Homeopathy Remedy Curare


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


      The arrow-poison of S. America is triturated for use.

Generalities

      Loss of four pounds in weight. Tremors in afternoon and evening. Pains sharp, wandering, in all parts; needle – like through various parts, (<) l. temple; needle-like at intervals through various parts during the day; fleeting, first under sternum, then in abdomen, wandering, in evening, with pain under r. scapula. Pulsations in all parts except feet. Restless feeling. Inclined to physical but not mental exertion in morning. Unusual feeling of well-being, as from out-door life.

Weakness; all day, with weakness of back; on walking, lasting all day, with headache and malaise; on waking, with stupidity, the stupidity (>) afternoon, hurried feeling in evening; (<) arms and legs; (>) towards evening; with trembling feeling; with trembling on trying to walk; with vertigo on trying to hold head up; with malaise and stupidity. Faintness. Numbness in all parts, (<) r. arm and wrist, and in combination of numbness and tingling in superficial muscles, (<) r. arm, beginning in r. arm and becoming general, always with pain in basilar region. Symptoms gradually (>) towards middle of forenoon, then (<) again about noon, and continue severe the remainder of the day.

Clinical It seems to have arrested the paroxysms of hydrophobia when injected under the skin. Catalepsy. Threatened paralysis of respiration, the breath stops on falling asleep, sometimes palliative. Nervous debility, especially in old people, arms and hands weak, as after long-continued sickness, numbness as if a heavy weight hung to the arms, soreness of muscles of the arms, (<) attempting to lift anything. Nervous debility, with leaden heaviness of the arms, difficulty in using the muscles, especially of the wrists and hands. Paralysis following epileptic attacks.

Mind

      Laughed a great deal through the day. Changeable disposition, jesting and laughing, then shedding tears. Sensitive, the least annoyance brings tears. All feeling intensified, have to guard myself to prevent showing affection towards those I like, and irritability towards those I do not like. Energetic feeling all day; and hurried. Nervous, hurried feeling all day. Discouraged and cross; and sick of living, tired of everything. Depression of spirits; and feeling like crying, desire to be alone. Inability for mental work, form heaviness on vertex; I. for mental or physical work, wish to keep quite. Laziness. Inability to fix the thoughts, overcome by the will. Do not wish to talk or have any one talk to me. Intellect dull. Stupid, confused feeling; transiently (>) nap. Forgetful.

Head

      Aching; through the day, L immediately after eating, sometimes nausea; on waking, lasting all day, with irritability; on waking, (<) after breakfast, by walking, stooping and quick movements, (<) afternoon, when there was pain in occiput; after waking, (<) an hour after breakfast, varied during the day and evening, at times in occiput, shooting into neck, at other times pain in vertex, always in temples; before breakfast, and in early part of day, but gradually wore away; at base of brain and passing upward, beginning at breakfast, (<) chewing; in evening; in brain after eating; in steam-cars, with nausea, the A. (>) night’s sleep; during menstruation, with dragging pain in pelvic organs, leaving weariness for several days after flow has ceased; (<) noon; (<) eating, motion, light, noise and at night, (>) pressure and quite; (>) open air; forcing her to lie down before breakfast; with tingling, prickling and nausea; with malaise; sudden, with weakness and trembling of all limbs, confused feeling and tension of head, pain indescribable at first, but soon became definable, sharp pain in forehead and l. temple, with occasional pains in vertex and r. temple, pains (<) stooping and motion, sensation as if ears were filled with compressed air, tingling pain along malar-bones and zygomatic processes to temples, the headache reached it s climax at 11 A.M., then gradually diminished, (<) 4 P.M., pain through entire brain, confusion of though, weakness of joints, pulsations through whole body, inability to study or think, stupidity and sleepiness; neuralgic, extending down spine, radiating and sleeping; neuralgic, extending down spine; radiating from base of brain to vertex and outward to ears, during the day, (<) eating; wandering; wandering, all day, (<) motion and eating, located in occiput after tea; tired, on waking, increasing still 8 P.M.; tired, heavy, (<) forehead and temples; heavy, all day, with occasional sharp pains through temples and lower part of occiput.

