COCCUS CACTI

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Spasmodic cough
  • Whooping cough
  • Catarrhal conditions of the bladder
  • Spasmodic pains in kidneys
  • Visceral tenesmus
  • Anuria
  • Anasarca
  • Ascites
  • Early morning or afternoon sadness
  • Suboccipital soreness
  • Headache worse from lying on back
  • Dull pain over right eye in morning
  • Sensation of a foreign body between upper lid and eyeball
  • Distress from cinders lodged in eye
  • Constant hawking from enlarged uvula
  • Coryza with inflamed fauces
  • Accumulation of thick viscid mucus expectorated with great difficulty
  • Tickling in larynx
  • Sensation of a crumb behind larynx
  • Cough caused by brushing teeth
  • Fauces very sensitive
  • Suffocative cough worse first waking
  • Tough white mucus which strangles
  • Spasmodic morning cough
  • Whooping cough attacks end with vomiting of tough mucus
  • Chronic bronchitis complicated with gravel
  • Large quantities of albuminous tenacious mucus expectorated
  • Walking against wind takes breath away
  • Sensation as if everything were pressed toward the heart
  • Urging to urinate
  • Brick-red sediment in urine
  • Urinary calculi
  • Hmaturia
  • Urates and uric acid
  • Lancinating pains from kidney to bladder
  • Deep-colored thick urine
  • Dysuria
  • Menses too early
  • Profuse black and thick menses
  • Dark clots with dysuria
  • Intermittent menstruation
  • Flow only in evening and at night
  • Large clots escape when passing water
  • Labia inflamed

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Asthma
  • Backache
  • Catarrh
  • Gonorrhea
  • Gravel
  • Hemorrhages
  • Heart affections
  • Impotence
  • Irritation
  • Labia inflammation
  • Menorrhagia
  • Nephritis
  • Phthisis
  • Spasms
  • Tinnitus
  • Uric acid diathesis
  • Whooping-cough
  • Itching skin
  • Itching pimples
  • Irritation in throat
  • Irritation in respiratory organs
  • Irritation in eyes
  • Irritation in urino-genital organs
  • Sensation of hair in throat
  • Sensation of crumb in throat
  • Sensation of thread in throat
  • Cough
  • Hemorrhages with black clots
  • Kidney hemorrhages
  • Uterus hemorrhages
  • Lancinating pains in glans penis
  • Itching of glans penis
  • Calculi passage symptoms
  • Cough worse in morning
  • Cough ending in vomiting ropy mucus
  • Hoarseness
  • Fatigue of vocal organs
  • Violent tickling in larynx
  • Stitching pains below clavicles
  • Ulcerating pains below clavicles
  • Sensation of ball in stomach
  • Sensation of stone in stomach
  • Raging pain as fluid injected into blood-vessel
  • Sensation something ascending to stomach
  • Sensation of mucus ascending trachea
  • Sensation of mucus descending trachea
  • Sensation of plug of mucus in chest
  • Sensation head would split
  • Nocturnal enuresis
  • Chronic catarrh of colon
  • Frequent scanty stools
  • Much mucus in stools
  • Cross humor
  • Itching anus
  • Threatening piles
  • Insomnia
  • Arthritic symptoms
  • Knee pain
  • Copious urine flow
  • Diarrhea
  • Aversion to butcher's meat
  • Excruciating pain in left iliac region extending to groin and halfway down thigh as if a fluid were forcing its way there
  • General sensitiveness to touch
  • General sensitiveness to pressure
  • Rinsing mouth causes cough
  • Rinsing mouth causes vomiting
  • Brushing teeth causes cough
  • Brushing teeth causes vomiting
  • Warmth worsens symptoms
  • Cough worse entering warm room
  • Throat worse by warmth of bed
  • Tickling in trachea
  • Cough better open air
  • Teeth sensitive to cold
  • Catarrh worse on slightest exposure
  • Catarrh from autumn till warm weather
  • Symptoms worse night
  • Symptoms worse early morning
  • Symptoms often periodic
  • Symptoms worse lying down
  • Least exertion causes lassitude
  • Least exertion causes tendency to perspire
  • Least exertion causes cough
  • Symptoms worse during exercise
