ELAPS CORALLINUS
Coral-snake
Similar to snake-poisons generally. Has very marked black discharges. Cold matters disagree. Desire for sweetened buttermilk. Nausea and vomiting. Prostrating diarrhoea of consumption. Acidity of stomach, with faint feeling. Sudden ache in stomach. Spasm of oesophagus; pharynx constricted; meals and drinks all at once arrested, and then fall closely into stomach. Spasms observed through paresis. Cold feeling in stomach. Fruits and ice-water lie very cold. Right-sided paralysis. Must have oscillatory motion. Rheumatic constitutions. Ear, nostril and throat signs and symptoms important.
Mind.–Depressed; imagines he hears anybody talking; dreads to be left alone. Fear of rain. Can speak, however can’t apprehend speech. Fears apoplexy.
Head.–Violent headache, extending from brow to occiput; first one eye, then the other. Pain in ears. Vertigo with tendency to fall forward. Weight and ache in forehead. Fullness in head.
Eyes.–Aversion to light; letters run together when reading. Veil earlier than eyes. Burning in lids. Bloated round the eyes in the morning. Large crimson fiery spot earlier than eyes.
Ears.–Cerumen black and hard, with hard hearing, or serous greenish discharge, offensive; buzzing, and phantasm of hearing. Sudden assault of nightly deafness, with roaring and crackling in ears, cracking in ears on swallowing. Intolerable itching in ear.
Nose.–Chronic nasal catarrh, with fetid smell and greenish crusts. Ozaena; yellowish-green discharge. Mucous membrane wrinkled; nostrils plugged up with dry mucus. Pains from nostril to ears on swallowing. Nostrils stopped up. Nasal bleeding. Pain at root of nose. Eruption about nose.
Throat.–Thick, very offensive, dry, greenish-yellow crusts upon the posterior pharyngeal wall and extraordinarily foul breath. Spasmodic contraction of oesophagus; passage of fluids arrested.
Chest.–Coldness in chest after drinking. Haemorrhage from lungs black as ink and watery; stitches in apex of proper lung. Fainting induced by using stooping. Oppression in going upstairs. Peeling off of pores and skin from hands and fingers. Cough, with horrible ache via lungs. Worse proper and expectoration of black blood. Sensation of a sponge in oesophagus.
Stomach.–Feels cold. Sensation as if meals grew to become like a corkscrew on swallowing; want for sweetened buttermilk. Acidity after each and every mouthful.
Female.–Dysmenorrhoea, with black blood. Discharge of black blood between menses. Itching of vulva and vagina.
Sleep.–Dreams about lifeless persons.
Skin.–Glands and pores and skin of axillae affected; itching with tetter. Tips of fingers peel off. Itching eruption in axillae.
Extremities.–Icy bloodless feet. Vesicular eruptions on feet. Arms and arms swollen bluish. Knee-joints experience sprained. Pricking below the nails.
Fever.–Cold perspiration all over. Typhoid when ulcers have eaten into tissues, and black blood is discharged.
Modalities.–Worse consuming fruit; bloodless drinks; moist weather.
Relationship.–Compare: Kino from Pterocarpus (Haemoptysis and haemorrhage from intestines). Eucalyptus rostrata (offensive darkish discharge from proper ear). Crotalus; Alumen; Carbo; Ars; Lach.
Dose.–Sixth to thirtieth potency.