Indicated in neuralgia, in affections resulting from suppressed gonorrhoea, inflammation and induration of glands (testicles); in some form of eczema; in rheumatic affections of persons subject to perpetic eruptions.
Indicated in states of great mental and bodily excitement, sleeplessness, neuralgia, characterized by nervous irritability and great intolerance of pain; delirium tremens; hysteria; neuralgic headache and toothache; palpitation of the heart from excitement; sleeplessness.
Indicated in spasmodic affections (chorea), convulsive seizures (puerperal, epilepsy, convulsions of children). Particularly useful when convulsions and other threatening symptoms appear after suppression or too early disappearance of the rash in eruptive fevers. Valuable in whooping cough; in all forms of diarrhoea (cholera) with violent cramps in abdomen and calves of legs; in gastric affections with violent vomiting cramping; in colics so severe that collapse seems imminent.
Indicated in deep-seated, chronic diseases, especially of persons who are weak muscularly, but have a keen, active brain; who are subject to digestive disturbances with much flatulency; catarrhal conditions; hepatic involvements, with tenderness and stitches in the liver, swallow complexion, yellowish sports on the abdomen; dropsy dependent upon disease of the liver; uric acid diathesis; tonsilitis; diphtheria; chronic pneumonia, especially of old people; indigestion, with flatulency and colic, of babies.
Indicated chiefly in anaemic and chlorotic states and in chronic manifestations of malarial poisoning. In muscular affections of the eyes. Anaemic headaches of young girls at school.
Indicated in a grave class of disease, chiefly of the brain, characterized by profound sopor or coma, with heavy, continuous, stertorous breathing; dark, livid face; hot sweat, especially about the head; hence its use in coma vigil, apoplectic states, and in exanthema when there is retrocession of the rash followed by brain symptoms. Used also in lead colic and in stubborn constipation due to paralysis of the intestinal muscular fibre.
Indicated in conditions of great debility following severe acute sickness, loss of fluids, grief, excesses, etc. Best adapted to those of mild, yielding disposition, inclined to be listless and indifferent; ill effects of masturbation; brain fag; spinal anaemia; palpitation of the heart; caries of spinal vertebrae; typhoid fever; seminal emissions.
Indicated in low states, like typhoid fever, with painless diarrhoea, hepatic and splenic enlargement and haemorrhagic tendency; in fatty degeneration of heart, liver and pancreas; in many diseases of the respiratory tract, as laryngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, phthisis and chronic coughs, with absence of fever, and tendency to bleeding from trifling causes; in gastric ulcer, haematemesis, gastritis, gastralgia with burning, constrictive, knife-like pain; in diseases of the liver, as jaundice, especially of a severe type, and cirrhosis; in diseases of the pancreas; in nervous affections, as chorea, paralysis, brain-fag, softening of the brain, insanity, especially with ideas of grandeur; in diabetes; in caries of bones, as lower jaw, nasals, vertebrae; in sexual exhaustion and the evils attending it; well adapted to tall thin persons of amative disposition, with a history of sexual excesses, and to cases of a pronounced haemorrhagic diathesis.
Indicated chiefly in diseases of spinal origin (sclerosis, paralysis, locomotor ataxia), in neuralgia, colic of a violent character (painter?s colic); constipation. Has been used in strangulated hernia and inussusception, and in Bright?s disease.
Indicated in affections of the nervous system, as suggested by the symptoms. In delirium tremens with terrifying hallucinations; in convulsions from fright and in hysterical convulsions generally; in puerperal mania with lewd imaginings and speech; insanity; scarlet fever with brain symptoms, the eruption being tardy or suppressed; spasmodic asthma; hydrophobia; chorea when the choreic movements involve now one set of muscles, then another.