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COCCYGODYNIA

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Apis Apis

Inflammation of the coccygeal muscles and of the joints, from cold, getting feet wet, etc.; sensation of stiffness in sacrum; burning pressure in coccygeal region, (<) from any attempt to sit down and evenings.

Belladonna Bell

The ischia feel sore, as if there were no flesh on them, yet she feels better when sitting on something hard; intense crampy pain in the small of the back and os coccygis; she can sit only a short time, for it makes her stiff and unable to rise again from pain; cannot lie down well, wakes often at night, and has to shift position; feels best when standing or walking slowly.

Causticum Caust

Dull drawing pain in the region of the coccyx; pain as from bruises or darting pain in the coccyx; every movement of the body gives a pain in the small of the back; pinching crampy pain in the lumbar region and buttocks.

Carbo anim Carb-an

Pain in the coccyx, which becomes a burning pain when the parts are touched; pressing, bearing-down pain in the coccyx as if the parts were bruised; pain as from subcutaneous ulceration in this region, mostly when sitting or lying down; pressing, drawing, or stiffness in the lumbar region, as if the back were broken.

Cannabis Cann-i

Pressure, as if with a sharp point on the coccyx; pain in the middle of the back as if it were being pinched, the pain gradually extending towards the abdomen.

Cantharis Canth

Lancinations and tearings in coccyx, causing him to start.

Cicuta Cic

Tearing jerking in the coccyx; painful feeling of stiffness in the lower limbs; his legs refuse to carry him; during catamenia coming on for the first time after a confinement.

Cistus can Cist

A burning bruised pain in the coccyx.

Euphorbium Euph

Painfulness of coccyx, as if in the bone, (<) on rising from sitting and when beginning to move; sensitive to touch; diarrhoeic stools which pain, (<) in coccyx.

Fluoric acid Fl-ac

Aching in the os sacrum and lumbar region, relieved by stretching and bending backward, especially by pressure, in subjects of a rheumatic tendency.

Graphites Graph

Dull drawing in the coccyx in the evening; violent itching of the coccygeal region, the part being moist with scurfy eruptions.

Kali carb Kali-c

Violent gnawing in the coccyx, both when at rest and in motion; backache, while walking; she feels as if she must give up and lie down; backache, as if broken.

Kreosotum Kreos

Drawing pain along the coccyx down to the rectum and vagina, where a spasmodic, contractive pain is felt; better when rising from her seat; subsequent milky leucorrhoea.

Lachesis Lach

Continual pain in the os sacrum and coccyx; drawing pain, or s if sprained, in the small of the back, preventing motion; agonizing pain when rising from his seat; nerves are here poorly protected, hence hyperaesthesia.

Lobelia Lob

Extreme tenderness over sacrum, she cannot bear even the pressure of a soft pillow; she cries out if any attempt is made to touch these parts; she sits up in bed, leaning forward to avoid contact with bed.

Magnesia Mag-c

Sudden piercing pain in the coccyx; sudden, violent; concussive, tearing, stitching pain in this region, as if the spine were bent back.

Mercurius Merc

Tearing pain in the coccyx, relieved by pressing the hand against the abdomen. Pain in sacrum as if one had been lying on too hard a couch; pricking itching in the sacrum when walking.

Muriatic acid Mur-ac

Drawing burning along the back, beginning at the coccyx, as if under the skin; burning stitch in sacrum, causing one to start.

Paris quad Par

Tearing in the coccyx when sitting; pulsative stitches in the coccyx.

Petroleum Petr

Pain in coccyx while sitting; great uneasiness and stiffness in the small of the back and coccyx in the evening.

Phosphorus Phos

Pain in coccyx as if ulcerated, hindering motion, and followed by painful stiffness in the nape of the neck.

Phosphoric acid Ph-ac

Itching stitch in the coccyx; fine stitches in coccyx and sternum.

Platina Plat

Numb feeling in the coccyx as from a blow.

Rhus tox Rhus-t

Rheumatism from exposure to dampness; drawing, jerking stitches as with a needle in coccyx, (<) from continued rest, when first moving, (>) when in active motion.

Ruta Ruta

Pain extending from coccyx to sacrum, as if caused by a bruise, from a blow or fall.

Tarentula Tarent

Burning smarting leucorrhoea and painful uneasiness in the coccyx, relieved by standing, aggravated by the slightest movement, sitting or lying on the bed, or by the least pressure.

Thuja Thuj

Painful drawing in the sacrum and coccyx, and in the thighs, when sitting; after having been seated a while, the drawing hinders standing erect. Sudden cramp-like pain in the lumbar region after long standing, and then attempting to walk, it seems as if he would fall; stitches from anus to sacrum; burning in hollow below coccyx.

Valeriana Valer

Bubbling pressure above the anus, in the region of the coccyx; pain in the loins, as from cold or overlifting.

Zincum Zinc

Pain in coccyx, sometimes a pushing aching, and sometimes pinching; lancinations in the sacrum; pressure, tension and weakness in the lumbar and sacral region; cracking in the back when walking.

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Dewey’s Practical Homoeopathic Therapeutics and Lilienthal’s Homoeopathic Therapeutics are readable here. The other books keep their chapter lists so you can see what each volume covers. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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