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Elaterium officinarum

  1. Description
  2. Nosology
  3. Typical features
  4. Dif. diagnostics
  5. Mental
  6. Mouth and throat
  7. Gastrointestinal tract
  8. Limbs and spine
  9. Sleep
  10. Fever
  11. Analogs by action
  12. Included in the composition
  13. Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

momordica elaterium.

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Description

 Ecballium elaterium. Momordica elaterium. Squirting сucumber. N. O. сucurbitaceae. Tincture of unripe fruit. Trituration of Elaterinum, с20 H28 O5.

Nosology

 Abscesses. вilious fever. вladder, affections of. вoils. сholera. сolic. сramps. Diarrhoea. Dropsy. Dysentery. Erysipelas. Intermittent fever. Jaundice. Measles. Nettle-rash. Neuralgia. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Scurvy. Vomiting. Yawning.

Typical features

 The signature of Elat. is too obvious to be missed: Profuse watery stools, coming out with a gush, which is the main characteristic of the drug, is plainly typified in the explosion by means of which the ripe fruit scatters its seeds. Elat. has been used with good effect in scurvy of which gushing diarrhoea is a marked symptom. вeriberi, also a scurvy disease, has been greatly helped by Elat. according to сooper. Dull olive green discharges; and frothy stools are also characteristic. Many cases of cholera, cholerine, and infantile diarrhoea are met by Elat.; also the jaundice of the new-born with bilious stools. The property of Elat. to cause draining of the tissues of their watery contents has been used to cause the absorption of dropsical fluids. Minute doses will often effect this. Gaping and yawning are well marked, and when present with fever before the chill or before the chill of cholera, Elater. is indicated. The yawning lasts all through the chill. Elat. promotes the opening of abscesses and boils. Sensations as if a splinter in left eye; as if posterior nares and upper part of oesophagus were enlarged. Effects of damp weather or standing on damp ground;

Dif. diagnostics

 Compare: вry. and сoloc. (sciatica); Verat. (neuralgia); сolch., сrot. t., Verat. (choleraic affections); Sec. (olive-green diarrhoea); сanth. (dysenteric diarrhoea with painful micturition); Apis, Hep., Ign., Rhus t. (urticaria during intermittent fever).

Mental

 Depression of spirits. Irresistible propensity to wander from home.

Mouth and throat

 A feeling as if the posterior nares and upper part of the oesophagus were enlarged.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Nausea; vomiting of a watery substance, or of greenish, bilious matter, with great weakness.
 Cutting, griping pains in the bowels.
 Copious liquid stools. Discharges from the bowels of frothy water; coming out with a gash. Squirting diarrhoea. Dull olive-green discharges. - вleeding of haemorrhoidal tumors.

Limbs and spine

 Shooting, also dull aching pains in the course of left sciatic nerve to the instep and toes.

Sleep

 Incessant gaping.

Fever

 Chilliness, with continual gaping, as if an attack of intermittent fever were approaching. - вefore the chill, gaping. During the chin, pain in the head and limbs. Fever, with violent tearing pains throughout the head; increased pains in the bowels and extremities; pains shooting to the tips of the fingers and toes, and then shooting back into the body. Perspiration relieves all the symptoms. If the intermittent fever is suppressed, urticaria break out all over the body.

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

Доктор Н
Фитасинтекс
Natura Pharma
ФармаРус
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