Castoreum Canadense

Castoreum resembles Ambra, Moschus, Ignatia, and Valerian. It is suited to

nervous women, with pains, cramps, weakness after severe illness; hysterical individuals;

abdominal soreness; nervous attacks when the aura starts from abdomen. The pains are > by

pressure. Menstrual colic, with pallor and cold sweat. Prostration is a leading feature in the

effects of the drug. There is also a feeling of fulness in the stomach as if too much had been

eaten.

Castoreum when fresh is yellow and of the consistence of syrup when dry it is dark red or brown

and of the consistence of hard wax. Teste remarks that it has been regarded as a resinous

substance, and he observes, moreover, that the beaver feeds almost entirely on the resinous bark

of pine-trees. In Siberia beavers feed on the bark of the birch, which may make a difference in

the effects of Castoreum from different countries. Caspari proved Russian Castor., Nenning that

of Southern Europe. Teste concluded from analogy that Castor. would be an antisycotic, and he

proved his point by initiating with it the cure of a case of pedunculated vegetations around the

• ▸anus in a hysterical young woman.
• ▸Thuja completed the cure.
• ▸Teste places Castor.
• ▸in the Thuja

group with Plat. and Bism. He quotes from Trousseau and Pideux the following indications,

which he confirms:—(/) "Amenorrhea, accompanied with painful and tympanitic swelling of the

abdomen. We mean the cases where only a few drops of blood escape from the uterus, with a

sort of uterine tenesmus." (2) "The cases of colic to which Castoreum seems to be principally

adapted are of the nervous kind, that seem to be particularly seated in the small intestine. They

are accompanied with paleness and cold sweats, a sudden sinking of strength, as if the very

principle of life had been struck down. They are without any alvine evacuations, come suddenly,

after lively emotions, a cold on the bowels or by the feet, as after long exposure to a cold rain;

they constitute a sort of that passion termed by authors miserere." Castor. causes jerking in small

groups of muscular fibres; a sensation of heaviness of whole body; trembling of limbs.

Peevish; indisposed to talk, very sensitive to all kinds of impressions.—Irritable in

morning and cheerful abandon in evening.—Great sadness and excessive susceptibility, with

easily provoked lachrymation.

Jerking of small groups of muscular fibres.—Chorea; epilepsy; cramps in

various parts.—Prostration after dinner, and annoying sensation as if she had eaten too

much.—Internal restlessness.

Headache with giddiness and fainting; headache leaving head very sensitive to touch.

Pain at the vertex and throbbing in the head as if there were an ulcer in the brain, aggravated by

contact and external pressure.—Fulness and heaviness of the head as if it were going to

burst.—Acute drawing pains in the forehead and eyes.

Pressure in the eyes, on viewing fixedly a distant object.—Nocturnal lachrymation and

agglutination of the eyes.—Stars, clouds, and on viewing fixedly a distant object, mist before the

sight.—Susceptibility of the eyes to the light of the sun, and to that of candles.

Acute dragging in the ears.—Tinkling, buzzing, and gurgling in the ears, dispersed by

boring the ear with the finger.

Fetid odour from the mouth, perceptible to the patient —Pulling and quivering in the

tongue —Swelling of tongue.—Rounded elevation in centre of tongue size of pea, surrounded by

angry, suspicious-looking base, size of a 5-cent piece, extremely sensitive to touch or food, with

drawing sensation, as if a string were pulling centre of tongue towards hyoid bone, with burning

in tongue.

Toothache when eating, provoked by cold and mitigated by hot things.—Odontalgia,

with acute drawing pains, or successive pullings, provoked or aggravated by the

touch.—Swelling of the gums at night, with acute pulling in the temples.

Swollen. Rounded elevation size of a pea in center, with drawing sensation from center to hyoid bone.

Dryness of cesophagus.—Burning pain in the throat, as from pyrosis.

• ▸10, 11.
• ▸Appetite and Stomach.
• ▸—Burning thirst.
• ▸—Thirst so violent that she could not drink

enough water after dinner.—Bitter risings.—Regurgitation of a bitter acidity —Repugnance to

food and constant nausea.—Vomiting of white, bitter mucus.—Weight, griping; tenesmus with

constricting pains under sternum.—Sensation in stomach as though it would go to

sleep.—Sensation of contraction, and pain of ulceration, in the epigastrium.

Pressure in region of liver from within outwards.—Flatulent colic, painful

inflation, esp. after a meal.—Colic, redness of face, and yawning in abdominal complaints, > by

external heat and by bending oneself double.—Umbilical hernia with ulcer, in a screaming

• ▸infant.
• ▸—Pain and soreness in 1.
• ▸side of abdomen.
• ▸—Constant violent rollings in abdomen.

Urgent inclination to evacuate.—Diarrhcea accompanied by shivering and

by yawning, with burning in the anus, and preceded by pain in the abdomen, with grumbling and

borborygmi.—Evacuations of sanguineous mucus.—Stools: whitish, watery; greenish mucus;

contain pus; patient is compelled to sit bent; feels gagged when lying down.—Before stool:

cutting or pinching colic; painful rumbling; dragging in groin—During stool: fetid flatus, burning

at anus.—After stool: burning at anus.

Frequent emission of urine, with burning thirst, day and night.—After the

emission of urine desire to vomit, and disgust.

Dysmenorrhoea; blood discharged in drops with tenesmus. Pain commences in middle of thighs. Amenorrhoea, with painful tympanites.

Menstruation premature, pains in head and loins, pale, sickly

complexion.—Pain commences in middle of thighs, extending over limbs and more or less over

whole body.—Uterine tenesmus, with scanty flow.—Leucorrhcea watery or thick;

burning.—Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.

Hoarseness, with disposition to clear throat —Breathing: short,

difficult; short breath when ascending; very deep with heat in heart and in face; slow, deep

inspiration with short expiration.—Stitches in chest; heat as if fire were burning in it.—On taking

deep breath sensation as though something heavy lay under sternum.

Pain as from excoriation, in the sacral region and back.—Drawing pains in

nape of the neck.

Restless sleep at night, with anxious agitation and starts with fright—Angry

exclamations during sleep.—Jerking of the limbs while asleep.—Anxious and frightful dreams.

Predominant chilliness. Attacks of chilliness with ice-coldness in back.

Predominance of cold and shuddering.—Fits of shivering with icy coldness in the

back.

• ▸Chorea.
• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸Digestion, disordered.
• ▸Dysmenorrhcea.
• ▸Eclampsia.
• ▸Flatulence.

• ▸Hernia.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Ileus.
• ▸Paralysis.
• ▸Pregnancy, vomiting of.
• ▸Reaction, deficient.
• ▸Sexual organs,

• ▸inflammation of; spasms of.
• ▸Sycosis.
• ▸Tetanus.
• ▸Typhoid, lack of recuperation after.
• ▸Typhus.

Warts. Yawning.

• ▸Compare: Ambra, Mosch.
• ▸, Nux v.
• ▸; in lack of reaction, Pso.
• ▸; Thuja (sycosis).

Antidoted by: Colch.

Compare: Ambra; Moschus; Mur acid; Valeriana.

Antidote: Colch.

Tincture, and lower potencies.

Nocturnal dragging in shoulders and arms.—Spasms of hands and feet.—Hands hot

with swelling of veins.—Weakness of the lower limbs.