Indicated in respiratory troubles, chiefly those affecting the larynx and trachea; especially adapted to children of fair, delicate complexion and scrofulous diathesis, subject to spasmodic cough. In croup; occasionally in asthma.
Indicated in gout and rheumatic affections of joints with dread of having the parts touched and excessive pain from the slightest touch or knock; in fall-dysentery; in bad effects of night watching.
Indicated in catarrhal inflammations of the eyes and nose. In measles with marked eye symptoms.
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 functional diseases of the nervous system (faintings, palpitation of the heart, hysteria, etc.), associated with flatulency, tremblings, disposition to faint, and sense of great coldness.
Indicated in diarrhoea, chiefly of children, with distinctly sour smell of the stools and of the child.
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.
Indicated in eruptive fevers, especially in scarlatina; in diphtheria; in inflammatory affections, particularly in those of erysipelatous tendency; in dropsies with absence of thirst and scanty urination; nephritis. Very important in the treatment of post-scarlatinal dropsy. Used in intermittent and other fevers; in ovarian diseases; in certain coughs, with much dyspnoea.
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 in neuralgic affections (sciatica with relief from hard pressure and lying on affected side; in ovarian pain (dysmenorrhoea); in rheumatism; particularly valuable in intestinal affections (colic, dysentery), with severe colicky pain causing him to bend double and press against some hard substance of relief. There is always present much irritability and protestation of great suffering. Useful in troubles caused by anger or indignation.