Coccus cacti

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

Cochineal

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Keynotes

EXPECTORATION, hanging from mouth, urine, feeling in throat, black menses, etc. Sensitive, fauces, vulva, skin, etc. Intolerable internal tickle. Pulsations; in glans; as of a fluid forcing its way. Dark blood. .................... Sad; on waking at 2-3 A.M. Hawking, brushing teeth, etc., excites cough, retching or vomiting. Profuse post-nasal discharge. Constricted throat. Violent kidney pain, with dysuria. Nephritic colic. Irritated bladder. Sticking along ureters. Urging to urinate; > bloody clots from vagina. Urine scanty, thick, heavy, sour; sediment; sandy, dark red, brown or white; bloody mucus. Nephritis. REGULAR PAROXYSMS OF VIOLENT TICKLING, RACKING COUGH, ENDING IN VOMITING OR RAISING MUCH CLEAR, ROPY MUCUS (Kali-bi.); with a purple, red face and internal heat; periodically; with kidney symptoms; slowly increasing, then gradually declining; > cold air or drinks. Whooping cough. Soreness or stitches in apices of lungs. Coldness in back. Burning; as of pepper in nostrils, at tip of tongue, etc. (Lach.).

Worse

IRRITATING FAUCES. Periodically. Heat. Lying. Awaking. Cold exposure.

Better

Washing in cold water. Catarrh. Spasms. Hæmorrhage. Uric acid. Gouty-rheumatic. STRINGY DISCHARGES,

Region

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: FAUCES. Throat. Larynx. Chest. Genito-urinary. Left side.

Relationships

Related: Ap. Berb. Lach. Pho.

What the other books say about Coccus cacti

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Coccus cacti in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Coccus cacti in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Coccus cacti — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/coccus-cacti. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.