COLOCYNTHIS
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Intense neuralgias
- Irritable
- Easily angered
- Copious menstruation
- Sedentary habits
- Tendency to corpulency
- Neuralgic pains relieved by pressure
- Cramps
- Twitching
- Shortening of muscles
- Constrictions
- Contractions
- Cystospasm following operations on orifices
- Urinous odor of perspiration
- Agonizing pain in abdomen causing patient to bend double
- Cutting sensations
- Twisting sensations
- Grinding sensations
- Contracting sensations
- Bruised sensations
- Clamped with iron bands sensation
- Extremely irritable mind
- Becomes angry when questioned
- Mortification caused by offense
- Anger with indignation
- Vertigo when turning head to the left
- Lateral cutting headache
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Pains better pressure and heat
- Soreness of scalp
- Burning pains in head
- Digging pains in head
- Rending pains in head
- Tearing pains in head
- Frontal headache worse stooping
- Frontal headache worse lying on back
- Frontal headache worse moving eyelids
- Eyes sharp boring pains better pressure
- Sensation on stooping as if eye would fall out
- Gouty affections of eyes
- Violent pain in eyeballs which precede the development of glaucoma
- Tearing shooting and swelling of face
- Left side face great soreness get relief from pressure
- Neuralgia with chilliness
- Teeth seem too long
- Sounds re-echo in ears
- Pain in stomach always with pain of teeth or head
- Very bitter taste
- Tongue rough as from sand and feels scalded
- Canine hunger
- Feeling in stomach as if something would not yield
- Drawing pain in stomach
- Agonizing cutting pain in abdomen causing patient to bend over double and pressing on the abdomen
- Sensation as if stones were being ground together in the abdomen and would burst
- Intestines feel as if bruised
- Colic with cramps in calves
- Cutting in abdomen especially after anger
- Each paroxysm is attended with general agitation and a chill over the cheeks ascending from the hypogastrium
- Pain in small spot below navel
- Dysenteric stool renewed each time by the least food or drink
- Jelly-like stools
- Musty odor stool
- Distention abdomen
- Boring pain in ovary
- Must draw up double with great restlessness
- Round small cystic tumors in ovaries or broad ligaments
- Wants abdomen supported by pressure
- Bearing-down cramps causing her to bend double
- Intense burning along urethra during stool
- Vesical catarrh discharge like fresh white of egg
- Viscid urine
- Fetid urine
- Small quantities urine with frequent urging
- Itching at orifice urine
- Red hard crystals urine adhering firmly to vessel
- Tenesmus of bladder
- Pains on urinating over whole abdomen
- Contraction of muscles extremities
- All the limbs are drawn together
- Pain in right deltoid
- Cramp-like pain in hip lies on affected side
- Pain from hip to knee
- Spontaneous luxation of the hip-joints
- Stiffness of joints and shortening of tendons
- Sciatic pain left side drawing tearing better pressure and heat worse gentle touch
- Pain down right thigh
- Muscles and tendons feel too short thigh
- Numbness with pains thigh
- Pain in left knee joint