Indicated in affections of the respiratory organs, chiefly of children;
Millar’s asthma; sniffles of infants; laryngitis; spasmodic croup. Also nephritis with dropsy.
Indicated in a grave class of disease, chiefly of the brain, characterized by profound sopor or coma, with heavy, continuous, stertorous breathing; dark, livid face; hot sweat, especially about the head; hence its use in coma vigil, apoplectic states, and in exanthema when there is retrocession of the rash followed by brain symptoms. Used also in lead colic and in stubborn constipation due to paralysis of the intestinal muscular fibre.
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;
Indicated in affections of the respiratory organs, chiefly of children;
Millar’s asthma; sniffles of infants; laryngitis; spasmodic croup. Also nephritis with dropsy.
Indicated in catarrhal affections of the respiratory tract; nasal catarrh with pain over the root of the nose; laryngitis, croup, oedema of glottis; even in the cough of phthisis and pneumonia; in headaches from cold and in neuralgic pain in the head. Also in sore throats.
Indicated principally in diseases of women, preferably of dark hair, rigid fibre, milk disposition; in menstrual irregularities, uterine displacements, affections occurring during pregnancy, lying-in, and lactation; in the constipation connected with these troubles. Described as ?washer-woman?s remedy;? ?everything goes to the back.?
Indicated in inflammation of the urinary and sexual organs; also certain forms of inflammation of the throat and (lower) bowel.
Indicated in affections of larynx and trachea (as croup and asthma) with sense of great dryness, tightness, and difficulty of breathing; acts best in children of lax fibre and light complexion, with glandular enlargements. Also used in treatment of goitre, orchitis and cardiac affections; occasionally in the coughs of pneumonia and pulmonary phthisis.
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 principally in diseases of the brain and spine, especially when, in children, it depends upon the suppression of an exanthem or upon teething, and in adults when a neurasthenic state prevails, usually the result of anxious overwork. Thus it is employed in convulsions of children from irritation due to teething or eruptive fevers, in meningitis and in effusion within the brain, from the same cause or from tuberculosis; in the epilepsy of young children, in the headache of brain fag, including headache of overworked school children; in locomotor ataxia; in hysteria, especially when there is paralysis of the bladder; in spinal irritation and sciatica; in such functional disorders of the female generative organs as are accompanied by abnormal sexual desire, spinal irritation and restlessness, with inability to keep the feet still. Also used in varicose veins of the legs, lead colic, and other conditions associated with the nervous conditions belonging to the drug.
Indicated in diseases of children, during the period of dentition, with diarrhoea; the characteristics are clear-cut. Here, and in adults, in neuralgic, menstrual and other troubles, the intolerance of pain, aggravation from anger and great mental irritablility are safe guides.