Materia Medica de A a Z

COPAIVA = BALSAMUM COPAIVAE = COPAIFERA OFFICINALIS (cop)

Acts powerfully on mucous membranes, especially that of the urinary tract, the respiratory organs, and the skin, here producing a well-marked nettle- rash. Colds and catarrhs.

Head

Excessive sensitiveness; pain in occiput. Dull, frontal headache, passes to occiput and back again, with throbbing, worse right side and motion. Scalp sensitive. Sensitive to sharp sounds.

Nose

Rawness and soreness of nostrils with stopped-up feeling; dryness of posterior nares. Profuse, thick, fetid discharge from nasal passages, running down throat at night. BURNING AND DRYNESS, crusts on turbinated bones. Marked catarrhal condition in upper respiratory tract.

Stomach

Food seems too salty. Gastric troubles during menstruation or following urticaria. Gas and intestinal flatulence, urging to stool and difficult passage with pain.

Urinary

Burning pressure; painful micturition by drops. Retention, with pain in bladder, anus, and rectum. CATARRH OF BLADDER; dysuria. Swelling of orifice. Constant desire to urinate. Urine smells of violets. Greenish; turbid color; peculiar pungent odor.

Rectum

MUCOUS COLITIS. Stools covered with mucous, with colic and chilliness. Burning and itching of anus, caused by piles.

Male

Testicles sensitive and swollen.

Female

Itching of vulva and anus, with bloody purulent discharge. Profuse, strong-smelling menstrual discharge, with pains radiating to hip bones, with nausea.

Respiratory

Cough, with profuse, gray, purulent expectoration. Tickling in larynx, trachea, and bronchi. Bronchial catarrh, with profuse greenish, offensive discharge.

Skin

HIVES, with fever and constipation. Roseola. Erysipelatous inflammation, especially around abdomen. Circumscribed, lenticular patches, with itching; mottled appearance. Chronic urticaria in children. Bullous eruptions.

Relationship

Antidote: Bell; Merc.

Compare: Santalum (Santa) - (aching in kidneys); Cannab (Cann-s); Canth; Barosma (Baros); Cubeb (Cub); Apis; Vespa (Vesp); Erig; Senecio (Senec); Sep.

Dose

First to third attenuation.