Cerium oxalicum
Cerium(III) oxalate · Mineral
Cerium oxalicum suits fleshy, robust women with dysmenorrhea and spasmodic conditions. It is particularly indicated for those with vomiting of pregnancy and reflex spasmodic coughs.
Key symptoms
- Spasmodic reflex vomiting, especially vomiting of pregnancy
- Vomiting of half-digested food
- Whooping cough with vomiting and hemorrhage
- Spasmodic coughs of nervous or reflex origin
- Dysmenorrhea in fleshy, robust women with scanty flow
- Pain before or at commencement of menses, better when flow is established
- Sea-sickness
Better (amelioration)
- When menstrual flow is established
Oxalate of Cerium
Spasmodic reflex vomiting and spasmodic cough are within the sphere of this remedy. Vomiting of pregnancy, and of half-digested food. Whooping cough, with vomiting and hæmorrhage. Dysmenorrhœa in fleshy, robust women. Better when flow is established.
Relationship
Compare: Ingluvin--(made from gizzard of a fowl). Vomiting of pregnancy; gastric neurasthenia. Infantile vomiting and diarrhœa. 3x Trit. Amygdal; Lactic ac; Ipecac.
Dose
First trituration.
Oxalate of Cerium. Ce2(C2O4)3 9H2O. Trituration.
Clinical
Cough, reflex. Dysmenorrhœa. Pregnancy, vomiting of. Seasickness. Vomiting.
Characteristics
Originally introduced by Sir James Simpson as a remedy for the morning sickness of pregnancy and chronic cases of vomiting, which he supposed to be due to some eruption on the mucous membrane of the stomach, Cer. ox. has fairly maintained its reputation. Hale found it of most use in cases of vomiting of half-digested food. It has mostly been given in the lower triturations by homœopaths, and in five to ten grain doses by allopaths. In the latter doses it has produced decidedly narcotic effects in two cases. Some have obtained great success with it in sea-sickness. Spasmodic coughs of nervous or reflex origin have been successfully treated with it; and dysmenorrhœa in fleshy and robust women, scanty flow, pain coming before, or at commencement, with feeling of tenesmus, > when the flow is established (like Lach.).
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