Cervus
Animal
Cervus is a little-known remedy with limited provings. It appears to suit persons with sciatica-like pains and peculiar altered taste sensations including a distinctive doughy bread taste.
Key symptoms
- Peculiar taste of doughy bread in the mouth
- Coppery taste with heat in throat when taking the drug
- Sensitivity to light, especially sunlight
- Frequent pain alternating between left buttock and thigh resembling sciatica
- Numbness of arm on which he lies, and of hands and legs
- Pricking in navel when lying
- Face mottled
Cervus campestris. Cervus brasilicus. Brazilian deer. Triturations of the fresh hide covered with hair.
Clinical
Sciatica. Taste, altered. Tongue, painful.
Characteristics
Mure proved this substance, and one symptom appears to be peculiar: "Taste of doughy bread in the mouth."
Relations
Compare:─Carb. an. (charred ox-hide).
3. Eyes
Sensitive to light, esp. sunlight.
6. Face
Face mottled.
8. Mouth
Taste of doughy bread.─Coppery taste with heat in throat when taking the drug.
12. Abdomen
Pricking in navel when lying.─Needle-like pain, intermitting in r. groin, in direction of joint, after walking.
22. Upper Limbs
Numbness of arm on which he lies; of hand and legs.
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