TEMA 2.IMPULSIÓN DE FLUIDOS
2. IMPULSIÓN DE LÍQUIDOS
2.6 Flujo transitorio: Golpe de ariete
Almost all the symptoms which typify this remedy are referable to its effect over coughs. These paroxysmal coughs come on especially in the winter or from exposure to cold. It is one of our best pertussis remedies. Coccus Cacti is also considered a remedy in kidney colic.
COUGH
Paroxysms of cough.
Cough from tickling or irritation in the larynx.
Cough worse at 6 AM, 11 or 11:30 PM.
Cough better drinking, especially cold drinks (Caust, Cupr).
Cough worse from a warm room or by warm food or drinks.
Cough better cold or open air.
The cough produces copious, thick or ropey mucous (Kali-Si), often associated with retching or vomiting.
May also have tickling dry cough. Choking cough.
Whooping cough. Bronchitis. Croup.
COMPARISONS
Rumex. Spong. Dros. Caust. Kali-Bi.
COFFEA
The effect of the crude substance coffee - wakefulness and improved alertness-has been exploited by every college student. Many of these can also attest to the accompanying nervousness, restlessness, and over-sensitivity to stimuli which occurs when coffee is used in excess. The Coffea type is therefore highly sensitive, nervous and over-reactive. There can he a weakness of will or excessive tolerance similar to Staphysagria wherein the patient is suppressed or even abused by his family or spouse. The excitement of mind can go to extreme ecstatic states. But when the mind becomes oversthmilated, then pathology develops.
The resulting pathology is generally felt in the nervous system, first with the characteristic insomnia, but also with inflammation of the nerves, neuralgia, and general weakness.
MENTALS
Excitement of the mind. The perceptions are acute and the thinking rapid. This results in uncontrollable thoughts and racing mind.
Ecstatic states.
Bad effects from joy or surprise (insomnia, weakness, etc.).
Anything stimulating the nervous system can produce symptoms.
Great sensitivity to noise, taste, and other stimuli.
Great sensitivity to touch.
Ailments from grief. Sympathetic.
Mild, timid and suppressed.
GENERALS
General aggravation from stimulation or strong emotions.
Strong aggravation or nervousness from drinking coffee.
Often thin and sickly or pinched appearance.
Great fatigue and debility in over-sensitive patients.
Tremor.
HEAD
Headaches; worse music, worse noise, worse noise of footsteps.
Headache or migraine “as if a nail were driven into head”.
Head or face pain, better from cold applications.
Facial neuralgia; worse from noise, worse from excitement.
Tooth pain; better from cold water being held in the mouth.
Tinnitus; buzzing sensation in the head, especially the occiput.
CHEST
Emaciation of mammae.
Palpitation from excitement.
SLEEP
Insomnia. Wakes from the slightest noise.
Insomnia from racing thoughts and activity of the mind.
CLINICAL
Chronic fatigue syndrome. Insomnia. Headache. Migraine. Neuralgia. Toothache. Tremor.
COMPARISONS
Staph. Nat-M. Chin. Sep. Nux-V. Kali-P. Ther.
COLCHICUM
Colchicine has been long known to medicine and is still used as one of the main remedies in gout, by both homeopaths and allopaths alike. Most of the homeopathic uses of this remedy can be traced to its relationship to gout. Thus, most of the symptoms are musculoskeletal, and secondarily renal from the effects of uric acid crystals on the urinary tract. Colchicum also has a strong effect on the digestive tract with nausea, diarrhea, gastritis, and fantastic distention of the abdomen.
GENERALS
General aggravation from cold or cold damp.
General aggravation from changes of weather and therefore worse in the spring (except for the autumn diarrheas).
GREATSENSITIVITYTOODORSCAUSINGNAUSEA, VOMITING, FAINTNESS, ETC.
HEAD
Stiffness and coating of the tongue.
GASTROINTESTINAL
Tremendous abdominal distension, trapped gas.
Diarrhea coming especially in the autumn, often clear or jelly-like, or bloody diarrhea.
Painful urging for stool.
Violent retching and vomiting.
Horrible nausea from odors, especially from eggs and fish.
Nausea of pregnancy.
URINARY
Nephritis with great edema.
Dark or even “ink-like” urine.
The urine sediment may alternate with the rheumatic complaints (Benz-Ac) or heart symptoms.
EXTREMITIES
Gout with great inflammation of joints; gouty pains worse from the least motion.
Arthritis with “paralytic” pains.
Acute rheumatism.
Wandering arthritis; pains often go from left to right.
Joint pains worse from slight motion (Bry).
CLINICAL
Arthritis. Gastroenteritis. Gout. Nausea of pregnancy. Nephritis.
COMPARISONS
Benz-Ac - Marked gouty tendency, pains worse from motion, urinary disorder and offensive, renal calculi, problems from suppressed urine sediment, tongue painful and coated.
Bry. Berb. Lyc.
COLLINSONIA
Collinsonia is a remedy to be thought of mainly in cases of hemorrhoids and rectal pathology (Aesc, Rat, Paeon).
RECTUM
Hemorrhoids. Rectal fissures.
Sensation that the rectum is full of small, sharp sticks (Aesc).
Constipation and hard stool.
COMBINEDSYMPTOMS
Alternation or combination of heart symptoms or palpitations and hemorrhoids (Lyc).
COLOCYNTHIS
We must think of Colocynthis any time the case centers around colic. This colic can be of the gallbladder (gallstones), of the ureter (kidney stones), the uterus (dysmenorrhea), but is most often intestinal. Colocynthis is also useful in cases of neuralgia and sciatica. In all of these conditions we can identify certain common aspects: the pains are almost always better from pressure and often ameliorated by bending double and from heat. Usually the patient is very restless with the pain.
