====== COMOCLADIA DENTATA ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Comocladia Dentata.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Guao. {{anchor:s3}}Anacardiaceae.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}A very common tree in the island of Cuba, where it is found growing near the coast, luxuriating mostly on barren or stony soils. {{anchor:s5}}It is from six to eight feet high, having beautiful dark green leaves, with a brownish border. {{anchor:s6}}The flowers are small, bluish-brown, and clustered like grapes. {{anchor:s7}}The trunk and branches contain a milky fluid that turns black on exposure to sunlight, discoloring the skin, linen, etc. {{anchor:s8}}A suspicion is entertained that death results from sleeping in its shade. {{anchor:s9}}--Hom. Pharmacopoeia.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s11}}- <span grade2>Catarrhal ophthalmia</span>, Hyde, Retrospect, 1876, p. 8; <span grade2>Swelling of face, ear of same side involved</span>, Navarro, Hale's Symp., p. 240; <span grade2>Toothache from caries</span>, Hyde, A. O., vol. 13, p. 601; Retrospect, 1876, p. 8; <span grade2>Neuralgic pains in costal region</span>, Hyde, A. O., vol. 13, p. 602; Retrospect, 1876, p. 8; <span grade2>Sloughing ulcer of right breast</span>, Navarro, Hale's Symp., p. 241; <span grade2>Inflammation of left leg and foot</span>, Navarro, Hale's Symp., p. 241; <span grade2>Indolent ulcer on leg</span>, Navarro, Hale's Symp., p. 241; <span grade2>Rheumatic pains</span>, Hyde, Retrospect, 1876, p. 8; <span grade2>Leprosy</span>, Hale's Th., p. 205.

{{anchor:s12}}This arrangement includes the principal symptoms of J. Hyde's excellent proving published in A. O., vol. 13, p. 593, 1876, not out in time for vol. 3 of the Encyclopaedia.

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

{{anchor:s14}}Dizziness and heaviness of head, with shooting pains, amel. from motion.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Giddiness on rising from bed; everything looks dark; motion amel. all pains in head, agg. from heat.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

{{anchor:s17}}Dull aching in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Shooting pains through left temple.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Severe pain at intervals from posterior portion of eyeballs to occipital protuberance.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Head agg. near warm stove, and when stooping it is almost impossible to hold the head down, amel. in open air.

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

{{anchor:s22}}Corrosive itching of head, with shooting pains, amel. by movement.

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

{{anchor:s24}}On rising from bed, everything looks dark.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s25}}Face most dreadfully swollen, eyes project far out of sockets, can see but a faint glimmer of light with left.</span>\\ {{anchor:s26}}Sees from right eye a red ring around light of lamp, which disappears on closing eye.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s27}}Eyes feel very heavy, larger than usual, painful and pressing out of head, as if something was pressing on top of eyeballs, moving then downward and outward.</span>\\ {{anchor:s28}}Aching soreness of eyeballs, which feel heavy and too large.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s29}}Right eye very painful, feeling much larger and more protruded than left.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s30}}Right eyeball very sore, agg. on moving eye.</span>\\ {{anchor:s31}}Severe pains through eyeballs, extending to occiput.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s32}}Eyeballs feel agg. on moving them.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s33}}Catarrhal ophthalmia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s34}}Erysipelatous inflammation of tissues in and around eye.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s35}}Ciliary neuralgia from asthenopia and chronic iritis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s36}}Eyes more painful near warm stove, with profuse lachrymation.</span>

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

{{anchor:s38}}Heat and fullness in interior of right ear.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Left ear all cracked and desquamating a substance like powdered starch.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

{{anchor:s41}}Intolerable itching of nose.

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

{{anchor:s43}}Burning on face and eyes, agg. towards evening.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s44}}Painful burning on face, particularly about eyes.</span>\\ {{anchor:s45}}Excessive swelling of face, with tormenting itching and swelling.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Heat and sense of fullness in face over superior maxillary bone, and sensation as of a pimple over right antrum.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s47}}Left side of face swollen; left ear all cracked and desquamating a substance like powdered starch.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s48}}Very great swelling of face.</span>

====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======

{{anchor:s50}}Lower lip blistered and swollen.

