Cocculus indicus
Great remedy for motion sickness and effects of night-watching, sleep loss, and nursing the sick. Hollow, empty feeling. Vertigo and nausea from riding. Weakness, trembling, slowness. Time passes too quickly.
Source
Prepared from the powdered seeds of Anamirta cocculus (Menispermaceae).
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Motion sickness — nausea, vertigo, and faintness from riding in cars, boats, or trains. Ailments from loss of sleep, night-watching, caring for the sick. Profound weakness and exhaustion. Sensation of hollowness and emptiness. Slow, torpid mentation. Limbs feel too heavy to move.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Time passes too quickly. Absorbed in thought. Slowness of comprehension. Sadness, anxiety about the health of others. Ailments from anger, grief, loss of sleep. Cannot find the right word. Sensitive to insults.
General Symptoms
Weakness from loss of sleep or nursing the sick. Vertigo and nausea from motion or looking at moving objects. Hollow empty sensation in head, chest, abdomen. Worse from riding, loss of sleep, open air, afternoon, eating, drinking, smoking, touch. Better from lying down, sitting, in a warm room.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Vertigo with nausea, especially on rising, riding, from watching moving objects. Sensation of opening and shutting of head. Headache as if bound with tight band.
Stomach
Nausea from riding, from odor of food. Metallic taste. Aversion to food, drink, tobacco. Desire to vomit but retching produces nothing. Loathing of food.
Abdomen
Distended with flatus. Hollow, empty feeling. Constricting pain.
Female Genitalia
Dysmenorrhoea with profuse menses, too early. Weakness during menses. Leucorrhoea in place of menses.
Extremities
Hands and feet numb. Trembling and weakness. Limbs feel too heavy. Knees give way. One-sided paralysis.
Back
Paralytic aching in small of back. Cracking of cervical vertebrae. Weakness in back.
Sleep & Dreams
Insomnia from mental or physical exhaustion. Irresistible sleepiness but cannot sleep.
Modalities
Better From
Lying down quietly, sitting, warm room
Worse From
Riding (car, boat, train), loss of sleep, open air, afternoon, eating, drinking, smoking, touch, noise
Constitutional Type
Gentle, sensitive individuals prone to exhaustion from nursing others. Fair-haired, romantic, anxious temperament. Women who are depleted from caregiving.
Clinical Indications
Motion sickness, jet lag, effects of night-watching, vertigo, nausea of pregnancy, exhaustion from caregiving, paralysis
Comparative Materia Medica
Tabacum also has severe motion sickness but with cold sweat, pallor, and desire for fresh air. Petroleum has nausea from riding but more skin symptoms. Sepia has exhaustion in women but more indifference.
Safety Information
Camphora, Chamomilla, Cuprum, Ignatia, Nux vomica, Tabacum.
The seeds contain picrotoxin, a potent CNS stimulant and convulsant. Toxic in crude form. Use only potentised forms.
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