Indicated in neuralgia, in affections resulting from suppressed gonorrhoea, inflammation and induration of glands (testicles); in some form of eczema; in rheumatic affections of persons subject to perpetic eruptions.
Indicated in scrofulous conditions, in persons of uncleanly habits, lank and stoop-shouldered, in affections resulting from suppression of an eruption; in those subject to venous congestion and disturbed portal circulation. Characterized by periodicity and relapses. General inertia, aggravation from standing, acridity of the discharges, tendency of the skin to ulcerate from slight injury and, in children, dislike of being washed, are reliable indications. Frequently used in acute diseases when the indicated remedy fails to act, under the belief that it ?clears up? the case or stimulates vital reaction. It holds to chronic diseases a relation similar to that of Aconite to acute affections.
Indicated in affections of elderly people who have become weak and sluggish; in elderly persons of either sex, especially women at the change of life, who have been continent, but not without desire; in hard tumors and suspicion of cancerous tendency; in all glandular indurations, vertigo. Night-coughs of old people, frequently with gastric pain. According to T. F. Allen, useful in sexual nervousness of strong, healthy men who are unable to have erections.
Indicated in the treatment of haemorrhoids associated with severe backache; recommended for follicular inflammation of the posterior pharynx.
Indicated in affections of the mucous membrane, especially urinary and respiratory; useful in urinary catarrh – catarrh of the bladder, urethritis, gonorrhoea – and in coughs – laryngeal and bronchial. In also acts upon the skin and has been prescribed in urticaria and hives.
Indicated in hysteria, chorea, spinal irritation and neurotic states generally, with jerking, trembling, itching.
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 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 diarrhoea and in vesicular and pustular eruptions of the skin.
Indicated chiefly in diseases of the respiratory organs, with much prostration; in fat, bloated persons of lax fibre and of indolent, sluggish habit. Body large and fat; leg, too thin (H. N. Guernsey). ?Its periods of aggravation are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings; the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms in the evening ? (Wm. Boericke).