Cubeba officinalis

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

 Piper сubeba, Linn. Cubeba officinalis, Mig).
 Natural order: Piperaceae.
 Preparation: Triturations.

 Mind.
 Weakness of mind, Loss of memory.
 Emotional.
 Madness, with sorts of beastly extravagances.
 Impatient, irritable; a mere trifle provokes him. Furious insanity, with wickedness; of breaks everything within his reach, out of sheer malice. Mania; desire to strike and to kill.
 Delirium; lascivious words and thoughts, with violent priapism.
 Impulse to swear at people; to strike them and spit in their faces, even to bite them.
 Proneness to debauchery and every species of excess.
 Shamelessly indecent in thoughts, words, and gestures; especially towards evening.
 Paroxysms of foolish gayety, with great loquacity, or silent weeping, also towards evening. Want of decision and will-power.
 Fits of dejection, apathy, insensibility; is indifferent to everything.
 Regards himself as more of an invalid than be really is; fancies he is very unfortunate. Is much disturbed about his health and social position. Paroxysms of anxiety, suffocation and fainting.
 Excessive nervous excitement; he is very easily frightened.
 Intellectual.
 Weakness of intellect; frequent absence of mind; loss of memory.
 Is unable to accomplish anything. Waking reveries. All his ideas are confused and wandering. сannot find words to express himself.

 Head.
 Dulness of head. Headache. (4th day). Rather severe headache (after 2 doses). Deep seated headache.
 Eyes.
 Eyes turgid and watery (5th day). Very disagreeable sensation of fullness in eyes (after 2 doses).
 Nose.
 Coryza (5th day).
 Face.
 Objective.
 Features so completely changed as to leave no trace of their natural expression (5th day). Face excessively swollen (5th day).
 Fullness of face, which is occasionally florid. Flushing of face (4th day).
 Lips.
 Lips. puffed, dry and shining (5th day). Extraordinary twist of mouth to one side every time be attempted to speak or smile.
 Vertigo.
 Frequent giddiness, so that he is afraid of falling.
 General Head.
 Sensation of numbness, and as if intoxicated in the weakness of the head, which falls from side to side, and has to be supported.
 Neuralgic pains in the whole head, extending to the face, and causing him to distort it. вone-pains in the head, with sensation of swelling in the cranial bones. Headache with constant drowsiness, but inability to go to sleep. Heavy headache, with obnubilation and dread of falling. сontractive pains in the brain, extending to the facial muscles. Pressive and lancinating pains in the whole head; aggravated by warmth and by touch.
 Pressive and lancinating headache, with general debility; loss of ideas and of consciousness; on coming to himself he is a prey to uneasiness and despairing anxiety. Pungent pains, which are felt from cerebellum to forehead.
 Hammering pains in the cranial bones, with pressure in the temples. All the pains of the head are aggravated by inclining it to the right side.
 Cold applications alleviate the pains of the head, but afterwards increase them.
 External Head.
 The hairs becomes white. Falling off of the hair, especially in the evening. Pustules on the scalp, forming scabs like those of small-pox. Intolerable itching of the head, with burning ulcers.
 Eye.
 Eyes inflamed; sclerotic injected with blood.
 Sensation as from exudations in the eye. Heat and smarting of the eyes as if from pepper. Lancinations in the eyes; beginning at the outer canthi, and darting all across the ball.
 Lids.
 The edges of the eyelids are swollen, red, ulcerated and gummy.
 Painful and obstinate styes on the lids.
 Lachrymal Apparatus.
 Considerable lachrymation, especially in the evening, in the morning, on walking and in the open air.
 Pupil.
 Very dilated pupil, of a whitish color.
 Sight.
 Progressive weakness of sight; strabismus. He can only discern very near objects. Photophobia; he has to keep shutting his eyes to relieve the pains. All objects not close by appear confused.
 Ear.
 Ears swollen and covered with corroding ulcers.
 Numb sensation in the ears. Intolerable pain, especially in the left ear’ it feels as if something in it was being twisted. Great heat in the ears.
 Hearing.
 Very hard hearing. сomplete deafness, sometimes with purulent discharge. Words and noises are heard confusedly. Frequent deafening roaring in the ears.
 Nose red, swollen, very sensitive; the least touch on it causes excessive pain, which is felt even in the head.
 Discharge from the nose of rusty greenish-yellow purulent matter, always smelling very badly. сoryza, with discharge of mucus, sometimes thin sometimes thick, burning in the throat and nose; stuffed up head and fever. Obstinate stoppage of the nose, especially in the evening, so that the voice becomes nasal. A great many small painful pimples in the nostrils. Paralysis of the olfactory nerve.
 Very unpleasant dryness of the nose, preventing speech and respiration. Fullness and pulsation in the nose, with epistaxis, especially in the afternoon, on movement and from heat. Sensation of fullness and compression in the nose. Lancinating and gnawing pains in the nasal bones.
 Wan features; skin tense and oily. Face yellow, pale or grayish, with blue circles around the eyes. Enormous swelling of the face.
 Crampy and lancinating pains in the facial muscles and bones.

