ELAPS CORALLINUSLiquid

Elaps corallinus, prepared from the Coral Snake (Elaps corallinus), belonging to the Elapidæ family, this potent homoeopathic medicine is noted for its deep, destructive, and hemorrhagic tendencies, especially marked by black discharges, cold sensations, and right-sided symptoms. It is particularly suited for individuals with rheumatic constitutions, degenerative diseases, or conditions characterized by ulceration, hemorrhage, and nervous exhaustion. Elaps has a pronounced action on the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory system, and nervous tissue, as well as the ears, nose, throat, and skin. It is indicated in cases involving chronic catarrh, black hemorrhages, esophageal spasms, and icy coldness, with a marked intolerance to cold things.

Common Name: Coral Snake

SBL’s Elaps corallinus can be helpful in the following conditions:

Gastrointestinal and Esophageal Affections

• Indicated in sudden stabbing gastric pain with cold feeling in the stomach, especially after fruits or ice-water.
• Elaps corallinus aids acidity with faintness and vomiting after each mouthful.
• Supports spasms of the esophagus, where food or liquid gets arrested and then falls heavily into the stomach.
• Desire for sweetened buttermilk is a notable craving.
• Sensation as though food turns like a corkscrew when swallowed.

Bleeding from Lungs and Chest Pain

• Useful in cough with terrible lung pain, worse on the right side, often accompanied by black, ink-like expectoration.
• Relieves coldness in the chest after drinking, and oppression on climbing stairs.
• Helps in hemorrhage from the lungs, especially black, watery blood, typically linked with advanced pulmonary conditions.
• Fainting spells while stooping, and sensation of sponge in the esophagus.

Vertigo and Paralysis

• Indicated in right-sided paralysis, or paretic symptoms following spasms.
• Beneficial in conditions with oscillatory movements, apoplexy fear.
• Supports vertigo with tendency to fall forward, and heaviness in the head.
• Post-spasmodic weakness, especially in esophageal and muscular disorders.

Catarrhal Affections

• Aids in chronic nasal catarrh with fetid odor and green crusts.
• Supports ozæna, nasal bleeding, or obstruction with mucous membrane wrinkling.
• Ears show cerumen black and hard, with deafness, buzzing, and cracking sounds.
• Intolerable itching in ears, roaring, and sudden night-time deafness.
• Throat may exhibit dry, offensive, greenish-yellow crusts with foul breath and esophageal spasm.

Dysmenorrhoea and Metrorrhagia

• Indicated in dysmenorrhœa with black blood discharge.
• Useful in intermenstrual black bleeding, along with itching of the vulva and vagina.

Skin Eruptions and Glandular Affection

• Beneficial in axillary eruptions, tetter, and itching.
• Tips of fingers peel off, and vesicular eruptions on feet.
• Aids in glandular affecttion, particularly around the axilla.
• Useful in skin complaints where black blood or ulceration is involved.

Mental Depression and Confusion

• Helps depression with fears—especially fear of being alone, fear of rain, and fear of apoplexy.
• Patient may hear imaginary voices or show confusion—can speak, but cannot understand speech.
• Dreams of dead persons, emotional heaviness, and dread.

Extremities and Joint Pain

• Elaps corallinus manages icy cold feet, bluish swelling of arms and hands.
• Indicated in sprained feeling in knees, prickling under nails, and rheumatic tendencies.

Dreams of Dead and Cold Sweat

• Patient suffers from dreams of the dead and disturbed sleep.
• Useful in typhoid states with deep ulceration and discharge of black blood.
• Accompanied by cold sweat, collapse, and marked exhaustion.