CORALLIUM RUBRUM

Synonym: Red Coral

prover name: Attomyr and Melicher

Description

Red Coral contains calcium carbonate and iron oxide. It affects mucus membranes especially of respiratory organs.  The proving of coral develops much coryza and epistaxis, and even ulceration within the nostrils. It is to be thought of for whooping and spasmodic coughs, especially when the attack comes on with a very rapid cough, and the attacks follow so closely as to almost run into each other. Often preceded by sensation of smothering, followed by exhaustion. Congestion of face after dinner. Patient becomes purple in face. Violent parosyms of cough with bleeding from mouth and nose. Feeling as if cold air were streaming through skull and air-passages. One is too cold when uncovered and too hot when covered; relieved by artificial heat.

Mind

• Peevish inclined to scold and swear at his pains.

Head

• Feels very large; violent pain as if parietal bones were forced apart;
• Headache with severe pain in back of the eyeballs < inhaling cold air.
• Pain aggravated by breathing cold air through nose.
• Worse stooping.
• Eyes hot and painful.
• As if forehead were flattened.
• Head feels large empty hollow.
• As if cold air were blowing through when head is moved quietly or shaken.
• Hot and painful; bathed in tears on closing.

Nose

• Odors of smoke, onions, etc.
• Painful ulcer in nostrils.
• Post-nasal catarrh.
• Profuse secretion of mucus dropping through posterior nares;
• Air feels cold.
• Dry coryza; nose stopped up and ulcerated.
• Epistaxis.
• Causing frequent hawking.
• Air feels cold.

Face

• Grows purple and black with cough.

Mouth

• Food tastes like sawdust.
• Bread tastes like straw.
• Beer tastes sweet.
• Pain in articulation of left lower jaw.
• Craves salt.

Respiration

• Hawking of profuse mucus.
• Throat very sensitive, especially to air.
• Profuse, nasal catarrh.
• Inspired air feels cold. [Cistus.]
• Profuse secretion of mucus dropping through posterior nares.
• Almost continuous paroxysms of violent Dry, spasmodic, suffocative cough; very rapid cough, spasmodic cough; which begins with gasping for breath and accompanied by purple face and followed by vomiting of stringy mucus and by exhaustion.
• Cough with great sensitiveness of air-passages; feel cold on deep inspiration.
• Continuous hysterical cough.
• Feels suffocated and greatly exhausted after whooping-cough.

• Reverberating minute-gun cough.
• Cough as soon as he eats.
• Continuous hysterical cough; or cough when the patient gives an isolated cough at regular intervals throughout the whole day.
• Air passages feel cold on deep inspiration.

Skin

• Very red flat venereal ulcers on glans and under surface of prepuce.
• Psoriasis of palms and soles.
• Smooth spots of Coral-colored, then dark red spots, changing to copper-colored spots.

Sleep

• Sleeps with head under cover.

Male

• Ulcers on glans and inner prepuce, with yellow ichor.
• Emissions and weakened sexual power.
• Profuse perspiration of genitals.

Modalities

• Worse; inhaling air; change of air; eating; towards morning.

Relationship

• Complementary: Sulph.
• Compare: Bellad.; Droser.; Mephit.; Caust.

Dose

• Third to thirtieth attenuation.