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.
