Croton Tiglium appears in 12 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
- Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Croton tiglium, Linn. (Tiglium officinale, Klotzch). Natural order , Euphorbiaceæ. Common names of seeds , Croton oil seeds, Puergirkörner, Piñones de Maluco, Grames de Tilley, Petit Pignon d'Inde. Preparation , Tincture of the oil from the seeds. Authorities.”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Croton-oil Seed Is a valuable remedy in diarrhœa, summer complaint, and skin affections . These may alternate with each other. 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 inflammation, with…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“FLATULENCE, Left GURGLING GUSHINGS (COMP. SWASHING) RETRACTED, depressed, drawn back, etc. SWASHING, splashing, etc., as of water (Comp. Gushing, Loose.) VESICLES, blisters, etc. (Comp. Eruption.)”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“MUCOUS MEMBRANES: Bowels. Eyes. Bladder. Mammæ. Uterus. Skin: SCROTUM. FACE. DRINKING. Eating. Washing. Motion. Receding eruptions. Drawn backward feeling ; in eyes; nipples, etc. .................... Neuralgia of tongue. Pressure excites rectal pain or a stool. Gurgling or swashing as of water in bowels; THEN SUDDEN…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Tiglium. officinale. Croton oil seeds. N. O. Euphorbiaceæ. Tincture of the oil from the seeds. Cholera / Cholerine / Colds / Cornea, opacity of / Cough / Diarrhœa / Ear, affections of / Eczema / Eyes, affections of / Hypopion / Keratitis / Neuralgia / Nipples, painful / Ophthalmia / Proctalgia / Rheumatism / Rhus…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Croton Oil Seeds. Euphorbiaceæ. The Croton seed is spoken of by Avicenna and Serapion. Christoph d'Acosta is the first European who described it, which was in the year 1578. The physicians of the seventeenth century used it very little. In modern times, on account of its medicinal oil, it was brought more to the…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Croton oil, when applied to the skin, produces both vesicles and pustules upon an inflamed base, and the part becomes very red and sore. The inflammation often increases until it resembles erysipelas, but more commonly the eruption produced resembles a vesicular eczema. This eruption will come on for a few days and…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Pressing headache in the forehad, especially the orbits. Burning in the oesophagus. Red-scarlet skin. Nausea.”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Vertigo, with dulness of the head, pale complexion, debility and nausea; worse in the open air. Heaviness of the head. Sensitiveness of the head to the pressure of the hat. Headache; worse in the morning. Itching of the eyelids. Œdematous swelling of the eyelids (eyelids look puffed). Twitching of the eyelids…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: croton oil seeds. Can't inhale deeply enough (B.). Œdematous swelling of the eyelids (eyelids look; puffed). Eruptions around the eyes (Br.). Asthma with cough (Ant-T., Lyc., Nat-S.) (Br.). Pressing headache in the forehead, especially in the orbits (Sang., Spig.). As soon as the head touches the pillow a…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Stool yellow, watery, coming out like a shot, all at once; < after least food or drink. Excruciating pain, running from nipple to scapula; of same side when child nurses. Eczema, especially of the scrotum; itches intensely, but is so sensitive to touch and sore that he cannot scratch. When the Allopaths, in any case…”
