# Euphorbia Lathyris

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
The fresh, milky juice is exceedingly acrid when applied to the skin and the fruit is highly 
purgative and poisonous. The juice causes redness, itching, pimples, sometimes gangrene.  
Poisoning from the seeds produces symp toms including retching, vomiting, and bloody stools with brilliant 
eyes, flushed face. The abdomen is drawn inward. 
The whole body is stiff and icy cold. Uneasiness. The symptoms point to its use in erysipelas, poison oak, etc. 
Rheumatic pains during rest. Paralytic weakness in joints.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better close room. Better sweet-oil application. Worse touch. Worse cold air.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Delirium and hallucinations.
- Stupor, coma.
- Delirium and hallucinations.
- Stupor, coma.

### Eyes
- Almost closed from edema of eyelids.

### Face
- At first ruddy glow on cheeks, afterwards death-like pallor.
- Cold perspiration in beads on forehead.
- Red, 
puffed face and in spots suppurating.
- Erythema, beginning on face, gradually extending into the hair parts and 
then spreading over whole body.
- Glossy eruption, rough edematous with burning and smarting, aggravated by 
touch and cold air, ameliorated by close room and sweet -oil applications.
- Bran -like desquamation.
- Stinging, 
smarting and burning of face when touched.
- Sensation of cobwebs.

### Mouth
- Tongue coated, slimy, acrid taste.
- Breath cold, musty odor.
- Nose - End of nose very much inflamed externally.
- Very sensitive and edematous mucus membranes with 
ulceration.
- Pulse -120 beats, full, bounding, somewhat irregular.

### Chest
- Weak and fluttering.
- Kidneys - Copious flow of urine.
- Labored breathing.
- Cold breath, musty odor.
- Cough, first hacking, as from inhalation of sulphur, later 
on, regular paroxysms like whooping cough.
- Cough ending in diarrhea and vomiting, with sleepiness between 
each paroxysm.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Nausea and vomiting of copious, clear water intermingled with white, gelatinous lumps.
- Temperature - Body bathed in profuse perspiration, standing out like beads on forehead.
- Cold, clammy 
perspiration on forehead.
- Temperature increased.

### Urinary & Genital
- Inflammation of scrotum, resulting in deep acrid ulcers with intense itching and burning, worse touching 
the parts, or from washing.

### Skin
- Erythema, beginning on uncovered parts and face, and spreading over whole 
body, glossy, rough, edematous with burning and smarting.
- Fine bran-like desquamation following in the wake 
 
 
of the erythema.
- Eruption rough, scaly, smarting and burning, when scratched forms deep, ragged ulcers.
- Ulcerated skin remains red.

### Sleep
- Restlessness at night.
- Sleep disturbed, anxious dreams.