CURARE

Source indications

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Muscular paralysis without impairing sensation and consciousness
  • Paralysis of respiratory muscles
  • Reflex action diminished
  • Debility of the aged
  • Loss of fluids
  • Catalepsy
  • Nervous debility
  • Trismus
  • Glycosuria with motor paralysis
  • Vomiting of bile in cirrhosis of liver
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Indecision
  • No longer wishes to think or act for herself
  • Lancinating pains all over head
  • Head drawn backward
  • Falling out of hair
  • Brain feels full of fluid
  • Sharp, stitching pains over right eye
  • Black spots before vision
  • Ptosis of right side
  • Noises
  • Unbearable earache
  • Lancinating pains start from ears extending down to legs
  • Swelling of lobes of ear
  • Ozena
  • Tubercles on nose
  • Fetid lumps of pus
  • Facial and buccal paralysis
  • Tongue and mouth drawn
  • Red face
  • Tongue and mouth drawn to right
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Menses too early
  • Colic during menses
  • Headache during menses
  • Kidney pain during menses
  • Leucorrhea thick purulent offensive
  • Threatened paralysis of respiration on falling asleep
  • Short breath
  • Short dry cough provokes vomiting followed by fainting
  • Chest sore to pressure
  • Very distressing dyspnea
  • Tired pain up and down spine
  • Arms weak heavy
  • Cannot lift the fingers
  • Weakness of hands and fingers in pianists
  • Legs tremble give way in walking
  • Debility
  • Paralysis
  • Favors development of corns
  • Reflexes lessened or abolished
  • Leprosy
  • Dirty-looking skin
  • Boils
  • Liver spots
  • Blood oozes through
  • Itching