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Cocculus Indicus
Cocculus Indicus · COCC
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Origin Plant · Menispermaceae · Simple
Habitat which see
ClarkePreparation prepared from the powdered seeds, which contain a crystallisable principle Picrotoxine (which see), a powerful poison.
Sources 17 entries across 16 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Allen, Nash …

Dose Boericke
3X–30X
Third to thirtieth potency

Reason for useNash

Weakness of cervical muscles, can hardly hold the head up. Weakness in small of back as if paralyzed; gives out when walking; can hardly stand, walk or talk. Hands and feet get numb; asleep. Headache with nausea and vomiting; gets faint and sick on rising up or riding in carriage or boat. General sensation of weakness; or weak, hollow, gone feeling in head, stomach, abdomen, etc.; < by loss of sleep or night watching. Great distention with flatulent colic, wind or menstrual colic; crampy pains, inclined to hernia.


▲ Worse sitting up, moving, riding in carriage or boat, smoking, talking, eating, drinking, night watching
▼ Better when lying quiet

Books*
Antidoted by Nux Vomica 3, Camphora 2, Antimonium Tartaricum +9
Complementary —
Follows well —
Compare Ignatia Amara, Nux Vomica, Antimonium Tartaricum +47

* 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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