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Copyright No.
Shelf4l,IlV\3 UNITED STATES OF AMER3CA.
THE TREATMENT OF DISEASE WITH THK TWEI.VE
TISSUE REMEDIES BEING
A TREATISE ON BIOCHEMISTRY. BY
—
WNl. BOE^RICKK, M.
E).
Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, iu the
Hospital College of Sau Francisco, the Twelve Tissue
Remedies
Hahnemann
Associate Author of
of Schuessler, Etc.
SAN FRANXISCO, CAL.
BOKRIOKE
&
RUNYON,
1897.
^
^'
Disease
is
only an altered state of the
cellular system, caused
by
a lack of
some
human organism
constituent part of the
at
Virchow.
the part affected."
need not remind you how great an instrument of advancement the biochemic ^^
1
system of medicine has proved in the hands of this
man
opment
is
'^
The work
of
W. H.
devel-
and
Schussler, of Oldencellular patholog}'
a compact and valuable of
its
Huxley.
burg, on histology
tem
whom
of genius to
due/'^
mineral hygiene.
little
is
medical sys-
According to him,
these cell-salts are architectonic in tissues,
and charged with supporting the structures of the living fluids.
Wilkinson.
PREFACE. The new treatment the
physiological
of disease based
and
upon
chemical processes
going on in the living organism,
first
intro-
duced by Dr. W. H. Schuessler, of Germany, and designated by him a biochemical treatment of disease^ has gained rapidly in acceptance by leading physicians. over, the medicines required
Twelve Tissue Remedies to be
More-
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the so-called
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; have
been found
curative agents of the very highest
order for
all
forms of disease, and as the
indications for their use are simple, definite
and
precise,
the
needs of domestic medicine.
meet
all
they are especially adapted to
They
the requirements of remedies for
the household, being harmless, yet eftective.
They enable every layman, without any special medical knowledge, to do
much
in
preventing, curing and eradicating disease tendencies.
IV
The author has availed himself of the and complete work on the Twelve Tissue Remedies by Drs. Boericke and Dewey, to which he would call the attention of all interested in this new and simple method of curing disease. larger
Wm. 1812 Washington
Boericke,
street.
San Francisco, December, 1896.
M. D.
THE THEORY BIOCHEMICAL TREATMENT. The body
is
made up
of cells.
Different
up the different tissues and organs of the body. The difference in the cells is largely determined by the kind kinds of
of
cells build
inorganic salts which enter
composition. part of
we
it,
If
into their
we burn the body,
obtain the ashes.
or
any
These are
the inorganic constituents of the body, the salts
iron,
of
build up
its
magnesia, lime, tissues.
etc.,
which
Besides these inor-
ganic salts, the body is composed of water and organic substances in the proportion of
one-twentieth of inorganic salts to the re-
mainder
water and organic matter; but
of
the latter
is
inert
and useless in the absence These are the
of the inorganic cell-salts.
real tissue
builders, the architects of the
organism, and both the structure and vitality of the
body depend upon their proper
vi
quantity and
distribution
every
in
cell.
The biochemical treatment uses these inorsalts, when properly prepared
ganic cell for
assimilation,
and they are the Tissue
RemedieSj capable of curing every curable disease
and ameliorating most incurable
ones.
Health and Health
is
Disease.
the state of the body
when
all
the cells composing the various tissues are in a
normal condition, and they are kept in when they each receive the requi-
this state site
quantity of the needful
cell
re-
salt
quired for the upbuilding of the diflferent tissues.
Disease
is
an altered state
of the
cell
produced by some irregularity in the supply to the cells of one of the inorganic
sue
salts.
Imperfect
cell action
results,
diseased tissues and organs follow, and the
Now
phenomena the
of disease
cure consists in
tis-
all
are developed.
restoring
the
normal cell growth, by furnishing a minimal dose of that inorganic substance whose
Vll
molecular motion
is
disturbed, which dis-
turbance cause the diseased action. this
successfully,
what
salts are
it
is
To do
necessary to
know
needed for the upbuilding
of
the diflferent tissues and for their normal
This
knowledge
is
physiological
chemistry,
and hence
action.
treatment
of
needed tissue
disease
derived from this
by supplying the
salt is called
the biochemical
treatment.
What
more rational, what is more natural, founded as it is on natural law, that where there is a deficiency in one or more of the component parts of the constituents an
of
is
organism, that this
deficiency will
produce a deranged or a diseased condition; or,
more
logical,
than by the supplying of
these lacking elements an equilibrium will
again be restored, and
turned to
By
its
the organism re-
normal condition.
giving a tissue remedy in such a dose
as can be assimilated
by the growing
cells,
the most wonderful and speedy restoration to
healthy function
is
brought
about in
Vlll
every case of curable disease. that are at
all
All diseases
curable are so by means of
the tissue remedies properly prepared to the needs of the organism.
This is very depends the success of the treatment, just as much as on the cor-
important, and on
it
rect selection of the particular cell salt.
seems reasonable that, to make the salts immediately useful, they should
It cell
be
prepared in the same delicate form in which nature uses them, and that
if
they are ab-
sorbed by the microscopic corpuscles, they
must themselves bŠ
We know
cles.
finer
salts are infinitesimally
different kinds of food ble of assimilation
subdivided in the
we
by the
The Different The
than the corpus-
that the mineral or cell
take, thus capacells.
Cell-salts.
tissue group receive and peculiar cell salt; for instance, those entering into the promotion
their
of
cells
own
nerve
and Iron;
of each
special
cells
of
are Magnesia, Potash, Soda
bone
cells,
Lime, Magnesia
IX
and
which
Silica, etc., etc.,
are, as a rule,
extracted by the body from the food
we take.
There are twelve Tissue Remedies twelve inorganic the body,
all
essential to the proper
and development They are the
of
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the
found in the ashes of
salts
growth
every part of the body.
f Of Lime, Calcarea phosphorica.
Of Iron, Ferrum phosphoricum. Phosphates^ Of Potash, Kali phosphoricum. I
Of Soda, Natrum phosphoricum. Magnesia, Magnesia phosphorica.
I^Of
Chlorides
!
(
^^ P^^^'^' ^^^^^ muriaticum, Of Soda, Natrum muriaticum.
Lime, Calcarea sulphurica.
iOf Of Soda, Natrum sulphuricum. Of Potash,
Kah
sulphuricum.
Fluoride of Lime, Calcarea fluorica; Silicic Oxide,
pure
flint or quartz,
and
Sihca.
Of these, those entering into the formacells^ and hence useful as remedies in diseases of the nervous sjstem, are Magnesia phos, Kali phos., etc. of imiS' cle cells^ the same and Kali mur. of Jjone tion of nerve
;
;
cdh^ Calcarea, Silicea,
etc., etc.
Preparations and Doses of the Tissue Remedies.
The edies
best preparation of the Tissue
is
salts are triturated
pathic
The
the triturated form.
Rem-
original
according to the homoeo-
method with sugar
of milk,
one part
of the salt to nine of sugar of milk, for one
hour, which gives the tion.
The
particles
first
of
decimal tritura-
this
are
still
too
large to be readily assimilated by the cells,
and experience has taught that use the sixth trituration,
for general
where each grain
contains the one-millionth part of a grain of the cell-salt, to be the
most desirable.
Of some remedies, like Calc. phos. and Kalijnur,^ and in certain patients, lower preparations are If
often
favorable response
is
more
efficacious.
not evident from
the sixth^ substitute the third trituration, or in
more chronic
the twelfth, or even thirtieth, plish
what the lower would
or second affections,
may
not.
accom-
-
XI
The
method
best
selected
remedy
administering the
of
a size to cover a nickel, or as lie
on the point
of a
half full of water,
much
of
as will
a tmiibler
knife, in
and then give teaspoon
every hour or two, according to
ful doses
Tn acute pain
the severity of the case.
and very severe
affections the
every ten
given
be
powder
dissolve a
is to
Sometimes
it is
water; this
is
for
remedies
may if
fifteen
advisable to give especiall}^
neuralgia
scribing
alternation
or
remedy may it
in hot
when
true
and
minutes^
colic.
pre-
Two
be given advantageously in
both
are
called
for.
In
chronic diseases two or three doses daily
Or the powder may be taken dry on the tongue; a powder the size of a are sufficient.
pea for a dose.
Use separate tumblers and spoons for each medicine; never mix remedies or use but one spoon for two or more remedies.
Mix
all
medicine fresh
dail}'.
Keep
the
xu tumblers covered with a dish or paper, in order to prevent contamination of the preparation.
Recently, compressed tablets
made from
the trituration have been introduced, and
form a convenient and accurate method for taking the remedies.
TREATMENT OF DISEASES WITH THE TWELTE TISSUE REMEDIES. ABSCESS.
—
taining pus.
Is a circumscribed cavity con-
consequence of inflam-
It is a
mation of tissues following an injury, such
blow or presence
as a
The
chief
ness,
symptoms
of a foreign
body.
are swelling^ heat, red-
and throbbing
pain, frequently
wdth
shivering or rigors.
Treatment. tices of
—Application
flax-seed
of
or linseed.
heat, poul-
When
the
wound should be warm Aqueous Calendula^ one
abscess has opened, the
bathed with
and afterwards a cloth with some Calendula Cerate be applied. part to five,
Remedies.
when
— Ferrum
there
is
phosph.^ every hour,
much
redness,
pain
and
throbbing in the parts. Calc,
sulph,
when matter has formed;
this will assist the
and
in
many
maturing
cases
abscess unnecessary.
of the abscess
render opening the
Silica
medy and
—After the abscess breaks,
should be used.
promotes
The
healthy.
purpose
this
powder,
it
prepared from the
that
is
size of a pea,
ACIDITY.
rendering
suppuration,
best preparation of Silica for
Use the 6x
Bamboo.
this re-
It ripens the abscess
—A
trituration, a small
every two hours.
symptom
of certain types
which an abnormal quan-
of indigestion in
Frequently asso-
tity of acid is secreted.
ciated with heartburn, sour risings into the
mouth and sour Treatment. of
taste.
— Avoid
the free indulgence
starchy foods, potatoes,
mushes, pud-
dings, etc.
Remedies.
remedy.
— Natrum phosph.
Lima
sipping
may be
the chief
It is best given in hot water,
adding a powder of a
is
it
of the
6x
by
trituration, size
bean, to a cup of hot water, and before meals, or a small
powder
given dry on the tongue every hour
until relieved.
Calcar, phosph. may be given in the same way, morning and night, as a constitutional
remedy
to permanently cure the gastric weakness giving rise to acidity.
ACNE.
— An
eruption of pimples, usually
on the face and especially occurring at the time of puberty. Treatment.
—Look
to diet, avoid fat
Proper attention to bathing,
rich food.
exercise and the bowels
there
is
and
any menstrual
is
necessary.
disorder,
see
If
to
that.
Remedies.
— Natrum mur. 12x trituration;
a dose night and morning should be given to -persons
who
with bad, earthy complexion,
are bloodless and inclined to be con-
stipated and generally depressed in body and mind. Kali mur, 6x three times a day, for pimples on face and neck, especially after errors in diet pimples filled with thick, white
—
matter.
Calcar. phos,
—Especially
during time of
Menses are apt to be rather too early and too free in young girls; much Take a powder, size of a pea, backache. puberty.
three times a day.
AMENORRHOEA.
— Suppression
of
menses
or their non-appearance at time of puberty.
Treatment.— Nourishing outdoor exercise, too
much
school
Remedies.
salt
food, plenty of
Avoid
water baths.
work and home study.
—Natru7n
mur, 12x
—A
small
powder night and morning, in chlorotic and anemic girls, w^ho are depressed mentally, have a sallow complexion and inclined to be constipated. Calcar. j^^^osph, 6x
— Same
dose
may
be
given after Natrum mur, has been taken for
one month. Kali phos, 6x
may
be
given
when, in
consequence of the menstrual disturbance, bronchial
the patient
and lung troubles appear, and is depressed, languid and weak.
ANEMIA.
