Chocolatum

Chocolatum

Produced from the seeds of Theobroma cacao

Chocolate, cocoa

Originally from Mexico now produced in tropical regions of South America, Africa and Asia.

Trituration of best quality Belgian dark chocolate to 3c and then succussion to higher potencies.

Kingdom: Plantae

Phylum: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: Dilleniidae

Order: Malvales

Family: Sterculiaceae

Clinical

Appetite, disorders of.

Breasts, Affections of.

Buzzing in the ears.

Climacteric sufferings

Dandruff

Dysmenorrhoea

Heartburn and nausea

Menstrual disorders

Migraine

Polycystic ovaries

Senses too acute

Characteristics

The remedy was proved by Jeremy Sherr at the Dynamis School of Advanced Homœopathic Studies in 1989. Sherr was motivated to prove it by the impressive number of patients who were seriously addicted to it, by the fact hat it appeared to be as much an emotional as a physical addiction, and by the correspondence to the endocrine system. He decided to prove the processed product rather than the original bean as this was the substance that was craved by so many people. The proving was conducted concurrently with that of Hydrogen. The proving was conducted with 12 provers, 8 female and 4 male. Potencies of 6c, 12c, 30c, 100c and 200c were randomly given. Prover #1 gave an exceptionally detailed and dramatic account of her experience which was reported separately. Although this prover's experience does give great insight into the remedy; time has shown that it is only in the context of the whole proving that it is really useful.

Peculiar sensations

Buzzing all over head. As if looking through a cloud.

Head feels pointed.

Sensation that back of head is elongated.

Sensation of forehead protruding like a shelf.

Right side of head feels enlarged.

Head feels as if floating.

Sensation as if something loose in the head.

Sensation as if uvula connected to sinuses by a string.

Constriction around head as if from a pudding basin.
Pain as if from a band around the head.

Sensation as if a rod is pushing the head apart from the inside.

As if a cold spot went through my head.

Sensation as if head full of wind.

Sensation that eyes are wide open and the lids pulled up.

Sensation of a straw stuck up the back of the nose.

Peppery sensation in the nose or in throat.

Nose feels smaller, or nose feels longer.

Hollow feeling in mouth.

Desire to eat black beetles, slugs and grasshoppers.

Feeling of cold and dampness in the lungs.

Pulsing sensation as if fine threads were being drawn through breast,

Sensation as if heart pushing against back.

Feeling as if heart were beating more towards the back and sides, as if it went round to the back.

Sensation of heart bulging through ribs when lying on left side.

Feeling of a powerful explosion inside chest, taking breath away, as if diaphragm went into a spasm.

Prickly feeling on back of neck.

Tingling up spine.

The muscles around cervical vertebrae feel as if they are tightly laced with sensation as if back of the head is horribly elongated.

Sensation that back is wider than I know it to be.

Tingling as if the cells of my body were shifting.

Modalities

< Left side

< Cold

< Cold wind but desires open air

< Cold > Warmth

< Motion (headache)

> Eating (heaviness in head) (heartburn)

< Night > Day

< Afternoon and evening (thirst, heartburn, nausea, bloating)

Evenings (sexual desire increased)

> New Moon

< Lying down (cough)

Reference

Sherr

, Jeremy. The Homœopathic Proving of Chocolate. Dynamis School of Advanced Homœopathic Studies Malvern,