CAUSTICUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- adapted to persons with dark hair and rigid fibre; weakly, psoric, with excessively yellow, sallow complexion
- subject to affections of respiratory and urinary tracts
- children with dark hair and eyes, delicate, sensitive, skin prone to intertigo during dentition
- convulsions with eruption of teeth
- disturbed functional activity of brain and spinal cord, from exhausting disease or severe mental shock, resulting in paralysis
- rawness or soreness: of scalp, throat, respiratory tract, rectum, anus, urethra, vagina, uterus
- melancholy mood: sad, hopeless; from care, grief, sorrow; with weeping
- the least thing makes the child cry
- intense sympathy for sufferings of others
- ailments: from long-lasting grief and sorrow; from loss of sleep, night watching; from sudden emotions, fear, fright, joy; from anger or vexation; from suppressed eruptions
- children slow in learning to walk
- unsteady walking and easy falling of little children
- constipation: frequent, ineffectual desire; stool passes better when person is standing; impeded by haemorrhoids; tough and shining, like grease; in children and nocturnal enuresis
- urine involuntary: when coughing, sneezing, blowing the nose
- cough: with rawness and soreness in chest; with inability to expectorate, sputa must be swallowed; relieved by swallow of cold water; on expiration
- with pain in hips; remaining after pertusis; with expectoration chiefly at night
- hoarseness with rawness, and aphonia worse in the morning
- at night, unable to get an easy position or lie still a moment
- must move constantly, but motion does not relieve
- cannot cover too warmly, but warmth does not better
- faint-like sinking of strength; weakness and trembling
- cicatrices, especially burns, scalds, freshen up, become sore again; old injuries re-open
- patients say \"they never have been well since that burn\"
- menses: too early; too feeble; only during the day; cease on lying down
- paralysis: of single parts; vocal organs, tongue, eyelids, face, extremities, bladder; generally, of right side
- from exposure to cold wind or draft; after typhoid, typhus or diphtheria; gradually appearing
- drooping of upper eyelids; cannot keep them open
- rheumatic affections, with contraction of the flexors and stiffness of the joints; tension and shortening of muscles
- warts: large, jagged, often pedunculated; bleeding easily; exuding moisture; small, all over the body; on eyelids, face; on the nose
- patient improves for a time, then comes to a \"standstill\"
- worse in clear, fine weather; coming from the air into a warm room; cold air, especially draft of cold air; on becoming cold; from getting wet or bathing
- better in damp, wet weather; warm air