Hydrocotyle Asiatica

Hydrocot. has been long known as an Indian remedy. Boileau was the first to

use it as a remedy in leprosy. It has been tested pathogenetically and clinically, and its place has

been fairly well defined. The skin and the female generative organs are the chief seats of the

drug's action; though the liver, the nerves, and the mucous membranes are also powerfully acted

upon. A great variety of skin affections have been cured with it; acne, eczema, pemphigus, lupus,

copper-coloured eruption; papular eruption on face; intolerable itching in various places. Auduit

• ▸(H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, ix.
• ▸434) cured this case: Girl, 20, weak and sickly-looking, since childhood troubled with

glandular swellings, for eight years had lupus exedens of nose. (Her mother had coppery eruption

on face.) On right of nose was a button the size of a sixpence covered with a thick crust covering

yellow pus mixed with blood. Margins irregular and livid. Five other buttons size of lentils near

root of nose both sides. Hydroc. was given in 6, 3, @, and 18th potencies in succession, with

intermissions, and completely cured in five months. Other indications are: Stomatitis, aphthous

and syphilitic. Irritation of the neck of the bladder; increased secretion of urine. Heat and itching

• ▸in vagina.
• ▸Weight in uterus.
• ▸Granular ulceration.
• ▸Hydrocotyle acts on the male sexual organs

also, causing weight in the "male uterus," the prostate gland. Gouty and rheumatic disorders.

Affections of the trigeminus nerve. Bruised feeling in all the muscles. A patient of mine who was

taking Hydroc. for eczema with advantage complained of persistent dreaming all the time he was

asleep; and an unpleasant mouth on waking in the morning.

• ▸Gloomy thoughts.
• ▸—Misanthropy.
• ▸—Inclination for solitude.
• ▸—Indifference.
• ▸—Gaiety

(reaction).—Loquacity (reaction).

Vertigo; with torpor—Congestion of blood to the head; heaviness.—Painful drawing in

almost all cranial nerves.—Neuralgic pain in external frontal nerve.—Intense pain with some

swelling in posterior part of skull——Occiput acutely sensitive, esp. to touch.—Constriction of

back part of skull and integuments.

• ▸Eyes look unsteady.
• ▸—Injection of palpebral conjunctiva.
• ▸—Pricking in eyes.
• ▸—Vision

dim; dazzling.

• ▸Pain in |.
• ▸internal meatus auditorius—Throbbing in r.
• ▸ear; ringing in (1.
• ▸), with

stoppage.—Confused noise in 1.; blowing sound.

• ▸Swelling of nose.
• ▸—Tickling; < I.
• ▸nostril—Feeling as before bleeding.
• ▸—Stoppage of

• ▸nose.
• ▸—Coryza; dry.
• ▸—Bleeding.
• ▸—(Lupus exedens of nose).

Pain in left cheek-bones and about orbits.

Whitish spots on |. upper and under sides of tongue.—Impediment in

speech.—Redness of velum palati, with pain on swallowing, < by food.—Hypereemia of buccal

mucous membrane.—Saliva increased.—Taste insipid or bitter; unpleasant in morning.

Tonsils red.—Pricking in pharynx.—Disorder of constrictor muscles of

pharynx.—Csophagus dry and rough burning and pricking in cesophagus.

Loathing of food—Anorexia then strong appetite—Aversion to tobacco

• ▸smoking.
• ▸—Eructations frequent; acid —Nausea.
• ▸—Swelling of stomach.
• ▸—Contraction; cramp-like

• ▸pain.
• ▸—Sensation as if gases collected into a ball.
• ▸—Anxiety in region of stomach.
• ▸—Heat in

stomach region spreading out like a bar.

Borborygmi in different parts.—Flatus.—Violent contractions of

• ▸intestines.
• ▸—Pain; every five minutes; < transverse colon.
• ▸—Constriction.
• ▸—Sensation as if all

organs were in motion.—Pain in upper part of liver—Obstruction in hepatic region —Heat in

hypogastrium.

• ▸Weight in rectum.
• ▸—Burning in anus.
• ▸—Itching in anus.
• ▸—Ineffectual desire

• ▸for stool.
• ▸—Stools dry, dark.
• ▸—Stools increased.
• ▸—Stools easier.

Slight formication in kidney.—Irritation of neck of bladder.—Constriction

• ▸of bladder.
• ▸—Frequent desire to urinate.
• ▸—Irritation of urethra.
• ▸—Urine increased.
• ▸—Urine becomes

brown on cooling.—Urine turbid, without sediment.

• ▸Pruritus of vagina.
• ▸Inflammation of neck of bladder.
• ▸Heat within vagina.
• ▸Granular ulceration of womb.
• ▸Profuse leucorrhoea.
• ▸Dull pain in ovarian region.
• ▸Cervical redness.

Vulva, vagina and cervix red.—Heat in bottom of vagina; pricking

and itching at its orifice —Leucorrhoea increased. Pain in ovarian region.—Weight in

• ▸uterus.
• ▸—Pain in whole uterus, esp.
• ▸|.
• ▸side-—Severe labour-like pain in uterus and appendages.

