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Could I have some information on the above remedy? I am particularly
interested in the skin description. My books do not give sufficient
description.

Thanks,
Rhonda

Dear Rhonda,

Rajan Sankaran comments in "The Soul of Remedies": "The situation of
Hura is that of a leper. Hura feels like a leper. He feels castaway and
despised without any chance of recovering from this situation."

I have personally prescribed Hura twice based primarily on this strong
mental/emotional keynote with excellent results. Interestingly, one of
the skin indications for Hura is a type of leprosy (as noted below).

Best regards,
Arlene
SKIN SYMPTOMS OF HURA BRASILIENSIS

From Allen's Encyclopedia:

Objective.
Nervous contraction of the skin of the forehead (thirty-third day).
Eruptions, Dry.
Large pimples, measuring about four lines, and much swollen like
mosquito bites, itching very much, and becoming raw as soon as touched;
in the evening (thirty-first and thirty third days).
Red blotch, with itching, on the right forearm, at 6.30 AM (sixth day).
Red spot, like a fleabite, on the back of the left hand, at 8.15 AM
(sixth day).
Appearance of a small red circle, with a small deep-red pimple in
the middle, followed by excoriation (eleventh day).
Pimple on the forehead (nineteenth day).
Pimple on the left side of the forehead, at noon (eighth day).
Large pimples on the legs, like mosquito bites (thirty-fourth and
thirty-fifth days).
Large pimples on the legs around the root of each hair
(thirty-first day).
Small pimples on the forehead (second day).
Small pimples on the face, at six AM (twelfth day).
Small pimples on the left cheek, above the nose, and near the lower
lip; they are red, with a small white point in the middle; at 12.30 P.
M. (first day).
Small pimples on the chin, itching a good deal, at eight PM
(twelfth day).
Small pimples on the back, with itching (twelfth day).
Small pimple, causing a smart itching on the inside of the right
elbow (second day).
Small pimples on the right knee, causing a feeling as from a
tetter, with very painful itching when touched; these pimples discharge
a little fluid on pressure.
Itching on the tibiae (twenty-ninth day).
Red pimples on the sides of the hips, with smarting (fifteenth day).
Bright-red pimple, itching a good deal, on the middle of the left
cheek, and another on the left side of the neck (third day).
Large red pimples on the shoulders, with stinging when touched
(thirteenth day).
Large red pimple on the right shoulder, at 10.30 PM (fifth day).
Small red pimples on the right cheek-bone, with smarting on the
right cheek; the eruption made its appearance at seven AM (ninth day).
Red itching pimples on the shoulders (fourteenth day).
Pimples painful to touch on the left cheek and eyebrows
(thirty-fourth day).
Miliary eruption on the face, at 9.30 PM (ninth day).
Miliary eruption on the joints (first day).
Miliary eruption on the shoulders, with itching, in the evening
(ninth day).
Clusters of miliary pimples on the back, arms, legs, and chest
(first day).
Clusters of small miliary pimples at the bend of the elbow, with
redness around them after scratching; they are not vesicular like the
previous ones; they also break out on the instep (thirteenth day).
The pimples increase as the temperature rises, and leave large red
