Cocc, Cocculus Indicus

Cocc is an useful Sehgal Remedy in Sehgal Method

Etiology

• A stressful factor such as disease in her family and frequent waking up at night due to nursing the patient, is the starting point of Cocc
• Worriness is not simple and aimless and takes on the color of caring.

GENERALS - WEAKNESS - nursing and staying up with sick person

MIND - ANXIETY - sleep - loss of

MIND - ANXIETY - health; about - relatives; of

MIND - ANXIETY - night watching, from

HEAD - PAIN - sleep - loss of - night watching; from

Core theme

• Cerebro-spinal tract esp motor axis
• Cocc has been used as a venom to confuse fish.
• Cocc is a Hahnemaninan remedy.
• Emotions

Combination of two

1. Sympathetic carefulness: Compassionate and caring for others (Nat-m, Phos)

1. Neurasthenia: He is so weak that he can not speak or keep his head up. Neural weakness that leads to Paralysis, Numbness and Tremors + Sensitive (Cocc ₳ Pic-ac)

Nervous Hypersensitivity

• Extremely sensitive to mental and physical stress (Ign)

GENERALS - TREMBLING - Externally - touch, unexpected

• Anxious, clumsy, irritable and sleepless (Nux-v)

  MIND - SENSITIVE - external impressions, to all : PHOS

Pain + Numbness

HEAD - PAIN - numbness; with

EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Lower limbs - pain; after

EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Upper limbs - grasping anything firmly

EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Hand - alternating sides

Intentional tremor

EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING - Hand - holding - taking hold of anything; on: MERC

EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING - Hand - paralytic

EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING - Hand - raising them high : MERC

EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING - Hand , eating while

EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING - Hand, stretched out : MERC, PLB

Slowness (emotions, movement)

Emptiness. Goneness

Feeling empty and downward pressure in abdomen, head, stomach, chest and heart, uterus / vagina

HEAD - EMPTY, hollow sensation - headache, during

FEMALE GENITALIA / SEX - PAIN - bearing down - Uterus and region

STOMACH - SINKING

Twitching

Supportive anxiety

• The patient presents with Neurasthenia / Internal tremors.
• She has recently developed severe anxiety following a serious illness from a family member.
• Since then, she has been nursing the patient and now she has referred to you with frequent syncope.

GENERALS - WEAKNESS - nursing and staying up with sick person

• Fatigue and nervous weakness (light threshold) + sensory, motor and balance problems
• Weakness is caused by neurological problems and is not due to muscle activity (Mur-ac) or fasting.

• Anxiety is a fix component of Cocc e.g he anticipate for bad news.

MIND - ANXIETY - health; about - others; of

MIND - CARES, full of - others, about

• Severe anxiety with insomnia
• He is very tired but can not sleep and this is quite evident in the appearance of the person.
• And the only thing that makes you feel better is sleeping in a warm environment.

Paralysis

• Spastic

  Nerves - PARALYSIS, general - spasms, after

• Flexor muscles

Hands - PARALYSIS, hands - paralysis, fingers - extensors :PLB

Limbs - PARALYSIS - extensor muscles PLB

• Unilaterally

Face - PARALYSIS, facial, Bell's Palsy - one-sided : CAUST

Nerves - PARALYSIS, general - hemiplegia - one side, numbness, the other

• Painless paralysis

  Legs - PARALYSIS, legs - painless

• Hysteric paralysis

Nerves - PARALYSIS, general - hysterical: IGN

Nerves - PARALYSIS, general - paraplegia – hysterical

• Cold /Coldness

  Arms - PARALYSIS - coldness, with

Limbs - PARALYSIS - coldness, of parts with

Legs - PARALYSIS, legs - cold, from

• Internal organs

Tongue - PARALYSIS - paralysis, sensation of

Stomach - PARALYSIS, esophagus - paralysis, sensation of: ARS

• Activity-induced arm paralysis

  Arms - PARALYSIS - writing, from

Arms - PARALYSIS, sensation of - eating, after

Arms - PARALYSIS, sensation of - paralysis, forearms, sensation - writing, while

Nervous depression

Long-lasting carefulness leads to state of Irritability /Sensitivity + Depression.

MIND - IRRITABILITY - taking everything in bad part

MIND - IRRITABILITY - trifles, from

MIND - SENSITIVE - children - girls

MIND – INTROSPECTION

MIND – BROODING

MIND - SADNESS - trifles, about

Sadness, as if from an insult

Hysteria

MIND - HYSTERIA

MIND - HYSTERIA - fainting, hysterical

MIND - HYSTERIA - hypochondriasis; with

MIND - HYSTERIA - menses - before

MIND - HYSTERIA - menses - during

MIND - HYSTERIA - stomach; with complaints of

HEAD - PAIN - hysterical headache

ABDOMEN - CONTRACTION - Muscles - hysterical women; in

ABDOMEN - FLATULENCE - hysterical

ABDOMEN - HYSTERIA agg.

ABDOMEN - PAIN - cramping - hysterical

RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC - hysterical

COUGH - HYSTERICAL attack of - women

CHEST - SPASMS of - hysterical

GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - hysterical