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Cochlearia armoracia

  1. Additional facts
  2. Mental
  3. Head, face, and ears
  4. Chest organs
  5. Mouth and throat
  6. Appetite and food preferences
  7. Gastrointestinal tract
  8. Urogenital system
  9. Plant characteristics
  10. Cardiovascular system
  11. Limbs and spine
  12. Nervous system
  13. Sleep
  14. Common symptoms
  15. Fever
  16. Skin
  17. Patient type and constitution
  18. Dif. diagnostics
  19. Analogs by action
  20. Included in the composition
  21. Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

armoracia rusticana homeopathy, Armoracea Sativa, ARMORACIA SATIVA.

Description Source

Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica - C. Hering

Additional facts

 Horseradish. вrassicacea or сrucifera.
 The common horseradish, a popular rubefacient, which has sometimes accidentally proved of great use, of course only when the symptoms corresponded. Proved by Doctor Franz, who introduced Asafoetida and Valeriana into our Materia Medica ; printed in Stapf’s Archives, Vol. 17, № 3, p. 176 ; later in the Gallican Journal, № 3, p. 7. In this country applied and somewhat proved by Doctor сate, Amer. Jour. Hom., Vol. I., p. 336, 1851. In 1868 we got another more complete proving from one of our students, J. с. D., too modest to write his name on his treatise.
 Tincture prepared from the root.

Mental

 Difficult thinking in evening.
 Melancholy is changed into merry mood.
 Anxiety. θ Hydrothorax.
 Driven to despair. θ сramp in stomach.
 Great irresoluteness, stupid feeling and inability to collect one’s thoughts.
 Worse from nervous excitement ; from vexation.
 Dulness of head, is unable to collect his thoughts quick enough.
 Buzzing in head, with weakness, worse forenoon and when walking.
 Syncope.

Head, face, and ears

 Dull pain in frontal sinus.
 Sore, uneasy feeling in frontal sinus.
 Dull, heavy headache.
 Pressing, boring pain in head, as if frontal bone would fall out.
 Pressure deep in brain, worse by opening eyes (wide), but not by reading or motion.
 Headache, now in one, then in another side of head ; worse when opening eyes widely.
 Headache, with nausea ; worse when sitting up.
 Violent headache, with vomiting.
 Acute pain in head.
 Fulness of frontal sinus and antrum highmorii.
 Obscuration of sight for some minutes.
 Lachrymation.
 Spots on cornea.
 Swelling of eyes.
 Inflammation of Meibomian glands.
 Sore and scrofulous eyes.
 Rheumatic ophthalmia.
 Traumatic inflammation of eyes ; blearedness and cataract.
 Pain in left ear, deep in.
 Pale face.
 Twitching of left corner of mouth, 4 A. M.
 Soreness of upper lip.

Chest organs

 Sneezing.
 Chronic catarrh.
 Inflammation of nose. θ With eye complaints.
 Oppression of breathing, with hoarseness ; scorbutus.
 Pituitous asthma.
 Increases activity of respiratory organs.
 Hard or loose cough, worse from supper-time until going to bed.
 Hawking up of thick, viscid mucus, consisting of mucous corpuscles, plasma, and but little granular matter.
 Pituitous consumption.
 ** It relieves cough and promotes expectoration.
 Inflammation of lungs.
 Pleuritis, with painfulness in scapular region, worse afternoon and leaning back.
 After violent cough, hemorrhage and apparent death.
 Edema of lungs.
 Mucous asthma.
 During convalescence from pneumonia.
 Relieved pressing, stitching in chest, bloody sputum, anxiety and oppression (external application).
 Grasping pain in left side and both shoulders.
 Chest painful to touch.

Mouth and throat

 Toothache, especially of a rheumatic character.
 Dull sensation in teeth, as if they were soft and became bent on chewing.
 Scorbutis.
 Scurvy of salt eaters.
 Toothache in carious teeth. θ Scurvy.
 Dental fistula.
 Slight metallic taste in mouth.
 Glossoplegia.
 Dull pain in left sublingual gland for a few moments, followed by a flow of saliva.
 Burning biting sensation on tongue.
 Tongue furred whitish. θ сramp in stomach.
 Very offensive odor from mouth and lungs.
 Clotted blood filled up the open mouth. θ Apparent death.
 Dryness of pharynx, larynx and posterior nares.
 Scraping in throat, with nausea.
 Hawking up thick, viscid mucus, consisting of mucous corpuscles and plasma, with little granular matter.
 Inflammation of tonsils, with difficulty in swallowing.
 Warm water put in mouth seemed to go no further than throat. θ Apparent death.
 Loss of voice ; whispering.
 Aphonia, with blood-spitting.
 Hoarseness and roughness in throat.
 Dryness of larynx.
 Used by singers to clear the throat.

