Colocynthesis

Malarial
Plant (Bitter Cucumber - Violales, Bry)
He ripped my character, I tried to do the right thing, but I got madand it still bothers me
I just cant tolerate that Ive been injured * Intolerable
Im going to mow you down because you did this
Very Bitter * Embittered (Nux)
Unsuccessful Suppression * Try to suppress it to be upright But world sees their anger
They can give you the silent treatment, but you know they are pissed.
Anger (bounces around inside them)
Yellers! Lose temper! Hate contradictions, criticism.
Vexation: one aggravating thing after another Something in your way
Things bother them * Ailments from (Coloc!!), they are constantly aggravating me
Idealistic, then disappointed
Comes from instance of loss of faith, indignation, humiliation
Persecution feeling in this remedy, it never goes away
Haughtiness; heightened sense of dignity (Staph)
Holds a Grudge
Selfish (less Caust-about cause) Less of a team player
Hard * Harsh * Critical, Fastidious, Hardness morally * Delusion everything is wrong.
Worse from injustice, being disturbed, being questioned, bad news, vexation.
High sex drive
Grown in Middle East (centuries of tension)
Malarial: Have to try their hardest, but keeps recurring
Worse from anger (top 4 or 5 with Nux, Staph, Cham)
Strong GI affinity (like Nux or Cham)
Around colic: gallbladder (gallstones), kidney stones, dysmenorrheal
Cramping, biting, cutting pain (need to bend double),
Spastic quality that catches your breath
Colic in infants
Better lying on pain, hard pressure
Pain worse from touch (like other Malarial)
Worse from eating, drinking, better from coffee
Nervous system affinity, with neuralgias, restlessness, chorea (Staph)
Left facial neuralgia, sciatica
Compl (Staph and Caust) a triad
Ode to Coloc
A Coloc wont budge
When they hold a grudge
Theres always some trouble
To make them bend double
God keep my dignity

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With you bugging me!

Reactive anger
Highly tuned anger (thats why not Carc)
Boss highly controlling of her
Wants to blow up
Anger is overt she tries to control it
Colitis, spasms and then explosion, green stool
Shes hot
Explosive
Tight goes into spasm
Spasmodic to exploding
Colocynthesis and Solenacea family (both) have spasmodic to explosion
State of feeling insulted
Crampy feeling
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Colocynthesis

Eric (Notes from Sandy)

Bitter cucumber. Grow in the Middle East and associated with the centuries of tension there. They give you digestive problems if you eat them. Known best for being an anger remedy. This remedy is complementary to Staph and Caust. Youll
see cases where you will go from one to the other in the triad. Staph suppresses anger, Caust stands up for cause (act according to principle, and are angry if others dont), Colocynthis is between and only partly suppresses anger. It bounces
around inside of them. Sense like one aggravating thing after another. Vexation. Things are around particular situations
where they have the anger. With Colo (and not Nux), there is something that makes them very bitter. For example, you are
in a lawsuit against someone who is slamming your character. You try to do the right thing, and the person is hitting below
the belt. These people react back, but they can never get all of the anger out. They are still angry after they have done
something about it. They experience it as suppression, but the world see it as expressed anger. They try to suppress it to be
upright. Comes up often out of broken relationships. Where a loss of faith, change in their sense of the universe. Indignation, humiliation erodes their faith. They can hold a grudge.
Ailments from ________________; Colocynthis is listed there more than other remedies. Things bother them, and there is
usually a person who is constantly aggravating them. And other vexations occur in their lives. Worse from injustice, being
disturbed, being questioned, bad news, vexation. Delusion everything is wrong. Critical, high sex drive, fastidious. Hardness morally that goes beyond Nux. Nux is more nervous and tremors. Nat-Mur can look like this. But they need the
situation of embitterment, and then the Colo keynotes. Someone who is revered, no longer is.
If they talk about their career (Nux), they come in early with high principles, it is more than money (not Nux). With Colo, it
seems like the problems with relationships never end, and they become embittered. Idealistic, then disappointed. Vexation:
you are going somewhere, and then something gets in your way. NitricAcid is more of a victim. Anger can be as intense as
any other anger remedy. Yellers, lose temper and yell. Hate contradictions, criticism. Hate others coming to them. Haughtiness; heightened sense of dignity (Staph). Once angry with someone, they will be haughty with this person. Not great
with forgiveness. They can give you the silent treatment, but you know they are pissed. Any attempt to pry it out of them
would be successful. There is a lot of attempt to modulate their anger. There is a sudden sort of anger to the feeling when it
comes out. The Middle East: 3 groups think this is their spiritual home, and so they are killing each other over it. The bitterness you could have over this is Colocynthis. It is generally over some ideal. They dont give up on their integrity. Colo
has more personal drive, Caust is more for causes not necessarily for themselves. Causticum is more of a team player than
Colo (because they are very irritated). Colo is more selfish. Malarial miasmfeel they have to put all of their defenses into

