Euphorbium eupho.

A tincture of the gum-resin of some African species is used.

All the species of Euphorbia have an acrid, milk, juice which seems to exert a pretty constant effect; namely, most violent vomiting and purging, or if the dust of the gum be inhaled most violent irritation and inflammation of the mucous membrane of the air-passages. ▶ The juice of some species even produces vesication, like croton oil. ▶ Numerous subjective symptoms have been developed by Hahnemann's provings. ▶ See the skin symptoms and compare Anacard. and Rhus tox.

Starting as from an electric shock at night when awake. ▶ Relaxed and tired in the whole body. ▶ Faintness. ▶ Anxiety; as if he had taken poison. ▶ Apprehension. ▶ Quiet and earnest; Q., reflective, seeking quiet, inclined to work. ▶ Dull, listless and feeling not at all like work.

Sticking, agg. forehead. ▶ Pain; as if it would be pressed asunder; as from a disordered stomach. ▶ Screwed-in sensation in brain and zygomata, with toothache. ▶ Tension, agg. forehead and cervical muscles. ▶ Vertigo, even to falling to the left, when walking in open air; V. when standing, everything turned about and he threatened to fall to the right. ▶ Sticking in left side of forehead. ▶ Vertiginous tearing in left side of F. on moving head. ▶ Frontal pain; right side; above left orbit; externally above left eye, with lachrymation and inability to open eye on account of pain; stupefying. ▶ Stupefying pain in forepart of right side of head, extending into forehead. ▶ Sticking externally in temples; S. beneath right parietal bone. ▶ Pressure in left half of brain; P. in occiput. ▶ Bruised pain in left occiput, preventing lying upon it.

Sticking extending into inner part. ▶ Biting, with lachrymation. ▶ Aching; as from sand heat and smarting. ▶ Glutinous sensation in right. ▶ Gush of tears on rising lid, which was difficult. ▶ Pupils dilated. ▶ White of eye pale red and puffy, cornea dim, pupils small drawn upward, insensible, the inner vascular zone dark brownish-red, vision prevented by photophobia and lachrymation. ▶ Swelling of lids, with tearing above brows on opening eyes. ▶ Inflammation of lids and nightly agglutination. ▶ Agglutination of right lids in morning on waking. ▶ Hardened mucus in right external canthus. ▶ Pinching in left external canthus. ▶ Lids dry and pressing on eyes. ▶ Heaviness of lids, irresistible closing and vertigo. ▶ Itching of left lower lid; of left external canthus, amel. rubbing. ▶ Tearing sticking in orbit, extending across brow and lid, both lids hot and swollen, the upper hanging down immovable. ▶ Left brow and temple swollen, red and hot, upper lid hanging down over lower, œdematous, immovable, eyes watery, with sticking; in them and vision of sparks. ▶ Photophobia; and intolerance of noise. ▶ Vision dim and short. ▶ Double V. ▶ Everything seems too large so that he lifts his legs too high. ▶ All objects appear in variegated colors.

Aching in open air. ▶ Ringing, also when sneezing. ▶ Roaring at night. ▶ Chirping in right, as of crickets.

Fluent coryza, without sneezing. ▶ Stuffed, agg. right nostril. ▶ Discharge of purulent mucus; profuse discharge of mucus, with suffocative biting extending to frontal sinuses so that she could draw no air through nose. ▶ Increased discharge of mucus without coryza. ▶ In left nostril ineffectual irritation to sneeze. ▶ Sneezing; with fluent coryza and full feeling in head; frequent S., without coryza.

It has been prescribed for influenzas with chill, headache, watery discharge from eyes and nose, with burning and cough. ▶ The juice of some species is said to be valuable for warts; it must be applied two or three times a day.

It has cured toothache, with throbbing pain, sensitiveness, etc.

It seems to have cured erysipelas of the cheek, of the vesicular variety, with violent fever. ▶ Abscesses and erysipelatous inflammation. ▶ It has been found useful for old torpid ulcers and for gangrene. ▶ It is said to be a valuable topical remedy for cancers, and is said to have cured entirely epithelioma.

(Euphorbia corollata has proved valuable in terrible attacks of deathly retching and vomiting, with a feeling of clawing in the stomach and with cold sweat, after Cocculus, etc., had failed.).

Swelling. ▶ Pale, sickly looking. ▶ Jerklike tearings in muscles of left cheek, almost as in toothache. ▶ Tensive pain in cheek as if swollen. ▶ Sore pain in vermilion border of lower lip as if he had bitten it.

Sticking in last left upper molar; in first left lower molar. ▶ Gnawing tearing in teeth on beginning to eat, with chilliness, headache as if shattered by the toothache and a screwed in sensation in brain and zygomata. ▶ Pain in second left upper molar; in last left lower molar, amel. biting teeth together; in next to last left upper molar, agg. touch and chewing; P. in hollow tooth as if screwed in, with jerking as if it would be torn out; pain in tooth like a boil on touching it. ▶ Tongue covered with a thick mucus. ▶ Coated tongue and almost all the concomitants of nervous erethism. ▶ Inability to speak intelligibly. ▶ Much tenacious mucus after midday sleep. ▶ A membranous pellicle peels off upper part of palate. ▶ Burning on palate. ▶ Dry sensation without thirst. ▶ Salivation; with salt taste on left side of tongue; with nausea and shivering. ▶ Taste bitter; and foul, agg. back part of tongue, after beer that he had relished; T. as if mouth were covered with rancid fat; T. flat after breakfast, with white-coated tongue.

