If you've come to this page directly via a search engine, please note, this article is mainly for homeopaths and students of homeopathy, so assumes a certain level of understanding of homeopathic concepts and terminology.
ELAPS CORALLINUS
(Coral-Snake)
Similar to snake-poisons
generally. Has very marked black discharges. Cold things disagree. Desire
for sweetened butter-milk, Nusea and vomiting. Prostrating diarrhea of
consumption. Acidity of stomach, with faint feeling. Sudden pain in stomach.
Spasm of esophagus; pharynx constricted; food and liquids suddenly arrested,
and then fall heavily in stomach. Spasms followed by paresis. Cold feeling
in stomach. Fruits and ice-water lie very cold. Right-sided paralysis. Must
have oscillatory motion. Rheumatic constitutions. Ear, nose and throat symptoms
important.
Mind:- Depressed; imagines he hears someone talking; dreads
to be left alone. Fear of rain. Can speak, but cannot understand speech.
Fears apoplexy.
Head:- Violent headache, extending from forehead to
occiput; first one eye, then the other. Pains in ears. Vertigo with
tendency to fall forward. Weight and pain in forehead. Fullness in head.
Eyes:- Aversion to light; letters run together when reading.
Veil before eyes. Burning in lids. Bloated around the eyes in the morning.
Large red fiery spot before eyes.
Ears:- Cerumen black and hard, with difficult hearing,
or serous greenish discharge, offensive; buzzing and illusion of
hearing. Sudden attack of nightly deafness, with roaring and crackling in ears,
cracking in ears on swallowing. Intolerable itching in ear.
Nose:- Chronic nasal catarrh, with fetid odor and greenish
crusts. Ozaena; yellowish-green
discharge. Mucous membranes wrinkled; nostrils plugged up with dry mucus. Pains
from nose to ears on swallowing. Nostrils stopped up. Nasal bleeding.
Pain at root of nose. Eruption about nose.
Throat:- Thick, very offensive, dry, greenish-yellow crusts
upon the posterior pharyngeal wall and extremely foul breath. Spasmodic
contraction of oesophagus; passage of fluids arrested.
Chest:- Coldness in chest after drinking. Hemorrhage from lungs black as ink and watery;
stitches in apex of right lung. Fainting caused by stooping. Oppression
in going upstairs. Peeling off of the skin from palms and fingers. Cough, with
terrible pain through lungs. Worse right and expectoration of black blood.
Sensation of a sponge in oesophagus.
Stomach:- Feels cold. Sensation
as if food turned like a cork screw on swallowing; desire for sweetened
buttermilk. Acidity after every mouthful.
Female:- Dysmenorrhoea, with black blood. Discharge of black
blood between menses. Itching of vulva and vagina.
Sleep:- Dreams about dead persons.
Skin:- Glands and skin of axillae affected; itching with
tetter. Tips of fingers peel off. Itching eruption in axillae.
Extremities:- Icy cold feet. Vesicular eruptions on feet. Arms and
hands swollen bluish. Knee-joints feel sprained. Pricking under the nails.
Fever:- Cold perspiration all over. Typhoid when ulcers have
eaten into tissues, and black blood is discharged.
Modalities:- Worse, eating
fruit; cold drinks; wet weather.
Relationship:- Compare: Kino – from Pterocarpus (Haemoptysis
and hemorrhage from intestines). Eucalyptus rostrata ( offensive dark
discharge from right ear). Crotalus; Alumen; Carbo; Ars.; Lach.
Dose:- Sixth to thirtieth potency.
No comments:
Post a Comment