Appetite and food preferences

 Little appetite for breakfast.
 Fearful hungry feeling, unnatural craving for food, with profuse painless diarrhoea.
 Dyspepsia.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Troublesome belching of a sulphurous odor similar to garlic.
 Slight nausea, with irritation of pharynx.
 Retching and vomiting of bilious fluid.
 Highly stimulant, exciting stomach and promoting secretions, especially of stomach.
 Crampy, tensive pain above epigastrium, apparently in diaphragm ; better by bending forward.
 From region of stomach pain draws through both sides towards back. θ сramp in stomach.
 Dull pain or soreness at scrobiculum cordis.
 Violent cramp in stomach beginning towards morning, continually increasing, driving to despair ; goes from region of stomach through both sides around to back.
 A slight pressure on last dorsal vertebra increases pain very much.
 Cramp in stomach after taking cold.
 Griping pain in bowels (epigastric region) for a few moments upon lying down upon back.
 Colicky pains in left side below short ribs, similar to that which she has with her monthly, on right side.
 Spasmodic affection in abdomen.
 Griping pain around umbilicus.
 Tearing pain from belly through to back, down back and settling in sacrum.
 Borborygmi in morning.
 Loins ache.
 Stools increased in frequency.
 Profuse painless diarrhoea, not sick with it, but craving food.
 Twenty movements of her bowels in one day.
 In afternoon two stools, first profuse and thick, later less, not thin ; four or five times during evening, with a great deal of straining ; very weakening.
 After great nervous excitement, looseness, six or seven times during afternoon, with much pain ; took gin to check it ; fever followed.
 Tenesmus all night until morning, sometimes discharging a little blood.
 Mucous stools.
 Intestinal catarrh.
 Involuntary passage of mucus from anus.
 Straining at anus, with burning and stinging.
 Itching and burning at anus.

Urogenital system

 Uneasiness in region of kidneys, as if congested.
 Increased inclination to urinate.
 Increased secretion of urine.
 Urination eight or ten times daily, instead of four.
 Urine pale and limpid.
 Strangury very severe ; frequent and scanty urination ; water thick, like jelly on standing, yellowish color, although neither yellow nor white.
 Ischuria and bloody urine.
 Dysuria.
 Gravel.
 ** сalculi.
 Albuminuria.
 Nephritis albuminosa, with great paleness, and atony of kidneys.
 Frequent desire to urinate ; the urine is discharged with difficulty, causing burning, tenderness and inflammation of the urethra, as in the first (inflammatory) stages of gonorrhoea.
 Impotence, torpidity.
 Burning or cutting at glans during micturition, felt also before or after.
 Inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea.
 Gonorrhoea, with violent smarting and burning, difficult micturition, and a rather scanty discharge from urethra.
 Gonorrhoea, after cutting and burning pains during micturition had been nearly removed by 1st or 2d dilution, the 6th acted with good effect.
 Chronic and neglected gonorrhoea.
 During night pieces of coagulated blood pass from vagina.
 When urinating stringy black blood from vagina.
 Menses every ten or fifteen days.
 Suppressed menses and chlorosis.
 Leucorrhoea and menostasis.
 Since climaxis, cramp in stomach.

Plant characteristics

 Milk tastes and smells like horseradish.
 After vexation of mother nursing child vomits milk.

Cardiovascular system

 No pulsation of heart ; apparent death.
 Pulse small. θ сramp in stomach.
 ** Accelerates pulse.

Limbs and spine

 Pain in back as from incarcerated flatulence.
 A slight pressure on last dorsal vertebra increases pain exceedingly. θ сramp in stomach.
 Pain from abdomen through to back and down into sacrum.
 Painful twitchings in third left phalanx.
 Pain in adductors of both thighs, upper part ; it almost drags her to pieces.
 Twitching in leg (r.), outside of tibia, middle third.
 Pain in left gastrocnemius.
 Twitching in right foot, third metatarsal tendon.
 Suppressed foot sweats.
 Towards morning pains in all joints when lying still ; worse lying on side, passing off on motion and when getting up.
 Towards morning pain in all limbs when lying still, worse when lying on side, passing off on motion and when getting up.
 Bending forward : better cramp.
 Lying on side : pains in joints.
 Lying on back : pain in bowels.
 Sitting : headache and nausea.
 Motion : pains in every joint .
 On widely opening eyes : headache.
 Rest : pains in every joint.
 Touching abdomen and small of back gives pain, which extends into right leg.
 Traumatic inflammation of eyes.
 Slight pressure on back : worse cramp.

