Cocc, Cocculus Indicus

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

Sehgal

First entering	Cares others aboutAnxiety others for	They care for others by heart Cocc is the most important supportive care remedy
Second entering	Dullness, understand question, repetition only: Ambr, Caust, Hell, Kali-br, med, Phos, Sul, Zinc	They react gradually not suddenly They understand with a delay He tells you the first remedy (After several months) was very good
Key word	Actually
		He does not like to be asked
He is slow not Low IQ	Morning dullness Slowness, motion on In their disease, they do understand it so late They need time, They are only slow not disobedient They are not Sharp and does not Find out soon	They are dull esp in morning
	Bed remaining	Not for laziness, because their mental is not ready to act in morning
	Obedient
Key point Recognize, everything, move but cannot: Cocc, Sang	What cannot be cured, must be endured If I cannot change him, change himself
Mildness Yielding disposition	He cannot tell NO to others	He does not like anyone to talk harshly to him. He himself is gentle.
Witty	He does not show his anger violently and show it in joking / Sarcastic He do not want to Upset others
Disturbed, Averse to being	Why should I start a fight? The situation is messy enough and I'd rather it not get any worse	I stopped arguing with others
Sadness, as if insult	They are very sensitive and easily offended, but they are self-absorbed and do not show it. Indignation, Vexation but not haltered.
Jesting, aversion to	They do not like anyone to joke with them
Reverence, those around him	Cocc is very polite and Patient
Asking nothing	They become kind during the disease

Main theme

• Adjusting
• Understanding:
• Not demanding

Indifference, lies with eyes open: Arg-n, Sep

Disturbed, aversion to being: Bry, Chin-ar, Gels

Recognize, everything cannot move (Catalepsy): Sang

Recognizes, the reality and accept it