Cocculus indicus

Cocculus indicus
(indian cockle)
* Within the sphere of action of Cocculus are manyspasmodic and paretic affections, notably
those affecting one-half of the body.
* Affects the cerebrum, will not cure convulsive seizures proceeding from the spinal cord.
(A.E. Hinsdale)
* Painful contracture of limbs and trunk; tetanus.
* Many of the evil effects of night-watching are relieved by it.
* It shows a special, attraction for light-haired females, especially during pregnancy, causing
much nausea and backache.
* Unmarried and childless women, sensitive and romantic girls, etc.
* All its symptoms are worse riding in a carriage or on shipboard; hence its use in
seasickness.
* Sensation of hollowness, or emptiness, as if parts had gone to sleep.
* Feels too weak to talk loud.
Mind
- Capricious.
- Heavy and stupid.
- Time passes too quickly; absorbed in reveries.
- Inclination to sing irresistible.
- Slow of comprehension.
- Mind benumbed.
- Profound sadness.
- Cannot bear contradiction.
- Speaks hastily.
- Very anxious about the health of others.
Head
- Vertigo, nausea, especially when riding or sitting up.
- Sense of emptiness in head.
- Headache in occiput and nape; worse, lying on back of head.
- Sick headache from carriage riding, cannot lie on back part of head.
- Pupils contracted.
- Opening and shutting sensation, especially in occiput.
- Trembling of head.
- Pain in eyes as if torn out of head.
Face
- Paralysis of facial nerve.
- Cramp-like pain in masseter muscle; worse, opening mouth.
- Prosopalgia in afternoon, with wide radiations of pain.
Stomach
- Nausea from riding in cars, boat, etc., or looking at boat in motion; worse on becoming cold
or taking cold.
- Nausea, with faintness and vomiting.
- Aversion to food, drink, tobacco.
- Metallic taste.
- Paralysis of muscles preventing deglutition.
- Dryness of oesophagus.
- Seasickness. [Resorcin. 1x.]
- Cramp, in stomach during and after meal.
- Hiccough and spasmodic yawning.
- Loss of appetite.
- Desire for cold drinks, especially beer.
- Sensation in stomach as if one had been a long time without food until hunger was gone.
- Smell of food disgusts. [Colch.]
Abdomen
- Distended, with wind, and feeling as if full of sharp stones when moving; better, lying on
one side or the other.
- Pain in abdominal ring, as if something were forced through.
- Abdominal muscles weak; it seems as if a hernia would take place.
Female
- Dysmenorrhoea, with profuse dark menses.
- Too early menses, clotted, with spasmodic colic.
- Painful pressing in uterine region, followed by haemorrhoids.
- Purulent, gushing leucorrhoea between menses; very weakening, can scarcely speak.
- So weak during menstruation, scarcely able to stand.
Respiratory
- Sensation of emptiness and cramp in chest.
- Dyspnoea as from constriction of trachea, as if irritated by smoke.
- Choking constriction in upper part of oesophagus, oppressing breathing and inducing
cough.
Back
- Cracking of cervical vertebrae when moving head.
- Paralytic pain in small of the back.
- Pain in shoulder and arms as if bruised.
- Pressure in scapula and nape.
- Stiffness on moving shoulders.
Extremities
- Lameness; worse by bending.
- Trembling and pain in limbs.
- Arms go to sleep.
- One-sided paralysis; worse after sleep.
- Hands are alternately hot and cold; numbness andcold sweat now of one, now of the other
hand.
- Numb and unsteady.
- Knees crack on motion.
- Lower limbs very weak.
- Inflammatory swelling of knee.
- Intensely painful, paralytic drawing.
- Limbs straightened out, painful when flexed.
Sleep
- Spasmodic yawning.
- Coma vigil.
- Constant drowsiness.
- After loss of sleep, night-watching, nursing.
Fever
- Chill, with flatulent colic, nausea, vertigo, coldness of lower extremities, and heat of head.
- Sweat general.
- Nervous form of low fever.
- Chilliness, with perspiration, and heat of skin.
Modalities
- Worse, eating, after loss of sleep, open air, smoking, riding, swimming, touch, noise, jar;
afternoon.
- Menstrual period.
- After emotional disturbance.
Relationship
- Antidotes :; Coffee; Nux.
- Compare : Picrotoxin - alkaloid of Cocculus - (epilepsy, attacks in the morning on leaving
horizontal position, hernia, locomotor ataxia, night-sweats); Symphoricarpus (morning
sickness); Petrol.; Puls.; Ignat.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.