Indicated in coughs, chiefly chronic, with abundant expectoration and feeling of great weakness in the throat and chest. In neuralgia (headache about the eyes, intestinal, intercostal); in troubles due to worms, and occasionally in nervous affections with twitching of muscles and paralytic weakness.
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 the ailments of scrofulous children, physically and mentally backward, with enlarged tonsils and other expressions of scrofulous tendency. Useful in diseases of men of advanced years, timid, easily tired, giving evidence of commencing physical deterioration. The latter frequently suffer from hypertrophy or induration of the prostate or testicles.
Indicated in convulsive and spasmodic affections (chorea, puerperal convulsions), with drawing back of the head and neck, even to opisthotonos (opisthognathous – retreating jaws). Particularly valuable in cerebro-spinal meningitis and in the sequels of concussion of the brain and spinal marrow.
Indicated in affections of the heart, with weak, irregular contractions, causing a fluttering sensation. Sense of faintness and fear of death from dread that the heart?s action will suddenly cease. Of great value in organic heart disease, with scantiness of urine and dropsical effusion. Also in hepatic disease with jaundice, ascites, nephritis with cardiac symptoms, percarditis with effusion; pneumonia, especially of the aged, with weakness of the heart?s action. Less often in urethritis, specific and non-specific, and in prostatitis.
Indicated by its persistent nausea and vomiting, not only in gastric derangement, as from eating rich, indigestible things, and in diarrhoea, but also in coughs (whooping cough), haemorrhage (from the lungs, uterus), and in intermittent fever.
Indicated in a great variety of affections, characterized by aggravation from damp, rainy weather and at night, constant and copious sweating without relief, and flabby tongue with induration of teeth. Of service in involvement of glandular and lymphatic structures; in sore throats, diphtheria, hepatic derangements, diarrhoea, catarrh (nose, throat, ears, respiratory organs, genital mucous membrane, etc.), with tendency to involvement of the deep structures; gastric and bilious fevers of a lingering type; venereal diseases.
Indicated in affections, chiefly of women, resting upon a neurotic basis, as hysteria, melancholia, particularly religious and sexual, and mania, especially puerperal; in these, exaltation of self, fear of death and a remarkable degree of sexual excitement are nearly always present. Also of service in neuralgia (face, head, stomach, ovaries) with a sense of numbness in the parts; ovarian and uterine affections of women who have excessive menstrual flow of dark, clotted blood, albuminous leucorrhoea, and nervous symptoms of reflex origin. In constipation and colic dur to lead-poisoning.
Indicated in affections of the nervous system, as suggested by the symptoms. In delirium tremens with terrifying hallucinations; in convulsions from fright and in hysterical convulsions generally; in puerperal mania with lewd imaginings and speech; insanity; scarlet fever with brain symptoms, the eruption being tardy or suppressed; spasmodic asthma; hydrophobia; chorea when the choreic movements involve now one set of muscles, then another.
Indicated in affections of children and elderly people, nervous, of lymphatic temperament; particularly useful in the treatment of catarrhal affections, coughs, bronchitis, etc.