—A
condition of poor, watery
most frequent
blood, or of bloodlessness,
puberty and in young
girls,
at
characterized
by pallor of the face and absence of color from the lips. It is a condition depending on other causes, and constitutional
ment alone
Treatment.
ing
—Avoid
the excessive use of
Good nourishing
iron.
treat-
will benefit.
food,
warm
and out door exercise are
cloth-
much
of
benefit.
Remedies.
— Cahar. phosph. 3x,
three times a day.
supplying
new
powder This remedy acts by
blood-cells.
a
Waxy
appear-
ance of skin, headache, ringing in vertigo, cold extremities,
tendency
ears,
to pro-
fuse menstruation.
Ferrum pJiosph, 3x follows the above as soon as improvement of the general health There is a lack of red blood in the sets in. lips, blue rings under eyes, tendency to cough, headaches. Natrum mur, 12x, a powder three times
system, pale
6 a day
is
young
especially useful in
girls
with dirty complexion, who have frequent palpitation, are blue and melancholy, have
bad dreams,
symptoms
constipation,
of malaria
backache
— such as
and
chills, fever-
ish turns, perspiration, neuralgia, etc.
ANGINA PECTORIS^
or Breast-pang,
is
a
around the heart, coming on suddenly, impeding breathing and of most painful character. May be dependent on
neuralgia
diseased condition of the nutritive vessels of the heart itself.
Remedies. tion, a
— Magnesia
powder
dissolved
a
in
pJiosph.
size of a
cup
of
6x
tritura-
lima bean to be hot water, and a
swallow to be taken every minute until relieved.
Kali pJiosph. 6x trit., a powder night and morning may be given occasionally to ward off
the attacks.
APPETITE, the use of
Loss
tonics,
of.
Treatment,
containing
— Avoid
drugs and
spirits.
Plenty of fresh
air
and moderate
exercise and bathing in salt water should
See that the bowels are in a
be enjoyed.
good condition. Remedies. ness,
— Kali
pJiosph.
Nervous weak-
gone feeling, palpitation.
Calcar,
pJiosph.j
flatulence, acidit3^
when
there
is
much
Especially useful after
any acute illness or when associated with any drain on the system.
ASTHMA.— Difficulty
of breathing, with-
out fever, attended with a suffocative feeling, constriction across the chest, with cough and wheezing respiration. An attack is usually brought on by a cold or error in diet. Asthma is often caused by suppression of a skin disease or by enlarged lym-
phatic glands in throat, or nasal obstruction,
which ought the is
removed or treated before cured. The treatment the acute attack and eradicative. to be
Asthma can be
both for
Remedies.
—
Ferriiin phos.
phos,j in alternation
and Magnesia
every ^ and ^ hour,
8
when
there
much
is
wheezing, nausea and
loose cough.
Eradicatiye Treatment.
]2x
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Natrum
especially for children
sulph.
and morning,
trituration, a dose night
who suffer with
asth-
matic attacks after some skin disease, ecze-
ma,
who wheeze up
at every change of few weeks, then substitute Calcar, phospli. ox trituration, to be given in the same way. By persevering for a time with these constitutional remedies, etc.,
Take
weather.
many
cases of
BACKACHE
for a
Asthma can is
be cured.
a sj^mptom of
many
differ-
ent disorders, usually connected with uterine troubles or chronic constipation, piles
kidney
or
treated
complaints.
before
the
These
backache will
But there are some remedies ful
when
the
must
following
be
cease.
specially use-
conditions
are
present.
Remedies.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Calcar.
phospli.
a dose three times a day.
6x trituration, Backache in
9
small of back in the morning, numbness,
Backache in young people who grow rapidly and after any exertion. Natriim mur. 12x trituration, a powder night and morning for backache, relieved by lying on something hard. Kali pliosph, if connected with loss of vital fluids and nervous disturbances generally. coldness and creeping sensation.
BARBER'S 1TGK.—Kali mur, 6x tion,
tritura-
a dose three times daily alternated
with Calcar
sulpli.
will cure rapidly.
the same time, the beard should be cut
At off,
bathe parts with hot water to which some
added (10 a cup), and afterwards apply some
carbolic acid solution has been
drops to
carbolic cerate.
BILIOUSNESS.— A ized
condition character-
by headache, drowsiness, furred tongue, and constipation.
loss of appetite, bitter taste
TreaTxMENT.
—Persons
subject
ness should not eat too
much
to bilious-
meat, drink
10 plenty of water, avoid coffee and high living
and take plenty Remedies.
of exercise.
— Natrum
sulph.
6x
trituration,
a powder every three hours; coated tongue, sallow
yellow eyeballs, soreness in
skin,
region of liver, flatulence.
Kalimur,^
Natrum
caused by eating rich food.
if
pliospli.^ if
with a bright yellow
BOILS
coated
— Conical hard swell-
with considerable inflamma-
and acutely tender
tion,
is
fur.
(See Abscess).
ings, attended
the tongue
to pressure.
They
slowly inflame, get larger, come to a head,
and
finally
centre,
suppurate with a core in the
which
is
ulent matter, and
ment
discharged with the purall
pain ceases.
of the system,
from abuse
torpidity
of
Derangeof food
and
the circulation, often causes
boils.
Accessory Treatment.
— Foment with hot
water, and then poultice with fresh linseedmeal or bread and milk, applying linen rags
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 11 soaked- with
Calendula lotion afterwards.
The
(For medical treatment, see Abscess.
diet should be in accordance with the con-
dition of the patient
if
;
living freely, a spare diet
but
if,
below
little
may
be advisable;
the contrary, the system
on
par, a
and
of full habit
is
a
more generous regimen
should be adopted.
BRAIN-FAG.â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The
result
of
overwork,
worry, anxiety, loss of sleep, too close application to business, study, etc., character-
ized by impaired
memory,
dullness, nervous-
ness, sleeplessness, depressed spirits, lack of
appetite and strength.
Remedies.
^
Kali phosph. Gx trituration, a
dose in the mornins:, and Silica 12x trituration,
will be
a dose at night,
used persistently,
found the most
effective remedies.
They will restore
sleep, appetite, confidence,
and
It
strength.
may
be
follow with Calcar, pliosph,
necessary
6x
to
trituration,
a dose before every meal, especially
if
there
12 is
a good deal
general coldness, or a
of
tendency to night sweats^
BRONCHITIS.â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Inflammation
the
of
tubes which convey air to the lungs. There is
usually fever, constant and violent
cough,
tation,
hoarseness,
irri-
uneasiness
of
breathing, oppressed and anxious wheezing,
whistling
cough
is
or
rattling
first,
followed by
expectoration of frothy, thick streaked mucus. attacked, the
If
This
to
others,
is
and
loose,
One attack
and gives
with
be
the form most
rise
Here the cough
chronic bronchitis. sistent
the smaller tubes are
dreaded in children.
predisposes
blood-
or
shortness of breath will
especially severe. to be
The
respiration.
generally dry at
much
is
to
per-
yellowish
expectoration.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;A
.Treatment.-
warm, equable tempera-
ture of about 70 degrees should be kept in
the
room,
and the patient put
to
Liquid diet: milk, gruel, stewed fruit
bed.
may
13 In chronic bronchitis, a
be given.
warm
climate will prove very beneficial.
Remedies. tion;
drj',
a
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ferrum phosph.^
powder dissolved
in
6x, tritura-
water, and
teaspoonful doses every hour will modify the attack very materially, and fi^uently
cure without any other medicine.
It
be continued twenty-four hours, and
cough then gets Kali mur.
may
two hours. suffice.
loose, pain
should if
and fever
be alternated with
it
the less,
every
This treatment will generally
Kali
siilpk.
may
be
substituted
when the cough gets very loose and there is much rattling of mucus in the chest. A tablet of the
hours.
The
6x may be given every two chief
remedies for chronic
bronchitis are Kali sulph., Calcar, phos., and Silica.
for
Take one remedy three times daily
one week, then change to another.
improvement shows
itself
If
continue the rem-
edy in a higher trituration, and not so frequently.
14
BUNIONS
—
ment on the
Inflammation and enlarge-
joint of the great or little toe.
— an Dose— Two tablets dry on
Medicinal Treatment. cacious remedy.
Silicia is
effi-
the tongue, once a day for a week, then
wait three days and repeat.
Accessory Treatment.
Armca
of
lotion (one
—The
appUcation
teaspoonful of the
tincture to four or five tablespoonfuls of
water) by means of a linen the part, especially
mation and pain.
An
avoided*
there
if
bandage over is
much
All pressure must be
arnica
bunion plaster
be applied to the enlargement. cases
it
may
inflam-
be necessary to
may
In some paint
the
bunion with Iodine.
BURNS AND SCALDS.—Treatment.—
(1)
Cover the burn immediately with cotton wool, to exclude the air; or, for the same object (2), cover with linen rags, or cotton w^ool saturated
the
wound
with olive
oil;
or (3) powder
plentifully with flour, keeping
15 it
well covered by
new
applications
if
nec-
essary; or (4) cover the whole with a plaster of
soap,
made by scraping white curd
soap,
and working
it
into a salve with tepid
water, and spreading
fire,
upon linen or mus-
Slight or superficial burns or scalds
lin.
may
it
be relieved by holding the part to the or by applying
spirits
of
turpentine,
wine to them. In dressing burns, puncture the blisters and remove the old skin, but expose the wound brandy or
spirits
of
as little as possible to the action of the air;
do not dress oftener than once a day, and do not disturb the parts by washing them. The exclusion of the air from the part affected it is
is of
the utmost consequence, and
best to apply that dressing
be obtained the quickest. line is
which can
Carbolized vase-
an excellent application, and should
be substituted for plain olive oil tainable.
when
ob-
Internally, give Ferritin phosph.
6x, trituration, a
powder dissolved
and teaspoonful doses every hour.
in water,
16
CARBUNCLE.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;A
constitutional
disease
by circumscribed inflamma-
characterized
tion of the tissue under the skin, leading to ulceration
volved.
It
and death of the tissue ingenerally comes from a de-
pressed state of health.
It is usually situ-
ated on the back of the neck, or trunk. is
distinguished from a boil by
size,
constitutional
symptoms and
its
It
larger
sieve-like
opening.
Treatment. patient
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Keep up the strength
by nourishing
food.
of the
Poultice with
flaxseed and dress with aqueous Calendula lotion.
When
Calendula
healing
cerate.
recommended under i^emedy
Kali
is
is
commenced, apply
Internally, use treatment ^'Abscess.''
Whatever
given should be alternated with
pJiosph,
6x
tablets,
one tablet every
two hours. Carbuncle
is
a serious disease,
and ought
have the care of a physician. In his absence, the above treatment will be found to
the best.
17
CANCER,
Malignant Tumor.
or
malignant because
— Called
tends to increase indefinitely, to recur after removal, and to it
invade other parts of the body.
— Nothing
Treatment
is
more
certain
than that remedies can influence the devel-
opment, and sometime cure, these growths; but
it
skill.
requires patience and the physician's
The Tissue Remedies are frequently all forms undoubted
use in the treatment of
of screat
Among
tumors.
of
those
of
value are Calc, fluor.^ Silica^ Gale, pliosph.
and Kali
sulpli,
Calc, jluor,
brenst;
— Knots,
hardened
anywhere.
kernels,
glands;
Take one
etc., in
hard
tablet of the
the
swelling
3d
trit.
night and morning; after a week, take the 6th,
and
later,
full action of
dies
may
the 12th, in order to get the
the drug.
The other reme-
be substituted and used intercur-
rently.
Kali pJiosph.
and
— For
the pains of cancer,
for the offensive discharges.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 18
CATARRH, in its various forms, is one of most common diseased conditions
the
known. It attacks all ages and classes, and tends to run a chronic course, and predisposes to serious diseases of the lungs
and other organs. all
the passages of
The skin which lines the body nose, throat,
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
bronchial tubes, oesophagus, stomach, is
called the
little
etc.^
mucous membrane. Countless
glands come to the surface of this
skin, or
membrane, and exude
into
the
passages a thin liquid called mucus, which
keeps the passages smooth and moist.
