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Causticum<\/span><\/h1>\n

Great weakness, faint-like goneness, culminating in local paralysis (vocal organs, tongue, muscles of deglutition, eyelids, face, bladder and extremities).<\/p>\n

Obstinate neuralgias, especially of psoric origin; pains of a cramping, drawing nature.<\/p>\n

Sensation of\u00a0SORE RAWNESS<\/strong>\u00a0(scalp, throat, larynx and trachea, chest, rectum, anus, urethra and eruptions with burning).<\/p>\n

Contractions of the ligaments (arthritis deformans).<\/p>\n

Dry cough with pain in hip and involuntary urination. Soreness and rawness in air passages, cannot raise the mucus, < on expiration, > swallowing cold water.<\/p>\n

Haemorrhoids sore and raw < on walking. Constipation frequent, ineffectual desire for stool; passes better on standing.<\/p>\n

Modalities: < dry weather, walking (piles), > wet weather, swallowing cold water (cough).<\/p>\n

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This is a very unique remedy, proven by Hahnemann and classed among the anti-psorics. Its exact chemical composition is not known but it is supposed to be a kind of potash preparation. It has quite a long list of peculiar symptoms, which are, nevertheless, very reliable. In the<\/p>\n

first place it has\u00a0GREAT WEAKNESS<\/strong>, such as characterizes the potash salts generally. It is with\u00a0CAUSTICUM “FAINT-LIKE WEAKNESS, OR SINKING OF STRENGTH, WITH TREMBLING<\/strong>.” In this it resembles\u00a0GELSEMIUM<\/strong>, and it has another symptom, in connection with its general weakness which resembles\u00a0GELSEMIUM<\/strong>, viz.: “DROOPING OF THE LIDS<\/strong>.”\u00a0SEPIA, CAUSTICUM<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0GELSEMIUM\u00a0<\/strong>is the trio having this peculiar symptom in a very marked degree. Now, the weakness of\u00a0CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>progresses until we have “GRADUALLY APPEARING PARALYSIS<\/strong>;” indeed, PARALYSIS is common with\u00a0CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>and attacks in a general way the right side (LACHESIS THE LEFT<\/strong>), but it also has local paralysis; as, for instance, of the\u00a0VOCAL ORGANS, MUSCLES OF DEGLUTITION, OF TONGUE, EYELIDS, FACE, BLADDER<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0EXTREMITIES<\/strong>. On the other hand, it has all grades of nervous twitchings, chorea, convulsions and epileptic attacks, even progressive locomotor ataxia. I can only name these diseases here, but will notice further on the symptoms and conditions which appear in connection with them.<\/p>\n

Neuralgic affections are also common with this remedy and are generally of an obstinate character.\u00a0CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>has helped me out in such cases when other seemingly indicated remedies failed. One of our oldest and most eminent writers on Materia Medica, Charles J. Hempel, sneered at the multiplicity of symptoms of this remedy, as found in the “CHRONIC DISEASES<\/strong>,” but the clinical test has proven it to be a remedy of great use and wide range. On the mind it exerts a very depressing influence in keeping with its general action on the nervous system.\u00a0MELANCHOLY MOOD; SADNESS,\u00a0<\/strong>hopelessness; is apt to look on the dark side of everything. This melancholy may come from care, grief or sorrow. It often comes from long-lasting brief or sorrow, and should be remembered here alongside\u00a0IGNATIA, NATRUM MURIATICUM<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0PHOSPHORIC ACID.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the preponderant mood of\u00a0CAUSTICUM<\/strong>, but it may alternate with an anxious, irritable or hysterical mood. We have already spoken of the paralysis of the eyelids. The vision is often affected; there is an appearance of gauze before the eyes, or as if a fog or cloud were there. This is often the case in incipient cataract, and\u00a0CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>often remedies it.<\/p>\n

