Elaterium

Elaterium
(squirting cucumber)
* This is an invaluable remedy in violent vomitingand purging, especially if the evacuations
are copious and watery.
* It is a very efficient remedy in certain forms of dropsy.
* Much yawning and stretching.
* Beriberi; choleraic conditions; urticaria and mental disorders coming on as a consequence
of suppressed malaria.
* Irresistible desire to wander from home at night.
* Effects of damp weather.
Stomach
- Nausea and vomiting, with great weakness.
- Griping pains in bowels.
Stool
- Watery, copious, forceful. Squirting diarrhoea; frothy, olive green, with cutting in abdomen.
Extremities
- Sharp pains in fingers and thumbs, knees, toes, and instep.
- Gouty pain in great toes.
- Pain extends down extremities; pain in hip-joints with diarrhoea.
- Arthritic nodules.
Skin
- Smarts, stings, and burns.
- Dropsical.
- Urticaria from suppressed intermittent.
- Skin, orange color.
Fever
- Chill comes on with much yawning and stretching,lasting all through chill.
- Pain in extremities, darting into fingers and toes.
- Chills and fever, with spurting diarrhoea.
Modalities
- Worse, from exposure on damp ground.
Relationship
- Compare : Bry.; Croton; Gambogia.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.
- As a hydragogue cathartic to produce free discharge in dropsies, Elaterin 1-20 of a grain.
- Palliative only.