Causticum
Anhang 3
[Drs. P.I. Tarkas and Ajit Kulkarni]
Hahnemann’s Tinctura Acris Sine Kali
REGION
Nerves:
Motor and Sensory
Solar plexus. Ulnar nerve (Rhus-r.)
Neuro-musculatures: Bladder. Larynx. Cardiac. Limbs (Visc.). Ocular
Mucous membranes: Gastrointestinal. Urinary bladder. Upper respiratory tract
Glands; lymphatic
Joints
Skin
One side, right or left; but more right; right upper, left lower
<: Depressing factors: Air: Cold, clear, dry (winter), raw cold winds,
snowy, thunderstorm, open; drafts
Extremes of heat and cold
Warm damp weather (rheumatism). Change of weather. Walking in open air.
Heat (some pains). Hot food
Cold drinks (teeth), bath (not liked)
Wetting
Periodicity: 2- 4 h. 14 – 16 h.; daytime, early morning, afternoon, evening,
twilight, sun-set to sun-rise, night, midnight to early morning or mid-day,
double, quotidian,
new
and full moon, every 2-3-4 weeks, during menses; at puberty
After stool
Sleep or loss of it; siesta
Resting. Motion of cars. Jerks. Vibrations. Straining. Stooping. Exertion.
Lifting. Running
Suppressions; of eruptions
Traumas:
1.
Mental
(grief, worry, shocks fright, joy, frustration, anger, vexation, trials,
thinking of it; severe trial and strain of nursing near and dear, sudden noise,
excitement).
2.
Drugs
(quinine, santonine, narcotics, coffee).
3.
Metals-aluminium,
zinc (water from galvanized pipes etc.), mercury iron (sulphur), lead.
4.
Foods
(asafoetida, carbohydrates, fats, legumes, sour, sweets, coffee, supper)
Dentition
During digestion. Fasting
Depleting factors: Sweat
>: Open
air (vertigo). Fan. Warm air, Summer. Damp weather (Asar.). Walking in
open air (anxiety)
Cold: Drinks (cough, chill, convulsions, paralysis). Cold bath; or to affected
part
Warmth of bed (except cough)
Daybreak (anxiety). Day (cough, leucorrhea). Night (cold, menses); 21 h. to 2
h.
Running (neurosis). Dancing (oppression). Activity (soreness). Motion (of
affected part)
Diversion
Constipation
Discharges: (Flatus) blood (not stool)
MONOGRAM
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NEUROTIC. PUNY. ATROPHIED. SICKLY. RHEUMATIC. EXUDATIVE. CALCAREOUS. FISSURED. DEVITALIZED. SENILE. DECLINING. DEGENERATING. SLOWED DOWN. STANDSTILL. PARALYTIC. |
Action:
·
Disturbed
function of brain and spinal cord, from exhausting diseases, suppressed eruptions
or severe mental shock or strain; defective nutrition of the whole nervous
system, ending in convulsions or paralysis. Deep-seated nervous diseases;
suppressed eruptions tell on the nervous system, vegetative disturbances (not
superficial) reflex from vagus.
·
Slowly
progressing, low grade processes in poorly vitalized tissues. Old, broken down
conditions, sufferings from chronic troubles, that after initial improvement
come to
·
a
standstill for years. A gradual slowing down of functions (e.g. sex urge,
pulse, low temperature, paresis; like Plb.) accompanying a declining
state of the economy: fighting
·
a
losing battle (cp. Carbn-s.), ending with a paralysis.
·
Little
toxemia (or septicemia) but much tissue disorganization, and low vegetation, as
cracks and fissures – in lips, anus, nipples, skin (like Graph.).
·
“(Crude)
promotes putrefaction of tissues when placed in its solution.” – Hahnemann.
Make-up:
·
Syco-syphilitic.
Scrofulous, weak, chilly constitutions, debilitated from enervation of motor
tract, after grief, strain, exposures or suppression of eruptions (by
ointments).
·
Self-sacrificing
patients, broken down with long suffering and too much trouble; subject to
respiratory or urinary catarrhs, dyspepsia, rheumatism or paralysis; esp.
troubles incidental to post-meridian life. Excessive wear, tear and torture,
emaciation, dehydration.
·
Lymphatic
patients subject to sluggish circulation. Phlegmatic patients subject to gout (Chel.),
rheumatism, scrofulosis, respiratory catarrhs, paralysis, rigid, firm muscular
fibre (“single bodied”) with yellow, sallow complexion, peculiar paleness of
elbows, hands, knees. Dark-haired, dark-eyed and of darkest mood and temper (Psor.).
·
Neurasthenic
and lean, dyspeptic and consumptive/ Frail; skin like parchment; prolapsus
recti and paralytic sphincter vesicii.
·
General
uneasiness, in bed in morning, unable to lie still a moment at night (with
fidgety legs like Zinc.). Constant moving of arms and legs in sleep;
the anti-rest (Mag-c.).
·
No ambition or drive; have no desire and scarcely any ability to make an
effort; disposition to run away or shirk any responsibility (like Kali-c.);
faggy brains (like ).
·
”Brain
washed out, can no longer be coordinated.”
·
Ageing:
Physical infirmity-shakiness-torpidity; not mentally, beyond some amnesia
(unlike or Lyc.).
Ailments:
·
Of
psychogenic origin such as domestic discord, long lasting grief, sorrow,
frustration, disappointments, disillusionments, sudden emotions, fear, fright,
injustice, sexual abuse, anger or vexation, abandonment, cares and worries with
protracted night-watching (, Colch.), business reverses,
sudden outburst of joy (Coff.), over sympathy for others.
