Author: Urenus

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried impregnated female cochineal shield-louse, Dactylopius coccus Costa, which occurs in Central America, Peru, Al- geria and Spain, feeding on cacti, especially on Nopalea coccinellifera, Opuntia monocantha and others. N.O. Coccidae.

The main indications are:

Renal colic, pyelitis, nephrolithiasis. Whooping cough with tough, stringy mucus, better in cold air. Constricting sensation in throat, as if bound up, (bulbar palsy,  speech disturbances).

Typical of Coccus Cacti are whooping cough-like paroxysms with a thick, mu- coid, stringy, expectoration, with stabbing pains and pressure above the lungs, radi- ating out; with a hemmed-in sensation and a feeling of increased warmth in the chest. A sensation of heat is also present in the oral mucosa, with a clean, rough, dry tongue.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Dactylopius coccus, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for coccus cacti: inflammation the nasopharyngeal region and of the respi- ratory passages; uterine bleeding; renal disorders and nephrolithiasis.

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried ripe fruits of the plant, Anamirta cocculus Wight et Arn., which is found in India, Sri Lanka and the Indo-Malayan countries. N.O. Menispermaceae, the content of Picrotoxinin, C₁₅H₁₆O₆, MW: 292.3 is not less than 0.8 %.

The tincture prepared from the fruits of Indian Cockle contains a poisonous bitter substance, Picrotoxinin, as well as fat, wax, resin, gum, menispermin and para- menispermin. The main action of Cocculus is on the central nervous system and af- fects primarily vagotonous states and symptoms of exhaustion, which may reach the point of paralysis or unconsciousness. There is weakness of the neck muscles with heaviness of the head, as if the muscles could not support the head. The patient also complains of a feeling of weakness in the sacrum, like paralysis, and also of great weakness and heaviness in the legs, with the knees giving away while walking. There may also be paraesthesias in the soles of the feet and in the hands, alternating between right and left. The thighs may be painful, as if beaten. Also typical of Coc- culus is a nocturnal paraesthesia, with the sensation as if the hand were swollen.

This exhaustioon, originating in the parasympathetic system, may also present as a headache, extending down the neck rather like a cervical migraine. The sensation as though the head were opening and closing is also an indication for Cocculus.

A further very important indication for Cocculus is sea-sickness, nausea and vom- iting while travelling, also after tobacco smoke, possibly associated with oe- sophageal cramps and convulsions. There may also be nervous or hysterical symp- toms at the beginning of and during the menses, and during pregnancy, and when menstruation has been suppressed in some way.

Cocculus can always be of help when Nux Vomica does not work, e.g. also in pressive, clamping stomach complaints. There is often an aversion to all sour things. The fruits of Cocculus, imported from the East Indies under the name “Cockle-

Seeds” were formerly used as a hop-substitute and for intoxicating fish, hence the other name: “Fish-seeds”.

The exhaustion of vagotonic origin, which may intensify into a state similar to in- toxication, also occurs after facing excessive demands and after over-exertion, par- ticularly night-watching. Therefore Cocculus is a good remedy for overwork and after stress, too.

Then finally, there is the characteristic vertigo, which occurs on travelling by train, by car, by aeroplane etc. Ménière’s syndrome with migraine-like symptoms and nau- sea and vomiting, also reacts well to Cocculus.

We must also mention the sensation of emptiness in the head, a feeling which may also occur in the abdomen, intestines, chest, and any inner parts or other organs and is a firm indication for Cocculus.

Nor must we omit to mention that Cocculus can also be of help in rheumatic and gouty conditions of the joints, which proceed without any significant inflammatory process and are linked with cracking sounds on movement. It may also help in neu- ralgia of the spermatic cord.

