Corallium

     Red Coral

The provings of coral develop much coryza and epistaxis, and even ulceration within the nostrils. It is to be thought of for whooping and spasmodic coughs, especially when the attack comes on with a VERY RAPID cough, and the attacks follow so closely as to almost run into each other. Often preceded by sensation of smothering, followed by exhaustion. Congestion of face after dinner. Patient becomes purple in face. VIOLENCE OF PAROXYSM, even with EXPECTORATION of blood. Feeling as if cold air were streaming through skull and air-passages. One is too cold when uncovered and too hot when covered; relieved by artificial heat.

Head feels very large; violent pain as if parietal bones were forced apart; worse stooping. Eyes hot and painful. Deep-seated frontal headache with sever pain back of eyeballs. Pain aggravated by breathing cold air through nose.

Odors of smoke, onions, etc. Painful ulcer in nostrils. POST-NASAL CATARRH. PROFUSE SECRETION OF MUCUS DROPPING THROUGH POSTERIOR NARES; air feels cold. Dry coryza; nose stopped up and ulcerated. Epistaxis.

Food tastes like sawdust. Bread tastes like straw. Beer tastes sweet. Pain in articulation of left lower jaw. Craves salt.

Hawking of profuse mucus. Throat very sensitive, ESPECIALLY TO AIR. Profuse, nasal catarrh. Inspired air feels cold. (CISTUS.) PROFUSE SECRETION OF MUCUS DROPPING THROUGH POSTERIOR NARES. Dry, SPASMODIC, suffocative cough; very rapid cough, short, barking. Cough with great sensitiveness of air-passages; FEEL COLD ON DEEP INSPIRATION. Continuous hysterical cough. Feels suffocated and greatly exhausted after whooping-cough.

Male - Ulcers on glans and inner prepuce, with yellow ichor. Emissions and weakened sexual power. Profuse perspiration of genitals.

Red, flat ulcers on skin. Coral-colored, then dark red spots, changing to copper-colored spots. Psoriasis of palms and soles.

Worse in open air, changing from a warm to cold room.

Complementary: SULPH.
     Compare: BELLAD; DROSERA.; MEPHIT.; CAUST.