# Corallium Rubrum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
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 
coryza, nosebleed and even ulceration within the nostrils. 
Eruptions, which are for the most part of its own color, coral-red. 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 (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
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.

## Symptoms by System

### 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.
- 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.
- 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 
catarrh.
- 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 ulcer in nostrils.
- Perspiration - Profuse sweat on genitals.
- Rectum - Constipation, 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.
- Cough 
in machine-gun paroxysms.
- Crowing inspiration, sensation as if inspired air was icy cold.
- May cough up blood.
- Useful for chronic bronchitis.
- Smothering sensation before cough, after, great exhaustion.
- Change of air 
causes coughing.
- Sensation of emptiness or hollowness in the head.
- 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.
- J.
- N.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Asthma.
- 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.
- Feels suffocated and greatly exhausted after 
whooping cough.
- Cold expectoration.

### Stomach & 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.
- Febrile 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.
- 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.

### Urinary & Genital
- 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
- 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.

### Neck & Back
- Stiffness in nape of neck.
- Pain as if the small of the back were broken.
- Pressing pain in scapulae during 
cough.
- Neck stiff.

### Skin
- Psoriasis 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.