# Anacardium Occidentale

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Anac-oc. causes weak ness of memory and mind like Anae. Scirrhus swellings. Hard 
excrescences. Proud flesh. Tearing pain in left side of head. Burning and itching of ears  and face. General 
paralytic state. Paralysis and imbecility. Tongue painfully swollen. 
Erysipelas, vesicular facial emptions, anesthetic variety of leprosy, warts, coms, ulcers, cracking of the skin on 
soles of feet. Itching almost intolerable, umbilicat ed vesicles as in smallpox. The erysipelas spreads from left 
to right and it cures erysipelas spreading from right to left, Paralysis with imbecility.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Difficulty with thinking.
- Did not know his surroundings.
- Weak memory.
- Melancholy.
- Hypochondriasis .
- Apathy.
- Loss of will, cannot control voluntary muscles.
- Paralysis with imbecility.
- Difficulty with thinking.
- Did not know his surroundings.
- Weak memory.
- Melancholy.
- Hypochondriasis .
- Apathy.
- Loss of will, cannot control voluntary muscles.
- Paralysis with imbecility.

### Head
- Head falls forward, difficult to keep it up.
- Tearing headache on left side.
- Kidneys - Increased urination.
- Head falls forward, difficult to keep it up.
- Tearing headache on left side.
- Kidneys - Increased urination.

### Eyes
- Scrofulous ophthalmia.

### Ears
- Swelling of ears with burning and itching.

### Face
- Erysipelas over whole face from ap plying juice to destroy marks.
- Swelling of face with itching and 
burning, next night after handling nuts.
- Face swollen, features not discernible.

### Mouth
- Drinks run out of mouth.
- Aphthae.
- Cannot speak, only mutters unintelligible sounds.
- Painfully swollen 
tongue from handling nuts.

### Urinary & Genital
- Stimulates sexual desire.
- Testicles swollen when touched with hands after handling nuts.
- When juice is applied during menses, it causes erysipelas of the face.
- Uterine complaints and dropsy.

### Extremities
- Large blisters filled with a yellow fluid are raised on hands, followed by desquamation.
- Warts.
- Coms.

### Skin
- Corroding or dry tetters.
- Red itching spots like nettle rash (Rhus -t.), spreading from left to right.
- Used 
as a vesicant, it 
causes itching and burning, then gradual reddening and swelling, followed by vesicles which become pustular.
- These are large and flat at first and gradually become confluent and break, the epidermis peels off, but leaves 
the surface swollen, hyperemic and suppurating for days.
- Proud flesh.