·
From
exhausting diseases; or disturbed function of brain and spinal cord from these
causes or suppression of eruptions.
Nerves:
·
Weak,
tremulous, tottering, unsteady, faint, almost paralytic, from long-lasting
grief etc. or pains or cough. So weary he will not move, yet so nervous and
anxious that he will not rest (like Chel.).
· Gradually increasing debility. A gradual slowing down of functions and muscular strength (ending in paralysis). Increasing uncertainty of control, stumbling etc.
·
Right
side weaker (, Lyc.); right arm feels paralyzed from continued
writing. Gait unsteady. Bearing down sensation. Weakness, as in all Kalis.
Trembling:
·
While
straining at or after stool; of paralyzed or painful parts. Sense of shakiness,
unsteadiness, tremor; of hands; of right while writing; or of legs on
ascending; on rising from sitting.
Cramps:
·
Calves,
feet, soles, toes, fingers (writer’s).
Formication:
·
Arms
(also asleep), esp. in fingers, feet (also asleep), soles (also tingling),
toes.
Pains:
·
Stitches,
burning, soreness. Rawness (in canals, uterus, chest). Throbbing. Paralyzing.
Cause spurting of urine. Obstinate neuralgias of psoric origin; growing pains
(in legs); tearing and drawing pains in muscular and fibrous tissues.
Numbness:
·
Of
left half of body (Arg-n., Xan.); of right (Chel.); attack of
left arm during sleep (Sumb.); in nose, rectum, urethra, hands, (tips
of) fingers (esp. index or thumb), legs, feet, toes, (while walking or
standing), heels.
Universal Commotion:
·
Trembling.
Twitchings. Prickling. Tingling. Formication. Starting. Jerks of single muscles;
speech as if in jerks. Rheumatic chorea; after fright, suppressed eruptions,
during menses or pregnancy, from imitating, more right sided or localized; <
night, during sleep, in dry weather, on thinking of it. Restless legs (Zinc.),
in bed at night and morning. Grinding teeth.
Epilepsy:
·
Recent
and simple cases; during dentition or puberty; at menses; helminthic (caused by
Santonine etc. for worms); with or after suppressed eruptions (, Psor.);
after chilling or a cold river bath (Art-v.); after malaria; after
fright; grief (Art-v.); from prolonged lead poisoning; in brain
softening; < during sleep, periodically (twice a day, every 2, 3, or 4
weeks, at new moon). Petit mal (falls unconscious while walking in open air,
but soon recovers).
·
Before:
Heat of head, then general sweat; shocks in head; pressure in pit of stomach
(solar plexus aura); dementia; runs in a circle (to right). Drinking cold water
at this stage may avert the fit.
·
With:
Feverish heat but cold hands and feet; cold shoulders; restlessness; epistaxis;
sopor; paralysis; red face; spurting; head drawn to one side (esp. left).
·
After:
Epistaxis, noises in head; paralytic exhaustion; restlessness; sopor.
· Convulsions; with bizarre attitudes; of upper half of body; in paralyzed parts. During dentition (Zinc.).
·
Hysteria:
Unstrung, sensitive subjects; with cramps, startings, twitchings, jerking;
progressive hysteria; with diabetes.
· Tetanus; trismus.
Paralysis:
· Sudden, from cold exposure (like Acon.) as cold bath in summer, from cerebral embolism (with aphonia and dysphagia). After headaches; brain softening; from deep-seated nervous diseases, e.g. multiple sclerosis; lead poisoning; rheumatism; suppressed diarrhea or dysentery; (with obstipation, vertigo at noon- A. Lippe); infectious diseases (diphtheria, typhus); suppressed eruptions; enemas. Senile dysfunction and paresis.
·
Hemiplegia
(right) after apoplexy, that lingers still after absorption of effused blood.
· More usually paralysis appears late or gradually. Recurring paralysis. Localized paralysis; or of single parts; of eyelids; face (right); tongue; of arms; of right arm; after rheumatism; of legs after parturition (Plb.); of (left) shoulder; of fingers (in pianists). Paralysis of extensors (Plb.).
· Functional paralysis; deglutition; rectum; bladder; uterus; agalactea; voice; sensation of paralysis of right arm wakes him up in morning; temporary paralysis. “Cold water tones up the paralysis” – Pulford.
Tissues:
· Mucous membranes: Catarrhs; urinary; vaginal; respiratory. No inflammations.
·
Discharges:
Thick, tough, gluey, offensive.
· Dropsy: Edema pedis; in paralysis; after abuse of salt, bad fat; with coldness. Ascites. Dropsies taken care of by
· Emaciation: From suppressed eruption, disease, psychogenic. Body wasted but abdomen tense and hard, swollen. More about the feet. Marasmus. Puny.
· Glands: Cervical (Derbyshire neck i.e. goiter); mesenteric (, Phos.). Indurations (e.g. prostate). Buboes.
· Muscles: Rheumatic contraction (shortening) of muscles and tendons, esp. flexors, (hamstrings), < cold winds (Visc.). Relaxed; prolapses. (Inguinal Hernia).
·
Joints:
A rheumatic state of tendons and ligaments about joints with pain and swelling
of joint which becomes tightened and ankylosed. Osteoarthritis. Rheumatoid
arthritis, joints stiff, and tendons shortened drawing limbs out of shape
(contractures); < dry cold snowy air; uncovering; evening to morning; >
warmth (of bed). Hip joint disease (left). Stiffness < rising from a seat.
Burning in. Torticollis. Joints deform, enlarge, soften, bend, infiltrate,
become cold, feel dislocated.
· Synovitis: Fluctuation and indolency.
