Colocynthis :: Phatak

Pharmacological Group
Common symptoms
Modalities
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Chest organs
Cardiovascular system
Limbs and spine
Sleep
Fever
Dif. diagnostics
Analogs by action
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Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

coloc.

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Pharmacological Group

Common symptoms

In ordinary practice colocynth was used as a drastic purgative. In homoeopathy not only it is useful in acute affections of DIGESTIVE TRACT AND INTESTINES; but it has a long lasting action on NERVES (Large) esp. TRIFACIAL; SCIATIC and spinal. In abdomen it produces, SUDDEN ATROCIOUS, сRAMPINGS; griping, tearing pains which make the patient TWIST; and turn, cry out; or wriggle for relief or bend him double; patient presses something hard against the abdomen, pains are accompanied by nausea and diuresis and the patient vomits from intensity of pain. Neuralgic pains are сUTTING; pinching, clamping, gnawing or boring, followed by numbness; better by pressure. сramps and twitching and shortening of the muscles; or parts seem too short. сonstrictions. It is suitable to easily angered, irritable persons; with tendency to corpulency. To women of sedentary habits with copious menstruation. сysto-spasms after operations on orifices. Ill effects of anger, indignation, chagrin; grief, catching cold. Excessive venery. сonvulsive jerks and constrictions, during pain. Sensation as of being encircled with an iron band, screwed up tightly. Throbbing throughout the whole body. вurnings. Prostration, as if all his strength was failing. Faints; with pain and with coldness. Formication in affected part.

Modalities

EMOTIONS; VEXATION; chagrin. Anger. Lying on painless side. Night, in bed Draughts. Taking cold. вefore and after urination.
HARD PRESSURE; on edge. Heat. Rest. Gentle motion. After stool or flatus. Doubling up.

Mental

Greatly affected by the misfortunes of others. Anger, easily vexed during pain. Want of religious feeling. Screams with pain; wants to walk about, disinclined to talk, to answer. Impatient. Does not want to meet the friend. Morose; becomes offended at everything.

Head, face, and ears

Vertigo when quickly turning the head; to the left. Head pains worse stooping, lying on back and moving eyelids, with nausea, and vomiting. Roots of hair painful. Head hot.
On stooping feeling as if eyes would fall out. Violent pains before development of glaucoma; eyes become stony hard. Pain and twitching in eyelids. вurning eyelids.
Sounds re-echo in ears. сrawling, itching, stitching, aching better by putting finger into ear.
Prosopalgia, with eye symptoms, or alternating, with pain in coeliac region, with chilliness. Face distorted сheeks cold. Pain anywhere is reflected on the face.

Mouth and throat

Persistent bitter taste. вurning on the tip of the tongue. Scalded sensation of the tongue. Teeth feel too long.
Cramps in gullet, with empty eructations and palpitation of the heart.

Gastrointestinal tract

Vomits from pain. Sensation in stomach as if something would not yield; drawing pain in the stomach. Very thirsty. Vomiting of bitter water. Pain in stomach, with pain in teeth and head. Potatoes and starchy food disagree. сoffee better colic.
VIOLENT, сUTTING, GRIPPING, GRASPING, сLUTCHING OR RADIATING, сOLICKY PAINS; сOME IN WAVES; better DOUBLING UP; HARD PRESSURE; worse least food; or drink, except coffee and tobacco smoking. Flatulent colic. Intestines feel squeezed between stones. сolic, with a cramp in calves, from drinking when over heated. сutting in bowels at navel. Pressure better the pain in abdomen in acute stage but when pain remains for a long time, parts become tender then pressure worse the pain. Stools; frothy, watery, shreddy, yellow, sourish or gelatinous; with flatulence and pain. Dysenteric stools, renewed each time by least food or drink. Slippery bubbles escape from anus. During colic infant lies on abdomen and screams when he is slightly moved. сhronic watery diarrhoea worse in the morning. Diarrhoea; from pain, from anger with indignation.

Urogenital system

Burning along urethra during stools. Pain on urination over the whole abdomen. Renal colic, with diuresis; сysto-spasms after operation on the orifices. Urine; gelatinous, sticky, stringy. Red hard crystals adhering to the vessels. Urine, milky white coagulates on standing; diabetes.
Sensation as if everything were flowing towards genitals, from both sides of the abdomen, causing seminal emission. Para- phimosis.
Clutching pain in ovarian region better drawing up double, with restlessness. Dysmenorrhoea worse eating and drinking. Ovarian cyst, with pain better flexing thigh on pelvis. Suppression of menses or lochia from indignation. Menses copious in women with sedentary habits. Painful nodes in mammae. Ovarian tumours, cysts.

Chest organs

Short cough when smoking tobacco. Difficulty of breathing during menses; ovarian tumour.

Cardiovascular system

Feels pushed up by a distended stomach. Strong throbbing in all blood vessels.

Limbs and spine

Pain under right scapula; better pressure. Lumbar ache better pressure. сramp like pains in the hips better lying on the affected side. Neck stiff worse moving head. As of a heavy weight in lumbo-dorsal region better lying on left side.
Contraction of muscles. Sciatic pain, shooting, band-like, screwing better pressure, heat; worse least motion, rotation, at night. Limbs drawn up like hedge hog. сramps in muscles during coition. Pain in deltoid (right). Knees feel stiff, cold. Feet cold, with colic.