Materia Medica de A a Z

COLOCYNTHIS = CITRULLUS COLOCYNTHIS (coloc)

Region

NERVES (large) (TRIFACIAL. ABDOMINAL. Spinal. SCIATIC). DIGESTIVE TRACT (NAVEL). INTESTINES. Ovaries. Kidneys. Left side.

Worse

EMOTIONS. VEXATION. Chagrin. Anger. ying on painless side. Night, in bed. Drafts. Taking cold.

Better

HARD PRESSURE. Coffee. Heat. Rest. Gentle motion. After stool or flatus.

General

Acts on digestive tract, then longer on spinal nerves. SUDDEN, ATROCIOUS CRAMPINGS, gripings, tearings, etc., making him TWIST, turn or cry out in pain; with nausea or diuresis. Convulsive jerks or constrictions during pain (Ign; Lyc). Lightning-like pains. CUTTING, pinching, clamping, gnawing or boring pain; then numbness. Parts seem too short. Constriction. Neuralgia..................... Anger; easily vexed; agg. pains. Tearing head pains, agg. moving eyelids. Faceache (l); with eye symptoms or alternating with colialgia. Distorted face. Persistent bitter taste. Gas colic (flatulent colic). WAVES OF VIOLENT CUTTING, GRIPING, GRASPING, CLUTCHING OR RADIATING ABDOMINAL COLIC DOUBLE HIM UP; amel. HARD PRESSURE; agg. least food. Cutting in bowels; at navel. Pressure amel. at first then agg.. Intestines feel squeezed between stones. Pains alternating between ovaries. Ovaralgia. Vomits from pain. Yellow, frothy, watery, shreddy, sourish or gelatinous stools; with colic and gas. Dysentery. Slippery bubbles escape from anus. Gelatinous, sticky or stringy urine. Heart feels pushed up by a distended stomach. Pain under r. scapula, amel. pressure (Bry). Lumbar ache, amel. pressure. Cramps in hips. Screwing, band-like or shooting sciatic pains; agg. least motion, rotation or night, amel. lying on painful part. Limbs drawn up like a hedgehog. Urinous sweat.

Complementary: Caust.

Antidote: Op.

Related: Staph.