Collinsonia Canadensis

Having had a separate proving, Colocynthinum must be considered apart from

Colocynth., from which it is derived, although the symptoms of the two bear a close

resemblance. Neuralgic symptoms are prominent. Stitches and sensations of heat are found in

many parts. Pulsation in the pit of the stomach, with prickling stitches on back in neighbourhood

of middle thoracic vertebre. Diarrhoea and colic > bending forward. Congestion to male genital

organs and pain in them. Burning pains in soles of the feet. < Evening; by motion; riding in cars.

> By rest; bending over; black coffee. < By motion; > by rest:—herein appears the relationship of

the glucoside to Bryonia, the botanic relative of Colocynthis.

• ▸Dull frontal headache; from suppressed haemorrhoids.
• ▸Chronic catarrh.
• ▸Yellow-coated tongue.
• ▸Bitter taste (Colocy; Bry).

Painfulness of whole head, esp. temporal and frontal regions, scalp, and eyeballs, <

moving eyes, straining sight, or bending forwards.—Headache < by riding in railway cars,

obliging to move slowly, and tread softly, otherwise the brain seems to shake about as if loose

against the skull (in the median vertical region); accompanied by very sore pain and causing very

bad humour.—Stitches in brain; through occiput on heavy treading; through cerebellum, like

lightning, on coughing.—Sensitiveness of cerebellum on turning head.

Vision sharper.—Painfulness and aching in eyeballs < straining sight, moving eyes

rapidly, or turning head.

Pain in hollow molar and drawing in incisors, with sensation of swelling of 1.

cheek.—Persistent, disgusting, bitter taste —Prickling and metallic taste on tip of tongue.

Continual burning pressure in stomach up into cesophagus.—Sticking in

epigastrium; which was tense and inflated —Pulsation in epigastrium accompanied by pricking

stitches on back near middle thoracic vertebre.

Warm feeling followed by copious discharge of flatus.—Colic with inflation in

umbilical region; colic below umbilicus.—Slight colic drawing from hypogastrium to hepatic

region, with shuddering in scrotum, erections, and pain in buttock.—Tension in r. groin and

drawing along spermatic cord into r. testis, which was somewhat sensitive towards evening; <

next morning, and < walking, bending over, and going upstairs.—Stitches from small of back to

groin when walking.

• ▸Sensation of sharp sticks in rectum. Sense of constriction.
• ▸Vascular engorgement of rectum.
• ▸Dry feces.
• ▸Most obstinate constipation, with protruding haemorrhoids.
• ▸Aching in anus and hypogastrium.
• ▸Constipation during pregnancy; with membranous dysmenorrhoea, following labor (Nux).
• ▸Painful bleeding piles.
• ▸Dysentery, with tenesmus.
• ▸Alternate constipation and diarrhoea, and great flatulence.
• ▸Itching of anus (Teucrium; Ratanh).

Tickling in rectum.—Feeling of moisture at anus.—Irresistible inclination

to stool; scanty brownish-red evacuation with painful tenesmus lasting ten minutes.—Brown

pappy evacuations, rapidly and easily discharged in quick succession, without tenesmus.

• ▸Dysmenorrhoea; pruritus of vulva; prolapse of womb; swelling and dark redness of genitals; pain on sitting down.
• ▸Membranous dysmenorrhoea, with constipation.
• ▸Pruritus.
• ▸Cold feeling in thighs after menstruation.
• ▸Sensation of swelling of labia and of clitoris.

Uterine diseases depending on diseases of rectum and

bowels.—Dysmenorrheea with hemorrhoids.—Pruritus vulve with hemorrhoids; during

pregnancy.—Diarrhcea after confinement.

Congestion towards genital organs, esp. scrotum, with feeling of heat

and burning in small spot on same, without erections —Cramp-like pain in penis with sensation

as if it were bent double.—Dark redness and painfulness of frenum.—Crawling on penis with

• ▸sexual desire.
• ▸—R.
• ▸testis swollen and painful to touch.
• ▸—A pollution at night (very unusual with

him).

Cough from excessive use of voice; "minister's sore throat"; sharp pain in larynx. Hoarseness. Harassing, dry cough.

Short hacking cough excited by tickling in throat; whitish yellow

mucus.—Frequent cough in early morning.

• ▸Palpitation; rapid but weak.
• ▸Dropsy.
• ▸After heart symptoms relieved, piles or menses return.
• ▸Chest-pains alternate with haemorrhoids.
• ▸Oppression, faintness, and dyspnoea (Acon ferox).

Cardiac hypereesthesia.—Periodical attacks of faintness and oppression, < slightest

motion.—Palpitation in pile subjects; piles return as heart is relieved.

Sharp in-pressing pain in some spots on nape, as if from a sprain < by

movement; sensitive to pressure.—Painfulness and feeling of heat along whole spine.—Stitches in

region of lowest dorsal vertebre.

• ▸Tearing in |.
• ▸shoulder.
• ▸—Frequently repeated stitches from |.
• ▸axilla down to 1.

• ▸elbow.
• ▸—Paralytic weakness of r.
• ▸forearm while writing —Cramp-like pain in muscles of I.
• ▸wrist.

Stiffness and heaviness in tibize.—Burning, sticking, and sensation of

warmth in dorsum of r. foot; pressing digging pain in external side of second toe of 1.

foot—Burning pain in both soles with feeling as if they were swollen.

• ▸Colic.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Debility.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Feet, burning in.
• ▸Genitals (male), congestion of;

• ▸pain in.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Spinal pains.
• ▸Travelling, effects of.

• ▸Antidoted by: Nux.
• ▸Compare: Lycopus (botanical; heart); Asc.
• ▸h.
• ▸, Ham.
• ▸, Alo.
• ▸, Nux,

• ▸Sul.
• ▸and Ign.
• ▸in piles; Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸, Graph.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸and Sul.
• ▸in piles during menses; Pod.

• ▸(prolapse of rectum); Op.
• ▸, Coloc.
• ▸, Arn.
• ▸, Diosc.
• ▸, Hydrast.
• ▸; in functional paralysis from fatigue in

• ▸mental emotions, Stan.
• ▸, Coccul.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.

Antidote: Nux.

Compare: Aescul; Aloes; Hamam; Lycopus; Negundo; Sulph; Nux.

Tincture, to third attenuation. Higher potencies where there is organic heart affection.

Tearing pain in arms, hands, and legs; frontal headache —Tearing in both knees,

passing down inside of legs to feet while sitting; dull frontal headache.