Other names and synonyms
ric.Description Source
Homeopathic Materia Medica – William BoerickePharmacological Group
Description
Castor-oil (RICINUS сOMMUNIS - вOFAREIRA).
Has marked action on gastro-intestinal tract. Increase the quantity of milk in nursing women. Vomiting and purging. Languor and weakness.
Has marked action on gastro-intestinal tract. Increase the quantity of milk in nursing women. Vomiting and purging. Languor and weakness.
Head, face, and ears
Vertigo, occipital pain, congestive symptoms, buzzing in ears. Face pale, twitching of mouth.
Gastrointestinal tract
Anorexia with great thirst, burning in stomach, pyrosis, nausea profuse vomiting, pit of stomach sensitive. Mouth dry.
Rumbling with contraction of recti muscles, colic, incessant diarrhoea with purging. Rice water stools with cramps and chilliness.
Loose, incessant, painless, with painful cramps in muscles of extremities. Anus inflamed. Stools green, slimy, and bloody. Fever, emaciation, somnolence.
Rumbling with contraction of recti muscles, colic, incessant diarrhoea with purging. Rice water stools with cramps and chilliness.
Loose, incessant, painless, with painful cramps in muscles of extremities. Anus inflamed. Stools green, slimy, and bloody. Fever, emaciation, somnolence.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Resorcin (summer complaint with vomiting); destroys organic germs of putrefaction; сholos terrapina (cramps of muscles). Ars; Verat.
Method of drug use and dosage
Third potency. Five drops every four hours for increasing flow of milk; also locally a poultice of the leaves.