Curare
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1994 Jul / Aug Vol III No 4.
Tarkas P I.
Materia Medica.
` Cur.
Neuro-circulation
Vasomotor nerves
(Periphery of) or Peripheral motor nerves
Spine
Mucous membranes
Metabolism. Liver
Limbs
Skin
One side, one not lain on
Dampness. Rains
Swamps. WAshing head
Cold, windy weather, cold open air
Rising up. Motion
Eating. Drinking
Depressing factors
Severe acutes
Overtaxing
Old age, Lead Strychnine
Depletions
Warmth; dry, sun
Rest; lying
Pressure
Eating
Stool
Congestive. Bilious. Debilitated
Cachetic. Un-repairing
Senile. Degenerative.
A congestive depressant like gels or Xanth with a touch of degeneration like Sec irritation: neuro-circulatory and/ or mucous membrane. Its action is multiphasic, as compared to its cousin strychnine, triggered off with congestion.
From congestion to outskirts of toxemia and sepsis, soon however shunting over to paralysis. Nerve degeneration prevailing over tissue degeneration (over-vegetative, Carb-s) Destructive metabolism at but fag end, though palliative even there. Manifests a strong tendency to spasms or paralysis or to malignancy.
Nerves:
- Depression (simple or function failure, like Onos). Debility stemming either from sepsis
or degeneration of old age, or after severe acutes, or depletions like over-lactation or
overuse of organs. Or paralytic debility followed by hypertrophy and spasms.
Depression and paralysis of motor nerves from periphery to centre: of vaso-motors or musculo-motors. Paralysis also of inhibitory splanchnic fibres; of vagus; of epidermis. A painless muscular paralysis, not involving the brain (Con). Paralysis after: dog bite (wrist drop); injections (anti-rabid); injuries, lead poison, apoplexy, with easy sweat; epilepsy; depletions; infantile, hysterical, Bulbar (Gel). Pseudo-hypertrophy (Carb-s). Alternates with convulsions (Stram). - Convulsions; acute, sudden, severe. Epilepsy petit or grand mal; aggravated night; of
stone cutters. Epileptic chorea during intervals of paralytic symptoms. Tetanus;
traumatic. Puerperal eclampsia. Catalepsy with spasms of jaws. Hydrophobia. Hiccough.
A sinking faintness with pains or after vomiting after coughing.
Dull tired ache over back and shoulders; heavy arms; aching all over. Sore bruised pains. Burning. Needle like pains. Numbness tingling formication more pronounced than pains.
Circulation:
General (arterial) pulsations all over except feet; causes a nervous hurried flurried, uneasy, tremulous feeling or festinatory actions. Fluttering - buzzing - vibrating - quivering sensations (like Lec).
Congestions; febrile; paralyzing with hammer like pains; in cranial or visceral organs (not ending in hemorrhage) Blood poisoning, sepsis, abscess. (No blood dyscrasias, No scurvy).
Tissues: Loss of irritability of fibre, reflex action diminished or abolished; may go hand in hand with stimulation (see heart).
Cachexia and a mild destructive metaboly (without outflow of blood or signs of septicaemia; like Naj). Breakdown of repair. The degenerative ageing processes. Foetid discharges or gangrene. Ozaena. Fissures. Vicious ulcers. Internal degenerations e.g. Leprous, manifestations as diabetes (acute, juvenile, senile, paralyzing) or frank destructive leprosy itself.
Cancers; ulcerating, gangrenizing.
General appearance of a Scirrhous cachexia. Scirrhous tubercles on labia. Hard scirrhus
tumors on mammae. Choanate (funnel shaped) ulcerations of so. Face, lips, tongue. In old
age (Hydr) Cirrhosis of liver (green bilious vomiting).
Proliferations. Scrofulous tumors in nose, on face, on lips on perineum, on neck. Tumors after bite. Concretions on nerves with deficient circulations. Tubercles on nose with loss of hair and teeth; scirrhous. Corns (Horny growth).
Dropsy, ascites, swelling of fingers in morning (Diabetes).
Mucous membranes exudative; tears, coryza, saliva, urine, sweat glands. Congestive
catarrhs (Eucal).
Bones soften, legs bowed outwards. Osteocopy.
