Remedy

Elaps Corallinus elaps.

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Relationships

Knerr's Drug Relationships, from Hering's Guiding Symptoms

Antidotes

ars.

Named under 2 other remedies in this book

These rows are the other remedies’, naming Elaps Corallinus.

Similar

crot-h. lach.

Polar generals

Thermal

Side

Sweat

Time

Motion the books disagree

Rest

Position

  • better lying on abdomenClarke

Warmth

  • worse from warmth (bed)Clarke

Cold

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · 1915

Region

Blood. Nose. Ears. Throat. Right side.

Worse

Approach of storms. Cold; drink or food. Dampness. Night. In room.

General

Black discharges; hæmorrhages, etc. Internal coldness; in chest; < drinking. Adynamic sepsis. Oscillatory motions. Twisting spasm, then paralysis; œsophageal. Right side feels paralyzed, weak or insensible. Wrinkled mucous membranes (Ars.).

Particulars

Fear causes chattering teeth and trembling. Fears rain. Black rings before l. eye. Deafness; at night. Stuffed feeling in naso-pharynx. Green-yellow crusts in nose. Ozœna. Nosebleed. Red spots on face. Drinks feel like ice in stomach. Stools of black, frothy blood. Air hunger. Painful cough. Pain at apex of r. lung. Weak arms. Peeling palms and fingertips. Rushes of blood to head. Icy cold feet. General cold sweat.

Related

Antidote: Cedron. Related: Crot-h. Helod.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Coral-snake

General

Similar to snake-poisons generally. Has very marked black discharges. Cold things disagree. Desire for sweetened buttermilk. Nausea and vomiting. Prostrating diarrhœa of consumption. Acidity of stomach, with faint feeling. Sudden pain in stomach. Spasm of œsophagus; pharynx constricted; food and liquids suddenly arrested, and then fall heavily into 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. Pain 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. Ozæna; yellowish-green discharge. Mucous membrane 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 œsophagus; passage of fluids arrested.

Chest

Coldness in chest after drinking. Hæmorrhage from lungs black as ink and watery; stitches in apex of right lung. Fainting caused by stooping. Oppression in going upstairs. Peeling off of skin from palms and fingers. Cough, with terrible pain through lungs. Worse right and expectoration of black blood. Sensation of a sponge in œsophagus.

Stomach

Feels cold. Sensation as if food turned like a corkscrew on swallowing; desire for sweetened buttermilk. Acidity after every mouthful.

Female

Dysmenorrhœa, with black blood. Discharge of black blood between menses. Itching of vulva and vagina.

Sleep

Dreams about dead persons.

Skin

Glands and skin of axillæ affected; itching with tetter. Tips of fingers peel off. Itching eruption in axillæ.

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 (Hæmoptysis and hæmorrhage from intestines). Eucalyptus rostrata (offensive dark discharge from right ear). Crotalus; Alumen; Carbo; Ars; Lach.

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · 1866

Mind and Disposition

Absence of mind. Depression of spirits ; desire for solitude. Fear of being left alone, as if something horrible might happen. Angry about one's self, and does not wish to be spoken to.

Head

Vertigo ; falls forward. Pain in the cerebellum, right side. Fulness in the head, as ; if all the blood were collected in it ; fears ; apoplexy ; with cold hands. Violent pain in the vertex (afternoon), as if the brain were shaking, with nausea which prevents her from keeping the head quiet. Congestion of blood to the head on stooping. Stinging headache, with sleeplessness. Weight in the forehead ; pain in the forehead. Lancinating headache -first in the left side of the head, extending to the right side.

Face

Dark complexion. Lancinations from the root of the nose to the ear. Redness and swelling of the right cheek, with chilliness all over the body. Redness, heat and formication in the right cheek. Swelling of the face, extending to the right side of the nose. Red blotches on the bloated face.