Ca-
tarrh totally changes the condition of these
and inflaming them and by causing the death of many of their glands by enlarging
These dead cells are next expelled from the mouth of the gland in a stream upon the surface of the mucous membrane. What had been, in health, a thin liquid secreted from the blood, and containing just the properties to keep the membrane smooth and healthy, becomes now a thick mass of dead matter. While this change cells.
19 in secretion is evil is
going
on, another serious
taking place, namely, the enlarge-
ment of the glands, which causes them to crowd against one another, and to thicken the mucous membrane^ so that its normal properties and conditions are changed to those of disease. This process is what constitutes catarrh, and it may occur in any mucous membrane, but is most common in the nasal tract, usually as result of repeated colds in an organism predisposed thereto or
where the digestive organs or the skin are otherwise unhealthy. The symptoms besides the discharge, which is usually thick and more or less offensive, are dullness of the headâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;pains in head, sense in children
of smell impaired, breath offensive, etc.
TreaTxMENT.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Regulate the
diet; keep the
upon maintaining a healthy action of the skin by daily sponging and friction; insist upon wool being worn next the skin night and day, summer and winter; insist upon well ventilnted bowels
open; insist
20 sleeping
apartments
year round
;
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; open
windows the
teach the patient to breathe
to fully expand the and have him practice lung gymnastics until he does this properly; and have him live in the open air as much as possible. As a curative and prophylactic agent
through the nose and
chest,
in nasal catarrh, pure air is the best topical
application and also the best general tonic.
Kalimur.
Hawking
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dryness and stifiness of nose.
mucus from- the back part of The most satisfactory remedy to begin treatment. Take one tablet every 3 hours. After a week follow it with of
the throat.
Calcarea
pliospli.^
which
is
especially
Nose The patient takes cold very readily. This remedy has a decided tonic action on the mucous membrane and may be used intercurrently with other remedies that may be indicated. Take one tablet after meals and at bedtime. Natrum mur is the best remedy when useful in chronic catarrhal conditions.
seems swollen or
is
ulcerated.
21 the discharge
is
thin and watery.
ning colds" are frequent. lips.
bloodless
Run-
Cold sores on
Loss of smell and
catarrhs in
*'
Chronic
taste.
who have
patients
much backache and headache. Kali sulph,
is
the remedy
when
the secre-
tions are yellow, slimy.
Natrum
sulph.^
when
there
secretion of greenish mucus. enza,
and when the patient
damp
weather.
Silica
may
is
profuse
After influis
worse from
be required in very obstinate
where the discharges are offensive or where there is a painful chronic dryness of cases,
the nose, or plugs in the nose or ulceration of
the
mucous membrane.
followed by Calcar, jluor. selected
remedy may be a
This
may
be
The dose of the powder of the 6x
trituration, the size of a pea, three times a
day, or one tablet.
After the
sixth has
been tried for a time, substitute the twelfth.
Same dose
22
CATARRHAL FEVER is characterized by by a profuse mucous discharge from the head and chest, the head slight fever followed
feels
stuffed^
the nostrils are obstructed,
frequent sneezing, watering of the
there
is
eyes,
and often sore throat and cough.
Treatment.
—The most
effectual
means
of
good nursing in a moderately warm
relief is
—
and equable temperature a warm bath, or immersing the feet in hot water, and promoting perspiration by a hot bed and warm drinks. Animal food and stimulating drinks must be abstained from. If there is a liability to catch cold, do not
at
once
when coming from the cold air, endeavor to get warm by approaching a hot fire, but do so
by degrees.
Use plenty
of
cold
water daily over the chest, shoulders, throat
and neck, sponging freely for two or three and applying a rough towel or flesh brush afterwards until well warmed. minutes,
Remedies.
— Ferrum
j^^^os^h.
and
Natmm
mur^ one tablet of each every hour alter-
23
When improvement shows
riately.
itself,
lengthen the interval between the doses. Calcar pliosph.^ one
tablet
three
times
daily for the remaining debility. It will act as a tonic.
CHANGE OF LIFE.â&#x20AC;&#x201D; With
the disappear-
menses most women suflfer more or less with disturbances in the circulation and in the nervous system. The ance
of
the
usual complaints are attacks of heat flashes, perspiration, palpitation, nervousness, sink-
ing
headaches,
sensations,
these
be greatly benefited
Avoid
etc.
Some
of
disturbances are inevitable, but can
narcotics,
benefit derived
by proper treatment.
stimulants, etc., for the
from them
is
delusive and
only very temporary. Remedies.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ferrum
phosp.
will
benefit
the tendency to flashes of heat, sleepless-
and cold feet, etc. Kali phos, the gone, sinking sensations,
ness, hot spells
the restlessness and nervousness; also sensations of numbness.
24 Magnes.
phos.
abnormal
palpitations,
pains, etc.
Dose let
of the selected
remedy
— One tab-
three times a day, or oftener for more
acute attacks.
CHEST AFFECTIONS
(See Bronchitis, Pleu-
risy, etc.)
For pains in chest the best general remedy is Ferrum phos.
CHICKEN POX.—A
pustulous eruption
resembling smallpox, but its
much milder
in
character and shorter in the duration of
its
the
The fever
stages.
eruption
after the
is
generally
appears twenty-four
commencement
.slight,
hours
of the disorder,
and disappears on the fourth day. The symptoms appear about thirteen days after exposure to the infection. Treatment.
— Ferrum phos, and Kali mur.
are the only remedies required.
necessary to give ease
is
many
It
is
not
doses, as the dis-
mild and runs a short course.
25
CIRCULATION, FEEBLE.
—A
constant
hands and feet blue and cold skin wherever it is exposed, such as face and hands. feeling of chilliness; coldness of ;
Treatment.
open
air,
— Plenty
of
exercise
in
the
good, nourishing food, salt water
baths, massage, etc.
Ferrum phosp, and Calcarea pliosp,^ one in the morning and the other at night, will soon regulate matters, if there is no organic heart trouble present.
COLD IN THE HEAD tion
and inEammation
(Coryza.)— Irrita-
of the
mucous memThe head
brane of the nose and eyes. feels
stuffed
and heavy, particularly over
the eyes and about the root of the nose, an increased discharge issues from the nose,
causing soreness and excoriation, and there is
sneezing,
throat, etc. is
the
eyes,
generally a mild ailment, but
ring in aged to
watering of
sore
Cold in the head, or catarrh, if
occur-
persons, in those predisposed
consumption or in those who are asth-
26 matic or
who have
pleurisy or pneumonia ous.
A
from bronchitis, may be very seri-
suffered
neglected
it
cold
is
said to be the
cause of half of our diseases in the form of bronchitis, quinsy,
erysipelas,
rheuma-
tism, neuralgia, inflammation of the lungs,
consumption, Treatment.
etc.
— See Catarrhal Fever and Ca-
tarrh.
COLDS OF INFANTS.— Snuffles. febrile
excitement,
of the
nose,
sneezing,
wheezing and
— Slight
obstruction difficulty
in
taking the breast^ followed by discharge of mucus from the nose with excoriation and watering of the eyes.
—
Accessory Treatment. A warm bath at 96 degrees before going to bed, or placing the feet in warm water will generally relieve; and if there is much stuffiness, the bridge of the nose may be rubbed w^ith a little simple ointment or sweet oil. Children should not be accustomed to hot rooms, but taken into the open air freely, care being taken that their feet are dry and warm. Remedies.
—Same
as
'^
Catarrhal Fever.''
;
27 COLIC.
—Pain
bowels, usually due to
in
flatulence, indigestible food, drinking cold
water,
worms
or other intestinal irritation,
lead poisoning, etc.
There
is
children
usually no fever present.
there
is
with
much
it
In
crying,
drawn up towards the stomach, rumbling in bowels and writhing of body, legs are the pain
relieved
is
by firm pressure and
hot applications.
Trk^tment.
—Apply heat
to
abdomen and
be sure that the feet are dry and give
an injection of warm water
warm if
the
bowels have not moved. Remedies.
— Magnesia phos. 3x
trituration.
Flatulent Colic, forcing the patient to bend
double; in children the legs are drawn up.
Colicky babies
when they cry half
the time;
no interference with nutrition. Dose.
—Take
a
powder
size
of
a
lima
bean and dissolve in a tea-cup of hot water
and
let
the patient sip
until relieved.
it
every few minutes
28
Natrum phos.
6x.
— Colic with symptoms
of acidity, sour smelling stools,
vomiting or
where worms are present. Give one tablet every hour, and when the immediate symptoms are relieved, give one tablet three times a day.
Natrum groin.
ment
suljph.
— Colic
starting in right
Flatulent complaints after confineor during menses.
bitter taste in the
Bilious colic, with
mouth.
Lead
colic.
CONCUSSION OF THE BKAIN.— Due to upon the head and injuries require
falls
rest, application of
times cold
is
Remedies.
more
hot water, though somegrateful.
— Natrum
suljpK
6x is of
special
benefit for the chronic efiects of falls
the head.
Take a dose
upon
at bedtime.
CONSTIPATION.—Costiveness,— Stools
less
frequent than natural, with hard excrement
and
difficult
evacuation, generally a mere
more general disease and frequently resulting from seden-
symptom
characterizing a
29 tary habits, indigestible food, the use of aperients,
inaction of the liver, or weak-
ness of the bowels caused by a general de-
rangement
of the digestive organs.
Treatment.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The bowels should be
solici-
ted at a regular time every day, even
if
must be and daily friction used over the stomach and bowels with the hand or flesh brush. A cold bath, either sitz or shower, or using cold water over the abdomen, should be taken every morning, together with the employment of a coarse towel or flesh glove. Avoid purgathere
is
no action
active exercise
;
taken in the open
air,
tives.
Diet.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;A
change of diet will generally
prove beneficial, and care must be taken
not to eat too much at a meal, and to what is partaken of be simple, easy of
let
di-
and consisting more of vegetable brown bread, barley bread, wholesome ripe fruit, baked pears or
gestion,
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
than animal food^ apples
;
avoiding salted meats, cheese,
rice,
30 highly-seasoned dishes and the like.
Cold
spring water should be freely partaken of
on rising in the morning, and between each meal, but very little liquid should be taken Figs and dates are of benefit. at meals. Remedies.
— Kali
sulph.
— Habitual consti-
pation with insipidj pappy taste
and yellow
sWmy coating on tongue. Natrum mur. Dry stools, with
—
smarting
bleeding,
feeling
after
torn, stool.
and difficult to pass. Hemorrhoids, headache and backache accompanying. Rectum seems to have lost the Silica, power of expulsion, faeces recede after Stools are hard, dry
—
having been partly expelled. Constipation of poorly nourished children with pale, earthy face. Calcar
j)hos.
— Costive,
blood, specially in
old
hard
stools
with
people, associated
with mental depression, vertigo, headache.
— Of the selected
remedy take one 6x three times a day. When improvement shows itself, take it less often. Dose.
tablet of the
31
CONSUMPTION OF THE LUNGS.—Tuberculosis. '
—There
is
no question of the heredi-
tary character of this disease, even though there
is
germ
a
immediate
as its
cause,-
Probably both, the germ and the acquired or hereditary weakness
must be present in
order that this disease can develop. sons
who
ha.ve catarrhal conditions of the
organs
respiratory field
Per-
an
present
inviting
and should be careful about associa-
ting with consumptives in close relation-
ship or occupying beds and rooms recently
occupied by tuberculourj patients. Symptoms. shortness
—General
of
debility, loss of flesh,
breath,
fever, especially
cough,
hoarseness,
towards evening and night
Careful examination by a physi-
sweats.
cian can only determine the diagnosis.
Treatment. careful
— So
hygienic,
much can dietetic
be done by
and
climatic
measures, that professional advice should
always be sought. Good nourishing, easily digestible
food,
fresh
air,
avoidance
of
32 exposures to rapid changes in the weather,
warm
clothing,
Liver
are
all
essential.
— Cod-
Kumyss, Cream, fresh benefit and should be pro-
Oil, Maltine,
butter are of vided.
