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Elaps Corallinus

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General EN

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. Higgins used the gall of the snake, Fel Elapidis Corallini.

Clinical EN

Amaurosis. Axilla, itching in. Cancer. Deafness. Ear, affections of. Ear, wax in. Epistaxis. Haemorrhages. Headache. Hemiplegia. Knee, pain in. Metrorrhagia. Naso-pharyngitis. Nose, stuffed. Ozaena. Phthisis. Pneumonia. Threat, ulcerated.

Characteristics EN

Elaps is distinguished from the other serpent venoms by the pre-eminent blackness of its discharges and haemorrhages; black ear-wax. 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. E.

V. Moffat has found Elaps 6 almost a specific in chronic naso-pharyngeal catarrh, with greenish crusts and subjective disagreeable odour. 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 longs (especially right) are very marked: "Sensation within chest and at sternum, as if pleurae 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. The glands and skin of axilla are affected.

(I cured with Elap. 200 a very old-standing case of irritating rash in axilla (right) with recurrent suppuration of axillary glands,) Periodicity is marked. Rest >, exertion <; but walking > epistaxis, pain in stomach and lungs. Lying on abdomen > pain in stomach. Many symptoms are < at night.

(Sudden deafness at night with roaring and cracking in ears.) Dreams of dead persons. Warmth of bed <. Great sensitiveness to cold: draught, wind, wet weather <. Horror of rain.

Touch <.

Relations EN

Antidoted by: Radiated heat, Alcohol, Arsen. Compare: Arsen., Carb. v., Crotal., Lach., Mur. ac., Nit. ac., Rhus t.; (red spot before sight) Duboisia; (effects of cold, wet weather) Dulc.

Mind EN

Absence of mind

Depression of spirits; desire for solitude

Fear of being left alone, as if something horrible might happen

Apprehensive of some fatal disease

Angry about one's self, and does not wish to be spoken to.

Head EN

Vertigo; falls forward

Pain in the cerebellum, r. side

Fulness in head, as if all the blood were collected in it; fears apoplexy; with cold hands

Severe stitching pains in forehead, with heaviness of head; occasionally pain intermits, 8-10 days, thundering in l. ear, deafness, lachrymation

Violent pain in vertex (afternoon), as if the brain were shaking, with nausea, which prevents her from keeping the head quiet

Congestion of blood to the head on stooping

Stinging headache, with sleeplessness

Weight in the forehead; pain in the forehead

Lancinating headache, first in l. side of the head, extending to r. side

Headache in occiput after mental exertion.

Eyes EN

Stye on l. eye, with lancination

Red eyelids

Tickling and red streaks of the sclerotica

Large red, fiery spots before the eyes; red bar before the eyes, when opening them

Dryness and burning in both eyes on waking; bloated around the eyes in the morning

Eyes red and inflamed; blear-eyed

Glassy look

When closing the eyes everything looks (dirty) red; dotted with black points

Violent itching in the l. eye

Aversion to light; desire to close the eyes; everything seems white even at night; grey veil before eyes; on stooping rush of blood to head with vertigo and pain at root of nose; can scarcely distinguish light from dark

Amaurosis.

Ears EN

Buzzing in r. ear

Crackling in ears on swallowing

Itching in the ears

Cerumen black and hardened

Illusions of hearing; hears whistling and ringing; imagines he hears some one talk

Discharge of a serous fluid or greenish-yellow liquid from (l.) ear (in the morning)

Offensive otorrhoea with eruptions

Crusty eruptions on ear and cheek

Discharge of blood from the ear

Sudden deafness at night with constant roaring and cracking

Hearing of both ears impaired; otalgia of r.

Nose EN

Bad smell (like putrid herring pickle) from the nose

Stoppage of the nostrils (high up, with dull aching in forehead); coryza from the least current of air

White and watery mucus is discharged from the nose

Epistaxis: sudden, profuse, while walking; after a blow

Blood black, copious, in steady stream.

Face EN

Dark complexion

Lancinations from root of nose to ear

Redness and swelling of r. cheek, with chilliness all over the body

Redness, heat, and formication in r. cheek

Swelling of face, extending to r. side of the nose

Red blotches on bloated face.

Mouth EN

Tongue black or dark red

Tongue swollen and whitish in morning

Pricking at tip of tongue.

