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Causticum
CAUST
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Origin Mineral · Simple
ClarkePreparation solution of potassium sulphate. Tincture with spirit.
Sources 20 entries across 18 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose Boericke
3X–30X, ↑
Third to thirtieth attenuation. In chronic ailments and especially in paralytic states, the higher potencies once or twice a week

By regionHering
Mind ► Weakness of memory ; absent-minded. ► Inattentive and distracted. ► Taciturn, distant ; disinclined to work. ► Full of timorous fancies, evenings, child fears to go to bed alone. ► Great anxiety. ► Melancholy mood. ► Hopelessness. ► Peevish, irritable mood. ► Thinking of complaints aggravates them, especially hemorrhoids.
Inner Head ► Painless commotion in the whole head. ► Pressive pain in right frontal eminence ; dull, pressive headache. ► Stitches in the temples, worse from sitting or reading. ► Throbbing and stitches in the vertex. ► Sensation as of an empty space between the forehead and brain.
Eyes ► Photophobia whole day, constantly obliged to wink. ► Flickering or sparks before the eyes. ► Sight obscured : as from a gauze before the eyes ; as from a mist ; momentarily, on blowing the nose. ► Perpendicular half sight in cataract ; has arrested cataract. ► Pain in the eyes, as if sand were in them. ► Pressive pain in the eyes, worse from touch. ► Constant inclination to touch and rub the eye, which seems to relieve a pressure in it. ► Eyes : inflamed ; burning, red, dry, stinging. ► Smarting and pressure in eyes, which seem heavy ; lids red. ► Itching of the eyes, especially of the lids. ► Inclination to close the eyes, lids seem heavy ; even paralysis of upper lids. …
Stomach ► Pain in the stomach in the morning, increased by every quick movement ; must lie down. ► Cramp in the stomach ; pressure in the pit of stomach. ► Pinching, clawing in pit of stomach on deep breathing.
Female Sexual Organs ► Aversion to coitus. ► Menses : too early and too profuse, and after ceasing, a little is passed from time to time for days ; smell badly and excite itching of vulva ; only during the day ; with violent pains in abdomen and discharge of large clots ; scanty, with prosopalgia. ► Leucorrhoea : profuse, flows like the menses and has the same odor ; only at night and worse then ; with scanty menses. ► Soreness in the vulva and between the legs. ► Smarting, as from salt, in the pudendum, after urinating.
Lungs ► Soreness in the chest. ► Burning soreness in a stripe down under the sternum, with cough, etc. ► Tightness of chest, must frequently take a deep breath. ► Stitches in the chest below the arms, extending to the pit of the stomach, with anxiety. ► Rattling in the chest.
Neck And Back ► Stiffness of the neck, could not move head. ► Stiffness and pain in neck and throat, with pain in occiput, muscles felt as if bound, could scarcely move the head. ► Painful stiffness of back, especially when rising from chair. ► Stitches : in the back ; in left lumber region. ► Pressing, cramp-like pain in small of back, in region of kidneys. ► Dull, drawing pain in region of os coccygis. ► Bruised pain in the os coccygis.
Limbs In General ► Arthritic pains in all the limbs. ► Weakness and trembling of all the limbs. ► Paralytic weakness of the limbs. ► Intolerable uneasiness in the limbs in the evening.
Sleep ► Yawning and stretching. ► Intense sleepiness, can scarcely withstand it, must lie down. ► Sleeplessness at night on account of dry heat. ► Very uneasy all night, after a short sleep awakened by anxiety and restlessness, which scarcely allowed ten minutes quiet in one place ; must sit up ; involuntary throwing of the head from side to side, until exhaustion brought on sleep. ► Starting from sleep ; many motions with arms and legs, during sleep, at night. ► Dreams : anxious ; quarrelsome.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill and chilliness ; predominating, frequently with coldness of the whole left side ; on diseased parts. ► Much internal chilliness, immediately followed by sweat without intervening heat ; severe internal chill about midnight. ► Shivering beginning in and spreading from the face. ► Chill lessened by drinking, and in bed. ► Heat from 6 to 8 P.M., heat descending. ► Flushes of heat followed by chilliness. ► Profuse sweat : when walking in open air ; from motion. ► Sour-smelling night-sweat. ► Morning-sweat toward 4 A.M.
Skin ► Intertrigo, during teething. ► Excessively itching moist tetter on the neck. ► Eruption of pimples on the tip of the nose. ► Itching : over the whole body ; at various parts, especially on tip and wings of the nose ; face ; scrotum ; back ; arms ; palms ; dorsum of feet. ► Injuries of the skin which had healed, become sore again.

Books*
Antidoted by Coffea Cruda 3, Dulcamara 3, Asa Foetida 2 +16
Complementary Petroselinum Sativum, Carbo Vegetabilis, Mercurius Corrosivus
Follows well —
Compare Gelsemium Sempervirens, Sulphur, Arnica Montana +32

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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