Corallium Rubrum

▲   GENERAL

General

The provings of Corallium Rubrum develop much coryza and epistaxis, and even ulceration within the nostrils. It is to be thought of for whooping and spasmodic coughs, especially when the attack comes on with a Very rapid cough, and the attacks follow so closely as to almost run into each other. Often preceded by sensation of smothering, followed by exhaustion. Congestion of face after dinner. Patient becomes purple in face. Violence of paroxysm, even with Expectoration of blood. Feeling as if cold air were streaming through skull and air-passages. One is too cold when uncovered and too hot when covered; relieved by artificial heat.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

Worse in open air, changing from a warm to cold room.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Belladonna ^Bellad; Drosera Rotundifolia ^Drosera.; Mephit.; Causticum ^Caust.

Complementary

Complementary: Sulphur ^Sulph.

▲   MIND

Mind

Dazed; after drinking wine

Delirium

night

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions; environment and surroundings; feels as if newly born into the world and was overwhelmed with wonder at the novelty of surroundings

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

abusive; with pain

irritability

quarrelsome, argumentative

unhappy; lamenting, regretting

complaining (see lamenting)

Hysteria

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; confusion; from beer

impaired thinking; confusion; as after being intoxicated

impaired thinking; confusion; from drinking spirits

Insecure, uncertain, scared

fear; of suffering

frightened easily; starting, startled; on falling asleep

frightened easily; starting, startled; during sleep; starting from sleep

Restlessness, nervousness

night

tossing about in bed

Talking, conversation; cursing

Unconsciousness

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

After eating

▲   HEAD

Head

Sensation of air or wind

passing through head

passing through head; on rocking

Congestion (see pulsation)

with redness of face

when stooping

Empty, hollow sensation

Expanded sensation (see swollen); enlarged sensation

large head

Flattened sensation in forehead

Movements of head; rolling head

Swollen, and feeling swollen

Headache

Feels very large; violent pain as if parietal bones were forced apart; worse stooping

Eyes hot and painful

Deep-seated frontal headache with sever pain back of eyeballs

Pain aggravated by breathing cold air through nose.

Pain, headache

with running or blocked nose

with high or low temperature; headache during the chill

from certain movements; from quick movement

from certain movements; on moving head

from certain movements; shaking head

from certain movements; rising (see morning, noon, night, etc., on rising, also movement; raising head); from lying

from certain movements; rising (see morning, noon, night, etc., on rising, also movement; raising head); from stooping

uncovering body

walking; in open air

in forehead; open air

in forehead; while walking in open air

sides; both sides

sides; stooping

temples

and forehead

pressing (see bursting, pulling)

outward

forehead

forehead; pressing outward

forehead; uncovering body

forehead; walking in open air

sides

sides; apart

sides; stooping

▲   EYES

Eyes

Bleeding from eyes

Eye feels hot

on closing eyes

Inflammation; with gonorrhoea

Pain

on movement of eyes

burning, smarting, gnawing, biting

candlelight

as from something in eye; like sand in eye

sore, bruised, tender

Pupils; dilated

▲   EARS

Hearing

Impaired

▲   FACE

Face

Heat

after dinner

after eating

Lips

chapped

cracked lips

Pain

left

affected by movement (for better or worse); movement of lower jaw

touch

lips

jaw

joint

chewing

opening mouth

yawning

submaxillary gland (gland by neck, under jaw)

when swallowing

sore, bruised

cheek bones; left

cheek bone

Skin

discoloration; black

discoloration; bluish

during cough

during cough; whooping cough

discoloration; red; during cough

dark red

discoloration; red; bluish red

out-breaks on skin; nose; on wings

out-breaks on skin; painful; nose

Swelling

glands in general

lips

submaxillary gland (gland under jaw, by throat)

left

▲   NOSE

Nose

Odors of smoke, onions, etc

Painful ulcer in nostrils

Post-nasal catarrh

profuse secretion of mucus dropping through posterior nares; air feels cold

Epistaxis.

Nose bleed

right

to left

night

with cough; whooping cough

Catarrh

post nasal (see discharge)

Coldness; inside; when breathing in

Discharge from nose

copious

copious; from back of nostrils

like hard fat, leaving grease spots on linen

thick

behind nostrils (see catarrh)

Dryness; inside

In heat

Odours, imaginary and real

onions

smoke

Pain

night

with sleeplessness

bones

pressing

bones; pressed apart

Pulsation

Skin or lining of nose

ulcers

ulcers; right

ulcers; nostrils

ulcers; wings; right

Swelling

right

throbbing

Discharge

Dry coryza; nose stopped up and ulcerated

Running or blocked nose (coryza)

blocked

running, wet

dry

followed by fluent

Sneezing; frequent

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Pain in articulation of left lower jaw

Craves salt.

