# Castoreum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Caspari proved Russian Cast., Nenning, that of Southern Europe. Teste remarked that 
Cast, has been regarded as a resinous substance and he observed, moreover, that the beaver feeds almost 
entirely on the resinous bark of pine trees. In Siberia, beavers feed on the bark of the birch, which may make 
a difference in the effects of Cast, from different countries. 
Cast, is a great remedy for hysteria. Weakness and lack of reaction.  Marked prostra tion. Nervous 
palpitations. Nervous women who do not recover fully, but are continually irritable and suffer from debilitating 
sweats. Constant yawning. Restless sleep with frightful dreams and starts. 
Day blindness, cannot endure the light. Spasmodic dis orders after debilitating dis eases. Creeping, tingling 
sensation, worse sleep.  Chorea. Epilepsy. Fibrillar twitch - ings. Heaviness of the whole body. Pains are 
better by pressure, rubbing.  Reflex uterine effects, are nervous and spasmodic. Menstrual colic  with pallor 
and cold sweat. Feeling of fullness in the stomach as if too much had been eaten.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from pressure. Worse from emotions. Worse cold. Worse dur ing menses. Worse 
debilitating diseases.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Irritability.
- Easily sheds tears.
- Melancholic and full of anxious longings.
- Irritability.
- Easily sheds tears.
- Melancholic and full of anxious longings.

### Eyes
- Day blindness.
- Cannot endure the light.

### Ears
- Acute dragging in the ears.
- Tinkling, buzzing, and gurgling in the ears, dispersed by boring the ear with 
the finger.

### Mouth
- Tongue, swollen, twitching.
- Round pea-like elevation in center of tongue with redness around.
- Tongue 
sensitive to touch or food, with drawing pain towards hyoid bone.
- Nose - Obstruction of the nose.
- Flow of aqueous, acrid, corrosive mucus from the nose.

### Throat
- Hoarseness, with disposition to clear throat.
- Dryness of esophagus.
- Burning pa in in the throat, as 
from heartburn.
- COMMENTS - Cast, resembles Ambr., Mosch., Ign.
- and Valer.
- Teste placed Cast, in the Thuj.
- group with Plat, 
 
 
and Bism.
- Teste concluded from analogy that Cast, would be an anti - sycotic, and he proved his point by 
initiating with it the cure of a case of pedunculated vegetations around the anus in a hysterical young woman.
- Thuj.
- completed the cure.
- Teste quoted from Trousseau and Pi- deux the following indications, which he confirmed: 
( 1 ) Amenorrhea, accompanied w ith painful and tympanitic swelling of the abdomen.
- We mean the cases 
where only a few drops of blood escape from the uterus with a sort of uterine tenesmus.
- (2) The cases of colic to which Castoreum seems to be principally adapted are of the nervous kind, that 
seem to be particularly seated in the small intestine.
- They are accompanied with paleness and cold sweats, a 
sudden sinking of strength, as if the very principle of life had been struck down.
- They are without any alvine evacuations, come suddenly aft er lively emotions, a cold on the bowels or by the 
feet, as after long exposure to a cold rain.
- Cast, causes jerking in small groups of muscular tissues, a sensation of heaviness of whole body, trembling 
of limbs.

### Chest
- Stitches in chest, heat as if fire were burning in it.
- Constitutions - Suited to nervous women with pains, cramps, and weakness after severe illness.
- Hysterical 
individuals.
- Abdominal soreness.
- Nervous attacks when the aura starts from abdomen.
- Breathing is short, difficult.
- Short breath when ascending.
- Slow, deep inspiration with short expiration.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Regurgitation of a bitter acidity.
- Vomiting of white, bitter mucus.
- Sensa tion of contraction and pain 
of ulceration.
- Teeth - Toothache when eating, provoked by cold and mitigated by hot things.
- Tooth ache with acute drawing 
pains.
- Swelling of the gums at night, with acute pulling in the temples.
- Temperature - Predominant chilliness.
- Chilliness with icy coldness in back.
- Exhausting sweats after fevers.
- Colic or other abdominal com plaints, accompanied with yawning.
- Colic with weakness, better 
pressure.
- Repugnance to food and constant nausea.
- Violent thirst, could not drink enough.
- Kidneys - Frequent emission of urine, with burning thirst, day and night.
- After the emission of urine, desire to 
vomit with disgust.

### Urinary & Genital
- Seminal emissions with great excitability.
- Pain commences in middle of thighs.
- Violent, cutting dysmenorrheal colic with a few drops of blood, 
then cold sweat.
- Amenorrhea with a painful 
tympanites.

### Extremities
- Nocturnal dragging in shoulders and arms.
- Spasms of hands and feet .
- Hands hot with swelling of 
veins.
- Weakness of the lower limbs.

### Neck & Back
- Pain as from excoriation, in the sacral region and back.
- Drawing pains in nape of the neck.

### Sleep
- Constant yawning as accompanied symptom.
- Yawns in sleep.
- Restless sleep with frightful dreams 
and starts.