Remedies.
cording to
—These
must be selected acthe general symptoms of the
patient, character of cough, state of stom-
ach, bowels, etc.
Cahar there
phos.
Among
—In
the
the chief are: beginning,
when
hoarseness, sufibcating
is loss of flesh,
cough with soreness and dryness
attacks,
of throat, dull aching in the chest, chronic
coughs and night sweats with cold extremities.
Calcar
with the
sulpJi.
—When
cough
is
the expectoration
bloody
or
greenish
yellow. Silica.
— Nightly
paroxysms
of
cough
with tickling in throat, emaciation, profuse night sweats.
Offensive foot sweats.
Con-
stipation very marked.
Much
patient is always cold.
This remedy em-
prostration,
33 braces most of the
symptoms
that belong to
the phthisical dyscrasia, consequently
is
it
of great value for the constitutional condi-
tion in hereditary cases.
Dose of
the selected
remedy
the 6x
use
potency in tablets and take one three times After several weeks, take the 12th
a day.
potency in the same way.
Ferrum
pJiosp.
should be used intercur-
rently for colds in patients inclined to con-
sumption
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; breathing short, oppressed, hur-
ried with heat and feverishness.
ness and
Hoarse-
dry, sometimes from lungs. Blood
cough, usually
bleeding of nose
or
bright red, frothy.
Dose.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Dissolve
a
powder
of
trituration in half a glass of water
teaspoonful doses every hour.
the
and take
When
provement shows itself, lengthen the vals between the doses.
CONSUMPTION OF THE BOWELS similar remedies as above. Silica
6th
im-
inter-
require
Calc. phosph.,
and Natrum phos. being the
chief.
34
—
COTJOH. This is a symptom of colds on the chest, of inflammations of the chest organs or chronic catarrhal conditions. See Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Consumption, etc.
Remedies.
—-Ferrum
cough after
colds,
pliosp,
— Short,
sore feeling
in
dry chest,
Of great value in the begining of any trouble with the respiratory
feverishness.
organs, especially in children. Will usually
cut short the attack.
—
Kali mur, Loud, noisy stomach cough; croupy, hard cough; thick, whitish expectoration.
Kali tion.
suljoh,
— Cough
Much
rattling
Patient feels worse in
with yellow secreof
mucus
warm
in
chest.
room.
Magiies pJios.—'&paswLodiG and whooping cough, worse at night. Dry cough in ner-
vous patients.
—
Calcar pJios. Suffocative cough, better lying down. Cough with expectoration of tough, stringy matter.
Natrum
sulph.
all-goneness
in
— Cough with sensation of chest.
Chest
very
sore.
Thick, yellowish mucus.
One
tablet of 6th potency every 2 hours.
35
CRAMPS.
— Sometimes
especially of the calves to painful
certain
and
muscles,
feet, are subject
contractions which
are
called
cramps, coming on generally during sleep.
Treatment.
— Magnes,
pliospJi. is
the only
remedy necessary. sixth potency at
CROUP.
Take one tablet of the bedtime for a few nights.
— True croup
disease and always
is
a very dangerous
beyond the
spliere of
domestic treatment. Fortunately catarrhal
by far the most frequent form and yields very readily to simple^ hygienic and remedial measures. Usually the attacks come on suddenly at night, the child awakens with a hoarse, croup or
false
croup
barking cough, or less feverish. sets in
is
frightened,
restless,
more
After several hours, sleep
and the next day the child may be
comparatively well.
Frequently a similar
The very attack occurs the next night. suddenness of the attack and the violence
symptoms coming on after exposure cold or from some change in the weather
of the
to
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 36 speaks
harmless
comparatively
the
for
Catarrhal Croup, whereas, a slow, insidious
development with marked boarseness that continues and grows worse with more or less fever
which
is
marks the onset
of true croup
a violent inflammation of the Hning
membrane of the wind-pipe, producing a peculiar membranous secretion, interferring with this
respiration.
membrane
croup.
It
It generally
presence
the
is
characterizes
that
commences
of
true
like a cold
with more persistent hoarseness succeeded
by
fever,
difficult
cough.
breathing,
wheezing,
and ringing or hoarse
whistling, barking
Croup rarely occurs
of seven years, but is
after the age
one of the most dan-
The cold and
gerous diseases of children.
croupy cough may sometimes exist for a day or two before a paroxysm or fit occurs; or a child
may
go to bed apparently well
and have an attack worst form. tained.
complaint in
Medical aid
Cold and
den changes
of the
damp
should be
its
ob-
atmospheres, sud-
of temperature,
wet
feet, in-
37 sufficient clothing,
are
low and moist
localities,
the exciting causes of croup, and one
attax^k generally predisposes
the patient to
subsequent ones. Treatment.
— Put
^
on
a
around the throat, changing Remedies, disease are
—The
hot it
compress
frequently.
chief remedies for this
Ferrum ][)hosph, and Kali mw\^
given alternately every half-hour.
symptoms do not improve
after
If the
several
hours, substitute Calcarea pliosph. and Cal-
During convalescence, give Calcar, sulph. three times a day Use until complete restoration of health. the 6th trituration or tablets, dry on the carea fluor every hour.
tongue.
CRYEsia OF
INFANTS.— Crying, accom-
panied by restlessness, indicates unpleasant sensations;
crying with drawing
up the
legs to the abdomen, points to colic; citing with crowding the fingers into the mouth,
indicates pain from teething; crying
coughing, denotes pain in the chest,
when
etc.
— 38 Tre^TxMENT.
— See that the child way — dry and
especially the
feet
the feet by an open all
is
and abdomen. fire, if
com-
warm
in every
fortable
Toast
possible; loosen
bands and see that no pins are pricking
any
part.
Remedies.
—These should
be selected ac-
cording to the most probable cause as mentioned
above.
3x
In
general
use
Calcar,
powder to be dissolved in a cup of hot water and given to the child in sips every few minutes, to be followed, if necessary, by Magnes. phospli. 3x trituration, given in the same way. During the teething period the occasional
phosph.^
trituratioUj a
use of Calcar, phospJi. will prevent
unpleasant restless and crying
many
spells.
DEAFNESS FROM A COLD may
frequent-
ly be greatly benefited by remedies. Use Ferrum pliosp, 6x, one tablet, three times a
day, to be followed in a few days, if necessary, by Kali rnur., same dose and preparation.
If it resists this
treatment and there
:
39
no wax in the ear which ought to be removed by gently syringing with warm is
water, consult a physician.
DEBILITY general
may
is
state
a term used to designate a
of
be due to
bodily weakness
many causes;
and strenuous work
of
which
long-continued
any kind, night-
watching, after any acute
illness, or in
con-
sequence of some drain upon the system. The treatment consists in supplying good nourishing, easily digested food, plenty of fresh air
and sleep in well ventilated bed
chambers, avoidance of alcoholic stimulants
and
of
most advertised so-called tonics and
the judicious use of one of the following
remedies
Kali phosph, suffers
most
sleeplessness, tion,
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; When the nervous system
as evidenced b}^ nervousness,
weakness from the
bodily and mental.
pressed
and
in
a
least exer-
Patient
sensitive
state.
is
de-
One
tablet of the 3rd potency should be taken
in a cup of hot milk three times a
day or
40 oftener
if
there
also loss of appetite for
is
food generally. Calcar,
young
pliosph.
is
often
called
for
in
chlorotic girls, near the age of pu-
when they are very restless and nerThey want to go away from home, and, when away, they want to come back again; they suffer from headache when at berty,
vous.
school; they develop very slowly; circula-
and nose cold; constant headaches from artificial light, from atmospheric changes worse on top of the
tion imperfect;
ears
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
following exhausting dis-
head;
debility
eases;
menses apt
to
be
too
early,
with
faint feeling in the stomach; a feeling of
soreness in the back.
rapidly growing
ened
by
In anemia of young,
people, in
women weak-
childbearmg,
rapid
prolonged
suckling, or excessive menstruation or leucorrhoea,
power.
it
has
Take one
wonderful
restorative
tablet of the third trit-
uration four times a day.
Natrum mur. where the blood
In is
anaemic conditions,
thin and watery
;
chlor-
41 osis,
with habitual feeHng of coldness in
back; skin pitation;
dirty, sallow; frequent pal-
is
menses;
delayed
constipation;
watery, smarting discharges between
during
terrible sadness, especially
riods;
pe-
menstruation; backache relieved by lying
on something hard; the neck
and
ciated,
emaciation
is
much ema-
continues
even
while living well.
Especially useful after
abuse
patient shows
of
quinine;
aversion to bread NatriLin mur,
is
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; longing
for
especially the
malarial symptoms. tablets of the sixth
marked
salt
food.
remedy
for
It is best to give it in
and twelfth
trituration,
a dose three times a day.
The dentition period of by more
DENTITION. children
is
usually characterized
or less disturbance in the mental, gastric or
other child
As
condition. is
more
a general
Very frequently
fretful, restless
and
the
sleepless.
remedy during the teething
period, a nutritive remedy, nothing is better than the administration of Calcar jyhos.j
42 a powder three times a day.
This can be
given in the milk or given dry on the
tongue or in a Uttle water.
Ferrum pliosph.
is
the remedy for fever-
ish turns.
Natrum mui\ when the
child drolls very
much. Magnes,
pJios.
if
it
twitches, and has a
dry spasmodic cough, also for colicky turns. Dose. small
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Of
the
selected
remedy, give a
powder every two hours.
DIABETES
is
a
constitutional
wasting
disease frequently due to nervous states of
a depressing character, hke worry, anxiety, etc.
of
It is characterized
mouth and
throat,
by great dryness
burning thirst for
and profuse urinSkin is dry, often with itching and eruption,
large quantities of w^ater ation, containing sugar.
accompanied boils, etc. The treatment consists in regulating the diet, and avoiding so far as possible starchy food.
43 Remedies.
— Kali
phospJi. especially after
depressing emotions, patient
ous and restless.
3x
for one
wdiich
week
substitute
is
weak, nerv-
Give one tablet
of the
three times daily, after
the
6th,
and
later the
12th potency.
Natrum ing,
miir.
Great
thirst,
much
wast-
and constipation, are the special indi-
cations for this drug.
Dose.
— Same
as above.
DIARRHOEA — Looseness
A
too frequent
the
of the Bowels.—
and copious discharge from
bowels, frequently accompanied with
pain in the stomach, nausea or vomiting, rumbling in the bowels, coldness, and, in
with burning pains, violent extreme weakness, and even fainting; sometimes lasting only a few hours, and sometimes months or years, and may be caused by bilious or gastric difficulties, cold, impure air and food, mental severe
cases,
straining,
emotions, etc.
44;
Treatment. best plan
is
—For to
an acute
avoid
all
attack,
the
food for a few
hours; then take mutton broth with barley, or
chicken broth and
rice,
boiled milk,
avoiding solid and irritating food kinds, as fruit, vegetables, etc.
bowels and feet bed,
if
warm and
of
all
Keep
the
dry.
Rest in
possible.
Remedies.
— Ferrum phospJu^wtitery
stools,
or undigested with colicky pain.
Magnes. phosph.^
if
the pains are especi-
ally severe.
Kali mur.^ when the stools are bloody or contain much mucus, tongue coated white. Dose.
— Of
the selected
remedy
a dose
should be given after every evacuation.
For chronic diarrhoea, the best remedies are
Calcar, pJiosph,
Take one
and
Natrum
sulpli.
tablet of the sixth potency alter-
nately night and morning and after every evacuation.
DIPHTHERIA. of
the
—A peculiar inflammation
mucous membrane
of
the throat,
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 45 accornpanied by the production of
which
is
a false
membrane
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; patches
of grey or
wash-
which deposit on the tonand which are small at first, but gradunlly increase and threaten suffocation. The disease is attended with great prostration. It usually sets in with shivering and great depression, dryness and tingling in leather-like spots sils,
the throat, difficulty of swallowing, vomiting, is
and sometimes headache. The tongue is no active fever.
loaded, but there
Ferrum phosph, and Kali mur.
