Cedron

Petroz and Teste introduced Cedr. into homeeopathic practice, having received

the seed from Panama, with an account of its powers of entrusting snake-bite when chewed

immediately after being bitten; and also of its traditional reputation in intermittent fevers. Hellert

was bitten by a coral snake. "During the few seconds which it took him to take the antidote out

of the little bag which he wore suspended round his neck, he was siezed with violent pains at the

heart and throat; but he had scarcely chewed and swallowed a small portion of Cedron, of the

size of a small bean, when the pain ceased as by magic. An oppression and general prostration

remained. He chewed another portion of the same fruit, and applied it to the wound externally,

and in another quarter of an hour all he felt was a slight colic, which disappeared after eating a

little. This colic was followed almost immediately by a copious evacuation of a substance that

looked like curdled milk, white, with a slightly yellowish tint" (Teste). Other cases were

reported. The great characteristic of Cedron is a clock-like periodicity in the recurrence of the

symptoms; accurately periodic neuralgias; intermittent fever commencing the same hour every

day or every other day. In fever there is: Red face in hot stage; thirst with desire for warm drinks.

Profuse perspiration. "Excitement before chill" is peculiar to Cedr. Fevers of low, marshy

regions in warm seasons and tropical countries. General debility, languor, and fainting. Malaise.

Trembling. Complaints after coition (chorea in women; neuralgia in men). Epileptiform

convulsions during catamenia. Swollen sensations; numbness of whole body. Adapted to persons

of a voluptuous disposition, and of an excitable nervous temperament; especially to females. <

After sleep; lying down; night; (objects appear red at night, yellow by day); in open air; before a

storm; chills in persons returned from tropical climates. > Standing erect.

Halbert relates a case of malarial fever in a soldier. Chills and fever were clock-like in regularity

of recurrence. Liver and spleen were much enlarged. Anzemia was extreme; and there was this

additional peculiarity: intermittent gastralgia occurring with the febrile crises. In conjunction

with these conditions there was a manifestation of choreic symptoms, involving face and

shoulders mostly, the twitchings being troublesome in the interfebrile state; often there were

debilitating hysterical spasms; the heart became irritable and sometimes irregular. After other

remedies had failed to make any impression, Cedr. cured in three weeks, the improvement

setting in immediately. Rapidity of action appears to be a characteristic as with Bell. The great

predominance of nervous symptoms will be evident in the symptoms of Cedr., also the strong

sexual excitement it causes. Numbness; enlarged sensation; malaise; sensation as if paralysed. A

• ▸large number of symptoms appear on I.
• ▸side, but r.
• ▸side of head, face, r.
• ▸elbow, and r.
• ▸deltoid are

affected.

Nervous excitement, followed by depression.—Restlessness, as driven from place to

place; urine dark yellow, increased quantities.—Lectophobia.—Body heavy, mind

depressed.—Mental symptoms < at night.

• ▸Pain from temple to temple across eyes.
• ▸Pain over whole right side of face, coming on about 9 am.
• ▸Crazy feeling from pain across forehead; worse, working on black.
• ▸Roaring in ears produced by Cinchona.
• ▸Whole body seems numb with headache.

Slight dizziness 11 a.m.—On rising from bed, dizzy, could not see to light a candle,

and could not tell when it was lighted.—Intense frontal headache; sharp pains from above eyes to

temples and occiput, < before a storm.—Pain across eyes from temple to temple.—Sick headache

every other day 11 o'clock.—Bending the head backwards, with pressure on occiput and parietal

regions as if they were going to burst.—Headache: < during night; < in open air.—Head feels as if

swollen.

• ▸Shooting over left eye.
• ▸Severe pain in eyeball, with radiating pains around eye, shooting into nose.
• ▸Scalding lachrymation.
• ▸Supra-orbital neuralgia periodic.
• ▸Iritis, choroiditis.

• ▸Severe shooting pains over |.
• ▸eye.
• ▸—Tic-like pain over |.
• ▸eye, only after coitus.
• ▸—Objects

• ▸seem red at night, yellow by day (Bell.
• ▸cured).
• ▸—Vision dim.
• ▸—Flashes of light before eyes.
• ▸—Loss

of sight with dizziness.

• ▸Point of nose cold; with chilliness and yawning, 9 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸Secretion profuse.
• ▸—Glassy-

looking mucus; or thin, clear, acrid.

• ▸Animated red face.
• ▸—Flying heat of face alternating with chills.
• ▸—Prosopalgia (r.
• ▸),

wandering pains, spasmodic distortion of muscles.—Tumid face, pupils much dilated.—Lips cold,

bluish, dry; during menses.

Prickling itching of tongue.—Painful pricking of tongue with sensation of heat

(during catamenia).—Feels paralysed —Difficulty of speech.—Stammering after coitus

(woman).—During catamenia: mouth and tongue dry; breath fetid——After catamenia: profuse

ptyalism.

Toothache every night during catamenia; bleeding gums.—Sudden toothache in 1.

upper molars; on inspiration, sensation as if cold air touched the teeth.

