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Materia Medica by AllenCOLOCYNTHIS(coloc)SQUIRTING CUCUMBER CUCURBITACEAEAgonizing pain in abdomen causing patient to bend double, with restlessness, twisting and turning to obtain relief > by hard pressure ( > by heat, Mag. p.). Pains: are worse after eating or drinking; compel patient to bend double (Mag. p. — < by bending double, Dios.); menses, suppressed by chagrin, colic pains. Extremely irritable, impatient; becomes angry or offended on being questioned. Irritable; throws things out of his hands. Affections from anger, with indignation—colic, vomiting, diarrhoea and suppression of menses. (Cham., Staph.). Vertigo: when quickly turning head, ESPECIALLY TO THE LEFT, as if he would fall; from stimulants. Sciatica: crampy pain in hip, as though screwed in a vise; lies upon affected side. Shooting pain, like lightning-shocks, down the whole limb, left hip, left thigh, left knee, into popliteal fossa.
Relations Compare: Gnaph. intense pain along right sciatic nerve, darting, cutting, from right hip joint down to foot; < lying down, motion, stepping; > by sitting. Compare with Staph, in ovarian or other diseases from bad effects of anger, reserved indignation or silent grief.
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