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PHARMACY - Elaps. Elaps corallinus. Brazilian Coral Snake. N. O. Elapidae. Poison pressed from the venom-sac of the living snake and triturated with sugar of milk. Historical dose: All potencies, sixth to thirtieth potency. Planets: Moon.
HISTORY - Elaps is distinguished by the pre-eminent blackness of its discharges and hemorrhages. 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. Black ear-wax. E. V. Moffatt has found Elaps 6c almost a specific in chronic naso-pharyngeal catarrh with greenish crusts and subjective disagreeable odor.
HOMEOPATHIC -- Like all other snake poisons, the poison of Coral snake disorganizes the blood, thereby producing black discharges especially hemorrhages. Elaps has very marked black discharges. Cold things disagree. Nausea and vomiting. Desire for sweetened buttermilk. The prostrating diarrhea of tuberculosis. Acidity of stomach with faint feeling.
Sensation of internal coldness in chest, stomach worse after cold drinks. Adynamic sepsis. Spasms, then paralysis. Oscillatory movements. Right-sided paralysis. The right side feels weak insensible or even paralyzed. Must have oscillatory motion. Mucous membranes wrinkled. As of a heavy load or weight on the affected part. Twisting sensation.
Sudden pain in stomach. Spasm of esophagus, 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 feel very cold. Ear, nose and throat symptoms important. Sudden deafness at night with roaring and cracking in ear. Dreams of dead persons. Shuddering from least contradiction with pricking.
CLINICAL - Amaurosis. Axilla, itching. Cancer. Deafness. Ear disorders. Ear, wax. Hemorrhages. Headache. Hemiplegia. Knee, pain in. Metrorrhagia. Naso-pharyngitis. Nosebleed. Nose, stuffed. Ozaena. Pneumonia. Throat, ulcerated. Tuberculosis.
Constitutions - Rheumatic constitutions.
Modalities - Better from rest. Walking relieves nosebleed, pain in abdomen and chest. Worse eating fruit, cold drinks, food, air, dampness, wet weather. Worse from approach of storms in room touch, warmth of bed. Exertion aggravates. Worse at night. Warmth of the bed aggravates. Great sensitiveness to cold: draft, wind, wet weather aggravates. Touch aggravates.
MIND - Depressed, imagines he hears someone talking, dreads to be left alone. Fear of the rain. Horror of rain. Can speak, but cannot understand speech. Fears having a stroke. Fear, being left alone, causes chattering of the teeth and trembling. Imagines he hears someone talking, dreads to be left alone. Angry about one’s self, does not wish to be spoken to.
Abdomen - Bowels feel twisted together in a knot. Stools of black frothy blood.
Back - Stiffness in the right side of neck. Lancinations in left side 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.
Chest - Coldness in chest after drinking. Hemorrhage from lungs black as ink and watery. Stitching pain in apex of right lung. Oppression of chest on going upstairs. Peeling off of skin from palms and fingers. Sensation of a sponge in esophagus.
Ears - Cerumen, ear-wax black and hard with difficult hearing or serous greenish discharge offensive. Buzzing noise. Illusions of hearing. Sudden attack of nightly deafness with roaring and crackling in ears, cracking in ears on swallowing. Intolerable itching in ear. Otorrhea offensive, watery with deafness.
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 spots before eyes. Black rings before eyes (left).
Face - Red spots on face. Bloated. Dull yellowish color.
Female - Itching of vulva and vagina. Dysmenorrhea with a flow of black blood. Sensation as if something burst in the womb, then continuous stream of dark colored blood, better when urinating. Discharge of black blood between menses.
Food - Thirst. Desire for sweetened buttermilk.
Head - Rushes of blood to the 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.
Kidneys - Urine red. Discharge of mucus from urethra.
Limbs - Arms weak. Arms and hands swollen bluish. Knee joints feel sprained. Pricking under the nails. Skin peeling off on palms and finger tips. Icy cold feet. Vesicular eruptions on feet.
Lungs - Air hunger. Coldness in chest after drinking. Stitches in apex of right lung. Cough with terrible pain through lungs. Worse right lung and expectoration of black blood. The lungs seem forcibly separated. Hemoptysis, black like ink and watery.
Nose - Nostrils stopped up. Chronic nasal catarrh with fetid odor and greenish crusts. Ozaena with a yellowish-green discharge. Mucous membrane wrinkled, nostrils plugged up with dry mucus. Pains from nose to ears on swallowing. Nosebleeds, black like ink after a blow. Pain at root of nose. Eruption about nose.
Skin - Glands and skin of axilla affected, itching with tetter. Tips of fingers peel off. Itching eruption in axilla.
Sleep - Dreams of business. Dreams of dead persons. Bites hand during sleep. Sleeplessness from sharp headache.
Stomach - Feels cold. Drinks and fruits feel like ice in stomach and causes coldness in chest. Sensation as if food turned like corkscrew on swallowing. Acidity after every mouthful.
Temperature - Cold perspiration all over. Skin hot, dry. Typhoid when ulcers have eaten into tissues and black blood is discharged.
Throat - Painful, difficult swallowing for solids and liquids. Paralysis of esophagus. Spasmodic contractions of esophagus and pharynx, food and liquids are suddenly arrested and then fall heavily into the stomach. Sensation of a sponge in esophagus. Thick, very offensive, dry, greenish-yellow crusts upon the posterior pharyngeal wall and extremely foul breath.
Vertigo - Fainting caused by stooping. Vertigo, falls forwards. Faints with vomiting or on stooping.
COMMENTS - 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 lungs (especially right) are very marked: Sensation within chest and at sternum, as if pleura 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. Periodicity is marked. The glands and skin of axilla are affected. Clarke cured with Elaps. 200c a very old-standing case of irritating rash in axilla, (right) with recurrent suppuration of axillary glands.
COMPARE - (1) Dr. Higgins used the gallbladder of the coral snake, Fel Elapidis Corallini. (2) Ars., Carb-v., Crot-h., Lach., Mur-ac., Nit-ac., Rhus-t. (3) red spot before sight, Dub., (4) effects of cold, wet weather, Dulc. (5) Eucal. rostrata - offensive dark discharge from right ear. (6) Crot-h., Alumn., Carb-v., Ars., Lach.
RELATIONS - Antidoted by: Radiated heat, Alcohol, Ars.
SOURCES - Boericke. Clarke. Phatak.