Burning and constriction; difficult swallowing.—Prickling and tingling in throat and

fauces, extending some way down cesophagus.—Pain on small spot next root of tongue, as of a

foreign body, < from pressure.

Longing for cold drinks in some, for warm in others.—Great thirst during

menses.—Loss of appetite.

Abdomen hard and distended.—Stitches in spleen and liver.—Flatulence, colic,

and cramp.—Borborygmi (1. side).

Pain in kidneys—Burning along ureter and in urethra.—Feeling as if a

drop of urine in urethra, or a constant dripping from it.

Many symptoms appear after coitus, and during the

catamenia.—Leucorrheea in place of catamenia.—Profuse ptyalism and leucorrhcea after

catamenia.—Genital excitement at daybreak, with discharge like leucorrhoea, and swollen

mamme, with some pain.—Menstrual epilepsy.—Puerperal eclampsia.

After coitus pain over |. eye—Gonorrhcea-like discharge, lasting

three days.—Gleet with formication over whole body.—Desire with firm erections; all night; on

waking.

Larynx constricted and tender.—Intermittent laryngitis. —Difficult

respiration, with partial loss of voice, recurring at different intervals —Suffocative fits recurring

regularly every day ten to twelve o'clock. —Suffocating fits; < after coitus; < after sleep; > by

eating.—Troublesome cough every morning at six, lasting two hours.—Respiration much affected

after coitus.—Breath cold.

Palpitation and hurried breathing; with headache.—Action irregular.—Pulse quick

and full, with animated red face —Pulse uncountable.

Stiff neck, pains all along spine.—Pain in neck and loins on rising in

morning.—Pain under scapula and in pelvis.

• ▸Pain at insertion of r.
• ▸deltoid and rheumatic pain in r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Sharp cutting

pain in both elbows.—Numb, dead feeling in r. hand and forearm.

Numb, dead feeling in legs; they feel enlarged —Lancinating pains in

joints.—Cramps; contracting pains; bruised sensations.—T witching in tendons; of tendo

Achillis.—Icy coldness of extremities.

• ▸Lancinating pain in joints; worse, feet and hands.
• ▸Sudden pain in ball of right thumb, extending up arm to shoulder.
• ▸Pain in ball of right foot, extending to knee.
• ▸Shingles, with radiating pain.
• ▸Dropsy of knee-joint.

Yawning and stretching.—Drowsy; sometimes very profound sleep.—Restless;

frequent waking.—< After sleep —Dreamed (he seldom dreamed) of pleasant social interviews

with female acquaintances.—Dreamed of a quarrelling with a dead sister and other dead friends;

cried, about it and awoke with a nightmare, with sensation of a stone in the stomach.

Chilliness towards evening; then frontal headache extending into parietal region. Red eyes. Heat, with itching of eyes, tearing in limbs, numbness of limbs.

Chilliness and yawning; point of nose cold.—Prodrome: For 20 to 40 minutes mental

excitement; exaltation of vital energy; florid, animated countenance; sensation of general

• ▸heat.
• ▸—Chill 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, followed by sweat; at 4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, after washing in cold water, chill

alone.—Shivering and chill, followed by profuse perspiration every evening.—Chill, with

congestion to head; hands, feet, and nose remain icy cold.—Regular paroxysms of fever, coming

at same hour, commencing every day 6 p.m. by chills in back and limbs, or cold feet and

hands.—Hot stage: dryness; heaviness of head; redness of face; burning heat in hands; pulse full

and accelerated; thirst, with desire for warm drinks.—Profuse perspiration.—During sweat:

coldness and heat, and heat and coldness irregularly, intermingle.—Bluish-red face; forearm to

elbow and hands and feet cold; sweat beneath axilla and on chest.—Quotidian or tertian fever

with marked regularity.

• ▸Brow ague.
• ▸Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
• ▸Ciliary neuralgia.
• ▸Chorea.
• ▸Coitus, complaints

• ▸after.
• ▸Epilepsy, menstrual.
• ▸Glaucoma.
• ▸Gout.
• ▸Hydrophobia.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸[Intermittent fever.

• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Neuritis.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Snake-bites.
• ▸Toothache.

• ▸Compare: Chi.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Aran.
• ▸d.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, Cedr.
• ▸removes roaring in ears of Chi.
• ▸Bell.

removes "Objects appear red at night, and yellowish by day" of Cedr.; Ars. and Sabad.

• ▸(complaints return same hour every day); Aran.
• ▸(ague—Aran.
• ▸, chill predominates).
• ▸Teste includes

• ▸Cedr.
• ▸in the Bell.
• ▸group, with Agar.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Stram.
• ▸, Op.
• ▸, Ruta, Can.
• ▸i.
• ▸, Hyo.
• ▸, &c.
• ▸(action on brain;

• ▸red, hot, face; febrile excitement).
• ▸Ced.
• ▸is antidote to: Lach.
• ▸Is antidoted by: Lach.
• ▸, Bell.

Antidote: Lach.

Compare: Ars; China.

Tincture to third attenuation.