Elaterium
Squirting Cucumber
Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 266
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.
Stomach
Nausea and vomiting, with great weakness. Griping pains in bowels.
Stool
Watery, copious, forceful. Squirting diarrhœa; frothy, olive green, with cutting in abdomen.
Extremities
Sharp pains in fingers and thumbs, knees, toes, and instep. Gouty pain in great toes. Pain extends down extremities; pain in hip-joints with diarrhœa. Arthritic nodules.
Skin
Smarts, stings, and burns. Dropsical. Urticaria from suppressed intermittent. Skin, orange color.
Fever
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 diarrhœa.
Modalities
Worse, from exposure on damp ground.
Relationship
Compare: Bry.; Croton; Gambogia.
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