If we summarise the main symptoms of Cocculus, the following typical remedy- picture results:

1. Vertigo with sensations of faintness and nausea. Sea , car, air and train-sickness. Menière’s syndrome with vomiting and nausea.
2. Great weakness and exhaustion with feeling of faintness and sensation of an empty space in a wide variety of organs and parts of the body. Consequences of sleep-loss and night-watching (as occurs in nursing staff and people on night- duty).
3. Headache in occiput and nape of neck; also weakness and pain in the sacrum, hips and knees, as if the limbs were on strike.
4. Vagotonia. Paraesthesias. Complaints originating from the spinal column in spondylitis.
5. Tendency to cramping symptoms, stomach cramps, vomiting and aversion to any- thing sour.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Anamirta cocculus, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for cocculus: vertigo of various origins; travel sickness; travel nausea; cerebral arte- riosclerosis; occipital headaches; spasmoid conditions and lameness; paramenia; nervous disorders and emotional discord or upset, also associated with sleeplessness.

The attenuations are prepared from Cobalt(II)-digluconate C₁₂H₂₂Co₁₄ · 2 H₂O, MW: 485.27, the cobalt salt of D-Gluconic acid.

The importance of cobalt rests particularly on the fact that the anti-anaemic prin- ciple in Vitamin B₁₂ is a complex compound of Co⁺⁺. Glycyl-Glycinpeptidase is also believed to be specifically activated by Co⁺⁺.

Cobalt deficiency causes a serious degenerative disease of sheep in Australia, “coast disease”, an illness which is distinguished by progressive emaciation, weak- ness, loss of appetite and apathy, leading in the end to severe anaemia. It can be pre- vented or cured by giving a dose of Img. of cobalt (per sheep per day).

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh stems with leaves and flowers, gathered at the beginning of flowering of the plant, Clematis recta L., which grows on sunny hillsides and sparse bushy country in Central and Southern Europe. N.O. Ranunculaceae.

The main indications are:

Chronic bladder irritation; dribbling of urine after urination. Hypertrophy of the prostate. Epididymitis. Swelling of the inguinal glands. Urethral stricture. Gouty tophi. Oozing, vesicular eczema. Eruption on the occiput, with violent itching.

Painfulness of the urethra on external pressure indicates Clematis, as do a spas- modic narrowing and contraction of the urethra with purulent discharge (urethritis), tenesmus of urine and pain on urination (cf. Cantharis), with the urine passing by fits and starts and at intevals, and the urine dribbling involuntarily afterwards.

A further typical symptom is a great sensitivity to cool air, especially on baring the body. Very sensitive pustular eruptions, characterised by burning, stinging pains, and also pustules, proceed in many cases with inflammatory swellings of the neigh- bouring lymph-nodes, with the glandular lobules beneath the nipple possibly also being indurated.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Clematis recta, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for clematis: rashes; swelling of the lymph nodes; inflammation of the eyelids and con- junctiva; inflammations of the urinary bladder, the urethra, the testicles, and the mammary glands.

The attenuations are prepared from anhydrous Citric acid, C₆H₈O₇, MW: 192.1.

An active factor in the Citric Acid cycle and in redox systems. Impregnation phas- es of all kinds, also asthma, angina pectoris, pruritus, skin diseases, psoriasis, pre- cancerous states and in neoplasm phases (especially in the early stages), to improve cell-respiration.

Difficult respiration, aggravated on becoming warm, is typical. As in Carbo Veg- etabilis, the patient constantly desires fresh air. Thus Citric Acid has a close affinity for respiratory disturbances in the case of tumours, and is also indicated for cancer pains (Boericke).

The patient makes grandiose plans, with steadily increasing cheerfulness and de- creasing energy. Alcohol and sugar disagree.

Arteriosclerosis with lapses of memory.

Citric Acid is also helpful in certain complaints arising from Vitamin C deficiency; in spite of a high level of care, children fail to thrive and the oxygenisation of the tissues is insufficient. Old people are only half-awake and repeat every question ten times.

Also characteristic is a total loss of libido. Impotence in men. Infertility. Frigidity. Post-gonorrhoeal state. Hands and feet are cold and damp. Consequences of over- dosing with Vitamin D. Dental problems and gingivitis. Scurvy. Blackening of teeth and heavy deposits of dental plaque.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Acidum citricum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for acidum citricum: bleeding gums; tabetic disorders.