·
Gout:
Alternating with cough; concretions.
· Blood: Hemorrhages of dark blood, they >. Scorbusis. Abscesses (Sil.). Purpura developing (Lach.). Anemia (Ferr.).
·
Degeneration:
Locomotor ataxia; lightning-like pains (); tottering gait. Multiple sclerosis;
paralysis. Brain softening; with epilepsy; with paralysis. Cataract.
·
Growths:
Horny excrescences (keratosis); of nails; of warts; on nose tip.
· Warts: Exuding; or dry; bleeding; fleshy; flat; jagged; pedunculated; seedy; multiple; hard; horny; inflamed; suppurating; painful, tender; stinging; on termini; around eyes. Benign tumors; (lipoma) small tumor behind ear. Cancer; of face; of tongue. Lupus (Arg-n., Thuj.). Encephaloma (Phos.).
· Fistulas: Lachrymal; dental; anal; mammary etc. Fungus excrescences. Easy ulceration, frost-bites (, Syph.); fissuration.
·
Cracks:
Skin (in winter); at bend of joints; face; at anus; nipples.
·
Nails:
(Split), horny, thickened, crippled, deformed, discolored.
Peculiarities and Symptom-behaviour:
·
Symptoms
develop usually gradually: Weakness, paralysis, amaurosis. Functions
deteriorate gradually (Con.). Rarely, rapidly developing also, as
phthisis, paralysis.
·
Symptoms
tend to appear singly (unassociated) or in isolated groups (Plb.).
·
Symptoms
< in room are > in open air and vice-versa.
· Some symptoms are < in daytime, some others < at night. Silent melancholy during day, weeping at night. Menses flow during day, leucorrhea at night. Cough < night, but expectoration < daytime. Nose stuffed during day and fluent during night or vice versa. Dry cough during day and loose at night, or vice versa. Sleepy during day, sleepless at night.
· Nervous decontrol from jerks of any muscular effort, or shake-ups: Nose drips while eating (esp. warm food or drink); salivation from walking (after meals); dim vision on blowing nose; stool on vomiting, even from a subtle motion (as from inspiring or bad news); piles pain on attempting to talk loudly; prolapsus ani (or stool) on coughing; stool after eating; enuresis, in first sleep, when coughing (Ferr.), sneezing, vomiting or from pain; milk disappears from excitement, fatigue; aphonia from excitement, coughs when attempting to talk; spine pains when swallowing; sweats while eating. Hip-joint pains on coughing.
· Unhelpfulness of measures: Restless from pain, but rest or motion does not >; can neither move nor rest; during chill must cover warmly but it does not >; desires cold bath but it may not ameliorate (in some cases). Can endure neither heat nor cold.
·
Contradictoriness
or anomaly: Faintness after going to bed; stool easier standing, but must sit
down to urinate; no stool, but involuntary urine (both paralytic); speaker’s
hoarseness > continued talking; chilly in open air, but not in cold air;
chill > by cold drink; stool easier standing but piles < standing;
paralytic state >movement; absence of enjoyment during coition, but emission
>. Thirst with aversion to drinking (Lach.). Paralysis on the right
side, numbness on the left side.
·
Great
deal of internal chilliness. Parts usually cold; feet cold (but not moist);
cold air or water sensations in parts.
·
Tension:
In scalp, in eyes, behind ears, jaws (face), throat, abdomen (< 7 pm),
chest, back (cervical); fingers, hamstrings, thighs, hollow of knees, back.
Arterial tension (flushed face) from straining at stool. Stiffness on rising
from a seat.
·
A
general and indescribable uneasiness of the whole frame (the ‘general physical
anxiety’ of Repertory), with extreme depression.
·
Cases
improve for some time and then come to a standstill, or refuse to rally (Psor.).
·
Cold
drink helps to tone up the paralyzing condition, to mitigate cough,
convulsions. Cold water on eyes and face >. But dread of cold bath, though
it stimulates appetite.
· Greasy: Face, taste, eructations, stool, expectoration, skin, lipoma. A seborrhea.
·
Rawness:
Of scalp, throat, respiratory tract, rectum, urethra, vagina, uterus, at the
site of burns.
·
Absence
of true inflammation (no tumor, rubor, calor, furor); ulcerations predominate
over inflammations.
·
The
triad: Grief, sighing, stiff neck (Calc-p.).
·
The
quartet: Rheumatism, flatulence, hysteria, heart (as in Kali-c., Lach.,
Psor.) obtains here too.
· Bleeding ameliorates (as in Lach.): Epistaxis > headache, convulsions. Gum bleeding > toothache.
·
Intermittent:
Hiccough, urine; menses; (sweat); paralysis.
·
Aggravation
where amelioration was expected e.g. stool, sweat or deflation may or may not
amel.
Injuries:
· Burns, acute or chronic; never well since; deep burns. Gunshot wounds. Superficial wounds that have healed (cicatrized) reopen, due to anxieties or nervous exhaustion; (opening and) ulceration of old cicatrices (Phos.). Troubles after gynec operations. Bruised pains; strained muscles, including pectoral and cardiac. Stings (bites, rabies).
Epilogue:
·
Intimate
mixture of Calcium hydroxide & Potassium bisulphide. Hence, it shares the
properties of calcium, potassium and sulphur.
·
belongs
to the family of Kalis (with its weakness etc.), but with a
difference; it acts deeper, beyond the sub-acute stage (like Lach.)
and is frankly paralytic. Is a Psoro-sycotic (like Sulph.); or a
Psoro-syphilitic (like Psor.); or a Syphilo-sycotic (like Plb.,
Zinc.) with a tinge of Psora too. (Sil. is Syco-syphilitic). With
Kali features intact it moves towards Lach.
