EEL SERUM OR SERUM ANGUILLAE IN HOMOEOPATHY MEDICINE | HOMOEOPATHY MEDICINE EEL SERUM OR SERUM ANGUILLAE

ZOOLOGICAL NAME—Anguilla roastrata LeSueur.

FAMILY—Anguillidae

COMMON NAMES— English–El serum

DESCRIPTIONThe toxic serum of the eel is a ray-finned fish with a long, slender snake-like body that can grow to 0.6 meters in length. The eel’s minute scales are embedded in its yellowish-brown skin, giving it a smooth appearance. Eel serum is a yellowish to greenish-yellow, opalescent liquid that can be pink due to a slight hemolysis.

DISTRIBUTIONFrom the southern Great Plains to the Atlantic Coast, from southern Greenland and Labrador to northern South America, and in the Mississippi Valley as far north as MINNESOTA and South America, it occupies the majority of the rivers in eastern North America.

PART USED-The serum. Isotonic sodium chloride solution should be used right away to prepare attenuations up to three times of pure eel serum.

HOMOEOPATHIC USESHeart and kidney conditions. Kidney failure. Acute nephritis. Hypertension and oliguria without edema. Cardiac uremia. Heart conditions in cases of failure of compensation and impending systole. Very effective in functional heart conditions. Mitral insufficiency. Asystole with or without edema, dyspnea, and difficult urinary secretion.

PRESCRIBED DOSE—4CH, 6X and higher.