17, 18. Respiratory Organs and Chest.—Pricking in vicinity of glottis Dryness of windpipe;

• ▸of ventricles of larynx.
• ▸—Voice weak.
• ▸—Speaking soon fatigues.
• ▸—Irritation of air-

• ▸passages.
• ▸—Difficult expectoration of bronchial mucus.
• ▸—Breath short.
• ▸—Oppression of chest,

which suddenly ceases and then returns at longer or shorter intervals.

Drawing in spermatic cords, < 1.—Scrotum

• ▸relaxed.
• ▸—Impotence.
• ▸—Indifference to intercourse.
• ▸—Feeling of weight in prostate gland.

Cardiac spasm.—Constriction of heart; with quiet and regular pulse, or

with a few separate beats in certain arteries, or with hot flushes in different parts of the

face.—Irregular beating of heart—Pulse stronger and fuller.

Renewal of old rheumatic pains in |. rhomboid, < pressure.—Bruised pain

in loins.—Obstruction in region of kidneys, with heaviness.

Weariness in all muscles of shoulders ——Crampy numbness of r. forearm,

hand, and fingers.—Pain in finger-joints.

• ▸Gait unsteady.
• ▸—Inability to stand.
• ▸—Sharp pains in hips.
• ▸—Weariness in

muscles of thighs, with crampy movements in calves.

24. Generalities—Bruised feeling in all muscles; on waking —Wandering pains in muscles of

chest and legs.—Drawings in several muscles ——Malaise —Weariness (with depression, heaviness,

and dulness); dull feeling throughout the system generally; and unfitness for everything.

• ▸Dry eruptions.
• ▸Great thickening of epidermoid layer and exfoliation of scales.
• ▸Psoriasis gyrate, on trunk and extremities, palms and soles.
• ▸Pustules on chest.
• ▸Circular spots, with scaly edges.
• ▸Intolerable itching, especially of soles.
• ▸Profuse sweat.
• ▸Syphilitic affections.
• ▸Acne.
• ▸Leprosy.
• ▸Elephantiasis (Ars).
• ▸Lupus non-exedens.

Spots almost circular, with raised scaly edges.—Yellowish spots on

• ▸legs.
• ▸—Erysipelatous redness.
• ▸—Red points on eyelids, |.
• ▸side of neck and both hands.
• ▸—Red spots,

covered with whitish scales, on |. side of neck.—Lilac-coloured spot, shaped like an ear, on sole;

the skin over it is depressed, and walking is painful.—Erythema on face, neck, back, chest, arms,

and thighs; with much itching; with copious sweat.—Miliary eruptions on neck, back, and

• ▸chest.
• ▸—Sudamina on abdomen.
• ▸—Papules on face.
• ▸—Pustules on chest.
• ▸—Pricking on different

parts.—Itching in several places; itching at tip of nose (in one who had chilblain there every

year).

Y awning and stretching.—Sleepiness; in the daytime—Heavy, dreamless

sleep.—Persistent dreaming all the time he was asleep; mouth in unpleasant state in morning.

Shivering in afternoon.—Cold hands and feet, with general condition resembling

precursory stage of fever, without alteration of pulse —Sensation of coldness in forearm, hand, 1.

foot, and leg; > by rubbing, but returning when the rubbing ceased.—Febrile movements.—Heat:

of skin; in bones of leg; in 1. tibia; in face in flushes; in different parts of face in flushes, esp.

temporal regions.—Profuse sweat.

• ▸Acne rosacea.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Elephantiasis arabum.
• ▸Favus.
• ▸Gangrene after amputation.

• ▸Gonorrheea.
• ▸Gout.
• ▸chthyosis.
• ▸Leprosy.
• ▸Leucorrheea.
• ▸Liver, contraction of.
• ▸Lupus.
• ▸Neuralgia

• ▸orbitalis.
• ▸Skin, affections of.
• ▸Syphilis.
• ▸Uterus, follicular inflammation of.
• ▸Vagina, pruritus of.

• ▸Compare: Hydrast.
• ▸(lupus); Fer.
• ▸pic.
• ▸(lupus); Hura (leprosy); Thlaspi b.
• ▸p.
• ▸, Fraxinus

• ▸(uterine affections); Mitchella, Eu.
• ▸purp.
• ▸, Apis, Hydran.
• ▸(irritation of neck of bladder).

Compare: Elaeis-South American Palm--(scleroderma, elephantiasis, leprosy, skin thickened, itching and hardened. Anaesthesia). Hura; Trychnos Gaultheriana (bites of serpents, ulcers and cutaneous affections generally); Hoang-Nan. Chaulomoogra oil from seed of Taraktogenos; Hydrast; Arsenic; Aurum; Sepia.

First to sixth potency.

Contractions of forearms and legs.—Irresistible inclination to stretch.—Pain in all

joints; < 1.; pain in all muscles.—Sensation as if hot water ran through marrow of bones.