Comocladia dentata

Guao, bastard Brazil wood. · Plant · Anacardiaceae

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Comocladia is most appropriate for irritable people who are prone to maliciousness, gloomy behavior, and restlessness while awake. Sleep refreshes them, however, and they enjoy vivid, pleasant, and perhaps even clairvoyant dreams. The key physical symptoms associated with this remedy include nerve sensitivity and skin problems such as extreme itching, burning, inflammation, and blistering. The skin may flake or shed itself, or it may redden, possibly forming stripes. There may be ulceration or other swelling, which may be fever-related.

Key symptoms

Throbbing pains worse by heat
right
eyeball feels too large

Worse (aggravation)

For heat; for touch; for rest; in the evening.

Better (amelioration)

For open air; for scratching; for movement.

William Boericke

Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1901

Guao

Important eye and skin symptoms. Affections of antrum. Sacro-iliac and abdominal pain. Throbbing pains worse by heat. Pain in joints and ankles.

Eyes

Ciliary neuralgia with eyes feeling large and protruded, especially right. Worse, near warm stove; feels as if pressed outward. Sees only glimmer of light with left eye. Glaucoma, sense of fullness; eyeball feels too large. Motion of eyes aggravates.

Face

Swollen, with eyes projecting.

Skin

Itches, red and pimples. Redness all over, like scarlatina. Erysipelas. Deep ulcers, with hard edges. Leprosy. Red stripes on skin (Euphorb). Eczema (papular) of the trunk and extremities; also pustular type.

Chest

Acute pain in left mammary gland. Pain from right side of chest down arm to fingers. Cough with pain under left breast, going through to left scapula.

Modalities

Better, open air, scratching; by motion. Worse, touch, warmth, rest; night.

Relationship

Compare: Rhus; Anacard; Euphorb.

Dose

First to thirtieth potency.

John Henry Clarke

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1900

Comocladia dentata. Guao (Cuba). N. O. Anacardiaceæ. Tincture of leaves and bark.

Clinical

Antrum of Highmore, affections of. Breasts, affections of. Ears, affections of. Eczema. Erysipelas. Eyes, affections of. Herpes. Leprosy. Neuralgia. Skin, malignant inflammations of. Toothache. Ulcers. Zona.

Characteristics

Comocladia shows its botanical affinity with the Rhus family by the virulence of its effects on the skin, the slightest contact, and, at times, even walking in the neighbourhood of the growing tree, being sufficient to cause violent inflammation. The trunk and branches of the tree contain a milky fluid, turning black on exposure to sunlight, discolouring the skin, linen, &c. (Compare the "Marking Nut" Anacardium.) The plant causes tormenting itching, swelling, redness, vesication, ulceration. Hale quotes from Navarro cures of ulcers: "Sloughing ulcer of right breast." "Indolent ulcer, lower third right leg," deep, discharging sanious fetid pus. "Inflammation of left leg and foot, with enormous …

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Eugene Beauharnais Nash

Regional Leaders · 1901

Sight and Eyes

Right eye very painful, feeling much larger and more protruded than the left.

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S. R. Phatak

Materia Medica of Homoeopathic Medicines

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