blotches around the loins and above the hips (thirty-seventh day).
Eruptions, Moist.
Considerable eruption of small vesicular pimples all over, with red
blotches, as if the skin had been rubbed (thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth
days).
Red vesicular pimples, the vesicles break on pressure, and water
spurts out with great force (ninth day).
Small miliary vesicles on the right cheek-bone, middle of the
forehead, and left cheek (fourth day).
There are fewer pimples on the arm, and the small pimples remaining
contain a little water, which spurts out on pressure (twentieth day).
Small pimple on the right wrist, red at the base, and containing
water (seventh day).
Small vesicular pimples on the lower lip, itching a good deal
(sixth day).
Small vesicular pimples, with itching, on the ribs, the arms, and
all the projecting of the bones (fourth day).
In the morning the pimples on the arms and hands have nearly
disappeared, and there is only a little itching on the sternum (fifth day).
Red vesicular pimples o n the back (twelfth day).
Small vesicular pimple on the right wrist (seventh day).
Small vesicular pimple on the back of the left hand, lasting four
hours; at 2 o'clock (fourth day).
A cluster of pimples on the wrist, on the outer and lower surface
of the radius; they are vesicular (like those he had on his return from
Brazil), (nineteenth day).
Subjective.
Sensation as from an incipient tetter over the supinator radii
longus (fifth day).
Burning sensation in the right index finger, with a red spot
extending from the nail to the second phalanx; numbness, almost
amounting to insensibility (third day).
Smarting sensation in the beard, as if there were a pimple at each
hair; at 9 o'clock (tenth day).
Sensation of burning smarting, like an incipient tetter, in the
beard on the left side of the chin; at 7.30 PM (fifth day).
Pricking and formication on the soles of the feet, at 10.30 PM
(fifth day).
Formication in the soles of the feet, at one PM (sixth day).
Itching on the forehead (second day).
Itching at the edges of the left eyelids (sixth day).
Itching of the right lower eyelid, as if a pimple would appear
(seventh day).
Itching in the beard, with small pimples forming a scab under the
chin (twelfth day).
Itching of the right flank and left calf (second day).
Itching over the ribs and sternum, on the biceps, and posterior
portion of right arm (after one hour).
Itching on the back, legs, and arms at 10.30 PM (fifth day).
Itching under the arms, on the legs, and on the external portion of
the tibiae (first day).
Itching of the right arm, at the lower and inner portion of the
humerus, caused by a small pimple which is forming (first day).
Itching on the left arm, with small vesicular pimples (twelfth day).
Itching at night on the anterior surface of the tibia, with
smarting sensation as from a tetter (eleventh day).
Slight itching of the chin, at two PM under the lower lip, changing
to an acute pain when rubbed, and lasting all day (seventeenth day).
Much itching at the right external malleolus (sixth day).
Great itching of the index finger; the whole left arm is painful,
especially the wrist (thirteenth day).
Sleep disturbed by a violent itching caused by little pimples on
the shoulders (twenty-fourth day).
From Blackwood's Manual:

