Materia Medica
Croton Tiglium
Croton-oil Seed
Is a valuable remedy in diarrhcea, summer complaint, and skin affections. Feels tight all over. It is one of the antidotes to Rhus poisoning, as is evident from its wide and intense action upon skin and mucous surface, causing both irritation and infarnmation, with forma- tion of vesicles ad inucous discharges. Has elective affinity for skin of face and external genitals. Burn- ing in the csophagus.
Head
Pressing pain in forehead, especially orbits.
Eyes
Granular lids; pustules of cornea. Red and raw appearance. Feel drarwn backrvard. Eruptions around eyes. Tensive pain above right orbit.
Stool
Copious watery stools, with much ·urging; always forcibly shot out, with gurgling in intestines; worse, drinking the least quantity, or even while eating. S ns a o os n o Swashing sensation in intestines. Urine. — Night urine foaming; dark orange color; turbid on standing; greasy particles foating on top. Day urine is pale, with white sediment.
Chest
Drazwing- pain through the left chest into the
Back
Asthma, with cough; cannot expand the chest. Nursing women; every suc the child gives produces pain from nipple back. Inflamed breasts. Cough; as soon as he touches the pillow must get up. Sensitive to deep breathing.
Skin
Feels hide-bound. Intense itching; but scratching is painful. Pustular eruption, especially on face and genitals, with fearful itching, followed by pain- ful burning. Vesicles; confuent oozing. Vesicular erysipelas, itching exceedingly. Herpes zoster; stinging, smarting pains of the eruption.
Modalities
Worse, least food or drink; during summer; touch, night and morning, washing.
Relationships
Compare: Momordica charanta - Hairy Mordica — (has marked drastic properties, pro- ducing colic, nausea, vomiting, cholera-like symptoms, abdomen seems full of fluid discharged explosively, thin, watery, yellow. Great thirst). Rhus; Anagallis; Anacard.; Sepia. Antidote: Ant. tart.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency.