Indicated in violent congestion with venous delirium, intense headache, full and hard pulse, high temperature and livid face; in pelvic and other forms of congestion, with the same high arterial pressure and temperature; in inflammation involving the brain and other organs (oesophagus, peritonium, heart, respiratory organs), with the same type of accompanying symptoms. It is well adapted to plethoric persons.
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 principally in diseases of the brain and spine, especially when, in children, it depends upon the suppression of an exanthem or upon teething, and in adults when a neurasthenic state prevails, usually the result of anxious overwork. Thus it is employed in convulsions of children from irritation due to teething or eruptive fevers, in meningitis and in effusion within the brain, from the same cause or from tuberculosis; in the epilepsy of young children, in the headache of brain fag, including headache of overworked school children; in locomotor ataxia; in hysteria, especially when there is paralysis of the bladder; in spinal irritation and sciatica; in such functional disorders of the female generative organs as are accompanied by abnormal sexual desire, spinal irritation and restlessness, with inability to keep the feet still. Also used in varicose veins of the legs, lead colic, and other conditions associated with the nervous conditions belonging to the drug.
Indicated in gastric affections with deathly nausea, vomiting and great prostration; in asthma.
Indicated in coryza, with hoarseness, acrid discharge from the nose and harsh, splitting cough.
Symptoms may be classed into three groups:
While migraine headaches are common in teen-agers, they are substantially under-treated, concludes a study of nearly 19,000 12-to-19-year-olds.
Adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitutions; persons who are lively and entertaining when well, but violent and often delirious when sick.
Pains from darkness to daylight ; begin with twilight and end with daylight (Merc., Phyt.). Pains increase and decrease gradually (Stan.) shifting and require frequent change of position.
Sudden loss of memory ; everything seems to be in a dream; patient is greatly troubled about his forgetfulness; confused, unfit for business. Disposed to be malicious, seems bent on wickedness.