Profuse discharge of mucus from posterior nares. ▶ Scraping and rawness. ▶ Burning; extending to stomach, with mucus in mouth; extending to stomach, with trembling, anxiety and heat in upper part of body, nausea flow of water from mouth and dryness of cheeks; and in stomach, as if a flame streamed out of it, with necessity to open the mouth. ▶ Inflammation of œsophagus.

Great hunger, with a lax stomach, hanging down and sunken abdomen. ▶ Thirst; for cold drinks. ▶ Incessant eructations; empty E. ▶ Hiccough; frequent. ▶ Nausea during the day; in morning; N., with shuddering. ▶ Vomiting; incessant, of watery fluid; with diarrhœa. ▶ Spasmodic contractions, with empty eructations. ▶ Inflammation. ▶ Griping as if it would be compressed, then salivation and nausea; G. in left side, with clawing then construction of cardiac orifice, with salt salivation and shuddering in skin. ▶ Pain in pit; spasmodic pain in S. ▶ Bruised pain in S. on touch. ▶ Pressure on left side. ▶ Constriction from all sides towards the middle, with salivation and nausea. ▶ Burning; in pit after eating, with pressure. ▶ Agreeable warmth as after spirituous drinks.

Rumbling; in left then emission of flatus. ▶ Emission of much flatus. ▶ Griping, then a thin stool. ▶ With burning itching about rectum. ▶ Pain; with tympanites; in one spot; flatulent, amel. resting head upon elbows and knees, after which flatus was emitted; spasmodic flatulent in morning in bed, accumulation of flatus in hypochondria and chest, causing spasmodic pressing asunder and constriction, amel. turning about but returning on lying quietly. ▶ Uneasiness, with heat. ▶ Emptiness in morning as from an emetic. ▶ Agreeable warmth, as after spirituous drinks. ▶ Sore pressure outward in left flank and after micturition, also in right. ▶ Pinching on posterior part of ilium. ▶ Tearing in left groin as from a sprain, when standing. ▶ Sprained and lame pain in left side of pubis on stretching limb after sitting extending to thigh. ▶ Pain in inguinal region. ▶ Anxious sore aching in lower A.

Burning sore pain about rectum. ▶ Fatal dysentery. ▶ Diarrhœa several times a day with burning in anus, distention of abdomen and pain as from internal soreness; profuse D.; preceded by itching in anus, with urging; profuse, with vomiting. ▶ Loose, large S., with tenesmus and sore feeling as if dysentery were coming on. ▶ Thin S. after pressure, at last three hard lumps without difficulty. ▶ Soft S., scanty, mixed with small lumps, delayed. ▶ Pasty S.; and yellowish. ▶ S. at first natural, then fermented and watery. ▶ Clayey S., preceded by itching in rectum, with urging. ▶ Hard, difficult. ▶ Constipation.

Discharge of prostatic fluid from the relaxed penis. ▶ Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty discharge; urging, micturition by drops, with sticking in penis, then a natural discharge. ▶ Strangury. ▶ Itching sticking in forepart of urethra when not urinating. ▶ Much white sediment in urine. ▶ Intermittent cutting sticking in glans when standing. ▶ Erections at night without emissions or lascivious dreams; E. without cause when sitting voluptuous itching of prepuce, with discharge of prostatic fluid. ▶ Pinching burning pain in left side of scrotum.

Irritation to short cough in upper part of trachea. ▶ Cough day and night as from dyspnœa and shortness of breath, then in morning much expectoration; C. from burning tickling in upper part of trachea; almost uninterrupted dry C.; dry hollow C. from tickling in chest during rest; hacking C. from crawling in throat. ▶ Dyspnœa as if chest were not wide enough, with tensive pain in right pectoral muscles, agg. turning upper part of body to right. ▶ Deep inspiration hindered by sensation as if left lung were adherent.

Sticking in left on walking in open air, so that he must stop; in sternum when sitting and standing; in left when sitting and standing; in left when sitting, amel. when walking; intermittent S. in left when reading. ▶ Tensive pain in left, agg. turning upper part of body to right. ▶ Spasmodic pressing asunder in lower part. ▶ Warmth in middle as from hot food.

Irregular, 150; 78 in morning.

Jerking sticking. ▶ Intermittent sticking in one place in the middle when sitting. ▶ Pinching in left scapula. ▶ Spasmodic pain in dorsal vertebræ in morning when lying on back. ▶ Pain in muscles; nightly P. in ischia; P. in small of when at rest; in left kidney, with burning in all urinary organs.