Eyes

Stye at the left eye, with lancination. Tickling and red streaks of the sclerotica. Large red, fiery spots before the eyes ; red bar before the eyes, when opening them. Dryness and burning in both eyes on waking ; bloated around the eyes in the morning. Eyes red and inflamed ; blear-eyed. Glassy look. When closing the eyes every thing looks red ; dotted with black points. Violent itching in the left eye. Aversion to light. Desire to close the eyes.

Ears

Buzzing in the right ear. Crackling in the ears, on swallowing. Itching in the ear. Cerumen black and hardened. Illusions of hearing ; hears whistling and ringing ; imagines he hears some one talk. Discharge of a serous fluid or greenish-yellow liquid from the (left) ear (in the morning). Discharge of blood from the ear.

Nose

Bad smell from the nose. Stoppage of the nostrils ; coryza from the least current of air. White and watery mucus is discharged from the nose.

Mouth and Throat

Tongue black or dark-red. Tongue swollen and whitish in the morning. Pricking at the tip of the tongue. The beverage is arrested in the œsophagus, as from a spasmodic contraction of this organ. Constriction, with pressure in the throat.

Stomach and Abdomen

Vomiting of green bile, followed by diarrhœa. Acidity of the stomach, with nausea and faint feeling ; sour eructations. Violent thirst ; cold feeling in the chest after drinking. Hunger, with violent headache if not satisfied at once. Vomiting of mucus, with fainting. Fruit and cold drinks feel like ice in the stomach. Burning in the stomach. Weight in the stomach, with nausea, after eating. Sudden pains in the stomach, as if she must sink down ; worse while sitting, better on walking about. Lancinations from both groins to the symphysis pubis. Colic, with urging to stool. The intestines feel twisted, as if by a cord, and strung together in a knot, with strangulating sensation. Formication at the anus, as if from worms. Sensation as if the blood in the abdomen were flowing backward.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa, blackish, frothy, yellowish, watery, with mum and rumbling ; bile ; bloody mucus. Discharge of black, liquid blood from the bowels and at stool, with colic and sensation as if the bowels were twisted. Prolapsus ani. Constriction of the sphincter, after bloody stool.

Urinary Organs

Red urine, with cloudy sediment. Thick urine, with red sediment. Suppression of urine ; strangury. Discharge of mucus from the urethra.

Sexual Organs

Men. Impotence. Weight and swelling of the testes. Discharge of prostatic fluid. The skin of the prepuce is thick and inflamed. Women. Discharge of black blood between the menses. Weight at the uterus ; at the vagina, after an hysteric attack. Itching in the vagina ; formication at the vulva.

Respiratory Organs

Dry cough, which ends in raising black blood. Taste of blood in the mouth, before coughing. Spitting of black blood, with painful tearing, as if proceeding from the heart. Constriction of the chest. Stitches in the upper part of each lung ; better when walking. Stitches in the left side of the chest ; worse when breathing. Oppressed breathing in the evening. Palpitation of the heart, with anxiety and trembling of the hands.

Back and Neck

Lancinations in the whole spinal marrow, from the occiput to the sacrum. Pressure between the shoulders. Coldness in the back. Pain in the back, with chilliness, cold feet and strangury. Stiffness in the right side of the neck. Lancinations in the left side of the neck. Painful pressure at the nape of the neck.

Extremities

Upper. Itching under the axilla, with tetter. The arms and hands are swollen, bluish, covered with red spots ; also the right leg and foot. Crampy constriction at the bend of the elbow, extending to the hand, as if one had carried a heavy weight. Pricking in the left upper arm. Hot rash on the right wrist. The right hand feels as if paralyzed. The tips of the fingers peel off. Lower. Cramps in the calves. Icy coldness of the right leg. Rheumatic pains in the left leg. Sensation of spraining and stiffness in the knee-joint. The left foot is swollen and blue, with red spots. Pinking under the toe nails.

Sleep

Sleeplessness from lancinating headache. Dreams of business, of dead persons.

