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Cochlearia Officionalis
I need to find a complete profile of Cochlearia Officionalis. The only one I can find is Cochlearia Amoracia in the Materia Medica. Any leads, and/or shares of the information would be appreciated. Thank you.jdrewes on 2021-12-04
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Cochlearia officinalis
Cochlearia Officinalis is of the Cruciferae family. It is sometimes confused with Cochlearia armoracia, the horseradish, another member of the Cruciferae. I myself had initially also confused these two, but later on it enabled me to find out the difference and to get a clearer picture of Cochlearia Officinalis.
The most important keynote of Cochlearia is "stomach pains radiating to sides and back". This keynote is not mentioned in the repertory but it is in Boericke. Boericke describes Cochlearia armoracia and doesn't mention Officinalis. But I took it as a keynote for Officinalis by mistake and it proved to be correct. It probably is a keynote for the whole Cochlearia family.
Botanical description: The plant grows 20 cm. high. It has a juicy stalk with few leaves. The round, heart - or kidney shaped leaves are to be found at the bottom of the stalk. The flowers are white, sometimes pink. It prefers a site in or near brackish water.
Mind picture: The picture that emerges is of a woman who has to take care of her sick, difficult, nagging husband.
The first characteristic is a sense of duty, just like the Kaliums have. They have the feeling that it is their duty to take on this task of caring. They have pledged to stand by their partner in sickness and in health. So they can't evade this responsibility.
The second characteristic is the fact that they actually don't want to do it, they don't feel like taking care of a nagging old man. In this respect they are different from the kaliums, who feel it is their duty, so they simply do it. It looks a bit like Cimicifuga in the sense of feeling bound and restricted in their relationships. Cochlearia often has dreams of being bound too, of being stuck and not being able to get out. But in Cimicifuga the sensation of being restricted is caused by social relations, they feel encaged by their family, neighbours etc. In Cochlearia it is their own sense of duty that is restricting them.
They often feel angry and dissatisfied about their task. But they don't really express their anger, they suffer in silence. Here we find a likeness with the magnesiums, there is anger, but they are not allowed to express it. The liver complaints and the aggravation at 7 a.m. is also similar to the Magnesiums. The difference is that the Magnesiums don't express their anger out of fear of loosing someone, while Cochlearia feels that their duty forbids them to make a fuss or get angry.
And so they develop a kind of bitterness, they feel disappointed in life. In this respect they look like the ammoniums, particularly ammonium sulphuricum, because the disappointment and bitterness are linked to the partner. The difference seems to be that Cochlearia has the feeling that he has to care for, while this is not a main factor in the ammoniums. The sour expression can clearly be seen on their face, there is little joy left.
The DD with Cocculus needs to be made too, because of the element of caring for others. But Cocculus does this more lovingly and based on a feeling of love, while Cochlearia does it reluctantly and with bitterness. This is partly because the partner is rather grumpy when ill. The patient is often awkward, demanding, aggressive, demented, helpless or oversexed. This makes their task of looking after their patient even less attractive, the patient is extremely ungrateful.
Cochlearia is sensitive to criticism, particularly with respect to their task of looking after husband and children. They'll try and prevent the outside world from getting to know that it isn't all as rosy inside the family as it looks. This reminds us of the Calciums, especially Calcium sulphuricum. But in Calc-s the sensitivity to criticism is the main theme, while in Cochlearia it is only part of the picture.
Case nr. 1
This is a case of a patient for whom Cochlearia was merely prescribed to deal with a particular layer. Sometimes a remedy shows itself more clearly in a particular layer than in a chronic/constitutional situation. That is why I want to present this case first; it shows the picture of Cochlearia without getting bogged down in all sorts of details. The other remedies which had worked well for this patient were Phosphorus and Calcium sulphuricum.
This 65 year old woman came with the complaint of "gallstone colic attacks".
She had pains in the epigastrium, radiating to both sides and back. She would be lying in bed, writhing with pain. The pain was worse from eggs (2), fish (2) and chocolate, although she was very fond of all these. The pain would come at any moment, particularly if she got worked up about something, for instance when she had to go to a party and she was afraid of not being ready on time.
