Ricinus communis

Ricinus communis
(castor-oil)
* Has marked action on gastro-intestinal tract.
* Increase the quantity of milk in nursing women.
* Vomiting and purging.
* Languor and weakness.
Head
- Vertigo, occipital pain, congestive symptoms, buzzing in ears.
- Face pale, twitching of mouth.
Stomach
- Anorexia with great thirst, burning in stomach, pyrosis, nausea profuse vomiting, pit of
stomach sensitive.
- Mouth dry.
Abdomen
- Rumbling with contraction of recti muscles, colic, incessant diarrhoea with purging.
- Rice water stools with cramps and chilliness.
Stool
- Loose, incessant, painless, with painful cramps in muscles of extremities.
- Anus inflamed.
- Stools green, slimy, and bloody.
- Fever, emaciation, somnolence.
Relationship
- Compare : Resorcin (summer complaint with vomiting); destroys organic germs of
putrefaction; Cholos terrapina (cramps of muscles).
- Ars.; Verat.
Dose
- Third potency.
- Five drops every four hours for increasing flow of milk; also locally a poultice of the leaves.