Colocynthis

REGION

• NERVES (large): TRIFACIAL. ABDOMINAL. Spinal. SCIATIC.
• DIGESTIVE TRACT (NAVEL).
• INTESTINES.
• Ovaries.
• Kidneys.
• Left side.

WORSE

• EMOTIONS.
• VEXATION.
• Chagrin.
• Anger.
• Lying on painless side.
• Night, in bed.
• Drafts.
• Taking cold.

BETTER

• HARD PRESSURE.
• Coffee.
• Heat.
• Rest.
• Gentle motion.
• After stool or flatus.

Acts on digestive tract, then longer on spinal nerves. SUDDEN, ATROCIOUS CRAMPINGS, gripings, tearings, etc., making him TWIST, turn or cry out in pain; with nausea or diuresis. Convulsive jerks or constrictions during pain (Ign. Lyc.). Lightning-like pains. CUTTING, pinching, clamping, gnawing or boring pain; then numbness. Parts seem too short. Constriction. Neuralgia. .................... Anger; easily vexed; < pains. Tearing head pains, < moving eyelids. Faceache (l); with eye symptoms or alternating with cœlialgia. Distorted face. Persistent bitter taste. Gas colic (flatulent colic). WAVES OF VIOLENT CUTTING, GRIPING, GRASPING, CLUTCHING OR RADIATING ABDOMINAL COLIC DOUBLE HIM UP; > HARD PRESSURE; < least food. Cutting in bowels; at navel. Pressure > at first then <. Intestines feel squeezed between stones. Pains alternating between ovaries. Ovaralgia. Vomits from pain. Yellow, frothy, watery, shreddy, sourish or gelatinous stools; with colic and gas. Dysentery. Slippery bubbles escape from anus. Gelatinous, sticky or stringy urine. Heart feels pushed up by a distended stomach. Pain under r. scapula, > pressure (Bry.). Lumbar ache, > pressure. Cramps in hips. Screwing, band-like or shooting sciatic pains; < least motion, rotation or night, > lying on painful part. Limbs drawn up like a hedgehog. Urinous sweat.

Complementary: Caus.

• Antidote: Op.

Related: Stap.