Indicated in complaints with great gastric flatulency and nervous excitability. Especially useful in the treatment of hysterical cases, suffering much from gastric flatulency and resulting palpitation of the heart. Important also in syphilitic affections, especially of the nones, with pronounced sensitiveness and night-pains.
Indicated in chronic cases of rheumatism; paralysis; in catarrh of the respiratory organs. Adapted to persons of psoric taint, of dark, sallow complexion, rigid fiber, and as often in children, subject to chafing and soreness of the skin.
Indicated in black, stringy haemorrhages in hysterical conditions; chorea.
Indicated in a wide range of diseases affecting the respiratory and intestinal mucous membrane, glandular system and skin, characterized by great sensitiveness to draught, easy perspiration and ready suppuration of the affected parts. In scrofulous affections, including those of the eye and ear; sore throat; tonsillitis on the point of suppuration; cough, including the late stages of bronchitis and pneumonia; suppurative affections of the skin, as felons; hip-joint disease with suppuration; bad-smelling eruptions, etc.
Indicated in affections of the pelvic viscera of (unmarried) women (as displacements) and in reflex symptoms caused by them; useful in cardiac disturbances associated with pelvic diseases of women.
Indicated in spinal disease, with intense neuralgic pain and tendency to motor paralysis; locomotor ataxia; neurasthenia; angina pectoris; gastralgia; also used in oxaluria with gouty pain.
Indicated principally in neuralgia of the head (feeling as if skull would open), ciliary, facial, intercostal, intestinal, cardiac, the pain radiating from a central point; in inflammation of the heart (endocarditis, pericarditis) and of the eye (iritis). Used as an anthelmintic and for the symptoms due to the presence of worms in children.
Indicated in coryza, with hoarseness, acrid discharge from the nose and harsh, splitting cough.
Indicated in ailments from grief, disappointed love, deep mortification; in syphilitic affections and diseases due to abuse of mercury; in diseases of the small bones, with characteristic pain and soreness; in glandular swellings of scrofulous persons; induration of uterus and testicles; foul nasal catarrh, ozaena. Frequently there is present great sexual hyperaesthesia, with mental and sexual excitement, begetting a state, essentially hysterical, in which the patient becomes excessively moody and crushed by a sense of unworthiness and unfitness to live; hence talks about self-destruction as the only means of escape. Acts best in young women of light complexion, inclined to plumpness.
Indicated in neuralgia of malarial origin and in malarial fevers, with startling regularity in the occurrence of the paroxysms. Also used as a direct local application to cure the bites of insects and snakes.