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Cassada

Manihot Esculenta
Cass.PlantRarePsoricAllen only

Exclusively Documented in Allen

This remedy is documented exclusively in Allen's Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.

🎯 Cassada acts primarily as a profound depressant of the nervous system, causing states of unconsciousness, coldness, and collapse.
About: Cassada is a remedy derived from the cassava plant, known for its toxic potential to induce severe physical prostration and mental dullness. It is indicated in conditions characterized by icy coldness, loss of consciousness, and sudden, violent gastrointestinal distress.
👤 Constitution
The individual requiring Cassada may present with signs of extreme physical exhaustion, cold extremities, and a tendency toward sudden, convulsive, or unconscious states.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Profound unconsciousness with ice-cold hands and feet.
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Icy coldness felt even to the marrow of the bone.
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Violent vomiting and purging.
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Distressing dreams about failing to save an asphyxiated child.
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Fetid sweat under the axillae and on the scrotum.
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Painful weeping with grinding of the teeth.
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Noise in the ears like letting off steam.
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Appetite ceases suddenly after taking a little milk.
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Heaviness in the stomach relieved by applying the hands.
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Profuse sweat during sleep that ceases upon waking.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
Allen Exclusive
🧠Mind
Indicated for states of unconsciousness, sadness, and bad humor upon waking.
Emotional.
At times, painful weeping, with grinding of the teeth, [3] .
Sadness, [6] .
Wakes in bad humor (second day), [6] .
Intellectual.
She seemed to have some consciousness, as was shown by the look of her eye when her name was called aloud, [3] .
Senseless and unconscious, with ice-cold hands and feet, pale, sunken face, half-closed eyes, dilated pupils, half-opened mouth, full of saliva, respiration very slow, almost imperceptible, action of the heart intermitting, scarcely perceptible, anus relaxed, wide open, limbs relaxed, [1] , [2] .
He fell to the ground unconscious, with loud cries and convulsions, [4] .
🔑 Modalities
Allen Exclusive
Worse from
Morning
6.30 o'clock, eructations
6 o'clock, when urinating, pain in hypogastrium
diarrhoea.
Better from
Night
Swelling of the ankles.
📚 Sources & References
Allen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryPhatak's Concise MM

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