COCCUS CACTI
Source indications
Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Copious, ropy, jelly-like mucus
- Catarrhal conditions of the air passages
- Whooping cough
- Spasmodic cough
- Cough of drunkards
- Chronic catarrhal state in winter
- Sensitive to cold
- Worse in a warm room
- Better in cold air
- Cough brought on in a warm room
- Cough from being too warm in bed
- Cough from drinking warm things
- Cough better from drinking cold things
- Cough worse from exertion
- Cough worse from getting heated up
- Cough worse from becoming warm
- Violent, spasmodic cough
- Face becomes purple
- Retching and vomiting long strings of tough, ropy mucus
- Choking from mucus
- Gagging and retching from anything touching the pharynx, mouth, or gums
- Hyperaesthesia of skin and mucous membranes
- Sensitive to pressure of clothing
- Dyspnoea
- Difficult breathing on walking
- Suffocation on ascending a height
- Cough worse at night when warm in bed
- Cough better in a cool room without much covering
- Child wants room cold during whooping cough
- Child wants cold water during whooping cough
- Child holds breath to prevent coughing
- Cough worse after eating
- Cough worse on waking
- Discharge of thick yellow mucus from the nose
- Nose stopped up
- Inclination to sneeze
- Great dryness of the nose
- Air passages burn after mucus is cleared
- Chest burns from exhaling air
- Sore throat with redness
- Tickling in the throat
- Sensation of a hair or crumb lodged in the throat behind the larynx
- Fauces very sensitive
- Arch of palate and fauces very red
- Burning in the throat, worse in warmth, worse when warmed up in bed, worse from warm drinks
- Burning in the throat better from cold drinks
- Clutching the larynx and coughing when getting warm in bed
- Gagging from slightest touch on palate or gums
- Cannot hawk without gagging
- Food comes right back again and causes gagging and retching
- Great thirst
- Wants water often and in large quantities
- Nauseous taste in the mouth
- Nausea in the throat
- Vomiting of white, bitter tasting froth
- Toothache
- Sudden drawing pains in the teeth, worse from cold and from touch
- Depression and anxiety
- Great sadness
- Cloud seems to hang over everything
- Apprehensiveness
- Sadness, with desire to commit suicide
- Worse after sleep, especially 2 to 4 A. M.
- Alternating sadness with loquacity and liveliness
- Wakes in the morning with basilar headache
- Wakes in the morning with headache in the forehead
- Headache worse from mental exertion
- Headache worse after lying down
- Headache sometimes better from slow motion
- Headache worse on coughing
- Headache worse from exertion
- Headache worse after sleep
- Albumen in the urine
- Dark red sediment in the urine
- Pain shooting from the kidney to the bladder and down the legs
- Pain shooting from the kidney to the bladder and down the legs worse from motion
- Renal colic
- Urging to urinate, but inability to pass urine until a large clot of blood has been passed
- Right side of the heart affected
- Vessels become friable
- Haemorrhage
- Oozing of blood
- Forming great black clots
- Uterine haemorrhage
- Copious, frequent, prolonged menstrual flow
- Large, hard, black dots fill the uterus
- Expelled by labor-like pains
- Inflammation of uterus and vagina, with copious, thick, white, jelly-like ropy mucus
- Soreness of the vulva
- Cannot bear the pressure of the clothing
- Haemoptysis, dark, dotted, worse from exertion
- Impotence with dull pain in the loins
- Dull pains in the region of the kidneys, with albuminuria
- Heavy sediment in the urine