Homeopathy Remedy Copaiva


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


      A tincture is prepared by dissolving 1 part of the balsam, from Copaifera Langsdorffii, Desf., in 99 parts of alcohol.

General Action

      It is an irritant to all; mucous membranes, particularly to the urinary tract, for which it has special affinity; it is also diuretic and laxative. It produces an urticaria like eruption on the skin, or, at times an eruption like pemphigus.,

Allies.– Cantharis, Apis.

Generalities

      Spasmodic paroxysms and other hysterical symptoms. Uneasiness, then chill, then heat and circumscribed lenticular patches, with itching and pricking like measles., but without catarrhal symptoms, then mottled appearance, no desquamation. Pulling in all muscles (<) evening and night., Pulsations here and there. Weakness; with anxious sadness. Sensitiveness to coldness and dampness; S. so that noise makes him tremble and angers him. Sensibility diminished.

Mind

      Disgust with life, but fear of death. Dislike for his usual employment. Sadness in morning after waking,(>) during a walk, returning in evening; S. in morning during menstruation, with pain in loins and nervous excitement; periodical, in afternoon, with weeping, coldness of limbs and hot flushes in face. Bursting into tears at the sound of a piano; Anxiety about his health. Peevishness, with ebullition of blood, heat of head and trembling of limbs from least contradiction. Absurd recriminations about long-past trifles. Misanthropy. Unfit for study, head empty, ideas confused, nd pain in forehead when striving against it. Defective memory, which vexed, then discouraged him.

Head

      Aching; in forenoon; with nausea. Heaviness, occiput, (>) pressing it against coat-collar. Rush of blood to head and face during and after eating. Vertigo, with aching; V. in forenoon when riding on horseback; in attacks when sitting, working, walking, standing and when motionless. Pressure at forehead. Sticking in temples and behind ears; sudden S. in temples in morning on washing face with cool water. Tearing in temples in evening and night, (>) pressing against pillow. Pulsating sticking in vertex. Boring in l. side, with coldness of the part, weeping and moaning ( in a man disposed to hypochondriasis). Sticking in r. occipital protuberance; in I. O protuberance in morning, with occasional shocks in head; deep-seated pulsating S. in occiput. Pain in occiput, Falling of hair. Sensitiveness of scalp, and even of hair.

Eyes

      Redness of l. Pupils contracted. Lids agglutinated in morning. involuntary contraction of orbicularis muscle in morning. Spasm of r. upper lid, with pain in eye. Formication in canthi. Sensitiveness to light. Vision obscured. Objects look paler when seen with l. than with r. eye. Black points hover before eyes.

Ears

      Sticking in l. at night, purulent discharge. Formication. Hearing sensitive, (<) to sharp sounds, so that the report of a pistol caused pain, not from the detonation of the powder, but from the impact of the hall against a metallic disk. Painful reverberation of every sound, (>) walking. Humming. Roaring.

Nose and Face

      Frequent sneezing. Stoppage of nose mornings. Coryza, with headache, pain at root of nose and itching in eyes. Face bloated. Face pale and sickly. Tearing in l. cheek. Red, humid tetter on upper lip, with swelling and pain on touch. Lips and tongue red.

Mouth

      Teeth loose; unpleasant smell from T.; gnawing in carious, (<) cold air or cold drinks, with throbbing pain; elongated feeling; on edge; sense of coldness. Excoriating pain in gums, palate and pharynx. Tongue coated white, green at base; T. at sides and red tip red smarting. Tenacious phlegm, which is constantly reproduced in M. and throat. Dryness; (<) night, and in morning. Salivation;evening, night and morning; sudden intermittent, sweetish. Foul breath in morning. Taste bitter; T. too salt to all food.

Throat

      Parotid glands sensitive, submaxillary glands swollen, with bruised pain in latter. Swelling of tonsils, (<) r. pain; in pharynx. constriction. Sensation of a foreign body in pharynx. Heat, with stinging.

Stomach

      Hunger in evening on going to bed; excessive. H., loss of appetite. Appetite lost, Loathing of food all day. Thirst, with diminished appetite, Eructations; after eating; bitter; sour; foul; tasting of ingesta. hiccough after eating. Nausea; in morning; with diarrhoea. Vomiting and weakness of stomach; V. and cardialgia. Spasm. Epigastric region tensive and painful to touch. Gastro- enteritis. Paroxysmal sticking. Pain during menstruation. burning pain. Pressure at pit, even before breakfast. beating at pit after eating, then palpitation and obnubilation on leaving the table. Faintness, without real appetite. Digestion retarded and painfully increased by sensitiveness and pains in epigastrium. Heat.

