CORALLIUM RUBRUM

Corallium rubrum is a valuable and important homoeopathic medicine prepared from Red Coral (Gorgonia nobilis), a marine organism from the Gorgoniaceæ family. It is known for its intense action on the respiratory tract, especially in cases of spasmodic and whooping cough. Corallium rubrum is especially suited for violent, rapid coughs that come in close succession, often causing facial congestion, suffocation, and exhaustion. The medicine is also characterized by symptoms in the head and nose, including post-nasal catarrh, painful nasal ulcers, and extreme sensitivity to cold air. It plays a supportive role in chronic catarrhal states, violent coughs, skin eruptions, and male sexual weakness, making it a multifaceted medicine for both acute and chronic ailments with strong mucosal and neuro-respiratory involvement.

Common Name: Red Coral

SBL’s Corallium rubrum can be helpful in the following conditions:

Spasmodic and Whooping Cough

• Aids in rapid, spasmodic, suffocative coughs, with violent, short barking episodes.
• Helps when coughing fits follow each other so quickly that they almost merge. Bloody expectoration.
• Corallium rubrum supports coughs accompanied by exhaustion and facial congestion, even epistaxis.
• Useful when attacks are preceded by a smothering sensation and followed by collapse.
• Beneficial in whooping cough with great sensitivity of the air-passages.
• Relieves feeling of cold air passing through skull and trachea during inspiration.
• Indicated in hysterical or continuous coughs with extreme respiratory distress.

Post-Nasal Catarrh & Coryza

• Corallium rubrum is indicated in profuse, thick mucus dropping through the posterior nares.
• Supports dry coryza with nose completely blocked and ulcerated.
• Aids in painful nasal ulcers and recurrent epistaxis with ulcerated mucosa.
• Helps when air feels icy cold on breathing, aggravating nasal discomfort.
• Useful in sensitivity of throat and nasal membranes, worsened by open air.

Headache and Facial Symptoms

• Helps in deep-seated frontal headache with intense pain behind the eyeballs.
• Head feels very large, as if the skull were being forced apart—especially parietal bones.
• Supports head pain aggravated by stooping or breathing cold air through the nose.
• Aids in facial congestion after meals; face turns purple during coughing episodes.

Nasal Ulcers and Smell Disturbances

• Indicated in painful ulcers inside nostrils with post-nasal catarrh.
• Supports distorted smell—odors of smoke, onions, and other phantom scents.
• Manages dry nasal passages with ulceration and epistaxis.

Sensory Changes and Taste Disturbance

• Food tastes bland or altered—bread tastes like straw, beer tastes sweet.
• Supports in managing pain in articulation of left lower jaw.

Male Sexual Weakness and Skin Ulcers

• Helps in ulcers on glans penis and inner prepuce, discharging yellow ichor.
• Supports reduced sexual power with involuntary emissions.
• Aids in profuse perspiration of genitals indicating nervous or glandular involvement.

Skin Conditions and Discoloration

• Corallium rubrum supports flat, red ulcers and coral-colored skin spots.
• Helps when red lesions turn dark and then copper-colored.
• Useful in psoriasis of the palms and soles, especially chronic stubborn cases.