• Rattlesnake Bean (SIMARUBA FERROGINEA).

• Marked periodicity of symptoms; recurrence at regular intervals.

• Cedron is useful in tropical or damp, warm, marshy climates; especially for ailments originating there.

• Cedron is curative in malarial affections, particularly neuralgia.

• Cedron is adapted to persons of a voluptuous disposition, excitable, nervous temperament.

• Cedron antidotes snake-bites and stings of insects (tincture of pure bean scraped on wound).

• Cedron has great sensitiveness to atmospheric changes.

• Debility and exhaustion are common.

• Symptoms are often lateralized, particularly to the right side.

• A general feeling of being unwell.

• Cedron has irritability and restlessness, especially during pain.

• Apprehension and anxiety, particularly about health.

• Cedron has great despondency; feels hopeless and melancholic.

• Mental confusion, difficulty concentrating.

• The patient has fear of impending disease or death.

• Oversensitive to noise and external impressions.

• Memory is weak and unreliable.

• The patient has a changeable mood; alternating cheerfulness and sadness.

• Difficulty with mental work.

• Pain from temple to temple across eyes.

• Pain over whole right side of face, coming on about 9 am.

• Crazy feeling from pain across forehead; worse in the morning.

• Headaches are often throbbing, bursting, or neuralgic.

• Vertigo, with a tendency to fall to the right.

• Frontal headache with pressure.

• Pain in and around the eyes, often extending to the temples.

• Photophobia; sensitivity to light.

• Blurred vision.

• Right supraorbital neuralgia.

• Burning in the eyes.

• Redness of eyes.

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• Pain in the eyes.

• Blurred vision.

• Tinnitus; ringing in the ears.

• Neuralgic pain in the ears.

• Itching in ears.

• Coryza with sneezing.

• Epistaxis (nosebleeds).

• Stuffy nose.

• Sore throat with a raw, burning sensation.

• Difficulty swallowing.

• Cough, especially a dry, hacking cough.

• Dyspnea; shortness of breath.

• Oppression of the chest.

• Cough worse at night.

• Palpitations, especially with anxiety.

• Pain in the chest, often sharp and stabbing.

• Irregular heartbeat.

• Angina-like pains.

• Nausea and vomiting.

• Gastric pain, relieved by eating.

• Loss of appetite or craving for particular foods.

• Thirst for cold drinks.

• Sour eructations.

• Flatulence and bloating.

• Rumbling in abdomen.

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• Diarrhea, often with undigested food.

• Constipation with hard, difficult stools.

• Burning in rectum.

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• Frequent urination, especially at night.

• Burning pain during urination.

• Scanty urine.

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• Increased sexual desire in some; diminished in others.

• Menses too early and profuse, or suppressed.

• Leucorrhoea.

• Pain in ovaries.

• Neuralgic pain in the limbs, especially the right side.

• Heaviness and weakness of the limbs.

• Coldness of the hands and feet.

• Sciatica, worse on the right side.

• Pain in joints.

• Stiffness in limbs.

• Cramps in calves.

• Skin feels itchy.

• Skin is dry and hot.

• Restless sleep.

• Dreams are vivid and disturbing.

• Sleeplessness.

• Night sweats.

• Morning (9 AM).

• Damp weather.

• Warmth.

• Motion.

• Atmospheric changes.

• Touch.

• Noise.

• Periodically.

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• Periodically; from touch; motion.

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• Open air.

• Rest.

• Eating.

• Pressure.

• Lying down.

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• Rest; open air.

• China, Natrum Muriaticum, Sulphur.

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• China, Arsenicum album.

• Camphor, Ipecacuanha.

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• Camphor.

• Arsenicum Album, Belladonna, China, Eupatorium Perfoliatum, Natrum Muriaticum, Spigelia, Sulphur.

• Cedron is useful in neuralgia similar to Spigelia, but with more marked periodicity.

• Differentiate Cedron from Arsenicum based on Arsenicum's restlessness and midnight aggravation.

• Malaria.

• Neuralgia.

• Insect Bites.

• Snake Bites.

• Periodical Complaints.

• Simaba cedron

• Simarubaceae

• Tincture of seeds

• Acts rapidly, similar to Belladonna.

• Marked periodicity; symptoms recur with clock-like regularity.

• Great predominance of nervous symptoms.

• Strong sexual excitement.

• Numbness and enlarged sensation.

• Malaise and sensation as if paralysed.

• Left-sided predominance of symptoms, although the right side can also be affected (head, face, right elbow, right deltoid).

• Extreme anaemia.

• Debilitating hysterical spasms.

• Choreic symptoms, involving mostly face and shoulders with troublesome twitchings in the interfebrile state.

• Irritability.

• Mental confusion.

• Apprehension and anxiety, especially about health.

• Restlessness.

• Headache, especially on the right side.

• Throbbing sensation in the head.

• Vertigo.

• Twitching of facial muscles, especially on the left side.

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• Gastrointestinal

• Intermittent gastralgia occurring with febrile crises.

• Enlarged liver and spleen.

• Pain in the anus.

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• Cardiac

• Irritable and sometimes irregular heart.

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• Increased sexual desire.

• Numbness of limbs.

• Rheumatic pains in limbs.

• Pain in the back.

• Remedies with marked periodicity, like China and Arsenicum album; remedies for nervous affections, like Ignatia and Belladonna.