Colocynthis

The pains of Colocynthis are shooting, tearing and sticking in character. In the joints a bruised sensation is often present. Limbs are inclined to be stiff with retarded motion. The pains are < while at rest except when in the joints, which are < on motion ; they are > by hard pressure.

Colocynthis is not of ten called for in rheumatism but may be of use in rheumatoid pains along the course of nerve trunks, especially of the sciatic and trigeminus, during or after an attack of rheumatism.

Bryonia is Colocynthis closest analogue.

Compare Staph. when anger with vexation brings on neuralgias.

HEAD AND EYES . — (Colocynthis)

HEAD CONGESTED WITH CONSTANT TEARING PAINS.

RHEUMATIC HEADACHE ; PAINS ARE VIOLENT, SEMI-LATERAL, TEARING, DRAWING AND CRAMPY ; INTERMITTENT IN CHARACTER.

PERIODICAL ARTHRITIC PAIN IN RIGHT EYE ; CONJUNCTIVA INJECTED, MARGINS OF LIDS RED, PROFUSE LACHRYMATION ; EYE SEEMS SMALLER ; ON STOOPING EYE FEELS AS II IT WOULD FALL OUT ; PAIN BEGINS WITH STITCHES IN FOREHEAD ABOVE EYE ; TEARING PAIN EXTENDS TO RIGHT TEMPLE, < BY SHAKING HEAD, BY COUGHING, LIGHT AND TOUCH.

Cutting BURNING PAIN IN EYES WITH PROFUSE ACRID LACHRYMATION.

ARTHRITIC TOOTHACHE.

PAINS IN HEAD, EYES AND TEETH ARE GREATLY > BY FIRM PRESSURE.

NECK AND BACK . — (Colocynthis)

Feeling of stiffness in muscles of neck on moving head.

VIOLENT TENSIVE DRAWING PAINS IN MUSCLES OF NECK, < ON MOTION.

PRESSING PAIN IN LEFT SIDE OF NAPE ON TURNING HEAD.

PRESSING TENSE PAIN NEAR RIGHT SCAPULA.

Pain in shoulder blades and back extending into neck.

Posterior spinous processes of all the cervical and first three dorsal vertebra sensitive to pressure.

SEVERE STITCHING PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK < FROM MOTION.

SENSATION OF HEAVINESS IN LUMBAR-SACRAL REGION, > FROM LYING ON LEFT SIDE.

SEVERE PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK CONFINED TO A SMALL AREA MAKING HIM LIMP, FINALLY BECOMING SO SEVERE AS TO BE UNABLE TO WALK.

Sharp cutting pains run up back.

TENSIVE STICKING PAIN IN RIGHT LOIN < ON LYING ON BACK AND INSPIRATION.

Aching in sacro-iliac articulation.

Stitching pain in back so severe he gets upon hands and knees, the only position giving relief.

Severe sticking pain in coccyx.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Colocynthis)

BRUISED PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER JOINT.

Sore pain in shoulder, elbow and finger joints swollen and stiff.

Rheumatic pains in arms with stiffness of hands.

Tearing drawing in arms down to fingers.

Tearing in joints of left hand.

Contractive pain in palms.

Tensive pain in left thumb interfering with motion.

CRAMPY PAIN IN HANDS.

RIGHT SIDE MOST AFFECTED.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Colocynthis)

Inflammation of right hip joint ; the buttock is swollen, greatly < by motion and from least touch.

DULL STITCHING IN REGION OF RIGHT HIP SO SEVERE HE CANNOT WALK, > FROM REST AND WARMTH OF BED.

THROBBING, boring PAIN NEAR RIGHT HIP, WAKING PATIENT AT 4 A.M.

Crampy pain in hip as if SCREWED IN A VICE.

STICKING, CONSTRICTING, PRESSING PAIN SHOOTING FROM HIP BEHIND JOINT INTO LEG.

VIOLENT TEARING, STICKING, BURNING PAINS STARTING IN SACRUM EXTENDING DOWN SCIATIC NERVE TO POPLITEAL SPACE ; CAN NEITHER LIE DOWN NOR STAND, < FROM WARMTH.

PAROXYSMAL PAIN IN SCIATIC NERVE, LEFT SIDE, AT NIGHT ; > AT FIRST FROM HEAT, AFTER < FROM HEAT ; ALSO FIRST > FROM MOTION, AFTERWARD < BY MOTION.

RHEUMATIC BONE PAIN SEEMS TO CENTRE IN HIP AND RADIATE TO THIGH AND KNEE.

DRAWING PAIN IN THIGH DOWN TO KNEE.

DRAWING IN EXTERNAL CONDYLE OF RIGHT FEMUR.

Cramp in legs.

HEAVINESS OF LIMBS.

Shooting sticking pain in knee joints.

KNEES ARE STIFF.

LIMBS FALL ASLEEP.

CRAMP IN CALVES.

Ankles, toes and soles of both feet painfully swollen and stiff.

Soft, pale, painless swelling of tarsus.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL . — (Colocynthis)

TEARING AND DRAWING PAINS IN ALL THE LIMBS.

RHEUMATIC PAIN IN LIMBS AND JOINTS AFTER TAKING COLD.

STICKING SHOOTING PAINS IN JOINTS AND ALONG NERVE TRACTS.

Rheumatic pains which seem to be in the bone.

CONCOMITANTS . — (Colocynthis)

COLIC OF THE MOST VIOLENT TYPE, CAN ONLY OBTAIN RELIEF FROM BENDING DOUBLE.

NEURALGIC PAINS IN DIFFERENT PARTS, PAINS ALMOST DRIVE THEM WILD.

AGGRAVATIONS . — (Colocynthis)

AFTERNOON, EVENING AND NIGHT.

AT REST.

WALKING.

AMELIORATIONS . — (Colocynthis)

HARD PRESSURE.