Abdomen

      Rumbling; with flatulence and threatening of colic. Emission of fetid flatus in morning in bed and after rising. Griping. Pinching. Cutting. after a cup of cafe au lait ( as usual), then diarrhoea. Colic;l and looseness. Coldness. Sticking in hypochondria. Pressive, at times pulsating pain in hepatic region. Swelling of lower. Swelling of inguinal glands; with sensitiveness. Inguinal glands painful to touch. Pressure in lower as from a stone. Beatings in lower.

Rectum and Anus

      Spasms of R. Sticking in r. Urging to stool; frequent ineffectual. Bleeding piles. Oozing of serous or purulent fluid. Burning itching in anus.

Stool

      Two liquid. Thin, frequent, without pain or urging, with increased mucus. Diarrhoea; in morning; with exudation from skin; frightful; involuntary; frequent at night, with spasms of stomach, coldness of limbs and cramp in calves; whitish, morning, with coldness and drawing tearing in abdomen, obliging him to bend double, before and after the stool; alternating with constipation. Soft, frequent, then prostration, (<) morning. Constipation. Dry and formed at first, ending in diarrhoea. Like sheep-dung. Whitish, sour, with discharge of ascarides. insufficient. Copious. Frequent at first shaped, then pasty, at last mucous and mixed with blood (Canth).

Clinical Catarrh of the intestines, mucus comes away in masses or the stools are coated with mucus, especially in morning, with colic and chilliness (compare Canth). Dysentery, with intolerable burning at anus, tenesmus and blood (Cantharis, Caps.).

Urinary Organs

      Pain in bladder. burning in neck of bladder and in urethra (Canth). pressure on bladder; with frequent ineffectual urging and micturition by drops. Constant urging; frequent urging after urinating. Micturition frequent and copious; at night, and urine light; frequent, mostly in small quantities. Micturition by drops (Canth). micturition painful; with milky, acrid discharge (Canth). Retention of urine.

Urethra– Inflammation and swelling, with pains along penis; I., with retention of urine, phlegmasia of bladder, or prostate, anus and rectum; I. of urinary passages and adjacent parts. Discharge was inversely as that of skin; D. of mucus; purulent blennorrhagia; profuse milky D. Pain at orifice as if wounded; pulsating pain in U. when not urinating, the orifice gaping, tumid, inflated. DRawings. Burning on urinating; B. and itching in U. and vagina. Itching before and after micturition, with biting. tickling in orifice (compare “urethra” with Cantharis).

Urine– Bloody; with strangury and ischuria (Canth). Copious; and smelling of the balsam; and acid, smelling of violets. Had a strong odor of Copaiba, frothed much, dark yellow, acid, Bitter- tasting. Albuminuria (Canth).

Clinical Catarrh of the bladder, with great dysuria, especially if it follows gonorrhoea, has to make a great effort to pass a little water. Inflammation of urethra, with great burning far back on urinating, swelling of the orifice of the urethra. Constant desire to urinate. Haematuria. Urine smells of violets, especially in gonorrhoea, discharge yellow and purulent.

Sexual Organs

      Excoriation of glans and prepuce. Tickling of glans. Itching at tip of glans. Excessive erections, with lascivious thoughts and desires; violent E. night and morning, with or without lascivious thoughts; no E. Redness and oozing between scrotum and thigh. Burning in skin of scrotum. Swelling of L. testicle, with sensitiveness to touch. heavy pain in testicles. Pressive drawing in testicles. Desire; without erections.

Female.– Itching of vulva. Burning of vulva and red spots. Sticking in vagina and neck of uterus. Leucorrhoea after menstruation; acrid L.; milky L. Spasms of uterus. Pulling pains in suspensory ligaments of uterus. dragging on uterus and bladder; pressure on U. as if prolapsus would set in; drawings in uterus, orifice of urethra and vagina. Throbbing in ovarian region with pain; T. in r. ovarian region when standing. Menses too early; menses reappear after they had ceased for several days. Menses pale and scanty. Metrorrhagia.

Clinical Swelling and induration of testicles from suppressed gonorrhea. Gonorrhoea ion women, with throbbing in region of r. ovary.

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.