Upon the ears there is roaring, tinkling, humming and all sorts of noises. It is one of our best remedies in deafness with these noises. Reverberation of sounds, especially the patient’s own voice, finds here a remedy. Then the ears (external) burn and are very red.\u00a0SULPHUR\u00a0<\/strong>also has this symptom very prominently; and right here we may say that there are many resemblances between these two remedies, and they follow each other well, especially in chronic diseases.<\/p>\n

Upon the face we have four prominent peculiar symptoms:<\/p>\n

1st. Yellowness of the face; sickly yellow (not jaundice).<\/p>\n

2d. Paralysis of a rheumatic or psoric origin.<\/p>\n

3d. Prosopalgia of the same origin.<\/p>\n

4th. Stiffness of the jaws; could not open the mouth.<\/p>\n

This latter symptom also seems to be rheumatic and is in keeping with the arthritis deformans, of which we will say more further on.<\/p>\n

Upon the tongue we have: 1st. Paralysis; or indistinct speech without complete paralysis (GELS<\/strong>.). 2d. Tongue<\/p>\n

coated white on the sides, red in the middle, but not so sharply defined as in\u00a0VERATRUM VIRIDE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The throat comes strongly under the influence of\u00a0CAUSTICUM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“Burning pain in throat, not < by swallowing; pain is in both sides or seems to arise from chest.”<\/p>\n

“Rawness and tickling in throat with dry cough and some expectoration after long coughing.”<\/p>\n

This again is similar to\u00a0SULPHUR<\/strong>, which has burning in throat, more on right side. I have found that if\u00a0SULPHUR\u00a0<\/strong>did not relieve,\u00a0CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>given after it, often would.<\/p>\n

INTESTINAL CANAL<\/strong>.\u2014Sensation of lime being burned in the stomach, with rising of air. Guernsey praised this symptom and considered it reliable. I have not verified it.\u00a0CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>is one of our best remedies in anal troubles, and has very peculiar symptoms.\u00a0“CONSTIPATION, FREQUENT BUT UNSUCCESSFUL DESIRE TO STOOL.” (NUX.)\u00a0<\/strong>“Frequent ineffectual desire to stool, with much pain and straining,\u00a0WITH REDNESS OF FACE<\/strong>.” “The stool passes better when standing. Haemorrhoids impeding stool, swollen; itching; smarting; rawness; moist; stinging; burning;\u00a0RAW AND SORE,\u00a0<\/strong>aggravated when walking, when thinking of them, from preaching or straining the voice.” All these symptoms have been verified over and over again. There are other symptoms also in this region that are very valuable, but we are not writing a complete Materia Medica and will only say in addition that in all anal troubles we should let\u00a0CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>rank among the first in our mind when we are hunting for the simillimum. We do not know in what part the peculiar and characteristic symptom which leads to the simillimum will appear, but must be on the alert to recognize it promptly.<\/p>\n

CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>also has very marked action upon the urinary organs, as is shown by the following symptoms: “Itching of the orifice of the urethra.” “Constant ineffectual desire to urinate, frequent evacuations of only a few drops, with spasms in the rectum and constipation.”<\/p>\n

This is like\u00a0NUX VOMICA\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0CANTHARIS<\/strong>, and I once cured a chronic case of cystitis in a married woman, which had baffled the best efforts of several old school physicians, eminent for their skill, for years. There was another symptom in the case that was prominent, and that was a sensation of\u00a0SORENESS\u00a0<\/strong>or\u00a0RAWNESS<\/strong>. More will be said, when we come to write on\u00a0SENSATIONS<\/strong>, of this last symptom. Again, “retention of urine, with frequent and urgent desire, occasionally a few drops dribble away.”<\/p>\n

