Materia Medica
Euphorbium
(Spurge -- The Resinous Juice of Euphorbia Resini- fera) An irritant to the skin and mucous membranes. Burning pain in bones. Pains in limbs and paralytic weakness in the joints. Important respiratory and skin symptoms. Terrible burning pains. Pains of cancer. Everything appears larger than it really is.
Head
Acute mania. Violent, pressive headache.
Face
Erysipelas; yellow blisters. Burning in cheek; worse, left. Eyes infammed and agglutinated in morning. Red swelling of cheeks. Nasal pruritus with mucous secretions from naso-pharynx.
Stomach
Great hunger. Sialorrhcea (profuse salty saliva). Waterbrash. Thirst for cold drinks.
Abdomen
Sunken; spasmodic, flatulent colic. Stools fermented, profuse, clayey. Feels hollow.
Respiratory
Breathing oppressed. as if chest were not wide enough. Spasmodic, dry cough, day and night, with asthma. Violent, fluent coryza, with burning and cough. Constant cough, with stitches from pit of stomach to sides of chest. Croup, dry, hollow, cough. Warm feeling in chest. as if hot food had been swal- lowed.
Extremities
Paralytic pains. Pain in hip-joint and coccyx.
Skin
Erysipelatous inflammation, especially of the cheek. Biting and stinging, red, swollen. Vesicular erysipelas.C Carbuncle: old, torpid. ivdolent ulcers with biting, lancinating pain. ( Old torpid ulcer. pustules; gangrene. [Echinac.; Secale.] Ulcerating carcinoma and epithelioma of the skin.
Relationships
Compare: Euphiorbia amygdaloides - Wood Spurge (in pain in antrum, illusion of smell, odor of mic. Sense of taste blunted. Diarrhcea; stools difficult, with painful anal spasm). Euphorbia corollatu—Large Flowering Spurge (in gastro-enteric disturbance, with deathly nausea. Vomit- ing of food, water, and mucus, and copious evacuations. Attacks recur after short intermissions. Feeling of clawing in stomach; cold sweat). (Verat. alb.) Euphorbia( Cyparissias — (Intense action on skin; burning and itching with sensation of chilliness. Mere contact with the leaves produces these symptoms.) Euphorbia hcterodoxa - Alvclos (alleviates the burn- ing pains of cancer). Euphorbia pilulifera — Pillbearing Spurge — (Humid asthma, cardiac dyspnoea, hay-fever, and bronchitis. Urethritis, with intense pain on urinating, and much urging. Acrid leucorrhcea; worse least moveinent. Hamorrhages from sunstroke and traumatism). Compare, also: Psoralra —A Columbian plant — (Pain of cancer, ulcers. Leucorrhcea fetid. Pruritus. Uterine tumors.) Croton; Jatropha; Colchic. Antidotes: Camph.; Opium.
Dose
Third to sixth potency.