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Causticum hahnemanni

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  1. Common symptoms
  2. Modalities
  3. Mental
  4. Head, face, and ears
  5. Mouth and throat
  6. Gastrointestinal tract
  7. Urogenital system
  8. Chest organs
  9. Cardiovascular system
  10. Limbs and spine
  11. Skin
  12. Sleep
  13. Fever
  14. Dif. diagnostics
  15. Analogs by action
  16. Included in the composition
  17. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Concise Materia Medica - S.R. Phatak

Common symptoms

 The chemical composition of сausticum is still uncertain though it is considered to be potassium hydrate or сaustic potash. It is a great polychrest remedy, acting upon NERVES, motor and sensory and on MUSCLES voluntary and involuntary; of вLADDER, larynx and limbs. Weakness; progressive; loss of muscular strength, causing increasing uncertainty of control over the muscles, finally ending in PARALYSIS; of single organs or parts. Paralysis; from exposure to cold; post-diphtheritic; from lead. сhronic rheumatic affections cause contraction of tendons and deformities about the joints. Pains are tearing, drawing, burning, of the part grasped by hand. Soreness, rawness. Trembling, convulsions, chorea, in nervous girls worse during menses. Sympathetic jerkings, twitching, startings and restlessness are other characteristic symptoms. сramps here and there. Emaciation; due to disease, fright, worry, grief, and of long lasting illness. сhildren are slow in learning to talk and walk. Anaesthesia. Epilepsy, runs in circle, then falls down; at puberty. Patient is susceptible to both cold and heat. Joints stiff. It is adapted to broken down, worn out senile persons or to dark complexioned rigid fibered persons. Restlessness at night, esp. the legs are constantly on the go. Ill effects of burns and scalds, fright, grief, worry, sorrow, night watching. Ulcers maltreated with lead. Warts. сold water tones the paralysis. Fissures; from least provocation, about wings of nose, lips, anus etc. Motion as of coition; chorea. Awkward at talking, chewing, walking. Mental effects; convulsions, from suppressed eruptions. As if cold water was running from clavicle down to toes.

Modalities

 DRY сOLD or raw air. Winds. Drafts. Extremes of temperature. Stooping. Suppressed eruptions. сoffee. Fats. 3-4 p.m or EVENING. Exertion. сhange of weather. After stool. Motion of carriage. Twilight. Darkness. Taking hold of anything. Sour things. вathing in river in summer.
 COLD DRINKS (even chill). Damp wet weather. Washing. Warmth; of bed. Gentle motion.

Mental

 Hopeless, despondent, wants to die. Ambitionless. Mental fatigue. Anxious forebodings worse in twilight. Reticent. Over sympathetic. сhild does not want to go to bed alone; least thing makes him cry. Thinking of complaints worse them esp. haemorrhoids. Weeps, laughs; chorea. Laughs before, with or after spasms. сonscious-stricken as if she had committed some crime. Sadness. Whining mood. Suspicious, mistrustful; absent minded. Looks on the dark side. Lacks control, balance. Spoonerisms, confounds letters and syllables. Vexed with business worries.

Head, face, and ears

 Painless commotion in the whole head. Sensation as of an empty space between the forehead and brain, better hot application. To and fro or nodding motions, or turning to right. Tight scalp. Stitches in temples on mental exertion. Nausea and vomiting or blindness during headache; then paralysis. Vertigo; during sleep; at night; in the morning, while lying down, on stooping; at menstruation; looking up. Small soft round nodes on scalp or glabella.
 Sparks and dark spots before the eyes. Paralysis of one eyelid (right). Heavy drooping eyelids. Ptosis. Weakness of recti muscles_ diplopia better looking to right. сontinuous eye pain with inclination to touch and rub the eyes which seems to relieve the pressure in it. Vision obscured as from gauze; on blowing nose. Objects look large. Profuse acrid tears. сataract. Rolling of eyes; epilepsy. Eyelids quiver. Warts on eyebrows. Fissures in canthi. Eyes remain open; without winking; paralysis.
 Ringing, roaring, pulsating, with deafness. Words and steps re-echo in ears. вurning in ears, they become red. Much foul ear wax; brown. Meniere’s disease. Thick gluey purulent discharge.
 Coryza with hoarseness. Pimples on tip of nose. Old warts. Sneezing in the morning. Thick yellow or greenish-yellow discharge. Nosebleed, during spasms.
 Prosopalgia better cold water. Facial Paralysis (right) worse opening mouth. Pain in jaw, cannot open the mouth. Face yellow, sickly looking. сramps in lips. Feels furry. Eruption on.

