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Cocculus indicus

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  1. Additional facts
  2. Mental
  3. Head, face, and ears
  4. Nervous system
  5. Mouth and throat
  6. Appetite and food preferences
  7. Gastrointestinal tract
  8. Urogenital system
  9. Chest organs
  10. Analogs by action
  11. Included in the composition
  12. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica - TF Allen

Additional facts

 Anamirta сocculus, Wight and Arnott (Menispermum cocculus, Linn., сocculus Indicus).
 Natural Order: Menispermaceae.
 Preparation: Tincture of the powdered seeds.

Mental

 Mind.
 Emotional.
 Irresistible inclination to sing and tra la; a kind of mania.
 Weeping. сheerful and contented. (* сurative action. HAHNEMANN.
 *) After a few hours, he became lively and jocose. Frolicsome, contented, joyous; he became witty and jocose. In part curative action. HAHNEMANN. Earnest and little concerned as to his own health; he is very anxious about others’ sickness.
 Extremely earnest, after which he breaks out into complains.
 Discouraged. сonstant sad thoughts, as though he had suffered an insult. She is absorbed in the saddest thoughts, and affronts sink deep into her heart. Thoughts directed to an unpleasant object; she is absorbed in herself, and notices nothing about her. Despairing mood. Anxiety; (after six hours, and third day).
 Anxiety concerning the curability of a slight complaint, in the morning. Anxiety, as if she had committed a great crime. Great anxiety, as though he had done some evil (after twenty nine hours). Frightful anxiety, like a dream, which prevented every attempt to sleep. Sudden excessive anxiety. Hypochondria, especially in the afternoon. Overpowered with the most frightful fearfulness, which increased every second (soon after). Excessive sensitiveness (after twenty four hours). Very sensitive mood; everything worries him. Excessive irritability of mind, every trifle offends him. Extremely inclined to be offended, the slightest trifle offends her (after one hour). She is offended at the slightest circumstance, often to weeping, with contraction of the pupils; after weeping, loss of appetite. Very much affected and offended by slight obliquities and untruths of others.
 Everything makes him angry and peevish. She is easily angered, takes everything in bad part (after twenty four hours).
 Great dissatisfaction with himself. He has no desire, and takes pleasure in nothing. No pleasure in anything, desire for nothing.
 Time passes too rapidly, several hours seem as short as one hour.
 No desire to work. Distracted (loss of memory); he easily forgets of what he has just thought. She sits in deep thought.
 Stupidly dumb (after six hours). Stupefied (after six hours).
 Overpowering stupefaction as from sleep, while awake (coma vigil).

