(Cochineal)
The clinical application of the symptoms of this
remedy, place it among the medicines for spasmodic and whooping coughs, and
catarrhal conditions of the bladder; spasmodic pains in kidneys, with
visceral tenesmus. Anuria, anasarca, ascites. | ||
| Mind. Early
morning or afternoon, sadness. | ||
| Head.
Suboccipital soreness; worse after sleep and exertion. Headache, worse from
lying on back, better with the head high. Dull pain over right eye in
morning. Sensation of a foreign body between upper lid and eyeball.
Distress from cinders lodged in eye. | ||
| Respiratory.
Constant hawking from enlarged uvula; coryza, with inflamed fauces;
accumulation of thick viscid mucus, which is expectorated with great
difficulty. Tickling in larynx. Sensation of a crumb behind larynx,
must swallow continually; brushing teeth causes cough. Fauces very
sensitive. Suffocative cough; worse, first waking, with tough, white mucus,
which strangles. Spasmodic morning cough. Whooping cough attacks end
with vomiting of this tough mucus. Chronic bronchitis complicated with
gravel; large quantities of albuminous, tenacious mucus, are expectorated.
Walking against wind takes breath away. | ||
| Heart.
Sensation as if everything were pressed toward the heart. | ||
| Urine.
Urging to urinate; brick-red sediment. Urinary calculi, hematuria,
urates, and uric acid; lancinating pains from kidney to bladder.
Deep colored, thick urine. Dysuria. | ||
| Female. Menses
too early, profuse, black and thick; dark clots, with
dysuria. Intermittent menstruation; flow only in evening and at night.
Large clots escape when passing water. Labia
inflamed. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, left side, after sleep, touch, pressure of clothing, brushing
teeth, slightest exertion. Better, walking. | ||
| Relationship.
Compare: Canth.; Sars. | ||
| Dose. Lower
triturations. |