Euphorbium Officinarum

Anxious apprehensions.—Seriousness and taciturnity—Earnest quietness, reflective;

seeks quiet, though with inclination to work.

Tearing or pressive, or shooting pains in the limbs, esp. during repose,

mitigated by movement.—Rheumatic pains < when at rest—Shooting and tensive pains in the

• ▸muscles.
• ▸—Burning pains in different parts of the body, esp.
• ▸in the internal organs.
• ▸—Cancer

pains.—Paralytic weakness in the joints, with difficulty in rising from a seat, or when beginning

to move.—Great relaxation and lassitude.—The majority of the symptoms are < during repose, by

a sitting posture, and by the touch Burning in the bones.—Caries.

Acute mania. Violent, pressive headache.

Turning vertigo, which causes falling sidelong.—Vertigo when standing or walking in

the open air.—Pressive, shooting headache.—Pain, as from a bruise in occiput; < in morning;

when lying; from heat; > by motion and cooling the head.—Screwed-in sensation in whole brain.

Inflammation of the eyes, with itching and dryness of the eyelids, and of the

canthi—Chronic inflammation of the eyes.—Smarting lachrymation, and nocturnal agglutination

of the eyelids Copious secretion of mucus in the canthi.—Opacity of the cornea.—Clouded

vision.—Myopia.—Diplopia; seeing a person walk before him he imagines he sees the same man

walking after him.

A suffocating itching in the nose, extending to the brain, with abundant flow of mucus

from the posterior nares.—Frequent sneezing.

• ▸Erysipelas; yellow blisters.
• ▸Burning in cheek; worse, left.
• ▸Eyes inflamed and agglutinated in morning; Red swelling of cheeks.
• ▸Nasal pruritus with mucous secretions from naso-pharynx.

Erysipelatous swelling of the cheek, with eruption of yellowish vesicles (full of

yellowish humour), and piercing and digging pain.—Red, inflamed, painful swelling of the face,

with yellowish blisters secreting a thick yellow fluid.—Pale (white cedema-like) swelling of the

cheek.—Burning pain in the face.

Dryness of the mouth, without thirst—Salivation with shuddering, inclination to

vomit, and pinchings in the stomach.—Saltness of the saliva.

Pressive, shooting toothache, or with piercing pain, aggravated by contact or

mastication, or else at the beginning of a meal, with shivering and pain in the head, and in the

cheek-bones.—Brittleness of the teeth.

Burning pain from the throat (as from a hot coal) to the stomach, accompanied by

heat (as if a flame were rushing out), anxiety, trembling, and water-brash.

• ▸Great hunger.
• ▸Sialorrhea (profuse salty saliva).
• ▸Waterbrash.
• ▸Thirst for cold drinks.

Sickly, rancid, bitter taste —Strong thirst for cold drinks.—Empty

• ▸risings.
• ▸—Hiccough.
• ▸—Water-brash, with heat, anxiety, and trembling.
• ▸—Vomiting (with

diarrhcea).—Pain, as from a bruise, in the stomach.—Relaxation and flaccidity of the stomach,

with retraction of the abdomen.—Contractive cramps in the stomach.—Pinchings, and sensation

of clawing in the stomach.—Burning pain in the stomach and in the epigastrium.—Inflammation

of the stomach.

Sunken; spasmodic, flatulent colic. Stools fermented, profuse, clayey. Feels hollow.

Constrictive pains in the abdomen.—Spasmodic colic, flatulent, with pains as if

the tissue were being separated, or of pressure upwards, generally > by supporting the head on

the knee and the elbow.—Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen as after an emetic

(morning).—Burning pain in the abdomen.—Tearing in the groins, such as follows dislocation.

Hard stool to pass.—Urgency to evacuate, with itching in the rectum (stool

• ▸like glue).
• ▸—Liquid diarrhoea, with tenesmus.
• ▸—Stool first thin, then knotty.
• ▸—Sensation of burning

in the anus, and pain as from excoriation in the abdomen.

Urgency to make water, with difficult discharge, scanty and drop by

drop.—White sediment in the urine.—Itching stitch in the external portion of the urethra between

the acts of urinating. —Flow of blood from the urethra.

