Copaiva Officinalis

Copaiva is an old-world remedy for gonorrhcea, and it has also been used for

other blenorrhagic conditions. It has been proved; and observations have been made on patients

who have overdosed themselves with the drug. The chief incidence of the drug's action is on the

genito-urinary organs, and rectum. It is suited to the irritable bladder of old women. Irritation

accompanying thickening of bladder. Burning at neck of bladder and in urethra; discharge milky,

corrosive; meatus tumid and inflamed. It affects the skin and mucous membranes generally. In

chronic bronchitis it is useful when there is profuse, greenish-grey, disgusting-smelling sputa. A.

• ▸P.
• ▸Bowie (Med.
• ▸Adv.
• ▸, xx.
• ▸14) has verified this indication: "In old persons (men, I should say)

who from cold or other causes cannot urinate; or where there is frequent desire and only a few

drops pass with much straining—frequently with a mucous discharge from the bowels, with much

rumbling and rolling in the bowels." He gave 5-drop doses of the first dilution. He commends

also an ointment of gtt. x of the balsam to one ounce of vaseline, "to relieve the burning and

itching at the anus caused by piles."

Depression with anxious sadness.—Excessive sensitiveness of whole nervous system;

least noise causes starting and anger—A young girl weeps on hearing a piano.—Uneasiness on

account of one's health —Misanthropy.—Deficient memory.—Loathing of life, and at the same

time fear of death.

• ▸Excessive sensitiveness; pain in occiput.
• ▸Dull, frontal headache, passes to occiput and back again, with throbbing, worse right side and motion.
• ▸Scalp sensitive.
• ▸Sensitive to sharp sounds.

Heaviness of head, esp. of occipital region, which is instinctively pressed against

collar of coat, which relieves.—Pulsative, deep stitches in occiput—Dull pain in occiput.—Every

step jars the head.—Hemicrania (1.) with burning pains, sense of coldness in part, weeping and

constant moaning (in young man of twenty-two, disposed to be hypochondriacal. It was so

• ▸violent that Teste had to give Merc.
• ▸to relieve him).
• ▸—Pressure at forehead.
• ▸—Headache > pressing

head back against collar of coat; gentle pressure with hand < evening and night; intolerable when

leaning on pillow; washing face with cool water in morning (sudden stitches in both

temples).—Falling out of the hair.—Sensitiveness of hairy scalp.

Formication in canthi of eyes in evening.—Black points hovering before eyes.—On

alternately closing eyes objects look much paler to 1. eye than to r.

• ▸Rawness and soreness of nostrils with stopped-up feeling; dryness of posterior nares.
• ▸Profuse, thick, fetid discharge from nasal passages, running down throat at night.
• ▸Burning and dryness, crusts on turbinated bones.
• ▸Marked catarrhal condition in upper respiratory tract.

Epistaxis of small boys; also after wounds.—Profuse yellow and green, thick, fetid

discharge from nasal passages running down throat at night.

Face pale and sickly-looking —Acne.—Urticaria.—Red humid tetter on upper lip, which

is swollen and painful when touched.

Teeth set on edge.—Sense of coldness in teeth—Foul breath in morning.—Tongue

covered with whitish coating, greenish at base.—Tenacious phlegm in mouth and throat, which is

constantly reproduced.

Chronic catarrh of throat.—Sensation of foreign body in pharynx.—Swelling of both

tonsils (<r.).

Food seems too salty. Gastric troubles during menstruation or following urticaria. Gas and intestinal flatulence, urging to stool and difficult passage with pain.

Thirst and diminished appetite.—Bitter taste—Hungry in evening on going to

bed.—Every article of food seems too salt.—Rush of blood to head and face when eating or after a

• ▸meal.
• ▸—Spitting up of ingesta with large quantities of mucus.
• ▸—Inclination to vomit.
• ▸—Distension

and fulness after eating; gastric troubles during menstruation or following urticaria.

Pressing pain in region of spleen, becomes pulsative from time to

time.—Tearings in the abdomen preceded by pullings in the bones of the thighs.—Sensation of

burning in the abdomen.—Borborygmi and movements in the intestines.

Mucous Colitis. Stools covered with mucus, with colic and chilliness. Burning and itching of anus, caused by piles.

White, loose evacuations, chiefly in the morning, with cold and drawing

tearings in the abdomen, which force the patient to bend double.—Involuntary

• ▸evacuations.
• ▸—Stools like sheep's dung.
• ▸—Insufficient stools.
• ▸—Fluent piles.
• ▸—Bloody

• ▸stools.
• ▸—Stools with tenesmus.
• ▸—Stitches; spasms in rectum.
• ▸—Intolerable burning at the

anus.—Burning, itching at anus.