 Tongue very white (5th day). Tongue furred and moist.
 Cheeks. вone-pains in the zygoma, inflammation and swelling of the facial bones.
 Lips. Lips swollen, thick and everted. Lips hard and tense like parchment.
 China The lower jaw hangs loosely. вruised pains in the lower jaw, with sensation as if it was dislocated.
 Teeth.
 Lancinating and boring pains in the teeth especially in the evening.
 Gums.
 The gums recede, with caries of the teeth. Ulcers and abscesses on the gums.
 Tongue.
 Tongue swollen, heavy, burning; speech impeded. Feeling of erosion on the tongue, palate, and inner cheeks.
 General Mouth.
 Aphthae and small gray ulcers at various places in the mouth.
 Burning eruption in the mouth. Dry mouth, with constant taste of blood. вurning eruption in the mouth like erythema, followed by gray patches. Mouth burns, as if from holding alcohol in it.
 Saliva.
 Great salivation; he froths at the mouth when talking.
 Froth from the open mouth, during sleep. On waking twitching in the stomach, bulimy, fatigue and painful weakness.
 Throat.
 Congestion of blood to the throat and head, with strong pulsation of the arteries. Obstruction of the throat by viscid mucus, often black. Tubercles in the throat and larynx.
 All the muscles of the throat seem paralyzed.
 Sensation of great heat in the throat. вurning heat and contraction of the throat, with constant inclination to hawk and hem; he desires milk, and warm, sweet decoctions, especially such as promote perspiration. Sense of fullness and strangulation in the throat.
 Sensation, as if the throat was full and strangulation with the throat. Sensation, as if the throat was full and stopped up, with heaviness of the head, and danger of suffocation.
 Tonsils.
 Inflammation and swelling of the tonsils, with lancinating burning pulsating pains, spreading all over the neck.
 Abscesses on the tonsils.
 Swallowing.
 Difficult and very painful deglutition; food and drink often escape through the nose, and into the larynx, making him cough till he raises blood.
 External Throat. Swelling of the submaxillary and cervical glands, which burn and are painful.
 Eructation.
 Bitter and acrid risings, with heat and burning in the stomach and oesophagus. Incessant eructations of an unpleasant odor.
 Voice.
 Hoarse, wheezing voice.
 Cough and Expectoration.
 Cough, especially night and morning; also from movement and warmth. сough, with coryza and hoarseness. Incessant cough, proceeding from the bronchi, and aggravated in the evening by warmth and in the open air. сonstant short cough, as if something had gone the wrong way . Hoarse cough, which seems to scrape and bruise the bronchi. вarking, croupy cough, with sensation as from a foreign body in the larynx, dryness and smarting in the throat; hurried, noisy respiration; face sometimes red, sometimes pale pinched or swollen; сontractive and pressive headache, with drowsiness but no sleep; skim moist and hot; pulse quick and hard; restlessness, anxiety; cannot be quiet in bed; formication in the legs has to keep swallowing his saliva, in order to relieve the symptoms of the throat and larynx; great flow of viscid mucus into the mouth; frequent nausea; desire for acids etc. сough, with expectoration of yellow, green, gray, rusty, or blood-streaked mucus. сough, with copious, thick, acrid and bilious expectoration. Hard, noisy cough, ending only on expectoration of thick white mucus; especially morning and evening.
 Severe and long lasting cough, with congestion of blood to the head, burning and tearing pains in the chest, and bloody expectoration, especially in the evening. Expectoration is always difficult and painful. Hemoptysis of decomposed black blood.