She is always busy, she takes a lot upon herself. She works in the bar at a tennis club because she likes doing that sort of thing. She likes other people's company. Lately she has been worried about her husband. He has retired from his job and he just sits at home. She is afraid that he will go downhill and will suffer from dementia or Parkinson and that she will have to look after him. She would hate that and she does everything she can to get him active again, suggesting odd jobs he can do, or taking him along to the tennis club etc.
Other complaints: scraping her throat which produces clear mucous, throat feels swollen, pain in the ball of the thumb and pain in her middle finger, which seems to lock sometimes.
Comment: The keynote of stomach pains radiating to sides and back is the main symptom in this case. But the theme of Cochlearia also comes up quite clearly. In this case the fear that she might have to look after her husband in the future was enough to produce symptoms. Prescription Cochlearia Officinalis MK.
Reaction: After Cochlearia the complaints soon disappeared. Her husband came along to work at the bar too, and he did not become demented.
Case nr. 2
This is the clearest case of Cochlearia I have seen, in the sense that Cochlearia is the only remedy that has helped her in the long term.
This 70 year old woman has come complaining of headaches. The pain is situated mainly in the occiput and behind the ears. She feels dizzy with it and hazy, as if she is outside her own body. Her eyes are tired and sometimes she sees "zig-zagging flashes" before the headaches. The modalities are:agg. after waking (2), agg. noise, agg. red light (2), amel. dark, amel. lying on the back, amel. with a soft pillow behind the neck, amel. pressure on the forehead, amel. alone. The pain is also worse when she is busy or after exertion, for instance when her grandchildren come to visit.
Another problem is much mucous in her throat, which she can't clear. Sometimes she has yellow spots in her throat with pain. Occasionally she coughs up yellow lumps with an awful putrid odour. It makes her voice heavy and low too.
She also suffers from cramp in her calves, agg. after waking, agg. stretching her legs. Her knee occasionally feels heavy and stiff agg. damp weather. She also fainted once from the cramp in her calves, this was at a time when her newborn daughter often suffered from hiccups.
Ten years ago she had either a heart attack or a sudden attack of arrested breathing (probably the latter). She spent a few days in hospital in Germany, where she was on holiday at the time.
She occasionally suffers from stomach pains which radiate first to the sides and then on to the back. The whole area of her bowels ache. The pain is agg. lettuce, endive, curly kale and mushrooms.
She had jaundice when she was 24.
There isn't very much harmony in her married life. When I asked her if she had a happy marriage she answered:" Well, what is happiness? It is just the way it it is."
Her husband is rather domineering, he talks a lot but does very little. She has been getting annoyed with him ever since he retired and has been at home all day. Until then she was her own boss: "You knew what you had to do."
Their sexual relationship has dwindled to nothing, in the past she only "did it because she had to".
Her husband is often ill, he sometimes lies in bed for days on end, vomiting all the time. She has to take care of him then, but he is really difficult at those times, complaining about smells in the house etc. This usually happens in the winter, but it can go on for 10 weeks sometimes and it "drives her mad". She once told her G.P. that he had to arrange to have her husband admitted to hospital, otherwise she would run away, she couldn't stand it any longer. She thinks he is doing it on purpose and that makes her very angry, but she doesn't express it.
When I ask her if she feels bitter she says:" It could have been so nice together, but my husband lies in bed all day and in the evening he watches television, he doesn't feel like doing anything else."
She is always busy and likes to have everything neat and tidy. She has a day for washing and a day for cleaning, everything has to happen in a standard order and she gets very annoyed if she is disturbed in her pattern.
She is quite forgetful. She doesn't like looking back in the past. She hardly ever gets angry. She feels it is very important to be herself and not to copy what others do. She hates having debts, as her father would say: "First have the money, then buy something."
Dreams: (as a child) she was in a house that was on fire, she couldn't get out. Nightmares about being stuck, not able to escape.
- Desires: sweet, salt, meat, fish, eggs.
