COPAIVA OFFICINALIS

Balsam of Copaiva


  • Acts powerfully on mucous membranes, especially that of the urinary tract, the respiratory organs, and the skin, here producing a well-marked nettle-rash. 
  • Cold and catarrhs.

Head

  • Excessive sensitiveness; pain in occiput. 
  • Dull, frontal headache, passes to occiput and back again, with throbbing, worse right side and motion. 
  • Scalp sensitive. 
  • Sensitive to sharp sounds.

Nose

  • Rawness and soreness of nostrils with stopped-up feeling; dryness of posterior nares. 
  • Profuse, thick, fetid discharge from nasal passages, running down throat at night. 
  • Burning and dryness, crusts on turbinated bones. 
  • Marked catarrhal condition in upper respiratory tract.

Stomach

  • Food seems too salty. 
  • Gastric troubles during menstruation or following urticaria. 
  • Gas and intestinal flatulence, urging to stool and difficult passage with pain.

Urinary

  • Burning pressure; painful micturition by drops. 
  • Retention, with pain in bladder, anus, and rectum. 
  • Catarrh of bladder; dysuria. 
  • Swelling of orifice. 
  • Constant desire to urinate. 
  • Urine smells of violets. 
  • Greenish, turbid color; peculiar pungent odor.

Rectum

  • Mucous Colitis. 
  • Stools covered with mucus, with colic and chilliness. 
  • Burning and itching of anus, caused by piles.

Male

  • Testicles sensitive and swollen.

Female

  • Itching of vulva and anus, with bloody purulent discharge. 
  • Profuse, strong-smelling menstrual discharge, with pains radiating to hip bones, with nausea.

Respiratory

  • Cough, with profuse, gray, purulent expectoration. 
  • Tickling in larynx, trachea, and bronchi. 
  • Bronchial catarrh, with profuse greenish, offensive discharge.

Skin

  • Hives, with fever and constipation. 
  • Roseola. 
  • Erysipelatous inflammation, especially around abdomen. 
  • Circumscribed lenticular patches, with itching; mottled appearance. 
  • Chronic urticaria in children. 
  • Bullous eruptions.

Relationship

  • Antidotes: Bell; Merc.
  • Compare: 
    • Santalum--(aching in kidneys); 
    • Cannab; Canth; Barosma; Cubeb; Apis; Vespa; Erig; Senecio; Sepia.

Dose

  • First to third attenuation.