Cochlearia

Cochlearia armoracia, Linn.

Nat. order , Cruciferæ; Common names , Horseradish; (G.), Meerrettig; (Fr.), Raifort.

Preparation , Tincture of the root.

Authorities.

1 , Archive f. Hom., 17, 3, 176; 2 , Dr. Cate, proving, N. Am. J. of Hom., 1, 336.

MIND

• Is extremely irresolute, 1.
• (Thinking is difficult in the evening, without confusion of the head) (after three hours), 1.

HEAD

• Dulness of the head, is unable to collect his thoughts with rapidity, 1.
• Headache in a small spot, now here, now there, a pressure deep in the brain, not aggravated by motion, but worse on widely opening the eyes, 1.
• Pressive boring headache, as if the frontal bone would fall out, 1.

EYES

• Eyes swollen, 1.
• Obscuration of vision for a few minutes (after half an hour), 1.

MOUTH

• Dull sensation in the teeth, as if they were soft, and became bent on chewing, 1.

THROAT

• Scraping in the throat, with nausea, 1.

STOMACH. [10.]

• Retching and vomiting of bilious fluid, 1.
• Crampy, tensive pain above the epigastrium, apparently in the diaphragm, relieved by bending forward, 2.

ABDOMEN

• Griping pain around umbilicus, 2.

ANUS

• Involuntary passage of mucus from anus, 2.

STOOL

• Stools increased in frequency, 2.

URINARY ORGANS

• Burning and cutting at the glans during micturition; felt also before and after, 2.*
• Increased inclination to urinate; urination eight or ten times daily instead of four, 2.*
• Increased secretion of urine, 2.
• Urine pale and limpid, 2.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Pain in all the joints, while lying still towards morning, worse when lying on the side; it disappeared on moving about and on rising, 1.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Night ), Towards morning, pain in joints.
• ( Lying on side ), Pain in joints.
• ( Opening eyes widely ), Headache.
• Amelioration.
• ( Bending forwards ), Pain above epigastrium.
• ( Moving about ), Pain in joints.
• ( Rising from bed ), Pain in joints.