Corallium Rubrum

Red coral, the product of a coralligene zoophyte, contains carbonate of lime,

oxide of iron (whence its colour), gelatin, and other elements. In old physic it was considered to

have "strengthening properties," and to be astringent, sudorific, diuretic, and absorbent. In

homeeopathic practice Corallium corresponds to a combination of syphilis and psora. Is suited to

persons of nervous temperament; nervous coughs. It causes eruptions which are for the most part

of its own colour, coral-red. Red spots on the palms of the hands, at first coral colour, then

darker, and finally coppery. The chancres to which it corresponds are coral-red. The cough is of

the whooping-cough type; smothering sensation before, and great exhaustion after cough. Cough

in "minute-gun" paroxysms. Crowing inspiration; sensation as if inspired air was icy cold. There

• ▸is much drowsiness with Coral.
• ▸, and many symptoms appear during sleep.
• ▸J.
• ▸N.
• ▸Lowe cured with

Coral. an infant, almost a year old, suffering from laryngismus stridulus, the indications being <

• ▸during sleep and after waking.
• ▸Lach.
• ▸, given first, failed to relieve.
• ▸Guernsey's indication is:

"Whooping-cough, or any other kind of cough when the attack comes on, with a very rapid

cough, and the attacks follow so closely as to almost run into each other." I have found it most

effective in the nervous "minute-gun" cough where the patient gives an isolated cough at regular

intervals through the day. Nash finds it the most useful of all remedies in post-nasal catarrh.

Guernsey's other indication is: "Red, flat ulcers on the glans and inner surface of the prepuce,

with secretion of a quantity of yellow ichor." In the head there is a sensation of emptiness or

• ▸hollowness.
• ▸Head feels very large.
• ▸Sensation as if forehead were flattened.
• ▸Change of air causes

coughing. Feels cold when uncovered and too hot when covered.

Grumbling humour, with oaths in consequence of the pain.—Irascibility and ill-

humour.—Wine has a natural taste, but immediately stupefies him.

Failing of the limbs, after the least exercise in the open air.—Sensation of cold

in the hot parts, on uncovering them.—The symptoms of heat and cold are > by artificial heat.

• ▸Feels very large; violent pain as if parietal bones were forced apart; worse stooping.
• ▸Eyes hot and painful.
• ▸Deep-seated frontal headache with severe pain back of eyeballs.
• ▸Pain aggravated by breathing cold air through nose.

Head bewildered, as if in consequence of drunkenness.—Confusion in the head, which

feels empty and hollow.—Intoxication after drinking very little wine.—Pressive cephalalgia, as if

everything were going to protrude through the forehead, compelling motion of the head, and

mitigated only by uncovering the body, which is burning hot.—Pressing headache in the

forehead; she cannot keep the eyes open; relieved by walking in the open air—Violent

cephalalgia with nausea, greatly aggravated on sitting down.—Pain in the sinciput as if it were

flattened.—A gegravation of the headache, and congestion in the head and in the face, on

stooping.—Sensation, as if wind were traversing the head, on moving it rapidly (or rocking

it).—Sensation, as if the head were increased in size (three times its size).

Pressure, as from sand, in the reddened eyes (evening).—Sensation of compression in

the orbit.—Pain, as from excoriation in the eyes, on moving the balls or the eyelids.—Sensation of

heat in the eyes, on closing the lids, with a sensation as if they were swimming in

tears —Sensation of burning in the eyes, by candle-light.

Odors of smoke, onions, etc. Painful ulcer in nostrils.

Post-nasal catarrh. Profuse secretion of mucus dropping through posterior nares; air feels cold. Dry coryza; nose stopped up and ulcerated. Epistaxis.

Semi-lateral swelling of the nose, with heat, pulsation and sleeplessness.—Painful ulcer

in the nostril (on the inside of the r. wing, with the sensation as if the nasal bones were pressed

asunder).—Epistaxis, sometimes at night.—Bleeding of the nose, from one nostril at a time (at

night).—Great dryness of the nose.—Fluent coryza, with excessive secretion of an inodorous

mucus, resembling tallow.—Profuse secretion of mucus through the posterior nares, obliging one

to hawk frequently.

Heat in the face, < by stooping. —Pain, as from a bruise in the cheek-bone, < by

touch.—Pain, as from dislocation in the maxillary joint, on masticating, and on opening the

mouth wide.—Painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands; < when swallowing and on bending

the head forward.—Lips cracked and painful.

• ▸Food tastes like sawdust.
• ▸Bread tastes like straw.
• ▸Beer tastes sweet.
• ▸Pain in articulation of left lower jaw.
• ▸Craves salt.