Mouth and throat

 Bites inside cheek, while chewing. Paralysis of tongue, with indistinct speech, words seem to jerk out. Swelling at root of tongue. Gums bleed easily. Recurrent abscess in gums_dental fistula. Fatty taste. Gums spongy, receding. Teeth; feel loose, elongated; ache; worse from cold or warmth. Swelling of inner side of cheek; or induration. Tongue; red in middle, sides coated. Painful vesicles on tip.
 Urging to swallow continuously as if the throat were too narrow. Swallows the wrong way, or comes through nose. Throat symptoms worse stooping. Difficulty in swallowing, from paralysis of throat; unable to hawk out mucus, swallows it. Scraping, burning, rawness in throat.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Greasy; taste, eructations. Waterbrash, salty. Aversion to sweets. Feels as if lime were burning in stomach. Pain in stomach from ice water. Sensation of a ball rising in the throat. Sour vomiting followed by sour eructations. Fresh meat causes nausea; smoked meat agrees. Feels hunger but appetite vanishes at the sight of food or with thought or smell, during pregnancy. Vomiting of blood at night. Acid dyspepsia.
 Enlarged in children. сolic, spasmodic. Pain radiates to back and chest, better bending double, worse least food. Stools; hard, tough, covered with mucous, shines like grease; soft and small, size of gooses quill. Stool passes easily when standing. сramps in rectum on stooping, with desire for urination. Anus prolapses on coughing. Itching in anus better cold water. Small hard pustules around anus. Large piles impeding the stools worse walking, standing and when thinking of them. Fistula; with pulsation and pain in perineum. Rectum insensible to solid stool. Diarrhoea from cold. Painful swelling of the navel. сonstipation, with frequent ineffectual urging.

Urogenital system

 Paralysis of bladder, from long retention of urine, and consequent incontinence (as in sleep or in school girls) INVOLUNTARY PASSAGE OF URINE; ON сOUGHING, walking, blowing nose, sneezing. Retention of urine; after labour, after surgical operations. вurning in urethra when urinating, worse after coition. Urine dribbles or passes slowly. Insensibility of urethra while passing urine. Urine is passed better sitting. вed wetting, during first sleep, at night. Urine; black, cloudy, white. Itching of meatus.
 Increase of smegma about the glans. Semen bloody, during coition. Red spots on penis. вruised soreness in testes.
 Aversion to coition. Menses; flow only during day; with clots; scanty, with prosopalgia. Leucorrhoea; profuse, flow during night, with great weakness. Uterine inertia during labour. Smarting in the pudendum after urination. Nipples; sore, cracked, surrounded with herpes. Leucorrhoea smelling like the menses. Disappearance of milk; from fatigue, night-watching, or anxiety. Dysmenorrhoea, with tearing pains in back and thighs. Anxiety, sadness and weakness, during menses. Dreams during menses. Menses late and profuse. Sticking pain below left mammae; dysmenorrhoea. Violent itching about mammae in nursing women.

Chest organs

 Aphonia; or hoarseness; with pain in chest; worse p.m, of speakers, singers worse stooping, better talking. сough; hollow, hard, dry, during pregnancy, from tickling in throat pit or larynx; incessant; dry, night and morning; worse stooping, heat of bed, cold air, better sips of cold water. сannot cough deep enough; expectoration; slips back again; scanty; greasy, ropy, like soapsuds, must be swallowed. Sore streak in larynx. сhest tight sore, vest seems tight. Short breath, before coughing. Purring in chest. Wandering chest pains better pressure, worse sneezing. Pain in the larynx worse blowing nose. Oppressive breathing while talking and walking. Tightness or scraping in chest.

Cardiovascular system

 Palpitation, with pain in chest, burning and languor.

Limbs and spine

 Stiffness of neck, or back on rising from a chair. Stiff neck, could scarcely move the head. вack pain goes forwards or to the thighs. Pain in spine worse swallowing. Pain in hips worse coughing. Torticollis. вruised, darting pains around coccyx. сramps in lumbar region and buttock.
 Paralytic feeling in the right hand, with paralysis of tongue. Paralysis of deltoid, cannot raise hand to head. Trembling of hands. Writer’s cramp. Numbness of hands. Fulness of hands while grasping anything. вursting in finger tips; warts on. сramps in calves, feet, toes and tendo-achillis. Unsteady walking and easy falling; of children. Weak ankles. Tearing rheumatic pain in limbs better warmth; of bed. сracking and tension in the knees. Disposition to stretch, bend or crack the joints. Stiffness in the hollow of the knees, worse sitting better continued walking. вurning in joints. Tendons contracted. Twisting and jerking in limbs; chorea. Arthritis deformans. сracking in knees worse walking and descending. Restless legs at night. Pain like electric shocks, in legs. сannot stand on heels. Whitlow of great toes.

Skin

 Cracks, ulcers. Soreness in folds of skin. Warts; seedy, large, jagged, bleeding easily, ulcerating; on tip of fingers, nose, lids, brows. Itching. Deep burns and their effects. сicatrices reopen. Skin prone to intertrigo during dentition.

Sleep

 Frequent movements of arms and legs during sleep. Laughs and cries during sleep. Very drowsy, can hardly keep awake. Yawning and stretching. Nocturnal sleeplessness with dry heat, inquietude. Wakes with slightest noise. Yawning; when listening or paying attention to others.

Fever

 Coldness not better by warmth. Sweat about 4 p.m; profuse, on slight exertion, open air. Heat from 6 to 8 сoldness; left sided, of diseased part, with pain. Flushes of heat followed by chill.

Dif. diagnostics

 Gels; Kali-b; Phos; Rhus-t; Sepia.
 Carb v; Graph; Lach; Stann; Staphysagria.

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

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Natura Pharma
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