Indicated in chronic hoarseness of singers; in gastric ailments characterized by much gastric flatulency and noisy belching of gas; diarrhoea; spinal diseases; trembling and weakness of legs; neurasthenia; chorea; hysteria; affections of the eyes, with burning heat, photophobia, copious muco-purulent discharge; early stage of gonorrhoea.
Indicated in fat, fair persons of indolent disposition, subject to moist eruptions. ?The graphites obesity is more particularly seen in older people, that of Calcarea in children? (T. F. Allen). In eczema of the scalp, ear, face, scrotum and elsewhere; in nasal catarrh; glandular swellings; herpes of prepuce, etc.
Indicated in troubles connected with receipt of some injury, or from the excessive use of some part of the body; after severe labor. The sense of soreness and of being bruised all over is characteristic, as well as the dread of being approached, seen in gout.
Indicated in affections of the mucous membrane in any part of the body, as: eyes, nose, throat, yellowish discharge; also in conditions tending toward malignancy; in stomatitis, aphthous sore mouth; gastro-duodenal catarrh; chronic constipation, in old people; in many diseases of women, with tenacious, yellow leucorrhoea, inflammation, hardening, ulceration, chiefly of the cervix, fungoid growths, prolapsus uteri; gonorrhoea. Hard, nodular tumors in the breast, with lancinating pain.
Indicated chiefly in diseases of grave character with the mental symptoms peculiar to the remedy, thirst, restlessness, exhaustion after even slightest exertion, and aggravation after midnight.
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 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 certain affections of the skin and bones, and in neuralgia; seems best adapted to persons of light complexion, hesitating, irresolute.
Indicated in the treatment of almost every disease resting upon a constitutional basis expressed in the leucophlegmatic temperament and the ailments to which it predisposes. Among these may be named: derangements of nutrition, glandular affections; catarrhal disorders; indigestion; diarrhoea; constipation; menstrual derangements; coughs and many serious diseases of the respiratory organs; gall-stone colic; affections of the nervous system, including the psychoses tumors, polypi, and a long list of other phases of morbid action, all characterized by symptoms peculiar to this remedy.
Indicated in low fevers with high temperature, vitiated state of the blood and every great weakness; in typhus and typhoid fever, septic conditions generally, with haemorrhagic tendency.