Cobaltum


Cobaltum homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Introduction

The element, Co.

Preparation: Trituration of the pure metal.

Mind.

Emotional.

Great exhilaration of spirits during the day (third day).

Great vivacity (fifth day). Great vivacity and rapid flow of thought. Low-spirited; thinks too little of himself. Condemned, mean feeling, as though guilty of some deed of which others knew; as if he could not look one in the face (after the fourth dose), 6 A.M. and several times during the day (third day). All mental excitement greatly increases the suffering (1st dil).

Intellectual.

Desire for study (second day). Increased desire for study (third day). Much more inclination to study. Indisposed to mental or physical labor; want of energy; low-spirited; thinks too little of himself. Dulness and weakness, with aversion to mental exercise (after nine hours).

Head.

Dulness and fullness, with bruised pain in the head, especially in the forehead and temples; morning (second day). Head feels dull and stupid, with a dull pressive pain in temples, which was worse on moving; forenoon (second day). Pain in the head (second day).

Pain in head, worse when bending forward, especially the occiput (second day). Pain in head and small of back (second day). Pain in head, especially occiput, at the middle of the day (second day).

Feeling as if head grew large during stool, with dizziness and weakness; pain in head continued for an hour after stool (after six hours). Dull aching pain in head from 1 till 8 P.M.

increasing till then, mostly in forehead (third day). Headache in morning, with beating, and sore aching all over (seventh day).

Headache, in morning when rising (second day). Headache, on waking and during the day (third day). Headache all forenoon (second day). Headache at 12, with nausea and languor (second day). On walking headache. Slight headache for two days, in morning till 10 o’clock and again in afternoon (fourth day).

Slight headache in afternoon (fourth day). Slight headache in room, going off in open air (soon after). Dull headache all day, from waking in the morning, worse in a room (second day).

Dull headache, especially in forehead, with a feeling in stomach as if it contained undigested food (third day). Sensation as if the brain went up and down, when stepping (seventh day).

Forehead.

Pain in forehead (sixth day). Pain in forehead, after rising (second day). Pain in forehead, worse from stooping (fourth day).

Pain in forehead, with pain in back part of eyes (after half an hour). Pain in forehead, with sense of fullness at stomach, as if filled with air (third day). Severe pain in forehead, soon after rising (second day).

Temples.

Severe pain in temples (after one hour). Pain in left temple during morning, with feeling of languor and nausea at stomach; constant desire for stool, and sensation as if diarrhoea would set in, but it did not (second day). Pain, like a tearing, in the right temple near to the orbit; forenoon (first day).

Vertex.

Pain in top of head, when rising from a seat, with prickling pain in stomach (third day). The top of the head at every jar feels as if it would come off (seventh day).

Occiput.

Pain in occiput, in morning (fifth day). Headache in occiput (second day). Headache in occiput in morning, worse in open air; continuing till 3 P.M. (second day). Headache in occiput, coming on at noon.

External Head.

Pimples, very sore, like a boil in the edge of the hair on the back of the head (third day). Great itching of hairy scalp at night (second day). Great itching of the hairy scalp, and in the beard under the chin, with burning when scratching (second day).

Eye.

The eyes, which were previously weak, and the lids red and tender, are much aggravated, with sensation as if sand were under the lid (third day). Eyes dry. Pain in the eyes during the day and evening. Pain in eyes, when coming to the light (third day).

Burning in eyes, especially the upper lids (after one hour).

Aching pain in eyes, when writing (after twenty-one hours and a half). Fine dartings in eyes when writing, with feeling, when opening the lids, as if little strings were holding them together and were snapping. Darting pain in eyes, on coming into the light from a room, at 2.30 P.M., in bright sunshine (third day).

Shooting pain in eyes, on coming to outdoor light from a room (third day). Eyes smart in light (ninth day). Smarting pain in left corner of left eye, as from hot water, with severe pain in top of head (third day). Severe smarting pain in eyes when writing, with almost loss of vision (second day).

Eyes worse in open air (third day).

Lids.

Lids smooth forming scales on the upper lid (third day).

Sensation as if something were under the upper lid, obliging him to rub it (sixth day). Pain and smarting in upper eyelids as soon as he looks at anything steadily (second day). A good deal of burning in lids. Smarting in eyelids (sixth day). Smarting of eyelids as soon as he begins to use them (third day). Smarting pain on inner side of upper lids (second day). Smarting pain in eyelids, in evening (third day).

