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.
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 rheumatic and neuralgic affections, particularly in diaphragmitis and pleurodynia; in affections of the nerves associated with burning eruptions of the skin, as herpes zoster.
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 complaints from getting wet from lying on the damp ground, from straining a single part, as in overlifting; in fevers, including those of adynamic type; erysipeals in any part, especially in the face; muscular rheumatism, including the heart; neuralgia, neuritis; sciatica;