Elaps Corallinus elaps.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

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

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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

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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

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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.

Smell and nose

Stoppage of both nostrils.
Nostrils plugged up with lumps of dry mucus ; sleeps with mouth open.
Partial stoppage and stuffiness high up in nostrils, with dull aching in forehead ; < in wet weather ; occasionally bad smell from nose ; offensive discharge ; posterior wall of throat covered with a dry, greenish-yellow scab, wrinkled and
fissured, extending up to nose ; nose-bleed ; pains from root of nose to ears on swallowing ; sneezing at night ; sense of smell gone ; profuse and dark catamenia. θ Ozæna.
Offensive discharge from nose ; subject to epistaxis and eruption about nose and face ; snuffles and pain from root of nose to forehead.
Discharge smelling like putrid herring pickle.
Coryza from least draft of air.
White and watery mucus discharged from nose.
Blood black, flows in a steady stream, copious.
Epistaxis : sudden, profuse, while walking ; after a blow.
Nose bleeds when violently blown. θ Nasal catarrh.
Arterial blood gushes from nose and ears.

Upper face

Dark complexion.
Face of a dull yellowish color. θ Ozæna.
Redness and swelling of right cheek, chilliness all over body.
Redness, heat and formication in right cheek.
Swelling of face, extending to right side of nose.
Red blotches on bloated face.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste as of blood ; before hæmoptysis.
Salty tasting saliva.
Tongue deep red, clean, black or dark red ; swollen ; whitish in morning ; pricking at tip.

Palate and throat

Sensation as if food turned like a corkscrew, on swallowing.
Constriction in pharynx, with pressure in throat.
The beverage is arrested in œsophagus as from a spasmodic contraction.
Irritable throat, broken out with red blotches, about as large as half of a split pea ; blotches also extended over soft palate and sides of cheeks, and bled upon slightest irritation ; intolerable itching in ears.
Ulceration of throat, < left side, difficulty of swallowing liquids, occurring five or six times a year, lasting two or three weeks at a time ; attacks brought on by exposure to rain or wind ; dislikes wet weather apart from the throat affection, never feels happy in wet
weather.
Exceedingly painful deglutition of both solids and liquids ; sharp pain and soreness to touch across chest from right to l. axilla ; frontal cephalalgia ; sides of throat sore to touch ; sides of buccal cavity above fauces covered with numerous dark-red points, like
incipient pustules.
Deglutition of solids or liquids almost impossible ; throat exceedingly sensitive to touch ; tonsils swollen so that no passage is visible.
Dull pain from nares to ears ; when swallowing, pain goes to ears ; posterior wall of pharynx dry, mucous membrane fissured and covered with crusts ; offensive discharge from nose ; skin dry and hot, but always complains of feeling cold.
Sore throat, offensive discharge from nose, epistaxis, discharge offensive, smelling like putrid herring pickle ; posterior wall of throat covered with a dry, greenish-yellow membrane, wrinkled and fissured, extending to nares ; occasionally portions are detached and expelled
from nose or mouth, leaving a raw, corrugated surface ; membrane dry and corrugated ; stuffiness about root of nose, and dull aching from there to forehead ; on swallowing, pain extends to ears ; sense of smell gone ; frequent headache ; face dull
yellowish ; catamenia early, profuse, dark ; skin hot and dry, pulse 140. θ Chronic inflammation of naso-pharyngeal mucous membrane.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Canine hunger, yet unable to eat.
Hunger with violent headache if not satisfied at once.
Violent thirst ; desire for sweetened buttermilk.

