Elaps Corallinus Materia Medica
(Brazilian Coral Snake)
Named because of the shape of the scales on its back resembling coral
Affects the auditory, nasal and throat passages
Aspect of coldness in the patient
Black, death
Feels threatened
Unprotected (fear of being beaten)
Haemorrhagic Qualities
- Elaps is distinguished from the other snakes by the pre-eminent
blackness of its discharges and haemorrhages.
- Black ear wax
- Haemorrhage from lungs black as ink and watery, especially from the
right lung
- Stitches in apex of right lung
- Black and frothy diarrhoea
Other Characteristic Symptoms
- fruit and cold drinks lie like ice in the stomach and cause a cold feeling in
the chest
- internal coldness of same parts of body esp. of the stomach
- spasm in oesophagus so food and liquid can’t pass down easily
- affects the auditory, nasal and the throat passages
- deafness with chronic otorrhea and a buzzing as if a fly were in the
auditor canal
- nose with a foul smelling discharge (ozena)
- inflammation with fissures of the pharynx and difficult swallowing
- right side paralysis
Mentals
- desire coy
- fear of being alone but as soon as someone approaches they feel
terrified
- fear something will happen
- coy averse to, but desire it
- country desire for
- feeling of threat, as though they will be beaten up
- feeling that they will be broken into, robbed and injured
- dread of being alone and fear something will happen
(they cope by escaping/travel to country Rubrics
- coy desire for as if something horrible might happen
- del beaten he is going to be
- del injured he is going to be
- fear of robbers
- fear of solitude
- desires to strike
- desires to travel
- country desires to be in
Affects the auditory, nasal and throat passages
Aspect of coldness in the patient
Black, death
Feels threatened
Unprotected (fear of being beaten)
Haemorrhagic Qualities
- Elaps is distinguished from the other snakes by the pre-eminent
blackness of its discharges and haemorrhages.
- Black ear wax
- Haemorrhage from lungs black as ink and watery, especially from the
right lung
- Stitches in apex of right lung
- Black and frothy diarrhoea
Other Characteristic Symptoms
- fruit and cold drinks lie like ice in the stomach and cause a cold feeling in
the chest
- internal coldness of same parts of body esp. of the stomach
- spasm in oesophagus so food and liquid can’t pass down easily
- affects the auditory, nasal and the throat passages
- deafness with chronic otorrhea and a buzzing as if a fly were in the
auditor canal
- nose with a foul smelling discharge (ozena)
- inflammation with fissures of the pharynx and difficult swallowing
- right side paralysis
Mentals
- desire coy
- fear of being alone but as soon as someone approaches they feel
terrified
- fear something will happen
- coy averse to, but desire it
- country desire for
- feeling of threat, as though they will be beaten up
- feeling that they will be broken into, robbed and injured
- dread of being alone and fear something will happen
(they cope by escaping/travel to country Rubrics
- coy desire for as if something horrible might happen
- del beaten he is going to be
- del injured he is going to be
- fear of robbers
- fear of solitude
- desires to strike
- desires to travel
- country desires to be in