2. MARCO TEÓRICO
2.1. Bases teórico – científicas
Pharmacy
Anac-oc. Anacardium occidentale. The cashew nut.N. O. Anacardiacae. West Indies. Tincture of the black juice between outer and inner shell. Historical dose: All potencies. PAGE 101
History
The Anacardium occidentale nut is kidney-shaped, that of Anac. orient. is heart-shaped. The juice has been used locally as an applications to corns, warts, hard excrescences, ringworm and obstinate ulcers.
Applied to face to remove cuticle and produce a fresher and more youthful appearance. If hands are not washed carefully after handling nuts, they cause itching and painful burning swellings wherever they touch skin. Planets: Saturn.
Homeopathic
The effects of the Cashew nut are known through instances of poisoning. It acts powerfully on the skin, causing erysipelas, blisters and swelling. It has been used as an antidote to Rhus poisoning. A lady had received a swollen face from exposure to fumes when roasting nuts.
Anacardium occidentale causes weakness of memory and mind like Anac. orient. Scirrhus swellings. Hard excrescences. Proud flesh. Tearing pain: in left side of head. Burning and itching: of ears and face. General paralytic state. Paralysis and imbecility. Tongue painfully swollen.
Erysipelas, vesicular facial eruptions, anesthetic variety of leprosy, warts, corns, ulcers, cracking of the skin on soles of feet. Itching almost intolerable, umbilicated vesicles as in small-pox. The erysipelas spreads from left to right and it cures erysipelas spreading from right to left, Paralysis with imbecility.
Clinical
Corns. Dysentery. Erysipelas. Hypochondriasis. Imbecility. Itching. Melancholy. Paralysis. Rhus poisoning. Ringworm. Small-pox. Warts.
Symptoms
Loss of will, cannot control voluntary muscles. Paralysis with imbecility. Did not know his surroundings. Weak memory. Difficulty with thinking. Melancholy.
Ears
Swelling of ears with burning and itching.
Eyes
Scrofulous ophthalmia. Face
Erysipelas over whole face from applying juice to destroy marks. Swelling of face with itching and burning, next night after handling nuts. Face so much swollen that for a time not a feature was discernible in a lady exposed to fumes of nut while roasting.
Female
When during menses juice is applied, it causes erysipelas of face. Uterine complaints and dropsy.
Head
Head falls forward, difficult to keep it up. Tearing headache on left side. Kidneys
Increased urination. Limbs
Large blisters filled with a yellow fluid are raised on hands, followed by desquamation. Warts. Corns.
Male
Stimulates sexual desire. Testicles swollen when touched with hands after handling nuts. Mouth
Drinks run out of mouth. Aphthae. Cannot speak, only mutters unintelligible sounds. Painfully swollen tongue from handling nuts.
Skin
Corroding or dry tetters. Red itching spots like nettle rash, similar to that of Rhus-t., spreading from left to right. Used as a vesicant it causes itching and burning, then gradual reddening and swelling, followed by vesicles which become pustular, these are large and flat at first and gradually become confluent and break, the epidermis peels off, but leaves the surface swollen, hyperemic and suppurating for days. Proud flesh.
Compare (1) Anac. orien.
(2) Similar to Canth., Mez. - as a vesicant. (3) Crot-t., Rhus-rad., Rhus-tox.
(4) The tincture of Iodine was found useful as a local application to parts affected. Relations
Antidoted by: Rhus-t., Iodine locally.
SOURCES
Boericke. Clarke. PAGE 102Anacardium orientale
(marking nut) PharmacyAnac. Anacardium orientale. Marking Nut. Malacca Bean. Semecarpus Anacardium.N. O. Anacardiacae. East Indies. Preparation: layer of nut between shell and kernel
triturated. Historical dose: All potencies, sixth to two hundredth potency. History
The nut is heart-shaped, hence its name Anacardium orientale and perhaps this may be taken as the "signature" of its courage imparting properties. Anacardium has many features in common with its botanical relatives.
Anacardium has at any rate won for itself a reputation in the "fear of examinations" and allied conditions. There is a headache proceeding from before backward. Clarke cured with it a man who had a smell of burning wood in his nose, remaining after influenza. Homeopathic
Anacardium act on the mind, nerves, muscles and joints are affected. Also, Anacardium has action on the skin, muscles and joints. Its skin symptoms are similar to Rhus-t. and it has proved a valuable antidote to poison oak and ivy. Syphilitic patients often suffer with these conditions.
Anacardium is found mostly among the neurasthenics, such have a type of nervous dyspepsia, relieved by food. Sensation of a plug in various parts-eyes, rectum, bladder, etc., also of a band.
Empty feeling in stomach. Eating temporarily relieves all discomfort. This is a sure indication often verified. Intermittent symptoms. Fear of examination in students. Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc. Senile dementia. Alzheimer's disease. Memory loss.
Aversion to work, wants to lie or sit continually. Lacks self-confidence. Irresistible desire to swear and curse. Special senses are weakened, sight, hearing touch etc. Trembling, on slight exertion, worse knees or arms. Emaciation. Eating temporarily relieves all the symptoms.