“Involuntary passage of urine when\u00a0COUGHING<\/strong>, sneezing,\u00a0BLOWING THE NOSE<\/strong>; at night\u00a0WHEN ASLEEP<\/strong>; when walking.” “He urinates so easily that he is not sensible of the stream, and scarcely believes in the dark that he is urinating at all, until he makes sure by sense of touch.” I do not know of any remedy in which this weakness of the neck of the bladder is more prominent.\u00a0CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>also affects the urine itself. “The urine is loaded with lithic acid and lithates (Hughes), there are thick deposits or sediments of various colors from dark to light.” These are a few of the leading urinary symptoms and show its importance here.<\/p>\n

RESPIRATORY ORGANS<\/strong>.\u2014Hoarseness worse in the morning, with rawness and sudden loss of voice. Laryngeal muscles refuse to act; cannot speak a loud word. Chronic hoarseness remaining after acute laryngitis. Hoarseness with deep bass voice (like\u00a0DROSERA<\/strong>). These<\/p>\n

are all very reliable symptoms, and no remedy removes them oftener than\u00a0CAUSTICUM<\/strong>. All this loss of voice may come from paresis of the vocal chords, or from catarrhal causes. Then following down the respiratory tract, we have great\u00a0RAWNESS\u00a0<\/strong>and irritation of the trachea, cough dry, hollow; with sore or\u00a0RAZV\u00a0<\/strong>sensation in a streak down along the trachea.\u00a0COUGH WITH PAIN IN HIP AND INVOLUNTARY URINATION<\/strong>. Cough with sensation as if she could not cough deep enough to start the mucus. Coughs worse on expiration (ACON<\/strong>.).\u00a0COUGH RELIEVED BY A SWALLOW OF COLD WATER<\/strong>. Cough with inability to raise the mucus, it must be swallowed; but the most characteristic symptom all through the cough and chest symptoms is the sensation of\u00a0SORENESS AND RAWNESS\u00a0<\/strong>accompanying them. Some will express this as a sensation of\u00a0BURNING<\/strong>, if so we must remember\u00a0IODINE\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0SPONGIA<\/strong>. In influenza or what is now called\u00a0LA GRIPPE<\/strong>\u00a0it disputes for first place with\u00a0EUPATORIUM PERF<\/strong>. and\u00a0RHUS<\/strong>\u00a0TOXICOD<\/strong>. All three have a tired, sore, bruised sensation all over the body, and all have soreness in the chest when coughing, but if involuntary micturition is present\u00a0CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>wins. No homeopath can afford to be without an understanding of\u00a0CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>upon the respiratory organs.<\/p>\n

Now upon the back and extremities we have\u2014stiffness and pain in neck and throat, muscles feel as if bound, could scarce move the head. Painful stiffness of the back and sacrum, especially on rising from a chair. Paralysis of either or both lower and upper extremities. Dull drawing pain in hands and arms. Drawing and tearing in thighs and legs, knees and feet, worse in open air and better in bed. Weakness and trembling of the limbs. Rheumatic and arthritic inflammations with contractions<\/p>\n

of the flexors and stiffness of the joints. All these, and many more symptoms, show what a useful remedy this must be in its general action on the back and extremities, but right here I wish to say that if I were to select the three remedies to the exclusion of all others for the treatment of chronic rheumatism and paralysis\u00a0CAUSTICUM, RHUS TOX<\/strong>. and\u00a0SULPHUR\u00a0<\/strong>would be the three. These three remedies studied in their correspondence and relation to each other will more than repay the careful student, and\u00a0CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>holds well its own in the comparison. You will remember that I have before alluded to the resemblances of\u00a0CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0SULPHUR<\/strong>, and may continue to do so further on. I wish here, although constitutionally opposed to making too much of complementaries and incompatibles (so-called), to state that there are no two remedies that are oftener indicated after each other, and work as well when so indicated, than these two. If Hahnemann had never given to the homeopathic school any remedy but\u00a0CAUSTICUM<\/strong>, the world would still be to him under lasting obligations.<\/p>\n

