====== CORALLIUM RUBRUM ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Corallium Rubrum.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Red Coral. {{anchor:s3}}Gorgoniadeae.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}Proved by Attomyr, in the 3d trituration; also by Melicher. {{anchor:s5}}See Encyclopaedia, vol. 3, p. 561.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s7}}- <span grade2>Inveterate cases of nasal catarrh</span>, Miller, U. S. Med. Inv., Nov., 1878, p. 418; <span grade2>Chancre</span>, Attomyr, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 117; <span grade2>Cough</span>, H. N. Martin, Hom. Clinics, vol. 2, p. 215; Hughes, see Pharmacodynamics, p. 325; <span grade2>Whooping cough</span>, S. M. Cate, N. E. M. G., vol. 3, p. 85; <span grade2>Eruption on elbows</span>, Nunez, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 239.

====== MIND. [1] ======

{{anchor:s9}}Peevish and ill-humored, very complaining; scolds and swears at the pains.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s11}}When moving head quickly, or shaking it, sensation as if wind was blowing through skull.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s12}}Head feels very large, three times its natural size.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s13}}Sensation of emptiness and hollowness of head.</span>\\ {{anchor:s14}}Extremely violent headache pressing out at forehead, obliging him to move head from one side to other, but without relief; not amel. by sitting; amel. for a short time by almost complete uncovering of burning, hot body.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Sensation as if forehead was flattened by pressure.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s16}}Pressing headache in forehead; she cannot keep eyes open; amel. by walking in open air.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s17}}Violent headache, as if parietal bones were forced asunder; agg. by stooping.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s18}}Congestion of blood to head on stooping.</span>\\ {{anchor:s19}}Meningeal inflammation threatening in yellow fever, especially in children.

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s21}}Enlarged pupils.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s22}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ {{anchor:s23}}Eyes hot and painful, with sensation as if swimming in tears.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Burning of eyes from candlelight.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Extremely sensitive drawing pain in external wall of left orbit, whence pain extends down beneath cheek bone, apparently along course of nervus malaris.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s26}}Pressure, as from sand, in reddened eyes (evening).</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s27}}On closing eyes, they feel hot, as if bathed in tears.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s28}}Eyes pain violently during every motion.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s29}}~</span> <span grade2>Gonorrheal ophthalmia.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

{{anchor:s31}}Subjective odors of smoke, onions, etc.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Great dryness of mucous membrane of nose and throat.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Dry coryza, nose stopped up, ulcerated nostrils.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s34}}Profuse secretion of mucus dropping through posterior nares, obliging frequent hawking; inspired air feels cold.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s35}}Violent, fluent catarrh of odorless mucus, looking like melted tallow, leaving greasy looking spots on linen.</span>\\ {{anchor:s36}}Bleeding of nose, one nostril at a time, especially at night.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Ulceration of nose.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s38}}Painful ulcer in right nostril and on inner side of wing of nose, affecting nasal bones, with a sensation as if they were pressed asunder.</span>

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s40}}Grows purple and black in face.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s41}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ {{anchor:s42}}Left zygoma painful, as if bruised; agg. when touched.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s43}}Heat in face on bending head forward.</span>

====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======

{{anchor:s45}}Pain in left articulation of lower jaw, as if sprained, on drawing jaw far downward, and also when biting and yawning.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s46}}The lips are chapped, swollen and painful.</span>

====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s48}}Every tooth on left side feels as if set on edge; as if teeth were too close to one another, or as if a tenacious body was lodged between them.</span>

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}White coated tongue.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s51}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s53}}Painful swelling of left submaxillary gland; agg. when swallowing or bending head forward.</span>

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s55}}Mucous membrane of throat and chest very sensitive, any change of air sets patient coughing.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s56}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s57}}Constant hawking, owing to an accumulation of mucus in posterior nares; inhaled air feels cold.</span> <span sbitared>{{anchor:s58}}~</span> <span grade4>Catarrh.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s59}}Great dryness of fauces.</span>

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s62}}Violent thirst, no appetite.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s63}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s64}}Longing for acids and salt food.</span>

====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s66}}After dinner, hot cheeks and forehead, with cold feet.</span>\\ {{anchor:s67}}Food tastes insipid, like sawdust; farinaceous food tastes like straw; beer tastes sweet.

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s69}}Nausea, with dryness of tongue and violent headache, agg. when sitting up.</span>\\ {{anchor:s70}}Severe fit of coughing, followed by a loose cough, with vomiting of quantities of tough, ropy, stringy mucus.

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s72}}Constipation (for six days), followed by copious papescent stool.</span>\\ {{anchor:s73}}Profuse discharge of mucus from anus at night.