·
Its
primary action appears late and secondary symptoms continue, persist relatively
longer than other antipsorics (due to its sycotic undertone?)
Mind:
· A neurotic sympathetic; absorbs the feelings of others as an emotional sponge; vulnerable; offended easily; poor emotional boundaries; defensive. Delicacy; cannot face (esp.) women weeping.
·
Feel
victimized; a strong sense of injustice and need to control. Angry, dictatorial,
haughty, defiant, competitive; fanatical, anarchist; sincere, idealistic,
earnest with high sense of responsibility and therefore victims.
·
Security
and safely the main issues. Multiple fears of: Darkness, being alone, ghosts,
dogs, evil, death, future.
·
Anxiety
about others and over-sympathy—the central features. Very much concerned about
the troubles of others, will actually help and not only talk; out of
apprehensive or real threat from outside (cp. Nat-m., Nit-ac., Phos.).
Anxiety (timorous) makes him censorious and over-compassionate or sometimes a
cynic, greedy (Lyc.) or even a pessimist (Psor.). Anxiety
after a short sleep, awakened with anxiety and nervousness, tosses legs; from
night watching, cares and troubles; worried, anxious and restless with extreme
gloominess (Arg-n. is anxious and tense); anxiety associated with
stool; involving the whole body (‘the general physical anxiety’ of Repertory).
·
Anticipatory
anxiety and timidity; of appearing in public, interviews, examinations,
ordeals. As age advances emotions strike on the abdomen, upset from bad news,
while expecting or meeting an undesired person or even a postman (orgasms,
palpitation, etc.); and later still lands into cardio-neurosis and incarcerated
flatulence with chest pains.
·
Sensitive
to criticism. “Mind is always compromised” (Farrington); feels he has done a
wrong; an anxiety of conscience.
·
Attached
to family, work and society too. Puts up high expectations and if unfulfilled,
suffer from disappointments. Clingy; may remain distant too (to avoid
rejection). Suspicious, difficulty in trusting others.
· Spoonerism (confounds letters and syllables). Dyslexia.
·
Two
phases: Initial phase of hypersensitivity and over-reactivity to all sorts of impressions;
the varying psychogenic causes (e.g. social injustice, grief, frustration,
fright, vexation etc.) make the response hyposensitive; leading in the
evolution, to fatigue, dementia, passive imbecility (paralysis of mind) or
insanity or even to suicidal disposition.
PARTICULARS
Head:
· Vertigo: Reeling, whirling, with nausea and anxiety, while passing stool or urine, on first lying down or rising up (like Con.), on looking up, from gas-light (cp. Glon.).
· Old neuralgic headaches. Commotion (a sort of buzzing or humming), or as of something moving, rushing or creeping from head into eye, in forehead, in heart. Shocks or jerks in. Swollen glabella (Kali-c.).
Eyes:
· “Rich in eye-symptoms.” Scrofulous ophthalmias, after suppressed eruptions; with suppuration or ulceration. Trachoma, with pannus. Corneal opacity (Naphtin.); ulceration; venosities on.
·
Cataract:
Cortical; hard; reticular; with motor disturbances (Plb.).
·
Progressive
or sudden attacks of loss of vision. Ptosis (Gels.). Inclination to
close eyes; involuntary closing. Vision foggy. Membrane over eye as if.
Diplopia from disordered axis or accommodation.
· Asthenopia: Muscular (), after measles.
Ears:
· Burning (itching) as if frostbitten (Agar.). Increased earwax. Meniere’s disease. Catarrhal or neuric deafness. Words and steps re-echo.
Nose:
· Ascending colds. Discharge while eating or reading (Ran-b.). Old atrophic catarrhs, with scaly, crusty, ulcerated nostrils. Frequent sneezing; < morning. Pimples. Warts. Eruptions on nose (Aeth.).
Face:
·
Pain,
esp. jaw; or its joint; after cold or (stormy) change of weather (Rhod.),
< opening mouth, < night. Heat in, after meals. Warts. Greasy.
Swelling of face after groundnuts.
Mouth:
·
Teeth
sensitive to cold; feel spongy. Gums suppurating; scorbutic. Ulcerative stomatitis.
· Tongue (or teeth) pain after grief; red in center with white border; swollen at root. Speech stammering, jerky, lisping; lost.
·
Salivation:
From salt or sweet; < walking, after meals; < or > during sleep.
·
Bites
inside of cheek while chewing.
Throat:
· Nervous feeling in. Pains; rawness with oppression of chest and febrile coldness. Sticky mucus; constant desire to clear the throat (Med.).
· Post-diphtheritic paralysis (Diph.).
Stomach:
·
Averse
to sweets. Desires smoked meat (Calc-p., Kreos., Tub.), salt, cold
drinks, ice-cream, sweetened cold milk.
·
Appetite:
Averse to sight, smell or thought of food (like ); but returns after
bath or on beginning to eat.
·
Worse
after: Fat (esp. rancid), starch, beans, sweets, bread, sour, hot things.
·
In
pit of stomach: Pressure, tension or distress, > lying down or after dinner;
stitches that seem to contract heart; depressing emotions affect pit and cause
urging to stool (Arg-n.); but after stool come anxiety, sweat,
vertigo, palpitation, oppression, flatulence, headache, weakness etc.
· Digestive failure, all food inflates; troubles arise during digestion. Cannot stand fasting.
Abdomen:
· Colic > bending double (Coloc.). Uncomplicated discharge of fetid flatus. Incarcerated flatulence. Flatulent twinges, in head (with tottering gait etc.), hypogastrium, chest, lumbar. Painful pelvis, waist. Pain in left hypochondrium ().
