Cochlearia armoracia
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Horse-radish Armoracia sativa Frontal bone and sinus, antrum and salivary glands are specifically affected by this drug. Bloated sensation. Raises vital forces. Used as a gargle in scorbutic gums and sore throat. Hoarseness and in relaxed conditions of the fauces. Internally in gonorrhœa. Useful as a condiment in enfeebled states of the stomach. An infusion of the root in cider, for dropsy, causes copious diuresis. Locally cures dandruff.
Modalities
Worse evening and at night.
Head
Thinking is difficult. Anxiety, driven to despair by pain. Pressing, boring pain as if frontal bone would fall out. Violent headache with vomiting. Impaired hearing.
Eyes
Sore and scrofulous; traumatic inflammation of eyes, blearedness and cataract. Copious running from eyes.
Stomach
Pain towards back; worse, pressure on dorsal vertebræ. Belching and cramps. Colic with backache. Violent cramp from stomach through both sides around to back. Griping around navel.
Urinary
Burning and cutting at glans penis before, during, and after urination. Frequent urination.
Respiratory
Dry, hacking, laryngeal cough, also post-influenzal cough, dry or loose, worse lying down. Chest painful to touch. Coryza, with hoarseness. Mucous asthma. Œdema of lungs. Throat feels rough and hoarse.
Back
Pain in back as from incarcerated flatulence from abdomen through to back and down into sacrum.
Relationships
Compare: Cannab; Sinapis; Caps.
Dose
First to third attenuation.
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