Cocculus indicus Anhang

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External ointment for scabies and ringworm - it paralyses and stops the mites.

Adulteration of beer increasing the inebriating quality/strength of the beer/preventing 2nd fermentation. Used by thieves for the purpose of hocusing (= betrügen). It is a strong climbing plant.

The active substance is Picrotoxine (Picrotoxic acid).

Poisoning: trembling gait/protruding eyes/agitated muscles followed by convulsions and contortions of the whole body/falling backwards and forwards/entire loss of consciousness/foaming at the mouth/nausea and vomiting/tongue and gums livid/respiration laboured or quickened. Symptoms remit and then return with even greater violence. = Camph-ähnlich + brain;

Theme of paralysis but from suppression or being stopped in some way. The connection between themselves and the cause of their illness has been broken. The stem has been broken and they are separated from the roots.

They have lost sight of their own sense of being. But in contrast to this they develop extreme sympathy to the sufferings of others. In a way they are denying themselves. They have stupefied their own feelings but can still

sense the intense feelings of others. They over absorb but with a sense of emptiness. The sensitivity to others is so intense that they will go to great lengths in helping or relieving the suffering. They will go without sleep and

food and although this will have its consequences, they still persevere.

Just as it is a strong climbing plant the person will climb and climb great heights (figuratively speaking) to help others whilst running away from their own roots. (comes to the top and is exhausted).

Hence the rubric ‘recognises everything but cannot move.’ Interestingly it can effect just one half of the body, leaving the other half untouched. So they have only half the sense of themselves.

Clarke describes a characteristic symptom as an ‘opening and shutting’ sensation (akin to the remission and relapse common to MS?) Of course none can keep this state going for long. The consequence is extreme tiredness, dullness, staggering, very imbalanced gait, staggering around trying to make the connections.

Why and how do they get like this? Trauma or long standing, chronic situations are usually the cause. A sudden illness in the family, someone who needs constant care a Catastrophic incident in the community - a long

standing, sad, situation where they cannot express their own feelings.

They can be very romantic (absorbed in reveries) but are very easily offended, (sadness, “As if from an insult”) so a loving relationship is very easily broken. They will dwell on this chronically and suppress their feelings

until a diseased state begins to appear. So sensitive, there will be profound sadness (horrible stories and sad things affect her profoundly). This is where the fcusing aspect comes in.

They are so vulnerable, so giving, so easily led, so easily stupefied. In chronic states I would see this as a more gradual process but of course the client can present at any stage but if it is the extreme, final stages you might well have someone who just sits there staring, doing nothing and hardly moving.

[Joy Lucas]

Used by Arabian physicians but it was chiefly employed as a stupefying poison for fish, making them easy to catch. Its main medicinal use was for an external ointment for scabies and ringworm - paralyse and stop the mites?

The plant has also been used in the illicit adulteration of beer increasing the inebriating quality and strength of the beer and preventing a second fermentation which would cause the barrels to burst. It was also an ingredient used by thieves for the purpose of deceiving their victims!!

It is a strong climbing plant and the fruit is the size of a pea.

The active substance is Picrotoxine (Picrotoxic acid). The shell is emetic and it is the kernal which contains the Picrotoxic acid.

The symptoms of poisoning are trembling gait, protruding eyes, agitation of the muscles followed by convulsions and contortions of the whole body, falling backwards and forwards, entire loss of consciousness, foaming at the mouth, nausea and vomiting, tongue and gums livid, respiration laboured or quickened. Symptoms remit and then return with even greater violence.

It exerts its influence similar to that of Camphor, more particularly on the brain. In fact Camphor is the main antidote.

Hahnemann was the first to use this substance internally.

Again the theme of paralysis but from suppression or being stopped in some way. The connection between themselves and the cause of their illness has been broken. The stem has been broken and they are separated from

the roots. They have lost sight of their own sense of being. But in contrast to this they develop extreme sympathy to the sufferings of others. In a way they are denying themselves, they have stupefied their own feelings but

can still sense the intense feelings of others. They over absorb but with a sense of emptiness.

The sensitivity to others is so intense that they will go to great lengths in helping or relieving the suffering. They will go without sleep and food and although this will have its consequences, they still persevere. Just as it is a

strong climbing plant the person will climb and climb great heights (figuratively speaking) to help others whilst running away from their own roots. Hence the rubric 'recognises everything but cannot move.'

Interestingly it can effect just one half of the body, leaving the other half untouched. So they have only half the sense of themselves. And Clarke describes a characteristic symptom as an 'opening and shutting' sensation (akin to the remission and relapse common to MS?)

Of course no-one can keep this state going for long. The consequence is extreme tiredness, dullness, staggering, very imbalanced gait. Staggering around trying to make the connections.

Why and how do they get like this? Trauma or long standing, chronic situations are usually the cause. A sudden illness in the family, someone who needs constant care – a catastrophic incident in the community - a long standing sad situation where they cannot express their own feelings.

They can be very romantic (absorbed in reveries) but are very easily offended, (sadness, as if from an insult) so a loving relationship is very easily broken. They will dwell on this chronically and suppress their feelings until a diseased state begins to appear. So sensitive, there will be profound sadness (horrible stories and sad things affect her profoundly). This is where the deceiving aspect comes in. They are so vulnerable, so giving, so easily led, so easily stupefied.

In chronic states I would see this as a more gradual process but of course the client can present at any stage but if it is the extreme, final stages you might well have someone who just sits there staring, doing nothing, hardly moving.

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