Cocculus indicus
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Cocculus Indicus
Cocculus Indicus. Menispermaceae,
For women and children with light hair and eyes, who suffer severely during menstruation and pregnancy; unmarried and childless women.
Adapted to book-worms; sensitive, romantic girls with irregular menstruation; rakes, onanists and persons debilitated by sexual excesses.
Nausea or vomiting from riding in carriage, boat or railroad car (Arn., Nux m.), or even looking at a boat in motion; sea-sickness; car-sickness.
Headache : in nape and occiput ; extending to the spine; as if tightly bound by a cord; with nausea, as if at sea; at each menstrual period; < lying on back of head.
Sick-headache from carriage, boat or train riding.
Diseases peculiar to drunkards.
Loss of appetite, with metallic taste (Mer.).
Time passes too quickly (too slowly, Arg. n.. Can.
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Great lassitude of the whole body; it requires exertion to stand firmly; feels too weak to talk loudly.
Bad effects : from loss of sleep, mental excitement and night watching; feel weak if they lose but one hour’s sleep; convulsions after loss of sleep; of anger and grief.
Trembling of arms and legs; from excitement, exertion or pain.
Vertigo, as if intoxicated upon rising in bed; or by motion of the carriage (Bry.).
Sensation : in abdomen of cutting and rubbing on every movement, as of sharp stones; of hollowness in head and other parts (Ign.).
During the effort to menstruate she is so weak she is scarcely able to stand from weakness of lower limbs (Alum., Carbo an.) ; after each period haemorrhoids.
Leucorrhoea in place of menses, or between periods (Iod., Xan.) ; like the washings of meat; like serum, ichorous, bloody; during pregnancy.
Cannot bear contradiction; easily offended; every trifle makes him angry; speaks hastily (Anac.).
When fever assumes a slow, ^^sneaking,” nervous form, with vertigo; with disposition to anger.
and paralytic symptoms; Ant. t., in sweat of affected parts.
Has cured umbilical hernia with obstinate constipation, after Nux failed.
Aggravation. — Eating, drinking, sleeping, smoking, talking; carriage riding, motion or swing of ship; rising up during pregnancy.
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What the other books say about Cocculus indicus
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Cocculus indicus in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Cocculus indicus in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Cocculus indicus in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Cocculus indicus in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Cocculus indicus — Keynotes, p. 99. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/cocculus-indicus. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.