Rectum:
·
Chronic
constipation. First part of stool hard and last soft. Tough, shiny, knotty,
sheep’s dung like, size of goose-quill (Phos.), offensive stools.
·
Chronic
diarrhea in dyspeptics and consumptives.
·
Fissure
and fistula. Hemorrhoids: hard, swollen, impeding stool; sticking, burning,
pains, < touch, when thinking of them, preaching or straining the voice.
Urinary:
· Paralytic cystic catarrhs.
·
Enuresis:
After deliberated retaining; after ineffectual urging; with constipation; after
labor; during first sleep; in winter; from any shake-up; in children.
·
Retention:
After surgery; after a cold exposure.
·
Passive
congestion of kidneys. Neurotic uremia. Prostate catarrh. Urethral burning
during urination; after coitus.
· Urine: Loaded with lithic acid and lithates (Hughes). Difficult, frequent and painful urination. High odor. Uremia in aged, with coma.
Male:
·
Lewd
thoughts replace sexual power (Con.).
Female:
·
Uterine
inertia from emotions, with enuresis, during labour. Frigidity. Psychical
agalactia. Puberty in young girls delayed; or else yearning for marriage.
· Urine retained after labor.
· Menses: Too early, too profuse, and after ceasing, a little is passed from time to time for days (, Sulph.) or too feeble, flow only during the day, ceases when lying down. Dysmenorrheal (after Coloc. fails).
·
Leucorrhoea:
Acrid, bad-smelling, profuse; only at night (Carb-v.).
· Hot flushes < afternoon.
Respiratory:
· Catarrhal croup; alternating with gout (Abrot.). Voice: feeble, hoarse or lost; (morning) of singers, orators; from bad fats; sudden. “An instant voice opener” Sudden attacks of catching respiration; or apnea with general sweat and cerebral congestion. Spasmodic asthma in dry cold weather, < morning. Various coughs; esp. lingering; > cold drink (Cupr.) and warmer part of day. Whooping cough: Spasmodic; catarrhal.
·
Expectoration:
Slips back again (Boger).
· Anxious oppression or stitches in left chest, from bad news, after eating, while straining at or after stool, (including flatulence), > dancing, walking, occupying, deflation; with febrile coldness. Orgasm < lying.
·
Phthisis,
esp. mucous; laryngeal; bronchial; galloping.
·
Not
for pleurisy or pneumonia.
Heart:
·
Precordial
anxiety, with oppression, restlessness and depression, < after stool, when
lying or sitting, > moving about, even running, eructations; a sort of
cardiac neurosis (a neuro-circulatory asthenia irritation of vagus). This,
sometimes with neuralgic precordial stitches, flatulent twinges or other pains
take the form of a pseudo-angina pectoris.
· Hypertension, with cerebral episodes.
·
Chronic
heart diseases in young (or old) from over lifting; strain of heart muscles (Rhus-t.);
hypertrophy from calisthenics. Palpitation < after stool. acts more on
muscles than arteries. Angina pectoris.
Back:
· Wry neck. Lumbar lameness with leucorrhea; pain while sitting. Spinal irritation.
Extremities:
· Paralytic weakness (Ferr.), tremulousness and restlessness in limbs (cp. Zinc.), at night in bed. Rheumatism of right shoulder (Ferr.), < raising arm. Cold weather sciatica.
Skin:
· Dirty white sallow skin. Boils, carbuncles with pepper box openings. Cicatrices. Pemphigus. Vesicles on trunk with anxiety in chest and three-staged fever. Chronic nettle rash. Intertrigo, in teething children (Lyc.). Herpes zoster. Leprosy.
·
Troubles
(esp. nervous) after suppressed scabies by mercury, lead, sulphur or zinc.
Sleep:
·
Sleeplessness
due to anxiety, inquietude and dry heat, with frequent starts. Enuresis during
first sleep. Talking, laughing and crying during sleep.
· Dreams: Embarrassment, quarrels, vexing.
Thermic:
·
Chilliness
predominates. Coldness, febrile of constitutional; of left side; of affected
parts; localized, in limbs; after mental work; with oppression of chest; during
throat trouble. Chill (with or without heat preceding), then sweat (and then
heat occasionally); or alternately chill and sweat; sweat nightly or about 4
a.m.
· Fevers: Catarrhal; rheumatic. Flushes of heat followed by chill. No thirst in heat (or sweat).
Relations:
·
Similar:
, Calc-p., Ferr, Gels., Graph., Guaj. Phos., Puts., Rhus-t., Rumx., Psor.,
Sep., Verb., Visc.
·
Symbiotics:
, Ambr., Am-c., Arg-n., Bar-m. Calc., Carb-v., Coloc., Con., Graph., Guaj.,
Kali-c., Lyc. Mag-c., Merc-c., Plb., Psor., Puls., Rhus-t., Sep., Sil., Thuj.,
Vanad.
·
Counterparts:
Arg-n., Calc., Graph., Lyc., Phos., Psor.
· Mutual counterpart:
·
Inimical:
Acet-ac., Coff., Phos.
·
Antidotes:
Ant-t., Asaf., Laur., Nux-v., Plb. Guaj., Kali-n. (to renal symptoms),
, Nux-v., Plb.
·
Midway:
“Midway between Kalis and (Boger).” Also between Lach. and
Sulph., between Lach., and Lyc., between Rhus-t.
and Zinc., between Sulph. and Lyc., between Ambr.
and Lyc. and between Ran-b. and Kali-c., which
is old (wo-) man’s Calc.
