# Elaps Corallinus

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

## Keynote Indications
Like other snake poisons, the poison of the coral snake disorganizes the blood, producing 
black discharges, especially hemorrhages. Characteristic pre -eminent blackness of its discharges and 
hemorrhages. Sensation as if all the blood were collected in head. Black earwax.  
Adynamic sepsis. Spasms, then paralysis. Oscillatory movements. Right-sided paralysis. The right side feels 
 
 
weak insensible or even paralyzed. Must have oscillatory motion. Sensation of internal coldness. Twisting 
sensation. As of a heavy load or weight on the affected part. 
Sudden pain in stomach. Cold feeling in stomach. Acidity of stomach with faint feeling. Spasm of esophagus, 
pharynx constricted, food and liquids suddenly arrested and then fall heavily into stomach. Spasms followed 
by paresis. 
Cold things disagree. Fruit and cold drinks lie like ice on stomach and cause a cold feeling in chest. Desire 
for sweetened buttermilk. Nausea and vomiting. The prostrating diarrhea of tuberculosis. 
Ear, nose and throat symptoms. Sudden deafness at night with roaring and cracking in ear. Mucus membranes 
wrinkled. Dreams of dead people. Shuddering from least contradiction, with pricking.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from rest. Better lying on abdomen. Walking relieves nosebleed, pain in abdomen and 
chest. Worse cold drinks, food, air. Worse drafts, wind. Worse night. Worse wet weather. Worse dampness. 
Worse approach of storms. Worse exertion. Worse touch. Worse warmth of bed. Cold things disagree. 
Nose - Coryza from least draft of air. White and watery nasal discharge. Mucus membrane wrinkled. Chronic 
nasal catarrh with fetid odor and greenish c rusts. Ozaena with a yellowish -green discharge. Nostrils 
plugged up with dry mucus. Nosebleeds, black like ink  after a blow. Sudden, profuse nosebleed while 
walking. Pain at root of nose. Pains from nose to ears on swallowing. Eruptions about nose. Sneezing at night. 
Perspiration - Sweats on forehead and neck. Profuse sweat. Cold perspiration all over.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Depressed.
- Absorbed, buried in thoughts in daytime.
- Absent minded.
- Angry about one's self, does not 
wish to be spoken to.
- Desire to strike.
- Shuddering from least contradiction.
- Can speak, but cannot understand 
speech.
- Imagines he hears someone talking.
- Fear as if something horrible might happen.
- Fear of the rain.
- Never feels happy in wet weather.
- Fear of having 
a stroke.
- Fear of getting a fatal disease.
- Fear being left alone.
- Fear causes chatt ering of the teeth and 
trembling.
- Aversion to company.
- Avoids the sight of people, wants to get into the country away from people.
- Desire to 
travel.
- Hysteria before menses.
- Taciturn during menses.
- Playful.
- Delusion he is being beaten.
- De lusion he 
is falling forward.
- Delusion of being injured.
- Depressed.
- Absorbed, buried in thoughts in daytime.
- Absent minded.
- Angry about one's self, does not 
wish to be spoken to.
- Desire to strike.
- Shuddering from least contradiction.
- Can speak, but cannot understand 
speech.
- Imagines he hears someone talking.
- Fear as if something horrible might happen.
- Fear of the rain.
- Never feels happy in wet weather.
- Fear of having 
a stroke.
- Fear of getting a fatal disease.
- Fear being left alone.
- Fear causes chatt ering of the teeth and 
trembling.
- Aversion to company.
- Avoids the sight of people, wants to get into the country away from people.
- Desire to 
travel.
- Hysteria before menses.
- Taciturn during menses.
- Playful.
- Delusion he is being beaten.
- De lusion he 
is falling forward.
- Delusion of being injured.

### Vertigo
- Fainting caused by stooping.
- Ve rtigo with tendency to fall forward.
- Faints with vomiting or on 
stooping.
- Vision - Letters run together when reading.
- Veil before eyes.
- Large red fiery spots before eyes.
- Red bar before 
eyes when opening them.
- Dirty red spot before eyes.
- Black rings before eyes (left).
- COMMENTS - Rumbling in ears as of thunder.
- Sensation in brain as if shaken.
- Sensation as if food turned like 
a corkscrew on swallowing, as if intestines were twisted by a cord and strung together in a knot.
- Fluids roll 
audibly into stomach.
- Marked pains in the lungs (especially right).
- Sensation within chest and at sternum as if pleura were pulled off 
and the lungs violently drawn apart.
- Sensation as if a heavy load, iron bar or weight on parts.
- Mail ed periodicity.
- Affects the glands and skin of axilla.
- Clarke cured with Elaps.
- 200c a very old - standing case of irritating rash 
in axilla, (right) with recurrent suppuration of axillary glands.
- E.
- V.
- Moffatt found Elaps 6c almost a specific in chronic naso -pharyngeal catarrh with greenish crus ts and 
subjective disagreeable odor.

### Head
- Congestion of blood to head on stooping.
- Violent headache, extending from forehead to occiput.
- Headache pain in one eye, then the other.
- Fullness in head.
- Rushes of blood to the h ead.
- Pain in occiput, 
worse mental exertion.
- Weight and pain in forehead.
- Lancinating pain, left then right side.
- Severe sharp 
pain in forehead, with heaviness of head.
- Stinging pain with sleeplessness.
- Congestion of blood to head on stooping.
- Violent headache, extending from forehead to occiput.
- Headache pain in one eye, then the other.
- Fullness in head.
- Rushes of blood to the h ead.
- Pain in occiput, 
worse mental exertion.
- Weight and pain in forehead.
- Lancinating pain, left then right side.
- Severe sharp 
pain in forehead, with heaviness of head.
- Stinging pain with sleeplessness.

