Cedron
Simaba cedron (syn. Quassia cedron) · Simarouba cedron,rattlesnake bean · Plant · Simaroubaceae
People who respond best to Cedron tend to be nervous, restless, and even hysterical, possibly experiencing depression following any nervous excitement. They may dread going to bed and fear their friends.
A characteristic of the complaints associated with Cedron is that they tend to recur at exactly the same hour each day. The remedy is used for recurrent fevers, such as those associated with malaria, and for neuralgic pains and other nervous-system conditions such as spasms or tics. Severe headaches or migraines, perhaps with nausea, fever, or cerebrospinal meningitis, may also respond to Cedron.
Key symptoms
- Marked periodicity in all symptoms
- Severe pain in eyeball radiating around eye and into nose
- Supra-orbital neuralgia returning with clock-like regularity
- Pain from temple to temple across eyes
- Lancinating pain in joints, worse feet and hands
- Chilliness toward evening with frontal headache
- Useful in malarial affections and neuralgia
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Rattlesnake Bean (SIMARUBA FERROGINEA)
Periodicity is the most marked characteristic of this drug. Its particularly useful in tropical or in damp, warm, marshy countries. It has been found curative in malarial affections, especially neuralgia. Adapted to persons of a voluptuous disposition, excitable, nervous temperament. Has powers of antidoting snake-bites and stings of insects. Tincture of pure bean scraped on wound. Mania.
Head
Pain from temple to temple across eyes. Pain over whole right side of face, coming on about 9 am.Crazy feeling from pain across forehead; worse, working on black. Roaring in ears produced by Cinchona. Whole body seems numb with headache.
Eyes
Shooting over left eye. Severe pain in eyeball, with radiating pains around eye, shooting into nose. Scalding lachrymation. Supra-orbital neuralgia periodic. Iritis, choroiditis.
Extremities
Lancinating pain in joints; worse, feet and hands. Sudden pain in ball of right thumb, extending up arm to shoulder. Pain in ball of right foot, extending to knee. Shingles, with radiating pain. Dropsy of knee-joint.
Fever
Chilliness towards evening; then frontal headache extending into parietal region. Red eyes. Heat, with itching of eyes, tearing in limbs, numbness of limbs.
Relationship
Antidote: Lach.
Compare: Ars; China.
Dose
Tincture to third attenuation.
Simaba cedron. N. O. Simarubaceæ. Tincture of seeds.
Clinical
Brow ague. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Ciliary neuralgia. Chorea. Coitus, complaints after. Epilepsy, menstrual. Glaucoma. Gout. Hydrophobia. Hysteria. Intermittent fever. Neuralgia. Neuritis. Rheumatism. Snake-bites. Toothache.
Characteristics
Petroz and Teste introduced Cedr. into homœopathic practice, having received the seed from Panama, with an account of its powers of entrusting snake-bite when chewed immediately after being bitten; and also of its traditional reputation in intermittent fevers. Hellert was bitten by a coral snake. "During the few seconds which it took him to take the antidote out of the little bag which he wore suspended round his neck, he was siezed with violent pains at the heart and throat; but he had scarcely chewed and swallowed a small portion of Cedron, of the size of a small bean, when the pain ceased as by magic. An oppression and general prostration remained. He chewed another portion of the same fruit, and …
Sight and Eyes
Sever shooting pains over left eye; periodical supra- orbital neuralgia.
Chill, Fever, and Sweat
Paroyxsms occur with unerring periodicity to the hour.
- Intermittents; periodicity, clock-like in its regularity, especially when originating in damp, warm, marshy climates, or in tropical countries, and obstinately recurring.
Phatak's chapter on Cedron is available in the app.
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