ELATERIUM OFFICINARUM Homeopathic Remedy Scurvy Diarrhoea
Squirting Cucumber. Ecballium elaterium.Momordica elaterium.
Family Cucurbitaceae.
A coarse, fleshy plant found in the Mediterranean.
Tincture of unripe fruit.Trituration of Elaterinum. C20 H28 O5.
Signature of Elaterium is “too obvious to be missed”.The seeds are comeout from the ripe fruit in the manner of explosion by means of which the seeds scatters.—profuse watery stool gushes out like seeds from the fruit.
It is a good drug for scurvy of which gushing diarrhoea is a marked symptom. Beriberi, also a scurvy disease, has been greatly helped by Elat. According to Cooper.
Through the solar system it acts on the gastrointestinal tract and rectum producing a peculiar manner of symptoms.Acts powerfully upon mucous surfaces, causing an enormous flow of watery
Serum from the first mucous membrane that absorbs it, whether it be in the nose, oesophagus, stomach or intestines.
Its most important action is upon the gastrointestinal canal, where its characteristic effects are produced, causing vomiting of the excessive gastric secretions, and violent purging,stripping he intestinal membrane of its epithelium, a gastro-enteritis resulting from its prolonged action.
Violent purging with copious forcible watery, frothy, olive green, bilious evacuation.
The property of Elat. To cause draining of the tissues of their watery contents has been used to cause the absorption of dropsical fluids. Minute doses will often effect this.
Gaping and yawning are well marked and when present with fever before the chill or before the chill of cholera, Elat. is indicated. The yawning lasts all through the chill.
Elat. Promotes the opening of abscesses and boils.
Effects of damp weather or standing on damp ground, worse by damp.
Mental disorders coming on as a consequence of suppressed malaria.Irresistible desire to wander from home at night.
Cutting, griping pains in the bowels. Dull pain in the epigastrium. Abdomen retracted. Feeling of stricture or oppression at the epigastrium. Dull pain in the right of hypochondrium. Rumbling of flatus in the course of the cecum and colon.
Bleeding of hemorrhoids.soreness of the anus.
Pains in the left sterno-mastoideus muscle near its insertion into the sternum. Pains under the right shoulder blade. Sticking pains in the lumbar region..
Sharp pains in fingers and thumbs. Gouty pains in great toes. Pain extends down limbs, pain in hip joints with diarrhea. Arthritic nodules. Shooting, also dull aching pains in the course of left sciatic nerve.
Dropsical. Urticaria from suppressed intermittent.
CLINICAL: Abscesses. Bilious fever. Bladder disorders. Boils. Cholera. Colic. Cramps Diarrhea. Dropsy. Dysentery. Erysipelas. Intermittent fever. Jaundice. Liver disorders. Measles. Nettle rash. Neuralgias. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Scurvy.
Compare;
Bry. And colic. (Sciatica);
Verat. (Neuralgia); Colch., Crot. t.,
Verat. (Choleric affections);
Sec. (olive-green diarrhoea);
Canth. (Dysenteric diarrhoea with painful micturition);
Apis, Hep., Ign., Rhus t. (urticaria during intermittent fever).
LIST OF REFERENSES:
1) ALLEN.T.F. --- ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE M.M (1,2).
2) BOERICKE W. --- A POCKET MANUAL OF CLINICAL M.M.(1,2)
3) BOGER C.M. --- SYNOPTIC KEY (1).
4) CLARKE .H. ---- A DICTIONARY OF PRACTICAL M.M (1,2).
5) COWPERTWAITE --- TEXTBOOK OF HOM. M.M (1,2).
6) HUGHES R. --- A CYCLOPEDIA OF DRUG PATHOGENESIS (2).
7) MURPHY R. ---- LOTUS M.M (1,2).
8) PHATAK S.R. --- HOMOEOPATHIC M.M (1,2).
9) PIERCE W.I. --- PLAIN TALKS ON M.M. WITH COMPARISONS.(1)
Family Cucurbitaceae.
A coarse, fleshy plant found in the Mediterranean.
Tincture of unripe fruit.Trituration of Elaterinum. C20 H28 O5.
Signature of Elaterium is “too obvious to be missed”.The seeds are comeout from the ripe fruit in the manner of explosion by means of which the seeds scatters.—profuse watery stool gushes out like seeds from the fruit.
It is a good drug for scurvy of which gushing diarrhoea is a marked symptom. Beriberi, also a scurvy disease, has been greatly helped by Elat. According to Cooper.
Through the solar system it acts on the gastrointestinal tract and rectum producing a peculiar manner of symptoms.Acts powerfully upon mucous surfaces, causing an enormous flow of watery
Serum from the first mucous membrane that absorbs it, whether it be in the nose, oesophagus, stomach or intestines.
Its most important action is upon the gastrointestinal canal, where its characteristic effects are produced, causing vomiting of the excessive gastric secretions, and violent purging,stripping he intestinal membrane of its epithelium, a gastro-enteritis resulting from its prolonged action.
Violent purging with copious forcible watery, frothy, olive green, bilious evacuation.
The property of Elat. To cause draining of the tissues of their watery contents has been used to cause the absorption of dropsical fluids. Minute doses will often effect this.
Gaping and yawning are well marked and when present with fever before the chill or before the chill of cholera, Elat. is indicated. The yawning lasts all through the chill.
Elat. Promotes the opening of abscesses and boils.
Effects of damp weather or standing on damp ground, worse by damp.
Mental disorders coming on as a consequence of suppressed malaria.Irresistible desire to wander from home at night.
Cutting, griping pains in the bowels. Dull pain in the epigastrium. Abdomen retracted. Feeling of stricture or oppression at the epigastrium. Dull pain in the right of hypochondrium. Rumbling of flatus in the course of the cecum and colon.
Bleeding of hemorrhoids.soreness of the anus.
Pains in the left sterno-mastoideus muscle near its insertion into the sternum. Pains under the right shoulder blade. Sticking pains in the lumbar region..
Sharp pains in fingers and thumbs. Gouty pains in great toes. Pain extends down limbs, pain in hip joints with diarrhea. Arthritic nodules. Shooting, also dull aching pains in the course of left sciatic nerve.
Dropsical. Urticaria from suppressed intermittent.
CLINICAL: Abscesses. Bilious fever. Bladder disorders. Boils. Cholera. Colic. Cramps Diarrhea. Dropsy. Dysentery. Erysipelas. Intermittent fever. Jaundice. Liver disorders. Measles. Nettle rash. Neuralgias. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Scurvy.
Compare;
Bry. And colic. (Sciatica);
Verat. (Neuralgia); Colch., Crot. t.,
Verat. (Choleric affections);
Sec. (olive-green diarrhoea);
Canth. (Dysenteric diarrhoea with painful micturition);
Apis, Hep., Ign., Rhus t. (urticaria during intermittent fever).
LIST OF REFERENSES:
1) ALLEN.T.F. --- ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE M.M (1,2).
2) BOERICKE W. --- A POCKET MANUAL OF CLINICAL M.M.(1,2)
3) BOGER C.M. --- SYNOPTIC KEY (1).
4) CLARKE .H. ---- A DICTIONARY OF PRACTICAL M.M (1,2).
5) COWPERTWAITE --- TEXTBOOK OF HOM. M.M (1,2).
6) HUGHES R. --- A CYCLOPEDIA OF DRUG PATHOGENESIS (2).
7) MURPHY R. ---- LOTUS M.M (1,2).
8) PHATAK S.R. --- HOMOEOPATHIC M.M (1,2).
9) PIERCE W.I. --- PLAIN TALKS ON M.M. WITH COMPARISONS.(1)
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