· patients may need its collateral Lyc., Bar-m., Kali-c., or Con. for arteriosclerotic diseases, or Arg-n. esp. after abuse of sugar (both Caust. and Arg-n. are catarrhal, but Caust. is more rheumatic, Arg-n. more neurotic, both being mutually symbiotics, however). Alum.-Caust.-Plb. a symbiotic trio.
·
Rhus-t. (restless
legs at night, stiffness on rising, < warm damp weather, rheumatism, >
heat, grippe, heart-strain). is Rhus-t. of Sep. patients.
· (excepting that it is offensive, allergic and has no anxiety or paralysis, Caust. is its continuer and Plb. is Caust. ‘s continuer).
·
and
Kali-c. are twins: Kali-c. goes deeper in
gastro-pectoral-cardiac sphere while Caust. does so in paralysis or
neuro-muscular sphere; Caust. anxiety is more diffuse than Kali-c.;
Caust. has no true inflammation.
·
A
psoric child whose scabies are suppressed by becomes a Caust. patient
and becomes an inveterate Caust. patient if further poisoned by lead
or mercury or both.
·
is
a great helper of Caust. patients.
·
Arg-n., Caust., Lyc., Sep. is a useful group.
·
“Caust. is
Am-caust.” (Wagner)
·
Trios: 1. Rhus-t.-Caust.-Calc. 2.
Lach.-Kali-c.-Caust. 3. Kali-c.-Caust.-Calc., 4. Kali-c.
-Caust. -Lyc. 5. Sulph.-Caust.-Calc. 6. Caust.-Calc.-Lyc.
7. Chel.-Arg-n.-Caust.
· 8. Ambr.-Caust.-Arg-n. 9. Ambr.-Caust.-Lyc. 10. Ambr.-Caust.-Sil.
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[Markus Acker]
"A study of Causticum will soon show that it is a very weakening
drug. It causes such severe prostration and weakness to come on that there is a
constant desire to lie down and rest. The mind and body are affected in much the
same way; thoughts come slowly or vanish; there are marked evidences of
incoordination, and the mental functions are carried on in an uncertain and
irregular way, so that voluntary acts are imperfectly performed and involuntary
ones begin to appear."
Allgemeines zu Causticum Hahnemanni
Causticum wirkt auf motorische und sensible Nervenfasern sowie auf willkürliche und unwillkürliche Muskulatur. Langsam fortschreitende Entkräftung führt zu muskulärer Schwäche mit zunehmendem Kontrollverlust über die Muskulatur, bis schließlich Lähmung einzelner Organe oder Körperbezirke eintritt; Blase, Larynx, Beine. Taubheitsempfindung einzelner Teile. Chronische rheumatische Prozesse führen zu Kontraktionen der Sehnen und Deformierung betroffener Gelenke. Reißende, ziehende, brennende Schmerzen, als ob der betroffene Teil mit der Hand umschlossen wird. Wundheit. Rauhheit. Zittern, Konvulsionen bei leicht erregbaren jungen Frauen < während Mens. Zittern, Zucken. Aufschrecken. Ruhelosigkeit. Krämpfe hier und da. Abmagerung im Rahmen der Erkrankung; durch Furcht, Sorgen, Kummer. Kinder lernen spät zu sprechen und zu gehen. Empfindlich gegen Kälte und Wärme. Anaesthesie. Gelenke steif. Beschwerden durch Verbrennungen, Verbrühungen, Kummer, Sorge, Furcht, Nachtwachen. Geschwüre. Fissuren; an den Nasenflügeln, Lippen, After etc. Ungeschickt beim Gehen, Kauen, Reden. Mentale Symptome nach unterdrückten Hautausschlägen. Als ob Wasser vom Schlüsselbein bis zu den Zehen herabläuft.
Modalitäten Causticum Hahnemanni
<: Kaltes, trockenes Wetter, rauhe Winde. Zugluft. Temperaturextreme. Wetterwechsel. Bücken. Unterdrückte Hautausschläge. Kaffee. Fett. Saures. 3-4 h. morgens.
Abends. Anstrengung. Nach Stuhlgang. Dämmerung. Dunkelheit.
>: Kalte Getränke (auch im Frost). Feuchtes Wetter. Waschen. Bettwärme. Leichte Bewegung.
Gemüt: Traurige, weinerliche, melancholische Stimmung. Ängstliche Erwartungsspannung < während der Dämmerung. Als ob ihm etwas Schlimmes bevorstünde. Angst, Gewissensangst, als ob er Unrecht begangen hätte. Voll furchtsamer Ideen. Aufgebracht über Kleinigkeiten. Verdrießlich, mit sich selbst, uneinig, besorgt. Übertriebenes Mitleidsempfinden. Außer sich beim Hören von Grausamkeiten. "Empfindlich und zu Zorn geneigt, mit großer Angegriffenheit der Nerven; dabei leichter frostig und von Bewegung leicht erhitzt." Erträgt keine Ungerechtigkeiten. Die Körperbeschwerden sind begleitet von Ängstlichkeit. Kinder sind häufig ängstlich und wollen nicht alleine schlafen; schreien wegen der kleinsten Kleinigkeit. Unaufmerksam und zerstreut. Abwesenheit der Gedanken. Gedächtnisschwäche. Abneigung gegen Arbeit.
Verwechseln von Silben und Buchstaben: z.B.: schnaufender Lupfen, statt: laufender Schnupfen. Umnebelter Geist.
Schwindel: wie betäubt und betrunken. Schwindel vorwärts und seitwärts, während des Schlafs, nachts, morgens, beim Bücken, beim Hinlegen, während Mens, beim Aufwärtssehen.
