Homarus
Homarus gammarus / Homarus americanus (lobster) · Animal · Nephropidae
Homarus is a remedy for dyspepsia, sore throat, and headache occurring as a characteristic combination. It is derived from the specific digestive poison of the lobster and acts on the digestive tract, throat, and head. Persons have been known to die after eating lobster followed by drinking milk, indicating a pronounced aggravation from milk.
Key symptoms
- Frontal and temporal headache with soreness in eyes
- Sore, raw throat that burns with tough mucus
- Pain in stomach and abdomen better after eating
- Belching; chilliness and pain all over the body
- Itching of skin
- Worse from milk and after sleep
- Better from motion and after eating
Worse (aggravation)
- Milk
- After sleep
Better (amelioration)
- Motion
- After eating
Digestive Fluid of Live Lobster
Dyspepsia, sore throat, and headache seems to be a combination that may be controlled by this remedy. Frontal and temporal pain chiefly, with soreness in eyes. Throat sore, raw, burns, with tough mucus. Pain in stomach and abdomen, better after eating. Belching. Chilliness and pain all over. Itching of skin.
Modalities
Worse, from milk, after sleep. Better, from motion, after eating.
Relationship
Compare: Sepia; Asterias; Astacus; Aethusa.
Dose
Sixth potency.
Lobster. N. O. Crustaceæ. Triturations of sugar of milk saturated with the digesting fluid of the lobster, a thick, reddish, offensive liquid contained in a sac situated at the back of the mouth.
Clinical
Back, pains in. Bones, pains in. Coryza. Diaphragm, pain in. Dyspepsia. Eye, affections of. Flatulence. Granular throat. Headache. Liver, pains in. Œdema. Paralysis, nervous. Pruritus. Sleep, disordered. Spleen, pains in. Throat, sore. Wrist, pain in.
Characteristics
The effects of lobster on some persons and under some conditions are well known. In order to thoroughly study the effect A. M. Cushing adopted the happy idea of proving the specific lobster poison, and the result has been a very valuable addition to our armamentarium (H. R., iii. 98). Homarus is an agent of great activity, as the subjoined symptom list will show. Persons have been known to die after eating lobster and thereafter drinking milk. Cushing put a little of the poison into warm milk, and in ten minutes it was a hard mass. Papoid soon …
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