Rheumatic pains. ▶ Shoulder, stiff pain in right, agg. stretching towards the left ; tensive pain in right; preventing raising arm high; tensive pain in right, amel. walking, but returning with greater violence during rest; tension in joint like paralysis, in morning after rising, agg. motion; painful drawings in right. ▶ Internal painful drawing in arm, with weakness, agg. radius, humerus and wrist. ▶ Pain on outer side of arm above elbow in morning in bed. ▶ Sprained pain in right upper arm, near elbow, on moving arm. ▶ Drawing pain in ulna. ▶ Paralytic pain in wrist on moving it. ▶ Intermittent tearing in muscles of left hand. ▶ Pinching in muscles of right hand near wrist, agg. moving it. ▶ Spasmodic drawing in right hand on writing. ▶ Pain in ball of right thumb, amel. touch and motion.

Feeling of deadness and coldness in left when sitting as if it would fall asleep, not amel. motion, and on walking internal coldness remains, agg. leg and foot. ▶ Weakness on walking in open air.

Tearing in muscles of left hip; in muscles about right hip when sitting; in anterior muscles of left thigh when sitting; in muscles of right thigh when standing and sitting, intermittent in muscles on outer side of right when sitting; intermittent stitchlike, in muscles of left hip when sitting. ▶ Pain in muscles about left hip. ▶ Sprained pain in hip-joints; S. pain near bend of left thigh when walking in open air, amel. standing. ▶ Pain as from a blow in left gluteals on motion. ▶ Pain in forepart of hip as if crushed, only on moving body while sitting. ▶ Burning pain at night in bones of hip and thigh, waking frequently. ▶ Tensive pain on stepping forward, extending from left gluteals to hollow of knee, as if tendons were too short. ▶ Painful lameness in right hip-joint on stepping.

Sticking in inner knee when sitting. ▶ Tearing outward in knee. ▶ Legs sticking in right; hot S. in left calf, as with a knife; tearing in left tibia below knee when sitting; T. in forepart of left leg when sitting; T. in muscles of right when walking in open air; sticking T. in muscles near ankle when sitting; gnawing T. in right calf when sitting and standing; pain as from a blow on outer side of left calf; frequent falling asleep to above knees, with painful crawling in them and inability to move them; weakness as if they could not support the body.

Tearing burning pain in ankles, with heat of the parts. ▶ Cramp of metatarsus, drawing the toes together. ▶ Cramplike pain in foot, agg. towards external malleolus, when sitting and standing, amel. walking. ▶ Pain in right heel as if suppurated when walking in open air. ▶ Sprained pain in left heel, agg. walking. ▶ Frequent falling asleep of feet when sitting, with inability to move them, and painful crawling in them.

▶ Erysipelatous swelling of cheek, and vesicles filled with yellow liquid. ▶ Red swelling on cheek, with boring, gnawing and digging from gum into ear, and with itching and crawling in cheek when the pain is relieved. ▶ Erysipelatous inflammation of face and external head; agg. face and head, with great tumefaction and throbbing headache, agg. forehead and vertex. ▶ Erysipelas bullosum, with fever. ▶ Swelling of left cheek with tensive pain and on touch bruised pain. ▶ White swelling of cheeks, feeling œdematous to touch. ▶ General swelling, inflammation, cold gangrene, death. ▶ Scarlet stripes on left forearm, which itch when touched but disappear when rubbed, with sensation as of a thin cord under skin. ▶ Reddish pimple on chin, painful on touch. ▶ Pustules above right brow, itching, and after scratching exuding bloody water. ▶ Vesicles filled with boil-shaped elevations. ▶ Gangrene.

Itching, with urging to stool, and stool too soon; I. on back of left hand. ▶ Corrosive I. on left thigh; on right close to hip; on left leg near knee in morning. ▶ Sticking I. on upper arm near elbow. ▶ Burning I. on middle knuckle of index; on outer side of left forearm. ▶ Tickling I. on right sole.

Frequent yawning. ▶ Sleepiness after midday meal. ▶ Irresistible sleepiness during the day. ▶ Stupid slumber in afternoon, from which he cannot arouse himself. ▶ Slept with arms stretched far above his head. ▶ Sleeplessness, with tremulous tossing about before midnight, roaring in ears and inability to close eyes. ▶ Sleep poor and tossing about two nights, afterwards heavy sleep. ▶ Frequent and easy waking; F., but immediate falling asleep again. ▶ Dreams after 3 A.M., of the transactions of two days previous. ▶ Anxious, confused D., without end. ▶ Vivid, lascivious, with emission. ▶ Vivid, anxious, causing him to cry out, whereupon he wakes.

▶ Chilliness of whole body in morning; C. when walking in warm open air; C., with sweat; with sensation as if he had not slept all night and were completely washed out, and with disappearance of veins of hands. ▶ Cold hands, with heat in face and warm forehead, without thirst. ▶ Shivering; over upper part of body; over back, with glowing cheeks and cold hands; frequently in skin, then salivation. ▶ Heat; with pulse at 86; all day, the clothes are burdensome, with heaviness of whole body as if he had carried a great load; of face. ▶ Sweat in morning on thighs and legs, but not on feet; on neck every morning in bed and on rising; in morning, extending from feet over the whole body, with heat, without much thirst. ▶ Cold sweat; on legs in morning.