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s75}}Burning urine.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s76}}Loam-colored urine, with similar sediment.</span>

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s78}}Weakened sexual power, with spermatorrhea.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s79}}~</span> <span grade3>Balanitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s80}}Involuntary seminal emissions during sleep (without dreams or erections).</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s81}}Red, flat ulcers on glans and inner surface of prepuce, with profuse yellow, ichorous discharge.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s82}}Superficial, lardaceous ulcers, or, more commonly, red ulcers, on glans penis or prepuce, with copious, thin, offensive smelling discharge, which can be easily removed.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s83}}~</span> <span grade3>Chancre.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s84}}Ulcers flat and extremely sensitive to touch, sometimes bleeding; chancres on any part of penis or scrotum very sensitive to touch.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s85}}The whole glans and inner surface of prepuce secrete a yellowish-green offensive matter; great sensitiveness, redness and swelling.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s86}}Swelling of prepuce; margin of prepuce feels sore when linen touches it.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s87}}The frenum is painful, as if pricked by needles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s88}}Profuse perspiration of genitals.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s89}}Balanitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s90}}Very painful soft chancres.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s91}}Syphilitic erosions, exuding a thin, badly smelling ichor; constant trickling of mucus from posterior nares into fauces; smooth, copper-colored spots on palm of hand and finger.</span>

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

{{anchor:s94}}Laryngismus stridulus.

====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s96}}On deep inspiration, sensation as if air passing through air passages was icy cold; inclination to cough, with difficult hawking up of bronchial mucus, in morning.</span>\\ {{anchor:s97}}Difficult, oppressed respiration.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s98}}Crowing during inspiration.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s99}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s100}}Laryngismus stridulus resembling whooping cough.</span>\\ {{anchor:s101}}Asthma.

====== COUGH. [27] ======

{{anchor:s103}}Convulsive spasmodic cough, occurring in paroxysms.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s104}}In some forms of violent spasmodic cough; "firing minute guns" of short, barking cough, all day, and for half an hour or so towards evening, increasing to a violent spasmodic paroxysm.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s105}}Nervous and spasmodic cough; so violent that children lose their breath and become purple and black in face; during deep inspiration, sensation as if air passing through air passages was icy cold, inclination to cough and difficult hawking up of bronchial mucus; every atmospheric change causes coughing.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s106}}~</span> <span grade3>Tuberculosis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s107}}Fits of violent spasmodic cough, commencing with gasping for breath and continuing with repeated crowing inspirations until he grows purple and black in face and is quite exhausted; agg. in latter part of night and mornings; larynx and trachea more involved than chest; mucous membrane of throat and chest very sensitive, and change of air sets patient coughing; loss of appetite and thirst; severe fit of coughing followed by a loose cough, with vomiting of quantities of tough, ropy, stringy mucus.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s108}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s109}}Whooping cough or any other kind of cough, when attack comes on with a very rapid cough, and attacks follow so closely as to almost run into each other; cough until patient falls back as limber as a rag.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s110}}Whooping cough, with bleeding from mouth and nose.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s111}}Cough, with morning aggravation, smothering sensation before paroxysms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s112}}Frequent paroxysms of violent coughing; spasms of glottis and larynx so severe as to produce a sound, in coughing, similar to spasmodic croup; paroxysms of cough every ten or fifteen minutes, with occasional intervals lasting an hour; cough agg. latter part of night and forenoon; amel. in afternoon and evening; she seems quite weak, with quick pulse, white coated tongue, considerable thirst, no appetite, enlarged pupils and rapid loss of flesh.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s113}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ {{anchor:s114}}Nervous cough, asthma Millari and endemic whooping cough.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s115}}Cough, with great sensitiveness of air passages.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s116}}Cold expectoration.</span>

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

{{anchor:s118}}Tuberculosis; spasmodic cough; cold expectoration.

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

{{anchor:s120}}Heart, Pulse and Circulation\\ {{anchor:s121}}Pulse full and hard.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s122}}Quick pulse.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s123}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>

====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ======

{{anchor:s125}}Pains in sternum, with cough.

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

{{anchor:s127}}Neck stiff.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Pressing pains in shoulder blades with cough.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Small of back pains as if broken.

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s131}}Red, itching, miliary eruption rough, feeling like a grater to the touch, on both elbows.</span>\\ {{anchor:s132}}Pain in wrists as after writing much and rapidly.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s133}}Smooth, copper-colored spots on palm of hand and finger.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s134}}~</span> <span grade3>Syphilis.</span>

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

{{anchor:s136}}Pain in knees, tibiae and tarsal joints as after walking a great deal.

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

{{anchor:s138}}After a short walk in evening, great lassitude in all the limbs.

