Hura braziliensis
Assacu
Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 331
Used in leprosy, when skin feels as if it were hide bound. Tense vesicles; sensation of splinter under thumb-nails. Skin of forehead feels drawn tight. Stiff neck, pain in back. Throbbing in finger tips. Itching, pimples on all projecting portions of bone, malar bones, etc.
Relationship
Compare Calotropis or Madura album—(Leprosy; livid and gangrenous tubercles; thickening of the skin).
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