Elaps corallinus
van H. A. Roberts — The Rheumatic Remedies
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
Transient sticking pains about the knee, when accompanied by coryza and otorrhoea, with the peculiar concomitants, has led to the successful use of Elaps in rheumatic conditions.
Compare: Arsenicum, Carbo veg., the snake venoms, Nit. ac., Rhus tox.
NECK AND BACK
Stiffness in right side of neck.
Lancinating in left side of neck and spinal marrow.
Painful pressure in nape of neck.
Sense of weight as of a heavy iron bar on small of back.
Pain in back with chilliness.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
Crampy constriction at bend of elbow, extending to hand, as if one carried a heavy weight.
Prickling in left upper arm.
Sensation as if right hand were paralyzed.
Pain in right shoulder.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
TRANSIENT STICKING PAINS AT ONE TIME ABOVE, AT ANOTHER BELOW, THE RIGHT KNEE; < FROM MOTION OR WARMTH OF BED.
Sensation as if knee joint were sprained and were stiff.
Cramp in calves.
Rheumatic pains in left leg.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
Soreness of limbs < at night.
Sensation of numbness in whole of left side.
CONCOMITANTS
Dullness of hearing with discharge of yellowish-green otorrhoea.
Roaring in ears.
Stopped coryza; epistaxis.
Sore throat.
FRUIT AND COLD DRINKS LIE LIKE ICE IN STOMACH.
SENSATION AS IF FOOD TURNED LIKE A CORKSCREW ON SWALLOWING.
ULCERATED THROAT FROM EXPOSURE TO WIND OR RAIN.
HORROR OF RAIN; NEVER HAPPY DURING WET WEATHER.
COLDNESS AFTER DRINKING ANYTHING COLD OR AFTER PUTTING HANDS IN COLD WATER.
HÆMORRHAGES OF BLACK BLOOD.
AGGRAVATIONS
WET WEATHER.
DRINKING COLD THINGS.
TOUCH OF COLD WATER.
At night.