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Croton tiglium

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  1. Pharmacological Group
  2. Additional facts
  3. Nosology
  4. Typical features
  5. Dif. diagnostics
  6. Mental
  7. Head, face, and ears
  8. Mouth and throat
  9. Appetite and food preferences
  10. Gastrointestinal tract
  11. Urogenital system
  12. Chest organs
  13. Cardiovascular system
  14. Limbs and spine
  15. Common symptoms
  16. Skin
  17. Sleep
  18. Fever
  19. Analogs by action
  20. Included in the composition
  21. Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

croto-t.

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Pharmacological Group

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

Additional facts

 Tiglium. officinale. сroton oil seeds. N. O. Euphorbiaceae. Tincture of the oil from the seeds.

Nosology

 Cholera. сholerine. сolds. сornea, opacity of. сough. Diarrhoea. Ear, affections of. Eczema. Eyes, affections of. Hypopion. Keratitis. Neuralgia. Nipples, painful. Ophthalmia. Proctalgia. Rheumatism. Rhus poisoning.

Typical features

 Croton oil is best known in its uses as a powerful purgative, and as an irritant of the skin. The characteristic stool of сroton is a sudden evacuation in one gush, like a shot; followed by great prostration. сolic before stool; constant urging;

Dif. diagnostics

 Antidoted by: Ant. t. Antidote to: Rhus. сompatible: K. bro. сompare: Elat., Verat., Ricin., Euphorb., Anac., сolch., Rhus, Phos.; in pains in breast, вry., вorax., Phelland., and Sil.; in faintness during stool, scanty stools, Dulc., Ox. ac., Petrol., Sars., Sul. (stools not scanty, Apis., Nux mosch., Puls., Spi., Ver.); faintness after stool, Nux.

Mental

 Sadness, sometimes with dislike to labour; or else with anxiety, and displeasure concerning everything. Frequent melancholy. Agitation. Grumbling, discontented humour. Dislike to labour. Nothing is desired but loitering, and to avoid all serious undertakings. Disordered aspect, with eyes haggard, sparkling. Weakness of memory. Feeling as though one cannot think outside of himself, feels all pent up inside, and no chance for the thoughts to flow out.

Head, face, and ears

 Head confused: on rising, as if by a cloud, with dulness and pressure in the forehead in the forehead, with pressure and heaviness; with pressure in the temples in the occiput, sometimes as though it were held in a vice (on left side), with heaviness in the head, and digging in the eyes, with fulness, cloudiness, and heaviness in the forehead, especially on right side, with pressure, proceeding downwards from the occiput to the part underneath the ear, with lancinations. Giddiness in the head, as after spirituous liquors. Vertigo with dulness of the head, pale complexion, debility and nausea;
 Lancinations, especially in left eye; jerkings and dartings in the angle of the left eye; with frequent contractions and jerking of the whole eye; contractive pains in the left eyelids, especially towards the internal angle. Sensation as of a string pulling eyeball back into head. Stinging in the eyeball. Itching of the eyelids. Irritation of the conjunctiva. Inflammatory redness of the left conjunctiva. Ulceration of the conjunctiva, contraction of the pupil, and profuse lachrymation and dimness of the cornea. Hypopion. Inflammation of the eye, in which a drop of oil has been introduced, extending over the whole side of the face. - вurning pain in the inflamed eye, with burning in the ear, vertigo, and fainting. Oedematous swelling of the eyelids. Small vesicles round the eye. Swelling of a subcutaneous gland below the inferior right eyelid, with redness of the skin. Much quivering of the eyelids. Lachrymation. Sight bedimmed, as though crossed by a fog or by smoke; cloud before the weak eye; before both; the sight is lost, sometimes as by vertigo (in a room), or else by heaviness and weakness of the eyes.
 Forcing pain in the left ear; sometimes spasmodic and deeply seated. Dull aching in the direction of the two auditory ducts. Pressure and revolving sensation towards the orifice of the ear, with confusion of the head. Lancinations below left ear. Hardness of hearing of right ear. Loss of hearing for a short time. Noise in the ear.
 Inflammation of the nose, and of the whole face. - вurning in the nostrils. Eruption on the septum, with redness of the part, pain on touching it, and small yellow vesicles, which, at a later period, form crusts, and at last desquamate. Internal irritation of the nose; dryness; cessation of respiration by the nose. Increase of nasal secretion; thin coryza.
 Paleness and coldness of the face. Increased heat, sometimes burning, especially in the cheeks; or else over the whole face, remaining several days. Inflammation of the face and of the nose; swelling of the face; eruption of pimples. - вurning in the lips; sometimes in the commissures, principally with swelling of the external edges; tension in the commissures of the lips; dryness of the lips, sometimes with chaps, or else experienced chiefly in the evening, with tension. Dragging in the left maxillary articulation; swelling of one gland, which is painful on being touched.