Fever

Sensitive to cold. The arm shudders when dipping the hand into water. Coldness in the back. Dry heat, at midnight ; cannot endure any cover. With the fever, oppression of breathing. Flushes of heat in the evening, with redness and heat of the face and ears. Chill at noon, without thirst, followed by dry heat in the afternoon, without perspiration. Cold perspiration all over.

Skin

Red pimples at the tips of the fingers. The tips of the fingers peel off. Little pimples, followed by desquamation. Yellow spots on the hands and fingers. Red tetter from the corner of the right nostril to the cheek.

Conditions

The rheumatic pains begin on the left side. Fainting, with vomiting of mucus, or on stooping. A change of position is painful.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902

General

Elaps corallinus. Brazilian Coral Snake. N. O. Elapidæ. Poison pressed from the venom-sac of the living snake and triturated with sugar of milk. Higgins used the gall of the snake, Fel Elapidis Corallini .

Clinical

Amaurosis. Axilla, itching in. Cancer. Deafness. Ear, affections of. Ear, wax in . Epistaxis. Hæmorrhages. Headache. Hemiplegia. Knee, pain in. Metrorrhagia. Naso-pharyngitis. Nose, stuffed. Ozæna. Phthisis. Pneumonia. Threat, ulcerated.

Characteristics

Elaps is distinguished from the other serpent venoms by the pre-eminent blackness of its discharges and hæmorrhages; black ear-wax. Characteristic symptoms are: Fruit and cold drinks lie like ice on stomach and cause a cold feeling in chest. Sensation as if all the blood were collected in head. E. V. Moffat has found Elaps 6 almost a specific in chronic naso-pharyngeal catarrh, with greenish crusts and subjective disagreeable odour. Rumbling in ears as of thunder. Sensation in brain as if shaken. Sensation as if food turned like a corkscrew on swallowing; as if intestines were twisted by a cord and strung together in a knot. Pains in the longs (especially right) are very marked: "Sensation within chest and at sternum, as if pleuræ were pulled off and the lungs violently drawn apart." Sensation as if a heavy load, iron bar, or weight on parts. Fluids roll audibly into stomach. The glands and skin of axilla are affected. (I cured with Elap . 200 a very old-standing case of irritating rash in axilla (right) with recurrent suppuration of axillary glands,) Periodicity is marked. Rest > , exertion < ; but walking > epistaxis, pain in stomach and lungs. Lying on abdomen > pain in stomach. Many symptoms are < at night. (Sudden deafness at night with roaring and cracking in ears.) Dreams of dead persons. Warmth of bed < . Great sensitiveness to cold: draught, wind, wet weather < . Horror of rain. Touch < .

Relations

Antidoted by: Radiated heat, Alcohol, Arsen. Compare: Arsen., Carb. v., Crotal., Lach., Mur. ac., Nit. ac., Rhus t.; (red spot before sight) Duboisia; (effects of cold, wet weather) Dulc.

Mind

Absence of mind. — Depression of spirits; desire for solitude. — Fear of being left alone, as if something horrible might happen. — Apprehensive of some fatal disease. — Angry about one's self, and does not wish to be spoken to.

Head

Vertigo; falls forward. — Pain in the cerebellum, r. side. — Fulness in head, as if all the blood were collected in it; fears apoplexy; with cold hands. — Severe stitching pains in forehead, with heaviness of head; occasionally pain intermits, 8-10 days, thundering in l. ear, deafness, lachrymation. — Violent pain in vertex (afternoon), as if the brain were shaking, with nausea, which prevents her from keeping the head quiet. — Congestion of blood to the head on stooping. — Stinging headache, with sleeplessness. — Weight in the forehead; pain in the forehead. — Lancinating headache, first in l. side of the head, extending to r. side. — Headache in occiput after mental exertion.

