COTYLEDON UMBILICUSLiquid

Cotyledon umbilicus is a valuable and important homoeopathic medicine prepared from the fresh plant of Cotyledon umbilicus, sourced from the Crassulaceæ family, known for its marked action on the nervous system, heart, spleen, digestive tract, and musculoskeletal system. It is especially suited for cases involving mental confusion, dull headaches, spleen affections, cardiac palpitations, and rheumatic pain. The medicine is characterized by sensations of emptiness in the head, tingling in limbs, and trickling in nerves—often preceding faintness or weakness. It is also notable for its effects on the hypochondria, lower limbs, and respiratory tract, making it a multifaceted medicine for both acute and chronic conditions involving nervous exhaustion, spleenic congestion, and circulatory imbalance.

Common Names: Pennywort, Navelwort, Kidneywort

SBL’s Cotyledon umbilicus can be helpful in the following conditions:

Mental Confusion & Emotional Instability

• Aids in mental cloudiness and difficulty collecting thoughts, especially on waking.
• Sensation as if going out of mind, followed by trickling down the left arm.
• Helps in emotional lability, including sudden urge to cry and strange excitement.
• Useful in sensation of being “lost” or disconnected before a headache.

Headache & Vertigo

• Cotyledon umbilicus is indicated in dull, stupefying headache in forehead and vertex.
• Head feels hollow or light, as if there were no solid brain inside.
• Sensation of weight in the head with faintness, and green shadows before eyes.
• Beneficial in headaches associated with cold feet, relieved by fresh air.

Throat Congestion & Mucus Sensation

• Helps in choking sensation in the throat-pit, with emotional tension.
• Back of throat feels thickly coated, as though lined with mucus.

Hypochondrial Discomfort & Spleen Affection

• Assists in long, stitching pains and dull pushing in the left hypochondrium.
• Useful in recurring spleen region discomfort with fullness and pressure.
• Helps in epigastric pain radiating toward the shoulder, with accompanying nausea.
• On swallowing, food seems to press against a swelling in the cardiac region.

Irregular Bowel Activity

• Manages alternating bowel patterns—initial free stools followed by constipation.
• Helps in sluggish digestion related to spleen and hypochondriac congestion.

Urinary Frequency

• Supports frequent urge to urinate with increased flow of clear urine.
• Useful in bladder sensitivity without associated burning.

Dry Cough & Chest Tightness

• Assists in dry, tickling cough from the larynx with tightness in breathing.
• Chest feels oppressed, especially in the evening or on exertion.
• Shooting pains in the chest, particularly under right scapula and left nipple.
• Manages painful stitches below both nipples.

Palpitations & Cardiac Uneasiness

• Helps in clawing, dragging sensation near the heart while riding, better by pressure.
• Aids in troublesome palpitations and fullness behind sternum, worse on exertion.
• Supports episodes of heart fluttering, skipping beats, or rolling sensations.

Rheumatic & Nerve-Related Pain

• Cotyledon umbilicus manages gnawing, rheumatic pain in the right shoulder.
• Aching and bruised feeling in wrists; tingling in hands at night prevents sleep.
• Tingling down the arm when nerves are struck; neuralgic symptoms in upper limbs.

Sciatic Pain & Lower Limb Weakness

• Aids in aching and numbness of left thigh, followed by stinging pain under left gluteus.
• Useful in tingling sensations down the legs indicating sciatic involvement.
• Supports limb fatigue and general weakness in the lower extremities.

Faintness & General Sensitivity

• Cotyledon umbilicus helps in managing attacks of faintness with visual distortion.
• Useful in creepy skin sensations, especially before colds or rheumatic flare-ups.