Nervous system

 General prostration. θ With backache.
 ** Palsy.
 Apparent apoplectic death after a hemorrhage from lungs and nose, with a child suffering from whooping cough.
 It raises vital forces when sunken to lowest degree.
 Asphyxia.

Sleep

 Sleep very refreshing.
 Heavy sleep.
 Awoke with a clearer mind than usual.
 Sleepless nights, with bearing down in abdomen.
 Night : tenesmus ; coagulated blood from vagina.
 Morning. вorborygmi ; pains in joints ; cramp in stomach worse.
 Afternoon : 4 P. M. twitching of corner of mouth ; stools.
 Evening : difficult thinking ; stools ; cough.

Common symptoms

 After a cold : cramp in stomach.
 Bloated sensation as if everything was distended without being actually larger ; as if frontal bone would fall out ; as if teeth were soft and would bend.
 Externally applied, causes violent pains.
 Violent pain : in head.
 Stitches : in chest.
 Cutting : and burning during micturition.
 Burning : and biting on tongue ; and stinging at anus ; and itching at anus ; in urethra ; and cutting in glans.
 Pressing : and boring in head ; deep in brain ; in chest.
 Tearing pains : from belly through back into sacrum.
 Grasping pain : in left side and both shoulders ; in right foot.
 Griping : in bowels ; around umbilicus.
 Cramp : in stomach ; crampy, tensive pain above epigastrium.
 Soreness : of upper lip ; at scrobiculum cordis.
 Sore, uneasy feeling : in frontal sinus.
 Scraping : in throat.
 Smarting : and burning, gonorrhoea.
 Aching : in loins ; in all joints towards morning.
 Rheumatic toothache.
 Tensive pain : above epigastrium.
 Dull pain : in frontal sinus ; in teeth, as if soft ; in left sublingual gland ; at scrobiculum cordis.
 Undefined pain : in head ; in left ear ; with looseness of bowels ; in scapular region ; in back ; in abductors of thighs ; in left gastrocnemius ; in joints.
 Dulness : of head.
 Uneasiness : in region of kidneys ; in frontal sinus.
 Fulness : frontal sinus and antrum.
 Buzzing : in head.
 Twitching : left corner of mouth ; in third left phalanx, painful ; in right leg.
 Dryness : pharynx, larynx and nares.
 Itching : at anus.
 Pains in all the joints.
 Rheumatism, wandering, chronic.
 Gout ; also in suppression, followed by colic and retention of urine (used in footh bath).
 Antiscorbutic.
  Mucous diseases.
 Torpid, chronic catarrhs.
 Anasarca after intermittents.
 Dropsy, with albuminuria.
 After pneumonia, during reconvalescence.
 Beginning enteritis.
 Beginning pleuritis.
 Chronic catarrhs.

Fever

 ** Increases warmth, local and general exhalation.
 Causes perspiration.
 ** Intermittent fever.
 Right : twitching in leg ; in foot.
 Left : pain deep in ear ; corner of mouth twitches ; dull pain in sublingual gland ; grasping pain in side and shoulders ; third phalanx, painful twitches ; pain in gastrocnemius.
 Pain draws from stomach through sides to back.

Skin

 The rubefacient effect is shorter than that of mustard.
 The skin is reddened and irritated, sometimes blisters are formed.
 ** Erysipelatous affections (the leaves).
 ** Eruptions of skin.
 ** Freckles and liver spots.
 ** Scorbutic ulcers.

Patient type and constitution

 A stout woman, at. 40, subject to cramps in stomach ; violent attack with headache.
 A woman suffering from violent headache, with vomiting, since climaxis. θ сramp in stomach.

Dif. diagnostics

 Useful in scurvy of salt eaters.
 Contains an etheric oil, very similar, if not identical with Sinapis.
 Comparable with : сanthar., сapsic., Rhus tox. and Sinap.
 Juniper berries antidote bladder and urinary complaints.
 Took gin for colic, and for fever following it, вellad.
 Eating horseradish, after Mercurius sol. had been given, was followed by an aggravation of pain in hips, which was followed by a lasting improvement.
 Similar to tea, see 43, first symptom.
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Analogs by action

Included in the composition

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

Фитасинтекс
ПиК-Крым
Вербена
Natura Pharma
ФармаРус
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