Kopf: Empfindung von Leere hinter der Stirn, oder als ob sich etwas zwischen Stirn und Frontallappen stemme, < abends und durch Kälte, > durch Wärme. "Eingenommenheit des Kopfes von früh an, den ganzen Tag, wie in einer dumpfigen Stube, worin Wäsche gewaschen und getrocknet wird; < Bücken; beim Gehen im Freien nicht vergehend, wohl aber nach der Rückkehr in das Zimmer." Schmerzlose Unruhe des gesamten Kopfes. Unwillkürliche Nickbewegung des Kopfes. Mannigfaltige stechende, brennende, reißende, dumpfe, pochende, klopfende Kopfschmerzen. Stiche in den Schläfen bei geistiger Anstrengung. Hunger macht Kopfschmerzen,
Essen >; Taubheitsempfindung im Hinterhaupt. Blutandrang zum Kopf. Übelkeit und Erbrechen, Blindheit während Kopfschmerz. Engeempfindung, als ob sich die Kopfhaut zusammenzieht. Ekzeme der Kopfhaut, hinter den Ohren. Knötchenbildung auf der Kopfhaut.
Augen: Oberlidptose; einer Seite. Schwäche der Musculi recti. Diplopie > beim Sehen nach rechts. Augenlider geschwollen und entzündet. Zittern der Lider. Unfähigkeit des Blinzelns. Lähmung der Lider. Fissuren der Canthi. Brennen, Stechen und Drücken in den Augen mit Tränen und Schleimabsonderungen. Profuser, ätzender Tränenfluß. Trockenheit der Augen mit Lichtscheu. Sandgefühl der Augen, auch ohne objektiven Befund. Flimmern vor den Augen. Funkensehen. Mouches volantes. Trübsichtigkeit.
Die Gegenstände erscheinen größer. Katarakt.
Ohren: Gehörgang geschwollen. Stechen und Ziehen in den Ohren. Klingelnde, brausende Ohrgeräusche; Pulsieren. Taubheit. Widerhallen der eigenen Worte. Reichlich Cerumen, braun. Gefühl von Verstopfung der Ohren. Morbus Meniere.
Nase: Fließschnupfen oder verstopfte Nase. Schnupfen mit Heiserkeit. Wunde Schleimhäute der Nase. Trockene Krusten. Niesattacken, morgens
Gesicht: Gelbliches, kränkliches Kolorit. Prosopalgie; stechende, ziehende Schmerzen in Ohr und Kiefer, > durch kaltes Wasser. Facialisparese rechts, < Öffnen des Mundes. Kieferschmerzen, Mundöffnen unmöglich. Krämpfe der Lippen; pelziges Gefühl darin. Gefühllosigkeit der betroffenen Seite; folgt den Schmerzen . Hautausschläge.
Mund: Entzündung der Mundschleimhaut. Zahnschmerzen. Die Zähne fühlen sich verlängert und lose an, < durch Kälte oder Wärme. Zahnfleischbluten. Zahnfleischabszesse und Dentalfisteln. Schwellung der Wangenschleimhaut. Beißt sich beim Kauen auf die Wangenschleimhaut. Zähe Schleimabsonderung, die nicht losgehustet werden kann, sondern geschluckt werden muß. Die Mitte der Zunge rot, Ränder sind belegt. Schmerzhaftes Bläschen an der Zungenspitze. Lähmung der Zungenmuskulatur. Sprachstörung.
Hals/Kehlkopf: Dauernder Schluckzwang unter heftigen Schmerzen. Als ob der Hals zu eng sei. Gefühl, als würden die Speisen im Hals steckenbleiben. Lähmung der Schlundmuskulatur, Schlucken schwierig; alles kommt wieder aus der Nase. Kratzende, brennende Rauheit des Halses. Häufiges Bedürfnis sich zu räuspern. Heiserkeit mit Kratzen im Hals morgens und abends. Heiserkeit, > Abräuspern und Abhusten des Schleims. Aphonie. Krampfhafter, trockener, hohler Husten mit Wundheits- und Schmerzgefühl entlang der Luftröhre.
Brust: Stimmlosigkeit oder Heiserkeit; mit Schmerzen der Brust; < vormittags, der Redner und Sänger < durch Bücken, > durch Reden. Husten trocken, hart, während der Schwangerschaft, durch Kitzelempfindung in Rachen oder Kehlkopf, unaufhörlich, nachts und frühmorgens, < durch bücken, Bettwärme und beim Ausatmen (vgl. acon.), kalte Luft, > durch Schlucke kalten Wassers. Beim Husten spritzt der Harn weg. Kann nicht tief genug abhusten, das Sekret rutscht wieder zurück. Das Sekret ist spärlich, zäh, schmierig, seifig, muß geschluckt werden. Wundheit des Kehlkopfes, < beim Nase schnäuzen. Enge der Brust. Kurzatmig vor dem Husten. Wandernde Brustschmerz > Druck, < durch Niesen. Schmerzen des Brustbeins beim Heben von Lasten. Atemnot beim Sprechen und Gehen.
Abdomen: Geschmack und Aufstoßen fettig. Gefühl, als würden die Speisen im Hals steckenbleiben. Verdorbener Magen. Fleisch macht Brechreiz. Kann nur Geräuchertes zu sich nehmen. Abneigung gegen Süßes. Saures Erbrechen, gefolgt von saurem Aufstoßen. Hungrig, aber der Appetit verschwindet beim Anblick der Speisen, bei Gedanken an oder Geruch von Speisen; in der Schwangerschaft. Hunger macht Kopfschmerzen, Essen >. Bluterbrechen nachts. Saure Dyspepsie. Schaudern bei Magenschmerzen. Reichlich Blähungen, nach oben und unten abgehend. Zusammenziehende, spasmodische Leibschmerzen strahlen aus in Brust und Rücken, > durch Vornüberbeugen, < durch geringste Mengen Speisen. Erkältungsneigung des Bauches, Diarrhoe durch Luftzug. Der Stuhl geht besser im Stehen ab.