  • Mental exertion worsens occiput pain
  • Rising up causes hemorrhage
  • Rising up causes passage of large clots from uterus
  • Ill-humored
  • Irritable
  • Apprehensive
  • Giddiness
  • Dull headache
  • Pressive headache in frontal region
  • Congestion of blood to the head entering warm room
  • Congestion of blood to the head better in open air
  • Throbbing pains in temples
  • Pressing pains in temples
  • Sticking pains in temples
  • Raging pain extending from right eye along squamous portion of temporal bone on its inner side to occiput
  • Sensation as fluid injected into small blood-vessel
  • Sensation of hot constricting band from one mastoid process across occiput to the other
  • Tense occiput region
  • Constricted occiput region
  • Pain in whole skull
  • Bones drawn closer together
  • Scalp involved
  • Scalp drawn tighter about skull
  • Sensation of foreign body between eyelid and eye
  • Sensation eyelids swollen
  • Conjunctivitis
  • Increased lachrymation
  • Sudden stitch in left internal ear
  • Stitch extending into left side of neck
  • Stitch extending into sternum
  • Intolerable itching in left ear
  • Tickling in ears
  • Cracking in ears on swallowing
  • Roaring in ears as from a storm
  • Dryness of nose
  • Inclination to sneeze
  • Swelling of nose
  • Violent sneezing
  • Increased secretion of mucus
  • Redness on edges of nostrils
  • Yellow crusts on edges of nostrils
  • Crawling sensations in face
  • Sensation of cold air blown on teeth
  • Soreness of teeth to contact
  • Drawing pains in teeth
  • Jerking pains in teeth
  • Teeth sensitive to cold things
  • Loud speaking causes cough and vomiting
  • Sweetish taste in mouth
  • Metallic taste in mouth
  • Accumulation of water in mouth
  • Bitter taste
  • Sour taste
  • Dry tongue
  • Brown-coated tongue
  • Mouth dry
  • Tongue dry
  • Much thirst
  • Burning in mouth
  • Burning in throat
  • Rawness of mouth
  • Rawness of throat
  • Stitches in throat
  • Stitches on tongue
  • Great sensitiveness of mouth and fauces
  • Rinsing mouth causes cough and vomiting of thick mucus
  • Sensation of elongated palate
  • Continuous hawking
  • Irritable arches of palate
  • Swelling of tonsils
  • Continuous desire to swallow
  • Sensation of plug in throat
  • Swelling of right tonsil
  • Redness of right tonsil
  • Dryness in throat
  • Burning in throat
  • Rawness in throat
  • Scraping in throat
  • Expectoration of mucus
  • Sensation as uvula elongated
  • Throat symptoms worse from warmth
  • Throat symptoms worse in bed
  • Difficult deglutition
  • Desire to eat often
  • Desire to eat much at a time
  • Thirst
  • After dinner much thirst
  • Chill after drinking water
  • Sensation of hunger with colic
  • Canine hunger
  • Spasmodic empty eructations
  • Heartburn
  • Sensation of indigestible substance in stomach
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Vomiting of mucus
  • Retching
  • Inclination to vomit
  • Distension of stomach
  • Heaviness in stomach
  • Pressure in stomach
  • Sticking pains in stomach
  • Stitches in pit of stomach when inhaling
  • Epigastric region sensitive to touch
  • Fulness in abdomen as if eaten too much
  • Swelling of pit of stomach
  • Tenderness of pit of stomach
  • Pains in left hypochondrium as from incarcerated flatulence
  • Pains extending to left side of back
  • Pains extending to lumbar vertebrae
  • Burning drawing in spleen region
  • Flatulent distension of abdomen
  • Much rumbling in abdomen
  • Griping in abdomen
  • Diarrhea
  • Burning in rectum during stool
  • Stitches in rectum during stool
  • Itching in anus with tenesmus from slight exertion
  • Stitch from anus extending to urethra
  • Copious soft stools
  • Pasty stools
  • Stitches extending from kidneys through urethra into bladder
  • Dull pressive pain in kidney region
  • Soreness in kidney region
  • Pressure in bladder
  • Spasmodic pain in bladder
