Coccus cacti

Coccus cacti
(cochineal)
* The clinical application of the symptoms of thisremedy, place it among the medicines for
spasmodic and whooping coughs, and catarrhal conditions of the bladder; spasmodic pains in
kidneys, with visceral tenesmus.
* Anuria, anasarca, ascites.
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 morning.
- Sensation of a foreign body between upper lid and eyeball.
- Distress from cinders lodged in eye.
Respiratory
- Constant hawking from enlarged uvula; coryza, with inflamed fauces; accumulation of thick
viscid mucus, which is expectorated with great difficulty.
- Tickling in larynx.
- Sensation of a crumb behind larynx, must swallowcontinually; brushing teeth causes
cough.
- Fauces very sensitive.
- Suffocative cough; worse, first waking, with tough, white mucus, which strangles.
- Spasmodic morning cough.
- Whooping cough attacks end with vomiting of thistough mucus.
- Chronic bronchitis complicated with gravel; large quantities of albuminous, tenacious
mucus, are expectorated.
- Walking against wind takes breath away.
Heart
- Sensation as if everything were pressed toward the heart.
Urinary
- Urging to urinate; brick-red sediment. Urinary calculi, haematuria, urates, and uric acid;
lancinating pains from kidney to bladder.
- Deep-colored, thick urine.
- Dysuria.
Female
- Menses too early, profuse, black and thick; darkclots, with dysuria.
- Intermittent menstruation; flow only in evening and at night.
- Large clots escape when passing water.
- Labia inflamed.
Modalities
- Worse, left side, after sleep, touch, pressure of clothing, brushing teeth, slightest exertion.
- Better, walking.
Relationship
- Compare : Canth.; Cact.; Sars.
Dose
- Lower triturations.