Eating and drinking

After eating : weight in stomach with nausea ; oppression ; fruit lies like ice.
After drinking cold drinks lie like ice in stomach, and cause cold feeling in chest.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Acidity of stomach, with nausea and faint feeling.
Sour belching.
Vomiting : of mucus, with fainting ; of green bile ; followed by diarrhœa.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Cold drinks feel like ice in stomach ; weight at stomach after eating ; sinking, faint feeling at pit of stomach ; pain in stomach > by lying upon abdomen ; desire for sweetened buttermilk ; fearful and apprehensive of some fatal
disease ; constipation.
Fruits and cold drinks lie like ice on stomach.
Burning in stomach. θ Phthisis.
Sudden pain in stomach, as if she must sink down, < while sitting, > walking about.

Hypochondria

Painful pressure in right side of liver.

Abdomen and loins

Sensation as if blood in abdomen were flowing backwards.
Intestines feel twisted, as if by a cord and strung together in a knot, with strangulating sensation and black stool.
Lancinating from both groins to symphysis pubis.
Colic with urging to stool.

Stools and rectum

Diarrhœa : blackish, frothy ; yellow, watery ; mucous and rumbling ; bile ; bloody mucus ; in phthisis, black, liquid blood.
Bowels constipated.
Constriction of sphincter after bloody stools.
Formication at anus as from worms.
Prolapsus ani.

Urinary organs

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

Male sexual organs

Impotence.
Weight and swelling of testes.
Discharge of prostatic fluid.
Skin of prepuce thick and inflamed.

Female sexual organs

Weight at uterus and vagina after an hysteric attack.
Menses every 2 or 3 weeks ; flow profuse dark. θ Ozæna.
Black blood between menses.
Metrorrhagia ; discharge of very dark colored liquid and clots, but mostly liquid, and varies from half a pound to two or three pounds in twenty-four hours ; is so weak cannot rise from bed or hold anything in hand ; has the appearance of a corpse ; sensation of
soreness across lower abdomen ; slight pain to urinate ; dragging pain in both temples ; at times slight pain in left pleura, almost always > by chewing a small piece of gum camphor.
Sensation as if something burst in womb, followed by a continuous stream of dark-colored blood, on attempting to urinate ; flow very profuse, venous, and containing some clots. θ Cancer
uteri.
Itching in vagina ; formication at vulva.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Complete aphonia ; sibilant rales, wheezing ; at night chokes and turns pale while sleeping ; soreness in throat below fauces on swallowing ; no respiratory sound in left lung, dull by percussion ; rales very distinct in right lung at
each inspiration ; pulse 90, skin dry, but not hot.
Laryngeal phthisis.

Respiration

Oppressed breathing in evening < on going up stairs.
Constriction of the chest.
Feeling of a heavy load on chest. θ Phthisis.

Cough

Dry cough, frequent and constantly recurring paroxysms, after suddenly catching cold.
Very violent attacks of dry cough, followed by expectoration of black blood, with severe tearing pains throughout whole chest and principally at apex of right lung.
Constant cough, with frightful pains throughout lungs, as if they were torn out, < upper part of right chest.
Cough with expectoration of masses of black blood, and often with sensation of laceration in region of heart ; before cough, taste of blood in mouth.

Inner chest and lungs

Stitches in upper part of each lung ; > when walking.
Stitches in left side of chest ; < when breathing.
Very violent attacks of dry cough which terminate with expectoration of black blood, with severe tearing pain ; throughout chest, and principally at apex of right lungs oppression after having eaten. θ Phthisis.
Pain in right lung for eight days ; cannot turn to either side nor sit up without assistance ; sleeplessness ; sibilant rales with crepitation in both lungs ; right lung sounds dull under mamma and near armpit to percussion ; each inspiration causes a crackling
sound ; respiration very difficult, almost agonizing ; vomiting all forenoon ; diarrhœa all day ; constant cough ; urine like blood. θ Pneumonia.
Pulmonary phthisis ; < in right lung ; rush of blood to chest and throat in morning.
Hæmoptysis, expectoration of black blood, with sensation of laceration in region of heart.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Tearing as from region of heart ; hæmoptysis.
Palpitation with anxiety and trembling of hands.
Pulse 120. θ Ozæna.