Tearing lancinations in the glans penis.—Voluptuous itching in the

• ▸prepuce.
• ▸—Tearing in the testes.
• ▸—Burning pain in the scrotum.
• ▸—Constant erections, without

sexual desire —Discharge of prostatic fluid from a relaxed penis.

• ▸Breathing oppressed, as if chest were not wide enough.
• ▸Spasmodic, dry cough, day and night, with asthma.
• ▸Violent, fluent coryza, with burning and cough.
• ▸Constant cough, with stitches from pit of stomach to sides of chest.
• ▸Croup, dry, hollow, cough.
• ▸Warm feeling in chest, as if hot food had been swallowed.

Dry, hollow cough, excited by a burning tickling in the trachea and

the chest.—Dry cough, day and night, as from oppression, with frequent expectoration in the

morning.—Attacks of violent cough commencing as soon as patient touches the pillow and

continuing as long as she remains in bed.

Difficult respiration and short breath, with tensive pain in the muscles of the

chest.—Oppression of breathing, as if the chest were not wide enough, with tension in the

• ▸pectoral muscles, esp.
• ▸when turning the body to the r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Sensation of spasmodic distension in

• ▸the chest.
• ▸—Sensation as if one of the lobes of the liver were adherent.
• ▸—Sensation as if the 1.
• ▸lobe

of the lung were adhering.—Aching in the muscles of the chest.—Pressive lancination on the

• ▸sternum.
• ▸—Lancination in the 1.
• ▸side of the chest, during repose, mitigated by movement.
• ▸—Warm

feeling in the middle of the chest, as if hot food had been swallowed.—Burning pain in the chest.

Sweat in the neck.—Cramp-like pain in the dorsal spine, in the morning, in

bed, when lying; on the back.

Paralytic tension in the joint of the shoulder, during repose, > by

walking.—Scarlet streaks on the front-arm, itching when touched.—Cramp-like tractions in the

hand, after writing.

Pains of dislocation in the hips.—Burning pain at night in the thigh

• ▸bones.
• ▸—Great weakness of the legs.
• ▸—Cramp-like contraction of the toes.
• ▸—Cold perspiration of

• ▸the legs in the morning.
• ▸—Sore pain in (r.
• ▸) heel when walking in the open air.
• ▸—The feet go to

sleep frequently when sitting.

Paralytic pains. Pain in hip-joint and coccyx.

• ▸Erysipelatous inflammation, especially of the cheek.
• ▸Biting and stinging, red, swollen.
• ▸Vesicular erysipelas.
• ▸Carbuncle; old, torpid, indolent ulcers with biting, lancinating pain.
• ▸Old torpid ulcer, pustules; gangrene (Echinac; Secale).
• ▸Ulcerating carcinoma and epithelioma of the skin.

Gnawing and burning itching, which provokes almost constant scratching.—Streaks of

• ▸a purple-red on the skin.
• ▸—Furunculi.
• ▸—Indolent ulcers.
• ▸—(Sphacelus?
• ▸).
• ▸—Cold gangrene.
• ▸—Blood-

boils.—Warts.

Drowsiness during the day, accompanied by frequent yawnings.—Drowsiness after

dinner.—Comatose somnolency during the day.—Difficulty in sleeping in the evening, with

trembling and starts —Frequent waking.—Sleeps with his arms extended over his head.

Shuddering and want of vital heat, esp. in affections of the internal

organs.—Shivering at the commencement of a meal and when walking in the open (not cold)

air.—Shuddering and shivering, with coldness in the hands and heat of the cheeks, without

thirst—Perspiration in the morning, with heat, without thirst.

• ▸Bone, diseases of.
• ▸Cancer.
• ▸Cataract.
• ▸Coccygodynia.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Crusta lactea.
• ▸Erysipelas.

• ▸Eyes, inflammation of.
• ▸Gangrene.
• ▸Hay-fever.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Heartburn.
• ▸Influenza.
• ▸Peritonitis.

• ▸Sciatica.
• ▸Syphilis.
• ▸Teeth, affections of.
• ▸Toothache.
• ▸Ulcers.
• ▸Vision, disorders of.
• ▸Warts.
• ▸Writer's

cramp.

Characteristics—Gum euphorbium is one of the remedies of Hahnemann's chronic diseases. It

is the principal member of the group of Euphorbian drugs, and should be studied with Croton

tiglium and Ricinus. Like these it produces gastro-intestinal irritation and all degrees of irritation

of the skin. It also affects the eyes, teeth, and bones. Burning pains in the bones is an indication,

and along with Euphorb. heterodoxa it is a remedy for the pains of cancer. (In a desperate case of

sarcoma of the pelvic bones under my care nothing gave greater relief to the pains than repeated

• ▸doses of Euphorb.
• ▸6.
• ▸) Painfulness of the coccyx.
• ▸Caries.
• ▸Old torpid ulcers.
• ▸Hartmann says

Euphorb. often affords excellent service in gangrene of internal parts, "especially when

consequent on inflammation of the stomach or bowels, &c., and the temperature of the body is

continually diminishing, a great degree of torpor being present and the affected parts without

• ▸sensation.
• ▸" Gangrene of old persons.
• ▸Erysipelas bullosa.
• ▸Burning, which characterises the

Euphorbias generally, is well marked in this. Among the peculiar sensations are: Sensation, as if

teeth were being screwed together. Jerking in tooth as if it would be torn out. Taste as if mouth

were lined with rancid grease. Burning in throat as from a hot coal. As if flames were rushing out

of mouth and throat. Feeling in middle of chest as if hot food had been swallowed. As if left lobe

of lung were adhering. (Miinninghoff records a case in which the patient had two violent attacks

of night cough. They occurred as soon as she touched the bed in lying down, and continued as

long as she remained in it. Accompanying symptoms were: Pain in right temple, cold feet, and

• ▸pain in heel.
• ▸After failure of many remedies Euphorb.
• ▸off.
• ▸@, one drop in a glass of water, to be

sipped occasionally, gave instant relief; but she had to continue the remedy or the cough

returned.) Sudden starting up in bed as from an electric shock. As if a thin cord lay under the

skin. Prostration is present as with the other Euphorbias; but Euphorbium has, in addition,

periodic cramp, writer's cramp, and convulsions with loss of consciousness. Most symptoms are

< at night and in the morning. Rest <, motion >. Paralytic weakness in joints < on beginning to

• ▸move.
• ▸Painfulness of coccyx, < on rising from sitting.
• ▸Heat <; cool applications >.
• ▸Touch <.

• ▸Antidoted by: Camph.
• ▸, Op.
• ▸, large quantities of lemon-juice.
• ▸/t antidotes: Ars.
• ▸, Nux

• ▸v.
• ▸It follows: Graphit.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Compare: Colch.
• ▸, Elat.
• ▸, Ant.
• ▸t.
• ▸, Verat.
• ▸; also the

• ▸Euphorbiacious plants—Acalyph.
• ▸, Crot.
• ▸tig.
• ▸, Jatroph.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Mancin.
• ▸, Mercurialis, Ricinus, Yucca

fil., and the various Euphorbias.

Compare: Euphorbia amygdaloides-Wood Spurge (in pain in antrum, illusion of smell, odor of mice. Sense of taste blunted. Diarrhoea; stools difficult, with painful anal spasm).

• ▸Euphorbia corollata-Large Flowering Spurge--(a diaphoretic expectorant and cathartic of the old school in gastro-enteric disturbance, with deathly nausea.
• ▸Vomiting of food, water, and mucus and copious evacuations.
• ▸Attacks recur after short intermissions.
• ▸Feeling of clawing in stomach; cold sweat) (Verat alb).

Euphorbia marginata-Snow on the mountain--(Honey from the flowers is poisonous, detected by the hot, acrid taste. The milky juice produces skin symptoms like Rhus).

• ▸Euphorbia pilulifera-Pillbearing Spurge--(Humid asthma, cardiac dyspnoea, hay-fever, and bronchitis.
• ▸Urethritis, with intense pain on urinating, and much urging.
• ▸Acrid leucorrhoea; worse least movement.
• ▸Haemorrhages from sunstroke and traumatism).

• ▸Compare, also: Psoralea-A Columbian plant--(Pain of cancer, ulcers.
• ▸Leucorrhoea fetid.
• ▸Pruritus.
• ▸Uterine tumors).
• ▸Croton; Jatropha; Colchic.

Antidotes: Camph; Opium.

Third to sixth potency.