Bleeding

in whooping cough

Cold breath

Gums and teeth

Teeth

feel as if on edge

feel as if on edge; left side

pain

from heat; external warmth

pressing

pressing; as if a shred of meat were caught between the teeth

pressing; as if wedged

Saliva

Dryness

Tongue

Discoloration; tongue; white

Taste

Food tastes like sawdust

Bread tastes like straw

Beer tastes sweet

Taste

flavourless

food tastes like saw-dust

like straw

dishes made of flour taste like straw

sweetish; beer tastes sweet

tasteless, lacks taste; tastelessness of food

▲   THROAT

Throat

Larynx (voice box); spasm in vocal cords, stopping breathing

Choking, constricting

larynx

larynx; during cough (see cough choking)

Sensation of coldness

as from cold air

on breathing

Dryness

Hawks often

Irritation

larynx

trachea (wind pipe)

Mucus; pulled from behind nostrils

Pain

swallowing; on swallowing

trachea (wind pipe); on coughing

Sensitive; larynx

▲   CHEST

Chest

Coldness

Oppressed feeling

Pain

breast bone; when coughing

pressing

like a stone

sides

Respiration

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.

Coldness; breathing cold air

Difficult (dyspnea)

with cough

Gasping; during cough

Interrupted; coughing

Loud

Problems come on suddenly

Rough; crowing (see croup)

▲   COUGH

Cough

Morning

Night

Asthmatic

Barking

Constant

With constriction feeling; larynx

Croupy

From eating (including certain foods)

From emotions; nervous

Exhausting cough

rapid coughs, tiring to exhaustion

Hacking cough; short, hacking cough, with sound of tiny guns

When breathing

deep breathing

breathing in

crowing, violent, spasmodic cough, commencing with gasping for breath, and continuing with repeated crowing breathing in till face becomes black or purple and patient exhausted

Sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing); from sensation of icy cold air in air passages

Painful to cough

Comes on suddenly

night

attacks follow one another quickly

commences with gasping for breath

consisting of short coughs

Intermittent

night

Tormenting

Violent

Whooping

night

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Feels cold

Difficult

▲   SKIN

Skin

Red, flat ulcers

Coral-colored, then dark red spots, changing to copper-colored spots

Psoriasis of palms and soles.

Discoloration

brown, liver spots

purple (purpura haemorrhagica purplish spots or patches from haemorrhage under skin)

red; spots

coppery

spots; smooth

Abnormal growths

ulcers; flat (see superficial)

ulcers; painful

ulcers; sensitive

ulcers; yellow

Out-breaks on skin

coppery

psoriasis (red patches with silvery scales)

syphilitic

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back and neck

Pain

sore, bruised, beaten

sore, bruised, beaten; lumbar (lower half of back)

sacrum (base of spine)

Neck

Stiffness; neck

Back

Pain

when coughing

dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades

when coughing

lumbar (lower half of back)

sacrum (base of spine)

aching

dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades

as if broken; lumbar (lower half of back)

pressing; dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades

Spasms; opisthotonos (body bent backward and stiffened)

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach

desires, cravings; salt things

desires, cravings; sour, acids, etc.

pain; from coughing

pain; on breathing in deeply

pain; on swallowing

pain; pressing; on coughing

pain; pressing; breathing in

pain; pressing; swallowing

thirst; during heat

without thirst

Eating

aversion to certain foods or drinks; salty, savoury food

Nausea

nausea; during headache

nausea; on rising

up in bed

nausea; sitting; while sitting

nausea; sitting; when sitting up in bed

Vomiting

vomiting; stringy

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Moisture

Stool

Pasty, mushy

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Burning (includes hot)

Colour; clay

Sediment

clay-coloured

mealy

Male

Male

Ulcers on glans and inner prepuce, with yellow ichor

out-breaks on skin; penis; head (glans)

excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed); penis; head (glans)

inflammation; penis; head (glans)

inflammation; penis; foreskin

pain; penis; foreskin

redness; head (glans)

red, powdery flaking spots, on top of head of penis (glans)

thick emission from penis

without dreams

emission of prostatic fluid; during stool

sensitiveness; penis; head (glans)

sensitiveness; penis; foreskin

swelling; penis

head (glans)

foreskin

ulcers; penis

bleeding

at tip

flat

painful

lard-like base

red

head (glans)

foreskin

Genitals

Emissions and weakened sexual power

Profuse perspiration of genitals.

Male

profuse watery discharge from head

perspiration

redness; foreskin

suppurating (producing pus); under the foreskin

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Heaviness

tired limbs

upper limbs

lower limbs

Pain

shoulder; as of dislocation

forearm

wrist

as after much rapid writing

pressing; shoulder

as if sprained; joint

Skin

discoloration; hand; red; spots

discoloration; fingers; red; spots

out-break on skin; elbow; bend of elbow; red

out-break on skin; hand; palm; copper-coloured spots

out-break on skin; hand; palm; smooth spots

out-break on skin; fingers; copper-coloured spots

Weakness

knee

knee; as after a long walk

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Internal

Periodic, recurring

recurring every third day

every fourth day

Shaking, shivering, rigors; morning

Warmth; external warmth

Dry heat

External heat

No perspiration

Perspiration with heat

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Dreams; anxious

Falling asleep; while standing

Sleepiness, tiredness

overpowering

while standing

Sleeplessness, insomnia; night; from before midnight

Yawning

frequent

spasmodic

intense

Generalities

Sensation of air; as if fanned

Emaciated (extremely thin)

Jerking; during sleep

Pain

pressing; internally

pressing; from within outward

sore, bruised; bones

Pulse

full

hard

irregular

Swelling

glands; painful

swollen sensation

Sensation of wind

Wine

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