Cotyledon umbilicus
Umbilicus rupestris · Plant · Crassulaceae
Cotyledon affects patients who experience a peculiar sense of unreality or absence of body parts on waking, combined with cardiac disturbance and oppressed breathing. Rheumatic and neuralgic pains in the chest and back are prominent. Symptoms are worse in the morning and evening.
Key symptoms
- Sensation as if a part of the body (foot or head) is absent on waking
- Oppressed breathing with choking fullness in throat
- Marked action on heart: palpitation, fullness, and dragging pain
- Stitching pain under left nipple, radiating through to left scapula
- Dull pains in region of spleen recurring at intervals
- Sciatica with stinging pain in sciatic region
- On waking: lost, confused, could not articulate for some time
- Ailments from suppressed emotions
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse morning and evening
Better (amelioration)
- Better in open air (headache)
- Better by compressing the side (heart pain)
- Better by tea (headache)
Pennywort (COTYLEDON)
Marked action on heart; oppression of chest; fullness in throat. Epilepsy. Numb aching in muscular and fibrous tissue. Sciatica. Well-marked pains through the breast to scapula. Catarrh of larynx and trachea. Hysterical joint.
Mind
Lost, confused feeling. Could not articulate for some time on awaking. Pressing vertex headache. Ailments from suppressed emotion. Feeling as if a part of the body were absent.
Breast
Pain under left nipple, and aching in right breast. Pain through to scapula from region of left breast. Pain at angles of scapulæ. Full, bursting feeling, as if from obstruction at heart. Choking fullness in throat. Breathing oppressed.
Extremities
Aching in back and thighs. Aching in all joints. Skin sensitive, rubbing of trousers causes an acute sting. Legs and arms feel heavy and sore.
Relationship
Compare: Ambra; Asafoet; Hepatica; Ignatia; Laches.
Dose
Tincture to third potency.
Cotyledon umbilicus. Umbilicus pendulinus. Pennywort. Navelwort. Kidneywort. Le Nombril de Venus. N. O. Crassulaceæ (Houseleek-family). Tincture of the plant.
Clinical
Heart affections. Hysteria. Sinuses. Spleen, affections of. Rheumatism.
Characteristics
Cotyledon has had a considerable proving, but I am not aware of any clinical experience with it having been recorded. The whole houseleek family are deserving of careful study by homœopathists. Among the most peculiar symptoms of Cotyl. are: a feeling as if some part of the body─a foot or the head─were absent. The senses of sight and hearing are dulled. A yellow patch follows the sight. Disagreeable surging in ears; ears feel stuffed. A number of pains in the region of the spleen appear. The breathing is oppressed, the heart is disturbed. Rheumatic symptoms are prominent. Weak, faint feeling. Stitching, pricking, jerking pains are predominant sensations. Cooper considers it a cancer remedy. He has cured with it sinuses in buttock. A patient to whom he gave it for polypus said it made him "stagger as if drunk." Symptoms are < morning and evening.
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