Cotyledon umbilicus. Umbilicus pendulinus. Penny wort. Navel wort. Kidney wort. Le Nombril de Venus. *N. O. Crassulaceae (House-leek-family). Tincture of the plant.
Clinical
Heart affections. Hysteria. Sinuses. Spleen, affections of. Rheumatism.
Characteristics
*Cotyledon has had a considerable proving, but I am not aware of any clinical experience with it having been recorded. The whole house leek family are deserving of careful study by homoeopathists. Among the most peculiar symptoms of *Cotyl. are: a feeling as if some part of the body-a foot or the head_were absent. The senses of sight and hearing are dulled. A yellow patch follows the sight. Disagreeable surging in ears, ears feel stuffed. A number of pains in the region of the spleen appear. The breathing is oppressed, the heart is disturbed. Rheumatic symptoms are prominent. Weak, faint feeling. Stitching, pricking, jerking pains are predominant sensations. Cooper considers it a cancer remedy. He has cured with it sinuses in buttock. A patient to whom he gave it for polypus said it made him “stagger as if drunk.” Symptoms are worse morning and evening.
Relations.
*Compare: Sedum acre.
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
On waking disagreeable sensation running down back of right thigh and leg, with a feeling as if there were no foot. Head felt exceedingly light for some time as if there were no solid head, could not articulate for some time though she tried, followed by pressing vertical headache better by tea. On waking, sensation as if going out of mind, followed by trickling as of blood down left arm from shoulder to finger-joints. Exhilaration. Difficulty of collecting ideas. Feels lost before headache comes on.
Head
Headache, causing desire for open air, which better. Dull headache with cold feet. Dull, heavy, stupefying pain in forehead and vertex, shifting suddenly between them.
Throat
Constant choking in throat-pit, and feeling as if he would burst into tears. Back of throat feels as if covered with thick mucus.
Stomach
Pain at epigastrium through to shoulder with nausea. On swallowing, the morsel seems to pass and press against some swelling in cardiac region ( in evening) recurring during the pain.
Abdomen
Long stitch in left hypochondrium. Dull pains in left hypochondrium. Dull pushing in region of spleen recurring at intervals.
Stool and Anus
Bowels freely opened, later, constipation.
Urinary Organs
Calls to urinate frequent. Increased flow of clear urine.
Respiratory Organs
Tickling in larynx with dry cough. Oppressed breathing. Shooting in all directions in chest, particularly under right scapula and left nipple during evening. Stitches below both nipples.
Heart
Heat about heart. Uneasiness. Clawing, dragging pain, on riding, better by compressing side. A troublesome palpitation and fullness at sternum on walking up-hill, consisting of one or two jumps or rolls of heart with occasional intermission.
Upper Limbs
Between attacks of headache, gnawing, rheumatic pain in right shoulder. Aching, bruised pain in wrists. Aching, tingling in hands, especially at night, preventing sleep, tingling down arm when the nerve is struck.
Lower Limbs
Aching in left thigh followed by numbness. Stinging pain under left gluteus maximus in region of sciatic nerve.
Generalities
Occasionally during the day attacks of faintness with green shadows before the eye. Creeping in the flesh, and feeling as before severe cold or rheumatic attack.