Constant, ineffectual desire to urinate; contraction of the urethra;

emission of urine in drops.—Itching, soreness, and sensation of scalding in the urethra, before

and after the emission of urine.—Inflammation of the urinary organs; swelling, dilatation, and

inflammation of the orifice of the urethra—Pain as from excoriation in the orifice of the urethra,

which remains wide open, with throbbing pain in the penis generally.—Hzematuria.—Urine

foaming; greenish-turbid, smelling like violets —Yellow, purulent gonorrhea.

• ▸Burning pressure; painful micturition by drops.
• ▸Retention, with pain in bladder, anus, and rectum.
• ▸Catarrh of bladder; dysuria.
• ▸Swelling of orifice.
• ▸Constant desire to urinate.
• ▸Urine smells of violets.
• ▸Greenish, turbid color; peculiar pungent odor.

Itching of vulva and anus, with bloody purulent discharge. Profuse, strong-smelling menstrual discharge, with pains radiating to hip bones, with nausea.

Burning and itching of urethra; itching of vulva; burning red spots

in vulva.—Milky, acid, excoriating discharge with painful menstruation.—Profuse gonorrhceal

discharge. —Metrorrhagia.

Testicles sensitive and swollen.

Burning and sensation of dryness in the region of the prostate gland;

induration of the prostate gland.—Swelling of testes Swelling and induration of the testes.

Cough, with profuse, gray, purulent expectoration. Tickling in larynx, trachea, and bronchi. Bronchial catarrh, with profuse greenish, offensive discharge.

Dry, painful cough, with dryness in the larynx.—Profuse

expectoration of a greenish-grey purulent mucus, of a disgusting smell.—Spitting of blood.

Pain and swelling of the knees and malleoli.

24. Generalities—Burning pain (skin, abdomen, urethra, prostate gland, chest)—Heaviness and

pressure (abdomen, chest, perineum).

• ▸Hives, with fever and constipation.
• ▸Roseola.
• ▸Erysipelatous inflammation, especially around abdomen.
• ▸Circumscribed lenticular patches, with itching; mottled appearance.
• ▸Chronic urticaria in children.
• ▸Bullous eruptions.

Large red blotches all over the body, with constipation and some fever.—Dark-

coloured or bright red, elevated, intolerable itching, lentil-sized, measle-shaped exanthema, in

clusters, flowing into one another.—Nettle-rash, pale red or bright red, with violent

itching.—Jaundice.

Drowsiness in daytime.—Restless sleep at night.—Frightful, or lascivious dreams.

Quotidian fever, shiverings and cold in the forenoon, with pain in the dorsa of the

feet; then, in the afternoon, general heat and thirst, with desire for cold water.—During the febrile

cold, the instep is painfully sensible to motion.—Perspiration profuse of a pungent smell.—Sour-

smelling sweat at night—Profuse inodorous sweat in morning.

• ▸Acne.
• ▸Anus, itching of.
• ▸Bladder, irritable.
• ▸Blenorrhagia.
• ▸Bronchitis.
• ▸Catarrh.
• ▸Cough.

• ▸Cystitis.
• ▸Dysentery.
• ▸Fistula.
• ▸Gastritis.
• ▸Gonorrhoea.
• ▸Heemorrhoids.
• ▸Measles.
• ▸Nose-bleed.

• ▸Prostatitis.
• ▸Pruritus.
• ▸Urethritis.
• ▸Urticaria.
• ▸Vulva, inflammation of.

• ▸Antidoted by: Bell.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Sulph.
• ▸Compare: Cannab.
• ▸, Canth.
• ▸, Cubeb.
• ▸, Eriger.
• ▸,

• ▸Kali bro.
• ▸, Kali i.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Senec.
• ▸It has less violent action than Canth.
• ▸Teste says he is unable to

find any difference between the therapeutic properties of Copaiv. and Sep. Both are antidoted by

• ▸the same drug: Merc.
• ▸cor.
• ▸in the male, and Merc.
• ▸sol.
• ▸in the female, according to Teste, neutralise

the action of Copaiv. almost instantaneously.

Antidotes: Bell; Merc.

Compare: Santalum--(aching in kidneys); Cannab; Canth; Barosma; Cubeb; Apis; Vespa; Erig; Senecio; Sepia.

First to third attenuation.