[H] Okoubaka

[Lynn Cremona]

HI Shannon,

No experience with it , here's references I have:

Okoubaka aubrevillei Pelleg
Okoubaka is a little proved remedy and is found in O. A. Julians?s
Dictionary Of Homoeopathic Materia Medica
Nausea
Worse: smell of food - especially oil, standing
Better: ice cream, open air, lying, mental exertion
Occasional stomach cramps with shooting pain down the bowels to anus
causing contractions of the anus
When the nausea is bad there is diarrhoea
?Sickly? headache, feeling woozy, vacant, ?feeling not there?
Like a permanent ache in the forehead and vertex
Hot face and head
Headache - Worse: heat, smell of food, mental exertion
Headache - Better: open air, drinking cold water
From clinical experience add to this remedy in cases of chemotherapy:
All the above symptoms have been relieved with Okoubaka with a 50% reduction in nausea.
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The remedy is made from the bark of a westafrican jungle tree. The naitive tribes used it as protection when they were invited and had to be suspicious of being poisoned by the other tribe.
It has not been entirely proven, yet one can bear it in mind in cases of severe intoxications (e.g. chemotherapy).
[Boericke, newer editions; DHU Homoeopathisches Repetorium]
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Okoubaka aubrevillei Pelleg:
A tree growing in West-Africa. In former times only medicine-men had access
to this tree. When one was invited by another tribe to a festivity with
plenty of meals, one took Okoubaka to avoid being poisoned.
In Germany often used in lower X-potencies. Recommended during voyages to
tropical regions, to avoid gastro-intestinal disturbances.
Clinical:
alimentary intoxications; intoxications from insecticides; toxic states
after infections; in tropical diseases;
Said also to be useful after symptoms of suppression after antibiotics.
Generalities
Troubles, consecutive to food poisoning.
Allergic troubles with pancreatic reflexes following intoxication by
insecticides.
Troubles of intoxication following different infections.
Nicotine intoxication, with gastric uneasiness.
General weakness.
Neuro-endocrino-psychic system
Repeated headache.
Vertigo.
Weakness of memory, difficulty to concentrate.
School difficulties (difficulties of students).
Digestive apparatus
Anorexia.
Distension and fullness of the stomach.
Eructations, nauseas, sometimes vomiting and vertigo.
Borborygmes often accompanied by colic and/or diarrhoea.
Flatulent dyspepsia.
Heaviness and tension in the gastric region.
Aerocolia.
Metabolic troubles
Unstability of glycemia.
Cardio-hemo-vascular apparatus
Precordial pains of angina pectoris type.
Pricking in the precordial region.
Venous troubles of the lower limbs.
Clinical diagnosis
Asthenia. School's boys headache.
Retardation of boys in the school.
Allergic syndromes.
Gastro-enteritis.
Cardiospasm.
Diabetes.
Food poisoning.
Residual symptoms of enterocolitis, infectious, of influenza, of
toxoplasmosis, of infantile and tropical diseases, of intoxication from
tobacco.

Murphy's MM:

Children
Children - LEARNING, disabilities,
Diseases
Diseases - CONVALESCENCE, ailments, during or since
Diseases - LEARNING, disabilities,
Mind
Mind - CONCENTRATION, general - difficult - studying, reading, while - learns with difficulty
Mind - LEARNING, disabilities, studying, reading, learns with difficulty
Mind - MEMORY, general, active - weakness, of
Toxicity
Toxicity - TOBACCO, general - agg.
The Complete Repertory lists the following rubrics:
MIND; MEMORY; weakness, loss of*
MIND; LEARNING; poorly*
GENERALITIES; CONVALESCENCE, ailments during*
GENERALITIES; CONVALESCENCE, ailments during; post-influenzal*
GENERALITIES; INTOXICATION, after***
GENERALITIES; PSORA*
GENERALITIES; TOBACCO; agg.*
GENERALITIES; TOBACCO; nicotinism*
GENERALITIES; WEAKNESS, enervation*
GENERALITIES; WEAKNESS, enervation; mental; exertion, from*

from Synthesis
Generals
GENERALS - CONVALESCENCE; ailments during
GENERALS - CONVALESCENCE; ailments during - influenza; after
GENERALS - PSORA
GENERALS - TOBACCO - agg.
GENERALS - TOBACCO - agg. - nicotinism
GENERALS - WEAKNESS
GENERALS - WEAKNESS - mental exertion - from
Mind
MIND - MEMORY - weakness of memory
MIND - STUDYING - difficult
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