- Aversion: oysters, milk, beet root.
- agg. lettuce, endive.
- Time:agg. 7 a.m.
- Weather: amel. fresh air (2), sea air, mountain air.
- Physical: amel. movement.
Comment: The problem with her husband is all important in this case. She has all the characteristics that belong to Cochlearia. The dreams about being stuck, not able to get away are very typical. She even had them when she was child. The dreams remind us of Cimicifuga, but this remedy brought only temporary improvement.
Cuprum also seems to be indicated, because of the cramps in her calves and her rather restricted, cramped attitude in life. However Cuprum sulphuricum only gave temporary relief for the cramps. Then she came with the complaint of stomach pains radiating to both sides and back, and I gave Cochlearia. Prescription Cochlearia Officinalis MK.
Reaction: She starts to feel much better, the pains are less and she manages to distance herself a little from her husband's problems. She starts to go out from time to time, whether he likes it or not. While in the past she used to feel too restricted , she had to stay at home and look after her husband.
During two years the remedy was a repeated a few times and she remained well on Cochlearia. Later she reacted well on Menispermum canadense for different complaints.
Case nr. 3
This 65 year old woman suffered from hyperventilation: face feels strange, tingling in the hands, "cotton-wool feeling" in the legs.
A second complaint is diverticulosis with constipation, painful urging agg. 19 hrs, agg. after meals, agg. pregnancy. She also has a slight hiatus in the diaphragm.
She gets tired very quickly. Her heart is not very good, she has arteriosclerosis and one of the valves is not perfect. Sometimes she gets a horrible weak, dizzy, feeling, with pains in the chest, radiating to the back via both sides. She has often had cystitis in the past.
- Desires: warm food, traditional Dutch food, raw food, fish, eggs.
- Aversion: cheese, too sweet, too spicy.
- agg. Brussels sprouts (2).
- Time agg. 7 a.m. and p.m.
- Weather:amel. fresh air, wind.
Mind: She is a very caring person. Sometimes it all gets too much, she feels that she can't cope with everything. The contact with her children is a bit difficult. Her daughter in law doesn't like seeing her too often, prefers to visit her own parents. Her own daughter lives far away so she doesn't see her very often. Apart from all that her husband has a problem with the children. He is constantly afraid that he will kill them (amel. amel. thea), so this has hindered the contact with children and grandchildren. She wants to be a good wife to her husband and a good mother to her children.
Comment: Here we don't see the theme of bitterness all that strongly, but we do see the theme of care taking. Also the typical Cochlearia feeling of it all being too much, not being able to cope. The keynote of pain in the stomach has moved to pain in the chest in this case, but it is radiating to sides and back. Prescription Cochlearia Officinalis MK.
Reaction: Cochlearia made the hyperventilation disappear, it increased her energy and she was able to cope much better. Other remedies which have helped her were: Uva ursi and Calcarea sulphurica before and Naja after Cochlearia, but all for different problems than the ones solved with Cochlearia.
Case nr. 4
A 65 year old woman has a sore throat with yellow and red spots, starting on the left, moving to the right side.
She suffers from nagging pains in her stomach, radiating to sides and back. The modalities are: agg. lying down, amel. sitting, amel. morning, agg. afternoon and evening, agg. getting tense, visitors.
She often has diarrhoea when she has to go out somewhere. This complaint started when she suddenly had an attack of hyperventilation when she was watching a play in the theatre. It was accompanied by great fear, cramping stomach pains, weakness and fear of death.
She has aching pain in her muscles agg. touch. Often cramp in her right leg, just underneath the skin.
Many problems started when her husband fell ill 5 years ago. He had C of the testes with metastasis to the to the bones and great brittleness of the bones. But he tortured her through his behaviour: he was angry and jealous, wanted to throw her out of the window, wanted to have sex all the time, although he was impotent since his testes had been removed. She couldn't understand what was happening, their marriage had been so perfect until then. She is a very trusting sort of person, always sees the good side in everybody. She always worries about her children. She is extremely nervous, always neat and tidy and likes to be on time. She is afraid of heights.
