Materia Medica
Coccus Cacti
Cochineal
The clinical application of the symptoms of this remedy, place it among the medicines for spasmodic and whooping coughs, and catarrhal conditions of the bladder; spasmodic pains in kidneys, with viscera tenes- mus.
Mind
Early morning or afternoon sadness.
Head
Suboccipital soreness: worse after sleep and exertion. Headache, worse from lying on back, better with the head high. Dull pain over right eye in morn- ing.
Urinary
Urging to urinate; brick-red sediment. Urinary calculi hematurin, urates, and uric acid; lan- cinating pains rum kidney to bladder. Deep-colored, thick urine. Dysuria. Fnale. -- Menses too early, profuse, black and thick; dark clots, with dysuria. Intermittent menstruation; 257 flow only in evening and at night. Large clots escape when passing water. Labia inflamed.
Respiratory
Constant hawking from n enlarged uvula; coryza, with inflamed fauces; arcumulation of thick viscid mucus, which is expectorated with great difficulty. Tickling in larynx. Sensation of a crumh behind larynx, must swallow continually; brushing teeth causes cough. Fauces very sensitive. Suffocative cough; worse, first waking, with tough, white mucus, which strangles. Spasmodic morning cough. Whoop- ing cough attacks end with vomiting of this tough mucus. Chronic bronchitis complicated with gravel; large quantities of albuminous, tenacious mucus, are ex- pectorated. Walking against 'wind takes breath away. [Nux. mosch.!
Heart
Sensation as if everything were pressed to- ward the heart.
Modalities
Worse, left side, after sleep, touch, pressure of clothing. brushing teeth, slightest exertion. Better, walking.
Relationships
Compare: Canth.; Cact.; Sars.
Dose
Lower triturations.