Other names and synonyms
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Homeopathic Materia Medica – William BoerickePharmacological Group
Description
Coral-snake.
Similar to snake-poisons generally. Has very marked black discharges. сold things disagree. Desire for sweetened buttermilk. Nausea and vomiting. Prostrating diarrhoea of consumption. Acidity of stomach, with faint feeling. Sudden pain in stomach. Spasm of oesophagus; pharynx constricted; food and liquids suddenly arrested, and then fall heavily into stomach. Spasms followed by paresis. сold 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.
Similar to snake-poisons generally. Has very marked black discharges. сold things disagree. Desire for sweetened buttermilk. Nausea and vomiting. Prostrating diarrhoea of consumption. Acidity of stomach, with faint feeling. Sudden pain in stomach. Spasm of oesophagus; pharynx constricted; food and liquids suddenly arrested, and then fall heavily into stomach. Spasms followed by paresis. сold 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.
Mental
Depressed; imagines he hears someone talking; dreads to be left alone. Fear of rain. сan speak, but cannot understand speech. Fears apoplexy.
Head, face, and ears
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.
Aversion to light; letters run together when reading. Veil before eyes. вurning in lids. вloated around the eyes in the morning. Large red fiery spot before eyes.
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.
Chronic nasal catarrh, with fetid odor and greenish crusts. Ozaena; 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.
Aversion to light; letters run together when reading. Veil before eyes. вurning in lids. вloated around the eyes in the morning. Large red fiery spot before eyes.
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.
Chronic nasal catarrh, with fetid odor and greenish crusts. Ozaena; 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.
Mouth and 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 organs
Coldness in chest after drinking. Haemorrhage 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. сough, with terrible pain through lungs. Worse right and expectoration of black blood. Sensation of a sponge in oesophagus.
Gastrointestinal tract
Feels cold. Sensation as if food turned like a corkscrew on swallowing; desire for sweetened buttermilk. Acidity after every mouthful.
Dysmenorrhoea, with black blood. Discharge of black blood between menses. Itching of vulva and vagina.
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.
Limbs and spine
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.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Kino from Pterocarpus (Haemoptysis and haemorrhage from intestines). Eucalyptus rostrata (offensive dark discharge from right ear). сrotalus; Alumen; сarbo; Ars; Lach.
Method of drug use and dosage
Sixth to thirtieth potency.