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Cocculus vs Tabacum
(Cocculus indicus · Nicotiana tabacum)
Both are reached for when travel by car or boat brings on nausea and dizziness.
In short
Cocculus is dizzy, hollow and exhausted, often from lost sleep; Tabacum is deathly pale and nauseous with cold sweat, better for fresh, cold air.
Side by side
(the classic distinctions homeopaths look for)
| Feature | Cocculus |
Tabacum |
|---|---|---|
| Main feature | Dizziness with a hollow, empty feeling | Incessant, deathly nausea |
| Appearance | Tired, slow and dull | Pale, pinched face with icy cold sweat |
| Fresh air | Doesn't help much | Brings relief, such as standing on deck |
| Better for | Lying on one side | Uncovering, especially the abdomen |
| Typical person | Exhausted caregiver short on sleep | Traveler who feels faint and sinking at the stomach |
Cocculus
Better
Lying on one side
Worse
Loss of sleep, Riding in a car, train or boat, Noise, touch and jarring, Eating
Tabacum
Better
Open, fresh, cold air, Uncovering, especially the abdomen
Worse
Least motion, Opening the eyes, Extremes of heat and cold, Smell of tobacco smoke
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.”
“The nausea, giddiness, death-like pallor, vomiting, icy coldness, and sweat, with the intermittent pulse, are all most characteristic.”
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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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Tabacum
(Nicotiana tabacum · Tobacco)
The remedy of deathly nausea. In the materia medica, Tabacum is associated with seasick-style nausea with death-like pallor, icy coldness and cold sweat, which eases in fresh, cold air and by uncovering.
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