Cenchris Contortrix

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Cenchris Contortrix Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Cenchris Contortrix. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
GENERAL
  • Cenchris has the main features of all the serpent poisons.
  • Cench is a wonderful restorative and deep acting remedy.
  • Like Ars., it has a dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions., mental and physical restlessness, thirst for small quantities of water.
  • Needs clothing loose (Lach.).
  • Coma, semi-consciousness.
  • Insensibility of cornea.
  • Swelling of upper lip.
  • General swelling, paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body..
  • Cold, clammy sweat.
  • Increased sexual desire in both sexes.
  • Inef- fectual attempts to recline.
  • Right ovarian region painful
HERBAL PROPERTIES & MODALITIES
  • Worse on waking.
  • Worse ly ing down.
  • Worse pressure.
  • Worse in the afternoon.
  • Worse evening and all night.
  • Nose - CatarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane., scabs, obstruction
HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:

Compare: (1) Ars., Lach. (2) Clotho Arictans - Puff Adder - Should have a great sphere of
usefulness in many conditions where excessive swelling in leading feature.

MIND
  • Forgetful.
  • Memory lost.
  • Dreamy, absent-minded.
  • Marked alteration of moods, vivid dreams.
  • Took the wrong car without realizing where she was going.
  • When riding in the car, rode past the place she intended to get off at Time passes too slowly.
  • Lethargy.
  • Anxiety, feels she will die suddenly.
  • Anxiety in evening in bed.
  • Anxiety while lying.
  • Presentiment of death.
  • Fear of apoplexy.
  • Jealousy.
  • Quarrelsome from jealousy.
  • Suspicious, thinks her husband is going to put her in an insane asylum, every day, 3 p.m to 8 p.m., for ten days, yet knew it was a delusion of being in two places at the same time.
  • Lethargy.
  • Jealousy.
HEAD
  • Aching pain in left frontal eminence and left side of teeth.
  • Swelling around eyes, aching and itching in eyes.
EYES
  • Swelling like bags over eyes and under brows.
  • Redness of margins and twitching.
  • Aching and itching in eyes.
  • Left eye waters from cough.
  • Dim vision.
  • Insensibility of cornea
FACE
  • Expression bloated, besotted.
  • Face sallow.
  • Burning face.
  • Blue circles around eyes
THROAT
  • Accumulation of glossy, thick, tough mucus.
  • Difficult empty swallowing, but easy swallowing of solids and liquids.
  • Warm drinks grateful.
  • COMMENTS - Marked alternation of moods.
  • Dreamy absentmindedness.
  • Swelling above eyes, below brow like an over-hanging bag of water.
  • DiarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. with pain before stool papescent, cold but not chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets..
  • Yellow leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection..
  • Pain in right ovary.
  • Herpetic eruption on labia.
  • Hard, dry, tickling cough, worse 3 p.m.
  • Restlessness and sense of suffocation, palpitation, sensation of dying.
  • Chokes, must lie with head drawn back.
  • Tight clothing is unbearable.
  • Chill or fever beginning in afternoon.
  • Feeling as if whole body were enlarged to bursting, worse in region of heart.
  • “Awoke with throbbing in vulva and anus, followed by a dull aching in the sacral region, better by walking about.”
CHEST
  • Feels as if heart were distended or swollen to fill the whole chest.
  • Strongly conscious of heart.
  • PalpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions..
  • Hard aching and sudden sharp stitching in heart.
  • Throbbing or fluttering under left scapula.
  • At 3 p.m., sensation of fluttering followed by feeling that heart fell down into abdomen.
  • Then, pulse feeble with heat lasting until after midnight.
  • Hard, dry, tickling cough, worse 3 p.m., even causing escape of urine
ABDOMEN
  • Nausea better by ice, worse by water, causes vomiting.
  • Intolerance of tight clothing
GENITALS ETC
  • Violent sexual desire.
  • Increased desire.
  • Yellow leucor- rhea.
  • Pain inright ovary.
  • Herpetic eruption on labia.
  • Menstrual flow very profuse, light with dark clots
SLEEP
  • Vivid, horrible and lascivious dreams, cannot be shaken off during waking hours

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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This profile has been verified by the Herbalhomeo medical team in accordance with authoritative homeopathic references.

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