Under The Guidance of, DR. A.T SENTHIL KUMAR DR. T . ILAYAPALLAVAN DR. V. JAYANTH DEVAN
ELAPS CORRALINUS
Snakes & It’s facts There are more than 2,600 species of snakes in the world, of these about 216 species are found in India of which 52 are poisonous. Most of the snakes are non-poisonous and harmless, only few are poisonous. In India 18,000 to 20,000 persons die of snakebite every year. The poisonous snakes are cobras, vipers, kraits, coral snakes and sea snakes.
Characteristic features of ophidia group in homoeopathy THE PATIENT OF OPHIDIA GROUP IS WORSE FROM WARMTH, BY HOT DRINKS, IN SUN AND IN SUMMER. THE PATIENT OF OPHIDIA GROUP IS, < BY FASTING AND > AFTER EATING. SUSPICION AND JEALOUS ARE THE CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS OF THE PATIENTS. SYMPTOMS OF THE OPHIDIA GROUP ARE PRECEDED FROM LEFT TO RIGHT (EXCEPT CROTALLUS AND ELAPS AS THEY ARE RIGHT SIDED).
GENERAL RELIEF FROM BLEEDING AND ANY OTHER DISCHARGES
PATIENTS CAN SWALLOWS SOLIDS EASILY.
THE DISCHARGES IN OPHIDIA GROUP ARE DARK AND OFFENSIVE Characteristic features of ophidia group in homoeopathy
ELAPS CORRALINUS Common name : coral snakes Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Clade: Ophidia
Constitution : Haemorrhagic constitution, skin shows purple or mottled appearance. They are very much restless people. Face is sickly, pale, anxious, bloated, dark, red or bluish. Miasm : Syphilitic & Tubercular Temperament : Melancholic Diathesis : Haemorrhagic ELAPS CORRALINUS
AILMENTS FROM , Fright, Jealousy, Alcoholism, Onanism, Loss of vital fluids, Suppressed menses, Physical trauma BAD EFFECTS OF , Poisons, Long lasting grief, Disappointed love, Vexation, Summer and spring. ELAPS CORRALINUS
MENTAL GENERALS Depressed; Imagines he hears someone talking; Dreads to be left alone. Fear of rain. Can speak, but cannot understand speech. Fears apoplexy.
Physical generals Similar to snake-poisons generally. Has very marked black discharges. Cold things disagree. Desire for sweetened buttermilk. Nausea and vomiting. Prostrating diarRhoea of consumption.
Acidity of stomach, with faint feeling. Sudden pain in stomach. Spasm of oesophagus; pharynx constricted; food and liquids suddenly arrested, and then fall heavily into stomach. Spasms followed by paresis. Cold feeling in Stomach Physical generals
Fruits and ice-water lie very cold. Right-sided paralysis. Must have oscillatory motion. Rheumatic constitutions. Ear, nose and throat symptoms important Physical generals
ELAPS CORRALINUS - 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.
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. ELAPS CORRALINUS - EYES
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. ELAPS CORRALINUS - EArs
Chronic nasal catarrh, with fetid odor and greenish crusts. Ozæna ; 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. ELAPS CORRALINUS - NOSE
Thick, very offensive, dry, greenish-yellow crusts upon the posterior pharyngeal wall and extremely foul breath. Spasmodic contraction of oesophagus; passage of fluids arrested. ELAPS CORRALINUS - THROAT
Coldness in chest after drinking. Hæmorrhage 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 œsophagus . ELAPS CORRALINUS - CHEST
Feels cold. Sensation as if food turned like a corkscrew on swallowing; desire for sweetened buttermilk. Acidity after every mouthful. ELAPS CORRALINUS - STOMACH
Dysmenorrhœa , with black blood. Discharge of black blood between menses. Itching of vulva and vagina. ELAPS CORRALINUS - FEMALE
Glands and skin of axillæ affected; itching with tetter . Tips of fingers peel off. Itching eruption in axillæ . ELAPS CORRALINUS - SKIN
Icy cold feet. Vesicular eruptions on feet. Arms and hands swollen bluish. Knee-joints feel sprained. Pricking under the nails. ELAPS CORRALINUS – EXTREMITIES
Dreams about dead persons. ELAPS CORRALINUS – SLEEP
Cold perspiration all over. Typhoid when ulcers have eaten into tissues, and black blood is discharged. ELAPS CORRALINus - Fever
ELAPS CORRALINUS – MODALITIES Worse by : eating fruit ; cold drinks; wet weather.
Compare: Kino from Pterocarpus ( Hæmoptysis and hæmorrhage from intestines). Eucalyptus rostrata (offensive dark discharge from right ear). Crotalus ; Alumen ; Carbo ; Ars ; Lach . ELAPS CORRALINUS – RELATIONSHIP
Sixth to thirtieth potency. ELAPS CORRALINUS – Dose
BIBLIOGRAPHY Group study in homoeopathic materia Medica - Dr.J.D Patil Pocket manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory - Dr.William Boericke Phatak Materia Medica - Dr.Phatak