Euphorbia corollata
Plant · Euphorbiaceae
Euphorbia corollata is a cholera and sea-sickness remedy suited to patients with violent gastro-enteric crises featuring deadly nausea, sequential vomiting, and profuse watery diarrhoea with prostration and cold sweat.
Key symptoms
- Deathly nausea followed by sudden powerful vomiting of food
- Vomiting in sequence: food, then water with mucus, then clear rice-water fluid
- Copious watery diarrhoea immediately following vomiting
- Great anxiety with desire to die
- Death-like faintness, exhaustion, and cold sweat
- Attacks recur after short intermissions
- Pulse sinks to 40; profound prostration
Large Flowering Spurge. N. O. Euphorbiaceæ. Tincture and triturations of the root.
Clinical
Cholera. Cholera infantum. Cholerine. Diarrhœa. Gastritis. Sea-sickness.
Characteristics
E. Corol. produces gastro-enteric disturbances like other Euphorbias, but with peculiarities especially in the sequence and character of the vomit: (1) deadly nausea, (2) sudden and powerful vomiting of food in stomach, (3) throws up large quantities of water mixed with mucus, (4) then of clear fluid like rice-water, (5) copious watery evacuations of the bowels. These symptoms are accompanied by great anxiety, deadly prostration, and cold sweat. Attacks recur after short intermissions.
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