Cotyledon Umbilicus

Cotyledon has had a considerable proving, but I am not aware of any clinical

experience with it having been recorded. The whole houseleek family are deserving of careful

study by homeeopathists. Among the most peculiar symptoms of Cozty/. are: a feeling as if some

part of the body—a foot or the head—were absent. The senses of sight and hearing are dulled. A

yellow patch follows the sight. Disagreeable surging in ears; ears feel stuffed. A number of pains

in the region of the spleen appear. The breathing is oppressed, the heart is disturbed. Rheumatic

symptoms are prominent. Weak, faint feeling. Stitching, pricking, jerking pains are predominant

• ▸sensations.
• ▸Cooper considers it a cancer remedy.
• ▸He has cured with it sinuses in buttock.
• ▸A

patient to whom he gave it for polypus said it made him "stagger as if drunk." Symptoms are <

morning and evening.

• ▸Lost, confused feeling.
• ▸Could not articulate for some time on awaking.
• ▸Pressing vertex headache.
• ▸Ailments from suppressed emotion.
• ▸Feeling as if a part of the body were absent.

On waking disagreeable sensation running down back of r. thigh and leg, with a

feeling, as if there were no foot.—Head felt exceedingly light for some time as if there were no

solid head; could not articulate for some time though she tried; followed by pressing vertical

headache > by tea—On waking, sensation as if going out of, mind, followed by trickling as of

• ▸blood down I.
• ▸arm from shoulder to finger-joints.
• ▸—Exhilaration.
• ▸—Difficulty of collecting

ideas.—Feels lost before headache comes on.

Headache, causing desire for open air, which >.—Dull headache with cold feet —Dull,

heavy, stupefying pain in forehead and vertex, shifting suddenly between them.

Constant choking in throat-pit, and feeling as if he would burst into tears.—Back of

throat feels as if covered with thick mucus.

Pain at epigastrium through to shoulder with nausea.—On swallowing, the morsel

seems to pass and press against some swelling in cardiac region (in evening) recurring during the

pain.

• ▸Long stitch in |.
• ▸hypochondrium.
• ▸—Dull pains in |.
• ▸hypochondrium.
• ▸—Dull

pushing in region of spleen recurring at intervals.

Tickling in larynx with dry cough.—Oppressed breathing.—Shooting

• ▸in all directions in chest, particularly under r.
• ▸scapula and |.
• ▸nipple during evening.
• ▸—Stitches

below both nipples.

Heat about heart—Uneasiness.—Clawing, dragging pain, on riding, > by

compressing side.—A troublesome palpitation and fulness at sternum on walking up-hill,

consisting of one or two jumps or rolls of heart with occasional intermission.

Between attacks of headache, gnawing, rheumatic pain in r.

• ▸shoulder.
• ▸—Aching, bruised pain in wrists.
• ▸—Aching, tingling in hands, esp.
• ▸at night, preventing

sleep; tingling down arm when the nerve is struck.

• ▸Aching in |.
• ▸thigh followed by numbness.
• ▸—Stinging pain under |.
• ▸gluteus

maximus in region of sciatic nerve.

24. Generalities—Occasionally during the day attacks of faintness with green shadows before

the eye.—Creeping in the flesh, and feeling as before severe cold or rheumatic attack.

• ▸Aching in back and thighs.
• ▸Aching in all joints.
• ▸Skin sensitive, rubbing of trousers causes an acute sting.
• ▸Legs and arms feel heavy and sore.

Compare: Ambra; Asafoet; Hepatica; Ignatia; Laches.

Tincture to third potency.

• ▸Pain under left nipple, and aching in right breast.
• ▸Pain through to scapula from region of left breast.
• ▸Pain at angles of scapulae.
• ▸Full, bursting feeling, as if from obstruction at heart.
• ▸Choking fullness in throat.
• ▸Breathing oppressed.