Lachrymal Apparatus. Lachrymation and pain in eyes, especially in cold air (second day). Profuse lachrymation in open air, with water from nose.

Ball.

Some pain in ball (third day).

Vision.

Flickering before the eyes (muscae volitantes), dimness of sight; while reading, the letters look blurred (three hours after 1st dil).

Ear.

Aching pain in left ear (ninth day). Aching pain in left ear in evening (sixth day). Aching pain in left ear (like slight humming), second day). Aching-beating pain in left ear, in evening (fourth day).

Hearing.

Humming in left ear (seventh day).

Nose.

Thin discharge from the nose and occasional sneezing (second day); symptoms of a cold continue (third day). Feeling as if of a cold in the head (second day). Nose feels dry and filled up with dry scales, with itching, especially of left nostril (second day).

Nose feels as if obstructed with mucus (second day).

Stitching of left side of nose at the angle; it burns on being scratched (second day). A very sensitive spot on the nose, at the termination of the cartilage, being very painful on pressure, four following days.

Smell.

Putrid sickish smell before the nose (second day).

Face.

Peeling of the lips, and soreness; they bleed easily.

Mouth.

Teeth.

Pain in hollow tooth, which feels too long; sensitive to touch.

Pain in hollow tooth (first molar of lower jaw, left side), with swelling of the gums, and great tenderness around it; worse from inhaling cold air; feels as if it would ulcerate. Pain and soreness of hollow tooth; feels as if too long for a while, and then goes off again (second day). Paroxysms of pain in the hollow tooth (second day).

Tongue.

Tongue white (second day). Tongue coated white (second day).

Tongue coated white, with cracks across the middle (second day).

Tongue covered with a thick white coat. Very thick white mucus on tongue, with flat, mucous taste (third day).

General Mouth.

Sore on left side of mouth, opposite stomach tooth (sixth day).

Pricking in roof of mouth, as from a pain (after half an hour).

Stinging pain in roof of mouth, extending through to left ear (second day).

Saliva.

Much saliva accumulates (third day). Water accumulates in mouth, with frequent swallowing (after one hour and second day).

Constant secretion of water in mouth, and swallowing (second day).

Taste.

Flat taste (second day). Flat taste in mouth, and rising of sour water, which has an acrid feeling in throat (second day).

Nauseous, flat taste in morning (third day). Flat mucous taste in mouth (second day). Bad mucous taste in mouth (second day). Bad taste in the mouth, with belching of wind; morning (second day).

Sweet taste of mucus, with expectoration of thick, white, frothy mucus, with lumps in it (second day).

Throat.

Objective.

Throat filled with mucus in the morning (third day). Throat filled with white mucus (second day). Hawking of lumpy mucus in morning. Hawking and spitting of mucus in the morning, first of lumps and then thinner (third day). Uncomfortable feeling in the throat, with pain on empty swallowing and gaping (second day).

Dry throat, when rising (third day). Throat dry and sore, feeling as if raw. Throat feels dry and sore on swallowing, feeling as if something dry had collected in it, on rising in morning (second day). Sensation as if something sticks in throat, causing him to hawk, which makes it feel sore (second day). Heat rising in throat, as if from stomach.

Sore throat in morning, when hawking (ninth and tenth days).

Soreness of throat when hawking as if raw (fourth day). Sore raw feeling in throat, when hawking (fifth day). Frequent desire to swallow, with accumulation of water in mouth (second day). After discharging phlegm from the throat he feels generally much relieved.

External Throat.

Drawing pain in left sub-maxillary gland (second day).

Stomach.

Appetite.

Appetite somewhat diminished (third and sixth days).

Not much desire for food; ate lightly at dinner. No appetite (second day). No appetite for supper (second day).

Eructation and Hiccough.

Much rising of wind from stomach (third day). Belching of wind (after six hours). Rising of sour water from stomach. Rising of bitter water in mouth, an hour after dinner (third day). Rising of bitter water, with pain in stomach, and afterwards dryness of throat (after one hour). Rising of hot bitter water, in the afternoon (third day). Gulping up of sour, bitter water. Hiccough after dinner (second day). Hiccough set in soon after dinner, and continued without cessation till 6 P.M.; after supper, again renewed.

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.