Hura brasiliensis
Plant · Euphorbiaceae
Hura brasiliensis is a powerful Euphorbian whose milky juice acts on the skin, nervous system, and gastrointestinal tract. Its eruptions characteristically prefer skin covering projecting portions of bone. Compression of the spinal marrow with great suffering was noted in provings. It has been used in leprosy.
Key symptoms
- Skin feels as if hide-bound; tense vesicles ejecting contents when pricked
- Sensation of splinter under thumb-nails
- Skin of forehead drawn tight
- Stiff neck with pain in back
- Throbbing in fingertips
- Itching pimples on projecting portions of bones (malar bones etc.)
- Nervous excitement, twitching, and irritability
- Gastro-intestinal irritation
Assacu
Used in leprosy, when skin feels as if it were hide bound Tense vesicles; sensation of splinter under thumb-nails. Skin of forehead feels drawn tight. Stiff neck, pain in back. Throbbing in finger tips. Itching, pimples on all projecting portions of bone, malar bones, etc.
Dose
Sixth potency.
Relationship
Compare Calotropis or Madura album--(Leprosy; livid and gangrenous tubercles; thickening of the skin).
Hura brasiliensis. Assacu. N. O. Euphorbiaceæ. Tincture of milky juice.
Clinical
Blindness. Hysteria. Leprosy. Nares, affections of. Skin, affections of. Spine, pains in.
Characteristics
The milky juice (called Assacu by the Brazilians) of Hura is as powerful as that of the better-known Euphorbians. A case of leprosy having been reported cured with Assacu led to its extensive use in this disease, though, as Mure (who proved it) says, without curing any others. Two of his provers had been affected with leprosy, but under homœopathic treatment they seemed to have got well. One of them during the proving had symptoms of compression of the spinal marrow with very great suffering. All the provers had symptoms of nervous excitement, twitching and irritability. The gastro-intestinal irritation of the other Euphorbians was marked in the provings. Clinical experience is needed to bring out the characteristics. Farrington gives these indications: Vesicles which are so tense that when pricked they eject their …
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