Indicated in complaints from getting wet from lying on the damp ground, from straining a single part, as in overlifting; in fevers, including those of adynamic type; erysipeals in any part, especially in the face; muscular rheumatism, including the heart; neuralgia, neuritis; sciatica;
Indicated in continuous fevers, etc., with depraved state of the blood, excessive prostration and marked muscular soreness; in diphtheria with severe constitutional symptoms.
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 coughs provoked by tickling in the pit of the throat or by touching it; aggravated by inhaling cold air; soothed by breathing in warm air by warmth in any form. Larynx and trachea are very sensitive. In the early stage of whooping cough; night cough of phthisis. Used also in gastric disorders, especially from excessive tea drinking, and is gastralgia.
Indicated in active congestion of any part of the body; especially cerebral; in inflammation not fully localized.
Indicated in coughs, especially whooping cough, hay fever, larngeal phthisis, of phlegmatic, scrofulous persons who have a delicate, irritable skin and suffer from eruptions.
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.
Indicated in gastric and intestinal affections in persons of lymphatic, torpid constitutions; in children. Gastric catarrh; gastralgia; painless diarrhoea, with great thirst; cholera infantum.
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 in conditions tending to collapse, as in choleric states; this tendency, less marked, is present also in other conditions, as in cough (bronchitis, croup, whooping cough), dysmenorrhoea, cardiac weakness, etc., so exhausting the patient that the body becomes cold and the forehead is covered with cold sweat. The same coldness and exhaustion occur in the fever group and render it a valuable remedy in cases of congestive and pernicious fevers.