Indicated in many affections of women and children or in persons of mild disposition; in women of light complexion, inclined to plumpness, with scanty, delayed menstrual flow; derangements of puberty; delay of the first menstruation; threatened abortion. Frequently used in treatment of indigestion, diarrhoea, functional nervous affections, catarrh of different parts (eyes, ears, nose, respiratory tract, vagina); measles; rheumatic pains etc.
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 the treatment of haemorrhoids associated with severe backache; recommended for follicular inflammation of the posterior pharynx.
Indicated in affections of children and elderly people, nervous, of lymphatic temperament; particularly useful in the treatment of catarrhal affections, coughs, bronchitis, etc.
Indicated in eruptive fevers, especially in scarlatina; in diphtheria; in inflammatory affections, particularly in those of erysipelatous tendency; in dropsies with absence of thirst and scanty urination; nephritis. Very important in the treatment of post-scarlatinal dropsy. Used in intermittent and other fevers; in ovarian diseases; in certain coughs, with much dyspnoea.
Indicated in complaints with great gastric flatulency and nervous excitability. Especially useful in the treatment of hysterical cases, suffering much from gastric flatulency and resulting palpitation of the heart. Important also in syphilitic affections, especially of the nones, with pronounced sensitiveness and night-pains.
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.
Eating while sleeping? It?s probably a disorder.
A Pfizer drug shown to help more than one in five smokers quit after a year?s use received approval in the US, adding another option to the limited pool of effective stop-smoking prescription medicines.
There is no antidote to the condition itself, but emergency medical clinicians can administer cyproheptadine or methysergide to control the symptoms. Doing so is important as the symptoms can in severe cases be potentially life threatening.