COLOCYNTHIS
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- agonizing pain in abdomen causing patient to bend double, with restlessness, twisting and turning to obtain relief; better by hard pressure
- pains: are worse after eating or drinking; compel patient to bend double
- menses, suppressed by chagrin, colic pains
- exteremely irritable, impatient; becomes angry or offended on being questioned
- irritable; throws things out of his hands
- affections from anger, with indignation - colic, vomiting, diarrhoea and suppression of menses
- vertigo: when quickly turning head, especially to the left, as if he would fall; from stimulants
- sciatica: crampy pain in hip, as though screwd in a vise; lies upon affected side
- shooting pain, like lightening-shocks, down the whole limb, left hip, left thigh, left knee, into popliteal fossa
- worse from anger and indignation; mortification caused by offense; cheese worse colic
- better from doubling up; hard pressure