Copaiva


Copaiva signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Copaiva is used…


      Copaiva. Copaifera officinalis. *N. O. Leguminosae. Tincture of the balsam.

Clinical

Acne. Anus, itching of. *Bladder, irritable. Blenorrhagia. Bronchitis Catarrh. Cough. Cystitis. Dysentery. Fistula. Gastritis. Gonorrhoea. Haemorrhoids. Measles. Nose-bleed. Prostatitis. Pruritus. Urethritis. Urticaria. Vulva, inflammation

of.

Characteristics

*Copaiva is an old-world remedy for gonorrhoea, and it has also been used for other blennorrhagic conditions. It has been proved, and observations have been made on patients who have overdosed themselves with the drug. The chief incidence of the drug’s action is on the genito-urinary organs, and rectum. It is suited to the irritable bladder of old women. Irritation accompanying thickening of bladder. Burning at neck of bladder and in urethra, discharge milky, corrosive, meatus tumid and inflamed. It affects the skin and mucous membranes generally. In chronic bronchitis it is useful when there is profuse, greenish-grey, disgusting- smelling sputa. ***A. P. Bowie (*Medorrhinum *Adv., xx.14) has verified this indication: ” In old persons (men, I should say) who from cold or other causes cannot urinate, or where there is frequent desire and only a few drops pass with much straining_frequently with a mucous discharge from the bowels, with much rumbling and

rolling in the bowels.” He gave 5-drop doses of the first dilution. He commends also an ointment of gtt. x of the balsam to 3j of vaseline, “to relieve the burning and itching at the anus caused by piles.”.

Relations.

*Antidoted by: Belladonna, Calcarea, Mercurius, Sulphur *Compare: Cannab., Cantharis, Cubeb., Erig., Kali-br., Kali-i., Sepia, Senec. It has less violent action than Cantharis Teste says he is unable to find any difference between the therapeutic properties of Copaiva and Sepia Both are antidoted by the same drug: Merc-c. in the male, and Mercurius sol. in the female, according to Teste, neutralize the action of Copaiva almost instantaneously.

SYMPTOMS.

Mind

Depression with anxious sadness. Excessive sensitiveness of whole nervous system, least noise causes starting and anger. A young girl weeps on hearing a piano. Uneasiness on account of one’s health. Misanthropy. Deficient memory. Loathing of life, and at the same time fear of death.

Head

Heaviness of head, especially of occipital region, which is instinctively pressed against collar of coat, which relieves. Pulsative, deep stitches in occiput. Dull pain in occiput. Every step jars the head. Hemicrania (left) with burning pains, sense of coldness in part, weeping and constant moaning ( in young man of twenty-two, disposed to be hypochondriacal. It was so violent that Teste had to give *Mercurius to relieve him). Pressure at forehead. Headache: better pressing head back against collar of coat, gentle pressure with hand, worse evening and night, intolerable when leaning on pillow, washing face with cool water in morning (sudden stitches in both temples). Falling out of the hair. Sensitiveness of hairy scalp.

Eyes

Formication in canthi of eyes in evening. Black points hovering before eyes. On alternately closing eyes objects look much paler to left eye than to right.

Ears

Excessive sensitiveness of hearing, especially to sharp sounds.

Nose

Epistaxis of small boys, also after wounds. Profuse yellow and green, thick, fetid discharge from nasal passages running down throat at night.

Face

Face pale and sickly-looking. Acne. Urticaria. Red humid tetter on upper lip, which is swollen and painful when touched.

Mouth

Teeth set on edge. Sense of coldness in teeth. Foul breath in morning. Tongue covered with whitish coating, greenish at base. Tenacious phlegm in mouth and throat, which is constantly reproduced.

Throat

Chronic catarrh of throat. Sensation of foreign body in pharynx. Swelling of both tonsils ( worse right).

Stomach

Thirst and diminished appetite. Bitter taste. Hungry in evening on going to bed. Every article of food seems too salt. Rush of blood to head and face when eating or after a meal. Spitting up of ingesta with large quantities of mucus. Inclination to vomit. Distension and fullness after eating, gastric troubles during menstruation or following urticaria.

Abdomen

Pressing pain in region of spleen, becomes pulsative from time to time. Tearings in the abdomen preceded by pullings in the bones of the thighs. Sensation of burning in the abdomen. Borborygmi and movements in the intestines.

Stool and Anus

White, loose evacuations, chiefly in the morning, with cold and drawing tearings in the abdomen, which force the patient to bend double. Involuntary evacuations. Stools like sheep’s dung. Insufficient stools. Fluent piles. Bloody stools. Stools with tenesmus. Stitches, spasms in rectum. Intolerable burning at the anus. Burning, itching at anus.

Urinary Organs

Constant, ineffectual desire to urinate, contraction of the urethra, emission of urine in drops. Itching, soreness, and sensation of scalding in the urethra, before and after the emission of urine. Inflammation of the urinary organs, swelling, dilation, and inflammation of the orifice of the urethra. Pain as from excoriation in the orifice of the urethra, which remains wide open, with throbbing pain in the penis generally. Hematuria. Urine foaming, greenish-turbid, smelling like violets. Yellow, purulent gonorrhoea.

Male Sexual Organs.

Burning and sensation of dryness in the region of the prostrate gland, induration of the prostate gland. Swelling of testes. Swelling and induration of the testes.

Female Sexual Organs.

Burning and itching of urethra, itching of vulva, burning red spots in vulva. Milky, acid, excoriating discharge with painful menstruation. Profuse gonorrhoeal discharge. Metrorrhagia.

Respiratory Organs

Dry, painful cough, with dryness in the larynx. Profuse expectoration of a greenish-grey purulent mucus, of a disgusting smell. Spitting of blood.

Heart

Palpitation of the heart.

Lower Limbs

Pain and swelling of the knees and malleoli.

Generalities

Burning pain (skin, abdomen, urethra, prostate gland, chest). Heaviness and pressure (abdomen, chest, perineum,).

Skin

Large red blotches all over the body, with constipation and some fever. Dark-coloured or bright red, elevated, intolerable itching, lentil-sized, measle-shaped exanthema, in clusters, flowing into one another. Nettle-rash, pale red or bright red, with violent itching. Jaundice.

Sleep

Drowsiness in daytime. Restless sleep at night. Frightful, or lascivious dreams.

Fever

Quotidian fever, shiverings and cold in the forenoon, with pain in the dorsa of the feet, then, in the afternoon, general heat and thirst, with desire for cold water. During the febrile cold, the instep is painfully sensible to motion. Perspiration profuse of a pungent smell. Sour-smelling sweat at night. Profuse inodorous sweat in morning.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica