Amaurosis. Axilla, itching in. Cancer. Deafness. Ear, affections of. Ear, wax in. Epistaxis. Hæmorrhages. Headache. Hemiplegia. Knee, pain in. Metrorrhagia. Naso-pharyngitis. Nose, stuffed. Ozæna. Phthisis. Pneumonia. Threat, ulcerated.

Elaps is distinguished from the other serpent venoms by the pre-eminent blackness of its discharges and hæmorrhages; black ear-wax. Characteristic symptoms are: Fruit and cold drinks lie like ice on stomach and cause a cold feeling in chest. Sensation as if all the blood were collected in head. E. V. Moffat has found Elaps 6 almost a specific in chronic naso-pharyngeal catarrh, with greenish crusts and subjective disagreeable odour. Rumbling in ears as of thunder. Sensation in brain as if shaken. Sensation as if food turned like a corkscrew on swallowing; as if intestines were twisted by a cord and strung together in a knot. Pains in the longs (especially right) are very marked: "Sensation within chest and at sternum, as if pleuræ were pulled off and the lungs violently drawn apart." Sensation as if a heavy load, iron bar, or weight on parts. Fluids roll audibly into stomach. The glands and skin of axilla are affected. (I cured with Elap. 200 a very old-standing case of irritating rash in axilla (right) with recurrent suppuration of axillary glands,) Periodicity is marked. Rest >, exertion <; but walking > epistaxis, pain in stomach and lungs. Lying on abdomen > pain in stomach. Many symptoms are < at night. (Sudden deafness at night with roaring and cracking in ears.) Dreams of dead persons. Warmth of bed <. Great sensitiveness to cold: draught, wind, wet weather <. Horror of rain. Touch <.

Antidoted by: Radiated heat, Alcohol, Arsen. Compare: Arsen., Carb. v., Crotal., Lach., Mur. ac., Nit. ac., Rhus t.; (red spot before sight) Duboisia; (effects of cold, wet weather) Dulc.

Absence of mind.─Depression of spirits; desire for solitude.─Fear of being left alone, as if something horrible might happen.─Apprehensive of some fatal disease.─Angry about one's self, and does not wish to be spoken to.

Vertigo; falls forward.─Pain in the cerebellum, r. side.─Fulness in head, as if all the blood were collected in it; fears apoplexy; with cold hands.─Severe stitching pains in forehead, with heaviness of head; occasionally pain intermits, 8-10 days, thundering in l. ear, deafness, lachrymation.─Violent pain in vertex (afternoon), as if the brain were shaking, with nausea, which prevents her from keeping the head quiet.─Congestion of blood to the head on stooping.─Stinging headache, with sleeplessness.─Weight in the forehead; pain in the forehead.─Lancinating headache, first in l. side of the head, extending to r. side.─Headache in occiput after mental exertion.

Stye on l. eye, with lancination.─Red eyelids.─Tickling and red streaks of the sclerotica.─Large red, fiery spots before the eyes; red bar before the eyes, when opening them.─Dryness and burning in both eyes on waking; bloated around the eyes in the morning.─Eyes red and inflamed; blear-eyed.─Glassy look.─When closing the eyes everything looks (dirty) red; dotted with black points.─Violent itching in the l. eye.─Aversion to light; desire to close the eyes; everything seems white even at night; grey veil before eyes; on stooping rush of blood to head with vertigo and pain at root of nose; can scarcely distinguish light from dark.─Amaurosis.

Buzzing in r. ear.─Crackling in ears on swallowing.─Itching in the ears.─Cerumen black and hardened.─Illusions of hearing; hears whistling and ringing; imagines he hears some one talk.─Discharge of a serous fluid or greenish-yellow liquid from (l.) ear (in the morning).─Offensive otorrhœa with eruptions.─Crusty eruptions on ear and cheek.─Discharge of blood from the ear.─Sudden deafness at night with constant roaring and cracking.─Hearing of both ears impaired; otalgia of r.

