Elaterium

Caspari is the authority for the symptoms caused by electricity, but every one

knows the powerful effect exercised on some persons by the approach of a thunderstorm, and the

influence of an electric current. Nervous tremors; anxiety; fear; restlessness, anxiety, and

anguish; violent headaches; palpitation; swelling of parts, are among the most prominent

• ▸symptoms.
• ▸Dr.
• ▸Seward (Med.
• ▸Adv.
• ▸, xxvi.
• ▸150) has related a number of cases in which the

injudicious use of electric baths brought on phthisis. In another case the chest and arms became

stiff and paralysed. A young married woman, who had general and local (uterine) electric

treatment, complained after it of feeling very heavy, as if she weighed a ton. One patient, after a

bath, said his chest and shoulders "felt like marble." He became phthisical and died. The

paralysis caused by electricity was in several cases quickly relieved by Morph. acet., both in the

solution and in the potencies.

Violent headache, nausea, general weakness; slow pulse.—L. side hemicrania with

numbness of entire 1. arm.

Heavy eyes, starting from their orbits, as if pushed out, pain in the eye (after second

dose on third day. On fifth day exophthalmos was increased).

Pains in the ear—Drawing pains from the jaws to the ears.—Lancinations in r. ear,

proceeding from the neck.—Pulsations in the ear.—Redness and heat of the ear—Swelling of the

interior of the ear.—Suppuration, and a small pustule in the auditory duct.—Vesicles full of acrid

serum behind the ear.—Augmented secretion of wax.—Murmuring, sometimes with a sensation as

if a flock of wool were before the ears.

Tingling in the nose, or else with pressure outwardly.—Epistaxis.—Loss of

• ▸smell.
• ▸—Sneezing.
• ▸—Augmented secretion of nasal mucus.
• ▸—Discharge, on blowing the nose, of a

liquid like milk; aggravation of preexisting coryza.

Colour, bright red——Expression of alarm on the face. —Increase of sweat on the

• ▸face.
• ▸—Violent drawing pain above |.
• ▸eyebrow.
• ▸—Contraction of the muscles of the face, esp.
• ▸of

the mouth.—Swelling of the face.—Scabby eruption on the face, on the arms, and over the

body.—Large blisters on the cheeks.—Lips cracked; the upper lip puffed out—Eruption about the

mouth and on the chin.

Increase of excoriation already existing in the interior of the mouth—Pain of

• ▸excoriation, and excoriation in the interior of r.
• ▸cheek.
• ▸—Great dryness of the mouth.
• ▸—Augmented

• ▸secretion of saliva.
• ▸—Foam at the mouth.
• ▸—Sensitiveness of the tongue, esp.
• ▸at the point, which is

• ▸also red.
• ▸—Papille very prominent.
• ▸—Dry tongue, charged with a yellow coating.
• ▸—Swelling,

thickness of the tongue.—Vesicles on the tongue, with pain of excoriation—Dumbness, inability

to utter a sound.—On the palate, vesicles with desquamation of the epidermis.

Tearing pains in upper teeth, proceeding from the head.—Pain as of subcutaneous

ulceration in places once occupied by molar teeth.—Quick dartings in a hollow molar

• ▸tooth.
• ▸—Quick growth of the teeth in children.
• ▸—Drawings in the gums, proceeding from r.
• ▸ear.

Constant tickling in the throat.—Pressure on swallowing.—Difficult

deglutition.—Inflammation of the gullet.

Nausea and vomiting, with great weakness. Griping pains in bowels.

Sour taste.—Increase of appetite —Great inclination to eat between meals.—Thirst

during febrile shivering.—Pyrosis.—A bundant accumulation of water in the

mouth.—Loathing.—Nausea, sometimes after a meal, with a more abundant accumulation of

saliva.—Retching, with inflammation of throat, and cough.—Vomiting, and inflammation of the

throat.—Vomiting of blood.

Watery, copious, forceful. Squirting diarrhoea; frothy, olive green, with cutting in abdomen.

Fruitless inclination.—The stools are at first facilitated, and afterwards

restricted.—Stools frequent and liquid, of a blackish yellow, and of a fetid smell.—Diarrhcea,

sometimes entirely liquid, hot—Tenesmus and cutting pains.—Diarrhcea with colic, or else at the

approach of a storm.—During the diarrhoea, retraction of the testicles.—After the diarrhoea,

constriction in anus, with dry stools—Heat in the whole body.—Violent pressure in the rectum

(during the stools).—Burning in anus.—Hzemorrhoidal flux.

Appearance of the catamenia (in the electric bath).—Copious

menses, sometimes with pressure in the rectum.—Blood of the catamenia, black and

thick.—Leucorrheea, at first serous, afterwards thick, in pieces of the size of a hazel-nut.