- Weather: cold, agg. mist, agg. draught (2), fear of hard wind and storm since the floods in "53.
- Time:agg. evening.
- Desire: sweet, chocolate, salt, fatty meat, fish, eggs.
- Aversion: sour rhubarb, milk.
- agg. red cabbage.
Comment: The diarrhoea from anticipation makes you think of Argentum nitricum or Gelsemium. Her nervousness would seem to fit this picture too. But Argentum nitricum had very little effect. Nor had Calcarea carbonica, Rhododendron or Cimicifuga. The keynote of stomach pains radiating to sides and back could indicate Cochlearia. The worries about her husband and children and the horrors around the time of her husbands illness fit this picture too. Prescription Cochlearia Officinalis MK.
Reaction: After Cochlearia her muscle pains, stomach pains and nervousness became much less. She felt much better on the whole. She never needed a repetition of the remedy.
Symptoms for cochlearia
When I was studying these cases I noticed some more similarities, which I have put together in the summary below. Some of these complaints, like the aggravation from cabbage and Brussels sprouts, are understandable because they belong to the Cruciferae too. The amelioration from movement and being out in the fresh air fit with the feeling of being stuck; space and movement ameliorate in such cases, as we also see in rhus toxicodendron.
Complaints
- Headaches
- Inflammation of throat. Mucous in throat, difficult to scrape clear.
- Hyperventilation
- Stomach pains radiating to both sides and back. Burping. Scurvy. Cystitis.
Generals
- Desires: fish, eggs, chocolate.
- Aversion: sprouts (2), cabbage (2), fish (2), egg (2), chocolate.
- Aggravation: sprouts(2), cabbage(2)
- Time: agg. 7 and 19 hrs.
- Weather: amel. fresh air, wind, outdoors.
- Physical: agg. touch. amel. movement. Cochlearia officinalis
Literature
Vermeulen F: De complete Materia Medica van Boericke en Phatak.
Clarke JH: Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica.
Jan Scholten M.D.
Servaasbolwerk 13
3512 NK Utrecht
The Netherlands
[Edited by anuj srivastava on 2021-12-05 06:07:31]
Cochlearia Officinalis is of the Cruciferae family. It is sometimes confused with Cochlearia armoracia, the horseradish, another member of the Cruciferae. I myself had initially also confused these two, but later on it enabled me to find out the difference and to get a clearer picture of Cochlearia Officinalis.
The most important keynote of Cochlearia is "stomach pains radiating to sides and back". This keynote is not mentioned in the repertory but it is in Boericke. Boericke describes Cochlearia armoracia and doesn't mention Officinalis. But I took it as a keynote for Officinalis by mistake and it proved to be correct. It probably is a keynote for the whole Cochlearia family.
Botanical description: The plant grows 20 cm. high. It has a juicy stalk with few leaves. The round, heart - or kidney shaped leaves are to be found at the bottom of the stalk. The flowers are white, sometimes pink. It prefers a site in or near brackish water.
Mind picture: The picture that emerges is of a woman who has to take care of her sick, difficult, nagging husband.
The first characteristic is a sense of duty, just like the Kaliums have. They have the feeling that it is their duty to take on this task of caring. They have pledged to stand by their partner in sickness and in health. So they can't evade this responsibility.
The second characteristic is the fact that they actually don't want to do it, they don't feel like taking care of a nagging old man. In this respect they are different from the kaliums, who feel it is their duty, so they simply do it. It looks a bit like Cimicifuga in the sense of feeling bound and restricted in their relationships. Cochlearia often has dreams of being bound too, of being stuck and not being able to get out. But in Cimicifuga the sensation of being restricted is caused by social relations, they feel encaged by their family, neighbours etc. In Cochlearia it is their own sense of duty that is restricting them.
They often feel angry and dissatisfied about their task. But they don't really express their anger, they suffer in silence. Here we find a likeness with the magnesiums, there is anger, but they are not allowed to express it. The liver complaints and the aggravation at 7 a.m. is also similar to the Magnesiums. The difference is that the Magnesiums don't express their anger out of fear of loosing someone, while Cochlearia feels that their duty forbids them to make a fuss or get angry.