Outer chest

Sharp pain and soreness to touch across chest, from right to left axilla. θ Sore throat.

Neck and back

Stiffness in right side of neck.
Lancinations in left side of neck, also whole spinal marrow.
Painful pressure at nape of neck.
Weight as of an iron bar pressing on small of back.
Pain in back with chilliness, cold feet and strangury.

Upper limbs

Itching under axilla, with tetter.
Arms and hands are swollen, bluish, covered with red spots ; also right leg and foot.
Arms cold by putting hand in cold water.
Yellow spots on hands and fingers.
Crampy constriction at bend of elbow, extending to hand, as if one had carried a heavy weight.
Pricking in left upper arm.
Hot rash on right wrist.
Right hand feels as if paralyzed.
Tips of fingers peel off.

Lower limbs

Transient stitching pains at one time above, at another below right knee ; < from motion or warmth of bed.
Sensation of spraining and stiffness in knee-joint.
Cramps in the calves.
Icy coldness of right leg.
Rheumatic pains in left leg.
Icy cold feet.
Left foot swollen and blue, with red spots.
Picking under toe nail.
Vesicles on feet.

Limbs in general

Soreness of limbs < at night. θ Rheumatism.

Rest. position. motion

Lying on abdomen : pain in stomach > ; change of position painful.
Breathing : stitches in left side of chest <.
Sitting : pains in stomach <.
Stooping : fainting ; headache < ; rush of blood to head ; vertigo ; pain at root of nose.
Cannot keep head quiet : with pain.
Cannot turn on either side without assistance.
Motion : < headache ; pain about knee <.
Walking : sudden, profuse epistaxis ; pain in stomach > ; stitches in lungs >.
Going up stairs : oppressed breathing <.

Nerves

Sensation of numbness, with great weakness and coldness in whole left side of body ; deglutition impaired ; at times, darkness before eyes with vertigo ; dimness of vision ; lachrymation of right eye ; menses very scanty ; pain
in right side of chest and right shoulder. θ Hemiplegia.

Sleep

Drowsy all day ; no sleep at night.
During sleep bites hand.
Sleeplessness from lancinating headache.
Dreams of business, of dead persons.

Time

Morning : bloated around eyes ; rush of blood to chest and throat ; inability to rise.
All day : diarrhœa ; drowsy.
At 10 A. M. : fever lasts all night until.
Forenoon : vomiting.
Noon : chill.
Afternoon : pain in vertex, dry heat.
Evening : oppressed breathing ; flushes of heat.
At 7 P. M. : fever.
From 7 to 9 P. M. : dry heat.
At 8 P. M. : chilliness and heat alternately.
From 9 to 10 P. M. : chill.
Night : Everything seems white ; sudden attack of deafness ; sneezing ; chokes and turns pale while sleeping ; soreness of limbs < ; no sleep ; fever lasting all night.
At midnight : dry heat.

Temperature and weather

Horror of rain. (Fear of)
Warmth of bed : pain about head <.
Draft of air : coryza ; sensitive to ; chilly, with otorrhœa.
Wind : exposure causes ulceration of throat.
Wet weather : dull aching in forehead < ; never feels happy during.
Rain : exposure to, causes ulceration of throat.
Cold water : arms cold by putting hands in ; coldness < from drinking.
Great sensitiveness to cold.

