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Colocynthis

30C / 200CColocynthis
Bitter Cucumber · Citrullus Colocynthis · "The Anger Colic Remedy"
coloc.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system to produce intense, cramping, pains that are characteristically relieved by firm pressure.
📖 Boericke writes:
Often indicated in the transition season when the air is cold, but the sun is still powerful enough to heat the blood.
Develops most of its symptoms in the abdomen and head, causing intense . It is especially suitable for irritable persons easily angered, and ill effects therefrom. Women with copious , and of sedentary habits. Persons with a tendency to corpulency. The pains are nearly always relieved by pressure. Cramps and twitching and shortening of muscles. Constrictions and contractions. Cystospasm following operations on orifices (Hyper). Urinous odor of perspiration (Berb; Nitr ac). Agonizing pain in abdomen, causing patient to bend double, is most characteristic. Sensations; cutting, twisting, grinding, contracting and bruised; as if clamped with iron bands.
👤 Constitution
•Typically irritable, easily angered, and prone to sedentary habits or weight gain; often women with heavy menstrual cycles.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Agonizing pain in abdomen, causing patient to bend double, is most characteristic.
introduction
Sensations; cutting, twisting, grinding, contracting and bruised; as if clamped with iron bands.
introduction
Sounds re-echo in ears.
face
Agonizing cutting pain in abdomen causing patient to end over double, and pressing on the abdomen.
abdomen
Dysenteric stool renewed each time by the least food or drink.
abdomen
Boring pain in ovary.
female
Must draw up double, with great restlessness.
female
Contraction of muscles.
extremities
Cramp-like pain in hip; lies on affected side; pain from hip to knee.
extremities
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for emotional states characterized by intense irritability, anger, and indignation.
Extremely irritable.
Becomes angry when questioned.
Mortification caused by offense.
Anger, with indignation (Cham; Bry; Nux).
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Sixth to thirtieth
Centesimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Coffea Cruda →Chamomilla →Staphysagria →
🔄 Compare With
Nux Vomica →Mercurius Solubilis →Magnesium Phosphoricum →Plumbum Metallicum →Chamomilla →Lobelia Erinus →Cocculus Indicus →Dioscorea Villosa →Magnesia Phosphorica →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Colocynthis is listed in 272 rubrics across 19 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 101 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen74Nervous System31Female Sexual System29Locomotor System26Urinary System21Face18Head16Modalities14Stomach11Eyes9Generalities7Mind6Skin2Fever2Male Sexual System2Ears1Tongue1Taste1Teeth1

See all 272 rubrics for Colocynthis →