Indicated in diseases of children, during the period of dentition, with diarrhoea; the characteristics are clear-cut. Here, and in adults, in neuralgic, menstrual and other troubles, the intolerance of pain, aggravation from anger and great mental irritablility are safe guides.
Indicated in diarrhoea and in vesicular and pustular eruptions of the skin.
Indicated in conditions of great weakness, with much nervous excitement. Mania of a quarrelsome character, with obscenity and shamelessness. In conditions of marked muscular excitement; convulsions. Hence its use in chorea, epilepsy, tetanus, hydrophobia, convulsions from fright, in all forms of delirium and mania, with obscenity, shamelessness, inclination to quarel, including puerperal mania, the delirium of low fevers (typhus, typhoid, coma vigil), nymphomania. Occasionally used in coughs (whooping cough) and in the crying-out of nervous, children twitching during sleep, awaking in a fright.
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 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 coughs, chiefly chronic, with abundant expectoration and feeling of great weakness in the throat and chest. In neuralgia (headache about the eyes, intestinal, intercostal); in troubles due to worms, and occasionally in nervous affections with twitching of muscles and paralytic weakness.
Indicated in persons of low vitality, of advanced years; in chronic nasal and post-nasal catarrh, with dryness of the mucous membrane; sore throat of public speakers; painter?s colic. Dryness of the mucous membrane and inactivity of the rectum are characteristic.
Indicated in the ailments of scrofulous children, physically and mentally backward, with enlarged tonsils and other expressions of scrofulous tendency. Useful in diseases of men of advanced years, timid, easily tired, giving evidence of commencing physical deterioration. The latter frequently suffer from hypertrophy or induration of the prostate or testicles.
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 affections of the respiratory and urinary mucous membrane, as catarrh of nose and throat and discharge of greenish-yellow mucus from the nose into the throat.