• For bites of snakes and spiders.

• It may render the body immune to snake venom; prophylactic action possible.

• Euphorbia Polycarpa has a profound influence on the blood and circulation.

• It acts primarily on the skin and mucous membranes, causing intense irritation.

• Keynotes: intense burning, itching, and swelling.

• It causes marked prostration and exhaustion.

• General aggravation from heat and sun.

• Great sensitivity to touch.

• It affects right side more than the left.

• Its complaints appear suddenly and violently.

• Its symptoms appear then disappear only to reappear suddenly.

• The patient has anxiety and restlessness, especially at night.

• The patient has irritability and impatience; is easily angered.

• The patient has fear of death and being alone.

• The patient experiences mental confusion and difficulty concentrating.

• The patient has a sense of foreboding, as if something terrible is about to happen.

• The patient experiences despondency and hopelessness; feels disconnected from others.

• The patient is restless and cannot remain in one place.

• The patient is very apprehensive, especially when alone.

• The patient is discontented and finds fault with everything.

• The patient is forgetful and loses their train of thought.

• It causes vertigo with nausea and vomiting.

• It causes congestion of the head with flushed face.

• It causes photophobia; sensitive to light.

• The patient has eyelids swollen and red.

• It causes profuse lachrymation, acrid and burning.

• The patient has a sensation of sand in the eyes.

• It causes tinnitus; ringing or buzzing in the ears.

• Hearing is diminished.

• It causes sneezing with profuse, watery discharge.

• The nose feels stuffed up.

• It causes difficulty swallowing.

• The throat feels dry and constricted.

• It causes difficult breathing; shortness of breath.

• It causes a cough with burning pain in the chest.

• It causes expectoration of blood-streaked mucus.

• It causes oppressed breathing.

• It causes a sensation of constriction of the larynx.

• #

• It causes palpitations with anxiety.

• It causes a rapid and weak pulse.

• It causes a feeling of constriction around the heart.

• It causes angina-like pains.

• It causes oppression of the chest; feels suffocated.

• #

• It causes nausea and vomiting.

• It causes abdominal pain with burning sensation.

• It causes diarrhea with burning stools.

• It causes dysentery.

• It causes intense thirst for cold water.

• It causes burning pain in the stomach.

• It causes nausea and vomiting.

• It causes belching of sour fluid.

• It causes abdominal distention with tenderness.

• It causes colicky pains.

• It causes rumbling in the abdomen.

• #

• It causes a burning sensation in the rectum.

• It causes diarrhea with burning, watery stools.

• It causes tenesmus.

• It causes involuntary stools.

• #

• It causes burning pain in the bladder and urethra.

• It causes frequent urination with scanty, burning urine.

• The urine is dark and turbid.

• It causes incontinence of urine.

• #

• (Female) - It causes a burning sensation in the vagina.

• It causes menstrual irregularities.

• It causes leucorrhea, acrid and burning.

• The ovaries feel swollen and painful.

• It causes suppressed menses.

• It causes burning pain in the limbs.

• It causes swelling of the joints.

• It causes skin eruptions on the extremities.

• It causes numbness and tingling in the hands and feet.

• It causes weakness in the limbs.

• It causes cramps in the legs.

• It causes rheumatic pains.

• It causes intense itching and burning.

• It causes eczema with vesicles.

• It causes dermatitis.

• It causes burns.

• It causes swelling and redness.

• It causes urticaria.

• The skin is sensitive to touch.

• It causes sleeplessness from itching and burning.

• The dreams are vivid and disturbing.

• Heat, sun, touch, motion, night, lying down.

• #

• Cold applications, rest, open air.

•

• Complementary remedies: Apis, Arsenicum album, Rhus toxicodendron.

• Antidotes: Camphora.

• Comparisons: Cantharis, Croton tiglium, Ranunculus bulbosus.

• Useful for: Snake bites, spider bites, burns, eczema, dermatitis, conjunctivitis, gastroenteritis.

• Also useful for herpes zoster and erysipelas.