Eyes

Stye on l. eye, with lancination. — Red eyelids. — Tickling and red streaks of the sclerotica. — Large red, fiery spots before the eyes; red bar before the eyes, when opening them. — Dryness and burning in both eyes on waking; bloated around the eyes in the morning. — Eyes red and inflamed; blear-eyed. — Glassy look. — When closing the eyes everything looks (dirty) red; dotted with black points. — Violent itching in the l. eye. — Aversion to light; desire to close the eyes; everything seems white even at night; grey veil before eyes; on stooping rush of blood to head with vertigo and pain at root of nose; can scarcely distinguish light from dark. — Amaurosis.

Ears

Buzzing in r. ear. — Crackling in ears on swallowing. — Itching in the ears. — Cerumen black and hardened. — Illusions of hearing; hears whistling and ringing; imagines he hears some one talk. — Discharge of a serous fluid or greenish-yellow liquid from (l.) ear (in the morning). — Offensive otorrhœa with eruptions. — Crusty eruptions on ear and cheek. — Discharge of blood from the ear. — Sudden deafness at night with constant roaring and cracking. — Hearing of both ears impaired; otalgia of r.

Nose

Bad smell (like putrid herring pickle) from the nose. — Stoppage of the nostrils (high up, with dull aching in forehead); coryza from the least current of air. — White and watery mucus is discharged from the nose. — Epistaxis: sudden, profuse, while walking; after a blow. — Blood black, copious, in steady stream.

Face

Dark complexion. — Lancinations from root of nose to ear. — Redness and swelling of r. cheek, with chilliness all over the body. — Redness, heat, and formication in r. cheek. — Swelling of face, extending to r. side of the nose. — Red blotches on bloated face.

Mouth

Tongue black or dark red. — Tongue swollen and whitish in morning. — Pricking at tip of tongue.

Throat

Naso-pharyngeal catarrh, greenish crusts, subjective disagreeable odour. — Dull pain from nares to ears; < by swallowing; posterior wall of pharynx dry, fissured, covered with crusts. — The beverage is arrested in œsophagus, as from a spasmodic contraction. — Constriction in pharynx with pressure in the throat. — Ulceration of throat, < l. side, difficult swallowing of liquids; recurring from exposure to wind or rain.

Stomach

Vomiting of green bile, followed by diarrhœa. — Acidity of the stomach, with nausea and faint feeling; sour eructations. — Violent thirst; cold feeling in the chest after drinking. — Hunger, with violent headache if not satisfied at once. — Vomiting of mucus, with fainting. — Fruit and cold drinks feel like ice in the stomach. — Burning in stomach. — Weight in stomach, with nausea, after eating. — Sudden pains in stomach, as if she must sink down; < while sitting, > on walking about.

Abdomen

Lancinations from both groins to symphysis pubis. — Colic, with urging to stool. — The intestines feel twisted, as if by a cord, and strung together in a knot, with strangulating sensation. — Sensation as if the blood in the abdomen were flowing backward.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa, blackish, frothy, yellowish, watery, with mucus and rumbling; bile; bloody mucus. — Discharge of black, liquid blood from the bowels and at stool, with colic and sensation as if the bowels were twisted. — Prolapsus ani. — Constriction of the sphincter, after bloody stool. — Crawling at anus as if from worms.

Urinary Organs

Red urine, with cloudy sediment. — Thick urine, with red sediment. — Suppression of urine; strangury. — Discharge of mucus from urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

Impotence. — Weight and swelling of the testes. — Discharge of prostatic fluid. — The skin of the prepuce is thick and inflamed.

Female Sexual Organs

Discharge of black blood between the menses. — Menses every two or three weeks; flow profuse, dark. — Weight at the uterus; at the vagina, after an hysteric attack. — Itching in the vagina; formication at the vulva. — Sensation as of something burst in womb, followed by continuous stream of dark-coloured blood on attempting to urinate.

