Materia Medica de A a Z

CASTOREUM CANADENSE (Cast)

A great remedy for hysteria. Prostration marked.

Hysterical symptoms. Day-blindness; cannot endure the light. Nervous women who do not recover fully, but are continually irritable, and suffer from debilitating sweats. Spasmodic affections after debilitating diseases. Constant yawning. Restless sleep with frightful dreams and starts.

Tongue

Swollen. Rounded elevation size of a pea in center, with drawing sensation from center to hyoid bone.

Female

Dysmenorrhoea; blood discharged in drops with tenesmus. Pain commences in middle of thighs. Amenorrhoea, with painful tympanites.

Fever

Predominant chilliness. Attacks of chilliness with ice-coldness in back.

Relationship

Compare: Ambr; Moschus (Mosch); Mur.acid (Mur-ac); Valeriana (Valer).

Antidoted: Colch.

Dose

Tincture, and lower potencies.