Elaterium officinarum
Remedy of violent watery diarrhea — copious, gushing, olive-green. Diarrhea with cramping, cutting pains. Chills with the diarrhea. Urticaria. Beriberi. Used for cholera-like conditions.
Source
Prepared from the juice of the ripe fruit of Ecballium elaterium (Cucurbitaceae).
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Violent, copious, gushing, watery diarrhea — olive-green, frothy. Cutting, cramping pains with stool. Chills during diarrhea. Cholera-like symptoms. Urticaria. Beriberi with dropsy. Weakness and prostration from fluid loss. Nausea, vomiting.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Prostrated. Dull.
General Symptoms
GI — violent purging. Worse from eating, cold, damp. Better from warmth, rest.
Physical Symptoms
Rectum
Violent, gushing, watery diarrhea — olive-green, frothy. Copious. Cutting, cramping. Cholera-like.
Stomach
Nausea, vomiting. Cramping.
Skin
Urticaria. Beriberi with dropsy.
Modalities
Better From
Warmth, rest
Worse From
Eating, cold, damp
Constitutional Type
Not constitutional. Acute violent diarrhea.
Clinical Indications
Violent watery diarrhea, cholera-like, olive-green stool, beriberi, urticaria
Comparative Materia Medica
Podophyllum has gushing diarrhea but painless and morning. Veratrum album has copious purging with cold sweat. Croton tiglium has watery gushing stool.
Safety Information
Not well established.
Squirting cucumber is a powerful purgative. Contains elaterium — extremely irritating to GI tract. Violent vomiting and purging. Use only potentised forms.
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