Throat EN

Naso-pharyngeal catarrh, greenish crusts, subjective disagreeable odour

Dull pain from nares to ears;

< by swallowing; posterior wall of pharynx dry, fissured, covered with crusts

The beverage is arrested in oesophagus, as from a spasmodic contraction

Constriction in pharynx with pressure in the throat

Ulceration of throat, < l. side, difficult swallowing of liquids; recurring from exposure to wind or rain.

Stomach EN

Vomiting of green bile, followed by diarrhoea

Acidity of the stomach, with nausea and faint feeling; sour eructations

Violent thirst; cold feeling in the chest after drinking

Hunger, with violent headache if not satisfied at once

Vomiting of mucus, with fainting

Fruit and cold drinks feel like ice in the stomach

Burning in stomach

Weight in stomach, with nausea, after eating

Sudden pains in stomach, as if she must sink down;

< while sitting, > on walking about.

Abdomen EN

Lancinations from both groins to symphysis pubis

Colic, with urging to stool

The intestines feel twisted, as if by a cord, and strung together in a knot, with strangulating sensation

Sensation as if the blood in the abdomen were flowing backward.

Stool And Anus EN

Diarrhoea, blackish, frothy, yellowish, watery, with mucus and rumbling; bile; bloody mucus

Discharge of black, liquid blood from the bowels and at stool, with colic and sensation as if the bowels were twisted

Prolapsus ani

Constriction of the sphincter, after bloody stool

Crawling at anus as if from worms.

Urinary Organs EN

Red urine, with cloudy sediment

Thick urine, with red sediment

Suppression of urine; strangury

Discharge of mucus from urethra.

Male Sexual Organs EN

Impotence

Weight and swelling of the testes

Discharge of prostatic fluid

The skin of the prepuce is thick and inflamed.

Female Sexual Organs EN

Discharge of black blood between the menses

Menses every two or three weeks; flow profuse, dark

Weight at the uterus; at the vagina, after an hysteric attack

Itching in the vagina; formication at the vulva

Sensation as of something burst in womb, followed by continuous stream of dark-coloured blood on attempting to urinate.

Respiratory Organs EN

Dry cough, which ends in raising black blood

Taste of blood in the mouth, before coughing

Constant cough, with frightful pains throughout lungs as if they were torn out (< r. apex)

Stitches in the upper part of each lung; better when walking

Oppressed breathing in the evening;

< on going up stairs.

Chest EN

Feeling as of heavy load on chest

Constriction of the chest

Coldness in chest after drinking

Sensation in chest and at sternum as if pleurae were pulled off and the lungs violently torn apart

Stitches in l. chest; worse when breathing

Pleuritic pain r. side, felt in axilla

Cannot lean to r. side on account of a very painful pulling in r. lung

Sensitiveness of r. side.

Heart EN

Spitting of black blood, with painful tearing, as if proceeding from the heart.—Palpitation of the heart, with anxiety and trembling of the hands.

Neck And Back EN

Stiffness in the r. side of neck

Lancinations in l. side of neck

Painful pressure at nape 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.

Upper Limbs EN

Itching under axilla, with tetter

Inflamed and suppurating glands in axilla

The arms and hands are swollen, bluish, covered with red spots; also r. leg and foot

Crampy constriction at bend of elbow, extending to hand, as if one had carried a heavy weight

Pricking in the l. upper arm

Hot rash on r. wrist

The r. hand feels as if paralysed

The tips of the fingers peel off.

Lower Limbs EN

Cramps in the calves

Icy coldness of r. leg

Rheumatic pains in l. leg

Sensation of spraining and stiffness in knee-joint

The l. foot is swollen and blue, with red spots

Pricking under toenails.

Skin EN

Red pimples at the tips of the fingers

The tips of the fingers peel off

Little pimples, followed by desquamation

Yellow spots on the hands and fingers

Red tetter from the corner of the r. nostril to the cheek.

Sleep EN

Sleeplessness from lancinating headache.—Dreams of business, of dead persons.

Fever EN

Sensitive to cold

The arm shudders when dipping the hand into water

Coldness in the back

Dry heat, at midnight; cannot endure any cover

With the fever, oppression of breathing

Flushes of heat in evening, with, redness and heat of face and ears

Chill at, noon, without thirst, followed by dry heat in afternoon, without perspiration

Cold perspiration all over.