Indicated in adynamic conditions with haemorrhagic tendency, sense of general trembling, craving for, and intolerance of stimulants; specially in typhoid fever and in diphtheria with very copious exudation. Valuable in vomiting, particularly of old topers. ?Sour? odor of the breath and of the body of the patient is characteristic.
Indicated in chronic hoarseness of singers; in gastric ailments characterized by much gastric flatulency and noisy belching of gas; diarrhoea; spinal diseases; trembling and weakness of legs; neurasthenia; chorea; hysteria; affections of the eyes, with burning heat, photophobia, copious muco-purulent discharge; early stage of gonorrhoea.
Indicated chiefly in diseases of grave character with the mental symptoms peculiar to the remedy, thirst, restlessness, exhaustion after even slightest exertion, and aggravation after midnight.
Indicated in complaints with great gastric flatulency and nervous excitability. Especially useful in the treatment of hysterical cases, suffering much from gastric flatulency and resulting palpitation of the heart. Important also in syphilitic affections, especially of the nones, with pronounced sensitiveness and night-pains.
Indicated in condition of great debility, in the aged; in those who are recovering imperfectly from a severe illness (China, Phos. ac.). being unable to rally; state of collapse, as in cholera and typhoid fever; in coughs with great fetor of expectoration; asthma; in foul, old ulcers, carbuncles; gastric and intestinal complaints with much flatulency.
Indicated in kidney troubles with pain in the back, extending to different parts, sometimes difficult to locate; the pain is stitching, jerking, lancinating, tearing. Also in diseases of the liver, with indigestion, vomiting of food, soreness of the liver, bilious colic, gall-stone colic, and jaundice. In lumbago, the pain extending from the back around the body and down the legs with bright-red urine containing mucous sediment.
Indicated in diseases of the liver and gall bladder and in disorders associated with or depending on hepatic disease. Acts best in persons of light complexion, thin, fretful, and subject to gastric, abdominal and hepatic derangements. Also used in coughs, bronchitis, pneumonia and rheumatism.
Indicated in indigestion, with bilious derangements; constipation; headache with vertigo and gastric disorders; diarrhoea, particularly during hot weather; bronchitis, pneumonia, coughs; fevers tending towards a typhoid state; rheumatic affections; inflammation of serous and synovial membranes. Suited to persons of dark complexion, vigorous constitution, lean, of firm fibre, of rather irritable disposition.
Indicated chiefly in children suffering from symptoms which suggest the presence of worms.
Indicated in the treatment of almost every disease resting upon a constitutional basis expressed in the leucophlegmatic temperament and the ailments to which it predisposes. Among these may be named: derangements of nutrition, glandular affections; catarrhal disorders; indigestion; diarrhoea; constipation; menstrual derangements; coughs and many serious diseases of the respiratory organs; gall-stone colic; affections of the nervous system, including the psychoses tumors, polypi, and a long list of other phases of morbid action, all characterized by symptoms peculiar to this remedy.