EUPHORBIUM OFFICINARUM
Spurge-The resinous Juice of Euphorbia Resinifera
(EUPHORBIUM)
An irritant to the pores and skin and mucous membranes. Burning ache in bones. Pains in limbs and paralytic weak spot in the joints. Important respiratory and pores and skin symptoms. Terrible burning pains. Pains of cancer. Everything seems large than it genuinely is.
Head.–Acute mania. Violent, pressive headache.
Face.–Erysipelas; yellow blisters. Burning in cheek; worse, left. Eyes infected and agglutinated in morning; Red swelling of cheeks. Nasal pruritus with mucous secretions from naso-pharynx.
Stomach.–Great hunger. Sialorrhea (profuse salty saliva). Waterbrash. Thirst for bloodless drinks.
Abdomen.–Sunken; spasmodic, flatulent colic. Stools fermented, profuse, clayey. Feels hollow.
Respiratory.–Breathing oppressed, as if chest have been now not extensive enough. Spasmodic, dry cough, day and night, with asthma. Violent, fluent coryza, with burning and cough. Constant cough, with stitches from pit of belly to facets of chest. Croup, dry, hollow, cough. Warm feeling in chest, as if warm meals had been swallowed.
Extremities.–Paralytic pains. Pain in hip-joint and coccyx.
Skin.–Erysipelatous inflammation, particularly of the cheek. Biting and stinging, red, swollen. Vesicular erysipelas. Carbuncle; old, torpid, indolent ulcers with biting, lancinating pain. Old lethargic ulcer, pustules; gangrene (Echinac; Secale). Ulcerating carcinoma and epithelioma of the skin.
Relationship.–Compare: Euphorbia amygdaloides-Wood Spurge (in ache in antrum, phantasm of smell, smell of mice. Sense of style blunted. Diarrhoea; stools difficult, with painful anal spasm).
Euphorbia corollata-Large Flowering Spurge–(a diaphoretic expectorant and cathartic of the historic college in gastro-enteric disturbance, with deathly nausea. Vomiting of food, water, and mucus and copious evacuations. Attacks recur after quick intermissions. Feeling of clawing in stomach; bloodless sweat) (Verat alb).
Euphorbia marginata-Snow on the mountain–(Honey from the flora is poisonous, detected by using the hot, acrid taste. The milky juice produces pores and skin signs and symptoms like Rhus).
Euphorbia pilulifera-Pillbearing Spurge–(Humid asthma, cardiac dyspnoea, hay-fever, and bronchitis. Urethritis, with excessive ache on urinating, and lots urging. Acrid leucorrhoea; worse least movement. Haemorrhages from sunstroke and traumatism).
Compare, also: Psoralea-A Columbian plant–(Pain of cancer, ulcers. Leucorrhoea fetid. Pruritus. Uterine tumors). Croton; Jatropha; Colchic.
Antidotes: Camph; Opium.
Dose.–Third to sixth potency.
