Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Vesicular eruptions on the body. Herpetic eruptions here and there; it has a herpeticconstitution. "Eruption of vesicles and pustules; from the former exuded a clear, watery secretion, fromthe latter a purulent fluid". Yellow vesicles and yellow pustules. Both are common to this remedy."Dark, burning eruptions with violent itching". Herpes that ulcerate. Ichorous, spreading ulcers.COCCULUS INDICUS [cocc] [Kent’s]We will study the general system and the mind as usual.Cocculus slows down all the activities of the body and mind, producing a sort of paralyticweakness. Behind time in all its actions. All the nervous impressions are slow in reaching the centers. Ifyou pinch this patient on the great toe he waits a minute and then says "oh", instead of doing it at once.In response to questions he answers slowly, after apparent meditation. but it is an effort to meditate.And so with all nervous manifestations, thought, muscular activity, etc. He cannot endure any muscularexertion, because he is weak; he is tired. First comes this slowness, then a sort of visible paralyticcondition, and then complete paralysis. This may be local or general. There are certain causes whichproduce these effects. A wife nursing her husband, a daughter nursing her father, becomes worn out bythe anxiety, worry and loss of sleep.She is exhausted; unable to sustain any mental or physical effort; weak in the knees, weak in theback, and when the time comes for her to sleep she cannot sleep. Sickness brought about in this manneris analogous to that caused by the Cocculus poison, and hence Cocculus from the time of Hahnemannto the present time has been a remedy for complaints from nursing, not exactly complaints that come onin the professional nurse, for Cocculus needs the combination of vexation, anxiety and prolonged lossof sleep, such as you have in the mother or daughter who is nursing, or the nurse when she takes on theanxiety felt by a member of the family; a wife nursing her husband through typhoid, or other long spellof sickness. At the end of it she is prostrated in body and mind, she cannot sleep, she has congestiveheadaches, nausea, vomiting and vertigo. That shows how a Cocculus case begins. One who is thusexhausted in body and mind goes out for a ride. She gets sick headache, pain in the back, dizziness,nausea and vomiting. She gets into the car to take a journey. Sick headache comes on. She goes on amile or two and will have nausea, vomiting and sick headache. She feels weak all over. feels as if shewould sink away.The Cocculus patient gets into a wagon to ride, sick headache, nausea, vertigo come on. TheCocculus patient cannot endure motion. Aggravated by talking, by motion, by the motion of the eyes,by riding. Wants plenty of time to turn the head cautiously to see things. Wants plenty of time to move,to think, to do everything. The whole economy is slowed down, inactive.Tremulous, tired, excitable. The hands tremble when taking hold of anything, or he takes holdof it awkwardly and drops it.Incoordination runs through this remedy, and hence it has been used with good effect inlocomotor ataxia. It has staggering and numbness. Numbness is quite a feature of this remedy.Numbness of the lower extremities, in the fingers, in the shoulder, of the side of the face. Complaintsfrom anxiety.Extreme irritability of the nervous system. The least noise or jar is unbearable. you have heardthat Bell. is worse from a jar.So is Cocculus, and quite like Bell. Cocculus is also like Belladonna in its sleeplessness, andother general conditions.This sensation of sea-sickness and dizziness is sometimes felt all over the body; a sort of faintfeeling which is followed sometimes by loss of consciousness, or a paralytic rigidity.Stiffness of the joints is a common feature in Cocculus. It belongs to the limbs in general. But itis such a strong symptom I will mention it here. Limbs straightened out and held there for a while arepainful when flexed. Persons who have been suffering from anxiety, prostrated, will lie on the back,straighten out the limbs, and get up only with great difficulty. The doctor comes and he discovers whatis the matter. He bends the limbs and she screams, but she is relieved after the bending, and then shecan get up and move about. You cannot find that anywhere else. It is entirely without inflammation. Itis a sort of a paralytic stiffness, a paralysis of the tired body and mind. The Cocculus headaches andbackaches, pains and distress are present. A man will stretch out his leg on a chair and he cannot flex ituntil he reaches down with his hands to assist. Such things are strange. Faintness on moving the bodyfainting from pain in the bowels, from colic. With all this slowing down of the thoughts and activitiesthe patient remains extremely sensitive to suffering, sensitive to pain.Spasms through the body like electric shocks, convulsions after loss of sleep. This patient goeson with nervousness and excitement, anxiety and loss of sleep until convulsions supervene. Tetanus.Cholera, attacks of paralytic weakness with pain, paralysis of the face, of the eyes, paralysis of the