Fever

Coldness in the back.
Terrible coldness after drinking, and as if ice water were rising and falling through a cylindrical opening in left lung.
Coldness < drinking cold water ; shivering from head to foot with chattering of teeth after a drink.
Shaking chill, felt internally as if in bones, followed in half an hour by burning heat ; skin hot, thirst, fever lasting whole night, and until 10 A. M. next day.
Chill followed by dry heat and burning redness of face.
Chill at noon, without thirst, followed by dry heat in afternoon, without perspiration.
Skin hot and dry, but constantly complains of feeling cold ; pulse 120. θ Chronic otorrhœa.
Chilliness and heat alternately at 8 P. M. ; chilly for a few minutes, then heat for a quarter of an hour.
Heat : with thirst ; alternating with chilliness.
Flushes of heat in evening, with redness and heat of face and ears.
With the fever, oppression of breathing.
Fever at 7 P. M, with less chill, more violent heat, but little sweat ; sleep interrupted by heavy dreams (of bad people), with difficult breathing the whole night.
Dry heat from 7 to 9 P. M., followed by chill till 10 P. M.
Dry heat, at midnight ; cannot endure any cover.
Skin hot and dry ; pulse 140. θ Ozæna.
Sweat : cold ; profuse ; all over body ; on forehead and nape of neck.
Intermittent fever ; attacks 8 to 10 P. M., every day.

Attacks, periodicity

Constantly recurring paroxysms of cough.
Frequent : headache ; attacks of cough.
At times : slight pain in left pleura ; darkness before eyes ; vertigo.
For 2 or 3 seconds at a time : dark spots before eyes.
For a few minutes : chill.
For quarter of an hour : heat.
Half hour : after chill, burning heat.
Every day : attacks of intermittent fever, from 8 to 10 P. M.
For 8 days : pain in right lung.
From 8 to 10 days : pain intermits.
Every two or three weeks : menses.
For two or three weeks at a time : ulceration of throat.
Five or six times a year : ulceration of throat.
Three months : blindness in right eye.
Three years : blindness of left eye.

Locality and direction

Left : rumbling in ear ; redness and pain in eye ; blindness in eye ; itching in eye ; stye on eye ; ulceration on side of throat ; pain in pleura ; no respiratory sound in lung ; stitches in side of chest ; lancinations in
side of neck ; pricking in upper arm ; rheumatic pains in leg ; foot swollen and blue, with red spots ; numbness, weakness and coldness of whole side of body ; as if ice water were rising and falling through cylindrical opening in lung ; rheumatic pains commence
on side.
Right : pain in side of cerebellum ; blindness of eye ; eye can scarcely tell light from dark ; sudden deafness ; otalgia ; offensive discharge from ear ; buzzing in ear ; redness and swelling of cheek ; heat of cheek ; formication in
cheek ; swelling of side of nose ; painful pressure in side of liver ; rattling in lung ; pain at apex of lung ; upper part of chest lungs feel torn out ; lung sounds dead ; pulmonary phthisis < in right lung ; stiffness in side of neck ; leg
and foot swollen, bluish, covered with red spots ; hot rash on wrist ; hand feels as if paralyzed ; stitching pain about knee ; icy coldness of leg ; lachrymation of eye ; pain in side of chest ; pain in shoulder ; phthisis < right side ; side
feels sensitive.
From left to right lancinating headache.
From right to left pain from one axilla to the other.
Rheumatic pains commencing on left side.

