Ocimum Canum

Ocim. can. is one of the remedies we owe to Mure, who tells us that it is used

in Brazil "as a specific for diseases of the kidneys, bladder, and urethra." He gives a short list of

nineteen symptoms (apparently partly clinical and partly pathogenetic) which stamp him as a

true observer. His indications have been confirmed many times. "Renal colic, with violent

vomiting every fifteen minutes; one wrings one's hands and moans and cries all the time. Red

urine with brick-dust sediment after the attack." The urine may be "saffron colour" or "thick,

• ▸purulent, with an intolerable smell of musk.
• ▸" In two cases published by myself (/.
• ▸B.
• ▸H.
• ▸S.
• ▸,

• ▸January, 1896; H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxxi.
• ▸178) the following symptoms were removed: (/) Man, 27, every

three or four weeks, seized with violent pains of a dull leaden character in right side of abdomen;

commencing in morning, lasting twelve to fifteen hours. For four hours from commencement of

attack the pain steadily increased, culminating in vomiting, first of sour fluid, then slime, lastly

• ▸of a fluid like coffee.
• ▸After the vomiting some relief of pain.
• ▸Urine contained no sediment.
• ▸The

attacks had lasted seven years. At first they began in the evening. There was a history of epilepsy

• ▸in the family, and as a child the patient had had three fits.
• ▸Ocim.
• ▸can.
• ▸200, one dose, was given,

• ▸and there were no more attacks for about two years.
• ▸On their recurrence Ocim.
• ▸can.
• ▸failed to

• ▸control them; but Diosc.
• ▸© (given by a doctor in U.
• ▸S.
• ▸A.
• ▸) succeeded.
• ▸(2) Lady, 24, severe pain

right flank shooting round to back. Frequent micturition; urine sometimes depositing clots.

• ▸Tereb.
• ▸3 gave some relief, but it was not permanent.
• ▸Ocim.
• ▸can.
• ▸200, a few globules in water, a

teaspoonful every two days, rapidly relieved the symptoms and cleared up that part of the case,

• ▸and there has been no return to the present date.
• ▸P.
• ▸C.
• ▸Majumdar (/nd.
• ▸H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, vi.
• ▸11) relates (/)

• ▸the case of a medical man, 45.
• ▸Majumdar was sent for at 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸one morning, and found the

patient in great agony; pain in upper part of region of right kidney, extending downwards and

forwards to pubes. Constant vomiting, bilious, acid, tossing about without any relief. After Calc.

• ▸c.
• ▸30, Lyc.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Sarsa.
• ▸, and Berb.
• ▸had been given in vain, Ocim.
• ▸can.
• ▸3x gave immediate relief,

and no other remedy was required. (2) Man, 50, excruciating pain in left kidney, for which he

had received Opium under allopathic treatment without relief. Majumdar saw the patient on the

sixth day of the attack The suffering was extreme, vomiting of bile, constant nausea, bowels

• ▸constipated.
• ▸Ocim.
• ▸can.
• ▸3x, one drop every three hours, speedily gave relief, and two days later

• ▸two small uric acid calculi were passed.
• ▸No recurrence (/bid.
• ▸, ix.
• ▸126).
• ▸Majumdar adds that

Ocim. can. is the sacred Toolsi of India, and that the Kabirajes use it in diseases of the liver and

bilious remittent fevers. All the members of the Ocimum genus are aromatic. The Sweet or

• ▸Common Basil.
• ▸O.
• ▸basilicum, is one of the best known.
• ▸The vaginal prolapse, excessive

sensitiveness of the breasts and pain on nursing, are important symptoms. Concomitant

symptoms are: Vomiting; cries; tossing about and wringing hands.

Turbid urine, depositing a white and albuminous sediment.—Urine of a

saffron colour.—Red (bloody) urine with brickdust sediment after the attack.—Thick, purulent

urine, with an intolerable smell of musk.—Burning during micturition.—Crampy pain in the

• ▸kidneys.
• ▸—Renal colic (r.
• ▸and also |.
• ▸) with violent vomiting every fifteen minutes; she twists

about, wrings her hands, screams and groans.

High acidity, formation of spike crystals of uric acid. Turbid, thick, purulent, bloody; brick-dust red or yellow sediment. Odor of musk. Pain in ureters. Cramps in kidneys.

• ▸Valva swollen; darting pain in labia.
• ▸Nipples painful to least contact.
• ▸Breasts feel full and tense; itching.
• ▸Prolapsus vaginae.

Lancinations in the labia majora—Swelling of the whole

vulva.—Falling of the vagina, so as to issue even from the vulva.—Itching at the

breasts —Engorgement of the mammary glands.—The tips of the breasts are very painful; the

least contact extorts a cry.—Compressive pain in the breast, as is the case with wet-nurses.

Heat and swelling of left testicle.

• ▸Albuminuria.
• ▸Breasts, painful.
• ▸Bubo.
• ▸Calculus, renal, passage of.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Gravel.

• ▸Kidneys, diseases of.
• ▸Renal colic.
• ▸Urine, abnormal.
• ▸Vagina, prolapse of.

• ▸Followed well by: Diosc.
• ▸Compare: Labiatz.
• ▸In renal colic, Dios.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Berb.
• ▸,

• ▸Lyc.
• ▸, Coloc.
• ▸In painful breasts, Borax (empty feeling; Ocim.
• ▸can.
• ▸compressive), Crotal.
• ▸,

Phelland. Prolapsed vagina, Staph.

Compare: Berb; Hedeoma; Lycop; Pareir; Urtica.

Sixth to thirtieth potency.