CAUSTICUM
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Chronic rheumatic affections
- Arthritic affections
- Paralytic affections
- Tearing pains in muscular and fibrous tissues
- Deformities about the joints
- Progressive loss of muscular strength
- Tendinous contractures
- Broken down seniles
- Catarrhal affections of air passages
- Restlessness at night
- Tearing pains in joints and bones
- Faint-like sinking of strength
- Gradually appearing paralysis
- Local paralysis
- Vocal cords paralysis
- Muscles of deglutition paralysis
- Tongue paralysis
- Eyelids paralysis
- Face paralysis
- Bladder paralysis
- Extremities paralysis
- Slow to walk
- Dirty white sallow skin
- Warts especially on face
- Emaciation
- Burning
- Rawness
- Soreness
- Child does not want to go to bed alone
- Least thing makes it cry
- Sad
- Hopeless
- Intensely sympathetic
- Ailments from long-lasting grief
- Sudden emotions
- Thinking of complaints aggravates
- Hemorrhoids aggravated by thinking of complaints
- Sensation of empty space between forehead and brain
- Pain in right frontal eminence
- Paralysis of right side of face
- Pain in facial bones
- Dental fistula
- Pain in jaws with difficulty in opening mouth
- Cataract with motor disturbances
- Inflammation of eyelids
- Ulceration of eyelids
- Sparks before eyes
- Dark spots before eyes
- Ptosis
- Vision impaired as if film were before eyes
- Paralysis of ocular muscles after exposure to cold
- Ringing in ears
- Roaring in ears
- Pulsating in ears
- Deafness
- Words re-echo
- Steps re-echo
- Chronic middle-ear catarrh
- Accumulation of ear-wax
- Coryza with hoarseness
- Scaly nose
- Nostrils ulcerated
- Pimples on nose
- Bites inside of cheek from chewing
- Indistinct speech
- Rheumatism of articulation of lower jaw
- Gums bleed easily
- Greasy taste
- Aversion to sweets
- Feels as if lime were burned in stomach
- Worse after eating fresh meat
- Smoked meat agrees
- Sensation of ball rising in throat
- Acid dyspepsia
- Soft and small stool
- Hard tough stool
- Stool covered with mucus
- Stool shines like grease
- Small-shaped stool
- Stool expelled with much straining
- Stool expelled only on standing up
- Pruritus
- Partial paralysis of rectum
- Rectum sore
- Rectum burns
- Fistula
- Large piles
- Involuntary urine when coughing
- Involuntary urine when sneezing
- Urine expelled very slowly
- Urine retained
- Involuntary urine during first sleep at night
- Involuntary urine from slightest excitement
- Retention after surgical operations
- Loss of sensibility on passing urine
- Uterine inertia during labor
- Menses cease at night
- Menses flow only during day
- Leucorrhea at night with great weakness
- Menses delayed
- Menses late
- Hoarseness with pain in chest
- Aphonia
- Larynx sore
- Cough with raw soreness of chest
- Expectoration scanty
- Must be swallowed
- Cough with pain in hip especially left worse in evening
- Better drinking cold water
- Worse warmth of bed
- Sore streak down trachea
- Mucus under sternum
- Pain in chest with palpitation
- Cannot lie down at night
- Voice re-echoes
- Own voice roars in ears and distresses
- Difficulty of voice of singers and public speakers
- Stiffness between shoulders
- Dull pain in nape of neck
- Left-sided sciatica with numbness
- Paralysis of single parts of body
- Dull tearing pain in hands and arms
- Heaviness and weakness in extremities
- Tearing joints
- Unsteadiness of muscles of forearm and hand
- Numbness in hands
- Loss of sensation in hands
- Contracted tendons
- Weak ankles
- Cannot walk without suffering
- Rheumatic tearing in limbs better by warmth especially heat of bed
- Burning in joints
- Slow in learning to walk
- Unsteady walking and easily falling
- Restless legs at night
- Cracking and tension in knees
- Stiffness in hollow of knee
- Itching on dorsum of feet
- Soreness in folds of skin back of ears between thighs
- Warts large jagged bleeding easily on tips of fingers and nose
- Old burns that do not get well
- Ill effects from burns
- Pains of burns
- Cicatrices freshen up
- Old injuries reopen
- Skin prone to intertrigo during dentition
- Very drowsy
- Can hardly keep awake
- Nocturnal sleeplessness with dry heat
- Inquietude