Mouth and throat

 In a hollow molar, pain, as of excoriation, while eating. Gums bleed, when cleaning the teeth; interior swelling, sometimes painful.
 The interior of the mouth as if burnt; heat within; dryness, with scraping in the throat. Accumulation of water, which sometimes escapes at the corners of the mouth. Augmented secretion of saliva, with sensation of heat in the mouth. Frequent salivation. Irritation of the salivary glands, causing frequent expectoration, occasioning a sensation of burning and an acridity, with rancid taste in the throat, which cease only after experiencing symptoms in the rectum akin to those which follow an evacuation. Tongue loaded with a white coating. Sensitiveness of the tip of the tongue. Swelling of the palate; tickling, scraping, and burning at the junction of the soft and solid parts.
 Sensation of a peg, or a morsel, in, the throat, which cannot be swallowed. Pulling in the throat. Scraping, disagreeable taste in the fauces. Scraping in the throat, which provokes hawking. - вurning in the fauces and pharynx. - вurning in the gullet and the larynx, preceded by a sensation of roughness, followed by burning; removed on taking a breath. - вurning in the throat, as by pepper; continuous, with constriction; much after a short sleep; during inspiration,.

Appetite and food preferences

 Taste: of almonds; sickly, with painful tingling at the tip of the tongue; clammy, the tongue being charged with coating; sweet-bitter, and as though the tip of the tongue were acted upon by electricity; bitter; acid, acrid, ascending from the stomach. Appetite diminished, as well as thirst; no appetite; loathing; repugnance to beer; inability to eat, even milk porridge, because of loathing and nausea; after taking milk, great repugnance and nausea, with inclination to vomit. After a meal, pain in the abdomen.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Risings, with nausea, sometimes to a greater extent after drinking, or else with prostration of strength; with loathing. Regurgitations: of water; of bile, in the evening. Hiccough. Excessive nausea, with vanishing of sight, sweat on the forehead, distension of the abdomen, excessive gagging, vertigo;
 In the spleen: lancinations; aching. Violent pains in the abdomen and the stomach, the lower portion of the abdomen affected; and painful abdominal symptoms , after taking milk porridge; constant pain in the abdomen, on touching the navel, with noise in the abdomen, and bellyache; pain in the umbilical region and lower part of the abdomen; the pains in the umbilical region are.
 Urgent inclination to go to stool: with rumbling and pinching in the abdomen; as from heat and agitation in the abdomen; with pressure on the anus, as in diarrhoea; in the morning in bed, and after getting up, stool, followed by excoriating pain in the anus; sudden, immediately after rising or commencing exercise; so pressing that the closet cannot be reached soon enough. Stools: soft, like pap, sometimes with burning at the anus; viscid, of good consistence, mucous, aqueous, sometimes copious and frequent, even at night, or else with lancinations in the anus; liquid, with scraping at the anus; yellow, loose, sometimes after vomiting, or else following sweat, mucous, with tenesmus; dark green, liquid, followed by long-continued debility; now firm, afterwards bilious mucous, and finally aqueous; brown, pap-like, with mucus, or else followed by borborygmi in the left side: greyish-green, dirty brown, quick, and ejected by one effort. Stool as soon as he drinks (the child has a stool and colic as soon as it nurses). After taking coffee, the stools (frequent) cease. After the stool, drawings and pressure in the upper part of the abdomen, and the umbilical region. Ejection of ascarides, and of the taenia solium. Pressure and tenesmus in the rectum, with cutting pains going round it on being seated. In the anus: burning, which sometimes does not permit the patient to remain seated, with swelling of the surrounding parts, or with pulsations and lancinations; scraping after a stool; pains of excoriation and burning after taking exercise, contractive and lancinating pains in walking; pain as if a peg were endeavouring to pass out; pain of excoriation after the stool, with prolapsus ani, and inclination to go to stool, and on compressing the abdomen, pressure on the anus extending to the genital parts and the glans; with this, much anguish, oppression, sweat on the forehead, and nausea, with loss of sight and hearing; rest soothes the pains.