Remedies
should be given in alternation every hour. If
there
is
vomiting
Natrum mur.
of
watery
fluid,
give
instead.
Kali phosph, corresponds to symptoms of blood poisoning, very ofiensive
discharge
and breath, also, for the paralytic states, resulting from diphtheria. A dose every
two hours. If the larynx becomes involved, give once Calcar. fluor,
Never
A
at
dose every half hour.
fail to call in early, in
every sus-
pected case of diphtheria, the best profes-
46 sioiial
advice you can obtain
;
it is
too seri-
ous a disease for domestic treatment. Blood poisoning and heart failure or croup setting in,
when
all of
may
help
be practically useless,
which might have been prervented by
timely care of a physician.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
DIZZINESS. When it occurs in nervous subjects who, without having any active symptoms of dyspepsia, do not well assimilate the nutritive portion of the food.
Oalcar, phosph.
1 x.
One
tablet
after
meals.
BISCHARGtES from any mucous membrane according to their characteristics require different remedies. If fibrinous,
stringy,
gl^^y? KctU mur.
watery, serous, Natrum
If
Kali It
sulph.
If
does not
imir.
If thick,
yellowish^ Natruin plios.
make any
selection of the remedy,
difference in the
whether the
dis-
charge be from the nose, throat, ears or pelvic
organs,
it
is
the character of the dis-
charge w^hich determines the remedy.
47
DROPSY.
—Various
dropsical
affections
can be benefited by the Tissue remedies,
when they
but
are the results
disease, usually heart
diseases,
chief
and Kali
liver
of deep-seated mis-
of serious import.
A
should invariably be consulted. cipal remedies are
organic
and kidney, or
they are signs
and
of
physician
The
prin-
Kali mur.j Natrum mur.
sulph,
DYSENTERY— Bloody-Flnx.— A disease of the larger bowel, in which the stools are
frequent and often bloody, attended with griping and straining, and, in
the
form
There ex-
ists
of the disease,
with fever.
acute
frequently an urgent desire to evacuate
which are confined, accompanied with violent straining; and the stools contain little or no ordinary matter, but consist principally of pure mucus, mucus mixed with blood, pure blood, or the
bowels,
greenish, bilious, brownish, or blackish, pu-
Dysentery generally arises from sudden exposure to cold, indigestible trid
matters.
48 food, unripe fruit,
autumn
occurs in
or
weather, in damp, unwholesome
localities.
The treatment consists in and careful regulation of the
rest,
warmth
diet.
Avoid
beef-tea, meats, vegetables.
Boiled milk,
mutton broth, milk found of most benefit.
rice,
toast,
will
be
— Kali mur.
and Ferrum jyhosp, taken in alternation every two hours will generally sufiice in mild cases. Remedies."
Kali
plios.^
when
the
stools
contain
mostly blood, are offensive and there
is
falling of rectum.
EAR, DISEASES OF
THE ^Earache,— Vio-
lent pains in the ear, even little
when
there
is
or no perceptible inflammation, some-
times so intense as to cause delirium, fre-
quently
the
result of
a chill,
and
oft-en
existing in connection with toothache.
Treatment. jpliospJi,
relieved.
A
—Apply heat and give Ferrum
dose every five minutes until
49
Hamming
in the Ears,
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kali
phosph.
is
the chief remedy. Discharge from the Ears.
Kali mur.
Sil-
and Calcar, j^^^osj^h, are the principal Give a dose three times a daj^ of one for one week then substitute the But in all chronic disnext, and so on. ica
remedies.
chi^rges
an
from the
ears, it is well to consult
aurist.
ECZEMA
is
a disease of the skin,
frequent in early childhood.
It is
very
usually
accompanied by great itching. The treatment includes, besides remedies, careful regulation of the diet, avoiding over-feed-
ing especially, and
avoidance of too fre-
quent w^ashing of the parts.
Instead of
pure water, use oatmeal or bran water, and after bathing, apply freely corn starch.
a rule, salves
As
and medicated applications
are not advisable.
Remedies.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kali
mur.^ Kali
sulpli,^
jSlatrum jnur, are the chief remedies.
and Give
50 one tablet of the sixth potency night and for one week; then substitute the
morning
twelfth potenc}^, and
if
no improvement
is
apparent after two or three weeks, use one of the other remedies in
Remember
the
same way.
an obstinate and chronic affection, and needs time and much patience. it
is
ERYSIPELASâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; St. Anthony's Fire.â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A
su-
and inflammation which disappears under pres-
perficial shining redness,
of the skin,
sure of the finger, but returns as soon as
the pressure
is
removed.
There
is
gener-
and a burning heat and tingling rather than acute pain. It frequently follows injuries; blisters often form on the inflamed surface (vesicular erysipelas), and ally fever,
it
sometimes assumes a severe and danger-
ous form.
The more common exciting causes of and loss of resisting power from disease, abuse of stimulants, vmdue exposure to cold, disordered stomach, wounds, etc. erj^sipelas are debility
51 Treatment.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Avoid
cept flour, cornstarch
applications ex-
all ;
or,
when
procurable,
Honey sometimes
ripe cranberries.
is
also
.very efficient.
Ferrum
phospli,
principal remedies.
ternately
Kali
disease
is
checked.
should be given instead,
suljjJi.
it, if
the
until
there
is
A
dose
be given every hour until improve-
ment shows
itself.
EYE, DISEASES OF.â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Many forms
of sim-
pie inflammation of the external eye
be
bUs-
may be alternated much nervous disturb-
ance, weakness, restlessness, etc.
may
if
Kali pJiosph,
ters form.
with
and Kali mur. are the Give hourly doses al-
successfully
treated
with
remedies; but, as a rule,
all
the
may
tissue
eye troubles
should be intrusted to the care of a specialist.
Ferrum loliospli.
is
the
remedy
for in-
flammation of any part of the eye, burning sensation, red
and inflamed look, cannot if simd were under
bear light, sensation as the
lids, letters
blur while reading.
52 Kali muT.
— Affections
mucus, ulcers
with discharge
of cornea.
Natrum mur. — Muscular ralgic pains
of
asthenopia, neu-
around eye, with much water-
ing of eyes; granulated lids. Silica
— Styes,
and indurations
kernels
of the lids; scrophulous ophthalmia.
The selected remedy should not be given For chronic Give a
lower than the sixth potency. affections the
twelfth
is
better.
dose night and morning.
FEVER—Simple or Inflammatory.— Shi verand pains in the back, followed by hot, dry skin, thirst, headache, ing, sickness,
short breathing, quick, full pulse, 'loss of appetite, is
and scanty urine.
Simple fever
mostly a slight and transient disorder
when
occurring alone, but w^hen fever ac-
companies eruptive or eases, it become.^ Trt-z^tment.
—In
more the
inflammatory disserious.
treatment of fever,
the room in which the patient
is,
should
be cool, airy, and well ventilated, and kept
53 at
an even temperature of about sixty deThe covering to the bed should in
grees.
general be light, but suited to the feelings the linen should be often
of the patient;
changed, and the patient may be frequently sponged down with tepid water. The diet must be light, easy of digestion, and unstimulating
— barley-water,
thin gruel,
or
arrowroot, toast-water or water to allay the thirst
;
ice-water or ice
mouth, and also fresh
may
also
grateful.
and
Kumyss
Ferrum
be held in the
be allowed.
Lemonade
Unfermented grape
plios,
is is
is
juice
admirable foods in
are
cases where fever
quired.
may
stewed or in most cases
fruits
all
present.
the
only remedy
Dissolve a powder of
re-
the third
trituration in half a glass of water
and give
teaspoonf ul doses every hour until relief
is
obtained, then less frequently.
Kali pJws,
—For
nervous fevers, quick irregular pulse, with nervous excitement and much weakness mouth dry, blisters around mouth, with tendency to delirium. A dose of the 6th every hour.
—
54
FLATULENCY—Wind Bowels.
in the Stomach or
— Fullness
Symptoms.-
men; rumbling
in the abdo-
in the bowels; severe pain;
accumulation or copious discharge of wind, a
symptom
of indigestion.
and Oalcar phos. are the Take Magnet pliosph.^ principal remedies. Macjnes
one tablet
2)^^os.
of the third
potency after meals,
and repeat every half hour until better; take Calc, phospli, night and morning as a constitutional remedy.
GASTRIC DISTURBANCES-— Acute tric catarrh, diet, etc. tite,
The
usually caused by errors
mental
cold,
gas-
in
states, specially anger,
chief sj^mptoms are loss of appe-
pain in the pit of the stomach, bloat-
ness, coated tongue,
bad
taste,
nausea and
due
to errors in
vomiting.
Remedies
—Kali mur.^
if
diet, especially fat food.
Natrum
sulph,,
if
symptoms, jaundiced
assorted with
liver
pain in
right
skin,
side, flatulence, diarrhoea,
55 Dose.
— Take a dose every two hours.
See Indigestion.
GLANDS—Glandular are
of diseases
by the
more strikingly benefited and espe-
tissue remedies as acute
cially chronic
glands
Affections.— No class
inflammations of the various
throughout
the
There
body.
is
usually a scrophulous taint at the bottom to account for the readiness with
which,
from
glands
will
ment
apparently slight causes, the
grow painful and of
chronic
cases
swell.
The
requires
treat-
patience
and not too frequent change
of remedies.
remedy
for all acute
Kali mur, swellings. cases. tion.
is
the chief
Calcar, pJiosph, for
Commence with
more chronic
the second tritura-
Give three doses daily for one week;
then give the third, sixth and twelfth potency in the same way. rating glands.
jSilica for
suppu-
56
GOUT— (Arthritis)
—
Pains in the joints,
with inflammatory or chronic cold swelhng, and symptoms of deranged digestion. Pains are generally severe, and the inflammation
mostly attacks the smaller joints, particularly the first joint of the great toe,
becomes
red,
hot and swollen.
It
which some-
times suddenly changes from one location to
another and returns at intervals, vari-
ous joints or parts becoming aflected after repeated attacks.
Gout
is
mostly a heredi-
tary disease, coming on without any evi-
dent external cause, generally preceded by disorder of the digestive organs, and ac-
companied by a plethoric
state of the sys-
tem.
—The chief remed}^
Remedies.^
X
6
acute
attacks,
hours.
is
Natrurn
a dose three times a day.
sulph,j
If the
Natrum pliosph.
For
Ferrimi phos. every two stomach is involved give every two hours.
—The
must be very spare during the acute symptoms, as Accessory Treatment.
diet
57 thin
bread and milk^ light
gruel,
bread
puddings, barley water, arrowroot and the like,
Keep
oranges, roasted
grapes, etc.
apples,
the affected part in such a moder-
ately cool state as to be comfortable to the patient, without being so
warm
as to aggra-
vate the severity of the attack, or so cold as
to
check the insensible perspiration.
External applications are generally of use in a
of gout; those
fit
little
which are warm
doing no good, and those which are cold
having a tendency
to
suddenly check the
inflammation, and thereby produce harm. jKiunyss
and unfermented grape juice
be used freely.
Friction with
brush during convalescence
and the limbs and regularly
is
the
may flesh-
beneficial,
affected parts should be
sponged with
cold
salt
water
every morning, and well wiped and rubbed afterwards.
The
diet,
should consist of a
during convalescence,
little
digestible animal
food once a day, with eggs, bread,
no wines or
spirits.
etc.,
but
58
—
GRAYEL. Whenever there is a sandy sediment in the urine care should be taken to change the diet^ avoiding too rich food and drinking plenty of pure water. The chief remedy is Natrum sulpJi,^ a tablet three times a day;
much
but
there
if
acidity at the same time take
pliospli.
is
Natrum
instead.
GUMS, SCURVY OF THE— Canker of the Mouth.— Offensive smell in the mouth with a glutinous bloody discharge
which are
from the gums,
hot, red, soft, spongy, very sensi-
tive, retracted
from the teeth and subse-
quently ulcerated along their margins. Treatment.
— Avoid
food
that
tends to
produce acidity, such as sweets, rich food, etc.
