food or drinkDuring summerTouchNight and morningWashing

Symptoms by body part

Head

Pressing pain in forehead, especially orbits.

Eyes

Granular lids; pustules of cornea. Red and raw appearance. Feel drawn backward. Rashes around eyes. Tensive pain above right orbit.

Stool

Copious watery stools, with much urging; always forcibly shot out, with gurgling in intestines; worse, drinking the least quantity, or even while eating. Constant urging to stool, followed by sudden evacuation. Swashing sensation in intestines.

Urine

Night urine foaming; dark orange color; turbid on standing; greasy particles floating on top. Day urine is pale, with white sediment.

Chest

Drawing-pain through the left chest into the back. Nursing women; every suck the child gives produces pain from nipple back. Inflamed breasts. Cough; as soon as he touches the pillow must get up. Sensitive to deep breathing.

Skin

Feels hide-bound. Intense itching; but scratching is painful. Pustular rash, especially on face and genitals, with fearful itching, followed by painful burning. Vesicles; confluent oozing. Vesicular erysipelas, itching exceedingly. Herpes zoster; stinging, smarting pains of the rash.

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