Euphorbia peplus
Plant · Euphorbiaceae
Euphorbia Peplus is indicated in intense inflammatory conditions of the skin and mucous membranes, particularly erysipelatous and pustular eruptions on the face and throat. Cases feature intolerable burning pain compelling cries, with inability to sleep or drink.
Key symptoms
- Intense burning pain in pustules on face, nose, and elbows
- Phlegmonous erysipelas under the eye spreading downward
- Lips parched and swollen with crop of small pustules
- Mouth intensely inflamed resembling mercurial stomatitis
- Sore throat with swelling and painful swallowing
- Pustules on neck becoming hard boils, resolving without breaking
Petty Spurge. N. O. Euphorbiaceæ. Effect of juice and local application of leaves.
Clinical
Ecthyma. Erysipelas. Sore throat.
Characteristics
The application of the juice and leaves sets up intense and painful inflammation, erysipelatous, phlegmonous, pustular, with intense burning pain. In one of the cases observed, a boy applied the juice of the stein to an inflamed gum. In another, a boy applied the leaves as a poultice to a black eye. Burnett produced a sore throat in himself by chewing the herb; and he cured with the 3x a case of simple sore throat with swelling and painful swallowing.
6. Face
After a week, phlegmonous erysipelas under l. eye, spreading downwards and forwards.─Five or six pustules are on forehead, one on each ala nasi, one on root of nose, one on l. elbow, burning pain in all.─Lower half of nose red, swollen, inflamed, shiny.─Lips parched, slightly swollen, covered with a crop of small pustules; another large pustule appears on upper lip midway between mouth and nose.
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