### Eyes
- Eyes red and inflamed.
- Watery eyes.
- Eyes look glassy.
- Stye on left eye, with lancinating pain.
- Bloated 
around the eyes 
Elaps corallinus in the morning.
- Burning and dryness in both eyes on waking.
- Burning in lids.
- Eyeballs feel 
sticky under lids.
- Violent itching in left eye.
- Aversion to light, desire to close eyes.

### Ears
- Crusty eruption on ear.
- Earwax.
- black and hard with difficult hearing.
- Offensive, serous greenish 
discharge.
- Intolerable itching in ear.
- Otorrhea.
- Watery, yellow oryellow -green discharge with deafness.
- Sudden attack of nightly deafness with roaring and crackling in ears.
- Cracking in ears on swallowing.
- Buzzing 
noise.
- Illusions of hearing.

### Face
- Bloated around eyes in morning.
- Red spots on face.
- Red blotches on bloated face.
- Dull, yellowish color.
- Crusty eruption on cheek.
- Redness and swelling of right cheek.
- Swelling of face.

### Throat
- Tonsils swollen.
- Sides of throat sore to touch.
- Red blotches in throat.
- Painful, difficult swallowing of 
solids and liquids.
- Pressure pain in throat.
- Thick, very offensive, dry, greenish-yellow crusts upon the posterior 
pharyngeal wall and extremely foul breath.
- Ulceration of throat, worse left side.

### Chest
- Oppression of chest on going up stairs.
- Feeling of a heavy load on chest.
- Coldness in chest after 
drinking.
- Itching eruption in axilla.
- Rush of blood to chest in morning.
- Sharp pain and soreness to touch 
across chest.
- Soreness from right to left axilla 
Constitutions - Rheumatic constitutions.
- Sensation of laceration in region of heart.
- Palpitations with anxiety and trembling of hands.
- Kidneys - Urine red.
- Discharge of mucus from urethra.
- Red urine with cloudy sediment.
- Thick urine with 
red sediment.
- Suppression of urine.
- Strangury.
- Air hunger.
- Pneumonia.
- Each inspi ration causes a crackling sound in lungs.
- Cough with terrible 
pain through lungs.
- Hemoptysis.
- Hemorrhage from lungs, black as ink and watery.
- Sharp pain in apex of 
lungs, better walking.
- Stitches in apex of right lung.
- Sharp pain in left side of chest, worse breathing.
- Lungs 
 
 
feel forcibly separated.
- Worse right lung and expectoration of black blood.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Stomach feels cold.
- Sensation as if food turned like corkscrew on swallowing.
- Burning in stomach.
- Acidity after every mouthful.
- Sinking, faint feeling in stomach.
- Pain in stomach better lying on abdomen.
- Paralysis of esophagus.
- Sensa tion of a sponge in esophagus.
- Spasmodic contractions of esophagus and 
pharynx, food and liquids are suddenly arrested and then fall heavily into the stomach.
- Sour eructations.
- Vomiting followed by diarrhea.
- Vomiting of mucus.
- Vomiting of green bile.
- Temperature - Terrible coldness after drinking, as if ice water were rising and falling through left lung.
- Feels 
cold, cold things disagree.
- Shivering after cold drinks.
- Coldness in back.
- Shaking chill, felt internally as if in 
bones.
- Dry heat and burning redness of face.
- Skin hot, dry, but complains of feeling cold.
- Fever with thirst.
- Heat alternating with chill.
- Heat flushes, in evening.
- Colic with urging to stool.
- Bowels feel twisted together in a knot.
- Painful pressure in right side of 
liver.
- Lancinating pain from both groins to symphysis pubis.
- Canine hunger, yet unable to eat.
- Acidity after every mouthful.
- Aversion to meat.
- Aversion to bananas.
- Desire for ice.
- Desires milk, whipping-cream.
- Desire for sweetened buttermilk.
- Desires sweets.
- Desires salads.
- Cold drinks and fruit feel like ice in sto mach, and cause coldness in chest.
- Worse fruits.
- Thirst during 
fever.

### Urinary & Genital
- Itching of vulva and vagina.
- Dysmenorrhea with a flow of black blood.
- Discharge of black blood 
between menses.
- Sensation as if something burst in the womb, then continuous stream of dark colored blood, 
better when urinating.
- Itching of vulva and vagina.
- Weight at uterus and vagina after an hysterical attack.

### Extremities
- Soreness of limbs worse at night.
- Arms weak.
- Arm s and hands swollen blu ish.
- Pricking under the 
nails.
- Skin peeling off on palms and finger tips.
- Vesicular eruptions on feet.
- Icy cold feet.
- Knee joints feel 
sprained.

### Neck & Back
- Stiffness in the right side of neck.
- Lancinations in left side of neck.
- Lancinations in the whole Spinal 
marrow from occiput to sacrum.
- Pressure between the shoulders.
- Coldness in back.
- Pain in the back with 
chilliness, cold feet and strangury.

### Skin
- Skin hot, dry.
- Glands and skin of axilla affected.
- Itching with tetters, eruptions.
- Yellow spots on hands 
and fingers.
- Small blisters, on limbs.
- Fingertips peel o ff.
- Red pimples on fingertips.
- Little pimples, fol lowed by 
desquamation.
- Typhoid when ulcers have eaten into tissues and black blood is discharged.

### Sleep
- Drowsy all day, no sleep at night.
- Sleeplessness from sharp headache.
- Bites hand during sleep.
- Dreams of business.
- Dreams of dead people.