Every tooth on the |. side feels as if set on edge; it feels as if the teeth were too close

to one another, or as if a tenacious body were lodged between them.

Great dryness of the fauces.—Constant hawking, owing to an accumulation of mucus

in the posterior nares.—Great dryness of the palate and of the throat, with sensation of

excoriation on swallowing.

Insipidity of food—Sweetish taste of beer.—Violent thirst; longing for acids and

salt food.—After a meal, the head turns round, as during intoxication.—After dinner, hot cheeks

and forehead, with cold feet.

Ulcers on glans and inner prepuce, with yellow ichor. Emissions and weakened sexual power. Profuse perspiration of genitals.

Copious sweat on the genital parts.—Swelling of the prepuce, with

pain as from excoriation when it is touched.—The margin of the prepuce feels sore when the

linen touches it.—The freenum is painful, as if pricked by needles.—Pseudo gonorrhoea

(balanoblennorrhcea) with fetid secretion of a yellowish-green colour.—Red and smooth ulcers on

the glans, and in the internal surface of the prepuce, with sanious and yellowish

secretion.—Pollutions.—Involuntary seminal emissions during sleep (without dreams or

erections).

Hawking of profuse mucus. Throat very sensitive,

• ▸especially to air.
• ▸Profuse, nasal catarrh.
• ▸Inspired air feels cold (Cistus).
• ▸Profuse secretion of mucus dropping through posterior nares.
• ▸Dry, spasmodic, suffocative cough; very rapid cough, short, barking.
• ▸Cough with great sensitiveness of air-passages; feel cold on deep inspiration.
• ▸Continuous hysterical cough.
• ▸Feels suffocated and greatly exhausted after whooping-cough.

Painful cough, as if a stone were depressing the pleura —Yellow,

puriform expectoration, in consequence of the cough.—Sensation of cold in the respiratory

organs, on taking a deep inspiration; inclination to cough, with difficult hawking up of bronchial

mucus (in the morning).—Crowing during inspiration.—Violent, spasmodic cough, "firing

minute-guns" of short, barking cough all day.—Whooping-cough, or other rapid cough, attacks

following so closely as almost to run into one another; cough till patient falls back

exhausted.—Cough with morning aggravation; smothering sensation before paroxysms.—Cold

expectoration.

Pressive pain in the shoulder-blades, aggravated by coughing.—Pain in the

wrists, as if he had been writing much and rapidly. —Pains in the shoulder-joints, as if the head of

the humerus were pressed violently outwards.—Smooth spots of a deep-red colour, in the palms

of the hands and in the fingers.

Red, flat ulcers. Coral-colored, then dark red spots, changing to copper-colored spots. Psoriasis of palms and soles.

Red and smooth spots on the skin.—Smooth spots on the palms of the hands and

fingers, first of a coral colour, then dark-red, and lastly copper-coloured.—Measles; purpura;

psoriasis.

Yawning, violent, frequent and in rapid succession, with pain in the articulation of

the jaw.—Great sleepiness; falls asleep while standing.—As soon as she falls asleep she starts up,

on account of frightful dreams.—Cannot sleep before midnight tosses about; if he uncovers

himself, he feels too cold, and when covered, he feels too hot.

Pulse full and hard.—Chill; the skin is of the ordinary temperature, with headache

and violent thirst; > by external heat.—Febrile shivering, with burning thirst, and pains in the

forehead.—Dry heat, internally and externally, with full and hard pulse.—Dry heat without thirst,

and not followed by perspiration. —The hot parts feel cold when uncovered.

• ▸Asthma milleri.
• ▸Catarrh.
• ▸Chancre.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Eruptions.
• ▸Glands, inflamed.
• ▸Hysteria.

• ▸Measles.
• ▸Post-nasal catarrh.
• ▸Psoriasis.
• ▸Purpura.
• ▸Syphilis.
• ▸Whooping-cough.

• ▸Antidote to: Mercury.
• ▸Complementary: Sulph.
• ▸Compare: Bell.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, Coff.
• ▸, Coc.

• ▸c.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸, Hyos.
• ▸; Hydrphb.
• ▸(inspired air feels cold—also Cistus.
• ▸); Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Nux v.
• ▸, Mephit.
• ▸, Staph.
• ▸;

• ▸Dros.
• ▸(cough always moist—Coral.
• ▸always dry); Petrol.
• ▸, Selen.
• ▸, Graph.
• ▸; teeth feel too close

• ▸together, Tuberc.
• ▸(Koch).
• ▸Teste, who proved Coral.
• ▸and elicited its respiratory symptoms, groups

it with Caustic.

Complementary: Sulph.

Compare: Bellad; Droser; Mephit; Caust.

Third to thirtieth attenuation.