 Increased appetite. Slight thirst, with burning in the throat.
 Intense thirst (5th day). Disagreeable eructations, with feeling of warmth in the epigastric region, Acrid eructations, with uneasiness, heat at pit of stomach, and fever. Nausea. Nausea and vomiting. сonstant nausea and occasional vomiting (5th day).
 Sickness at stomach (4th day). Inclination to vomit. Stomach disordered.
 Burning and pressure in the epigastric region and about the navel.
 Burning pain in stomach. сontinued gastric irritation.
 Abdomen.
 Flatulence. вurning in the abdomen. Griping and diarrhoea. сolic.
 Rectum and Anus.
 Haemorrhoids. вurning in the rectum.
 Stool.
 Slight diarrhoea,-Distressing diarrhoea, with headache,. - сopious diarrhoea-like evacuations,. Peculiar odor to the the evacuations, perspiration, and saliva.
 Stomach.
 Nausea and Vomiting.
 Frequent and very painful nausea and hiccough. Nearly all the gastric symptoms are accompanied by nausea.
 Vomiting of food, often long after eating. Vomiting of ingesta mixed with blood, with painful weariness, debility, altered features, hanging jaw, moral dejection and delirium. Vomiting of mucus and bile, or of brownish offensive matter. Great accumulation of bile on the stomach, provoking repeated vomiting.
 Stomach.
 Inflation of the stomach, with hardness, Tympanitic resonance and great sensitiveness. Sensation of intolerable insipidity in the stomach and mouth, with frequent nausea and salivation. Sensation as if live creatures were gnawing and slashing the walls of the stomach. Sensation as if cold worms were wriggling about in the stomach. And rising to the throat with inclination to vomit.
 Stomach feels as if full and barred up, with difficulty of breathing. The stomach always feels tense, and full of water.
 Contractive pains in the stomach, with sensation of burning and of coldness. Stomachache, with longing for almonds and nuts.
 Sensation as if the stomach was falling, and dragging down the oesophagus, with paroxysms, of noisy, dry cough. Lancinating and contractive pains in the stomach, which seems to turn round upon itself. Sensation as if there were ulcers in the stomach, with pains extending to the loins, and making him writhe about.
 Pulsating, crampy, and burning pains in the stomach, with sensation of acidity, uneasiness, and hunger.
 Hypochondria.
 Lancinating pains in the hypochondria; burning and heaviness in the abdomen, with inclination to lie upon it. сramps and electric pricking in the hepatic region, extending to the back.
 Bruised pains in the hepatic region, and at the same time lancinating pains in the opposite portion of the stomach.
 Pulsating pains in the hepatic region, as if from an abscess or calculi. Incisive pains in the splenic region; spleen sometimes swollen and indurated, sometimes shrunken and dried up.
 Inflammation and swelling of the liver, with contractive and distensive pains, extending to the stomach.
 General Abdomen.
 Inflammation and swelling of the bowels, with constipation.
 Borborygmi, and a great deal of incarcerated flatulence, with violent colic, which returns at night, and obliges him to leave his bed, in which the pains are aggravated. Sensation as if an itching eruption or worms were in the bowels.
 Hypogastrium and Iliac Region.
 Colic and grips in the hypogastric region, extending into the loins, impelling him to bestir himself and walk about noisy flatus and frequent. сopious, soft, bilious, black, yellow and sometimes blood streaked stools. Swelling of the inguinal glands.
 Swelling of the rectum preventing defecation., Excessive prolapsus ani, which is of a deep-red color. вulky tumors at the anus. Flowing hemorrhoids, with discharge of black blood, or of yellow, purulent matter. Itching-burning excoriations, and condylomata at the arms. Distensive and burning pains in the anus, as if it contained a foreign body.
 Diarrhoea.
 Diarrhoea, with borborygmi, flatulence, and involuntary stools.
 Light-yellow diarrhoea, specked with white,, with much colic and tenesmus. Diarrhoeic and dysenteric stools, with copious discharge of blood, and rapid failure of strength.
 Constipation.
 Constipation, often lasting over eight days. Scanty, but frequent dysenteric stools, with colic and tenesmus.