Stuhl: hart, zäh, bedeckt mit Schleim, fettig, glänzend, weich und spärlich. Auch weicher Stuhl geht schlecht ab wegen Zusammenschnürung des Rectums. Krämpfe des Rectums < Bückend, mit Harndrang. Drängen im Mastdarm, als säße Kot dort. Große, geschwollene, schmerzhafte Hämorrhoiden, nässend, unerträglich schmerzhaft beim Gehen. Analprolaps durch Husten. Analfissuren. Analfistel, pulsierend mit Schmerzen im Perineum. Verstopfung mit erfolglosem Drängen. Schmerzhafte Nabelschwellung. Nieren/Harnwege: Blasenlähmung durch langes Einhalten des Urins. Inkontinenz, der Urin geht unbemerkt und unwillkürlich ab; während des Schlafs, hustend, gehend, Naseschnäuzen. Unterbrochener Harnstrahl. Erfolgloser Harndrang; nach Operationen (staph.). Nach langem, vergeblichen Warten geht trotz Drängen nur wenig Harn ab. Brennschmerzen in der Harnröhre und Krampf im After, nachdem einige Tropfen abgegangen sind. Der Harn geht so leicht ab, daß er den Strahl nicht empfindet.
Häufiger und vermehrter Harnabgang. Harnabgang besser im Sitzen. Der Harn ist dunkelbraun, trübe und wolkig.
Männliche Genitalien:
Gesteigerter Geschlechtstrieb. Häufige Pollutionen. Vermehrte Smegmabildung. Blutiges Sperma. Schmerz der Hoden. Impotenz.
Weibliche Genitalien: Abneigung gegen Coitus. Leukorrhoe stinkend, mit Kreuzschmerzen, fließt nur nachts mit großer Schwäche. Mens fließt nur am Tag. Blut übelriechend, klumpig, spärlich mit Prosopalgie. Einrisse der Brustwarzen, wund; Herpes der Brustwarzen (Phatak). Versiegen des Milchflusses durch Schwäche, Nachtwachen oder Angst. Traurigkeit und Schwäche während Mens. Träume während Mens. Mens spät und reichlich. Stechende Schmerzen unter der linken Mamma. Dysmenorrhoe, mit ziehenden Schmerzen in Rücken und Oberschenkeln. Unerträgliches Jucken der Mammae während der Stillphase.
Nacken/Rücken: Steife des Nackens oder des Rückens beim Aufstehen vom Sitzen. Nackensteife < durch Drehen des Kopfes. Torticollis. Rückenschmerzen erstrecken sich auf die Vorderseite der Oberschenkel. Schmerzen der Wirbelsäule < durch Schlucken. Schmerzen des Steißbeins.
Extremitäten: Zittern, Kraftlosigkeit und lähmungsartige Schwäche der Glieder. Wie verrenkt. Steife der Gelenke. Rheumatoide, reißende, zerrende Schmerzen in Muskeln und Sehnen. Gefühl in den Gliedern, als seien die Sehnen zu kurz (vgl. bry. caust. guaj. rhus-t.). Will sich dauernd recken und strecken, muß sich laufend bewegen. Verschlimmerung nachts und morgens, durch Kälte und kalte Luft. Besserung durch Wärme und Bewegung. Nachts schmerzen die Arme im Achsel- und Armbeugegelenk
wie eingeschlafen, < in den frühen Morgenstunden. Bewegungsdrang der Beine, kann sie nicht stillhalten, nachts. Kreuzschmerzen > durch gebückt Gehen. Einschlafen und Gefühllosigkeit ganzer Körperpartien, der Arme und Beine. Abgestorbene Finger. Brennschmerz der Gelenke. Hüftgelenksschmerzen beim Husten. Steife der Kniekehle,
< sitzend, > durch Gehen. Reißen in den Kniegelenken < durch Gehen und Treppensteigen. Zucken und Schmerzen wie elektrische Schläge in den Beinen. Fersenstand unmöglich. Panaritium der Großzehe.
Haut: Hautjucken. Urticaria. Es bilden sich Papeln, Bläschen und nässende Pusteln. Harte, hornartige Warzen; besonders an den Händen und im Gesicht; entzünden sich und eitern. Alte Narben brechen auf. Rhagaden an Lippen, Augenwinkeln und Nase. Juckende, brennende Ekzeme; am Kopf und hinter den Ohren. Trockene Hitze der Haut. Wunde trockene Haut in den Beugeflächen der Haut. Beschwerden durch Verbrennungen.
Schlaf: Unruhig mit körperlicher Unruhe; dauernde Bewegung der Arme und Beine. Lacht und weint während Schlaf. Sehr schläfrig, kann sich kaum wach halten; dauerndes Strecken und Gähnen. Nächtliche Schlaflosigkeit mit trockener Hitze. Gähnen, wenn er versucht, aufmerksam zuzuhören.
Fieber/Frost/Temperatur: Kalte Hände und Füße. Frösteln am ganzen Körper, nicht gebessert durch Wärme. Frostgefühl einzelner Teile. Kältegefühl und Schaudern an frischer Luft. Saurer Nachtschweiß. Schweiß um vier Uhr morgens. Hitzewallungen, gefolgt von Frost. Hitze abends zwischen sechs und acht Uhr.