Cochlearia armoracia, armoracia rusticana coch

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General
  • Frontal bone and sinus, antrum and salivary glands are specifically affected by this drug. Bloated sensation. Raises vital forces. Used as a gargle in scorbutic gums and sore throat. Hoarseness and in relaxed conditions of the fauces. Internally in gonorrhoea. Useful as a condiment in enfeebled states of the stomach. An infusion of the root in cider, for dropsy, causes copious diuresis. Locally cures dandruff.
Head
  • Thinking is difficult. Anxiety, driven to despair by pain. Pressing, boring pain as if frontal bone would fall out. Violent headache with vomiting. Impaired hearing.
Eyes
  • Sore and scrofulous; traumatic inflammation of eyes, blearedness and cataract. Copious running from eyes.
Stomach
  • Pain towards back; worse, pressure on dorsal vertebrae. Belching and cramps. Colic with backache. Violent cramp from stomach through both sides around to back. Griping around navel.
Urinary
  • Burning and cutting at glans penis before, during, and after urination. Frequent urination.
Respiratory
  • Dry, hacking, laryngeal cough, also post-influenzal cough, dry or loose, worse lying down. Chest painful to touch. Coryza, with hoarseness. Mucous asthma. Oedema of lungs. Throat feels rough and hoarse.
Back
  • Pain in back as from incarcerated flatulence from abdomen through to back and down into sacrum.
Modalities
  • Worse evening and at night.
Relationship
  • Compare: Cannab; Sinapis; Caps.
Dose
  • First to third attenuation.