====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======

{{anchor:s52}}Sensation as if molar teeth on right side were loose.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Sensation as if tooth was drawing out of its socket.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Aching pains in teeth.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s55}}Second molar tooth right side carious; pain commences in it at 4.30 to 5 P. M.; at times shoots down in line with larynx, leaving sore track; pain agg. in bed, amel. from external warmth and pressure.</span>\\ {{anchor:s56}}Pains in teeth amel. by pressure.\\ {{anchor:s57}}When toothache stops, head feels large.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Inflammation of gums of lower jaw.

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s60}}Tongue coated dirty yellow.

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

{{anchor:s62}}Mouth dry.

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

{{anchor:s64}}Sour eructations two hours after eating.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Sickness of stomach.

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

{{anchor:s67}}Pressure and heaviness in region of stomach.

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

{{anchor:s69}}Abdomen feels swollen.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Dull pain, gurgling and uneasiness in intestines in hypogastric region, with emission of odorless flatus.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Acute sore pains extending across abdomen above umbilicus, affecting the breathing.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Dull pain in abdomen, clothes too tight.\\ {{anchor:s73}}A pale red flush, as if an eruption would make its appearance across abdomen.

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

{{anchor:s75}}Severe flatulent pain in abdomen, preceding and during a diarrheic stool; followed by a feeling of weakness and perspiration on face and neck.

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

{{anchor:s77}}Intense itching on lower part of penis, also on inner side of prepuce.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Continued tingling, itching of scrotum during night.

====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======

{{anchor:s80}}Oppression of breathing.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Oppression of breath on account of sharp pains in left side.

====== COUGH. [27] ======

{{anchor:s83}}Spasmodic dry cough at night, with tickling in throat and constant dull pain under left nipple, extending through to left scapula.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Rheumatic and pleurodynic pain in chest.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Titillating cough; hacking cough in daytime.

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

{{anchor:s87}}Cannot draw a long breath on account of sharp pain felt at centre of thorax on left side.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Soreness in left lung, such as is felt during convalescence from pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Rheumatic and pleurodynic pains in chest; pain under left nipple through to scapula.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Constant pain across chest.

====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ======

{{anchor:s92}}Drawing in right anterior wall of chest.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Drawing, cramping in right anterior of chest and axilla, extending down arm to fingers, jerking of little finger.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Acute sharp pains in left mammary gland, about one inch above nipple and leaves a burning sensation; it goes to right side and down right arm.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Intermitting, throbbing, pressing pain in costal cartilage of fifth rib, right side, leaving a burning, raw sensation, agg. during rest.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s96}}Sloughing ulcer on right breast.</span>

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

{{anchor:s98}}On moving head, sense of fullness, rigidity and lameness of muscles of neck.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Rheumatic pains and stitches in back; stitches leave a burning.

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

{{anchor:s101}}Sharp pain through right shoulder to scapula.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Painful burning on arms.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Crampy sensation in muscles of right upper arm.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Numb, tensive pain in forearm, and rheumatic stiffness of shoulders and elbow joints.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Drawing, aching in forearm.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Drawing, cramping in fingers.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Frequent rheumatic pains in hands, arms and legs.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Vesicular eruption on arms and hands.

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

{{anchor:s110}}Intermittent, pressing outward pain in left sacro-iliac articulation, sensitive to pressure, amel. by walking, but feels lame and sore.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Pulsating pain in neck of right femur and in right thigh.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Severe pains in both knees; pressing down to feet on inside of legs.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Drawing in right knee, extending into anterior muscles of thigh.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Drawing, cramping in hollow of right foot, passing along outer border of gastrocnemius muscle to knee, then in tibia, where it becomes a numb aching, then in tarsus, where it becomes a drawing-aching, as if foot would cramp.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Lameness and loss of strength in left ankle.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Crampy lameness in right leg, above instep, amel. by walking.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s117}}Inflammation of left leg and foot, with violent fever; the swelling increased enormously when the pain subsided; the skin became white and covered with thin scales, cracked and discharged a sanious fluid.</span>\\ {{anchor:s118}}Vesicular eruption on legs changing to pustules, and sometimes to deep, unhealthy ulcers.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s119}}Indolent ulcer of six years' standing, on lower third of right leg, near external malleolus, of irregular shape and hard edges; the ulcer was deep and discharged a sanious, fetid pus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s120}}Herpes on legs.