Injuries: Bites, blows; bruised pain, congestion.
Though not very popular with us it deserves a special place in the Bapt, Bell, Bry,
Carb-s, Eucal, Gels, Naj, Sec, Stry and Xan club.
One of the few multi-phasic remedies (like Agar, Psor, Sec, Tub). A good restorative (like
Eucal).
SELECT PARTICULARS
MIND: Unstrung; either ecstatic (with hallucinations of grandeur or of sublime music, even catalepsy) or an anti-social, Reckless, wicked mafia (initially kleptomania). Indecisiveness. A nervous restlessness driving from place to place. Restless in limbs too. With congestion or pain either mania or unconsciousness (with coma vigil). Soporous sleep (deeper than Gels); with somnambulism. Hydrophobia. Insanity; alternating with pthisis (Tub).
HEAD: Vertigo; of decrepit, paralyzed or old people; hydrophobia; between convulsions; before vomiting.
Headaches: congestive, after fever, Toxic, bilious (sic) or nervous. Swashing, vibrating, simmering or shattered feeling in "cerebral tb" (T F Allen).
EYES: Congestion, lachrymation, photophobia (with coryza); pains burning or splinter like.
EARS: Chronic suppurative otitis media. Severe pains, extending into legs. Various noises. Swollen lobes. Deafness.
NOSE: Congestive (stuffy) Colds; purulent discharge; post nasal catarrh, boring pains.
FACE: Congestion, later paralysis. Labio-gloss-pharyngeal (bulbar) paralysis. Cracked lips and commisseurs.
MOUTH: Teeth-grinding in sleep; pulsating pain, worse cold; decay and fall rapidly. congested. Tongue red, cracked and bleeding. Palate - inflamed; varices on. Fetor. Bitter taste.
THROAT: Congestion with bleeding. Pain in, precedes fever etc. Sticking, pulsation; tingling. Paralytic or dry esophagus. Tonsils - inflammation, softening, destruction; abscess on. Hawking.
STOMACH: Desires cold water and sweetened drinks, milk. Aversion to bread, vegetables. Ravenous appetite, even during fever. Fatiguing hiccough or nausea from nervous debility. Some "working" in stomach and abdomen. A faint sick, sinking collapsed feeling in stomach from abdominal, rectal or heart pains; before menses; about 10 a.m. Ulcer pain better eructations. No digestion.
ABDOMEN: Liver deranged from congestion (biliousness, torpor) to enlarged, cirrhosis.
Flatulence - 3 hours after eating: offensive; of the aged (Carb-ac), incarcerated.
Tenderness. Burning. Pains on side not lain on; amel bending double, pressure.
RECTUM: Weak, relaxed bowels; constipation rarely. Prolapse. Fissures. Painful haemorrhoids, with pain in limbs.
URINARY: Renal congestion; with dysmenorrhoea. Bladder (congestion), urging with tenesmus, nausea, dyspnoea and faintness. Acute galloping, grave diabetes with peripheral neuritis or motor paralysis; not metabolic, but from lack of the nervous support necessary there to; juvenile.
MALE: Intense blenorrhoea, with chordae. In coition, ejaculation slow and depressing. Impotency (Stry).
FEMALE: Menses capricious; sickening. Furor uterinus; ulcerated cervix or uterus; horny neck; itching, burning, smarting. Sterility. Abortion.
Mammae - inflammation; abscess; cancer. Fissures and ulcers on nipples.
RESPIRATORY: Aphonia, easy; in epileptics. Dyspnoea from weariness (going towards paralysis) of respiratory motor nerves as from oldage or in phthisis. Asthma; cardiac. Dry cough in wet weather. Catarrhal cough with coryza. Phthisical conditions.
HEART: "Accelerated hearts action from paralysis of vagus and increased peristalsis from paralysis of inhibitory splanchnic fibres" (Farrington). Paralysis of vasomotor termini causing the blood vessels to dilate, thereby lessening the resistance to blood flow. (Threatened cardiac paralysis).
Strange indescribable uneasy faint feeling inside; a distressing anguish in precordia. Tensive, lancinating pains, Myocarditis; after flu (or from debility).
LOCOMOTOR: Neck, feels constricted. Lancinating pains on sides of. Painful contraction in spinal column.