Respiratory Organs

Dry cough, which ends in raising black blood. — Taste of blood in the mouth, before coughing. — Constant cough, with frightful pains throughout lungs as if they were torn out ( < r. apex). — Stitches in the upper part of each lung; better when walking. — Oppressed breathing in the evening; < on going up stairs.

Chest

Feeling as of heavy load on chest. — Constriction of the chest. — Coldness in chest after drinking. — Sensation in chest and at sternum as if pleuræ were pulled off and the lungs violently torn apart. — Stitches in l. chest; worse when breathing. — Pleuritic pain r. side, felt in axilla. — Cannot lean to r. side on account of a very painful pulling in r. lung. — Sensitiveness of r. side.

Heart

Spitting of black blood, with painful tearing, as if proceeding from the heart. — Palpitation of the heart, with anxiety and trembling of the hands.

Neck and Back

Stiffness in the r. side of neck. — Lancinations in l. side of neck. — Painful pressure at nape of neck. — Lancinations in the whole spinal marrow, from occiput to sacrum. — Pressure between the shoulders. — Coldness in back. — Pain in the back, with chilliness, cold feet, and strangury.

Upper Limbs

Itching under axilla, with tetter. — Inflamed and suppurating glands in axilla. — The arms and hands are swollen, bluish, covered with red spots; also r. leg and foot. — Crampy constriction at bend of elbow, extending to hand, as if one had carried a heavy weight. — Pricking in the l. upper arm. — Hot rash on r. wrist. — The r. hand feels as if paralysed. — The tips of the fingers peel off.

Lower Limbs

Cramps in the calves. — Icy coldness of r. leg. — Rheumatic pains in l. leg. — Sensation of spraining and stiffness in knee-joint. — The l. foot is swollen and blue, with red spots. — Pricking under toenails.

Skin

Red pimples at the tips of the fingers. — The tips of the fingers peel off. — Little pimples, followed by desquamation. — Yellow spots on the hands and fingers. — Red tetter from the corner of the r. nostril to the cheek.

Sleep

Sleeplessness from lancinating headache. — Dreams of business, of dead persons.

Fever

Sensitive to cold. — The arm shudders when dipping the hand into water. — Coldness in the back. — Dry heat, at midnight; cannot endure any cover. — With the fever, oppression of breathing. — Flushes of heat in evening, with, redness and heat of face and ears. — Chill at, noon, without thirst, followed by dry heat in afternoon, without perspiration. — Cold perspiration all over.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Absence of mind.
Imagines he hears some one talking.
Depression of spirits, and desire for solitude.
Fearful and apprehensive of some fatal disease.
Fear of being left alone, as if something horrible might happen ; horror of rain.
Angry about one's self, does not wish to be spoken to.
At the least contrariety, body shudders, blood boils, with prickling.

Sensorium

Vertigo, with tendency to fall forward.
Fainting, with vomiting of mucus, or fainting on stooping.
Fulness in the head, as if all blood were collected in it ; cold hands ; fears apoplexy.
Congestion of blood to head on stooping.

Inner head

Severe stitching pains in forehead, with heaviness of head ; occasionally pain intermits from 8-10 days ; rumbling in left ear as of thunder, with impairment of hearing ; lachrymation of eyes, pain and redness of left eye.
Weight and pain in forehead.
Pain in cerebellum, right side.
Lancinating headache, left then right side.
Violent pain in vertex (afternoon), as if brain were shaking, with nausea, which prevents her from keeping head quiet.
Frontal and occipital headache, < from motion and stooping.
Headache in occiput after mental exertion. θ Chronic naso-pharyngeal catarrh.
Stinging headache, with sleeplessness.
Frequent headache. θ Ozæna.

