Corallium Rubrum

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Corallium Rubrum Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Tubercular Miasm The Tubercular miasm is a combination of Psora and Syphilis. It manifests as a susceptibility to respiratory illnesses, rapid weight loss, and a constant desire for mental and physical change.
GENERAL
  • Red coral, the product of a coralligene zoophyte, contains calcium carbonate and iron oxide (the origin of its color), gelatin and otherelements.
  • In medical alchemy, red coral was considered to have “strengthening tonic properties, ” and to be astringent, sudorific, diuretic and absorbent.
  • Cor-r affects the mucus membranes, espe cially of respiratory organs.
  • The provings of coral develop much coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge., nosebleed and even ulceration within the nostrils.
  • Eruptions, which are for the most part of its own color, coral-red spots on the palms of the hands, at first coral, then darker, and finally coppery.
  • Coral-red chancres.
  • Whooping and spasmodic coughs, es pecially when the attack comes on with a very rapid coughs and the attacks follow so closely as to almost run into each other.
  • Violent coughing attacks.
  • Coughs often preceded by sensation of smothering, followed by exhaustion.
  • Coughs with expectoration of blood.
  • Congestion of face, purple colored face, after dinner.
  • Ulcerations in the respiratory organs with a stringy discharge.
  • Feeling as if cold air were streaming through skull and air-passages.
  • Too cold when uncovered and too hot when covered, better by artificial heat
MODALITIES ETC
  • Better - covering.
  • Worse from inhaling air.
  • Worse open air.
  • Worse changing from a warm to cold room.
  • Worse eating.
  • Worse towards morning.
  • Worse stooping.
  • Worse after dinner.
  • Worse touch.
  • Worse uncovering
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Compare: (1) Bell., Dros., Meph., Caust. Complementary: Sulph.

