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Elaterium Officinarum

30CElaterium
Squirting Cucumber · Ecballium Elaterium · "The Gushing Green Diarrhea Remedy"
elat.PlantUncommonPsoric
Source
🎯 A powerful remedy for violent, watery, and forceful vomiting and diarrhea, often used in cases of dropsy.
📖 Boericke writes:
(ELATERIUM - ECBALIUM)
This is an invaluable remedy in violent vomiting and purging, especially if the evacuations are copious and watery. It is a very efficient remedy in certain forms of dropsy. Muchyawning and stretching. Beriberi; choleraic conditions; urticaria and mental disorders coming on as a consequence of suppressed malaria. Irresistible desire to wander from home at night. Effects of damp weather.
👤 Constitution
•Individuals who are weak, prone to dropsy, and sensitive to damp weather, often with a history of suppressed intermittent fevers.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Much yawning and stretching.
introduction
Watery, copious, forceful.
stool
Chill comes on with much yawning and stretching, lasting all through chill.
fever
🩺 Systems & Indications
🍽️STOMACH
Useful for severe stomach upset with significant exhaustion and abdominal cramping.
Nausea and vomiting, with great weakness.
Griping pains in bowels.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency
3rd to 30th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
1-20 of a grain
Other
🕒As directed
📝As a hydragogue cathartic to produce free discharge in dropsies (Palliative only).
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Bryonia Alba →Croton Tiglium →Gambogia →
📚 Sources & References

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