INTRODUCTION
ELAT. Memordica, Elaterium, Wild or Squirting Cucumber. See “Transactions of the American Institute of Homoeopathy.”.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
Incessant gaping. Sharp, fugitive, or dull aching pains. Pains mostly affecting the left side, but also the right. Chilliness with continued gaping, as if an attack of intermittent fever were approaching.
HEAD.
Depression of spirits. Pains in the temples.
EYES.
Sticking as of a splinter, in the inner canthus of the eye.
INTESTINAL CANAL.
Bitter taste in the mouth. Dull pains in the bowels. Watery discharges from the bowels, of a frothy character. Discharges of dark masses of bilious mucus. Dull olive green discharges. Costiveness. Dull pain in the epigastrium. Feeling of stricture or oppression at the epigastrium. Cutting pains in the bowels, like the griping of medicine. Constant nausea and disposition to vomit. Eructation of flatus. Bleeding of haemorrhoidal tumors.
EXTREMITIES.
Pains under the shoulder blade. Pains extending from the shoulder to the ends of the fingers.
ELECTRICITY (See IMPONDERABLIA).