Nervous exhaustion from over-study. Paresis of muscles subject to volition. Paralytic condition. Diseases of spinal cord. Heaviness and fullness of the whole body after piano playing. Cramp like pains in muscles. Contraction of joints. Injured or strained tendons.
Clinical
Abused by others. Alcoholism. Alzheimer's disease. Anxiety. Brain weakness. Constipation. Coughs. Debility. Dysmenorrhea. Dyspepsia. Eczema. Elephantiasis. Hemorrhoids. Headache. Hearing disorders.
Heart
disorders. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Insanity. Manic-depression. Memory loss. Mental aberrations. Mental weakness. Multiple personalities. Nervous. Palpitations. Paralysis. Pemphigus.Rheumatism. elf-abuse. Senile dementia. Skin diseases. Smell, illusions. Spinal disorders. Stiff-neck. Strokes. Vomiting of pregnancy. Whooping-cough. Warts. Writer's cramp. Causations
Abuse. Checked eruptions. Examinations. Fright. Humiliation. Constitutions
Anac. is suited to neurasthenic patients. Ill-natured children. Elderly senile people. Frequently indicated in depressed, nervous and paranoid people. Women during pregnancy, gastric and nervous disorders. Hypochondriacs. Planets: Moon.
Modalities
Better from eating. When lying on side from rubbing. Heat, hot bath. In the sun. Worse from mental exertion. Worse from emotions, anger, fright, care, mortification. Worse on application of hot water, stepping hard, motion. Worse drafts, open air, cold. Worse hours after eating, rubbing, scratching, talking. Worse morning, evening to midnight. Worse from checked eruptions, strong smells.
PAGE 103 Symptoms
MIND
The Anacardium patient has many mental disorders. Irritability. Clairaudient, hearing voices of persons far away or dead people. Hears voices behind her. Seems to have two wills, one good, one bad. Seems as if in a dream.
There is a great propensity to curse, swear and blaspheme in persons not usually known to curse. Bad memory. Absent minded. Senile dementia. Alzheimer's disease. Suddenly forgets names, those around her, what she has seen. There is physical and mental lack of power. Lack of confidence in himself or others. Fear of examination in students. Brain fatigue. Aversion to work.
Lack of self image. Unsociable. Angry and depressed. Desire to swear and curse. Very easily offended. Suspicious and jealous, (Lach.). Phobias. Anxiety when walking, as if pursued. Manic depression. Profound depression with tendency to use foul, violent language. Malicious, seems bent on wickedness. Hard hearted, cruel. Absence of all moral restraint. Mania.
Internal conflicts. Thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills. Contradictory
impulses. Fear of paralysis. Refuses to eat for fear of being poisoned. Despairs of getting well. There is also a tendency to suicide by shooting, (Ant-c.).
Hallucinations and religious mania. Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead. Her husband is not her husband, her child is not hers. All appears like a dream. Fixed ideas and delusions of various kinds: That mind and body are separated. That he is double, that a demon and an angel sit on his shoulders telling him offensive or good things. That he sees others face in a mirror but not his own.
Abdomen
Pain as if dull plug were pressed into intestines. Rumbling, pinching and griping. Pain as if a dull plug were pressed into intestine. Hardness of abdomen. Flatulent colic with rumbling, pinching and griping.
Back
Dull pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight. Stiffness at nape of neck, down back and pain worse motion.
Chest
Pressure in chest, as from a dull plug. Oppression of chest with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into open air.
Eyes
Pressing in the ears as from a plug. Hard of hearing. Imagines whispers in the ears. Pressing pain like a plug on upper orbit. Indistinct vision. Objects appear too far off. Threads and black spots before the eyes. Short sighted.
Blue rings around eyes. Face pale. Eczema of face and neck. Expressionless, wild, childish.
Female
Vaginitis. Leucorrhea with itching and excoriation of the parts. Frequent but scanty menses with spasmodic pain in abdomen. Nausea during pregnancy better eating. Food
Loss of appetite with fever and skin symptoms. The torturing forgetfulness makes her low-spirited and she loses her appetite. All food offensive and flat. At times violent hunger, at others no appetite. Thirst for milk with sweat all over. Thirst during fever. Constant thirst, yet drinking takes breath, must stop frequently during a draft.
Head
Gastric and nervous headaches. Headache from strong smells. Pressing pain, as from a plug in forehead, occiput, temples or vertex. Pressing pain worse coughing, deep breathing after mental exertion. Better during a meal, falling asleep. Itching and little boils on scalp.
Heart
Double stitch at the heart, passing into lumbar region. Palpitation with weak memory with coryza in the aged, stitches in heart region. Rheumatic pericarditis with double stitches.
