Euphorbia Corollata

E. Corollata, Linn.

Natural order , Euphorbiaceæ.

Common name , Flowering spurge.

Preparation , Tincture and triturations of the root.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. E. M. Hale, N. Am. Journ. of Hom., 11, 49, Dr. Brown took 25 grains of the powdered root; 2 , same, effects of 2 or 3 grains every two or three hours; 3 , same, statement by King (Dispensatory); effects of 15 or 20 grains.

MIND

• Great anxiety.

STOMACH

• Suddenly, with no premonitory symptoms of pain; a distressing sense of deathly nausea set in, accompanied in a few minutes by faintness (after one hour and a half); *then sudden and powerful vomiting of, first the food, etc., in the stomach, then large quantities of water mixed with mucus, then clear fluid like rice-water . In less than a minute after the vomiting commenced, great commotion in the bowels, followed immediately by copious watery evacuations, set in; this simultaneous vomiting and diarrhœa continued for nearly an hour, at short intervals, or intermissions, all the while accompanied by great anxiety, a deathlike sense of faintness and exhaustion, 7.
• When given in large doses it is apt to induce inflammation of the mucous coat of the stomach and bowels, with hypercatharsis. It causes distressing nausea with prostration, 8.

PULSE

• During the height of its action the pulse sank to 40, 1.
• Softness of the pulse, 2.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Languor, 2.
• Great weakness, 1.
• Deathlike sense of faintness and exhaustion, 1.
• After 50 grains, the effects were much more intense, but lasted only a little longer. It resembled more nearly a severe attack of seasickness, or cholera morbus, than anything the doctor could imagine, 1. [10.]
• In about two or three hours all the symptoms passed away, leaving only weakness as from hunger and a peculiar languor, 1.

FEVER

• Cool skin, covered with beaded sweat, 1.
• Cold hands, feet, and nose, 1.
• Perspiration, 2.
• 4 grains given every three hours will act as a diaphoretic, 3.