Kali mur.^ 3x trituration.
powder about the
size
half a glass of water
of
Dissolve
a
a lima bean in
and take teaspoonful
doses every two hours.
be taken after Kali mur,
Natrum if
do not improve very rapidly.
the
rnur.
may
symptoms
1
59
HEMORRHAGE. to
hsemorrhages
from any
dency
to
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The remedies
may
orifice
used for bleeding
be
The
the body.
of
adapted
ready bleeding
ten-
sometimes met
is
with in persons predisposed thereto,
in
such even slight wounds bleed freely, profusely and for a long time.
may
This tendency
be overcome by the continuous consti-
tutional Calcar.
treatment flitor,^
Kali
using
of
^^Aos^j^A.
remedy
each
and occa-
sionally.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Treatment of Acute Hemorrhages. Ferritin phospli, generally suffices, especially in chil-
dren that grow rapidly.
Blood
is
bright
red.
Kali mur, when the blood
is
dark, black,
clotted or tough; vomiting of such blood.
Kali jjhosph, in weak, delicate people, in the aged, and where the blood
is
blackish,
thin, like cofiee grounds.
Of the selected remedy a dose may be given every five to fifteen minutes until relief is obtained.
60
HAIR.
—Falling
out of the hair
a fre-
is
quent sequel to fevers, but here the loss is only temporary; and can be stayed by taking
three
Calcar, pliospli,
For the loss and thinning
a
is
good tonic
Too frequent washing
procedure.
to be advised.
and
An
day.
a
of hair not thus
connected faithful brushing
car. fliior.
times
is
not
occasional dose of Calwill be
Silica
found benefi-
cial.
HEADACHE.
—Pain
in
the head, either
over the head or in a particular spot,
all
arising
from various causes,
matism,
congestion,
affections,
constipation,
stimulants,
fatigue,
as
cold, rheu-
indigestion,
nervous
mental emotions,
eye strain, growth in
nose, etc.
Catarrhal Headache,
Symptoms.
— (From
—The headache
a cold.) is
oppressive,
frequently better in the morning, worse in the
evening, the
eyes are
full
of tears,
sneezing, dry heat in the nose, some cough, etc.
61 Treatment. be
ally
all
— Ferrum
that
phosph, will gener-
Take a dose
needed.
is
every half hour. Congestiye Headache.
— (From
determina-
tion of blood to the head.)
Symptoms.
—Fulness and heaviness
of the
head, accompanied with giddiness, particularly on
beating of the arteries visible,
and heat, the on the neck being
stooping, throbbing
vomiting as the pain increases; the
pain worse on shaking, moving the head, lying
down
when
standing.
or stooping, sometimes better
Principal remedy
Neryous Headache. head.
is
Ferriim j^hosph,
—Neuralgic pains
Symptoms.
— The
attacks
periodical, the pain
is
of
are
frequently
a tearing, throb-
bing or hard-aching character, and felt
on one side
of the
circumscribed spot. sore to
in the
(^Megrim. J
is
often
head only or in a
The painful part
feels
pressure; light, noise and mental
62 agitation are intolerable, and the headache is
often attended with severe retching or
vomiting
of bile
the
—Kali
and Ferrum alternately every half hour during
Treatkent. ^oliospli,
and mucus.
attacks.
Natrum mur,
pliospli.
Between the attacks take for one week, then Silica for
one week, and so on alternately for a time.
The attacks
will grow^
less
frequent and
severe.
HEAD SYMPTOMS OF THE CHIEF SUE REMEDIES.—
Consult these
in
TISpre-
scribing for the different kinds of headache.
Ferrum
phospJi,
— Headache
from
cold,
sun exposure; throbbing pain; cold relieves the pain; headache with red face and eyes; riish
blood to head;
of
motion,
noise, jar,
menstrual period. Calcar.
jjhosph.
worse from any
combing
hair,
— Headaches
children, especially at about
of
the
and
at
school
time of
puberty; head feels cold, bruised, worse from any exposure; much dizziness; ill-
63
humor; want
of disposition to
do anything;
forgetful, dull.
Kali
— Headache of students and
pTiospli,'
those worn out after mental
by
noise,
weariness,
b}^
fatigue
emotions; pain
which 3'
— old people, and
awning;
pain
made worse sleeplessness,
irritates;
sometimes
re-
lieved by eating; menstrual headache with
hunger; tongue coated brownish with foul breath; pain in back of head and across eyes.
— Spasmodic pain; very
Magnesia pliosph,'
severe neuralgic headache
;
shooting pains,
with sparks before eyes; headache due to eye troubles; better from warmth.
Natrum mur. tion,
— Headache
with constipa-
with vomiting, with watering
and with drowsiness; after
loss of
of eyes,
animal
fluids; profuse discharges, night sweats, etc.
Here follow with Calcar, pliosph. Chronic and sick headaches headaches before and ;
during menses, especially in
school girls
who stud}^ hard, are run down; anemia; headache commences in the morning, in-
64 creases
towards noon, and gets better in
I
evening.
Natrum bitter taste; etc.
—Bilious
headache with biUous diarrhoea; cohcky pain,
sidj)h.
Also for pain in back part of head, at
the base of the brain
;
must go
to
bed in a
darkened room; cannot tolerate noise. Silica. Headaches from nerve exhaustion; after excessive mental strain; nervous, sensitive patients; weakly persons, fine
—
skin,
pale
nourished.
face,
lax muscles;
imperfectly
These respond quickly to this
remedy. Consult, also, the Index of Sjrmptoms.
HEART, PALPITATION OF THE,— Palpitation or pulsation of the
heart
felt
dis-
and predominantly, sometimes even heard, or so strong as to shake the patient or the bed on which he may be lying, and which may arise from nervous debihty, tinctly
hysteria, severe bodily suffering or violent
emotions, constipation, indigestion, torpid liver,
weakness from
loss of
blood or other
:
65 discharges,
gouty condition, excessive
a
bodily exercise, disease or excitable condition of the heart, etc. Palpitation from Debility.
Ferrum edy.
If
jyJwsph. is the
coming on
stitute Calcar,
Treatment.
most suitable rem-
after acute iUness, sub-
loliospli.
HEART TISSUE REMEDIES. — pliosph,-
—
— Weak
heart;
Calcar.
around
sharp pain
palpitation with anxiety, lowed by trembling weakness.
the heart;
Ferrum 2:)lios2oli
—First stage of
all
fol-
acute,
inflammatory diseases involving the heart; pulse rapid and full; regulates the circulation.
Kali
pliospli.
— Intermittent action
of the
heart; ill-efiects of mental emotions, palpitation, pain, etc. ;
palpitation from slightest
cause; physical or mental exertion.
Magnes, phosph.
— Shooting
pain
around
heart w^ith spasmodic attacks of palpitation.
—
Natrum mur. Watery condition shown by anemia^ dropsical
blood,
of
the
swell-
66 ing,
ready flushing, and palpitation; con-
around heart; fluttering and
striction
in-
termittent pulse.
HEARTBURN.
— Heartburn
and water-
brash are prominent symptoms of indiges-
produced by acridity of the secretions.
tion,
Heartburn consists in a sensation of heat or burning, which extends from the stomach to the throat; and waterbrash, in the vomiting or regurgitation of a watery, sour, or bitter fluid.
Treatment. that
—Avoid
all
articles of
you know from experience
food
to disagree
with you.
Natrum phosph, Take one eating.
is
the principal remedy.
tablet of the sixth potency after If
there
is
much
Calcar, pliospli, in the
flatulence take
same way.
HICCOUGH—Hiccup. Treatment.— Holdthe most simple, and in
ing the breath
is
many
most
cases the
effective
way
of stop-
ping hiccough, or drinking a draught of
67 cold water.
may
When
occurs in infants they
it
be placed to the
to this little trouble,
breast.
If
subject
attention should be
paid to diet^ care being taken not to eat too quickly, nor too
Magnes. phosph.
much
is
at a time.
the only remedy re-
quired.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rough
and indistinct voice and cough, sometimes accompanied by pain, asthma, and rattling in the throat. It frequently results from a chill, and often
HOARSENESS.
accompanies measles, croup, influenza, Treatment.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Use
plenty of
etc.
cold water,
or cold salt water, and cold sponging, with
The
diei
should be plain and simple; take but
little
vigorous
friction
afterwards.
meat, and avoid stimulants; keep the feet warm, and do not exert the voice. Drink warm milk and seltzer during an acute attack and take Ferrum pliospli. and Kali mur. alternately every hour. In very obstinate
cases
tablet every
take
two hours.
Calcar.
mlpli.^
one
HYSTERIA
a
is
condition
weakness, where the patient
of is
nervous
emotional,
which self-control is largely lost; laughing and crying alternate with each
and
in
other; all sorts of abnormalities of sensa-
any disease may be simu-
tions take place;
lated; feeling of a
lump
in the throat; pain
as of a nail in the head, are very
sensations.
common
The hysterical patient
is
usu-
very highly nervous organization and very unstably balanced. ally of a
Treatment
medicinal to some extent,
is
but mainly moral and
hygienic.
Do
not
show too much sympathy with the patient and her innumerable aches and pains; encourage
self
control, self
f orgetf ulness
;
en-
courage her to take interest in others, to
have a mission reading
of
aimless
some kind. Discourage and trashy literature.
Avoid excitement of all kinds, late hours, stimulants, tea and coffee, rich food, etc. Build up the general system by simple but nourishing food, aided by unfermented
69
Grape Juice, Malted Milk, Maltine, Kumjss, Regular exercise in open air, judicious use of bicycle riding, driving, swimming, walking with a cheery companion, all
etc.
tend
the lost stability
restore
to
of the
nerves.
Kali throat ing
;
— Nervous attacks — feeling a
pliosph,-
tense emotions ;
hysterical
hysterical
fits
from
in-
ball rising in
of
of laughing
and cry-
yawning and spasms
;
gen-
eral nervousness.
Nutrum
niur,^
when
laying menses, patient
and
sad
relieved
w^eak.
when
All
associated with deis
greatly depressed,
symptoms
the
perspiring freely.
Cakar, phosph.j as a constitutional
may
tonic,
be given twice a day in the food.
INDIGESTION.— Derangement ach.
are
—Indigestion
includes
all
of the Stom-
those almost
indefinable and inexpressible states or conditions of disease arising from or depend-
ent
upon slow or
weakness
of the
difficult
stomach.
digestion
These
may
or be
70 either acute or chronic
;
they
may
either
from having partaken of indigestible, unwholesome, heavy, fat, sour or flatulent food, or from over-eating, etc., or they may arise
become chronic from a long continuance
of
exciting causes calculated to impair the digestion
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as too much
ercise,
long-continued indulgence in
study, too
ex-
little
warm
drinks, stimulants, purgatives, patent medicines, etc.
Treatment.^
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Look
to
the
Avoid
diet.
whatever you know from experience
to
disagree with you, but do not encourage any dietetic theories. Remember what is good for one patient is not necessarily adapted to another, even when suff*ering with similar symptoms. Every adult ought to
know
himself better than ariy one else
what kind
of food
with him.
Usually a mixed diet of simple
is
most likely
to agree
nourishing food, eaten slowly and well masticated
and
at regular intervals
is
better
than restriction to some one or two
arti-
71
Sometimes a
cles.
glass of pure California
claret
with the principal meal will be of
great
benefit; especially
weak and illness,
coffee
is
this true in the
debilitated, aged and after acute
and
in total loss of appetite.
cannot
taken
be
try the
When
Homoeo-
pathic Coffee, which possesses a good deal of the flavor
and
taste of true coffee with-
out any deleterious effects. Remedies.-
stomach
is
— Ferrum
pJiosph,
— Pit
of
the
tender to touch; vomiting; pain
after eating;
flatulence;
loss of
appetite;
disgust for milk; cannot take meat; cannot
bear tight clothing; thirst for cold water; desire for stimulants.
Kali mui\
—Tongue
coated;
complaints
from rich and fatty food; bitter taste; liver sluggish, with pain in right side under shoulder.
