SERUM ANGUILLAE OR EEL- SERUM
SERUM
ANGUILLAE OR EEL- SERUM
ZOOLOGICAL
NAME
—Anguilla roastrata LeSueur.
FAMILY---Anguillidae
COMMON
NAMES— English--El serum
DESCRIPTION—The
toxic serum of the Eel, a ray-finned fish with long , slender snake like body, laterally compressed at the posterior
end , and reaching a length of 0.6 meter. The scales are minute and embedded in
the yellowish- brown skin, thus giving it a smooth appearance. Eel serum is a
yellowish to greenish –yellow , opalescent liquid, it may be pink due to a
slight hemolysis.
DISTRIBUTION---Occupies
most of the rivers of eatern North America from the southern Great Plains to
the Atlantic Coast, from southern Greenland and Labrador to northern South
America, and in the Missippi Valley as far north as MINNESOTA and
South America.
PART
USED
–The serum. Pure Eel serum should not be stored, and attenuations up to 3x
should be prepared without delay, with isotonic sodium chloride solution.
HOMOEOPATHIC
USES—Heart
and kidney diseases. In kidney diseases the attack is characterized by
oliguria, anuria and albuminuria. Kidney failure. Acute nephritis. Hypertension and oliguria without edema.
Cardiac uremia. Heart diseases in cases of failure of compensation and
impending systole. Very efficacious in functional heart diseases. Mitral
insufficiency. Asystole with or without edema, dyspnea, and difficult urinary
secretion.
PRESCRIBED
DOSE—4CH,
6X and higher.
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