Origin Plant · Cucurbitaceae · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture of pulp of fruit.
Sources 17 entries across 16 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Allen, Nash …
Dose Boericke
6X–30X
Sixth to thirtieth potency
Reason for useNash
Disinclined to talk, to see friends, impatient, easily offended, danger within indignation; colic or other complaints as a consequence. Colic, terrible; they seek relief by bending double or pressing something hard against the abdomen. Dysentery-like diarrhoea; renewed after least food or drink, often with the characteristic colic pains. Frequent urging to urinate, scanty; urine sometimes thick, foetid, viscid, jelly-like. Crampy pain in sciatic nerve, from hip down posterior portion of thigh; > from hard pressure and from heat; < in repose, driving patient desperate. Tendency to painful cramps, with all pains.
▲ Worse evening, anger; after eating
▼ Better from coffee, bending double and hard pressure
Books*
Antidoted by Coffea Cruda 3, Staphysagria 3, Camphora 2 +9
Complementary Mercurius Solubilis
Follows well —
Compare Staphisagria, Mercurius Solubilis, Chamomilla +26
* 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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