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overdrive, have to try their hardest, keeps recurring. That feeling keeps them from having the more broadbased connection
that Caust has.
CancerI have to try everything I can, and it might not be enough, its a last ditch effort.
Typhoidfeel they have to put defenses into overdrive, try hardest.
Malariallike Typhoid, but keeps recurring.
Persecution feeling in this remedy, it never goes away. These Malarial remedies can start like Typhoid, but then keep recurring, and then become Malarial. Malarial: just quit bothering me.
Keynotes:
Worse from anger (top 4 or 5 with Nux, Staph, Cham)
Strong GI affinity (like Nux or Cham)
Nervous system affinity, with neuralgias, restlessness, chorea (Staph)
Key: Cramping, biting, cutting pain (need to bend double), spastic quality that catches your breath
Colic in infants
Pain worse from touch (like other Malarial)
Better lying on pain, pressure
(Cham has numbness with the pain)
CASE: 43 man. Divorce stressful, losing compassion. Trying to be compassionate. Has tremendous anxiety dealing with
wife. Tired, gut goes crazy, loose bowels, muscular tension in back. Trying to switch jobs. Lots of stress. Wife is immoral, needs control. Moved kids out and it upset him. Getting broiled. Gets deranged by her actions, wants to kill her.
(No better from discharge) The rage produces no results. Wants to go away (Desires to escape rubric). Even by petty stuff,
gets paranoid when things go wrong. Painful abdomen, has to bend double. Historically he has had gut symptoms 3 or 4 x
a month. Cant eat, throws up and has bowel movements at the same time (this plant family-typically Veratrum). Feels
totally wiped out the next day, better heat and massage. Feels very responsible, not communicating things, and not getting
it out front. Suppresses anger until he rages out, and then people in his space enrage him. Doesnt seem to come all out.
Any little thing gets to him; feels betrayed. Stomach thing has sudden onset, chills, better vomiting. Gets affected by people on a gut level. Worse full moon.
Vomiting: Phos, Ars
CASE: (not as easy to spot) Burly policeall his career. Positive about that. Sports-related operations. Job took toll; insides hurt everyday. Started worrying about cancer, stomach hurts from stress. Says he is extremely energetic and positive.
In the last 5 years dept has changed, you wake angry from injustices. He is highly decorated (dignity factor). Negative surroundings, and the years of abuse affect his body. Dept chief threatens to transfer him. Vindictive front office. Tries to
avoid the evil people, but wakes up thinking about work. Felt a cloudy dizzy spell, couldnt relax or let go of things. Feels
better after swimming. Gut feels upset, not like throwing up. Likes ice cold drinks, very warm. Recharges easily, likes
spicy food. An overachiever, very competitive, good loser. Likes socializing in small, likes to control who they are with.
Very loyal, no sick days for 21 years except for injuries. In 5 shootings, didnt feel bad about it. Supercompetitive, but
cant stand being around cutthroats.
Colocynthis/Bryonia in the same family, and Coloc can have issues with money.
BOTANY
Plant groups have been lumped together. The group Coloc is in is not a typical plant family. Nightshades have 25000
plants, Compositae has 250,000. Sankaran has taken the cucumbers and violets together and call them Violales. (Insight
into Plants book)
Violales: Coloc, Bryonia, Elat, Viola-t, -o, Cist, Pacifloria (passion flower), Luf
Elaterium, Bryonia, Colocynthis
Compare:
Bryonia in Typhoid miasm

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Coloc in Malaria miasm

Both are active go-for-it remedies, tend to be irritable when disturbed. Not recharged by people. Both strong affinity
for digestive tract.
Elateriumviolent vomiting and diarrhea. The squirting cucumber, when ripe it squirts out seeds and juice. Remedy
for cholera, beri-beri, Squirting diarrhea, olive-green. Acute miasm.
So if a case looks like Bry or Coloc, but has squirting diarrhea, give Elat.
Cistusthe rock rose. Get giant swollen glands. Used in mono when the cervical lymph nodes are huge. There is a
huge focus on the glands. Known to have Calcarea-like picture (chilly, worse from cold, flabbier, crave cheese, winterrecurring respiratory ailments). Tubercular miasm.