Colocynthis

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

Colocynthis

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Keynotes

Acts on digestive tract, then longer on spinal nerves. SUDDEN, ATROCIOUS CRAMPINGS, gripings, tearings, etc., making him TWIST, turn or cry out in pain; with nausea or diuresis. Convulsive jerks or constrictions during pain (Ign. Lyc.). Lightning-like pains. CUTTING, pinching, clamping, gnawing or boring pain; then numbness. Parts seem too short. Constriction. Neuralgia. .................... Anger; easily vexed; < pains. Tearing head pains, < moving eyelids. Faceache (l); with eye symptoms or alternating with cœlialgia. Distorted face. Persistent bitter taste. Gas colic (flatulent colic). WAVES OF VIOLENT CUTTING, GRIPING, GRASPING, CLUTCHING OR RADIATING ABDOMINAL COLIC DOUBLE HIM UP; > HARD PRESSURE; < least food. Cutting in bowels; at navel. Pressure > at first then <. Intestines feel squeezed between stones. Pains alternating between ovaries. Ovaralgia. Vomits from pain. Yellow, frothy, watery, shreddy, sourish or gelatinous stools; with colic and gas. Dysentery. Slippery bubbles escape from anus. Gelatinous, sticky or stringy urine. Heart feels pushed up by a distended stomach. Pain under r. scapula, > pressure (Bry.). Lumbar ache, > pressure. Cramps in hips. Screwing, band-like or shooting sciatic pains; < least motion, rotation or night, > lying on painful part. Limbs drawn up like a hedgehog. Urinous sweat.

Worse

EMOTIONS. VEXATION. Chagrin. Anger. Lying on painless side. Night, in bed. Drafts. Taking cold.

Better

HARD PRESSURE. Coffee. Heat. Rest. Gentle motion. After stool or flatus.

Region

NERVES (large): TRIFACIAL. ABDOMINAL. Spinal. SCIATIC. DIGESTIVE TRACT (NAVEL). INTESTINES. Ovaries. Kidneys. Left side.

Relationships

Complementary: Caus. Antidote: Op. Related: Stap.

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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
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.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Colocynthis — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/colocynthis. 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.