Stuff I have collected on this Rx
Rochelle
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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
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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 poisened.
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.
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*
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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.
This rubric lists three black type remedies 'Nux-v, Okou, Op.
The initial main remedy I have seen is Okoubaka, although often the acute remedy has changed during the course of the allopathic treatment.
per
Paul Tassie
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Okoubaka
I have used this remedy several times in cases for the side-effects of chemotherapy.
Having treated a number of cases of cancer who have also undergone allopathic treatment, I 'played with MacRep' to research possible remedies for the side-effects of allopathic treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, to use as intercurrent remedies.
In the process I was intrigued by Okoubaka, being such a small remedy, and yet being graded in the Complete Repertory as a 3 in the rubric 'Generalities, Intoxication, after'.
One of the major side-effects of chemotherapy which gives discomfort to the patient (besides hair loss, low blood cell counts, etc.), is nausea.
There was a case I had of nausea from chemotherapy that appeared to present the symptoms of Tabacum yet did not really fit the proving symptoms. I prescribed Okoubaka by analogy based on the rubrics:
Generalities; Tobacco; agg. and Generalities; Tobacco; nicotinism. I saw this as Okoubaka having a relationship to Tabacum, and saw the poisoning effects of chemotherapy in the rubric Generalities; Intoxication, after.
The following is a composite case for the nausea from chemotherapy which I put together from cured symptoms from several cases.
Nausea
Worse: smell of food - especially oil, standing
Better: ice cream, open air, lying, mental exertion
Occasional stomach cramps them shooting pain down to bowel and anus causing contractions of anus
When the nausea was bad there was diarrhea
Headache - sickly headache, feeling woozy, vacant, not there feeling
Like a permanent ache - forehead and vertex
Hot head and face
Headache - Worse: heat, smell of food, mental exertion
- Better: open air, drinking cold water
per
Dr. Jeffrey Levine
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Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk
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