Head, face, and ears

 Head.
 General Head.
 Convulsive trembling of the head. Heaviness in the head.
 Heaviness and confusion of the head, as after intoxication the preceding day. Dulness in the head. Dulness in the head with cold sweat on the forehead and head, with aversion to food and drink. Dulness and confusion of the head, aggravated by reading, so that he was frequently obliged to pause in order to understand what he was reading. Great inclination to sleep, but as soon as he closed his eyes was obliged to open them on account of a most frightful sensation in his brain, like that produced by the most dreadful dreams (after six hours). Headache, with inclination to vomit, as if he had taken an emetic. Headache, as if the brain were constricted. Headache composed of constriction, burning, tearing, digging, and boring.
 Feeling as if the brain were rolled up or compressed into a smaller bulk. Feeling as if the nerves in head were drawn up tightly (after three days). The head is painful, as if bound up. It seemed as if his brain were bound together with a band (after six hours). Severe pressure through the whole head, mostly in the forehead, which is aggravated by reading or reflecting, until there is loss of ideas (after sixty hours). Severe pressing downward in the whole head, especially in the forehead, aggravated by walking (after six hours and a half). Pressive headache, as if the brain were pressed together (after five hours). Sensation as if something heavy were lying upon the head, though without pain. Painful shaking of the brain while walking, moving the head, or speaking). Thinking affects the head very much.
 Forehead.
 Dull compression of the right half of the forehead.
 Dull wavelike compression in the left half of the forehead.
 Pressive headache in the forehead. Tearing throbbing headache in the forehead, from 7 to 9 (after thirty eight hours).
 Intermitting, boring, needle like stitches in the right side of the forehead.
 Frequent attacks of headache in a small spot in the left frontal eminence, lasting several minutes, at first consisting of raging, throbbing, sticking pains, which afterwards extend as a crawling to the right frontal eminence, and become a crawling fine sticking in the temples. Headache, as if something forcibly closed the eyes. Severe sticking in the head above the right eye (after twelve hours).
 Headache, as if the eyes would be torn out.
 Temples.
 Cramp like pain in the left temporal muscle (after one hour and a half). Pressing inward in the right temple, as if a dull instrument were slowly pressed deep into the brain. Inward pressure in the left temple. Headache in the temples, as if the head were screwed in. Fine needle like stitches in the left temple (after six hours).
 Vertex.
 Pressive headache in the crown (after ten hours).
 Parietals.
 Several stitches in the right side of the brain (after twenty four hours).
 Occiput.
 Sensation in the left side of the occiput, as if the hairs were being pulled up.
 Eye.
 Objective.
 Blue rings around the eyes. Swelling of one eye and half the nose, in the morning, after a violent headache through the night). Eyes turned upward (third day).
 Subjective.
 Pressure in both eyes, as from dust in them (after seven hours).
 Pressive pain in the eyes, with inability to open the lids at night. Stitches in the eyes, from within outward (after twenty four hours). вruised pain in the eyes, with inability to open the lids, at night (after five hours).
 Orbit.
 Dull pressure in the outer margin of the orbit (immediately).
 Lids.
 Dryness of the lids.
 Pupil.
 Contracted pupils (after five hours). Pupils contracted to their smallest diameter; as the spasm abated, the pupils became dilated to their fullest extent, and again contracted as the spasm returned. вy touching the eyelids, the spasm could be produced at pleasure (after half an hour).
 Vision.
 Dimness of vision. Dark spots and objects like flies float before the eyes, as if amaurosis would ensue. A black object before the eyes; on turning it turns with her, yet she saw everything clearly.
 Ear.
 (Heat in the outer and inner right ear, in the morning, in bed).
 Something seems to fall before the right ear, as if he heard with difficulty. Sensation, alternately in the ears, as if they were closed and deaf. Rushing in the ears, as when listening in a tube. Sound in the ears, as of the rushing of water, with difficult hearing (after one hour).
 Nose.
 Swelling of the right half of the nose. Sneezing. While walking in the open air, he began to sneeze. Violent coryza, throughout the whole day. Violent coryza for four days. She blows bloody mucus from the nose). Pain in the nostril, in the anterior angle of the tip of the nose, especially when touched. Pain as from an ulcer, in the left nostril, without itching.
 Face.
 Expression rigid and irritable (after six hours).
 Countenance earthy, with a very painful expression (third day).
 Cyanosis of the face (after one hour and a half).

Nervous system

 Confusion and Vertigo.
 Confusion and stupefaction of the head (third day). сonfusion of the head, in the morning; humming in it as after a debauch in the evening. сonfusion of the head, most increased by eating and drinking. Inclination to vertigo (eighth day).
 Vertigo (third day). Vertigo, lasting six hours. Vertigo, as from intoxication, with dulness in the forehead, as if there were a board across the head. Attack of vertigo, as from intoxication (while sitting, after one hour and three quarters). Whirling vertigo, on rising up in bed, with inclination to vomit, which compelled him to lie down again.