The drug picture of Acidum citricum was composed in March 1996 by David Riley, M.D., Santa Fe (New Mexico), USA.

The most important symptoms from David Riley’s drug proving were:

Essential Characteristics

Generalized sensation of heat or in the face with fever and sweating. Cramping in the chest, abdomen, and uterus. Improvement of the symptom of heartburn.

Mental dullness. Flushes of heat. Temple pain. Heat in the face. Nausea. Abdomi- nal pain. Painful uterine cramping.

Mind

Dullness and forgetfulness. Fear of poverty. Weakness of memory for recent thoughts. Weeping during the menses. Dreams of running.

Generalities

HEAT: flushes of heat, in the afternoon, or the general sensation of heat with per- spiration. Sluggishness of the body as if sick.

Head

Sensation of fullness. Lancinating pain is ameliorated by lying down but worse with motion or with stooping. Pain is localized in the temples. Pain also felt on the

sides of the head, pressure ameliorates the pain. Pressing pain in the forehead as from sinuses. Throbbing, pulsating pain in the temples, and worse on waking.

Eye

Discharge of gluey mucus on waking in the morning. Sensitivity to motion or touch.

Ear

Itching in the right ear that is not ameliorated by boring in the ear. Ringing noises in the evening.

Nose Sneezing. Face

Heat or flushes of heat in the face, neck, and head. Clenched jaw and tightness of jaw. Herpetic or fever blister eruptions about the mouth and lips.

Mouth

Dryness. Painful, herpetic vesicles around the lips.

Stomach

Nausea ameliorated in the open air, or with vomiting. Heartburn improves. Ap- petite increased.

Abdomen

Pain. Cramping pain in the umbilical region ameliorated from passing flatus or after stool. Cutting pain at midnight causing her to bend double. Distension.

Rectum

No urging for bowel movement.

Stool

Stickiness of feces.

Bladder

Burning pain without urination. Ineffectual urge to urinate.

Urine

Brown in color. Offensive odor. Genitalia, Female

Menses that is copious, too early, or late. Painful uterine cramping, during menses or improvement of that symptom.

Cough

Dry, painful, hacking cough.

Chest

Sharp crampy pain aggravated by deep breathing. Stitching pain in the left side worse on lying down. Rapid heart beat as if running.

Back

Aching pain in the cervical and dorsal regions improves. Cutting pain in the lum- bar region.

Extremities

Incoordination and awkwardness as if off balance and drops things.

Sleep

Sleepiness in the afternoon. Sleeplessness from hardness of the bed.

Fever

Feeling of heat off and on throughout the day.

Perspiration

Awakes in a cold sweat at night. Perspiring when cold. Offensive perspiration. Perspiration leaves yellow stains on the clothing.

Skin

Greasy and oily.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh aerial parts in bloom of Helianthe- mum canadense [L.] Michx., a native of North America. N.O. Cistaceae.

The main indications are:

Eruptions on the hands and fingers. Hard callosities on the palm of the hand, fis- sures. Tendency to glandular swellings, scrofula, caries. Cracked skin, fissured, bleeding easily. Diarrhoea accompanying complaints. Dryness of the oral and pha- ryngeal mucosa, throat as if varnished. Every cold goes to the throat. Sensation of coldness. Cold air is disagreeable.

Characteristic symptoms of Cistus Canadensis are the aggravation of complaints by unpleasant excitement and changes of mood, as well as the most extreme sensi- tivity to draughts, and a sensation of coldness in the chest.

As well as in catarrhal conditions and rheumatic/neuralgic complaints (including neuralgia in the arm), Cistus is indicated in herpes zoster and vesicular eczema, and also in colic with diarrhoea and in swelling of the lymph-nodes.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Helianthemum canadense, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for cistus canadensis: itching lichenoid skin diseases; lymphadenitis; mas- titis; pulmonary diseases.

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from surgically or bioptic removed tissue of human cirrhotic liver.