Bad smell (like putrid herring pickle) from the nose.─Stoppage of the nostrils (high up, with dull aching in forehead); coryza from the least current of air.─White and watery mucus is discharged from the nose.─Epistaxis: sudden, profuse, while walking; after a blow.─Blood black, copious, in steady stream.

Dark complexion.─Lancinations from root of nose to ear.─Redness and swelling of r. cheek, with chilliness all over the body.─Redness, heat, and formication in r. cheek.─Swelling of face, extending to r. side of the nose.─Red blotches on bloated face.

Tongue black or dark red.─Tongue swollen and whitish in morning.─Pricking at tip of tongue.

Naso-pharyngeal catarrh, greenish crusts, subjective disagreeable odour.─Dull pain from nares to ears; < by swallowing; posterior wall of pharynx dry, fissured, covered with crusts.─The beverage is arrested in œsophagus, as from a spasmodic contraction.─Constriction in pharynx with pressure in the throat.─Ulceration of throat, < l. side, difficult swallowing of liquids; recurring from exposure to wind or rain.

Vomiting of green bile, followed by diarrhœa.─Acidity of the stomach, with nausea and faint feeling; sour eructations.─Violent thirst; cold feeling in the chest after drinking.─Hunger, with violent headache if not satisfied at once.─Vomiting of mucus, with fainting.─Fruit and cold drinks feel like ice in the stomach.─Burning in stomach.─Weight in stomach, with nausea, after eating.─Sudden pains in stomach, as if she must sink down; < while sitting, > on walking about.

Lancinations from both groins to symphysis pubis.─Colic, with urging to stool.─The intestines feel twisted, as if by a cord, and strung together in a knot, with strangulating sensation.─Sensation as if the blood in the abdomen were flowing backward.

Diarrhœa, blackish, frothy, yellowish, watery, with mucus and rumbling; bile; bloody mucus.─Discharge of black, liquid blood from the bowels and at stool, with colic and sensation as if the bowels were twisted.─Prolapsus ani.─Constriction of the sphincter, after bloody stool.─Crawling at anus as if from worms.

Red urine, with cloudy sediment.─Thick urine, with red sediment.─Suppression of urine; strangury.─Discharge of mucus from urethra.

Impotence.─Weight and swelling of the testes.─Discharge of prostatic fluid.─The skin of the prepuce is thick and inflamed.

Discharge of black blood between the menses.─Menses every two or three weeks; flow profuse, dark.─Weight at the uterus; at the vagina, after an hysteric attack.─Itching in the vagina; formication at the vulva.─Sensation as of something burst in womb, followed by continuous stream of dark-coloured blood on attempting to urinate.

Dry cough, which ends in raising black blood.─Taste of blood in the mouth, before coughing.─Constant cough, with frightful pains throughout lungs as if they were torn out (< r. apex).─Stitches in the upper part of each lung; better when walking.─Oppressed breathing in the evening; < on going up stairs.

Feeling as of heavy load on chest.─Constriction of the chest.─Coldness in chest after drinking.─Sensation in chest and at sternum as if pleuræ were pulled off and the lungs violently torn apart.─Stitches in l. chest; worse when breathing.─Pleuritic pain r. side, felt in axilla.─Cannot lean to r. side on account of a very painful pulling in r. lung.─Sensitiveness of r. side.

Spitting of black blood, with painful tearing, as if proceeding from the heart.─Palpitation of the heart, with anxiety and trembling of the hands.

Stiffness in the r. side of neck.─Lancinations in l. side of neck.─Painful pressure at nape of neck.─Lancinations in the whole spinal marrow, from occiput to sacrum.─Pressure between the shoulders.─Coldness in back.─Pain in the back, with chilliness, cold feet, and strangury.

Itching under axilla, with tetter.─Inflamed and suppurating glands in axilla.─The arms and hands are swollen, bluish, covered with red spots; also r. leg and foot.─Crampy constriction at bend of elbow, extending to hand, as if one had carried a heavy weight.─Pricking in the l. upper arm.─Hot rash on r. wrist.─The r. hand feels as if paralysed.─The tips of the fingers peel off.