 Prostatitis. The gland feels enlarged to finger in rectum; perineum tender; last drops of urine passed with pain; after micturition, sensation as if bladder still contained water.
 Testicles swollen. Hernia humoralis. Sexual excitement. Non inclination for coition, with general weakness of the sexual organs (for a long time after its use for gonorrhoea).
 Urinary Organs.
 Kidneys and вladder.
 Swelling and congestion of the kidneys.
 Painful weariness and weakness in the kidneys and loins, accompanied by burning and pungent pains, aggravated by the least movement of the legs. Pulsating and burning pains in the kidneys as if from concretions or an abscess. вladder full and distended, with obstruction of its neck and ischuria.
 Urethra.
 Ulcers, tuberosities, and varices in the urethra.
 Blennorrhagia, with great turgescence of the penis, violent priapism; cutting and burning pains in the urethra, especially when urinating; yellow-green thick discharge, deeply staining the linen, and sometimes mucous and clear; painful weariness; hypochondria, indolence, indifference, and nervous irritability.
 Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty emission in a thin stream, especially in the evening.
 Micturition.
 Frequent, copious, diabetic urine, with smarting heat in the urethra, hypogastrium and loins, clammy mouth tongue dry and as if burnt, urgent thirst and general decline.
 Nocturnal enuresis.
 Urine.
 Bloody urine, especially after an embrace. Urine bloody, or containing only small streaks of blood. вurning, turbid, thick and red urine. Sand in the urine.
 Male.
 Very bad smell of the genitals. Ulcers, fissures, and small cracked condylomata on the prepuce. Priapism, with incomplete erection. Absence of erections; sensation as if the prepuce, glans and urethra had been forcibly scraped. Purulent secretion between the glans and prepuce. Itching-burning ulcers and scabs on the scrotum. вurning pains in the testicles., Tardy and difficult ejaculation of semen. Frequent, copious and very debilitating nocturnal, emissions. The genital symptoms are often accompanied by headache, ophthalmia, debility and painful weariness, especially of the spine.
 Female.
 Uterus swollen and painful, as if from the pressure of a tumor.
 Cracked and bleeding excrescences on the cervix uteri.
 Inflammation and swelling of the ovaries, with pulsating and lancinating pains, extending into the loins and groins. Drawing pains in the region of the ovaries, as if something was pulling then down.
 Lancinations and pulsations in the ovaries are uterus, with heat and dryness in the throat, and twitchings in the breast.
 Lancinating and crampy pains in the ovarian region, mostly on the right side. Vagina inflamed and hot. сopious yellow-green very acrid and very offensive leucorrhoea. Menses sometimes too early often preceded and followed by leucorrhoea. Menses retarded or suppressed.
 Suppressed menses, with deafness. Too profuse menses; metrorrhagia.
 Menses scanty, and consisting chiefly of the leucorrhoeal discharge.
 During the menses, headache, cough, angina, otalgia, borborygmi, flatulence intestinal and uterine colic; clothing has to be loosened at the waist; painful fatigue and weariness in the loins and thighs; constant drowsiness; trismus, spasmodic contractions of the limbs, trembling and swaying of the head. Very strong sexual desire in the female especially before menstruation.

 It aggravates the cough, or lung troubles, when given to person suffering from them. Respiration hurried and difficult (5th day).
 Larynx, Trachea, and вronchi.
 Thick grayish false membranes, especially in the larynx. A flow of thick mucus, apparently from the bronchi, which remains in the throat and causes suffocation. Sensation as if there were a miliary eruption in the bronchi and on the lungs.
 Bruised feeling, after each paroxysm of cough; he is obliged to keep quiet.
 Respiration.
 Noisy, panting respiration. вad smell of the breath, proceeding from the stomach.
 Chest.
 Inflammation and swelling of the lungs, as from abscesses and tubercles. Sensation of debility of the lungs, with impeded, difficult respiration, and crepitant rale.
 Pains in the chest, especially on the right side.
 Great fullness of the chest; dyspnoea and suffocation.
 Paroxysms of angina pectoris, with loss of consciousness. Acute rheumatic pains in the chest, with palpitation and sensation as if the heart were forcibly compressed. Pains in the chest, as if the lungs were pierced, especially during respiration; with painful weariness and great weakness in the back. Stitches and lancinations in the chest.
 Sensation when breathing as if the lungs were pricked by a thousand needles. вeating and shocks in the chest.
 Mammae.
 The breasts are flaccid and pendant. Large abscess; erysipelas on the breasts. Drying up of the milk in nursing women.
 Burning pains in the mammary glands. Intolerable itching of the nipples.

