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Cocculus indicus (Cocc.)

Cocculus indicus (Cocc.) appears in 954 rubrics in the Repertory. Of these, 49 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 60 are small rubrics with no more than two other remedies. The main emphasis lies on anxiety (52 rubrics in all), children, fear, ailments from grief and worry, and delusions. Together they give the picture of a person who exhausts himself for others, is thrown off balance by disturbance, noise, and loss of sleep, and in the end accepts reality as it is.

Worry and Caregiving

The core lies in devotion to another person. The Repertory lists ailments from worry about a loved one, both as a single-remedy rubric under Ailments from and under Worries: "Ailments from – anxiety, worry, grief – loved person, about a". This includes the grief that follows the death of a loved one after long nursing of the sick: "Grief – death of loved ones or friends, from – nursing loved ones with long illness, after". Mental exhaustion has the same sources: worries, night watching, and excessive study. Someone who spends himself this way pays little attention to himself: anxiety about his own health is absent, and indifference to his own health is listed as a single-remedy rubric of its own.

Disturbance and Reality

Two king-pin symptoms stand opposite each other. "Disturbed – aversion to being" describes a person who wants to keep his situation, routine, and daily life unchanged and feels irritated by every interruption. Opposed to this stands "Recognizes – reality and accepts it", the ability to accept without complaint circumstances that cannot be changed. The intolerance of interruption, the aversion to driving, and the ailments from sounds and noise, which are listed as single-remedy rubrics, fit the first attitude. Resignation to God's will fits the second.

Waking Rigidity and Stupefaction

The rigidity with full consciousness is striking. The Repertory lists the person who recognizes everything but can neither move nor express himself and lies with eyes open, as well as catalepsy: "Recognizes – everything, but cannot move". In unconsciousness, perception of the surroundings sometimes persists. Weakness also shows in thinking: irresolution with contracted pupils, dullness after drinking, speech defects and wrong words in typhoid fever or after sleeplessness.

Fear and Night

Fear has tangible objects: sudden events, eclampsia, convulsions, ghosts on waking and in sleeplessness, and fear of death in gastritis. The night with lack of sleep and sleeplessness is its place, and it also turns physical: homesickness with sleeplessness, a dreamlike state as after a night without sleep, pushing-away movements in sleep.

Jesting and Anger

The mood swings between jesting and vexation. Several single-remedy and small rubrics link joking with irritability, anger, or vexation ("Jesting – alternating with – vexation"), and likewise anger with liveliness. This can be read as a cheerfulness wrung from exhaustion that quickly turns into irritability.

Delusions

The delusions are sensory and uncanny: something alive is rolling toward one or across walls, floor, and chairs ("Delusions – rolling – wall, floor or everywhere, something alive rolls over the"), one is at the sea, the organs are hollowed out, one has committed a base deed or has been poisoned.

Women and Menses

The menses have single-remedy rubrics of their own: insanity, mania, dancing, and baseness after amenorrhea, sighing and groaning with suppressed menses, despair with menorrhagia, moaning during menses. The sensitivity of girls is also listed separately.

Summary

In the Repertory, Cocc. stands for a person who exhausts himself in worry for others, loses sleep and rest, and is irritated by every disturbance. He often stays awake and yet paralyzed, neglects concern for himself, and finally accepts reality without complaint.

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