Gadus morrhua
Gadus morhua (cod); Oleum jecoris / cod liver oil · Animal
The Gadus Morrhua patient is typically a deeply depressed, consumptive individual with hopelessness and a barely controlled desire for death. There is torpidity of intellect and absence of ideas. The remedy is indicated in phthisis and respiratory conditions where the alae nasi flap and there is marked weakness with bone involvement.
Key symptoms
- Deep melancholy with paroxysms of helplessness and desire for death
- Marked flapping of the alae nasi with difficult breathing
- Severe coldness from hip down to feet
- Excessively hot and dry hands with intolerable heat in palms in evening
- Diminished strength of hearing and sight
- Bone affections with fever and night headache
Cod. N. O. Gadidæ. Trituration of first cervical vertebra of the fish.
Clinical
Asthma. Bladder, affections of. Bone affections. Cough. Hands hot. Phthisis.
Characteristics
Petroz is our authority for this medicine. Like Ol. jec. asel., Gadus has a powerful action on the respiratory apparatus. It is like Lycopod. in producing flapping of the alæ nasi. It also affects the bones and causes troublesome heat of the hands. Hopelessness and desire for death are prominent.
Relations
Compare: Ol. jec. asel., Calc. c., Calc. phos., Conchiol.
1. Mind
Deep melancholy, paroxysms of helplessness, for forty-eight hours, during which the desire for death is hardly controlled.─Intellectual faculties torpid; absence of ideas.
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