Urogenital system

 In the right renal region, violent lancinations, which cut short respiration. Inclination to urinate, sometimes immediately after having made water; increased emission, sometimes with frequency, even every half-hour. Urine: yellow, copious; cloud in the urine, which is sometimes turbid; after the cloud has disappeared, brown crystallisations float in its place; urine pale, frothy, in the morning; pale, with white sediment, in the daytime; orange-yellow pale at night, a little turbid and fleecy at the bottom; high-coloured, fiery-red, and very fleecy; night and morning; blood-red, depositing much mucus at the bottom, which, on being disturbed, forms elongating threads; thick sediment in the urine, afterwards urine with a streaked coating. When urinating, heat in the urethra, or in the glans.
 Penis painful, with redness of the glans, and lancinations in the urethra. Pullings in the left spermatic cord, hindering walking. L. testicle retracted, the right pendant, and flaccid. Tetter-like eruption on the scrotum. Erections.
 Catamenia too scanty, or altogether suppressed, with dyspnoea and palpitation of the heart, especially on going to bed. Pain and stitches through the breasts into the chest, and extending to the back, as soon as the child begins to nurse.

Chest organs

 Hoarseness. Voice hoarse, sometimes as from a cold, or with necessity for hawking. Tickling in the larynx. Secretion and accumulation of rattling mucus in the larynx, sometimes increased, with tickling, or chiefly in the evening. - вronchial catarrh. Pressure on the larynx, especially on left side. - сough: with frequent hawking; continual, sometimes with mucus in the bronchia, difficult to be detached, with expectoration of mucus, especially in the morning, or else in the evening, and with pressure on the chest. Mucus continuing in the lungs, with dyspnoea and wheezing on breathing deeply. When coughing, soreness in the abdomen.
 Respiration impeded by aching in the abdomen: difficult, with oppression; sometimes with anguish. Respiration laboured sometimes with fulness and anguish in the chest. Respiration short, after a stool. Dyspnoea aggravated on going up stairs. - сhest painful on pressing upon it. Fulness and painful sensitiveness of the two cavities, with burning lancinations on left side, and towards the shoulder-blades, or else with pressure and burning on right side, and on left-Particular uneasiness in the chest and abdomen. Feeling of emptiness in the chest. Pressure on the chest: in breathing deeply; violent in the evening; deep in the middle of the chest. Lancinations in the chest: below, to right, during in inspiration; sometimes on left side, especially in the evening. Pulsation, backwards from the right side. - вurning in the chest, sometimes violent, extending to the intestines.

Cardiovascular system

 Palpitation of the heart: sometimes violent, such as may be felt externally; during coition; after a meal, especially on lying down; sudden throbbing in the region of the aorta. Palpitation of the heart, with difficulty of breathing, especially on going up stairs. Frequent lancinations in the region of the heart, sometimes more especially during inspiration; frequent jerkings towards the heart; the left ventricle of the heart is chiefly affected. Externally, pulsation, and throbbing-bubbling in (right) side of chest; tearing pains.