Roughness of the larynx.—Cough, with much tickling in throat, or

else with pressure in forehead from within outwards.—Short irritable cough.—Spitting of

• ▸blood.
• ▸—Feeble and faint respiration.
• ▸—Respiration arrested—Dyspnoea.
• ▸—Respiration

accelerated.—Asthma, sometimes lasting for life, with palpitation of the heart, and disposition to

syncope; oppression of the chest.

Constriction of the chest.—Pains in the chest; sensation of coldness in the 1.

side.—Chest and shoulders feel like marble.

Abatement of pulse (from 68 to 62 in one case), notwith standing increased rapidity

of action of heart.—Strong heart-beat with weakening of pulse; respiration accelerated.

Stiffness of neck (with exophthalmos).—Stiffness of neck and backward

pulling of all the body on turning head and a dull pain in region of spleen.

Heaviness of the legs —Lassitude of the thighs on going up an

ascent.—Sensation as though the flesh were detached from the bones.—Red itching place on r.

thigh—Sensation of heat over the whole thigh—Trembling of the knees —Tearings in the

knees.—Dartings, or tension, or else tingling, extending to the foot.—Pain as of a wound in the

knees and great toe.—Red place, with pain of excoriation, or else, a red and itching protuberance

in the knee.—In the tibia, sensation of turning round, or else lassitude.—Red spot on the

skin.—Burning in the feet, sometimes reaching to the knees, esp. at night; great internal heat,

internal coldness, extended by a cool summer wind to the abdomen.—Sensation of fatigue, with

trembling in the feet.—Sensation of swelling, of numbness, and torpor; rotative sensation in the

soles of the feet—Sensation as if a large ring were round the malleoli.—Itching of foot, or else

red and itching vesicles on foot.

• ▸Sharp pains in fingers and thumbs, knees, toes, and instep.
• ▸Gouty pain in great toes.
• ▸Pain extends down extremities; pain in hip-joints with diarrhoea.
• ▸Arthritic nodules.

• ▸Smarts, stings, and burns.
• ▸Dropsical.
• ▸Urticaria from suppressed intermittent.
• ▸Skin, orange color.

Itching, or else tingling over the whole body (violent pains and swelling of one of the

feet which had been frozen twelve years before).—Eruption of small nodosities on the spots

touched by the sparks; eruption like miliary or measles; white vesicles; itch-like eruption at the

joints; of carbuncles, which proceed to suppuration.—The skin becomes black; wheals on the

skin.

Chill comes on with much yawning and stretching, lasting all through chill. Pain in extremities, darting into fingers and toes. Chills and fever, with spurting diarrhoea.

Shuddering over whole body, every morning, with yawning.—Coldness of 1.

side.—Fever: at first general shivering, afterwards heat, transient and dry; frequent alternations of

shivering and heat, with inflammation of the throat; heat mingled with shivering; shivering, with

much sweat; painful cramps in head and along back; fever in the evening.—Augmentation of

natural heat; internal heat of the parts which have sustained the electric shock; blood much over-

heated; heat, with cephalalgia, or else with anxiety (at night), or else with strong and quick pulse;

heat of whole body, with shivering brought on by motion; heat of the parts struck by the electric

spark; intermittent pulse, lively, quick and strong; circulation of the blood accelerated;

prominence of the veins of the hands.—Increased perspiration; excessive nocturnal sweat, in

gouty persons, without mitigation; copious sweat during sleep, with anxiety during a storm.

Ephedra Vulgaris.

• ▸E.
• ▸vulgaris.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Gnetacez.
• ▸Tincture of branches and flowers.

Exophthalmic goitre. Headache.

• ▸Characteristics—Ephedra has been proved in Russia by Dr.
• ▸B.
• ▸H.
• ▸Mouravow (Universal

Homeopathic Annual, p. 56). It produced symptoms when twenty drops of a strong alcoholic

extract were taken five times a day; fifteen drops four times a day having been taken without

apparent effect. Extreme apathy was produced, stiff-neck, and backward pulling of whole body

on turning the head. There was also starting of the eyes from the orbits as if pushed out. This

suggested exophthalmic goitre to Mouravow, who considered that the drug acted on the

ganglions of the sympathetic nerve, and caused congestion of the spinal cord.

Compare: Bry; Croton; Gambogia.

Third to thirtieth potency. As a hydragogue cathartic to produce free discharge in dropsies, Elaterin 1-20 of a grain. Palliative only.

Squirting Cucumber (ELATERIUM - ECBALIUM)

• ▸This is an invaluable remedy in violent vomiting and purging, especially if the evacuations are copious and watery.
• ▸It is a very efficient remedy in certain forms of dropsy.
• ▸Much yawning and stretching.
• ▸Beriberi; choleraic conditions; urticaria and mental disorders coming on as a consequence of suppressed malaria.
• ▸Irresistible desire to wander from home at night.
• ▸Effects of damp weather.