Arms - feels nervous, lame, heavy; tremble; later paralyze. Weak fingers, of pianist. Nails become soft and brittle
Legs - restless in bed, must put them out, feel (weak and) nervous; tremulous, with stumbling gait; weak, bend like a bow. Sciatica with great stiffness.
SKIN: Itching - burning-stinging-tickling. Liver spots; variegated spots; reticulate, echymosis. Extravasations. Sensitive. Scrofulous eczema; of infants. Boils, pustules. Scaly herpes, miliary rash, scarlatina, Pemphigus, urticaria. Febrile. (carbuncle, psoriasis).
Ulcer - indolent, malignant, corroding; in the aged from low vitality (Bapt) Erysipelas - erratic, phlegmonous, gangrenous.
Abscess - on gums, of tonsils, of liver; at anus; on breast; panaritium.
THERMIC: All stages have shivering and ameliorated after eating. Chill begins in viscera with thirst. Vicious vomiting follows it.
Heat - with black mouth, delirium and characteristic symptoms of the remedy (convulsions in paroxysms, fainting, yawning, stretching, heaviness of head, thirst and hunger), cyanosis, prostration, even paralysis. Cold head, hot hands; or vice versa.
Sweat - especially night, easy; copious.
Pernicious or miasmatic fevers, constant chilliness and hammering headache (Comparing well with Bell, Eucal). Septic, zymotic (Bapt). Toxic influenza; sequelae with great weakness, shaky legs, thirst, feeling of heat inside (with sensitiveness to heat). (Hectic). "Rapid pulse of post flu myocarditis" (Hayes).
RELATIONS: A wet weather Bell. A super Bry. A Gels with more emphasis on convulsions and less on trembling and deeper sleep. A Eucal with pronounced malignancy and paralysis. Hydr is a specialized Cur with destruction more advanced, but nerves not involved. Aster s a reshuffled Cur probably an arterial Cur, so is Fago.
SIMILARS: Ang, Bat, Bell, Bry, Bufo, Carb-s, Con, Cond, Cystisine, Eucal, Gel, Gna, Helon, Hippz, Hydr, Kali-ph, Naja, Nux-v, Olnd, Onos, Op, Phys, Plb, Pyro, Sec, Stra, Stry, Ter, Ver-v, Xan, Zin-s.
RELATED: Con, Gel, Stry
ANTIDOTES: Chloral, Stry
IT ANTIDOTES: Lead, Naj, Rabies, Strychnine, Upas
FOLLOWS WELL after: Arn, Bell, Led, Pul, Rhus-t
FOLLOWS WELL: Bry, Plb
CHRONICS: Aur-m(-n), Bar-c, Graph, Plb
ACUTES: Aco, Bell, Bry, Puls, Rhus-t, Ver-v
SUGGESTED SYMBIOTICS: Carb-s, Eucal
COLLATERALS: Eucal, Gel, Med.
Dr. P.I. TARKAS
Vadodra -2.
CAN SOME MARINE CREATURE TALK LIKE US?
Porpoise is one such marine creature that imitates man in many respects. Though it resembles the fish in appearance, yet it does not fall in the category of fish. It is mammal and as such gives birth to the young ones and nurse them with its milk. The whale, dolphin and Porpoise - all come under the category of mammals. The Porpoise has another speciality. it does not have gills for respiration. It breaths through its lungs. It has a hole in its head which is called the nose. It brings its head above the water surface and breathes through this hole. Its tail is in the horizontal position whereas the tail of the fish is perpendicular to its body. Its length measures upto 1.75 metres. it has 80 to 100 teeth in its mouth. It is either black or brown in colour. it is found in the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.
The Porpoise is the cleverest of all the animals. It is an expert in imitating man. It is able to imitate the human voice. In the marine studio in Florida, there is a Porpoise which speaks in human voice. Once a lady walked upto the Porpoise and started laughing. Seeing the lady laughing, the Porpoise imitated her. Its sound producing parts are so formed that they can produce sounds like human beings. it is trained to talk.
A kind of oil is extracted from the jaws of the Porpoise. It is used for lubricating the parts of watches and other precious equipments. Scientists have been conducting many experiments for testing the cleverness of the Porpoise.