MIND
  • Peevish, inclined to scold and swear at his pain s.
  • Irascibility and ill-humor.
  • Wine has a natural taste, but immediately stupefies him.
  • Delusion, feels as if newly born in the world and overwhelmed with wonder at the novelty of his surroundings.
  • Stupefaction after wine.
  • Confusion after beer.
  • Confusion from spirituous liquors.
  • Fear of suffering.
HEAD
  • Hot cheeks and forehead with cold feet, after dinner.
  • Confusion in the head, feels empty, hollow, very large.
  • Congestion of blood to head on stooping.
  • Violent pain as if parietal bones were forced apart, worse stooping.
  • Headache with severe pain in back of the eyeballs, worse inhaling cold air.
  • Pressing pain in forehead.
  • Pain aggravated by breathing cold air through nose.
  • Head feels large, empty, hollow.
  • As if cold air were blowing through, when head is moved quietly or shaken.
  • Asif forehead were flattened.
  • Meningeal inflammation threatening in yellow fever.
EYES
  • Hot and painful eyes, bathed in tears on closing.
  • Sensation of compression in the orbit.
  • Pain, as from excoriation in the eyes.
  • Eye pain, violently worse during every motion.
  • Sensation of burning in the eyes.
  • Burning of eyes from candlelight.
  • Pressure as from sand in reddened eyes - in evening.
  • Enlarged pupils in whooping cough.
  • Extremely sensitive drawing pain in left orbit
FACE
  • Grows purple and black with coughing.
  • Heat in the face, worse on bending head forward, by stooping.
  • Pain, as from dislocation in the maxillary joint.
  • Left zygoma painful, as if bruised, worse touch.
  • Left articulation of lower jaw as if sprained, when moving jaw.
  • Painful swelling of left submaxillary gland worse swallowing or bending head forward
MOUTH
  • Food tastes like sawdust.
  • Bread tastes like straw.
  • Beer tastes sweet.
  • Pain in articulation of left lower jaw.
  • White coated tongue in whooping cough.
  • Lips cracked and painful.
  • Lips chapped, painful and swollen.
  • Nose - Great dryness of mucus membrane of nose and throat.
  • Nosebleed at night.
  • B leeding from one nostril at a time.
  • B leed - ing of the nose from one nostril at a time.
  • Nose stopped up and ulcerated.
  • Post-nasal catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane..
  • Fluent coryza.
  • Profuse secretion of mucus dropping through posterior sinuses.
  • Violent fluent catarrh of odorless mucus.
  • Dry coryza, nose stopped up and ulcerated.
  • Smells odors of smoke, onions, etc.
  • Inspired air feels cold (Cist.).
  • Painful ulcerOpen painful sore on skin or mucous membraneAn open sore on an external or internal surface of the body, caused by a break in the skin or mucous membrane. in nostrils.
  • Perspiration - Profuse sweat on genitals.
  • Rectum - ConstipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass., followed by copi ous papescentstool.
  • Profuse discharge of mucus from anus at night
THROAT
  • Great dryness of fauces.
  • Throat very sensitive, especially to cold air, causes coughing.
  • Gre at dryness of the palate, fauces and throat.
  • Constant hawking, from the accumulation of mucus in the posterior sinuses.
  • Sensation of excoriation on swallowing.
  • Laryngismus stridulus resembling whooping cough.
  • Hawking of profuse mucus.
  • Left submaxillary glands swollen and painful, worse swallowing or bending head forward.
  • COMMENTS - Cor-r corresponds to a combination of syphilis and psora.
  • Cough like whooping cough in machine-gun paroxysms.
  • Crowing inspiration, sensation as if inspired air was icy cold.
  • May cough up blood.
  • Useful for chronic bronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing..
  • Smothering sensation before cough, after, great exhaustion.
  • Change of air causes coughing.
  • Sensation of emptiness or hollowness in the head feels very large.
  • Sensation as if forehead were flattened.
  • Feels cold when uncovered and too hot when covered.
  • Very sensitive to cold air and drafts.
  • Much drowsiness, many symptoms appear during sleep.
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  • Lowe cured with Cor -r an infant, a year old, suffering from laryngismus stridulus, the indications being worse during sleep and after waking.
  • Lach., given first, failed to relieve.
  • Guernsey's indication is “Whooping cough or any other kind of cough when the attack comes on with a very rapid cough and the attacks follow so closely as to almost run into e ach other.” Found most effective in the nervous “machine-gun” cough where the patient gives an isolated cough at regular intervals through the day.
  • Nash found it the most useful of all rem edies in post -nasal catarrh.
  • Guernsey's other indication is “red f lat ulcers on the glans and inner surface of the prepuce with secretion of a quantity of yellow ichor.”
CHEST
  • Sensation as if cold air were streaming through air -passages in morn ing on deep inspiration, with provocation to cough.
  • Difficult hawking of bronchial mucus.
  • Pain in sternum during cough - Dry, spasmodic, suffocative cough.
  • Very rapid cough.
  • Short, barking cough.
  • Nervous cough.
  • Reverberating machine-gun like cough.
  • Continuous hysterical cough.
  • Violent spasmodic cough.
  • Coughs begins with gasping for breath.
  • Almost continuous paroxysms of violent spasmodic cough as soon as he eats.
  • Coughs with a purple face, followed by vomiting of stringy mucus and exhaustion.
  • Coug h with bleeding from mouth and nose.
  • Cough followed by vomiting of stringy mucus and by exhaus tion.
  • Isolated cough at regular intervals throughout the day.
  • Feels suffocated and greatly exhausted after whooping cough.
  • Whooping cough when attacks comes on w ith a very rapid cough, and attacks fol low so closely as to almost run into each other.
  • Coughs and coughs until patient falls back as limber as a rag.
  • Pulse full and hard.
  • Quick pulse; in whooping cough.
  • Kidneys - Loam or clay-colored urine, with similar sediment.
  • Burning urine.
  • Crowing during inspiration.
  • AsthmaChronic respiratory disease causing difficulty breathingA condition characterized by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing, typically from an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity..
  • Smothering sensation before paroxysms of cough.
  • Air passages feel cold on deep inspiration (Cist.).
  • Hawking of profuse mucus.
  • Difficult, oppressed breathing.
  • Profuse secretion of mucus droppingthroughposteriorsinuses.
  • Cold expectoration
ABDOMEN
  • Nausea, with dryness of the tongue and violent headache, worse when sitting up.
  • Vomiting of quantities of tough, ropy, stringy mucus.
  • Vomiting with loose cough.
  • Teeth - Every tooth on the left side feels as if set on edge.
  • As if the teeth were too close to one another or as if a tenacious body were lodged between them.
  • Temperature - Chill, but skin of usual warmth.
  • Chill with headache and violent thirst.
  • Chill better by external heat.
  • FebrileFeverish or marked by feverRelating to or characterized by an elevated body temperature or fever symptoms. shivering, with burning thirst.
  • Dry heat internally and externally, with full and hard pulse.
  • Dry heat without thirst, and not followed by perspiration.
  • Hot parts feel cold when uncovered.
  • No appetite.
  • Violentthirst.
  • Insipidity of food tastes like sawdust.
  • Bread, farinaceous foods tastes like straw.
  • Sweetish taste of beer.
  • Craves salty foods and acids.
  • Intoxication after drinking very little wine
GENITALS ETC
  • Balanitis.
  • Ulcers on gians and inner prepuce with yellow ichor.
  • Very red flat ulcers, on glans and under surface of prepuce.
  • Ulcers very sensitive to touch.
  • Emissions and weakened sexual power.
  • Swelling of prepuce.
  • Margin of prepuce feels sore when linen touches it.
  • Frenum painful, as if pricked by needles.
  • Profuse sweat on genitals.
  • Involuntary seminal emissions during sleep
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Great lassitude in all limbs after a short walk in evening.
  • Smooth spots of a deep -red color.
  • Pressive pain in the shoulder blades, aggravated by coughing.
  • Pain in the wrists, as if he had been writ ing much and rapidly.
  • Pain in the knees, tibia and tarsal joint, as if he had walked a great deal.
  • Red itching, miliary eruption rough, feeling like a grater to the touch, on both elbows
BACK AND NECK
  • Stiffness in nape of neck.
  • Pain as if the small of the back were broken.
  • Pressing pain in scapulae during cough.
  • Neck stiff
SKIN
  • PsoriasisSkin disease causing scaly red patchesA skin disease that causes red, itchy, scaly patches, most commonly on the knees, elbows, trunk, and scalp. of palms and soles.
  • Coralcolored, then dark red spots, changing to copper-colored spots.
  • Red, flat ulcers.
  • Psoriasis smooth, copper-coloured spots
SLEEP
  • Yawning, violent, frequent and in rapid succession.
  • Great sleepiness, falls asleep while standing.
  • Sleeps with head under covers.
  • If he uncovers himself, he feels too cold, and when covered, feels too hot.
  • Can’t sleep before midnight, tosses about Starts as soon as she falls asleep, from a frightened dream

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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