COLOCYNTHIS
Source indications
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Agonising pain in abdomen causing patient to bend over double
- Relief obtained by motion
- Pain aggravated by eating or drinking
- Diarrha from grief, indignation or chagrin
- Diabetes with milky, gelatinous, or colloid urine
- Griping forcing the patient to bend double
- Cramps in legs, uterus, and ovaries
- Sensation as if clamped with iron bands
- Dragging in uterus and vagina
- Griping, cutting, tearing, and spasmodic pains in the body
- Burning pains
- Pulsations through the body
- Sensation as of hard stones or potatoes in the body
- Affections of right side generally
- Pains accompanied by stiffness and retarded motion
- Pains affecting joints aggravated by motion
- Neuralgic pains relieved by rest
- Abdominal pains relieved by violent exertion
- Lying with head bent forward
- Rheumatic pain in the limbs relieved by discharge of flatus
- Touch aggravates, and pressure relieves many of the pains
- Warmth relieves most pains
- Aggravation in evening and night
- Mental dejection with taciturnity
- Aversion to talk
- Disinclined to answer questions
- Inclined to be angry and indignant
- Lachrymose humour
- Anxiety and inquietude, with an inclination to run away
- Want of religious feeling
- Disinclined to occupy oneself, even averse to visit his otherwise well-liked friends
- Easy intoxication
- Vertigo, which occasions falling, on turning the head quickly, with tottering of the knees
- Headache, as from a draught of air, which is dissipated by walking in the open air
- Compressive pain in the sinciput, aggravated by stooping, or lying on the back
- Pressing pain in the forehead and root of the nose
- Attacks of semi-lateral headache, drawing and cramp like, or pressive, with nausea and vomiting
- Pain in the forehead and in the eyes, as if proceeding from the outside inwards
- Headache with violent pains
- Attacks of headache, followed by suffocation
- Congestion in the head
- Burning pain in the skin of the forehead, and the scalp
- Heat in the head
- Profuse perspiration on the head, itching, smelling like urine
- Sensitive pressure in the eyes
- Obscuration of the sight
- Great white light at side of and below right eye
- Shimmering circle with rays before right eye
- Inflammation of the eyes
- Burning and incisive pains, and shootings in the eyes
- Eyes feel hard
- Aching in upper and outer portions of right eyeball in evening
- Smarting in eyes
- Painfulness of eyeballs
- Pressive feeling in orbits, towards root of nose
- Painful pressure in eyeballs, especially on stooping
- Pains in eyes, sharp cutting in right eyeball
- Stitches as with knives in right eyeball, extending to root of nose
- Pain as from pressure on both eyelids from above downward
- External strabismus of right eye, with smarting lachrymation
- Dryness
- Burning
- Smarting
- Lachrymation
- Discharge of acrid serum from the eyes
- Warmth in right ear
- Obstruction before left ear
- Itching, sticking deep in ear, extending from Eustachian tube to tympanum
- Crawling within ear
- Difficult hearing; everything heard is accompanied by a roaring noise
- Constant roaring and throbbing in both ears
- Fluent coryza
- Severe burning above the nose
- Throbbing burrowing pain in nose extending from left side to root
- Pale and wasted face, with downcast eyes
- Tensive, tearing, burning or shooting pains in the face
- Cramp-like sensation in the left malar bone, extending into left eye
- Scabs on the face
- Face of a deep red colour
- Face puffed, with heat and redness of left cheek, and tearing pains
- Pains in the teeth, as if the nerve were pulled or stretched
- Pulsative pains in the teeth on left side
- Burning at the tip of the tongue
- Sensation as if the tongue had been scalded by some hot fluid
- Roughness of the tongue
- Tongue loaded with a white or yellow coating
- Cramps in the gullet, with empty eructations and palpitations of the heart
- Diminished appetite, without thirst
- Strong desire for drink, with a sickly taste in the mouth
- Constant nausea with risings
- Bitter taste in the mouth, and of all food and drink
- Colic and diarrha, however little is eaten
- Pains in the stomach sometimes after a meal
- Vomiting of food, or of greenish matter
- Vomiting, with diarrha
- Painful sensitiveness of the epigastrium to the touch
- Violent pressure on the stomach (with sensation of hunger), and in the precordial region
- Inflation of the abdomen, as from tympanitis
