- Red coral, the product of a coralligene zoophyte, contains calcium carbonate and iron oxide (the origin of its color), gelatin and otherelements.
- In medical alchemy, red coral was considered to have “strengthening tonic properties, ” and to be astringent, sudorific, diuretic and absorbent.
- Cor-r affects the mucus membranes, espe cially of respiratory organs.
- The provings of coral develop much coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge., nosebleed and even ulceration within the nostrils.
- Eruptions, which are for the most part of its own color, coral-red spots on the palms of the hands, at first coral, then darker, and finally coppery.
- Coral-red chancres.
- Whooping and spasmodic coughs, es pecially when the attack comes on with a very rapid coughs and the attacks follow so closely as to almost run into each other.
- Violent coughing attacks.
- Coughs often preceded by sensation of smothering, followed by exhaustion.
- Coughs with expectoration of blood.
- Congestion of face, purple colored face, after dinner.
- Ulcerations in the respiratory organs with a stringy discharge.
- Feeling as if cold air were streaming through skull and air-passages.
- Too cold when uncovered and too hot when covered, better by artificial heat.🌿 Heat.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- COMMENTS-Cor-r corresponds to a combination of syphilis🩺 SyphilisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and psora.
- Cough like whooping cough in machine-gun paroxysms.
- Crowing inspiration, sensation as if inspired air was icy cold.
- May cough up blood.
- Useful for chronic bronchitis🩺 Chronic BronchitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Smothering sensation before cough, after, great exhaustion.
- Change of air causes coughing.
- Sensation of emptiness or hollowness in the head feels very large.
- Sensation as if forehead were flattened.
- Feels cold when uncovered and too hot when covered.
- Very sensitive to cold air and drafts.
- Much drowsiness, many symptoms appear during sleep.
- J. N. Lowe cured with Cor-r an infant, a year old, suffering from laryngismus stridulus, the indications being worse during sleep and after waking.
- Lach.🌿 Lach.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., given first, failed to relieve.
- Guernsey's indication is “Whooping cough or any other kind of cough when the attack comes on with a very rapid cough and the attacks follow so closely as to almost run into e ach other.” Found most effective in the nervous “machine-gun” cough where the patient gives an isolated cough at regular intervals through the day.
- Nash found it the most useful of all rem edies in post-nasal catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane..
- Guernsey's other indication is “red f lat ulcers on the glans and inner surface of the prepuce with secretion of a quantity of yellow🌿 YellowMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. ichor.” Temperature-Chill, but skin of usual warmth.
- Chill with headache and violent thirst.
- Chill better by external heat.
- FebrileFeverish or marked by feverRelating to or characterized by an elevated body temperature or fever symptoms. shivering, with burning thirst.
- Dry heat internally and externally, with full and hard pulse.
- Dry heat without thirst, and not followed by perspiration.
- Hot parts feel cold when uncovered.
- No appetite.
- Violentthirst.
- Insipidity of food tastes like sawdust.
- Bread, farinaceous foods tastes like straw.
- Sweetish taste of beer.
- Craves salty foods and acids.
- Intoxication after drinking very little wine
