Elaps Corallinus
Coral-snake
Chest
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Coldness in chest after drinking. Haemorrhage from lungs black as ink and watery; stitches in apex of right lung. Fainting caused by stooping. Oppression in going upstairs. Peeling off of skin from 310
Ears
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Cerumen hlack and hard, with difhcult hearing, or serous greenish discharge, offensive ; buzzing, and illusion of hearing. Sudden attack of nightly deafness, with roaring and crackling in
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Chronic otorrhoea. Deafness, noises in ears, cracking in ears on swallowing.
Eyes
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Aversion to light; letters run together when reading. Veil before
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Burning in lids. Bloated around the eyes in the morning.
Guiding symptoms
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denly arrested, and then fall heavily into
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Similar to snake-poisons generally. Plas very marktjd black discharges. Cold things disagree. Desire for sweetened buttermilk. Nausea and vomiting. Prostrating diarrhoea of consumption. Acidity of stomach, with faint feeling. Sudden pain in
Head
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Violent headache, extending from forehead to occiput. Vertigo with tendency to fall forward. Weight and pain in forehead.
Mind
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Depressed; imagines he hears someone talking: dreads to be left alone. Fear of rain. Can speak, but cannot understand speech.
Nose
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Chronic nasal catarrh, with fetid odor and greenish crusts. Ozaena ; yellowish-green discharge. Mucous membrane wrinkled ; nostrils plugged up with dry mucus. Pains from nose to ears on swallowing. Nostrils stopped up. Nasal bleeding. Pain at root of
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Eruption about
Stomach
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Spasms followed by paresis. Cold feeling in
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Spasm of oesophagus ; pharynx constricted ; food and liquids sud-
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Fruits and ice-water lie very cold. Right-sided paralysis. Must have oscillatory motion. Rheumatic constitutions.
Throat
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Thick, very offensive, dry, greenish-yellow crusts upon the posterior pharyngeal wall and extremely foul breath. Spasmodic contraction of oesophagus.
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
Published by Gentle Pills under CC0 1.0 — original wording, dedicated to the public domain. Not a substitute for the primary texts.
Reminder: this information is published for qualified practitioners. Patients must not self-medicate — homeopathic prescribing depends on the complete individual symptom picture, which only a doctor can evaluate. Please visit a homeopathy doctor.