Feeling as if about to ache on waking, lasting till middle of afternoon, Soreness in every fibre of brain, (<) motion. Confusion; (>) lying, with heaviness, Dullness, difficulty in holding head up, weight on vertex; with enlarged feeling and with daring pain through r. temple to base of brain; with enlarged feeling and with darting through temples, (<) r. coughing causes a shattered, torn feeling, so that she must hold on to temples, the same sensation on motion of head unless moved very gently; preventing study. Heaviness; with weak, tired feeling. Dullness and stupidity. Feels large. Must hold on to it to keep the parts together. Empty feeling, it is a great effort to talk. Lightness. Rush of blood, with aching. Congested feeling. Throbbing in all vessels. Vertigo; on looking at near objects or at water, while walking, briskly to avert the headache. Symptoms (<) stooping.

Forehead.- Sharp darting pain over r. eye, severe at times, leaving confusion; over. eye, extending to vertex, after eating, despairing suddenly. Sharp pain in F and temples in morning on rising, (<) motion, (>) lying, with dull pain in other parts of brain, (<) towards occiput, drawing pain from occiput to between scapulae, with nausea, faintness and weakness. Pain; all day, and in temples; along infraorbital ridge, through temples and about ears; over r. eye, (<) eating and at night; all day, beginning after breakfast, in central and upper part of F. and in anterior part of vertex preventing thought, (<) vigorous exercise and stooping; in l. side after waking, afterwards in entire F.; and in temples and occiput, extending to ears; and in vertex, in occiput running to nape and outward to ears, also in every bone of face, (<) through zygomatic arch.

Temples. – Neuralgic pains during the day; when walking in the wind; through l.; intermittent, through them during the day; in r., running through head to spine. Sharp pains through T. and r. side after retiring. Aching; through l.; and in zygoma, malar and nasal bones; beginning after breakfast, and in upper part of forehead, but at times in the whole brain; vague, in r.; through r. running down spine; through r., extending to occiput, with heat on vortex; occasional, when of brief duration neuralgic, when longer lasting, a dull ache which gradually wore away; heavy, beginning over r., gradually spreading over whole r side, with weight on vertex, it hurts to move the head, shattered, confused feeling in head, congested feeling, as if all the blood were in the head and face, at times shooting from temple to temple.

Vertex. – Pain; in morning, (<) motion, walking or stooping, (>) eating, sharp pain at a central point within brain, also through forehead and temple, with dragging and times sharp pain in occiput extending to between inferior angles of scapulae. Weight; at 12.30 P.M.; as if skull rested rested on brain; preventing sitting.

Sides. – Pain in l.; now in l., then in r., then in forehead, in afternoon and evening, finally confined to a space in front of l. parietal eminence; tired, in base of brain on l. in afternoon; half dizzy, in r. after eating.

Occiput. – Pain. Pulsations at 3. P.M., with strong throbbing in carotids and dazed feeling in head.

Scalp. – Sore to touch. Itching.

Clinical Neuralgic headaches beginning over r. eye and extending through r. side of head.

Eyes

      Dull, and pupils contracted. Feeling as if full of sticks. Strained feeling. Feel hot, sore, it hurts to move them. Feel weak. Feel badly, desire to keep them closed. Tears roll down cheeks. Heaviness, no power over upper lids. Sensitive to light.

Ears and Nose

      Ears felt as if filled with compressed air. Dryness of nasal mucous membrane every evening; at night, with chapping of epidermis; and of cuticle. Constant flow of nasal mucus. Sneezing; violent, at 8 P.M.

Clinical Post-nasal catarrh, constant hawking, trickling of mucus down throat.

Face

      Pale, sallow; pale all day, with dark circles under eyes. Red, with dark circles under eyes; with congestion of blood to head. Feel tired. Tingling in zygoma, then dull pain creeping through, vertex and upper part of forehead, and this lasted through the day. Tingling numbness in zygoma.

Mouth

      Arterial pulsation in r. teeth on ascending stairs. Tongue white; coated white, taste bitter; coated, yellow; coated yellow at base papillae raised and bright pink anteriorly, also with bitter or bloody taste. Salivation. Taste bitter; in afternoon; later unclean; T.foul after eating an apple in forenoon, lasting al day; T.bad; insipid.

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.