Sight and eyes

Aversion to light, desire to close eyes.
Everything seems white, even at night ; grey veil before eyes ; on stooping, rush of blood to head with vertigo and pain at root of nose ; can scarcely distinguish light from dark.
Large red, fiery spots before eyes.
Red bar before eyes when opening them.
When closing the eyes everything looks red ; dotted black points.
Sometimes dark spots, as large as a penny, before open eyes, which gradually diminish and disappear by keeping eyes still ; they do not move with the eye, last two or three seconds at a time.
Dirty red spot before eyes, half the size of hand ; sometimes, when eyes are closed, a dirty red appearance, covered with black spots.
Completely blind in left eye for three years, and nearly so in right for three months, following headache ; now has severe headache with drawing, sometimes sticking pains from forehead to occiput ; pain at root of nose, with vertigo ; even with
right eye can scarcely tell light from dark ; everything seems white, even at night ; some old rheumatic symptoms in legs. θ Amaurosis.
Eyes red and inflamed ; blear-eyed ; glassy look.
Eyeballs feel sticky under lids and as if rough.
Dryness and burning in both eyes on waking ; bloated around the eyes in the morning.
Violent itching in left eye.
Stye on left eye, with lancination.

Hearing and ears

Illusions of hearing ; hears whistles and ringing.
Continued buzzing, as if a fly were enclosed in auditory meatus.
Crackling in ears on swallowing.
Dulness of hearing with buzzing in ears ; no pain ; slight discharge from ears, which leaves a green spot upon bed-linen ; consequent upon otorrhœa, from which he suffered during childhood.
Sudden deafness of right ear, after catching cold ; no pain, no tinnitus ; secretion of wax profuse but dry.
Hearing of both ears impaired ; otalgia of right ear.
Sudden painless attack of marked deafness at night, with constant roaring and cracking in ears.
Offensive discharge from right ear, with deafness on that side ; constant buzzing noise in diseased ear, subject to epistaxis and eruptions about nose and face ; skin hot and dry, but constantly complains of feeling cold ; pulse 120. θ Chronic
otorrhœa.
Watery, yellow or yellow-green discharge with deafness.
Discharge of blood from ear.
Cerumen black and hardened.
Intolerable itching in ears ; watery yellowish discharge.
Crusty eruption on ear and cheek.

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The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1879

Characteristic

Fearful and apprehensive of some fatal disease.

Fear of being left alone, as if something horrible might happen.

Angry about one's self; does not wish to be spoken to.

At the least contradiction, body shudders, blood boils (Aur.,

Coc., Con., Fer.).

Vertigo with tendency to fall forward.

Weight in the stomach after eating.

Canine hunger, yet unable to eat.

Fruits and drinks lie on the stomach like ice (see Ars., Verat.).

Type

Quotidian.

Time

8 and 10 P. M., every day.

Chill

Without thirst, followed by dry heat and burning redness of the face. Chilliness and heat alternately (Ars., Cal.) at 8 P. M.; chilly for a few minutes, then heat for a quarter of an hour. Shaking chill, felt internally as if in the bones, followed in half an hour by burning heat; the skin is hot, with thirst, the fever lasted whole night until 10 A. M. next day. Coldness < by drinking cold water (Caps.); after a drink, shivering from head to foot with chattering of the teeth. Terrible coldness after drinking, and as if ice water were rising and falling through a cylindrical opening in left lung. Great sensitiveness to cold. Right leg up to knee, cold as ice. Arms cold by putting hand in cold water.

Heat

With thirst, alternating with chilliness. Dry heat from 7 to 9 P. M., followed by chill till 10 P. M. Fever at 7 P. M., with less chill, more violent heat, but little sweat; sleep interrupted by heavy dreams (of dead people), with difficult breathing the whole night. Flushes of heat, with redness of the face and ears.

Sweat

All over. Sweat cold and profuse. Sweat on forehead and nape of the neck.

Tongue

Deep red, clean, or swollen and black.

Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics

Timothy Field Allen · Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics · 1889

General

The poison of the Coral viper, Elaps corallinus, is triturated with sugar of milk.

General Action

Evidently on the blood, but our knowledge of its effects is too meagre to permit any generalization.

Allies

Serpent venom in general.

