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Euphorbia Corollata

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General

Natural order.- Euphorbiaceae.

Common name.- Flowering Spurge.

General Analysis.-

Acts upon the mucous tissues of the digestive tract, giving rise to a choleraic condition, its chief symptom being :

Sudden and powerful vomiting, first of food and other contents of stomach, then large quantities of water mixed with mucus, then clear fluid like rice water ; followed immediately by copious watery evacuations, the diarrhoea and vomiting alternating at short intervals, accompanied by painful spasms of the intestines, great anxiety, and a death-like sense of faintness and exhaustion. (Ars., Verat. alb.)

It has accordingly been used with success in the treatment of sporadic cholera, and especially cholera infantum.

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(Euphorbia corollata)

Ars., Camph., Sec. c., Verat. alb.

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