Sensations

As if all the blood were collected in head ; rumbling in ear as of thunder ; as if brain were shaken ; with nausea ; eyeball as if rough ; as if a fly were enclosed in auditory meatus ; as if food turned like a corkscrew on swallowing ; pain
in stomach as if she must sink down ; as if blood were flowing backwards in abdomen ; intestines feel twisted as if by a cord and strung together in a knot ; formication at anus as from worms ; of a heavy load on chest ; as if lungs were torn out ; as of an iron
bar pressing on small of back ; constriction at elbow as if one had carried a heavy weight ; hand feels as if paralyzed.
Pain : left eye ; in forehead ; in cerebellum ; at root of nose ; from root of nose to forehead ; in stomach ; in right lung ; in back ; in right side of chest ; in right shoulder.
Frightful pain : throughout lungs.
Violent pain : in vertex.
Severe tearing pains : throughout whole chest ; at apex of right lung ; Tearing : as from the region of the heart.
Sensation of laceration : at region of heart.
Lancinating : headache ; pain in left eye ; from both groins ; l. side of neck ; spinal marrow.
Sharp pain : across chest.
Stitches : upper part of each lung ; in left side of chest.
Stitching pain : in forehead ; about right knee.
Pricking : at tip of tongue ; in left upper arm.
Sticking pain : from forehead to occiput.
Stinging : headache.
Picking : under toe nail.
Constriction : in pharynx ; of the chest.
Crampy constriction : at bend of elbow, extending to hand.
Cramps : in the calves.
Drawing pain : from forehead to occiput.
Dragging pain : in both temples.
Burning : in eyes ; in stomach.
Painful pressure : in right side of liver ; at nape of neck.
Pressure : in throat.
Soreness : across lower abdomen ; in throat.
Rheumatic pain : in left leg.
Dull pain : from nares to ears.
Dull aching : in forehead ; from root of nose to forehead.
Slight pain : in left pleura.
Weight : in forehead ; in stomach ; of testes ; at uterus ; in vagina ; on small of back.
Heaviness : of head.
Heat : on right cheek.
Faint, sinking feeling : at pit of stomach.
Sticky feeling : in eyeballs under lids.
Dryness : in eyes.
Crackling : in ears.
Spraining : in knee joint.
Stiffness : in right side of neck ; in knee joint.
Roaring : in ears.
Rumbling : in left ear.
Buzzing : in ears.
Numbness : in left side of body.
Weakness : of left side of body.
Formication : on right cheek ; at anus.
Itching on left eye ; in ears ; under left axilla ; chill felt as if in bones.
Coldness : of left side of body.

Tissues

Hemorrhages black, often fluid.
Touch, Passive Motion, Injuries

Touch. passive motion. injuries

From a blow : sudden profuse epistaxis.
Touch : soreness to, across chest ; sides of throat sore.

Skin

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

Stage of life, constitution

Woman, æt. 30, suffering for nine years ; hemiplegia.
Hs., æt. 6, white, full habit, rosy-cheeked, after a blow upon nose ; epistaxis.
Girl, æt. 7 ; croup.
Girl, æt. 16, for three years ; otorrhœa.
Girl, æt. 18, consequent upon an otorrhœa occurring in her fifth year ; dulness of hearing and otorrhœa.
Man, æt. 18, after otorrhœa, when he was two years old ; otorrhœa with deafness.
Woman, æt. 22, tall, robust, seamstress ; sore throat with œdema.
Man, æt. 24 ; chronic stuffing of nose.
Man, æt. 25, after catching cold ; sudden deafness of right ear.
Man, æt. 26, foundryman, after sudden catching cold ; cough.
Miss H., æt. 27, blonde ; epistaxis.
Woman, suffered several years ; inflammation of naso-pharyngeal mucous membrane.
Mrs. H., white, æt. 36, above medium size, full habit ; sore throat.
Man, æt. 36, another, æt. 48 ; chronic ulceration of throat.
Woman, æt. 38, suffering for ten years ; impaired hearing of both ears, with otalgia of right ear.
Woman, æt. 39, white, unmarried ; confined to bed for a year with cancer uteri ; uterine hemorrhage.
Man, æt. 44 pain about right knee.
Woman, æt. 44, suffering for 8 years ; cephalalgia.
Octoroon, æt. 47, married, but childless, has been suffering for a year past ; metrorrhagia.
Woman, æt. 49, black, has had lung trouble for three years ; pneumonia.
Mr. B., æt. 50, mother and sister supposed to have died from cancer, believes himself to be troubled with a cancerous humor ; itching in ears, blotches in throat.
Man, æt. 61, rheumatic symptoms in legs ; amaurosis.
Man, æt. 61 ; sudden impairment of hearing.

Relations

Antidoted by : Radiated Heat, Alcohol, Arsen .
Compare : Arsen ., Carb. veg., Crotal., Laches., Mur. ac., Nitr. ac., Rhus tox .

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

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.