Causticum

Causticum is of great value in those rheumatic conditions that present a paralytic tendency with weakness — usually single parts are affected ; there is apt to be contractions of the flexor tendons with stiffness of joints ; the tearing pains that shift rapidly from place to place ; all these present a picture not uncommonly seen and one in which Causticum does wonderfully good work.

If the use of Caust. is carried to the point where the patient manifests rheumatic contraction of the tendons of the extremities, it may be successfully antidoted by Guaiac.

HEAD AND FACE . — (Causticum)

Pains in malar bones, zygomatic arch and superior maxillae bones.

Jaw stiff and lame.

Drawing pain extending to cheek and ear.

DRAWING PAIN IN GLENOID CAVITY OF JAW.

PROSOPALGIA AND RHEUMATISM OF FACE, ESPECIALLY OF LOWER JAW.

STITCHES AND TEARING IN TEETH.

NECK AND BACK . — (Causticum)

STITCHES IN STERNUM FROM DEEP BREATHING OR LIFTING.

STIFFNESS AND PAIN IN NECK AND THROAT WITH PAIN IN OCCIPUT ; muscles feel as if bound.

TEARING PAIN IN BACK OF NECK.

TENSION IN RIGHT SIDE OF NECK SO THAT IT DREW HEAD TO RIGHT SIDE.

RHEUMATIC PAIN IN NAPE OF NECK.

STITCHES : IN BACK ; IN LEFT LUMBAR REGION.

PAINFUL STIFFNESS OF BACK AND SACRUM, ESPECIALLY ON RISING FROM A CHAIR.

PAIN IN MIDDLE OF SPINE ON SWALLOWING AS IF A SHARP CRUST STRUCK THERE ; STICKING IN AN INWARD DIRECTION.

PRESSING CRAMP-LIKE PAIN IN REGION OF THE KIDNEYS.

BACKACHE IN COCCYX.

Pain in loins as if bound by hands.

Pinching crampy pain in lumbar region and buttocks.

TEARING PAIN ALONG LUMBAR VERTEBRAE RUNNING FORWARD AROUND LEFT LUMBAR REGION TO LINEA ALBA.

BRUISED OR DARTING PAIN IN OS COCCYX.

DULL PAIN IN OS COCCYX.

SPRAINED PAIN IN BACK AS IF FROM LIFTING.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Causticum)

TEARING AND DRAWING IN SHOULDER BLADES.

RHEUMATIC ACHING IN SHOULDER.

PARALYSIS OF DELTOID MUSCLE.

PAINS IN SHOULDER WHEN DRESSING IN MORNING PREVENTING MOTION.

PRESSURE IN SHOULDERS.

DRAWING AND TEARING IN FOREARMS AND HANDS.

GRIPING CLAWING AS FROM A HAND ABOUT THE ELBOW ; < from warmth.

PAIN IN ELBOW JOINTS.

TENSIVE PAIN IN FOREARMS.

PARALYSIS OF ARMS.

PARALYTIC PAIN IN HANDS. SPRAINED PAIN IN RIGHT WRIST.

TREMBLING OF HANDS.

DRAWING STICKING PAIN IN FINGER JOINTS.

Painful numbness of thumb and index finger.

FINGERS HALF-CLOSED ; CANNOT MOVE THEM BY WILL POWER.

CONTRACTIONS AND INDURATIONS OF TENDONS OF FINGERS.

PARALYSIS OF HANDS.

Gout in hands.

CONTRACTIONS OF FLEXORS AND STIFFNESS OF JOINTS.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Causticum)

DRAWING PAIN IN HIPS.

STITCHING PAINS IN HIP JOINTS.

ACHING IN HIP JOINTS AS IF DISLOCATED.

PAIN IN LEFT HIP JOINT AS IF WRENCHED.

AT NIGHT SORE BRUISED PAIN ON SIDE ON WHICH HE LIES.

DRAWING AND TEARING IN THIGHS, LEGS, KNEES AND FEET < IN OPEN AIR, > BY WARMTH OF BED.

BRUISED PAIN IN THIGHS AND LEGS IN MORNING.

Cracking in knees on walking.

TENSIVE PAIN IN HOLLOW OF KNEE WITH STIFFNESS, < WHEN SITTING OR BEGINNING TO WALK, > FROM CONTINUAL MOTION.

TENDONS OF KNEES SEEM TOO SHORT.

TENSION IN KNEE AND ANKLE JOINTS.

Drawing from knee to malleolus with cutting stitches toward toes.

Nightly burning tearing in shins from above downward, with single stitches in shin bone.

CRAMPS IN CALVES, MORNINGS IN BED ; IN SOLE OF RIGHT FOOT AND TENDON ACHILLIS WHEN STRETCHING IT : IN TENDON ACHILLIS AT 2 A.M.

WAKENING FROM SLEEP, HAS TO SPRING OUT OF BED.

Severe tearing in tendons underneath right calf.

TEARING BORING PAIN IN LOWER LEG WITH EVERY MOVEMENT.

Numbness of feet and ankles.

Pain in ankle when sitting, > from walking.

GOUTY TEARING IN LOWER LEG AND FEET, ESPECIALLY IN SMALL JOINTS OF FOOT, WITH SWELLING OF PARTS.

TENSION IN HEEL.

CRAMPS IN FEET AND TOES.

ULCERATIVE PAIN IN HEELS.

SEVERE PRESSIVE PAIN IN BALL OF GREAT TOE ; BURNING STITCHES.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL . — (Causticum)

GOUTY PAINS IN LIMBS.

TEARING PAINS, ESPECIALLY IN JOINTS.

GREAT UNEASINESS OF THE LIMBS.

PARALYTIC WEAKNESS OF LIMBS.

CONTRACTIONS OF LIMBS.

GOUTY DEPOSITS AND NODES.

TEARING PAINS CHANGE PLACE OFTEN.

CONCOMITANTS . — (Causticum)

ABSENTMINDEDNESS.

GREAT RESTLESSNESS IN EVENING ; CANNOT GET INTO AN EASY POSITION.

PARALYSIS OF VARIOUS PARTS, ESPECIALLY FACE ANDS VOCAL CORDS.

COUGH THAT SEEMS AS IF IT WOULD TEAR EVERYTHING OUT OF CHEST, BACK OF STERNUM AND IN THROAT.

GREAT WEAKNESS AND PROSTRATION.

GREAT ABUNDANCE OF WARTY GROWTHS.

AGGRAVATIONS . — (Causticum)

EVENING.

NIGHT.

BEGINNING TO WALK.

DRY COLD AIR.

AMELIORATIONS . — (Causticum)

WARMTH OF BED.

MORNING.

AFTER CONTINUED WALKING.