—
Kali phosph, Hungry soon after eating; gone feeling in stomach; pain in left side; weakness of heart constant pain in a small ;
spot in stomach; great nervous depression.
;
72
—Yellow-coated
Kali
suljoh.'
sation as of a load
tongue; sen-
and fulness
at the pit of
the stomach; pain in stomach; waterbrash.
— Cramp
Magnes. phosph.
constriction; hiccough;
in
stomach
marked regurgita-
tion after eating; craves sugar; gastralgia.
Natrum mur.
— Stomachache
with much
waterbrash; offensive breath; bowels constipated; loss of desire for smoking;
very
thirsty; sour taste; aversion to bread; red spots on pit of stomach.
Natrum risings;
— Great
phospJi.-
moist,
creamy
acidity;
coating
of
sour the
stomach troubles from presence worms; heartburn; vomiting of dark,
tongue; of
cofiee-ground fluid.
Natrum
sulph,
— Biliousness;
bitter taste
mouth; vomiting of bitter fluid; heartburn copious formation of gas, which gets
in
;
incarcerated in intestines. Calc, j)hosj)h, is
—A
course of this remedy
useful in all chronic cases of indigestion;
pain after eating; craving for bacon, ham, salted
and smoked meats
pain relieved by ;
HO
eating and raising wind; almost an infallible
remedy
for
excessive accumulation of
gas in the stomach. Calc.
j)^^o^P^i,^
Ix
a
trituration,
powder
given in water half an hour after eating,
is
efficacious in non-assimilation of food.
Calc. sulpli.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Desire
for fruit, tea, claret
and green vegetables. Chronic dyspepsia, with much Silica, chilliness; extreme hunger; disgust for
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
warm
food,
and intolerance
alcoholic
of
stimulants.
INFLAMMATIONS
are
so
of
serious
a
character as to require the immediate at-
tendance of an experienced physician.
symptoms
are heat, pain, swelling, redness,
The
increased pulse, restlessness, etc. stage of all inflammations, fever, heat, etc., tion
is
Ferrum
of
powder
size
half full
The
of
of a
when
first
there
is
met by the administra-
79^08/9/^.,
6x.
Dissolve
a
lima bean in a tumbler
water and give teaspoonful
doses every hour.
Later, after a day per-
74 haps,
may
it
be well to alternate with
Kali mur,^ 6x, given in the same
it
^vay.
(See separate diseases.)
INFLUENZA— Grippe.—Influenza difiers from a common cold principally in there being oppressed respiration and great prostration
of strength.
epidemic.
Its
It
is
frequently an
sudden onset,
with great
w^eakness, pains in limbs, back and joints,
headache and fever, characterize the attack.
The treatment
consists
of
in
rest
bed,
nourishing food, egg-nog, sherry and egg, broths, etc.
Natrum
sulpTi. is
the principal
throughout the course for
many
of the
remedy
disease and
of the after effects.
Calc, pJiosph.
and Kali
])^^ospli,
may
be
given during convalescence and for the re-
maining debility. four times a day
—
A first
dose
may
be
taken
one, then the other.
INTERMITTENT FEVER.
—A paroxysmal
disease, usually consisting of chills^ fever
75
and sweat, coming on in one, two or more days' interval, caused by malarial germs, occurring in marshy places, damp, lowlying neighborhoods, and associated with a good deal of headache, backache, liver and There
spleen disturbance.
may
much
be
irregularity in the different stages, one
or
two being absent entirely, or the whole may assume a masked form as ob-
condition
stinate neuralgias, gastric disturbances, etc.
Treatment.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;As a
rule,
the services of a
physician wdll be required to select a curative
remedy and superintend the general
treatment,
but
the
quently cure the Chief
among them
tissue
most is
remedies
obstinate
Natrum
fre-
cases.
salj)h.
In
the absence of any special symptoms, this will be is
found the best general remedy.
especially called for
ious
when
It
there are bil-
symptoms, yellow complexion, bronzetongue, bilious bloody
colored coating of stools.
Natrum mur,
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chill
morning about 10
is
apt to return in
o'clock;
great
thirst;
76
headache; ralgia of
backache; fever
head and
In order to
face.
prescribe
this obstinate disease,
tween the attacks
neu-
blisters;
successfully for
the conditions be-
and fever should be noted, they indicate the curative remedy more likely than the character of the of chills
must
different stages, although these, too,
be included in our estimate of the case.
JAUNDICE.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jaundice
characterized
is
by yellowness of the whites of the eyes and the skin, whitish or clay-colored stools, and saffron-colored urine. It is attended with more or less derangement of the diJaundice is caused by gestive functions. gallstones, disease of the liver, super-abun-
dance
of bile,
improper food,
cold, or sud-
den emotions, etc. The treatment must include careful tention Fruit,
to
gruel,
diet,
meat,
avoiding
lemonade
are
at-
coffee.
useful
and
grateful to the patient.
Natrum
sulph. is the chief
remedy. Take
77 a
Kali mur.^
every four hours.
dose
caused by cold and the tongue
is
if
coated
whitish.
KIDNEYS.— The kidneys
are
liable
to
various forms of disease, and are especially to be attacked after
whose mode
much
of
life
middle age and in
men
involves high living,
exertion and worry, indifferent at-
tention to
These forms of
exercise, etc.
kidney disease are
and need the A comthe kidney, due which are sup-
serious
all
careful attention of the physician.
mon form
is
congestion of
to chill, the
symptoms
pression of
urine, pain
of
in back, swelling
around eyes, and dropsical conditions elsewhere. The treatment for this is to put the patient to bed, apply heat or give hot
— milk — Ferrum
bath; light diet
Remedies.
a dose every sets in.
Kali
is
the best.
pliosph.
may
be given,
two hours until improvement
.
mitr, for the dropsical
Natrum mur,
symptoms.
— Brick-dust
sediment;
78
One
bloody urine. alone, or
in
remedies
of the best
conjunction with
others, in
Bright' s disease.
Natrum sulpli, aids in throwing off gravel by increasing the secretion of urine. Of the selected remedy take a dose three times a day.
KNEE, SWELLING OF, may
due
be
to
rheumatism or disease of the joint. Any trouble around the knee-joint should be examined by a physician. Kali rnitr. and Calcar. pliospli. often act kindly in these affections.
LEGS,
CRAMP IN THE.— Sudden
contrac-
tion of the muscles of the calves of the legs,
frequently occurring at night.
The principal remedy is
Magnes,
pliosj^h,^
for this
condition
a dose every quarter of
an hour for a few doses. Calcar, pJiosph.^ a dose night
Follow with
and mornings
LEUCORRHCEA—Whites.— Causes.— Cold and moisture, frequent excitement
result-
79 ing in debility, inactivity of the body, re-
laxing pleasures, late diet,
imprudence
in
stimulating
hours,
inattention to
dress,
the bowels, disease of ovaries and
wombj
etc.
In order to treat this aflection success-
whole daily life of the patient must be regulated. Everything tending to
fully, the
local congestion avoided, simple but
ishing food taken, sufficient
not too much.
and down
nour-
exercise, but
Be cafeful about going up
stairs, bicycle riding, etc.
Local
cleanliness, but not necessarily syringing, is
a requisite to the cure.
remedy, remedy; it acts as a constitutional tonic and is especially useful for young girls. The patient takes cold easily and the discharge is like albuminous mucus. There may be Oalcar.
pliosph,
is
the
chief
either alone or as an intercurrent
local irritation, itching, etc., of the parts.
Natrum mur,
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The discharge
irritating, smarting.
There
may
is
water}^,
be back-
80 ache, headache and evidences of impover-
ished blood.
Kali sulph,
and
— Discharge
yellow, greenish
thick.
Silica,
— Leucorrhoea
menses; patient
takes the place of
is cold,
Of the
very sensitive and
remedy take a dose three times a day between the menstrual periods; take one remedy for three constipated.
weeks, then another tute Calcar. pJiosph.
LIPS.
—The
lips
selected
if
indicated, or substi-
'
are
subject to
become
sore, cracked, dry, scaly or swollen, or are
the seat of a herpetic eruption ^^cold sores."
The
best treatment consists in the appli-
cation of cold cream and the internal use of
Kali mur, for cold
Natriim
sores, blisters.
miir, for cracks in the corners of
the mouth, or center of lip; sore lips from cold
;
swelling of upper lip
— a dose
every
three hours.
IIVER AFFECTIONS by pain
in right side,
are
characterized
under right shoulder-
81 blade, soreness, bilious
symptoms, constipa-
tion or loose yellowish stools, etc.
See Gastric Derangements.
The principal
liver
tissue remedies are
the following:
—
Natritm sulpli.- Pain in region of liver; morning diarrhoea; rumbling in bowels; jaundice
bitter taste.
;
Natrum
miii\
— Jaundice,
with
drowsi-
ness, thirst, headache.
Kali mur,
—Tongue
coated
wdiite,
from
errors in diet, rich, greasy food; cold food, chilling stomach.
LUMBAGO.
— Rheumatic
pains
in
the
loins.
The treatment consists in application of warmth, friction, porous plaster, and the administration of Ferrum jphosph.j a dose every hour until relieved.
LUNGS.
— The
various
diseases
of
the
lungs require careful hygienic, dietetic and
medicinal treatment.
The
latter
may
be
82
found almost wholly in the use of the
tis-
sue remedies, for just in the treatment of
acute and chronic, lung diseases they have
won
their greatest laurels.
tion,
Pneumonia, Pleurisy,
LUNGS, BLEEDING
(See Consumpetc.)
FROM,
is
always
alarming, but not so immediately danger-
ous as ally
is
one
commonly feared
;
but
of the accidents of
it
usu-
is
consumption;
demands prompt attention. The treatment should consist in rest; patient's head and chest must be well supit
ported with pillows.
Application of cold;
drinks and food of the simplest kind; ice;
room must be well aired and cool. The principal remedy required is Ferrum Dissolve a powder of the sixth phosph. trituration in a tumbler of cold water and the
give patient teaspoonful doses every quarter of
often.
an hour for several doses, then
Follow with Oalcar. j)hosph, as a
constitutional a day.
less
tonic,
a
dose
three
times
83
MEASLES.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;An infectious fever attended
with an eruption of a purple rash, consisting of slightly elevated minute dots disposed in irregular circular forms or crescents,
preceded
about the
ej^es,
about four or ])y
by
catarrhal
nose,
bronchia, for
days, and accompanied
five
inflammatory fever.
four
and
symptoms
For the three or
days before the appearance of the
eruption,
symptoms
of
a
sneezing,
cold,
and feverishness, drowsiness, oppression, nausea or vomiting, and a hoarse or ringing, loud cough are present. The, ^eruption appears on the fourth or fifth day, and disappears on the eighth or ninth it rarely attacks the same person a second time, and ;
frequently prevails as an epidemic. sles
may
Mea-
be simple or complicated, malig-
nant and dangerous. Accessory
Treatment.
which the patient
is
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The
room
in
should be airy, dark-
ened, moderately warm, and perfectly free
from draughts, much care being taken that the patient does not catch cold, both during
84 the eruption and for some time afterwards.
He may
be sponged
The
tepid water. light,
down
frequently with
diet should be at first
afterwards more nourishing;
mal food should be avoided, and
all ani-
drinks
all
should be given tepid, so as not to
chill.
eyes from
light.
Protect the
The danger
of
measles
strong
too
is
more
effects, especially bronchitis,
in the after
pneumonia,
etc.
The principal remedy is Ferrum pliospJi,^ which may be given every two hours, so long as the eruption
is
not out perfectly, or
cough is troublesome. It by or alternated with the tongue is coated, the cough
so long as the
may Kali
be followed miir.^ if
hoarse, glands swollen, ness.
more or
less
During convalescence give
jjJwsph.^ a
deaf-
Calcar.
dose every three hours until per-
fect health is restored.
MEMORY-DEFICIENT advancing age, or it may
is
a
of
be temporary in
nerve exhaustion, after acute
taxed brain.
symptom
illness, over-
4
85
The treatment consists in cessation from mental labor and the administration of Kali phosph,^ a dose three times a day.
