Description

COCCUS CACTI - DL

Indication

Coccus cacti is a homoeopathic medicine of female insects found on cactus plants of Hemiptera order, primarily known for its spasmodic and violent cough action, particularly whooping cough, as well as its marked affinity for urinary and respiratory mucous membranes. It is especially suited to catarrhal states, urinary tract irritation, kidney pain, and uric acid conditions such as gravel and calculi. The medicine is valuable in cases involving tenacious mucus, suffocative coughing, and anuria with swelling, making it beneficial in both acute and chronic stages of mucosal congestion and urinary dysfunction.

Common Name: Cochineal
 

can be helpful in the following conditions:

Emotional Heaviness

• Aids in relieving early morning or afternoon sadness, with emotional heaviness or melancholic tendency.

Headache and Eye Discomfort

• Helps manage suboccipital soreness, especially .
• Coccus cacti relieves dull frontal pain, particularly over the right eye in the morning.
• Supports in alleviating eye discomfort, such as the sensation of a foreign body under the upper lid, or .

Spasmodic Cough and Sensitive Throat

• Supports relief from constant hawking, especially due to enlarged uvula and inflamed fauces.
• Aids in clearing thick, tenacious mucus from the throat and bronchi, which is difficult to expectorate.
• Relieves spasmodic, suffocative cough, especially , and associated with choking on white mucus.
• Helps in managing whooping cough, with paroxysms ending in vomiting of sticky mucus.
• Useful in chronic bronchitis, especially when complicated by gravel or urinary affections.
• Manages coryza with sensitive throat, tickling larynx, and cough triggered by brushing teeth.
• Relieves breathlessness, especially while walking against the wind.

Cardiac Discomfort

• Supports in relieving the sensation of pressure and crowding in the chest, as though everything were pressed toward the heart.

Urinary Calculi and Haematuria

• Aids in frequent urging to urinate, with brick-red sediment.
• Helps in managing urinary calculi, urates, and uric acid-related complaints, often with lancinating pain from kidneys to bladder.
• Supports in cases of dysuria, deep-colored, thick urine, and hæmaturia.
• Useful in anuria, anasarca, and ascites when linked to kidney dysfunction.

Profuse Menses with Dysuria

• Helps manage early, profuse menstruation, with black, thick blood and large clots.
• Supports in cases where menses flow intermittently, often appearing only in the evening or night.
• Coccus cacti relieves dysuria and labial inflammation
• Manages the passage of large clots during urination.

Ingredients

Coccus cacti

Dosage

As prescribed by the physician.

Safety

• Read the label carefully before use.
• Do not exceed the recommended dose.
• Keep out of the reach of children.
• Store in a cool, dry place; avoid sunlight and heat.
• Avoid strong smells (onion, hing, mint, garlic) during use.
• Allow 15 minutes gap between two homoeopathic medicines, 30 mins gap between Homoeopathic medicines and food, or one hour gap between Homoeopathic medicines or another system of medicines.