Cascarilla

Cascarilla has a family resemblance to the other Euphorbians. It acts

prominently on the digestive tract. Its leading symptoms are: Sensation of swelling deep down in

• ▸throat.
• ▸Accumulation of mucus in throat.
• ▸Hunger after meals and feeling of emptiness.
• ▸Aversion

to smell of tobacco smoke. The concussion of every step is felt painfully in stomach. Griping

preceding morning stool. The abdominal symptoms are > by warm drinks. Movings about in

abdomen as if hot water undulating there. Boils in inguinal region. Diarrhoea with backache and

lassitude. Lassitude and muscular weakness are marked throughout. Constant slight urging with

gnawing pain high up in rectum. Constipation, stools hard, in pieces, covered with mucus. Passes

bright blood with or without stool, in large quantities, causing weakness. Short, dry cough from

• ▸tickling in trachea.
• ▸Heemoptysis.
• ▸Stitch upward in |.
• ▸side of chest.
• ▸Backache and weakness.

Inclination to lie down. Sleep with clear consciousness. Heat with thirst for warm drinks

(intermittents).

Roughness of the tongue.—Bitter taste in the mouth and of tobacco smoke, for which

a repugnance is felt.

• ▸Hunger after meals.
• ▸Desire for hot drinks.
• ▸Nausea and vomiting.
• ▸Pain in stomach as from a shock.
• ▸Pressing colic.

Heat with thirst and desire for hot drinks.——Aversion to smell of tobacco

• ▸smoke.
• ▸—Abortive risings.
• ▸—Pressure on the stomach, as if from fulness.
• ▸—Pain in the stomach as

from concussion.—Heat in the stomach and burning pain in the epigastrium.

Tension and pressure on the hypochondria——Movement in the abdomen as if hot

water were undulating there —Flatulent, aching colic.

• ▸Constipation; stools hard, covered with mucus (Graph).
• ▸Bright blood with stool.
• ▸Diarrhoea alternating with hard, lumpy stool, with backache and lassitude, preceded by griping.
• ▸Gnawing pain high up in rectum.

Evacuations difficult, hard, broken, and covered with mucus, preceded by

pinchings in the abdomen.—Discharge of clear blood from the rectum, with the evacuations,

during and after hard, brown stool in large lumps; and without stool.—Diarrhoea alternating with

hard, lumpy stool.

• ▸Anzmia.
• ▸Anus, bleeding from.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dropsy.
• ▸Heemoptysis.

Heemorrhages. Intermittents.

• ▸Compare: Crot.
• ▸t.
• ▸(> from warm drinks); Chi.
• ▸(effects of loss of blood;

intermittents); Graph. (mucus with stools).

First to third potency.