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Hura Crepitans

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Hura Crepitans · Sandbox Tree · "The Sandbox Tree Caustic Remedy"

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🎯 A potent gastrointestinal irritant causing violent vomiting, purging, and intense burning sensations.

📖 Clarke writes:

Sand-box. Monkey's dinner-bell. N. O. Euphorbiaceae. Tincture of seeds.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Venomous milky juice abundant in all parts of the plant

•If applied to the eye, causes almost immediate blindness

•Seeds are emetic

•In a green state, seeds are violently purgative

•Oil extracted from seeds acts as a powerful purgative (twenty drops equal to a tablespoonful of castor oil)

•When ripe and exposed to a dry atmosphere, the fruit bursts with great force, accompanied by a loud, sharp crack like the report of a pistol

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Burning in throat

•Vomiting

•Purging

•Suffocation

•Headache

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Violent burning in the throat that is not relieved by drinking water.

Clarke

Severe vomiting and purging occurring within minutes of ingestion.

Clarke

Sensation of suffocation following ingestion of the seeds.

Clarke

Scalding and warming sensation in the palate and throat.

Clarke

Violent headache associated with severe vomiting.

Clarke

Nausea and violent stomach pain.

Clarke

Violent diarrhea after eating the seed without the shell.

Clarke

Venomous milky juice causes immediate blindness if it contacts the eyes.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤Head

Consider for violent headache accompanied by severe vomiting.

The one who had eaten the shell with the seed was seized with violent vomiting with headache.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Drinking water

burning in throat

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Camphora →Opium →

🔄 Compare With

Capsicum Annuum →Ricinus Communis →

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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