In the last few decades there has been a considerable increase in the incidence of cirrhosis of the liver, which may be attributed not only to considerable alcohol con- sumption, but recently also to refinements in diagnostic techniques (liver biopsy) and probably also to the ever increasing use of chemotherapy in the treatment of minor diseases, since numerous drugs used in allopathic treatment have a deleterious effect on the liver, which is shown recently in an increase in the incidence of these diseases.

Thus the Cirrhosis Hepatis nosode is not only for use where cirrhosis of the liver is already established, but also in the preliminary stages, e.g. in widely varying kinds of iatrogenic damage, especially where liver symptoms are in evidence and changes in the serum proteins can be detected, and in pathological changes in the transami- nase values etc.

The Cirrhosis Hepatis nosode can also make a significant contribution in the treat- ment of other illnesses, e.g. in abnormal toxic states of many kinds, since the liver

acts as the most important detoxifying point in the body and in cirrhosis this detoxi- fying mechanism is considerably disturbed.

One should therefore think of using the Cirrhosis Hepatis nosode in rheumatic polyarthritis, septic conditions, to support the detoxification of the liver in a wide va- riety of chronic conditions in the area of cellular phases, and experimentally in neo- plasms also. Evidence for the use of this nosode exists in the testing procedure for medicaments developed by Dr. Voll (Plochingen) with the Diatherapunkteur, and this is also valid for the use of other nosodes.

The remedy may also be tried experimentally in cholangitis and in intrahepatic cholestasis.

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried inner bark of the plant, Cinnamo- mum verum J.S. Presl., cultivated in Sri Lanka, India, the Sunda Islands, the Philip- pines and Seychelles, in Brazil and Ghana. N.O. Lauraceae.

The main indications are:

Haemorrhage and haemorrhagic tendency, also in oesophageal varices; uterine haemorrhage with bright red blood, copious and gushing. Post partum. Menses last 8–14 days, followed by leucorrhoea.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Cinnamomum zeylanicum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for cinnamomum: nervous disorders; uterine bleeding.

The attenuations are prepared from red Mercury(II)-sulphide, HgS, MW: 232.7.

The main indications are:

Sinusitis with offensive discharge. Otitis externa. Old cases of syphilis with skin eruptions, (pustules, reddish scurf). Pains shooting through the eyeball and around the eyeball.

Typical of Cinnabaris is a general painfulness of the skull and scalp, and even of the hair on being touched.

The suddenly occuring pains in various areas of the body in the form of stabbing and tearing pains to the sides of the spine, in the back and loins and also in the nerves of the arms, and painful twitching in the lower leg, waking the patient from sleep, with sensations of numbness and pressure in the foot, all point to involvement of the vertebrae.

Formerly Cinnabaris was frequently used in problems of syphilitic origin.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of

Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Hydrargyrum sulfuratum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for cinnabaris: purulent inflammations of the conjunctiva and paranasal sinus cavities; warts.

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried, unexpanded flower-heads of the plant, Artemisia cina O.C. Berg et F.C. Schmidt, which grows in the steppes of Cen- tral Asia, particularly Turkestan. N.O. Compositae.

The main indications are:

Facial pallor. Rims around the eyes. Paroxysms of coughing, ending with a sneeze. Worm problems. Convulsions from worm-irritation. Whooping cough.

Typical of Cina are twitchings and contortions of the limbs and general convul- sions. A pointer to the remedy can be that in these cramping states the fingers and toes are not involved.

Another indicator to this remedy can be the appearance of an incipient bulbar paralysis, with inability to swallow liquids, whilst otherwise it is mainly indicated in cramps of children, crying out and throwing themselves about during sleep, grinding the teeth. However, it may also be indicated in episodes of eclampsia, in digestive disturbances with gluttony and ravenous hunger, in periodic abdominal pains with or without distension and flatulence, also in whooping cough and enuresis. Numerous nervous complaints associated with worms are cured by Cina.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Artemisia cina, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for cina: intermittent episodes of fever; worms; tendency to spasmodic conditions; change of voice among children.