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Causticum: Common Name: - Tinctura Acris Sine Kali First Prover - Dr. Hahnneman Introduction

Causticum is useful for chronic rheumatic, arthritic, and paralytic conditions characterized by tearing, drawing pains in muscles and joints. This can lead to deformities, loss of muscle strength, contractures, and gradual paralysis. It affects the medulla oblongata, vagus nerve, larynx, trachea, urinary bladder, and skin. Symptoms include paralysis, low temperature, weakness, and paralysis of vocal cords or urinary bladder. It is suited for physically weak, emaciated, anemic individuals with a pale, sallow complexion who are chilly and aggravated by dry, cold weather.

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Causticum: Common Name: - Tinctura Acris Sine Kali First Prover - Dr. Hahnneman Introduction

Causticum is useful for chronic rheumatic, arthritic, and paralytic conditions characterized by tearing, drawing pains in muscles and joints. This can lead to deformities, loss of muscle strength, contractures, and gradual paralysis. It affects the medulla oblongata, vagus nerve, larynx, trachea, urinary bladder, and skin. Symptoms include paralysis, low temperature, weakness, and paralysis of vocal cords or urinary bladder. It is suited for physically weak, emaciated, anemic individuals with a pale, sallow complexion who are chilly and aggravated by dry, cold weather.

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CAUSTICUM

Common Name : - Tinctura acris sine kali


first Prover – Dr. Hahnneman
Introduction: -
Manifests its action mainly in chronic rheumatic, arthritic & paralytic
affections indicated by the tearing drawing pain in the muscular & fibrous
tissues with deformities about the joints, progressive loss of muscular
strength, tendinous contractures, Broken down saniles . This weakness
progresses until we have gradually appearing paralysis, local paralysis, vocal
cords, ms of deglutition’s, of tongue, eyelids, face, bladder & extremities
children are slow to walk. The skin of causation person is of dirty white
sallow, with warts esp. on the face emaciation due to disease worry etc. & of
long standing, burning, rawness sourness all char.
Source – Mineral kingdom
Preparation of Mother Tincter - According to class VI (A)
Drug Strength – 1/10
Sphere of Actions: -
Main organ affected by this drug are medulla oblongata & vogues nerve,
larynx, trachea, urinary bladder & mucous membrane flexor tendons & skin.

Pathogenesis: -
The general physiological action o f this drug is paralysis, slow pulse, low
temperature & general paralytic, weakness. Paralysis esp. – of vocal cord,
paralytic of the urinary bladder leading of retention of urine or incontinence
of urine contraction of muscles & tendons.
On mucous membrane of different hollow organs causticum produces an
irritant action with increased secretions.

Constitutions: -
Person of hydrogenoid constitution with shallow complexion, dark hair &
rigid muscular fibers, physically very much weak, emaciated & anaemic.

Relation with heat & cold: - Chilly patient


Miasm : - Antipsoric & antisycotic

 Mind: -
- Child does not want to go to bed alone.
- Least thing makes it cry, sad, hopeless.
- Intensely sympathetic.
- A/f long lasting grief, sudden emotions.
- Thinking of complaints < esp. hemorrhoids.
 Head: -
- Sensation of empty space between forehead & brain.
- Pain in right frontal eminence..
 Face: -
- Paralysis of Rt. side Warts.
- Pains in facial bones, dental fistula
- Pain in jaws, with difficulty in opening mouth.

 Eyes: -
- Cataract with motor disturbances.
- Inflammation of eyelids ulceration.
- sparks & dark spots before eyes, ptosis
- vision impaired, as if film user before eyes
- Paralysis of ocular muscles after exposure to cold.
 Ears: -
- Ringing roaring pulsating with deafness .Words & steps re-echo
- chronic middle ear catarrh, accumulation of wax.
 Nose: -
- Coryza with hoarseness.
- Scaly nose Nostrils ulcerated
- Pimples & warts
 Mouth: -
- Bites inside of cheek from chewing
- Paralysis of tongue with indistinct speech
- Rheumatism of articulation of lower jaw
- Gums bleeds easily
 Stomach: -
- Greasy taste
- Aversion to sweets
- Feels as if lime were burned in stomach.
- worse after eating fresh meat smoked meat agrees.
- sensation of ball rising in throat acid dyspepsia.
 Stool: -
- Hard, tough c- Soft & small size of goose quill covered with mucus,
shines like grease
- Small shaped expelled with much straining or only on standing up.
- Partial Paralysis of rectum
- Rectum sore & burns.
- Fistula & large piles.
 Urine: -
- Involuntary when coughing sneezing
- Expelled very slowly & sometimes retained
- Involuntary during first sleep at night
- Also from slightest excitement
- Loss of sensibility on passing urine
- Retention after surgical operations.
 Female: -
- Uterine inertia during labor
- Menses cease at night flow only during day
- Leucorrhoea at night with great weakness
- Menses delay, late
 Respiratory: -
- Hoarseness with pain I chest
- Aphonia larynx sore.
- cough with raw soreness of chest
- Better drinking cold water & warmth of bed
- Sore streak down trachea, mucus under sternum
- Which he cannot quite reach
- Pain in chest with palpitation
- Cannot lie down at night
- Voice – re echoes. Own voice roars in ears & distresses
- Difficulty of voice of singers & public speakers.
 Back: -
- Stiffness between shoulders.
- Dull pain in nape of neck.
 Extremities: -
- It sided sciatica with numbness
- Paralysis of single parts
- Dull tearing type of pain In hands & arms
- Heaviness & weakness, tearing joints
- Unsteadiness of muscles of forearm & hand numbness.
- Loss of sensation in hands
- Contracted tendons
- Weak ankles
- Cannot walk without suffering
- Rheumatic tearing in limbs & by warmth esp.
- Heat of bed
- Burning in joints.
- Slow in learning to walk
- Unsteady walking & easily falling
- Restless legs at night
- Cracking & tension in knees.
- Stiffness in hollow of knee
- Itching on dorsum of feet.
 Skin: -
- Soreness in folds of skin, back of ears between thighs.
- Warts large, jagged bleeding easily, on tips of fingers & nose.
- Old burns that do not get well & ill effects from burns.
- Pain of burns.
- Cicatries freshen up
- Old injuries reopen
- Skin prone to intertrigo during dentitions.
 Sleep: -
- Very drowsy.
- Can hardly keep awake.
- Nocturnal sleeplessness with dry heat.
 Modalities: -
< dry, cold winds > In damp, wet weather
< in clear fine weather > Warmth
< cold air > Heal of bed
< from motion of carriage.
 Relationship: -
- Causticum corresponds to Ammonicum
- Causticum does not agree with Phosphorus
- The remedies should not be used after each other.
Antidote - Paralysis from lead poisoning
Complementary - Carbo, Petrosel
Compare - Rhus , Arsenic amm. Phos.

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