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Cocainum Hydrochloricum

COCAIN · 1 entry across 1 books

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Lower potencies. As a local application to mucous membranes, 2-4 %.Dose · Boericke

Reason for use

Besides the great usefulness of Cocaine as a local anaesthetic, it has specific homeopathic uses, though the symptoms are mainly clinical only.

Sensation as if small foreign bodies or worms were under the skin.

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Mind

Talkative. Constant desire to do something great, to undertake vast feats of strength. Cerebral activity. Frightful persecutory hallucinations; sees and feels bugs and worms. Moral sense blunted. Personal appearance neglected. Thinks he hears unpleasant remarks about himself. Hallucinations of hearing. Irrational jealousy. Insomnia.

Head

Throbbing and bursting sensation. Pupils dilated. Hearing greatly increased. Roaring and noises in head.

Eyes

Glaucoma, increased tension, decreased corneal sensibility. Eyes staring, expressionless.

Throat

Dry, burning, tickling, constricted, paralysis of muscles of deglutition. Speech difficult.

Stomach

Loss of appetite for solid food. Likes sweets. Haemorrhages from bowels, stomach.

Nervous System

Chorea; paralysis agitans; alcoholic tremors and senile trembling. Local sensory paralysis. Formication and numbness in hands and forearms.

Sleep

Restless, cannot sleep for hours after retiring.

Fever

Coldness with intense pallor.

Relationship

Compare: Stovain (an analgesic, a vasomotor dilator). Antidote to disagreeable effects occasionally resulting from injection of cocaine into skin or gums, drop doses of nitroglycer. 1 % sol.

Complete text of the Cocainum Hydrochloricum entry in Boericke - Pocket Manual of Materia Medica; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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