  • Alternate coldness and heat in bladder
  • Itching at end of urethra
  • Stitches in urethra
  • Itching in urethra
  • Burning pain in urethra while urinating
  • Frequent desire to urinate
  • Great desire to urinate
  • Great desire to urinate in the morning with erection
  • Frequent micturition
  • Frequent copious urination
  • Clear urine as water
  • Red sediment in urine like brickdust
  • Slow urine discharge
  • Small urine quantity
  • Violent burning pain during urination
  • Hot genitals
  • Red genitals
  • Swollen genitals
  • Frequent erections
  • Increased desire
  • Lascivious mood
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Loss of sexual power
  • Constant dull burning pains in left hypochondrium
  • Pains across loins as if broken
  • Swelling of pudenda
  • Heat of pudenda
  • Soreness of vulva
  • Cannot bear pressure of clothing
  • Inflammation of labia
  • Great tenderness in extreme lower part of vagina
  • Great irritation in extreme lower part of vagina
  • Vagina symptoms worse when urinating
  • Can walk a long distance
  • Symptoms worse after sitting in house all day
  • Menses too early
  • Menses too profuse
  • Menses last too long
  • Hemorrhage from uterus with passage of large clots
  • Clots escape when quiet
  • Clots escape when getting up to pass water
  • Enormous black clots from vagina
  • Mucous leucorrhea
  • Drawing pain in inguinal region
  • Thrusting pain in inguinal region
  • Drawing pain in vesical region
  • Thrusting pain in vesical region
  • Drawing pain in pubic region
  • Thrusting pain in pubic region
  • Fatigue of vocal organs
  • Voice rough
  • Voice hoarse
  • Respiration laborious
  • Scraping sensation in throat
  • Hawking
  • Coughing
  • Increased thirst
  • Bronchial tubes loaded with mucus
  • Rawness in air-passages causing cough
  • Sensation of crumb sticking behind larynx
  • Constant swallowing
  • Whooping-cough
  • Nightly cough attacks
  • Periodic cough attacks
  • Cough from tickling in larynx
  • Cough ending with expectoration of viscid stringy mucus
  • Morning cough
  • Barking cough
  • Dry cough
  • Expectoration of viscid mucus
  • Difficult expectoration
  • Expectoration causes retching
  • Expectoration causes vomiting
  • Cough with expectoration of viscid stringy mucus
  • Yellow mucus
  • Sour-tasting mucus
  • Reddish mucus
  • Cough in warm room
  • Cough better in cold room
  • Short cough paroxysms
  • Easy expectoration of globules of mucus
  • Burning under sternum
  • Sensation of heat in chest
  • Sensation of soreness in chest
  • Oppression in chest
  • Soreness in chest
  • Stitches in sides of chest
  • Sticking pains in sides of chest
  • Pressive pain in precordial region
  • Sensation as if everything pressed towards heart
  • Heavy pressure in heart region
  • Irregular heartbeat
  • Palpitation of heart
  • Anxiety after eating
  • Pulse accelerated
  • Stitches between shoulders
  • Bruised pain in small of back
  • Bruised pain in region of kidneys
  • Violent pressive pain in region of kidneys
  • Drawing pains in limbs
  • Tearing pains in limbs
  • Sensation as fine glass splinter sticking in fingertips
  • Sensation as fine glass splinter sticking under nails
  • Violent stitches in right hip-joint
  • Hot swelling of knees
  • Pain in right patella when walking
  • Great weariness
  • Prostration
  • Itching skin
  • Prickling sensations in skin
  • Irresistible desire to sleep
  • Great sleepiness after dinner
  • Vivid dreams
  • Uneasy sleep
  • Restless sleep
  • Sleep interrupted by vivid dreams
  • Frequent awaking during night
  • Excitement during night
  • Chilliness all day
  • Cold feet in morning
  • Perspiration of whole body
  • Chilliness over body
  • Chilliness in afternoon
  • Chilliness in evening
  • Increased warmth of body
  • Overpowered by moderate heat
  • Chilliness in evening with heat in head
  • General heat
