Homeopathy Remedy Calotropis


Calotropis homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Calotropis…


A tincture is made form the bark of the root of Calotropis gigantea R. Br. (Asclepiadaceae), which grows in India.

Depressed, tired feeling, which came on gradually when walking, with nausea na faint feeling, great coldness, dizziness, frequent micturition, constant eructations, went to bed at 5 P.M., body cold frequent chills passing up spinal cord, head and temples hot, cheeks burning, after a time, with rugs on the bed, heat and perspiration, pulse quickened, but he was too ill to count it, heat and cold alternatively, with nausea until he sipped strong coffee, then vomiting of about a wine-glassful of yellow bile, vomited a lesser quantity an hour later, oppression of chest, short respiration, lips and throat dry, head painful, with throbbing and confusion, sipped coffee all night, little sleep, tossed from side to side two days before, when moving, had felt pain inside of r. thigh just below crotch, now back of r. thigh was very sore, red and hard, so that turning over in bed was difficult, next morning the thigh was so sore, swollen and painful that the leg could not be bent in walking and every step was painful, with lameness, again chills towards bedtime and in bed, beginning in feet and running up spinal cord, occasional movement of feet in bed seemed to bring on the chills, fits of perspiration alternating with the chills, restless, head and face hot, breath foul, sleepless, pulse weak and thready, urine dark red, with strong smell, cramplike pains in centre of r. palm on grasping anything, lasting many days, pain, but less in degree, in wrist on moving it, soreness and swelling of r. palate, giving pain on moving jaws in eating next day diffused red blotches on thigh, elevated and papular, veins on hand, which are usually full, seemed thinner, took several doses of Camp. rub., tingling burning pain in thigh on standing up.

Dull aching in occiput at 11 A.M., gradually increasing till bedtime, 12 P.M., very bad at times in evening, next morning lightness of head, (>) after breakfast.

Pain in tarsal bones of l. foot on movement or on bearing weight on foot, (<) Hepar sul., at night intermittent cramplike pain while foot rested on the bed, restlessness, kept moving the foot about the bed, drank coffee and pain ceased when at rest, instep red and swollen, could not let the foot touch the ground, yet by putting the foot down very gradually and by degrees bringing the weight upon it he could stand without pain, which returned as soon as he took off the weight, coffee as a lotion sent the redness in and made the foot worse, before trying the coffee lotion slight pain in r. foot, which afterwards became affected like l.

Clinical It has been used in tubercular leprosy. In lupus of face. Violent pain in both legs with swelling of knees and stiffness, cannot walk.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.