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Elaterium Officinarum

30CElaterium

Squirting Cucumber · Ecballium Elaterium · "The Gushing Green Diarrhea Remedy"

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🎯 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. Much yawning 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

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

3rd to 30th

Centesimal

Primary Dosage

1-20 of a grain

Other

📝As a hydragogue cathartic to produce free discharge in dropsies (Palliative only).

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Bryonia Alba →Croton Tiglium →Gambogia →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Elaterium Officinarum is listed in 30 rubrics across 8 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 10 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen16 Locomotor System4 Fever3 Skin2 Nervous System2 Mind1 Urinary System1 Generalities1

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