This remedy is recommended in LEPROSY, when the skin feels as if it
were hide bound. There are tense vesicles which contain serum.
From Boericke:

Used in leprosy, when skin feels as if it were hide bound. Tense
vesicles; sensation of splinter under thumb-nails. Skin of forehead
feels drawn tight. Stiff neck, pain in back. Throbbing in finger
tips. Itching, pimples on all projecting portions of bone, malar bones,
etc.
From Clarke's Dictionary:

Large pimples itching very much.
Pimples, painful to touch on left cheek and eyebrows.
Small red pimples on right cheek-bone, with smarting on right cheek.
Cluster of pimples or vesicles on various parts.
Red vesicular pimples, the vesicles break on pressure and water
squirts out with great force.
Small vesicular pimples, with itching, on ribs, arms, and all
projecting portions of bones.
Itching on forehead, eyelids, chin, beard, back, legs, sleep
disturbed by it.

from this description, it suggests that it might also be a good rx for certain cases of poison ivy. any other experiences or thoughts about this?
tanya
From Blackwood's Manual:

This remedy is recommended in LEPROSY, when the skin feels as if it
were hide bound. There are tense vesicles which contain serum.
From Boericke:

Used in leprosy, when skin feels as if it were hide bound. Tense
vesicles;
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In a message dated 11/25/2002 7:42:23 PM Mountain Standard Time,
tamarque@frontiernet.net writes:
Some eczema is like this.
Barbara
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Feeling like a leper ? Hmm.. well I dunno, but here's what T.F.Allen writes
Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Hura Brasiliensis, Wild.
Natural order, Euphorbiaceae.
Common name (Brazilian), Assacu (name given to the milky juice of the
tree).
Preparation, Tincture of the milky juice.
Authority. Mure, provings Nos.
[_a1]: to
[a4]: by two males and two females, each with a single drop of the 5th
dilution (Nos 1 and 3 had been attacked by leprosy, but had apparently
recovered under homoeopathic treatment), Pathogenesie Bresilienne, P. 163;
[a5]: Symptoms given by Cattell, B. J. of Hom., 11, 341.
Mind
Emotional
- Much excited and oppressed, as if by some great misfortune (seventh day),
[a4].
- Nervous laughter, which makes her shudder, at 7 A. M. (sixth day), [a4].
- Every paroxysm of pain excites a nervous laugh, with moanings like those
of a sick child (thirty-first day), [_a3].
- She weeps every little while, and especially for two days past, fancies
she sees the dead person before her eyes (forty-fifth day), [_a3].
- Causeless weeping, followed by nervous laughter (nineteenth day), [a4].
- The affections are very active (fifteenth day), [_a1].
- During and after the fainting spell, disposed to love everybody,
especially those about him; he often thinks of death, but does not fear it;
he even feels as though he could die without regret. He reproaches himself
for all his bad actions, even the merest trifles (sixteenth day), [_a1].
- Great cheerfulness, with inclination to laugh, followed by chills in the
head and legs, at 8 A. M. (seventh day), [a4].
- Sadness; inclination to weep, at 7 P.M. (eighth day), [a4].
- Sadness, melancholy; she thinks despondency of the future (nineteenth
day), [a4].
- Sad thoughts; vexation (twenty-eighth day), [_a3].
- Flow of sad thoughts; she fancies she is about to lose a dear friend
(forty-fifth day), [_a3].
- Depression; wants to do nothing; nothing pleases her (first day), [_a3].
- Dejection; indolence (second day), [a4].
- Hypochondria, sadness, despair; he fancies he is repudiated and deserted
by his relations; at 11 A. M. (eleventh day), [_a2].
- She fancies she is left alone in the world and is lost (nineteenth day),
[a4].
- Feelings much affected, and she sighs a good deal; at 9.30 A. M. (first
day), [a4].
- Inclination to weep (twenty-eighth day), [_a3].
- Inclination to weep; chest constricted, as from emotion, at 7.30 A. M.;
the tearful mood continues, the least thing disturbs her and makes her sad;
she starts when a door is opened suddenly; at 8.30 A. M. (ninth day), [a4].
- Unusual inclination to weep, even when singing, followed by a suffocative
feeling, at 9.30 A. M.; she weeps (ninth day), [a4].
- Great inclination to weep, at 10.30 P.M. (third day), [a4].
- Anxiety; sometimes she is taken with weeping in the streets
(thirty-eighth day), [_a3].
- Anxiety about his salvation, during the nervous attack (sixteenth day),
[_a1].
- Irritable; the least thing puts him out (thirty-fifth day), [_a1].
- Irritated by the least opposition (first day), [_a1].
- Since taking the drug, the least thing irritates her, and then she feels
times a day (third day), [a4].
- Impatience; she wants to break everything (nineteenth day), [a4].
- Impatience, anger; she bites her hands, and gets into a passion because
her ideas come too slowly (fifty-eighth day), [_a3].
- Sulky, perverse disposition (thirty-seventh day), [_a2].
- Listlessness; she does everything mechanically (fourth day), [_a3].
- In general she is careless of the future; ennui and weeping; thinks about
death without fearing it (thirty-first day), [_a3].
Intellectual
- Indisposed for work (thirty-seventh day), [_a2].
- Absence of mind (thirty-seventh day), [_a2].
- Absence of mind when at work (nineteenth day), [a4].
- Great absence of mind; he makes many blunders; mistakes one month for
another, as, e. g., July for September; for several successive days
(thirty-ninth day), [_a2].
- He twice takes the wrong street (thirty-ninth day), [_a2]
Dave Hartley
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