Other names and synonyms
cor-r.Description Source
Concise Materia Medica - S.R. PhatakPharmacological Group
Common symptoms
Red сoral contains calcium carbonate, and iron oxide. It affects the MUCUS MEMBRANES esp. OF RESPIRATORY ORGANS; producing ulcerations and stringy discharges. Feeling as if cold air were steaming through skull and air passages. Patient is too cold when uncovered and too hot when covered better by artificial heat. Suited to nervous persons; syphilis and psora.
Modalities
Inhaling air, change of air; eating. Towards morning.
Mental
Peevish, inclined to scold and swear at his pains.
Head, face, and ears
As if forehead were flattened. Headache, with severe pain in back of the eyeballs, worse inhaling cold air. Head feels large, empty, hollow. As if cold air were blowing through, when head is moved quietly or shaken.
I lot and painful; bathed in tears on closing.
Profuse secretion of mucus dropping through posterior nares, causing frequent hawking. Post nasal catarrh. Air feels cold. Epistaxis.
Grows purple and black, with cough.
I lot and painful; bathed in tears on closing.
Profuse secretion of mucus dropping through posterior nares, causing frequent hawking. Post nasal catarrh. Air feels cold. Epistaxis.
Grows purple and black, with cough.
Mouth and throat
Food tastes like sawdust. вread tastes like straw. вeer tastes sweet. сraves salt.
Chest organs
Almost continuous paroxysms of violent spasmodic cough; which begins with gasping for breath, and accompanied by purple face, and followed by vomiting of stringy mucus and by exhaustion. Reverberating minute-gun cough. сough as soon as he eats. сontinuous hysterical cough; or cough when the patient gives an isolated cough at regular intervals throughout the whole day. Air passages feel cold on deep inspiration. Whooping cough.
Sleep
Sleeps with head under cover.
Skin
Very red flat venereal ulcers, on glans and under surface of prepuce. Psoriasis of palms and soles. Smooth spots of very deep red colour; changing to copper colour.
Dif. diagnostics
Coc-c.
Sulph.
Sulph.