- Feeling in the whole abdomen as if the intestines were being squeezed between stones
- Cramp-like pain and constriction in the intestines
- Excessively violent colic
- Pain in the abdomen when walking
- Colic, with cramps in the calves of the legs
- Colic, as if from a chill
- Colic after a meal
- Pinching, and sensation of clawing in the abdomen
- Cuttings and shootings in the abdomen
- Great sensibility, soreness, and sensation of emptiness in the abdomen
- Grumbling in the abdomen
- Inguinal hernia
- Constipation
- Constipation, and evacuations retarded
- Loose evacuations of a greenish yellow, frothy and of a sour smell, putrid or mouldy
- Slimy diarrha
- Sanguineous evacuations
- Dysenterical evacuations, with colic
- During the evacuation, contraction in the rectum
- Painful swelling of the hmorrhoidal tumours of the anus, and of the rectum
- Discharge of blood from the rectum, with stinging, burning pain in the small of the back and anus
- Hmorrhage from the anus
- Paralysis of the sphincter ani
- Tenesmus of the bladder, with but small discharges
- Diminished secretion of urine
- Abundant discharge of urine of a bright colour, during the pains
- Urine of a faint flesh colour, with a white-brown flocculent, transparent sediment
- Fetid urine, which soon becomes thick, gelatinous, and glutinous
- Itching at the orifice of the urethra, with desire to urinate
- Burning in the urethra after micturition
- Sensation as if everything were flowing towards the genital parts
- Excitement of sexual desire, as in priapism
- Complete impotence
- Retraction of the prepuce behind the glans
- Cramp-like pain in left ovary; in uterus
- Ovarian cyst, paroxysm of acute pain in abdomen, sacrum, and hip
- Metritis
- Metrorrhagia
- Suppressed catamenia, with cramping pains
- Stitches in the ovaries
- Lochia suppressed; puerperal fever after vexation
- Painful nodosities in the mamm
- Small dry cough, excited by irritation in the larynx, or by tobacco smoke
- Constriction in the larynx
- Fits of asthma at night
- Oppression of the chest
- Palpitation of the heart
- Stitches in cardiac region
- Tension in the neck and shoulder-blades
- Drawing pains in the back, as if the muscles were stretched
- Great weakness in the back
- Congestion and suppuration of the axillary glands; subsultus of muscles
- Bruise-like pain in the joint of the shoulder
- Aching, pressive, and shooting pain in the arms
- Cramp-like pain in the hands
- Pulling in the tendons of the thumbs
- Pain in the coxo-femoral joint, as if it were fastened with an iron clasp, the pelvis and sacral region, with pains extending from the lumbar region to the legs
- Tensive lancination, in the lumbar region and of the hips
- Pain in the right thigh while walking
- Want of flexibility in the knee
- Cramps in the legs
- Shootings in the legs
- Stitches in the knee-joints
- Sensation of coldness in the knees
- Great heaviness and trembling of the legs
- The feet go to sleep
- Swelling of the feet
- Tearing in the soles of the feet during repose
- Semi-lateral pains
- Painful cramps, and cramp-like contractions, in the internal or external parts
- Sensation as though stones were being ground together in the abdomen, working upon the soft parts
- Contraction of the tendons in some parts only, or throughout the body
- Twitching of the muscles
- Stiffness in all the joints
- Tearing shootings, traversing the whole body longitudinally
- Physical depression while walking in the open air
- Fainting, with coldness of the external parts
- Swelling of various parts, with oppression of breathing
- Pulsations through the body
- Burning pains
- Troublesome itching
- Desquamation of the skin over the whole body
- Carbuncles, with continuous burning pain
- Small ulcers, with itching and burning
- Eruptions which resemble scabies
- Skin hot and dry
- Disturbed sleep at night
- Sleepiness, alternately with delirium, with the eyes open
- Sleeplessness following a fit of indigestion
- Very wakeful and sleepless
- Lying on the back when asleep, with one hand under the occiput
- Frequent vivid and lascivious dreams
- Cold and shivering, with heat in the face, without thirst
- Coldness of the hands and soles of the feet, while the rest of the body is warm
- Pulse hard, full and quick
- Strong pulsation in the arteries
- External dry heat
- Internal heat, with attacks of flushes of heat
- Nocturnal sweat, of the smell of urine, on the head, hands, legs, and feet, causing itching of the skin
- Perspiration principally on the head and on the extremities