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 in persons of nervous, irritable habit; thin, spare, preferably of sedentary life and subject to much mental strain; given to the use of stimulants; inclined to constipation and ready recourse to tonics, cathartics and patent medicines.
Indicated in catarrhal affections of the respiratory tract; nasal catarrh with pain over the root of the nose; laryngitis, croup, oedema of glottis; even in the cough of phthisis and pneumonia; in headaches from cold and in neuralgic pain in the head. Also in sore throats.
Indicated in hysteria, chorea, spinal irritation and neurotic states generally, with jerking, trembling, itching.
Indicated chiefly in scarlet fever, with irritating discharges, causing raw, bleeding excoriations. In clergyman?s sore throat.
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 diseases of the genito-urinary system and in affections of the skin, with tendency to haemorrhage and decomposition, hence putridity of discharges. There is much restlessness and burning pain as from a red hot coal. Used in lupus of the nose and face, with burning pain; in choleraic conditions with fetid bloody stools, great prostration and gastric irritability; cholera infantum; many diseases of the female genital organs, as inflammations, cervical ulceration, malignant diseases of the uterus, cauliflower excresences, leucorrhoea, pruritus, etc., characterized by burning pain, putridity and tendency to erosion. Also useful in gangrenous conditions.
Indicated in serious states where the vitality is very low and there is absolute lack of reaction; serous effusion in different parts of the boyd, especially cerebral effusion (tubercular meningitis, hydrocephalus, hydrothorax, dropsy from renal disease); in typhoid fever.
Indicated in bilious affections with tar-like stools.
Indicated in a grave class of disease, chiefly of the brain, characterized by profound sopor or coma, with heavy, continuous, stertorous breathing; dark, livid face; hot sweat, especially about the head; hence its use in coma vigil, apoplectic states, and in exanthema when there is retrocession of the rash followed by brain symptoms. Used also in lead colic and in stubborn constipation due to paralysis of the intestinal muscular fibre.