Colocynthis
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Colocynthis
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Keynotes
Colocynthis
Squirting Cucumber. CucurhitacccE.
Agonizing pain in abdomen causing patient to bend double, with restlessness, twisting and turning to obtain relief; > by hard pressure (> by heat, Mag. p.).
Pains: are worse after eating. or drinking; compel patient to bend double (Mag. p. — < by bending double, Dios.) ; menses, suppressed by chagrin, colic pains.
Extremely irritable, impatient ; becomes angry or offended on being questioned.
Irritable; throws things out of his hands.
vomiting, diarrhoea and suppression of menses (Cham., Staph.).
Vertigo: when quickly turning head, especially to the left, as if he would fall; from stimulants.
Sciatica: crampy pain in hip, as though screwed in a vise; lies upon affected side.
Shooting pain, like lightning-shocks, down the whole limb, left hip, left thigh, left knee, into popliteal fossa.
with great tenesmus.
Compare : Gnaph. intense pain along right sciatic nerve, darting, cutting, from right hip joint down to foot; < lying down, motion, stepping; > by sitting.
Compare with Staph, in ovarian or other diseases from bad effects of anger, reserved indignation or silent grief.
Aggravation. — Anger and indignation; mortification caused by offense (Staph., Lyc.) ; cheese < colic.
Amelioration. — From doubling up; hard pressure.
What the other books say about Colocynthis
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Colocynthis in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Colocynthis in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Colocynthis in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Colocynthis 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. Colocynthis — Keynotes, pp. 104–105. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/colocynthis. 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.