Mouth and throat

 Cheeks.
 Redness of the cheeks, with heat in the face, without thirst, in a very cold room. сramp in the zygoma, in the masseter muscles (after two hours). Pressive, rather benumbing than painful sensation in the left zygoma.
 Lower Jaw.
 Cramp like pains in the muscles of mastication, even before opening the jaws, but aggravated thereby (after three hours).
 Tearing digging pain in the lower jaw.
 Mouth.
 Teeth.
 The front teeth seemed raised up, and so heavy that it seems as though they would fall out. A decayed tooth seems elongated, when chewing even soft food, as if it were quite loose, but is not painful on biting the teeth together, when not eating. вiting sensation in the upper and lower back teeth, as after using much salt; it causes an unpleasant sensation on biting together.
 Gum.
 (The gum is sensitive and sore).
 Tongue.
 Tongue coated white, and dry upon edges (third day).
 Dryness of the tongue, with a whitish yellow coat, without thirst (after a quarter of an hour). Tongue rough in the morning. If he passes the tongue far out, it is painful posteriorly, as if beater.
 General Mouth.
 Whole mouth became filled with aphthae, which quickly became gangrenous, so that the soft parts of the mouth were soon destroyed, and the teeth fell out (seventh day) Dryness of the mouth, in the night, without thirst. Dry sensation in the mouth, with frothy saliva and great thirst. Sensation as if water collected in the mouth, for a long time, without inclination to vomit.
 Sensation as if there were a smell from the mouth (after six hours).
 Burning in the palate.
 Saliva.
 Water collects in the mouth, without nausea (after one hour and a half).
 Throat.
 Carotid arteries beating violently (third day).
 A kind of paralysis of the throat; the oesophagus does not seem to permit swallowing. Dryness of the throat. Dryness of the throat, with sensation of heat in the pharynx and stomach (after two hours).
 Dryness of the upper and back part of the throat, as if it were raw, and the tongue rough. Pain in the upper part of the throat, with sensation of swelling at the root of the tongue, which makes swallowing painful. вurning in throat and stomach, which afterwards spreads over whole abdomen (soon after). вurning like fire in the throat, extending into the palate, together with shivering about the head, in the evening. Sensation in the pit of the throat, as if something arrested the breathing; it constricts the throat. A kind of choking contraction in the upper part of the throat, which impedes breathing and provokes cough (after one hour). Great sensitiveness within the throat; all food seems as sharp and biting as if it had been excessively salted or peppered. Scraping in the throat, disappearing on swallowing.
 Tonsils.
 Pressive pain in the tonsils, much worse on swallowing saliva than on swallowing food.
 Fauces.
 Dryness and roughness in the fauces and throat, especially noticed when swallowing, without thirst (after two hours).
 External Throat.
 Painless, swollen glands beneath the jaw (after eight hours).
 Swollen hard glands beneath the lower jaw, with nodes on the forearm, which are painful if one passes the hand over them.
 Swelling of the parotid glands.

Appetite and food preferences

 Taste.
 Taste in the mouth, as if he had fasted a long time. Slimy taste in the mouth, though food has a natural taste. Metallic taste at the root of the tongue. Metallic taste, with loss of appetite.
 Coppery taste in the mouth. Sour taste in the mouth, on coughing.
 Sour taste in the mouth, after eating. вitter taste (third day). вitter taste posteriorly at the root of the tongue. Nauseous taste in mouth (soon after). Food does not have a natural taste, it seems uncooked and unsalted. Tobacco tastes bitter when smoking (after two hours).
 Speech.
 (On speaking she experiences a kind of contraction of the mouth, and is obliged to speak slowly).
 Appetite.
 Sensation of hunger in the pit of the stomach, little diminished by eating, nearly the whole day. Loss of appetite; food has no taste. Aversion to eating and drinking. The greatest disinclination for all food and drinks (after six hours. Extreme aversion to food, even the smell of food causes it, although with hunger. He is averse to sour things; bread tastes sour (after three hours). No desire for breakfast; he seems full.
 Thirst.
 Great thirst at all times, but especially after eating.
 Unquenchable thirst (third day). Thirst for cold drinks, especially beer.
 Eructation and Hiccough.
 Eructations of musty bad air (after eight hours).
 Eructations tasting of the food (after eighteen hours).
 Empty eructations, which leave a bitter taste in the mouth and throat (after twenty four hours). Frequent empty eructations (after three hours and a half). Offensive eructations, in the forenoon.
 Bitter eructations (after a quarter of an hour). Very bitter eructations, immediately. Sharp scraping eructations, especially in the evening. Attempts to eructate, with incomplete ineffectual eructations, instead of which there is hiccough, lasting an hour (after three hours). Inclination to hiccough.
 Hiccough (immediately); (after one eighth of an hour); (after ten minutes).