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

{{anchor:s122}}Lame, aching pain in right upper arm; in right knee.

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s126}}Rest: pain in costal cartilage of fifth rib agg.; rheumatic pains and swellings worse.\\ {{anchor:s127}}In bed: pain in second molar of right side worse.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Motion: dizziness and heaviness of head, with shooting pains amel.; all pains in head amel.; rheumatic pains and swellings amel. by continued.\\ {{anchor:s129}}On moving head: sense of fullness, rigidity and lameness of muscles of neck.\\ {{anchor:s130}}On moving eyes: right eyeball very sore; eyeballs worse.\\ {{anchor:s131}}On rising from bed; giddiness; everything looks dark.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Stooping: almost impossible to hold head down.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Walking: intermittent, pressing outward pain in left sacro-iliac articulation amel.; crampy lameness in right leg above instep better.

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

{{anchor:s135}}Dreamy, refreshing sleep, with pleasant dreams, almost clairvoyant.

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s137}}During day: hacking cough.\\ {{anchor:s138}}From 4.30 to 5 P. M.: pain commences in second molar tooth of right side.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Towards evening: burning on face and eyes worse.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Night: continued tingling, itching of scrotum during; spasmodic dry cough with tickling in throat and constant dull pain under left nipple extending through to left scapula.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s142}}Heat: agg. pains in head.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Warm stove: head agg.; eyes more painful.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Warmth: pain in second molar of right side amel. by external.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Open air: head amel.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s147}}Violent fever.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s148}}~</span> <span grade3>Inflammation of left leg and foot.</span>\\ {{anchor:s149}}Sense of weakness, with heat and perspiration of face and neck.

