Indicated in derangements of the urinary organs, especially in irritable and inflamed bladder, with constant desire to urinate and aching in bladder and kidneys. In intermittent fever with vesical irritation.
Indicated in affections of children and elderly people, nervous, of lymphatic temperament; particularly useful in the treatment of catarrhal affections, coughs, bronchitis, etc.
Indicated in weak, anaemic, chlorotic persons, especially women, who are pale, flush easily from moderate excitement and from slight pain, the face assuming a bright red color. In congestive headaches; diarrhoea of undigested food, especially chronic cases; in teething children, consumption. Menstrual derangements in women who suffer from pain in the vagina during sexual intercourse. Coughs (consumption?); rheumatism, especially of shoulder and in the back.
Indicated chiefly in diseases of the respiratory organs, with much prostration; in fat, bloated persons of lax fibre and of indolent, sluggish habit. Body large and fat; leg, too thin (H. N. Guernsey). ?Its periods of aggravation are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings; the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms in the evening ? (Wm. Boericke).
Indicated in affections of the mucous membrane in any part of the body, as: eyes, nose, throat, yellowish discharge; also in conditions tending toward malignancy; in stomatitis, aphthous sore mouth; gastro-duodenal catarrh; chronic constipation, in old people; in many diseases of women, with tenacious, yellow leucorrhoea, inflammation, hardening, ulceration, chiefly of the cervix, fungoid growths, prolapsus uteri; gonorrhoea. Hard, nodular tumors in the breast, with lancinating pain.
Indicated chiefly in neurasthenia, hypochondriasis, neurotic conditions. Marked impairment of memory, disturbed mental condition, and special expressions of the neurotic state elsewhere, as in the digestion, with sensory disturbances, call for its use.
Indicated chiefly by the presence of sharp, sticking pain or a series of sticking pains, in various parts of the body. Especially useful in persons who are sensitive to changes in the weather and cannot bear cold weather. H. N. Guernsey thinks it one of the best remedies following childbirth and its consequences.
Indicated in gastric disturbances of children who are inclined to get fat and are subject to skin troubles; often useful in rheumatic and gouty pains and in chronic diseases due to the suppression of an eruption.
Indicated in low fevers, septic states, and in all conditions characterized by utter prostration and blood deterioration. In diphtheria, purpura, low fevers, malignant scarlet fever. Has the reputation of great usefulness in all climacteric troubles, in the treatment of diseases arising from suppressed discharges. Chronic sore throat, with tenacious mucus sticking to the throat.
Indicated chiefly in affections of the respiratory tract; in small-pox.