Gastrointestinal tract

 Nausea and Vomiting.
 Nausea, immediately. Nausea, extending from the right side of the abdomen towards the navel, without inclination to vomit; immediately. Nausea, in the afternoon after every drink, it seems to be mostly in the mouth. Nausea, on eating. Nausea, as after overloading the stomach. Nausea, amounting even to vomiting, when smoking, to which he was accustomed (after four hours). Unusual nausea and inclination to vomit, while riding in a wagon. If he became cold or took cold, he was nauseated, which caused a profuse accumulation of saliva. In the morning she is scarcely able to rise on account of sickness and inclination to vomit (after forty eight hours). Inclination to vomit (after six hours). Inclination to vomit, associated with headache, and pain in the intestines as if bruised (after half an hour). Frequent inclination to vomit (after several hours).
 Desire to vomit. Vomiting toward midnight with attacks of suffocation; he vomited food and mucus, with bitter and sour taste in the throat). Excessive vomiting. Frequent vomiting of a thin, greenish fluid (third day). Vomited ten times, without relief (soon after).
 Stomach.
 Sensation in the stomach as if he had not eaten for a long time, and the hunger had passed away. Sensation as though a worm were moving in the stomach. Pain beneath the stomach immediately after eating). Attempts to eructate cause pain in the stomach (after half an hour). Pain in the pit of the stomach on every eructation, as if he had received a blow or bruise. сonstrictive pain in the stomach, preventing sleep. сramp in the stomach; pinching in the stomach. сramp and tension in the pit of the stomach, when walking. Violent cramp in the stomach, griping. Pressure in the pit of the stomach. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, which impedes breathing (after one hour).
 Pressure in the stomach, after eating.
 Pressive pain in the stomach, pit of the stomach, and hypochondrium, several hours after a meal, or at night in bed.
 Pain in the pit of the stomach, almost like a stitch, on eructations. Pricking and gnawing beneath the pit of the stomach.
 Stomach exceedingly painful to touch (third day).
 Gurgling beneath (in) the pit of the stomach.
 Abdomen.
 Hypochondria.
 Pain the hypochondria, as from a bruise (after twelve hours).
 Excessively pressive pain beneath the last true ribs of the right side, aggravated by bending the body forward, coughing or by inspiration, but not by external pressure.
 Umbilical.
 Intermitting dull stitches in the left side near the navel.
 Fine twinges in the right side above the navel.
 General Abdomen.
 Great distension of the abdomen. Whole abdomen distended, hot, and exceedingly painful (third day). Abdomen excessively distended (seventh day). Flatulent troubles soon after supper; flatus moves here and there in the intestines, and is passed with difficulty (after five hours). Flatus presses upward.
 Emission of hot flatulence previous to diarrhoea. It seems as though the abdomen were empty and hollow, as though she had no intestines.
 Burning in the abdomen. Pinching constrictive pain in the upper abdomen after eating, which extends to the left side of the abdomen and chest (after one hundred hours). Pinching in the abdomen (after three quarters of an hour). Pinching pain in the left abdominal muscles.
 Griping in the upper abdomen (epigastrium), taking away the breath. Drawing pain in the intestines. Pressure in the upper abdomen.
 Continued stitch in the right side of the abdomen. Stitches in several parts of the abdomen, only when stooping (after fifteen hours). Several stitches pass through the abdomen to the lower part of the back, in the morning, in bed. Several needle like stitches in the left side of the abdomen. Tearing in the intestines. Violent colic after dinner, while walking, with sensation of chilliness and vertigo (eighth day).
 Flatulent colic about midnight; awakened by incessant accumulation of flatulence, which distended the abdomen, causing oppressive pain here and there; some was passed without remarkable relief, whilst new flatus constantly collected for several hours; he was obliged to lie on one side and on the other in order to obtain relief (after twenty hours).
 Hypogastrium.
 Audible rumbling in the lower abdomen. сonstrictive pain in the lower abdomen, with pressure towards the genitals, together with qualmishness in the pit of the stomach, and inclination to water brash. Drawing pain in the lower abdomen from the right to the left side (after four days). сutting in the lower abdomen, extending to the upper abdomen, relieved by standing. Everything internally in the groins seems full and too thick, as if stuffed; only in each side, not in front; when stepping forward it seems as if this thickness were at the same time pushed forward, and everything would fall asunder (after a few hours). Drawing pain in the groins, as from menstruation.
 Continued stitch in the right inguinal region.
 Paralytic pain in the right abdominal ring, as if something would force itself through; a pain, as from hernia, only while sitting, relieved on rising. Tendency to and premonitions of a hernia (after eight hours). The left abdominal ring becomes dilated, a hernia inclines to protrude, with sore pain (after fourteen hours). Painful inclination to a hernia, especially after rising from sitting.
 Rectum and Anus.
 Rectum.
 Crawling and itching in the rectum, as from ascarides.
 Violent urging in the rectum after a stool, even causing faintness.
 Anus.
 Contractive pain in the anus, preventing sitting, in the afternoon (after twenty hours). вurning itching in the anus.
 Urging.
 Urging to stool, with diarrhoea of an offensive odor.
 Urging to stool and to pass flatus at the same time, followed by diarrhoea like stools, at short intervals, in small portions, suddenly, with passage of flatus. Ineffectual urging to stool, with constipation for three days; on the fourth day a hard stool, only passed with difficulty. Desire for stool in the rectum; the peristaltic motion is wanting in the upper abdomen, whereby the stool is delayed thirty six hours (after half an hour).
 Stool.
 Diarrhoea.
 Alternations of diarrhoea, vomiting, sopor, and delirium (seventh day). Frequent small evacuations (after a few hours). Frequent whitish yellow and thinly fluid stools (third day).
 Soft stools daily (after half an hour). Slimy stools). Very putrid stools (seventh day). Very light colored pale stool daily).
 Soft thin stool (after one hour).
 Constipation.
 Constipation for several days. Hard stool, which is passed with great difficulty, only every other day.

