Remedy

Elaps corallinus

Coral-snake

1 health issue Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Similar to snake-poisons generally.
  • Has very marked black discharges. Cold things disagree.
  • Desire for sweetened buttermilk.
  • Nausea and vomiting.
Show 9 more
  • Acidity of stomach, with faint feeling.
  • Sudden pain in stomach.
  • Spasm of oesophagus; 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.
  • Must have oscillatory motion.
  • Rheumatic constitutions.
  • Ear, nose and throat symptoms important.

Is Elaps corallinus right for you? Ask AI in the app checks it against your symptoms.

Get the app

Mind & mood

  • Depressed; imagines he hears someone talking; dreads to be left alone.
  • Fear of rain.
  • Can speak, but cannot understand speech.
  • Fears apoplexy.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

Eating fruitCold drinksWet weather

Symptoms by body part

Head

Violent headache, extending from forehead to occiput; first one eye, then the other. Pain in ears. Dizziness 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. Intolerable itching in ear.

Nose

Chronic nasal mucus discharge, with fetid odor and greenish crusts. Ozaena; 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. Rash about nose.

Throat

Thick, very offensive, dry, greenish-yellow crusts upon the posterior pharyngeal wall and extremely foul breath. Spasmodic contraction of oesophagus; passage of fluids arrested.

Chest

Coldness in chest after drinking. Haemorrhage 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 phlegm coughed up of black blood. Sensation of a sponge in oesophagus.

Stomach

Feels cold. Sensation as if food turned like a corkscrew on swallowing; desire for sweetened buttermilk. Acidity after every mouthful.

Female

Painful periods, with black blood. Discharge of black blood between menses. Itching of vulva and vagina.

Sleep

Dreams about dead persons.

Skin

Glands and skin of axillae affected; itching with tetter. Tips of fingers peel off. Itching rash in axillae.

Extremities

Icy cold feet. Vesicular rashes on feet. Arms and hands swollen bluish. Knee-joints feel sprained. Pricking under the nails.

Fever

Cold perspiration all over.

Listed for these health issues

Often compared with

Educational reference only. HomeoRemedy does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Consult a qualified practitioner, and in an emergency call 112 or your local emergency number.