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Colocynthis

Homeopathic medicine

Colocynthis is one of the homeopathy remedies. Homeopathy adopts remedies with microdoses or infinitesimal dosage according to the principle of similarity. The homeopathy remedies reported in the online materia medica are briefly described with regard to the properties they express, for the understanding of who uses them, as long as they are prescribed by the homeopathic doctor. The online materia medica in no case replaces the visit and prescription of a homeopath. Online homeopathy remedies are described through the character, modalities and organotropisms expressed. Homeopathy remedies are also related to acupuncture points for homeopathic acupuncture or for their percutaneous manipulation.

Colocynthis name and origin:

Colocynthis or coloquintide also called watermelon or bitter cucumber, is a herbaceous plant in the fam. Nat. Cucurbitaceae. The remedy is obtained from the fruit which is the size of a small orange.

Character properties of Colocynthis:

In order to act, homeopathy remedies must correspond to a character and / or psychic discomfort. The Colocynthis patient corresponds to the following character properties of the remedy:

• scary,
• angry,
• irritable,
• impatient,
• irritable for small reasons,
• taciturn,
• irritable when spoken to,
• does not want to speak

Colocynthis Modifications:

Homeopathy remedies are also described through the patient's modalities to which they correspond. The Colocynthis remedy is indicated in patients who express the following symptomatological moralizations:

• improves with heat,
• improves with rest,
• improves with pressure,
• get better with coffee,
• improves with tobacco,
• worsening with irritability,
• improvement by eating,
• improvement by drinking,
• worsening with movement

Colocynthis organotropism:

Homeopathy remedies are also described through a propensity towards their specific tissues towards which they develop effects according to the Law of Like. The Colocynthis remedy, like all homeopathy remedies, can involve any biological tissue in a pathology, but it is indicated for those patients, who mainly express the following organotropisms in suffering:

• digestive system,
• peripheral nervous system,
• gall bladder

General alterations of Colocynthis:

Homeopathy remedies are also described through a propensity to relevant dysfunctions and disorders towards which they develop effects according to the Law of Like. Colocynthis remedy is indicated in patients with the following general alterations:

• ache,
• colic,
• metal cage feeling,
• cramps,
• pain in the nerves

Clinical Diagnosis and Indications for Colocynthis:

Homeopathy remedies are not prescribed through the clinical diagnosis of conventional medicine, but for the sum of all the symptoms expressed by the patient according to the principle of similarity. Prescribing Colocynthis on a single diagnosis is therefore contrary to the method as well as poorly effective. The prescription of Colocynthis nevertheless sometimes coincides with the following diagnoses of conventional medicine:

• neuralgia,
• neuritis,
• sciatica,
• lumbosciatica,
• arthritis,
• irritable colon,
• colic,
• cholecystolithiasis,
• renella,
• renal colic,
• Ulcerative colitis,
• nephrolithiasis,
• bile sand,
• colitis