SENSATIONS<\/strong>.\u2014TEARING PAINS<\/strong>\u00a0are characteristic of this remedy. They are often paroxysmal. This is often found in neuralgia of the face. Then again I wish to call particular attention to the sensation of soreness or rawness. This is found in scalp, throat, larynx and trachea, chest, rectum, anus, urethra and eruptions. We observe that the sensation of soreness is not like that of\u00a0ARNICA<\/strong>, which is a soreness as if bruised and mostly muscular, nor of\u00a0RHUS TOXICODENDRON<\/strong>, which is an aching soreness as if sprained and oftenest found in the tendons and sheaths of muscles, or areolar tissues; but it is a soreness mostly, if not altogether, of mucous surfaces as if<\/p>\n

the parts were\u00a0RAW<\/strong>. This is important and a very reliable sensation. Then again we have in\u00a0CAUSTICUM MUCH BURNING<\/strong>. These burnings are found almost everywhere, and in this we again see its resemblance to\u00a0SULPHUR<\/strong>. Now let it be remembered that the burnings of\u00a0SULPHUR\u00a0<\/strong>are associated with\u00a0ITCHING<\/strong>, those of\u00a0APIS MELLIFICA\u00a0<\/strong>with\u00a0STINGING<\/strong>, and those of\u00a0CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>with\u00a0SORENESS<\/strong>. So we must always learn to differentiate, because it is only by so doing that we can select the one remedy out of a class, and sometimes a large class, having the same or similar symptoms. The\u00a0DRAWING PAINS<\/strong>\u00a0that in many cases result in forcing out of shape the extremities so as to cause that terrible affliction known as\u00a0ARTHRITIS<\/strong>\u00a0DEFORMANS\u00a0<\/strong>are found as prominently under\u00a0CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>as under any other remedy, and it is one of the most useful agents for the relief or cure.<\/p>\n

CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>is classed among Hahnemann’s anti-psorics. It is certainly one of the prominent remedies for affections arising from the suppression of itch or chronic skin troubles, like eczema. I was once called, in consultation, to a case of prosopalgia which had for a long time baffled the skill of a very good homeopathic practitioner. Not being able to relieve the case, he had become demoralized, and as the pain and suffering were very great he had resorted to anodynes, but with the usual result of making the patient worse, after the anodynes had worn out, than she was before. On looking over the case carefully, I found in addition to the emaciated and greatly debilitated condition of the patient, after so long suffering, that the pains came in paroxysms, that they were of a drawing nature, and that she had suffered from eczema for years, at different times, before this pain appeared.\u00a0SULPHUR<\/strong><\/p>\n

had been given, but without relief. So I advised\u00a0CAUSTICUM<\/strong>. It was given, in the 200th, and a rapid and a permanent cure was the result. Whether\u00a0CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>could be called an anti-sycotic as well as anti-psoric, or not, I do not know. Certain it is that it is one of our most successful remedies for warts. It stands next to\u00a0THUJA<\/strong>, if not equal. It is also foremost in old sores originating in burns. I have given more space to\u00a0CAUSTICUM\u00a0<\/strong>than I otherwise would, for the reason that I am sure that this great remedy is not generally appreciated. I know of no remedy more positive and satisfactory in its action when indicated. Generally <\u00a0IN CLEAR FINE WEATHER<\/strong>\u00a0>\u00a0IN DAMP WET WEATHER<\/strong>.\u00a0(NUX VOM<\/strong>., asthma < in dry weather > in damp weather.)<\/p>\n

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Causticum Great weakness, faint-like goneness, culminating in local paralysis (vocal organs, tongue, muscles of deglutition, eyelids, face, bladder and extremities). Obstinate neuralgias, especially of psoric origin; pains of a cramping, drawing nature. Sensation of\u00a0SORE RAWNESS\u00a0(scalp, throat, larynx and trachea, chest, rectum, anus, urethra and eruptions with burning). Contractions of the ligaments (arthritis deformans). Dry cough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[1069],"offerexpiration":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26103"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=26103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}