Generalities and Mind

Rheumatic pains on moving about. ▶ Faintness on stooping. ▶ Fear, dread of being alone, as if something would happen or as if rowdies would break in. ▶ Peevishness in afternoon, even with herself, desire not to be spoken to. ▶ Aversion to work.

Head

Sticking at 1 A.M., preventing sleep; S., extending to right side in morning and at noon, agg. evening, with shaking chill. ▶ Aching; in morning on waking; from 1 to 11 A.M., after midnight, lasting till daybreak; at 7 P.M.; on right side; on left side at 9 P.M.; in vertex as if brain were loose, and at night inability to hold the head still on account of nausea. ▶ Sensation as if attacked by apoplexy, all the blood seemed to be collected in the head and to stand still, afterwards it seemed as if the blood streamed from the head or from the ginger-tips into the body, amel. being up. ▶ Falling out of hair.

Clinical

Violent headache in a man who was blind, first in left then right eye, headaches extending from forehead to occiput, vision partially restored.

Blindness. ▶ Deafness, with offensive yellowish-green discharge, buzzing in ears, headache in forehead and occiput, dull pain from nose to ears, pain goes to ears on swallowing. ▶ Chronic otorrhœa. ▶ Sudden attacks of deafness at night, with roaring and cracking in ears.

Subject to nosebleed, eruption about nose, pain in nose and forehead, skin dry and hot, but complaints of feeling cold. ▶ Stoppage and stiffness high up in nostrils and dull aching in forehead, bad smell in nose, posterior pharynx scabby, cracked and dry, nosebleed pain from root of nose to ears on swallowing, no smell. ▶ Another case, fetid odor from nose and throat, nose was always dry and stuffed up by yellow scales, skin always hot and dry. ▶ Sore throat; offensive discharge from nose, occasional nosebleed, posterior wall of throat covered with dry greenish-yellow membrane, stiffness at root of nose, no smell. ▶ Old ozæna and nasal catarrh, nose always stuffed up with plugs of dry mucus, pain at root of nose (Compare Lycop.).

Distress in stomach from cold drinks.

Cough, with expectoration of black blood and terrible pain through lungs as if they were torn out, especially in right upper chest. ▶ Coldness in chest after drinking. ▶ (In the cold feeling in stomach and chest compare with Colch, and perhaps Lach.).

Eyes and Ears

Boring outward in eyes. ▶ Dry burning in eyes; in morning on waking. ▶ Indistinct vision in morning. ▶ The crochet-work seemed to move to and fro towards noon, the letters ran together, vision unsteady in afternoon and evening. ▶ Large red, fiery points before the eyes, becoming violent and then black on becoming erect, agg. reflecting on what had been read, on stooping rush of blood to head. ▶ Tearing left ear at 9 A.M., amel. 11 A.M. ▶ Diminished hearing from time to time in afternoon. ▶ Crackling on swallowing. ▶ Roaring in right ear at 3 P.M.

Nose

Fluent coryza.

Cheek

Redness of right from 1 till 6 P.M., with heat and formication in it. ▶ Pressure in right, with redness, then swelling, then general shivering. ▶ Swelling of right, with small red pimples beneath skin, then round tetterlike spots the redness of face amel. next day towards noon, in afternoon swelling of face, agg. right side of nose, the next day the swelling of face lasted till 10 o'clock, with increased redness and swelling under eyes, the next morning red spots on face, which was puffy.

Throat, Stomach and Abdomen

Burning in pit of throat on swallowing, in the morning on waking, agg. more by heat than by cold, amel. towards 9 o'clock. ▶ Thirst at night, with heat and sleepiness, in the morning sweat; burning T. all the forenoon. ▶ Nausea, with vomiting. ▶ Violent vomiting of mucus in morning. ▶ Sudden cutting in abdomen towards 7 P.M., disappearing at one time, suddenly better about 10 P.M., agg. after midnight amel. morning, return of the colic at 5 P.M., as if she would sink together, agg. sitting, amel. walking and resting the hands on the hips. ▶ Pressure downward in abdomen preventing standing, agg. warm drinks, especially tea and coffee.