Cramps in the calves.─Icy coldness of r. leg.─Rheumatic pains in l. leg.─Sensation of spraining and stiffness in knee-joint.─The l. foot is swollen and blue, with red spots.─Pricking under toenails.

Red pimples at the tips of the fingers.─The tips of the fingers peel off.─Little pimples, followed by desquamation.─Yellow spots on the hands and fingers.─Red tetter from the corner of the r. nostril to the cheek.

Sleeplessness from lancinating headache.─Dreams of business, of dead persons.

Sensitive to cold.─The arm shudders when dipping the hand into water.─Coldness in the back.─Dry heat, at midnight; cannot endure any cover.─With the fever, oppression of breathing.─Flushes of heat in evening, with, redness and heat of face and ears.─Chill at, noon, without thirst, followed by dry heat in afternoon, without perspiration.─Cold perspiration all over.

Elaps corallinus

• Like all other snake poisons; the poison of Coral snake disorganizes the blood, producing black discharges esp. haemorrhages.

• Sensation of internal coldness in chest, stomach agg. after cold drinks.

• Adynamic sepsis.

• Spasms, then paralysis.

• Oscillatory movements.

• Right side feels weak, insensible or paralyzed.

• Mucous membranes wrinkled.

• As of a heavy load or weight on the affected part.

• Twisting sensation.

• Approach of storms.

• Cold; drinks;food; air.

• Dampness.

• Night.

• In room.

• Touch.

• Warmth of bed.

• Fruits.

• Rest.

• Walking amel. nosebleed and pain in abdomen and chest.

• Horror of rain.

• Fear; being left alone; causes chattering of the teeth and trembling.

• Shuddering from least contradiction, with pricking.

• Imagines he hears someone talking; dreads to be left alone.

• Can speak but can not understand speech.

• Angry about one's self, does not wish to be spoken to.

• Vertigo - falls forwards.

• Weight and pain in forehead.

• Rushes of blood to the head.

• Faints, with vomiting or on stooping.

• Black rings before eye (left).

• Large red fiery spots, before the eyes.

• Cerumen black and hard.

• Sudden nightly deafness, with roaring, cracking in ears.

• Illusions of hearing.

• Otorrhoea; offensive, watery; with deafness, itching.

• Naso-pharynx stuffed up.

• Chronic nasal catarrh; with foetid odour and greenish crusts.

• Pain from nose to ears, on swallowing.

• Ozaena.

• Nose bleed, black like ink; after a blow.

• Red spots on face.

• Bloated.

• Dull yellowish colour.

• Spasmodic contractions of oesophagus and pharynx; food and liquids are suddenly arrested and then fall heavily into the stomach.

• Sensation of a sponge in oesophagus.

• Painful, difficult swallowing for solids and liquids.

• Paralysis of oesophagus.

• Drinks and fruits feel like ice in stomach, and causes coldness in chest.

• Desire for sweetened buttermilk.

• Sensation as if food turned like corkscrew on swallowing.

• Thirst.

• Bowels feel twisted together in a knot.

• Stools of black frothy blood.

• Urine red.

• Discharge of mucus from urethra.

• Dysmenorrhoea with black blood.

• Sensation as if something burst in the womb, then continuous stream of dark coloured blood, amel.

when urinating.

• Discharge of black blood between menses.

• Air hunger.

• Coldness in chest after drinking.

• Stitches in apex of right lung.

• Cough, with terrible pain through lungs.

• Lungs seems forcibly separated.

• Haemoptysis; black, like ink and watery.

• Arms weak.

• Arms and hands swollen bluish.

• Knees joints feel sprained.

• Pricking under the nails.

• Peeling off-palms and finger tips.

• Icy cold feet.

• Dreams of business; of dead persons.

• Bites hand, during sleep.

• Cold perspiration all over.

• Skin hot, dry.

• Crot-h; Helod.