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Cocculus Indicus

Cocculus Indicus
COCC · 17 entries across 17 books
Habitatwhich see. Preparationprepared from the powdered seeds, which contain a crystallisable principle Picrotoxine (which see), a powerful poison. Clarke
3X–30X
Third to thirtieth potencyDose · Boericke

Reason for use

For women and children with light hair and eyes, who suffer severely during menstruation and pregnancy; unmarried and childless women. Adapted to book-worms; sensitive, romantic girls with irregular menstruation; rakes, onanists and persons debilitated by sexual excesses. Nausea or vomiting from riding in carriage, boat or railroad car (Arn., Nux m.), or even looking at at a boat in motion; sea- sickness; car-sickness. Headache: in nape and occiput; extending to the spine; as if tightly bound by a cord; with nausea, as if at sea; at each menstrual period; < lying on back of head. Sick-headache from carriage, boat or train riding. Diseases peculiar to drunkards. Loss of appetite, with metallic taste (Mer.). Time passes too quickly (too slowly, Arg. n., Can. I.). Great lassitude of the whole body; it requires exertion to stand firmly; feels too weak to talk loudly. Bad effects: from loss of sleep, mental excitement and nigh watching; feel weak if they lose but one hour's sleep; convulsions after loss of sleep; of anger and grief. Trembling of arms and legs; from excitement, exertion or pain. Vertigo, as if intoxicated upon rising in bed; or by motion of the carriage (Bry.). Sensation: in abdomen of cutting and rubbing on every movement, as of sharp stones; of hollowness in head and other parts (Ign.). During the effort to menstruate she is so weak she is scarcely able to stand from weakness of lower limbs (Alum., Carbo an.); after each period haemorrhoids. Leucorrhoea in place of menses, or between periods (Iod., Xan.); like the washings of meat; like serum, ichorous, bloody; during pregnancy. Cannot bear contradiction; easily offended; every trifle makes him angry; speaks hastily (Anac.). When fever assumes a slow, "sneaking," nervous form, with vertigo; with disposition to anger.

▲ Worse

Eating, drinking, sleeping, smoking, talking, carriage riding, motion or swing of ship; rising up during pregnancy

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Relations

Compare: Ign., Nux, in chorea and paralytic symptoms; Ant. t. in sweat of affected parts. Has cured umbilical hernia with obstinate constipation after Nux failed.

Complete text of the Cocculus Indicus entry in Allen - Keynotes of Leading Remedies; 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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17 entries across 17 books · abbreviations: COCC · Family: Menispermaceae

Entries

1 Boericke

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2 Kent

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3 Clarke

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5 Allen · shown above

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6 Nash

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7 Hering

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9 Farrington

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10 Lippe

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11 Dunham

Cocculus Indicus · Carroll Dunham · 20,999 chars

14 T. F. Allen

COCCULUS · Timothy Field Allen · 18,289 chars

15 Tyler

Cocculus Indicus · Margaret Lucy Tyler · 22,608 chars

16 Guernsey

COCCULUS · Henry Newell Guernsey · 1,679 chars

17 Cowperthwaite

COCCULUS · Allen Corson Cowperthwaite · 6,837 chars

18 Dewey

Cocculus Indicus · Willis Alonzo Dewey · 1,216 chars

22 Roberts

Cocculus indicus · Herbert Alfred Roberts · 3,656 chars

23 T. F. Allen

COCCULUS · Timothy Field Allen · 10,336 chars

33 Gladstone Clarke

Cocculus · A. Gladstone Clarke · 1,052 chars

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Research (3)

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  1. Vertigoheel induced psychosis: A patient case reportO'Connell M, Hunt E, VandenBerg A · The mental health clinician · 2021 · Case Reports · doi
  2. Clinical management of idiopathic epilepsy in dogs with homeopathic Belladonna 200C: a case seriesVarshney JP · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2007 · Case Reports · doi
  3. [Clinical experimental test and equilibrimetric measurements of the therapeutic action of a homeopathic drug consisting of ambra, cocculus, Conium and mineral oil in the diagnosis of vertigo and nausea]Claussen CF, Bergmann J, Bertora G et al. · Arzneimittel-Forschung · 1984

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