Cainca

Brazilian Plant-Chiococca

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

(CAHINCA)

This remedy has been found of use in dropsical affections. Its urinary symptoms are well marked. Albuminuria, with dyspnœa on lying down at night. Ascites and anasarca, with dry skin.

Urinary

Constant desire to urinate. Polyuria while travelling. Urine fiery. Burning pain in urethra, especially glandular portion.

Male

Drawing in of testicles and spermatic cord. Pain worse during passage of pungent smelling urine.

Back

Pain in region of kidneys; better lying bent backward. General fatigue.

Relationship

Compare: Apocyn; Ars; Coffea (similar botanically and in relieving effects of fatigue)

Dose

Third potency or lower.

Cainca across the other classic books

Cainca appears in 4 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.
“Chiococca racemosa (L.) Jacq. Nat. order , Rubiaceæ. Preparation , Tincture of the root. Authorities. Feeling of anxiety, with increased warmth of the lower abdomen (soon after), 3. Vertigo. Vertigo, 2. Symptoms of giddiness and sickness (after four hours), 4. On going upstairs, he became giddy, 5. Giddiness, with…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Chiococca racemosa. (Brazil.) N. O. Rubiaceæ. Tincture of dried root bark. Bright's disease / Cough / Dropsies / Fatigue / Kidneys, pain in / Ophthalmia / Polyuria / Spleen, pain in / Travelling, effects of Cainca is related botanically to China, Ipecac., and Coffea. Clinically it is very like Apocynum. It has not…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Chiococca racemosa. Rubiaceæ. Introduced in 1826 as a specific for dropsy by Martius and Langsdorf from Brazil ; later found useless in hydrops, and injurious in post- scarlatinal dropsy. In 1843 proved by Buchner and several others, who got the genuine root from Martius himself, and published the provings in the…”

Cainca in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Cainca in 233 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in ABDOMEN (26), EXTREMITIES (21), CHEST (15), RECTUM (14), STOMACH (14).

COUGH - EVENING - 7 p.m.to 1 a.m.
KIDNEYS - PAIN - morning
MIND - ANGER,irascibility - evening
MIND - WEEPING,tearful mood,etc. - coughing, - during
EYE - INFLAMMATION
URINE - COPIOUS - increased
ABDOMEN - PAIN - lancinating - Sides - right
ABDOMEN - PULSATION - supper,after
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - lying - bent backward amel.
CHEST - PAIN - digging - evening, - in bed
CHEST - PAIN - digging - evening, - when lying on the left side
COUGH - TICKLING - night - 3 a.m.
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - broken,sensation as if - Upper Limbs - left
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - dislocation,as if,feeling - joints - left
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Foot - dinner,after
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - drawing - Testes - urination,during,agg.
NOSE - DISCHARGE, - excoriating - daytime
ABDOMEN - PULSATION - eating,after
ABDOMEN - RUMBLING - stool - diarrhoeic,after
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Foot - eating,after

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