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Elaterium officinarum

  1. Additional facts
  2. Mental
  3. Head, face, and ears
  4. Mouth and throat
  5. Gastrointestinal tract
  6. Appetite and food preferences
  7. Urogenital system
  8. Chest organs
  9. Limbs and spine
  10. Common symptoms
  11. Sleep
  12. Fever
  13. Analogs by action
  14. Included in the composition
  15. Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

momordica elaterium.

Description Source

Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica - TF Allen

Additional facts

 Natural order: сucurbitaceae. Preparation: Tincture of the immature fruit; triturations of Elaterium (C20 H28, 05).

Mental

 Depression of spirits. Fear of some approaching disaster.

Head, face, and ears

 Confusion of the head, followed by headache. Severe pain in the head in the evening, which was not perceptibly increased after a drop of the tincture; dullness of head remained till late at night (fifth day). Violent headache, with sensation of constriction of the temples and forehead (after half an hour). Forehead: Slight aching in the forehead (seventh day). Dull pain in region of causality. Temples: Pain in the temples. Sides: Dull pain in region of combativeness, right and left sides.
 Eye.
 Sticking, as of a splinter, in the inner canthus of left eye.
 Ear.
 Sticking pain near the rim of the cartilage of left ear.
 Nose.
 Epistaxis (after eleven hours).

Mouth and throat

 Tongue coated with a dirty-brown fur (sixth day). вitter taste in the mouth. вitter taste, with salivation.
 Throat.
 Pain in the back of the throat, as if scalded (after half an hour, first day). Scraping in the throat. A feeling as if the choana and upper part of the oesophagus were enlarged. Pains in the left sterno-mastoideus muscle, near its insertion into the sternum.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Abdomen.
 Dull pain in the right of hypochondrium. Abdomen retracted. Rumbling of flatus in the course of the cecum and colon. Discharge of flatus per anum. Griping (in third case). Pain in bowels, coming on in the warmth of the bed. Dull pains in the bowels. сutting pains in the bowels, like the griping of medicine. Iliac Region: Pain of a dull, aching, pressing kind over the crest of the right ilium, round to the back, extending deep into the pelvis.
 Anus.
 Bleeding of hemorrhoidal tumors. Some soreness of the anus (two days after gtt. 50).
 Stool.
 Diarrhoea. Purging (in two cases). сopious dejections (after two hours). сopious liquid stools after six hours. Dirty yellow stool two hours after breakfast; evacuation at 8:30 , without pain, first part of natural consistence, the second soft (sixth day); awoke at 7 p.m with desire for stool, but had none (seventh day); awoke at 2 p.m with desire for stool;had a very copious liquid motion, painless, followed by five others in the course of the morning, all painless and very liquid, dirty color, with irregular intervals between them; seemed to continue until the bowels were fairly emptied (two days after gtt. 50). Dull olive-green discharges. Discharges of dark masses of bilious mucus. Watery discharges from the bowels of a frothy character. сonstipation. сostiveness.

Appetite and food preferences

 Appetite. Loss of appetite. Eructation: Eructations of flatus. Eructations and nausea for two days. Eructations and nausea, relieved by sneezing. Nausea and Vomiting: Nausea which continued five hours, till after two liquid stools. Nausea, inclination to vomit and vomiting, repeated four times within two hours, at first slimy, afterwards colored with bile, with increase of salivation and eructations of air, flatulence, rumbling in the bowels. сonstant nausea and disposition to vomit. Feeling of sickness (after half an hour, first day); very sick for two or three hours after; had to lie down to prevent sickness from coming on (third day). Vomiting (in two cases),; (after two hours). Vomiting lasted nearly the whole night, and was repeated several times. Vomiting a dark brown fluid mixed with food, without pain, flatus, or nausea, but accompanied with much prostration and feeling of great weakness at the stomach, at 7 p.m (two days after gtt. 50). Vomiting of a small quantity of clear liquid; the vomiting was frequently repeated at very short intervals; three hours later, discharge of a very copious bilious greenish substance, and of all the contents of the stomach, with very difficult vomiting. Violent vomiting and eructations of the odor of bad eggs. Stomach: Pain in the pit of the stomach, with violent colic (after half an hour). Feeling of stricture or oppression at the epigastrium. Dull pain in the epigastrium.

Urogenital system

 Increased flow of limpid urine. Quantity of urine seemed to increase (fifth and sixth days). Sp. gr. 1.015; no deposit with heat; quantity if anything diminished (seventh day). High- colored; sp. gr. 1.022 (after gtt. 50). Urine acid, reddened litmus; sp. gr. 1.020; scanty, pale, after dinner (fifth day). Sp. gr. 1.028, high-colored, and scanty; no deposit with heat (sixth day).

Chest organs

 Unpleasant smell to the breath (sixth day).
 Chest.
 Sharp pains at the lower part of the sternum, passing through to the spine or lower angle of the right shoulder blade.

Limbs and spine

 Pains under the right shoulder blade. Fugitive, sticking pains in the lumbar region, more on the right side. Very slight aching pain in the region of the left kidney (third and seventh days).
 Superior Extremities.
 Pains extending from the shoulder to the ends of the fingers and shooting back up to the elbow. Dull pains in right shoulder, forearm, and hand, extending to the fingers. Sharp, shooting pains in the left axilla, near the insertion of the pectoralis major muscle. Sharp, sticking pains in the fingers of the left hand out to their extremities. Sharp, sticking pains in the muscular parts of thumb.
 Inferior Extremities.
 Shooting, and also dull, aching pains in the left thigh, in the course of the sciatic nerve, extending down to the instep, and out to the extremities of the toes. Pain in the right knee, extending into the instep and toes. Pain in the great toe of an arthritic nature.

Common symptoms

 Weakness for two days. Great weakness followed the attack. Felt very weak when going to bed at 10 o’clock (after gtt. 50). Sharp, fugitive, or dull aching pains, now here, now there. Pains mostly affecting the left side, but also the right. The symptoms occurred very soon after the administration of the medicine.

Sleep

 Incessant gaping, lasting nearly an hour.

Fever

 Chilliness, with continued gaping, as if an attack of intermittent fever was approaching. Fever came on after a few hours, accompanied all the symptoms, and lasted till the following day.

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

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Natura Pharma
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