Coral snake
- Similar to snake poisons generally.
- Has very marked black discharges.
- Cold things disagree.
- Desire for sweetened buttermilk.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Prostrating diarrhea of consumption.
- Acidity of stomach, with faint feeling.
- Sudden pain in stomach.
- Spasm of esophagus; pharynx constricted; food and liquids suddenly arrested, and then fall heavily into stomach.
- Spasms followed by paresis.
- Cold feeling in stomach.
- Fruits and ice-water lie very cold.
- Right-sided paralysis.
- Must have oscillatory motion.
- Rheumatic constitutions.
- Ear, nose and throat symptoms important.
Mind
- Depressed; imagines he hears someone talking; dreads to be left alone.
- Fear of rain.
- Can speak, but cannot understand speech.
- Fears apoplexy.
Head
- Violent headache, extending from forehead to occiput; first one eye, then the other.
- Pain in ears.
- Vertigo with tendency to fall forward.
- Weight and pain in forehead.
- Fullness in head.
Eyes
- Aversion to light; letters run together when reading.
- Veil before eyes.
- Burning in lids.
- Bloated around the eyes in the morning.
- Large red fiery spot before eyes.
Ears
- Cerumen black and hard, with difficult hearing, or serous greenish discharge, offensive; buzzing, and illusion of hearing.
- Sudden attack of nightly deafness, with roaring and crackling in ears, cracking in ears on swallowing.
- Intolerable itching in ear.
Nose
- Chronic nasal catarrh, with fetid odor and greenish crusts.
- Ozena; yellowish-green discharge.
- Mucous membrane wrinkled; nostrils plugged up with dry mucus.
- Pains from nose to ears on swallowing.
- Nostrils stopped up.
- Nasal bleeding.
- Pain at root of nose.
- Eruption about nose.
Throat
- Thick, very offensive, dry, greenish-yellow crusts upon the posterior pharyngeal wall and extremely foul breath.
- Spasmodic contraction of esophagus; passage of fluids arrested.
Chest
- Coldness in chest after drinking.
- Hemorrhage from lungs black as ink and watery; stitches in apex of right lung.
- Fainting caused by stooping.
- Oppression in going upstairs.
- Peeling off of skin from palms and fingers.
- Cough, with terrible pain through lungs.
- Worse right and expectoration of black blood.
- Sensation of a sponge in esophagus.
Stomach
- Feels cold.
- Sensation as if food turned like a corkscrew on swallowing; desire for sweetened buttermilk.
- Acidity after every mouthful.
Female
- Dysmenorrhea, with black blood.
- Discharge of black blood between menses.
- Itching of vulva and vagina.
Sleep
- Dreams about dead persons.
Skin
- Glands and skin of axillae affected; itching with tetter.
- Tips of fingers peel off.
- Itching eruption in axillae.
Extremities
- Icy cold feet.
- Vesicular eruptions on feet.
- Arms and hands swollen bluish.
- Knee-joints feel sprained.
- Pricking under the nails.
Fever
- Cold perspiration all over.
- Typhoid when ulcers have eaten into tissues, and black blood is discharged.
Modalities
- Worse eating fruit; cold drinks; wet weather.
Relationship
- Compare:
- Kino from Pterocarpus (Hemoptysis and hemorrhage from intestines).
- Eucalyptus rostrata (offensive dark discharge from right ear).
- Crotalus; Alumen; Carbo; Ars; Lach.
Dose
- Sixth to thirtieth potency.
