Croton tiglium
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
Croton tiglium
Croton Oil Seeds. Euphorbiaceae.
Affects mucous membrane of intestinal tract, producing transudations of watery portions of blood, a copious, watery diarrhoea (Ver.), and develops an acute eczema over whole body (Rhus).
The bowels are moved as if by spasmodic jerks, “coming out like a shot” (Gamb.) ; as soon as patient eats, drinks, or even while eating; yellow watery stool.
Constant urging to stool followed by sudden evacuation, which is shot out of the rectum (Gamb., Grat., Pod., Thuja).
Swashing sensation in intestines, as from water, before stool (rumbling before stool. Aloe).
Drawing pain through the chest from breast to scapula, of same side every time the child nurses; nipple very sore.
Intense itching of skin, but so tender is unable to scratch; > by gentle rubbing; eczema over whole body.
Intense itching of genitals of both sexes (Rhus) ; vesicular eruption on male; so sensitive and sore is unable to scratch.
Cough ; as soon as the head touched the pillow a spasmodic paroxysm of cough set in; suffocated, must walk about the room or sleep in a chair.
infantile diarrhoea; Sil. pain from nipple through to back when nursing.
Aggravation — Diarrhoea ; every motion ; after drinking; while eating or nursing (Arg. n., Ars.) ; during summer; from fruit and sweetmeats (Gamb.) ; the least food or drink.
What the other books say about Croton tiglium
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- Croton tiglium in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Croton tiglium in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Croton tiglium in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Croton tiglium 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. Croton tiglium — Keynotes, p. 109. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/croton-tiglium. 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.