And so they develop a kind of bitterness, they feel disappointed in life. In this respect they look like the ammoniums, particularly ammonium sulphuricum, because the disappointment and bitterness are linked to the partner. The difference seems to be that Cochlearia has the feeling that he has to care for, while this is not a main factor in the ammoniums. The sour expression can clearly be seen on their face, there is little joy left.
The DD with Cocculus needs to be made too, because of the element of caring for others. But Cocculus does this more lovingly and based on a feeling of love, while Cochlearia does it reluctantly and with bitterness. This is partly because the partner is rather grumpy when ill. The patient is often awkward, demanding, aggressive, demented, helpless or oversexed. This makes their task of looking after their patient even less attractive, the patient is extremely ungrateful.
Cochlearia is sensitive to criticism, particularly with respect to their task of looking after husband and children. They'll try and prevent the outside world from getting to know that it isn't all as rosy inside the family as it looks. This reminds us of the Calciums, especially Calcium sulphuricum. But in Calc-s the sensitivity to criticism is the main theme, while in Cochlearia it is only part of the picture.
Case nr. 1
This is a case of a patient for whom Cochlearia was merely prescribed to deal with a particular layer. Sometimes a remedy shows itself more clearly in a particular layer than in a chronic/constitutional situation. That is why I want to present this case first; it shows the picture of Cochlearia without getting bogged down in all sorts of details. The other remedies which had worked well for this patient were Phosphorus and Calcium sulphuricum.
This 65 year old woman came with the complaint of "gallstone colic attacks".
She had pains in the epigastrium, radiating to both sides and back. She would be lying in bed, writhing with pain. The pain was worse from eggs (2), fish (2) and chocolate, although she was very fond of all these. The pain would come at any moment, particularly if she got worked up about something, for instance when she had to go to a party and she was afraid of not being ready on time.
She is always busy, she takes a lot upon herself. She works in the bar at a tennis club because she likes doing that sort of thing. She likes other people's company. Lately she has been worried about her husband. He has retired from his job and he just sits at home. She is afraid that he will go downhill and will suffer from dementia or Parkinson and that she will have to look after him. She would hate that and she does everything she can to get him active again, suggesting odd jobs he can do, or taking him along to the tennis club etc.
Other complaints: scraping her throat which produces clear mucous, throat feels swollen, pain in the ball of the thumb and pain in her middle finger, which seems to lock sometimes.
Comment: The keynote of stomach pains radiating to sides and back is the main symptom in this case. But the theme of Cochlearia also comes up quite clearly. In this case the fear that she might have to look after her husband in the future was enough to produce symptoms. Prescription Cochlearia Officinalis MK.
Reaction: After Cochlearia the complaints soon disappeared. Her husband came along to work at the bar too, and he did not become demented.
Case nr. 2
This is the clearest case of Cochlearia I have seen, in the sense that Cochlearia is the only remedy that has helped her in the long term.
This 70 year old woman has come complaining of headaches. The pain is situated mainly in the occiput and behind the ears. She feels dizzy with it and hazy, as if she is outside her own body. Her eyes are tired and sometimes she sees "zig-zagging flashes" before the headaches. The modalities are:agg. after waking (2), agg. noise, agg. red light (2), amel. dark, amel. lying on the back, amel. with a soft pillow behind the neck, amel. pressure on the forehead, amel. alone. The pain is also worse when she is busy or after exertion, for instance when her grandchildren come to visit.
Another problem is much mucous in her throat, which she can't clear. Sometimes she has yellow spots in her throat with pain. Occasionally she coughs up yellow lumps with an awful putrid odour. It makes her voice heavy and low too.
She also suffers from cramp in her calves, agg. after waking, agg. stretching her legs. Her knee occasionally feels heavy and stiff agg. damp weather. She also fainted once from the cramp in her calves, this was at a time when her newborn daughter often suffered from hiccups.
