Euphorbium
Abdomen
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Sunken ; spasmodic, flatulent colic. Stools fermented, profuse, clayey. Feels hollow.
Chest
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Croup, dry, hollow, cough. Warm feeling in chest, as if hot food had been swallowed.
Compare
William Boericke 1922
Euphorbia amygdaloides — Wood Spurge (in pain in antrum, illusion of smell, odor of mice. Sense of taste blunted. Diarrhoea ; stools difficult, with painful anal spasm). Euphorbia corollata — Large Flowering Spurge (in gastroenteric disturbance, with deathly nausea. Vomiting of food, water, and mucus, and copious evacuations. Attacks recur after short intermissions. Feeling of clawing in
Extremities
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Paralytic pains. Pain in hip-joint and coccyx.
Face
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Erysipelas; yellow blisters. Burning in cheek; worse, left. Eyes inflammed and agglutinated in morning. Red swelling of cheeks. Nasal pruritus with mucous secretions from naso-pharynx.
Head
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Acute mania. Violent, pressive headache.
Respiratory
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Breathing oppressed, as if chest were not wide enough. Spasmodic, dry cough, day and night, with asthma. Violent, fluent coryza, with burning and cough. Constant cough, with stitches from pit of stomach to sides of
Skin
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Erysipelatous inflammation, especially of the cheek. Biting and stinging, red, swollen. Vesicular erysipelas. Carbuncle ; old, torpid, indolent ulcers with biting, lancinating pain. Old torpid ulcer, pustules; i/a}i(/rcnt\ [Hchinac.; Sccale.] Ulcerating carcinoma and epithelioma of the
Stomach
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Great hunger. Sialorrhcea (profuse salty saliva). Waterbrash. Thirst for cold drinks.
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cold sweat). (Veraf. alb.)
Text
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(Spurge — The Resinous Juice of Euphorbia Resinifera) An irritant to the skin and mucous membranes. Burning pain in bones. Pains in limbs and paralytic weakness in the joints. Important respiratory and skin symptoms. Terrible burning pains. Pains of cancer. Everything appears larger than it really is. 324
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
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