  • Perspiration all night
  • Perspiration relieves
  • Perspiration when walking
  • Perspiration on lower extremities
  • Perspiration in morning

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

  • Copious, ropy, jelly-like mucus
  • Catarrhal conditions of the air passages
  • Whooping cough
  • Spasmodic cough
  • Cough of drunkards
  • Chronic catarrhal state in winter
  • Sensitive to cold
  • Worse in a warm room
  • Better in cold air
  • Cough brought on in a warm room
  • Cough from being too warm in bed
  • Cough from drinking warm things
  • Cough better from drinking cold things
  • Cough worse from exertion
  • Cough worse from getting heated up
  • Cough worse from becoming warm
  • Violent, spasmodic cough
  • Face becomes purple
  • Retching and vomiting long strings of tough, ropy mucus
  • Choking from mucus
  • Gagging and retching from anything touching the pharynx, mouth, or gums
  • Hyperaesthesia of skin and mucous membranes
  • Sensitive to pressure of clothing
  • Dyspnoea
  • Difficult breathing on walking
  • Suffocation on ascending a height
  • Cough worse at night when warm in bed
  • Cough better in a cool room without much covering
  • Child wants room cold during whooping cough
  • Child wants cold water during whooping cough
  • Child holds breath to prevent coughing
  • Cough worse after eating
  • Cough worse on waking
  • Discharge of thick yellow mucus from the nose
  • Nose stopped up
  • Inclination to sneeze
  • Great dryness of the nose
  • Air passages burn after mucus is cleared
  • Chest burns from exhaling air
  • Sore throat with redness
  • Tickling in the throat
  • Sensation of a hair or crumb lodged in the throat behind the larynx
  • Fauces very sensitive
  • Arch of palate and fauces very red
  • Burning in the throat, worse in warmth, worse when warmed up in bed, worse from warm drinks
  • Burning in the throat better from cold drinks
  • Clutching the larynx and coughing when getting warm in bed
  • Gagging from slightest touch on palate or gums
  • Cannot hawk without gagging
  • Food comes right back again and causes gagging and retching
  • Great thirst
  • Wants water often and in large quantities
  • Nauseous taste in the mouth
  • Nausea in the throat
  • Vomiting of white, bitter tasting froth
  • Toothache
  • Sudden drawing pains in the teeth, worse from cold and from touch
  • Depression and anxiety
  • Great sadness
  • Cloud seems to hang over everything
  • Apprehensiveness
  • Sadness, with desire to commit suicide
  • Worse after sleep, especially 2 to 4 A. M.
  • Alternating sadness with loquacity and liveliness
  • Wakes in the morning with basilar headache
  • Wakes in the morning with headache in the forehead
  • Headache worse from mental exertion
  • Headache worse after lying down
  • Headache sometimes better from slow motion
  • Headache worse on coughing
  • Headache worse from exertion
  • Headache worse after sleep
  • Albumen in the urine
  • Dark red sediment in the urine
  • Pain shooting from the kidney to the bladder and down the legs
  • Pain shooting from the kidney to the bladder and down the legs worse from motion
  • Renal colic
  • Urging to urinate, but inability to pass urine until a large clot of blood has been passed
  • Right side of the heart affected
  • Vessels become friable
  • Haemorrhage
  • Oozing of blood
  • Forming great black clots
  • Uterine haemorrhage
  • Copious, frequent, prolonged menstrual flow
  • Large, hard, black dots fill the uterus
  • Expelled by labor-like pains
  • Inflammation of uterus and vagina, with copious, thick, white, jelly-like ropy mucus
  • Soreness of the vulva
  • Cannot bear the pressure of the clothing
  • Haemoptysis, dark, dotted, worse from exertion
  • Impotence with dull pain in the loins
  • Dull pains in the region of the kidneys, with albuminuria
  • Heavy sediment in the urine

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