Materia Medica de A a Z

COCCUS CACTI (coc-c)

The clinical application of the symptoms of this remedy, place it among the medicines for spasmodic and whooping coughs, and catarrhal conditions of the bladder; spasmodic pains in kidneys, with visceral tenesmus. Anuria, anasarca, ascites.

Mind

Early morning or afternoon, sadness.

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; coryza, 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. Walking against wind takes breath away.

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.

Modalities

Worse: left side, after sleep, touch, pressure of clothing, brushing teeth, slightest exertion.

Better: walking.

Relationship

Compare: Canth; Cact; Sars.

Dose

Lower triturations.