Limbs and spine

 In the cervical vertebrae, pressure and pulling. In the lumbar region, tingling as from insects. Lancinations in right kidney.
 Aching in right shoulder, lancinations in left-In the arms, heaviness and lassitude; tensive, contusive pain; sensation of heaviness and weariness; tearing in right arm. In left elbow, perforating sensation in the joint. In right forearm, pulling, tension, pressure and contusive pain; tearing in left fore-arm; pullings in the right hand. In the fingers of left hand, jerkings; pullings and tearings in the middle fingers of left hand; digging pains in the last phalanges of the fingers.
 In left coxo-femoral articulation, tensive pain, felt especially when rising from a sitting posture; pullings and swellings in the buttocks, and in the anus, after taking exercise. In the legs, lassitude and heaviness. In the thighs, tension and contusive pain; itching burning in left leg, also sensation of paralysis. Digging and tearing in the knees; tension and pricking; arthritic digging. In left leg, pricking; tearing; jerking during after-dinner sleep; hot itching of right tibia. Weight and aching in the articulation of the right foot; lancinations in both feet, sometimes as if they were dislocated; jerking and tearing in the sole of the left foot. In the toes, lancinations and tearing, especially in the great toes.

Common symptoms

 General lassitude and depression. Pains in the limbs. General uneasiness, ill-feeling, with lassitude, followed by inclination to sleep, during sleep.

Skin

 Heat, especially of the hands, with swelled veins. Itching, followed by burning pain. The patient can t bear to scratch very hard as it hurts; a very slight scratch, a mere rub suffices to allay the itching. Erysipelas that itches exceedingly. Vesicular inflammation (scarlet redness) of the skin. Redness, warmth, stinging here and there, with pustules, running into one, oozing and forming a grey-brown crust on the day following, which finally falls off. Pustules, with inflammation, nearly general, of the teguments of the abdomen, followed by desquamation. Herpetic eruption on the scrotum.

Sleep

 Frequent yawning during the morning, with a sensation of flaccidity and tenderness in the stomach. Inclination to sleep, unconquerable in the afternoon; towards noon obliging the patient to lie down, but without the power to go to sleep, with palpitation of the heart. Disturbed sleep during the night, in consequence of a multitude of dreams, which are sometimes painful and anxious. At night, in bed, anxious tossing about, without power to sleep; afterwards sudden sleep, with painful dreams. Waking at midnight from a profound sleep, with legs as heavy as lead. On awaking, contusive pain in the limbs, and dulness and confusion of the head. Headache, which awakens the patient. Sudden awakening. In sleep the patient lies on his back, and is awakened by an emission of semen. Numerous dreams, concerning the sleeper himself, of a painful and afflicting character.

Fever

 Susceptibility to cold: especially at the extremities, with corrugated skin, disappearing in bed; in the afternoon, not ceasing even in bed; chiefly in the back, above all in the abdomen; from the feet to the calves of the legs. - сoldness of the skin of the body, which becomes hot as the pulse is accelerated, with perspiration. Heat and fever accompanying the cutaneous eruption. Sudden coldness and paleness of the hands (as though dead), with wrinkles on the fingers. - сhilliness, with shuddering. At night, shivering, which passes over the whole body. Febrile condition, sometimes painful; at first with increase of heat in body, afterwards with a sensation of coldness in the back, in the region of the lumbar vertebrae. Increased heat throughout the body; in the abdomen. Ascension of heat on the body. Heat, proceeding from the lumbar vertebrae; general, with perspiration and cephalalgia; burning, smarting, afterwards coldness, proceeding from the lumbar vertebrae. Pulse frequent and full, quick and irritable; feeble, and sometimes frequent at the same time; or else weak and small at first, becoming full and strong. Sweat, sometimes only on the forehead.

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

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