A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy

Elaps Corallinus elaps.

Allen (1892)In every bookSave

Head

Clinical:
Violent headache in a man who was blind; first in left, then in right eye; headaches extending from forehead to occiput; vision partially restored.

Eyes and Ears

Clinical:
Blindness.
Deafness, with offensive, yellowish-green discharge, buzzing in ears, headache in forehead and occiput; dull pain from nose to ears; pain goes to ears on swallowing.
Chronic otorrhœa.
Sudden attacks of deafness at night, with roaring and cracking in ears.

Nose

Clinical:
Subject to nose-bleed; eruption about nose, pain in nose and forehead, skin dry and hot, but complains of feeling cold.
Stoppage and stuffiness high up in nostrils and dull aching in forehead; bad smell in nose, posterior pharynx scabby, cracked and dry; nose-bleed; pain from root of nose to ears on swallowing; no smell.
Another case: fetid odor from nose and throat; nose was always dry and stuffed up by yellow scales; skin always hot and dry.
Sore throat; offensive discharge from nose; occasional nose-bleed; posterior wall of throat covered with dry, greenish-yellow membrane; stuffiness at root of nose; no smell.
Old ozæna and nasal catarrh: nose always stuffed up with plugs of dry mucus; pain at root of nose.

Chest and Heart

Clinical:
Cough, with expectoration of black blood, and terrible pain through lungs as if they were torn out, especially in right upper chest.
Coldness in chest after drinking.