Urogenital system

 Urethra.
 Pain in the urethra, on urging to urinate. Tensive pressive pain in the orifice of the urethra, when not urinating (after one hour). Sticking pain in the urethra (after twelve hours).
 Sticking itching in the forepart of the urethra (after thirteen hours). Frequent urging to urinate for a quarter of an hour, with very scanty discharge, for thirty hours (after four hours).
 Micturition.
 (He passed very much watery urine at short intervals; there was constantly renewed urging to urinate on account of fullness in the bladder). Retention of urine for ten minutes).
 Urine.
 Urine red, without sediment (third day). Watery urine (after two hours and a half).
 Sexual Organs.
 Male.
 Genitals relaxed in the night, with the prepuce drawn back behind the glans (after twelve hours). Excitement in the genitals, with desire for coition. Increased sensitiveness of the genitals.
 Sticking pain in the end of the prepuce. Itching burning in the scrotum. Drawing pain in the testicles. Sticking pain in one testicle. Violent pain in both testicles, as if bruised, especially on touch (after third day). Nightly emissions (after six hours).
 Female.
 (Metrorrhagia). Leucorrhoea.
 Menstruation seven days too early, with distension of the abdomen, and cutting contracting pain in the abdomen on every motion and every breath; together with contraction of the rectum (after forty eight hours). Menstruation eight days too early, with distension of the abdomen, and pain in the upper region of the abdomen, not only on every motion (every stooping was painful), but also while sitting as if the inner parts were suffering from the sharp pressure of a stone; the parts are painful to external touch, as if there were an internal ulcer.
 Menstruation, that had been absent for a year, reappeared (in two cases).

Chest organs

 Larynx.
 Tough mucus hangs in the larynx and obliges him to hack and hawk.
 Irritation to cough, very high up in the larynx.
 Irritation to cough, in the posterior portion of the larynx, in the evening, in bed; the cough was always in short paroxysms.
 Cough.
 Cough, with great exertion, on account of oppression of the chest, which only appears on coughing (after forty eight hours).
 Awakened by cough every fourth night, about 12 or about 2 o’clock (a quartan attack), with dryness of the mouth; on coughing, the throat does not seem wide enough.

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