Indicated chiefly by the presence of sharp, sticking pain or a series of sticking pains, in various parts of the body. Especially useful in persons who are sensitive to changes in the weather and cannot bear cold weather. H. N. Guernsey thinks it one of the best remedies following childbirth and its consequences.
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 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 a large variety of affections, especially those of the skin and mucous membrane, skin, eyes, ears, nose, throat, etc. In ulcerations in different parts of the body, as eye, nose, throat, cheeks, rectum, urethra, genitalia. Anal fissure, coughs, etc.
Indicated in spinal disease, with intense neuralgic pain and tendency to motor paralysis; locomotor ataxia; neurasthenia; angina pectoris; gastralgia; also used in oxaluria with gouty pain.
Indicated in conditions of great debility following severe acute sickness, loss of fluids, grief, excesses, etc. Best adapted to those of mild, yielding disposition, inclined to be listless and indifferent; ill effects of masturbation; brain fag; spinal anaemia; palpitation of the heart; caries of spinal vertebrae; typhoid fever; seminal emissions.
Indicated chiefly in diseases of spinal origin (sclerosis, paralysis, locomotor ataxia), in neuralgia, colic of a violent character (painter?s colic); constipation. Has been used in strangulated hernia and inussusception, and in Bright?s disease.
Indicated in septic conditions, as puerperal mania; in diarrhoea of a grave character, dysentery, Asiatic cholera; in passive haemorrhages; in gangrene (senile). In all these the serious nature of the affection is shown by evidence of collapse, foulness of discharges, suppression of urine, unquenchable thirst, coldness of the body to touch, haemorrhagic tendency. Also of value in spinal disease with cramping, formication and numbness, and loss of motor power.
Sudden loss of memory ; everything seems to be in a dream; patient is greatly troubled about his forgetfulness; confused, unfit for business. Disposed to be malicious, seems bent on wickedness.
Adapted to person with dark hair and rigid fibre; weakly, psoric, with excessively yellow, sallow complexion ; subject to affections of respiratory and urinary tracts.