Elaps corallinus
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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Mind
Depressed; imagines he hears someone talking; dreads to be left alone. Fear of rain. Can speak, but cannot understand speech. Fears apoplexy.
General
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.
Modalities
Worse eating fruit; cold drinks; wet weather.
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.
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.
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.
Extremities
Icy cold feet. Vesicular eruptions on feet. Arms and hands swollen bluish. Knee-joints feel sprained. Pricking under the nails.
Skin
Glands and skin of axillæ affected; itching with tetter. Tips of fingers peel off. Itching eruption in axillæ.
Sleep
Dreams about dead persons.
Fever
Cold perspiration all over. Typhoid when ulcers have eaten into tissues, and black blood is discharged.
Relationships
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.
What the other books say about Elaps corallinus
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Elaps corallinus in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Elaps corallinus — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/elaps-corallinus. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.