Introduction
RICINUS COMMUNIS Castor-oil (RICINUS COMMUNIS - BOFAREIRA) Has marked action on gastro-intestinal tract. Increase the quantity of milk in nursing women. Vomiting and purging. Languor and weakness.
Head
Head.– Vertigo, occipital pain, congestive symptoms, buzzing in ears. Face pale, twitching of mouth.
Stomach
Stomach.– Anorexia with great thirst, burning in stomach, pyrosis, nausea profuse vomiting , pit of stomach sensitive. Mouth dry.
Abdomen
Abdomen.– Rumbling with contraction of recti muscles, colic, incessant diarrha with purging. Rice water stools with cramps and chilliness.
Stool
Stool.– Loose, incessant, painless, with painful cramps in muscles of extremities. Anus inflamed. Stools green, slimy, and bloody. Fever, emaciation, somnolence.
Dose
Dose.– Third potency. Five drops every four hours for increasing flow of milk; also locally a poultice of the leaves. Copyright © Médi-T 1999 Home
Relationship
Relationship.– Compare: Resorcin (summer complaint with vomiting); destroys organic germs of putrefaction; Cholos terrapina (cramps of muscles). Ars; Verat .