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s142}}Standing: falls asleep.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Motion: eyes pain violently during.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Sitting up: nausea and headache agg.\\ {{anchor:s145}}When shaking head or quickly moving it: sensation as if wind was blowing through skull.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Violent headache, obliging him to move head from side to side, but without relief, not amel. by sitting.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Bending head forward: heat in face; pain in left submaxillary gland agg.\\ {{anchor:s148}}On closing eyes: they feel hot, as if bathed in tears.\\ {{anchor:s149}}On drawing jaw far downward: pain in left articulation, also when biting or yawning.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Stooping: headache agg.; congestion of blood to head.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Walking: headache amel.; lassitude in all the limbs after; great fatigue after.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s153}}Great weakness.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s154}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ {{anchor:s155}}Great fatigue after a walk.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Hysteria.

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

{{anchor:s158}}Drowsiness; yawning; the joint of the jaw pains.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Very sleepy; falls asleep while standing.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Cannot sleep before midnight; tosses about.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Starts as soon as she falls asleep, from a frightened dream.

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s163}}In morning: inclination to cough, difficult hawking of mucus; spasmodic cough agg.\\ {{anchor:s164}}In afternoon: cough amel.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Evening: pressure in eyes; cough amel.; lassitude in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s166}}At night: bleeding of nose; profuse discharge of mucus from anus; cannot fall asleep before midnight.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Latter part of night: spasmodic cough agg.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s169}}Heat: chill amel. by outward.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Uncovering of body: headache amel. for a short time; hot parts feel cold.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Feels cold uncovered and too hot when covered.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Open air: headache amel.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Change of air: sets patient coughing.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

{{anchor:s175}}Heat without thirst or sweat; full, hard pulse.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Chill, but skin of usual warmth, with headache and violent thirst.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Chill relieved by outward heat.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Hot parts feel cold when uncovered.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Dry heat, no thirst, no sweat.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Tertian or quartan intermittent; dropsy following suppression of chills.

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s182}}Frequent: paroxysms of violent coughing.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Constant: hawking; trickling of mucus from posterior nares into fauces.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Every ten or fifteen minutes: paroxysms of cough, with occasional intervals lasting an hour.\\ {{anchor:s185}}For half an hour: towards evening, spasmodic paroxysms of coughing.\\ {{anchor:s186}}All day: short barking cough.\\ {{anchor:s187}}For six days: constipation.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Tertian or quartan intermittent.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s190}}Right: painful ulcer in nostril, affecting nasal bones.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Left: drawing in external wall of orbit, extending down beneath cheek bone; zygoma painful; pain in articulation of lower jaw; every tooth on side as if set on edge; painful swelling of submaxillary gland.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s193}}As if wind was blowing through skull; as if head was very large, three times its natural size; as if forehead was flattened by pressure; as if parietal bones were forced asunder; as if eyes were swimming in tears; as of sand in eyes; as if nasal bones were pressed asunder; as if left zygoma was bruised; as if sprained in left articulation of lower jaw; as if teeth on left side were set on edge; as if teeth were too close to one another, or as if a tenacious body was lodged between them; as if frenum was pricked by needles; as if air passing through air passages was icy cold; as if smothering before cough; as if small of back was broken.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Pain: in abdomen with coughing; in knees, tibiae and tarsal joints, as if after walking a great deal; in joint of jaw; in sternum; in wrists.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Drawing: in external wall of left orbit, extending down beneath cheek bone.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Burning: of body; of eyes from candlelight.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Pressing out: at forehead.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Pressing: in forehead; in shoulder blades.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Pressure: in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Hollowness: in head.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Emptiness: in head.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Dryness: of fauces; of tongue; of nose and throat.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Itching: miliary eruption on elbows.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

{{anchor:s205}}Difficult breathing and spasmodic cough.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s206}}Rapid loss of flesh.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s207}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ {{anchor:s208}}Scrofula; syphilis complicated with psora.

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s212}}Touch: pain in left zygoma agg.; ulcers on scrotum or penis very sensitive; eruption on elbows feels like a grater.\\ {{anchor:s213}}From touch of linen: margin of prepuce feels sore.

====== SKIN. [46] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s215}}Copper-colored spots on skin.</span>\\ {{anchor:s216}}Smooth, red spots on skin and palms of hands, at first coral color, then darker red, and finally coppery.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Pustular eruption resembling varioloid.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Measles; purpura; psoriasis.

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s220}}May be found useful for a combination of syphilis and psora.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Carrie, aet. 2; whooping cough.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Girl, aet. 13, nervous temperament, has several times manifested hysterical symptoms; has not yet menstruated; cough.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Woman, aet. 45; suffering for three years from cough.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Woman, aet. 52; suffering for two weeks; eruption on elbows.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s226}}It antidotes: <span grade2>Mercur.</span>\\ {{anchor:s227}}Complementary: <span grade2>Sulphur.</span>\\ {{anchor:s228}}Compare: <span grade2>Bellad., Caustic., Coffea, Droser., Hyos., Lyssin</span>, (inhaled air feels cold); <span grade2>Nitr. ac., Nux vom., Mephitis; Staphis.</span> (gastralgia).

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 04, 1884 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r355|Corallium rubrum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r355|Corallium rubrum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1884 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}