Kidneys
Frequent discharge of clear watery urine, deposits, turbid, clay colored sediment. Limbs
Neuralgia in thumb. Paralytic weakness. Knees feel paralyzed or bandaged. Pressure as from a plug in the glutei. Warts on palms of hands. Fingers swollen with vesicular eruption. Dry hands. Cramps in the calves worse walking or rising from a seat. Pain in ankle, as if sprained worse stepping. Painful thumping on the middle upper arm (left). Cramps from toe to instep from heel up calf. Warts on palms and hands. Writer's cramps. PAGE 104
Lungs
Breath stops, on coughing or swallowing. Cough excited by talking in children after fit of temper Cough after eating with vomiting of food and pain in occiput. Cough then yawns and sleeps. Asthma, hysterical, ends in flow of tears.
Male
Sensation of burning in the penis during and after urination. Voluptuous itching of scrotum, exciting sexual desire. Seminal emissions without dreams. Prostatic discharge during the stool. Enjoyment absent.
Mouth
Bad breath and taste. Painful vesicles, fetid odor. Tongue feels swollen and stiff, impeding speech and motion with much saliva in mouth. Burning around lips as from pepper. Taste lost.
Nose
Frequent sneezing, followed by coryza and lachrymation. Violent coryza with palpitation especially in the aged. Sense of smell perverted. lost or acute. Illusory smells.
Bowels inactive cannot evacuate even a soft stool. Ineffectual desire, rectum seems powerless, as if plugged up, spasmodic constriction of anal sphincter. Itching at anus, moisture from rectum. Hemorrhage during stool. Painful hemorrhoids.
Sensations
Sensation of a plug in various parts or as if a dull pressure, is repeated from time to time. Sensations of a band or hoop.
Skin
Intense itching eczema with mental irritability, vesicular eruption, swelling, urticaria, eruption like that of poison-oak. (Xero., Grind., Crot-t.) Skin insensible, itching worse scratching. Dermatitis. Lichen planus, neurotic eczema. Ulcer formation on forearm. Eczema, neurotic. Yellow vesicles. Warts on palms and hands. Urticaria. Promotes expulsion of splinters.
Sleep
Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights. Anxious dreams. Stomach
Weak digestion with fullness and distention. Eating relieves dyspepsia. Apt to choke when eating or drinking. Swallows food and drinks hastily.
Breath stops on eating and drinking. Empty feeling in stomach. Gastric pain better by eating, but worse again after 2 to 3 hours. Hastily drinks and swallows food. Belching, nausea. Better from vomiting. Loss of appetite, alternating with violent hunger.
Temperature
Easily chilled better sunshine. Clammy sweat on palms especially left. Heat from 4 p.m. until evening, passing off after supper.
Vertigo
Worse walking, stooping and rising from stooping, objects seem too distant. Comments
A very characteristic sensation is a pressing or penetrating pain as from a plug, which may occur in any locality in connection with neuralgias, ear disorders and hemorrhoids and when present Anacardium will probably be the remedy.
Alzheimer's disease. Brain fatigue. Loss of memory is very marked. Deafness with loss of memory. Headache worse by mental exertion, better by eating. Stiffness of neck, worse beginning to move.
The senses are either too weak or too acute and there are sense illusions: a light has a halo, optical illusions in dark colors, illusions of hearing, illusions of smell: burning tinder, pigeon's dung.
Symptoms generally better by eating, recur two hours after. There is intermittence in the symptoms of Anac. "The attacks ceased for one or two days and then continued again for a couple of days."
Guided by this indication alone, Custis has cured with Anacardium 200c a case of sleeplessness in a pregnant woman: "Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights." The cough of Anac. is better by eating. Whooping-cough with a gaping and drowsiness after the cough. Anac. is suited to disorders of the palms of the hands. There are warts even on the palms. Morning sickness of pregnancy better by eating, but returns soon after.
The Anac. indigestion contrasts with that of Nux-v. in a striking way. With Nux-v. the pain is worst for two or three hours after a meal during stomach-digestion and is better when that is over, whereas with Anac. it is just then (when digestion is complete) that the pain is worst and it lasts until the next meal, which again better for a time.
Bayes' indications are, "brain fatigue before examination," "nerve-exhaustion from over- study." "nervous prostration from seminal emissions," or sexual excess. Paralyzed feeling in knees. Sensation as if knees were bandaged.
Sensation of a hoop or band around the body or about any part is a leading symptom. It has been used with success in diseases of the spinal cord with this sensation and the feeling of a plug in the spine, worse by any motion which causes a pain as if the plug were sticking still further in.
Compare
(1) Anac. occidentale, Rhus-t., Cypr., Chel., Xero. (2) Cereus serpentina - swearing.
(3) Com., Rhus-t., Rhus-v. - botanical.
(4) Ant-t., Apis, Cori-r., Ferr., Iod., Jug-c., Lyc., Nit-ac., Nux-v., Ph-ac., Plat., Urt-u., Puls., Nat-m., Caust.
(5) Thuj. - fixed ideas. Relations
Antidotes: Grind., Coffea, Jug-c., Rhus-t, Eucalyptus. Related remedies: Ign., Lyc, Plat, Rhus-t. Platina follows well. It is an antidote to Rhus-t. if there are gastric symptoms, or symptoms going from right to left.