Chest and Heart

Sticking in side of chest; left from 6 to 8 P.M., agg. breathing. ▶ Pain in left side of C. at 2 P.M., amel. walking, with stitches in side. ▶ Oppression of C. in evening. ▶ Palpitation, with anxiety and unsteadiness of hands.

Neck and Back

Sticking in left side of nape, extending to head, with stiffness of left shoulder. ▶ Rheumatic pain in neck on motion. ▶ Stiffness of right side of neck about 5 P.M. ▶ Sticking in the whole spine. ▶ Pain in back with chilliness, icy-cold feet and tenesmus vesicæ.

Extremities

Cramplike contractive pain in left shoulder at 6 P.M., extending to head, as after carrying something heavy in the hand. ▶ Sticking in upper arm towards evening. ▶ Rheumatic pain in left arm at 6 P.M., then in left leg, which was also lame. ▶ Unsteadiness of hands. ▶ Intermittent sticking, rheumatic pain in left leg from 4 to 6 P.M., extending through the whole left side, with mental exhaustion and indifference. ▶ Rheumatic drawing pain in left arm and leg in afternoon.

Skin and Sleep

Red, hot rash above right wrist. ▶ Uneasy sleep, with frightful dreams.

Fever

Chilliness in afternoon without thirst, then dry heat; C. then dry heat; C. then burning redness of face; at 8 P.M. alternating with heat, with the heat moisture without thirst, the C. continues on going to bed with more seat, then good sleep, the next day the fever returned at 7 P.M. with less C., but more heat, with sweat, interrupted by heavy dreams, breathing difficult all night, good sleep towards morning, the next day fever at 7 P.M. with less chill, more heat, much thirst, but little sweat, good sleep at 10 P.M. ▶ Shaking chill as if in the bones in the evening, then heat, hot skin with thirst, at 9 P.M. headache on left side and boring outward in eyes, the fever lasting till 10 A.M. ▶ Shivering at 10 P.M.

Heat at 10 P.M., with thirst and mental excitement, the heat amel. about midnight, the next night the same dry heat after midnight, lasting till 9 A.M. ▶ Heat in flushes in evening, with redness of face and ears. ▶ Dry heat from 7 to 9 P.M., then chilliness till 10 P.M.; dry heat at midnight, but the slightest uncovering is unpleasant.

A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy

Timothy Field Allen · A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy · 1892

Head

Clinical:
Violent headache in a man who was blind; first in left, then in right eye; headaches extending from forehead to occiput; vision partially restored.

Eyes and Ears

Clinical:
Blindness.
Deafness, with offensive, yellowish-green discharge, buzzing in ears, headache in forehead and occiput; dull pain from nose to ears; pain goes to ears on swallowing.
Chronic otorrhœa.
Sudden attacks of deafness at night, with roaring and cracking in ears.

Nose

Clinical:
Subject to nose-bleed; eruption about nose, pain in nose and forehead, skin dry and hot, but complains of feeling cold.
Stoppage and stuffiness high up in nostrils and dull aching in forehead; bad smell in nose, posterior pharynx scabby, cracked and dry; nose-bleed; pain from root of nose to ears on swallowing; no smell.
Another case: fetid odor from nose and throat; nose was always dry and stuffed up by yellow scales; skin always hot and dry.
Sore throat; offensive discharge from nose; occasional nose-bleed; posterior wall of throat covered with dry, greenish-yellow membrane; stuffiness at root of nose; no smell.
Old ozæna and nasal catarrh: nose always stuffed up with plugs of dry mucus; pain at root of nose.

Chest and Heart

Clinical:
Cough, with expectoration of black blood, and terrible pain through lungs as if they were torn out, especially in right upper chest.
Coldness in chest after drinking.