Ten years ago she had either a heart attack or a sudden attack of arrested breathing (probably the latter). She spent a few days in hospital in Germany, where she was on holiday at the time.
She occasionally suffers from stomach pains which radiate first to the sides and then on to the back. The whole area of her bowels ache. The pain is agg. lettuce, endive, curly kale and mushrooms.
She had jaundice when she was 24.
There isn't very much harmony in her married life. When I asked her if she had a happy marriage she answered:" Well, what is happiness? It is just the way it it is."
Her husband is rather domineering, he talks a lot but does very little. She has been getting annoyed with him ever since he retired and has been at home all day. Until then she was her own boss: "You knew what you had to do."
Their sexual relationship has dwindled to nothing, in the past she only "did it because she had to".
Her husband is often ill, he sometimes lies in bed for days on end, vomiting all the time. She has to take care of him then, but he is really difficult at those times, complaining about smells in the house etc. This usually happens in the winter, but it can go on for 10 weeks sometimes and it "drives her mad". She once told her G.P. that he had to arrange to have her husband admitted to hospital, otherwise she would run away, she couldn't stand it any longer. She thinks he is doing it on purpose and that makes her very angry, but she doesn't express it.
When I ask her if she feels bitter she says:" It could have been so nice together, but my husband lies in bed all day and in the evening he watches television, he doesn't feel like doing anything else."
She is always busy and likes to have everything neat and tidy. She has a day for washing and a day for cleaning, everything has to happen in a standard order and she gets very annoyed if she is disturbed in her pattern.
She is quite forgetful. She doesn't like looking back in the past. She hardly ever gets angry. She feels it is very important to be herself and not to copy what others do. She hates having debts, as her father would say: "First have the money, then buy something."
Dreams: (as a child) she was in a house that was on fire, she couldn't get out. Nightmares about being stuck, not able to escape.
- Desires: sweet, salt, meat, fish, eggs.
- Aversion: oysters, milk, beet root.
- agg. lettuce, endive.
- Time:agg. 7 a.m.
- Weather: amel. fresh air (2), sea air, mountain air.
- Physical: amel. movement.
Comment: The problem with her husband is all important in this case. She has all the characteristics that belong to Cochlearia. The dreams about being stuck, not able to get away are very typical. She even had them when she was child. The dreams remind us of Cimicifuga, but this remedy brought only temporary improvement.
Cuprum also seems to be indicated, because of the cramps in her calves and her rather restricted, cramped attitude in life. However Cuprum sulphuricum only gave temporary relief for the cramps. Then she came with the complaint of stomach pains radiating to both sides and back, and I gave Cochlearia. Prescription Cochlearia Officinalis MK.
Reaction: She starts to feel much better, the pains are less and she manages to distance herself a little from her husband's problems. She starts to go out from time to time, whether he likes it or not. While in the past she used to feel too restricted , she had to stay at home and look after her husband.
During two years the remedy was a repeated a few times and she remained well on Cochlearia. Later she reacted well on Menispermum canadense for different complaints.
Case nr. 3
This 65 year old woman suffered from hyperventilation: face feels strange, tingling in the hands, "cotton-wool feeling" in the legs.
A second complaint is diverticulosis with constipation, painful urging agg. 19 hrs, agg. after meals, agg. pregnancy. She also has a slight hiatus in the diaphragm.
She gets tired very quickly. Her heart is not very good, she has arteriosclerosis and one of the valves is not perfect. Sometimes she gets a horrible weak, dizzy, feeling, with pains in the chest, radiating to the back via both sides. She has often had cystitis in the past.
- Desires: warm food, traditional Dutch food, raw food, fish, eggs.
- Aversion: cheese, too sweet, too spicy.
- agg. Brussels sprouts (2).
- Time agg. 7 a.m. and p.m.
- Weather:amel. fresh air, wind.
