Elaps corallinus
Micrurus corallinus · Brazilian coral snake,Micrurus corallinus · Animal
People who respond best to Elaps tend to be rather intense, haughty, and suspicious. They are often depressed and long to be alone, yet also fear being left alone in case something horrible happens. In addition, they fear developing a serious illness such as a stroke, and feel afraid and miserable during wet weather. Generally, they are very sensitive to the cold.
The blood is commonly affected in people who benefit from Elaps. There may be hemorrhages or other discharges characterized by black blood. In addition, the remedy is given for right-sided paralysis following a stroke. Despite a chilly sensation in the stomach, there may be a craving for ice, salads, fruits, and yogurt.
Key symptoms
- Very marked black discharges from any orifice
- Cold things disagree; cold feeling in stomach; fruits and ice-water lie very cold
- Spasm of oesophagus; food and liquids suddenly arrested, then fall heavily into stomach
- Right-sided paralysis
- Black, hard cerumen with difficult hearing; offensive greenish ear discharge
- Chronic nasal catarrh with fetid odor and greenish crusts
- Fear of rain; dreads to be left alone; fears apoplexy
- Violent headache extending from forehead to occiput
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Coral-snake
Similar to snake-poisons generally. Has very marked black discharges. Cold things disagree. Desire for sweetened buttermilk. Nausea and vomiting. Prostrating diarrhœa of consumption. Acidity of stomach, with faint feeling. Sudden pain in stomach. Spasm of œsophagus; pharynx constricted; food and liquids suddenly arrested, and then fall heavily into stomach. Spasms followed by paresis. Cold feeling in stomach. Fruits and ice-water lie very cold. Right-sided paralysis. Must have oscillatory motion. Rheumatic constitutions. Ear, nose and throat symptoms important.
Mind
Depressed; imagines he hears someone talking; dreads to be left alone. Fear of rain. Can speak, but cannot understand speech. Fears apoplexy.
Head
Violent headache, extending from forehead to occiput; first one eye, then the other. Pain in ears. Vertigo with tendency to fall forward. Weight and pain in forehead. Fullness in head.
Eyes
Aversion to light; letters run together when reading. Veil before eyes. Burning in lids. Bloated around the eyes in the morning. Large red fiery spot before eyes.
Ears
Cerumen black and hard, with difficult hearing, or serous greenish discharge, offensive; buzzing, and illusion of hearing. Sudden attack of nightly deafness, with roaring and crackling in ears, cracking in ears on swallowing. Intolerable itching in ear.
Nose
Chronic nasal catarrh, with fetid odor and greenish crusts. Ozæna; 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 nose. Eruption about nose.
Throat
Thick, very offensive, dry, greenish-yellow crusts upon the posterior pharyngeal wall and extremely foul breath. Spasmodic contraction of œsophagus; passage of fluids arrested.
Chest
Coldness in chest after drinking. Hæmorrhage 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 palms and fingers. Cough, with terrible pain through lungs. Worse right and expectoration of black blood. Sensation of a sponge in œsophagus.
Stomach
Feels cold. Sensation as if food turned like a corkscrew on swallowing; desire for sweetened buttermilk. Acidity after every mouthful.
Female
Dysmenorrhœa, with black blood. Discharge of black blood between menses. Itching of vulva and vagina.
Sleep
Dreams about dead persons.
Skin
Glands and skin of axillæ affected; itching with tetter. Tips of fingers peel off. Itching eruption in axillæ.
Extremities
Icy cold feet. Vesicular eruptions on feet. Arms and hands swollen bluish. Knee-joints feel sprained. Pricking under the nails.
Fever
Cold perspiration all over. Typhoid when ulcers have eaten into tissues, and black blood is discharged.
Modalities
Worse eating fruit; cold drinks; wet weather.
Relationship
Compare: Kino from Pterocarpus (Hæmoptysis and hæmorrhage from intestines). Eucalyptus rostrata (offensive dark discharge from right ear). Crotalus; Alumen; Carbo; Ars; Lach.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency.
Elaps corallinus. Brazilian Coral Snake. N. O. Elapidæ. 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
Amaurosis. Axilla, itching in. Cancer. Deafness. Ear, affections of. Ear, wax in. Epistaxis. Hæmorrhages. Headache. Hemiplegia. Knee, pain in. Metrorrhagia. Naso-pharyngitis. Nose, stuffed. Ozæna. Phthisis. Pneumonia. Threat, ulcerated.
Characteristics
Elaps is distinguished from the other serpent venoms by the pre-eminent blackness of its discharges and hæmorrhages; 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 …
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