Materia Medica de A a Z

CAUSTICUM (Caust)

Region

NERVES (Motor. Sensory). MUSCLES (BLADDER. LARYNX. Limbs). Respiration. Skin. Right side; face.

Worse

Air (DRY COLD. Raw. WINDS. Drafts). Extremes of temperature. Stooping. Suppressions. Coffee. 3-4 A.M. OR EVENING. Exertion. Change of weather.

Better

A COLD DRINK (EVEN CHILLS). Washing. Warmth; of bed. Gentle motion.

General

Sensitive to both heat and cold. Weakness, increasing uncertainty of control, stumbling, etc., finally PARALYSIS; of single parts. Atony. Anæsthesia. Stiff joints. Contracted tendons; palms (Nat-m), hamstrings, etc. Deformities. Atrophy. Jerks of single muscles. Epilepsy, at puberty. Trembling. Burning. Soreness. Rawness; larynx, anus, etc..................... Broken down; worn out; wants to die. Hopeless, despondent. Mental tire. Anxious forebodings (felt in head), agg. in twilight. Reticent. Oversympathetic. Empty behind forehead. Tight scalp. To and fro or nodding motions. Paralysis: of one eyelid (r), throat, bladder, etc. Heavy, drooping eyelids. Continuous eye pain. Diplopia, amel. looking to right. Objects look large. Cataract. Profuse acrid tears. Much, foul earwax. Echo in ears. Tinnitus. Eruption on lower nose. Prosopalgia, amel. cold water. Facial paralysis, agg. opening mouth. Swelling at root of tongue. Throat, agg. stooping. Urging to swallow, or swallows the wrong way. Greasy eructations. Cramp in rectum on stooping. Anus, prolapses on coughing; small, hard pustules. Stool glistens; difficult, amel. standing. Stooling easier by standing, but piles agg. standing. Must sit down to urinate. Insensible urethra or rectum; to solid stools [Alo. (Aloe)]. Piles, agg. walking. Urine retained after labor. URINE SPURTS ON COUGHING; dribbles or passes slowly; amel. sitting. Menses by day, leucorrhoa by night. Dry, hard cough. Cough from tickling in throatpit (Sep), or l. larynx; incessant; dry night and morning. Can't cough deep enough [Rum.(Rumx)]; expectorate slips back again; agg. heat of bed, stooping, cold air; amel. sips of cold water. Greasy, ropy, difficult expectoration. Aphonia or hoarseness, in A.M.; of speakers; agg. stooping; amel. talking. Sore streak in larynx. Sore chest; vest seems tight. Purring in chest. Wandering chest pains, amel. pressure. Stiff neck or back on rising; pain goes forward or to thighs. Pain in spine on swallowing. Bursting in fingertips. Cramps in calves, feet or toes. Deep burns and their effects. Skin: cracks; ulcers. Warts, on brows, lids, nose, fingertips; seedy; bleeding; ulcerating. Coldness, not amel. warmth; causes paralysis, cough, diarrhoa, etc. Sweat about 4. A.M.; profuse, on slight exertion; agg. open air.

Complementary: Carb-v; Graph; Lach; Staph.

Related: Gels; Kali-bi; Phos; Rhus-t; Sep.