Mind: She is a very caring person. Sometimes it all gets too much, she feels that she can't cope with everything. The contact with her children is a bit difficult. Her daughter in law doesn't like seeing her too often, prefers to visit her own parents. Her own daughter lives far away so she doesn't see her very often. Apart from all that her husband has a problem with the children. He is constantly afraid that he will kill them (amel. amel. thea), so this has hindered the contact with children and grandchildren. She wants to be a good wife to her husband and a good mother to her children.
Comment: Here we don't see the theme of bitterness all that strongly, but we do see the theme of care taking. Also the typical Cochlearia feeling of it all being too much, not being able to cope. The keynote of pain in the stomach has moved to pain in the chest in this case, but it is radiating to sides and back. Prescription Cochlearia Officinalis MK.
Reaction: Cochlearia made the hyperventilation disappear, it increased her energy and she was able to cope much better. Other remedies which have helped her were: Uva ursi and Calcarea sulphurica before and Naja after Cochlearia, but all for different problems than the ones solved with Cochlearia.
Case nr. 4
A 65 year old woman has a sore throat with yellow and red spots, starting on the left, moving to the right side.
She suffers from nagging pains in her stomach, radiating to sides and back. The modalities are: agg. lying down, amel. sitting, amel. morning, agg. afternoon and evening, agg. getting tense, visitors.
She often has diarrhoea when she has to go out somewhere. This complaint started when she suddenly had an attack of hyperventilation when she was watching a play in the theatre. It was accompanied by great fear, cramping stomach pains, weakness and fear of death.
She has aching pain in her muscles agg. touch. Often cramp in her right leg, just underneath the skin.
Many problems started when her husband fell ill 5 years ago. He had C of the testes with metastasis to the to the bones and great brittleness of the bones. But he tortured her through his behaviour: he was angry and jealous, wanted to throw her out of the window, wanted to have sex all the time, although he was impotent since his testes had been removed. She couldn't understand what was happening, their marriage had been so perfect until then. She is a very trusting sort of person, always sees the good side in everybody. She always worries about her children. She is extremely nervous, always neat and tidy and likes to be on time. She is afraid of heights.
- Weather: cold, agg. mist, agg. draught (2), fear of hard wind and storm since the floods in "53.
- Time:agg. evening.
- Desire: sweet, chocolate, salt, fatty meat, fish, eggs.
- Aversion: sour rhubarb, milk.
- agg. red cabbage.
Comment: The diarrhoea from anticipation makes you think of Argentum nitricum or Gelsemium. Her nervousness would seem to fit this picture too. But Argentum nitricum had very little effect. Nor had Calcarea carbonica, Rhododendron or Cimicifuga. The keynote of stomach pains radiating to sides and back could indicate Cochlearia. The worries about her husband and children and the horrors around the time of her husbands illness fit this picture too. Prescription Cochlearia Officinalis MK.
Reaction: After Cochlearia her muscle pains, stomach pains and nervousness became much less. She felt much better on the whole. She never needed a repetition of the remedy.
Symptoms for cochlearia
When I was studying these cases I noticed some more similarities, which I have put together in the summary below. Some of these complaints, like the aggravation from cabbage and Brussels sprouts, are understandable because they belong to the Cruciferae too. The amelioration from movement and being out in the fresh air fit with the feeling of being stuck; space and movement ameliorate in such cases, as we also see in rhus toxicodendron.
Complaints
- Headaches
- Inflammation of throat. Mucous in throat, difficult to scrape clear.
- Hyperventilation
- Stomach pains radiating to both sides and back. Burping. Scurvy. Cystitis.
Generals
- Desires: fish, eggs, chocolate.
- Aversion: sprouts (2), cabbage (2), fish (2), egg (2), chocolate.
- Aggravation: sprouts(2), cabbage(2)
- Time: agg. 7 and 19 hrs.
- Weather: amel. fresh air, wind, outdoors.
- Physical: agg. touch. amel. movement. Cochlearia officinalis
Literature
Vermeulen F: De complete Materia Medica van Boericke en Phatak.
Clarke JH: Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica.
Jan Scholten M.D.
Servaasbolwerk 13
3512 NK Utrecht
The Netherlands
[Edited by anuj srivastava on 2021-12-05 06:07:31]
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