The Colocynthis constitutional type is proper and reserved. He has strong opinions of right and wrong.
When he is contradicted he may become very upset. This is especially the case if he feels in some way slighted or humiliated. Colocynthis is one of the main remedies which has complaints after becoming angry, indignant or humiliated. The central nervous system mediates a cramp or neuralgia which is a physical metaphor of anger in the nerves.
MENTALS
BADEFFECTFROMANGER, INDIGNATION, EXCITEMENT. Impatient and easily angered.
GENERALS
RESTLESSNESS, ESPECIALLYDURINGTHEPAINS.
GENERALANDLOCALAMELIORATIONFROMHARDPRESSURE. Aggravation at 6 AM or 4 to 5 PM.
General amelioration from drinking coffee (Cham, Ign).
HEAD
Headache, better from hard pressure, better from coffee. Left facial neuralgia, worse motion, worse touch, pain in paroxysms, stitching or burning pains.
GASTROINTESTINAL
Abdominal pains ameliorated by pressure, by lying face downward.
ABDOMINALPAINSAMELIORATEDBYBENDINGDOUBLE.
ABDOMINALPAINSWORSEFROMANGER, INDIGNATION, OREXCITEMENT. Severe cutting, cramping pains in the abdomen.
Abdominal pains worse before diarrhea, worse from drinking, better from coffee.
Cramping or contraction around the umbilicus.
Diarrhea and colic, worse from eating, worse from fruit, worse from strong emotions.
Cramps radiating to pubic region.
GENITALIA
Dysmenorrhea, better heat and pressure (Mag-P).
Menses suppressed after anger.
Ovarian pains.
BACK
Back pain, worse from breathing, worse from lying down.
Right-sided sciatica, or less often left-sided sciatica, better lying on the painful side, worse heat of bed.
EXTREMITIES
Cramps of the thighs and calves.
CLINICAL
Abdominal pain. Cholecystitis. Colic of newborns. Dysmenorrhea. Facial neuralgia. Gastroenteritis.
Headache. Irritable bowel syndrome. Kidney stones. Neuralgia. Sciatica.
COMPLEMENTARY
Staph. Caust.
COMPARISONS
Staph. Cham. Mag-P. Nux-V.
CONIUM
Conium has deep pathology on many levels. In the nervous system we find serious degenerative disorders. In the sexual sphere we find marked dysfunction. Furthermore, Conium is one of our main remedies to combat malignancy and premalignant conditions. The complaints of Conium originate slowly and progressively. Often the patient is unable to exactly date the onset of the problem. The pathology generally results from progressive paralysis or progressive induration leading toward malignancy.
Vithoulkas has brought to light the deeper emotional essence of the remedy which has been further elaborated by Louis Klein of Vancouver, Canada. The typical patient is practical, earthy and materialistic.
The mental pathology occurs from a type of slowly advancing “induration” of the mind. The patient develops an emotional flatness or hardness which eventually leads to indifference and depression. On the mental level we see fixed ideas and superstitions. Eventually we can see progressive mental deterioration, forgetfulness and senility.
MENTALS
Emotionally closed, flat, or hard people.
Mental dullness or confusion. “Brain fag”.
Depression.
Anxiety, hysteria, sadness, all from suppression of the sexual instinct (after divorce or death of a spouse).
Superstition.
Senility.
GENERALS
General aggravation from suppression of sexual desires.
TUMORSORINDURATIONOFGLANDS, there may be itching in the gland.
Malignancies, or history of breast or other cancers.
PERSPIRATIONONCLOSINGTHEEYES. Weakness and trembling after stool.
HEAD
Vertigo, worse lying, worse turning in bed.
Photophobia.
LACRIMATIONWITHPHOTOPHOBIA. Boring in the nose with finger.
Cancer of the lip, especially in smokers.
Exophthalmus.
Troublesome cerumen.
NECK
Hard, swollen cervical glands.
Exophthalmic goitre.
UROGENITAL
Premature ejaculation, even during the foreplay.
Impotence.
High sexual drive.
Prostatic enlargement or cancer; weight or heaviness felt in the perineum (Chim, Sep).
Prostatic discharge. Paralysis of the bladder. Urination interrupted despite straining, then flows easily after he relaxes.
Cancer or tumors of the testes, prostate, ovaries, uterus.
Whitish, acrid or bloody leukorrhea.
CHEST
CANCEROFTHEBREAST, HARDANDOFTENWITHAXILLARYLYMPHNODES. HISTORYOFBREASTCANCER.
Swelling and tenderness of the breast before the menses.
Itching of the breast.
Cough, worse on first lying and compelled to sit up.
Cough from tickle or dryness in the larynx.
EXTREMITIES
Progressive weakness even to the point of paralysis (Caust), generally beginning in the thighs or legs.
Ataxia.
DIFFICULTYRISINGFROMSQUATTING. Numbness.
CLINICAL
Ataxia. Cervical dysplasia. Cervicitis. Cough. Dementia. Depression. Exophthalmus. Hyperthyroidism.
Impotence. Lymphoma. Malignancy. Multiple sclerosis. Neuro-degenerative disorders.
Premature ejaculation. Prostatitis. Senility. Sexual dysfunction. Uterine fibroids. Vaginitis. Vertigo.
COMPLEMENTARY
Tub.
COMPARISONS
Sep. Ph-Ac. Cocc. Carb-An. Caust.