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Cocculus vs Petroleum
(Cocculus indicus · Petroleum)
Both come up for nausea and dizziness from riding in cars, trains or boats.
In short
Cocculus is travel sickness with exhaustion and slowed thinking, worse for eating; Petroleum is travel sickness with an empty-stomach hunger eased by eating.
Side by side
(the classic distinctions homeopaths look for)
| Feature | Cocculus |
Petroleum |
|---|---|---|
| Eating | Makes things worse | Eases the nausea and stomach pain |
| Energy | Drained and weak, especially from lost sleep | Not especially exhausted |
| Mind | Slow, dull thinking; anxious about others | Irritable and easily offended |
| Other signs | Hollow, empty feeling in head and body | Rough, cracked skin that worsens in winter |
| Typical person | Night-watcher or caregiver on a journey | Traveler with dry, chapped hands |
Cocculus
Better
Lying on one side
Worse
Loss of sleep, Riding in a car, train or boat, Noise, touch and jarring, Eating
Petroleum
Better
Warm air, Dry weather, Lying with head high, Eating
Worse
Winter, Riding in vehicles, Damp weather, Before and during a thunderstorm
From the classic texts
“All its symptoms are worse riding in a carriage or on shipboard; hence its use in seasickness. Sensation of hollowness, or emptiness, as if parts had gone to sleep.”
“Very marked skin symptoms, acting on sweat and oil glands; Ailments are worse during the winter season. Ailments from riding in cars, carriages, or ships…”
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Cocculus
(Cocculus indicus · Indian cockle)
The remedy of the exhausted night-watcher. In the materia medica, Cocculus is associated with weakness, dizziness and nausea from lost sleep, caregiving and motion, with a hollow, empty feeling and slowed thinking.
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Petroleum
(Petroleum · Crude rock oil)
The remedy of cracked winter skin and travel sickness. In the materia medica, Petroleum is associated with rough, deeply cracked skin that worsens every winter, and with nausea from riding in cars, trains or boats.
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