Indicated in convulsive and spasmodic affections (chorea, puerperal convulsions), with drawing back of the head and neck, even to opisthotonos (opisthognathous – retreating jaws). Particularly valuable in cerebro-spinal meningitis and in the sequels of concussion of the brain and spinal marrow.
Indicated in affections of the heart, with weak, irregular contractions, causing a fluttering sensation. Sense of faintness and fear of death from dread that the heart?s action will suddenly cease. Of great value in organic heart disease, with scantiness of urine and dropsical effusion. Also in hepatic disease with jaundice, ascites, nephritis with cardiac symptoms, percarditis with effusion; pneumonia, especially of the aged, with weakness of the heart?s action. Less often in urethritis, specific and non-specific, and in prostatitis.
Indicated by its persistent nausea and vomiting, not only in gastric derangement, as from eating rich, indigestible things, and in diarrhoea, but also in coughs (whooping cough), haemorrhage (from the lungs, uterus), and in intermittent fever.
Indicated in a great variety of affections, characterized by aggravation from damp, rainy weather and at night, constant and copious sweating without relief, and flabby tongue with induration of teeth. Of service in involvement of glandular and lymphatic structures; in sore throats, diphtheria, hepatic derangements, diarrhoea, catarrh (nose, throat, ears, respiratory organs, genital mucous membrane, etc.), with tendency to involvement of the deep structures; gastric and bilious fevers of a lingering type; venereal diseases.
Indicated in affections, chiefly of women, resting upon a neurotic basis, as hysteria, melancholia, particularly religious and sexual, and mania, especially puerperal; in these, exaltation of self, fear of death and a remarkable degree of sexual excitement are nearly always present. Also of service in neuralgia (face, head, stomach, ovaries) with a sense of numbness in the parts; ovarian and uterine affections of women who have excessive menstrual flow of dark, clotted blood, albuminous leucorrhoea, and nervous symptoms of reflex origin. In constipation and colic dur to lead-poisoning.
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 chiefly in neurasthenia, hypochondriasis, neurotic conditions. Marked impairment of memory, disturbed mental condition, and special expressions of the neurotic state elsewhere, as in the digestion, with sensory disturbances, call for its use.
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 muscular rheumatism; in uterine and ovarian disease; in neurotic conditions.
Indicated in whooping cough, clergyman?s sore throat, and asthma.