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s151}}Frequent: rheumatic pains in hands, arms and legs.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Constant: pressure and heaviness in region of stomach; dull pain under left nipple, extending into left scapula; pain across chest.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Of six years' standing: indolent ulcer on right leg, near external malleolus.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s155}}Right: sees a red ring around light of lamp; eye very painful, feeling much larger and more protruded than left; eyeball very sore; heat and fullness in interior of ear; as of a pimple over antrum; as if molar teeth were loose; second molar tooth carious; drawing in anterior wall of chest; drawing-cramping in anterior of chest and axilla, extending down arm to fingers, jerking of little finger; intermitting, throbbing, pressing pain in costal cartilage of fifth rib, leaving a burning, raw sensation; sloughing ulcer on breast; sharp pain through shoulder to scapula; crampy sensation in muscles of upper arm; pulsating pain in neck of femur and thigh; drawing in knee, extending into anterior muscles of thigh; drawing-cramping in hollow of foot passing along outer border of gastrocnemius muscle to knee, then in tibia, where it becomes a numb aching, then in tarsus, where it becomes a drawing aching, as if foot would cramp; crampy lameness in leg above instep; indolent ulcer on lower third of leg near external malleolus; lame, aching pain in upper arm, in knee.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Left: shooting pains through temple; can see but a faint glimmer of light with eye; ear cracked and desquamating a substance like powdered starch; side of face swollen; sharp pains in side oppressing breathing; constant dull pain under nipple extending through to scapula; sharp pain at centre of thorax on side; soreness in lung; acute sharp pain in mammary gland about one inch above nipple and leaves a burning sensation, it goes to right side and down right arm; intermittent, pressing outward pain in sacro-iliac articulation; lameness and loss of strength in ankle; inflammation of leg and foot, skin white and covered with scales, cracked and discharging a sanious fluid.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s158}}As if eyes were larger than usual; as if something was pressing on top of eyeballs, moving them downward and outward; as if eyeballs were too large; as if right eyeball was much larger and more protruded than left; as of a pimple over right antrum; as if molar teeth on right side were loose; as if tooth was drawing out of socket; as if head was large, after toothache; as if abdomen was swollen; as if foot would cramp.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Pain: at intervals from posterior portion of eyeballs to occipital protuberance; in eyes; in second molar tooth of right side, shoots down in line with larynx, leaving sore track; in teeth; dull, in intestines and hypogastric region; dull, in abdomen; sharp, in left side, oppressing breathing; dull, under left nipple extending through to left scapula; sharp, in centre of thorax on left side; acute, sharp, in left mammary gland about one inch above nipple, and leaves a burning sensation, it goes to right side and down right arm; sharp, through right shoulder to scapula; severe in both knees.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Stitches: in back, leaving a burning.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Shooting pains: in head; through left temple.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Drawing: in right anterior wall of chest and axilla, extending down arm to fingers; in forearm; in fingers; in right knee, extending into anterior muscles of thigh; in hollow of right foot, passing along outer border of gastrocnemius muscle to knee, then in tibia, then in tarsus.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Throbbing pain: in costal cartilage of fifth rib, right side, leaving a burning, raw sensation.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Burning: on face and eyes; painful, on face and arms, and particularly about eyes; about one inch above left nipple; in costal cartilage of fifth rib, right side; in back; painful, on arms; over whole body.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Numb, tensive pain: of forearm, and rheumatic stiffness of shoulders and elbow joints.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Pressing pain: in costal cartilage of fifth rib, right side, leaving a burning, raw sensation.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Cramping: in right anterior of chest and axilla, extending down arm to fingers; in muscles of right upper arm; in fingers; in hollow of right foot passing along outer border of gastrocnemius muscle to knee, then in tibia, then in tarsus.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Acute sore pains: extending across abdomen above umbilicus, affecting breathing.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Aching soreness: of eyeballs.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Soreness: of right eyeball; in left lung.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Rheumatic pains: in chest; in back; in hands, arms and legs.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Pleurodynic pains: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Aching: dull, in forehead; in teeth; in forearm; numb, in tibia; in tarsus; in right upper arm; in right knee.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Pressure: constant, in region of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Pressing: down to feet on inside of legs.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Intermittent, pressing outward pain: in left sacro-iliac articulation, amel. by walking, but feels lame and sore.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Crampy lameness: in right leg above instep.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Lameness: in left ankle; in right upper arm; in right knee.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Pulsating pain: in neck of right femur and thigh.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Raw sensation: in costal cartilage of fifth rib, right side.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Tingling: of scrotum.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Heaviness: of head; of eyes; of eyeballs; in region of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Fullness: in interior of right ear; in face over superior maxillary bone; of head on moving head.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Itching: corrosive, of head; intolerable, of nose; excessive swelling of face with tormenting; intense, on lower part of penis, also on inner side of prepuce; of scrotum; tormenting, over whole body.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Tickling: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Heat: in interior of right ear; in face over superior maxillary bone.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

{{anchor:s188}}Rheumatic pains and swellings, agg. by rest, amel. by continued motion.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Affects the skin in a marked degree.

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s193}}Pressure: amel. pain in second molar of right side; pains in teeth amel.; pressing outward pain in left sacro-iliac articulation, sensitive to.

====== SKIN. [46] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s195}}Tormenting itching and burning over whole body.</span>\\ {{anchor:s196}}Painful burning on face and arms; face enormously swollen.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Violent itching burning, redness and erysipelatous swelling of face, hands and other parts of body, followed by yellow vesication and desquamation of cuticle.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s198}}Red color all over body, resembling scarlet fever.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s199}}Skin white and covered with shiny scales; cracked and discharged sanious fluid.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s200}}~</span> <span grade3>Inflammation leg and foot.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s201}}Inflammation of the part, with deep, hard-edged ulcers, which discharge a thick, purulent, greenish-yellow matter, having a very peculiar, fetid smell, parts becoming in appearance similar to a piece of raw, decayed meat, while surrounding skin is covered with small shining scales.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s202}}Malignant erysipelas; herpes; zona; leprosy.</span>

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s204}}Miss H., aet. 17, a student, dark, thin hair, blue eyes, fair complexion, mixed temperament; toothache.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Mrs. C., aet. 25, mother of one child, auburn hair, fair complexion, blue eyes, nervo-sanguine temperament; neuralgic pains in costal region, right side.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Lady, aet. 38, sloughing ulcer of breast.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s208}}Compare: <span grade2>Anac., Rhus tox., Rhus rad., Rhus ven.</span>

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 04, 1884 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r249|Comocladia dentata]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r249|Comocladia dentata]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1884 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}