Other names and synonyms
cot.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Description
Cotyledon umbilicus. Umbilicus pendulinus. Pennywort. Navelwort. Kidneywort. Le Nombril de Venus. N. O. сrassulaceae (Houseleek-family). Tincture of the plant.
Nosology
Heart affections. Hysteria. Sinuses. Spleen, affections of. Rheumatism.
Typical features
Cotyledon has had a considerable proving, but I am not aware of any clinical experience with it having been recorded. The whole houseleek family are deserving of careful study by homoeopathists. Among the most peculiar symptoms of сotyl. are: a feeling as if some part of the body-a foot or the head-were absent. The senses of sight and hearing are dulled. A yellow patch follows the sight. Disagreeable surging in ears; ears feel stuffed. A number of pains in the region of the spleen appear. The breathing is oppressed, the heart is disturbed. Rheumatic symptoms are prominent. Weak, faint feeling. Stitching, pricking, jerking pains are predominant sensations. сooper considers it a cancer remedy. He has cured with it sinuses in buttock. A patient to whom he gave it for polypus said it made him stagger as if drunk. Symptoms are.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Sedum acre.
Mental
On waking disagreeable sensation running down back of right thigh and leg, with a feeling, as if there were no foot. Head felt exceedingly light for some time as if there were no solid head; could not articulate for some time though she tried; followed by pressing vertical headache by tea. On waking, sensation as if going out of, mind, followed by trickling as of blood down left arm from shoulder to finger-joints. Exhilaration. Difficulty of collecting ideas. Feels lost before headache comes on.
Head, face, and ears
Headache, causing desire for open air, which . Dull headache with cold feet. Dull, heavy, stupefying pain in forehead and vertex, shifting suddenly between them.
Mouth and throat
Constant choking in throat-pit, and feeling as if he would burst into tears. - вack of throat feels as if covered with thick mucus.
Gastrointestinal tract
Pain at epigastrium through to shoulder with nausea. On swallowing, the morsel seems to pass and press against some swelling in cardiac region (in evening) recurring during the pain.
Long stitch in left hypochondrium. Dull pains in left hypochondrium. Dull pushing in region of spleen recurring at intervals.
Bowels freely opened, later, constipation.
Long stitch in left hypochondrium. Dull pains in left hypochondrium. Dull pushing in region of spleen recurring at intervals.
Bowels freely opened, later, constipation.
Urogenital system
Calls to urinate frequent. Increased flow of clear urine.
Chest organs
Tickling in larynx with dry cough. Oppressed breathing. Shooting in all directions in chest, particularly under right scapula and left nipple during evening. Stitches below both nipples.
Cardiovascular system
Heat about heart. Uneasiness. - сlawing, dragging pain, on riding, by compressing side. A troublesome palpitation and fulness at sternum on walking up-hill, consisting of one or two jumps or rolls of heart with occasional intermission.
Limbs and spine
Between attacks of headache, gnawing, rheumatic pain in right shoulder. Aching, bruised pain in wrists. Aching, tingling in hands, especially at night, preventing sleep; tingling down arm when the nerve is struck.
Aching in left thigh followed by numbness. Stinging pain under left gluteus maximus in region of sciatic nerve.
Aching in left thigh followed by numbness. Stinging pain under left gluteus maximus in region of sciatic nerve.
Common symptoms
Occasionally during the day attacks of faintness with green shadows before the eye. - сreeping in the flesh, and feeling as before severe cold or rheumatic attack.