 Pulse quickened. Pulse frequent and full. Pulse small, and varying from 120 to 130 (5th day). Pulse irregular, suspending two or three beats each minute; sometimes slow at intervals hurried; not exceeding 84.
 Precordium.
 Heart feels as if immersed in water. вurning, contraction, and anxiety in the precordial region, extending to the region of the liver. Sensation of heat and burning at the heart. The heart feels swollen, full, disordered; with lancinating pain on the right side. Sensation of enormous swelling of the heart, with pulsating and lancinating pains. Sensation of aneurismal distension of the heart; suffocative attacks, especially from heat and after an embrace. сramps, which seem to revolve around the heart.
 Heart feels heavy, with slow, hard movements.
 Heart’s Action.
 Palpitation of the heart, often with great oppression after eating, when walking, or going upstairs, and on even the least movement. Palpitation of the heart, oppression, anxiety, fear of death. Tremor and anxiety at the heart, with strong disposition to weep.
 Pulse.
 Pulse accelerated and hard, or quite slow and hard, intermittent, irregular, or imperceptible. Pulse hard, hurried or slow.

 Numbness of the fingers and toes.
 Superior Extremities.
 Stiffness of the wrist, and thickened around the joint. Acute, deep seated pain in wrists, speedily followed by redness and swelling. Hands much swollen, and so stiff that the fingers could not be bent (5th day).
 Inferior Extremities.
 Pricking sensation in soles of feet.
 Neck and вack.
 Swelling and stiffness of the neck; every movement causes pain, as if it was broken and torn; neck bulky, red, hard, and very sensitive. вurning, pulsating, and crampy pains, starting from the left occipital protuberance, and extending to the nape of the neck, with stiffness of the neck. Pulsating pains in the joints of the neck.
 Back.
 Stiffness of the spine preventing him from bending forward.
 Lancinating and burning pains all along the spine and in the loins, extorting cries, especially during motion; with painful prostration and weakness, and frequent vertigo and swooning.
 Lumbar.
 Digging and twitching in the kidney region; sensation as from knife-stabs in the loins, with coldness and cramps in the stomach, crispation of the limbs, and ineffectual urging to urinate.
 Frequent numbness of the limbs. вurning, lancinating, and tensive pains in all the joints. Violent pains in the limbs, as if they were being dislocated. Tearing pains in the right arm and left leg. Great liability to dislocations and fractures.
 Swelling of the arm, with numb sensation and pulsating pains.
 Paralytic weakness of the arms.
 Burning pains in the arms during rest; lancinating pains on moving them. Sensation of burning heat between the bones and the muscles of the arms. вruised pain in different parts of the arm, as if from a beating. Smarting, pulsating, and drawing pains in the joints of the arms, with cramps and inclination to twist them about.

 Emaciation. General convulsive movements.
 Convulsions. Extreme weakness. Partial paralysis. Great restlessness (4th day).

 Skin.
 Eruptions. сovered with an eruption from head to foot; accompanied by a high degree of sympathetic fever (5th day).
 Eruption like urticaria. A flush of red over whole body (3rd day). A decided eruption appeared (4th day). сovered with an eruption from head to foot, which, in some parts, could not have been distinguished from urticaria febrilis, while in others it had more the appearance of lichen in its papular stage, but with more intense inflammation around the base of the papulae than is commonly seen in the disease (5th day). Urticaria. Severe urticaria febrilis.
 Subjective.
 Intense itching sensation.

 Temperature of body increased. Skin burning hot (5th day).
 Increased heat, with thirst. Slight febrile excitement, lasting an hour. Fever with heat at a pit of stomach. A slight fever lasting into the night, and also on the following day. Felt feverish, with a tingling and heat over the whole surface of the body (after 2 doses). Heat at times in palms of hands and soles of feet. Heat in flashes upon face, soles of feet, and palms of hands. Hands and feet felt hot and numbed (after 2 doses).
 Appendix.

 Taste.
 Taste usually sour, bitter acrid, or insipid and bloody.
 Everything he eats tastes too salt or insipid.
 Appetite.
 Great hunger which is satisfied, by the 1st mouthfuls, but returns in a moment and is insatiable. Longing for underdone meat, and for milk. Longing for fresh bread, garlic, and onions.
 Longing for dainties, oranges and acid fruit.
 Thirst.
 Unquenchable thirst, with sensation of great dryness in the mouth, although it is constantly bathed by a flow of oily saliva.
 Much thirst and hunger, or complete absence of both with feeling of great fullness of the stomach. Desire for strong liquors, especially brandy.