MENSTRUAL MSORDEES.â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The pearance
shows
of
itself
the
menstrual flow
first
ap-
usually
about the fourteenth year, but
it may appear later, frequently earlier. The mother should apprise the daughter beforehand of its character and meaning. So far
as possible, the girl, before pubert}^, should
have an outdoor
life
and there need be no
difference in the physical education of the
sexes until then.
The
late
appearance of
the menses need cause no alarm eral health does not sujffer.
non-appearance.
the gen-
Sometimes the
poor state of the general health of their
if
is
the cause
Avoidance
of too
close application to study; early hours, reg-
ular habits, simple food, plenty out-of-door exercise, judicious use of the bicycle; avoid-
ance kindi4
of of
stimulants,
coffee,
excitements and
tea,
etc.
;
repression
every hysterical tendency; wholesome
all
of lit-
86
and companionship^ and wise superby the mother of everything pertain-
erature,
vision
ing to the daily
the
life of
conditions
the
These are
girl.
healthy development,
for
and vigorous and happy maidenhood, and the best possible preparation for her destined future ^
When
life as
wife and mother.
the general health
below par,
is
give good nourishing food, sea bathing, and see that the girl is not tired out by the con-
stant going ing, so
up and down
common
stairs
and march-
in our public schools.
not let her do any
home work,
she retires very early and sleep in the morning.
Do
but see that
is
allowed to
poor policy in
It is
these cases not to permit the child to finish
her morning
sleep.
Better
schooling until her health
is
sacrifice
the
better.
For
these cases, a course of Calcar,
2^^^osph, in
various potencies, and continued for quite a while, will yield
wonderful
There are usually
toms before the headache,
results.
premonitory
symp-
menses appear, such as
languor,
backache,
pain
in
87 breasts, etc.
Usually these pass away very
When
soon.
the iiow
is
established great
care must be taken to prevent either cessation
from
cold, especially cold,
wet
feet, or
an excess of the flow from too stimulating
Warm
cloth-
warm stockings and much importance
in es-
food, late hours, excitements. ing,
especiallj^
soled shoes are of
thick
tablishing the regular order of the menstrual periods. Scanty, Absent, Deficient or Checked Menstruation. chill
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; When
or sudden
suppressed from
cold, a
emotion, a hot foot-bath,
hot drinks and rest in bed will restore the flow. If there is headache, flushing of face,
Ferrum
pains, etc., give
pliosph. a
powder
dissolved in half a cup of hot water every
hour until relieved. Calcar pJiosph.
scanty
menses.
is
the
best
remedy
for
Give a dose night and
morrring between the periods. Painful Menstruation. at the period is
very
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; More
common
or less pain in
young un-
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 88 married women, but judicious medication
and attention to the general health will relieve the most cases unless due to organic
Avoid
trouble.
all local
treatment, but use
the remedies, together with rest during the period,
warm
applications, hot stimulating
drinks, etc.
Magnesia pliospli. is the principal remedy and should be taken in hot water every quarter of an hour until relieved. Between the periods take Calcar. phosjyh, and Kali phospJi.j one in the morning and the other at night.
Menstruation, Profuse or Too Frequent.
Causes. lants,
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Stimulating
warm
diet,
abuse of stimu-
baths, fatigue, compression of
the body, sudden emotions, violent exercise, a
weakening mode
of life, long sick-
ness, excessive nursing of infants
at
the
breast, etc.
^ Ferrum phosph. to regulate the
is
the principal remedy
Take a dose every
flow.
two hours or oftener,
if
very profuse.
In
89 the interval between the periods, take
it
night and morning. Calccn\ fluor, ally relaxed.
when
It
the system
is j2;ener-
should be taken between
the periods as above.
Kali mu7\j
if
the color of the flow
is
dark,
thick and coagulated.
Kali
phosjoh.j if flow
is
bright red and
offensive.
Natrum mur,^ if pale and watery. Patient has much headache, backache and is anemic.
Begin with the sixth trituration for
the acute
symptoms during the menses, Between
taking a dose every two hours. the periods, take
a
dose of
the twelfth
trituration night and morning.
MILK. gical
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Lactation
process
suckle,
if
and
natural physiolo-
is a
every
possible, both
mother should
for her
own
sake
and her child's. There is a very close bond of sympathy and connection between the breasts and uterine organs, and orderly healthy readjustment of the system after
90 labor
baby.
is
groatly furthered by nursing the
If the flow of
milk
is
rather scanty
or too watery, give plenty of nourishing, liquid food,
cocoa, milk, oatmeal, maltine,
together with a powder size of a lima bean of Calcarea phosjjJi.j
with the food.
2nd
trituration, given
If the flow of
milk
is
too
profuse, substitute Oalcctr fluorica 6x, given in
the same way, and restrict the use of
much
fluid.
The same treatment
used in order to dry up the milk.
is
to be
Besides,
the breasts should be covered with cotton batting and bandaged snugly.
MOUTH.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Nursing sore
mouth, aphthous
sore mouth, consist in the formation of tle vesicles on mucous membrane mouth, gums and tongue.
Remedies.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kali
mur. and
are the chief remedies.
lit-
of the
Natrum mur.
Dissolve a small
powder of each in a glass half-full of water and give spoonful doses every two hours alternately.
91
MUMPS. the
— Inflammation
and swelling of which somethe throat and is conspic-
mider the
glands
times extends to
uous externally.
ears,
It generally increases
till
the fourth day, and then gradually sub-
and
sides;
evidently
is
often epidemic.
It often
or scarlet fever, or
is
and
contagious,
follows measles
the effect of cold or
damp. Treatment.
—The patient
should keep in
the house, and avoid exposure to cold and
damp; the glands should be fomented with
warm
water, the face tied up with a hand-
kerchief or piece of flannel, and kept erately
and is
warm, and the
light.
If
mod-
diet should be mild
the patient take cold, there
danger of a painful swelling of the
testi-
cles.
Remedies.
— Ferrum
pliospli.
should
bo
given so long as there are any feverish symptoms, a
dose every hour.
ever, there
are none,
Usually, how-
when Kali
dose every three hours, will be
all
mur.^ a
that
is
92 required. f^ive
If the swelling
should persist,
a few doses of Calcar, fluor,
NECK, STIFF.— Usually the
result of cold
or rheumatism.
Treatment.
Rub
— See
under ^'Rheumatism."
the neck with camphorated
tw^o or three folds of
round
it,
and
draughts of pliosph,
flannel
avoid
air,
or
or
oil,
worsted
exposure to
wet.
wrap cold,
Take Ferrum
every two hours.
NETTLERASH. that produced
— An eruption resembling
by the stinging
of nettles,
attended with itching, burning, or stinging
The rash often appears instantaneously, disappears in the warmth and reappears in the cold, and seldom stays many hours in the same place, and may be caused pain.
by mechanical irritation, cold, or acidity and other disorders of the stomach. Usually it can be traced to some special article of diet, shell-fish and strawberries being especially frequently the cause.
93
The treatment
consists in avoiding these
irritatmg foods, keeping the bowels in good condition, bathing the parts with oatmeal
Natrum mur, and Kali
water, and taking
mur. in alternation every two hours.
NERVOUSNESS tability is
consists in a state of exci-
and abnormal impressionability.
It
usually a chronic condition, fostered by
indulgent foolish parents, irregularity diet, especially
work,
late
of
highly seasoned food, over-
hours,
stimulants,
especially
When excessive, it l)ecoffee and tea, etc. comes hysteria and requires the same treatment, which must be mental and moral, with a view to exercising greater self conChange of air, freedom from respontrol. sibility, good nourishing food, salt water baths, bicycling are all conducive to bring about a change for the better. Kali phospli, and Calcarea pJiosph. are the principal remedies and should be given as nerve food remedies right along for some time.
Begin with the 6x trituration, tak-
94 ing three doses a day of one for one week,
then change to the other. chilly
the patient
If
and very sensitive and rather
tellectual turn of ration, a small
mind, give Silica
is
of in-
6 tritu-
powder night and morning.
After one week, change to the 12th trituration
and take the same way.
NEURALGIA may be
caused by changes in
the weather, colds, anemic
states
the
of
The pains come and
blood, injuries, etc.
go,
are burning or stitching, often associated
with cramps in the muscles, twitching, redness and swelling of face. RExMEDIES.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ferrum
given when the face pains increased on
Kali
should
plios>pTi,
is
be
hot and red and the
moving the head.
pliospli. suits
pale, irritable persons
and when pains are accom.panied with much weakness.
Natrum
miir.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Pains
ceriain time each
flow of tears.
day
that
return
at a
or are attended with
Constipation
symptom with Natrum mur.
is
a frequent
95 Magnes. pJiosph,
—Pains
that
come and
and are always made warmth. Kali sulph,' For pains that shift a good deal, and when they are better in cool open air, l)ut worse towards evening. go very suddenly
better by the appHcation of
—
Calcai\pliospli,
— Pains that are associated
with numbness and coldness, and always
worse
at night
and every change
of weather.
—
Dose. Of the selected remedy, dissolve powder in hot water and take a sip every few minutes until relieved. For more chronic conditions, take a dose every two a
hours.
NIGtHTMARE. sleep,
— Oppression
felt
during
great anxiety, excitement^ frightful
dreams or caused by
fancies,
and
slight fever; often
fatigue, late suppers, or
indi-
gestible food.
Treatment.
— Let
the
supper be light;
avoid fatigue and heavy bed clothing. Take a dose of Kali
]r)liospli,
before retiring.
96
NOSE, Bleeding from
Immerse the
the.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Treatmentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;
face in the coldest water,
and
dash cold water, or vinegar and water, up the nostrils, or apply ice or ice-water to the root of the nose, or apply cold cloths or metal to the nape of the neck or back.
Keep ble,
the head as
and
let
much
elevated as possi-
the diet be spare and simple in
As bleeding from the nose
character.
often
congestion, the treatment should
relieves
be adapted to the urgency of the symptoms,
which,
if
slight,
need not be much
Persons subject
fered with.
inter-
to nose-bleed-
life, with modand regular exercise, a nourishing avoiding stimulants, and should make
ing should lead a temperate erate diet,
a free use of cold water.
The
remedy is Ferrum plios. powder in a cup of cold water,
principal
Dissolve a
and take a swallow every few minutes until relieved.
NOISES IN
THE HEAD may
be
due
to
recent catarrh of the eustachian tube, an
97 extension from an ordinary cold, or as a result of too large doses of quinine, etc. If
from a
Ferrum
cold, take
pJios,] if
mm\
after quinine, take JSfatrmn
—a
do^^e
every three hours.
OVARIES.
—Pain
in region of
females about the time of menses
mon symptom, and
is
groin is
a
in
com-
usually connected
with other menstrual disturbances.
Rest,
and attention
to the
application
bowels,
are
of heat,
necessary.
Internally,
give
Kali pJios, and Magnes, plios.^ alternating every hour. Between the periods, take Calcar, pJios. night
and morning.
PARALYTIC SYMPTOMS.— Numbness and lameness; rheumatic paralysis; loss of sensation or motion in a part,
by the use
of
Kali mur.^
matism; later, Calcar, and morning. Silica is the
if
be relieved
due
pliospli,^
remedy,
due to the suppression
may if
to rheu-
a dose night
the condition
of foot-sweat,
is
which
98 has frequently caused paralytic conditions
and cured only by giving a remedy ing the accustomed sweat,
restor-
PERSPIRATION abnormal, when due
to
weakness, as after acute illness or general
run-down conditions
of the
body, will be
body with vinegar and water, or cologne spirits and water, and taking at the same time Calcar.pliospli,^ third trituration, a powder every three lessened by sponging the
hours.
PHARYNGrlTIS-â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Redness, pain and swelling of the mucous membrane of the mouth and
throat.
Remedies. are
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ferrum
dry, hot
pJiosph.^
if
the parts
with painful swallowing; a
dose every hour.
Kali
rnur,^ if
the tongue be coated white
and parts swollen.
Natrum pliosph,^
if
the tongue be coated
with a yellowish deposit.
The chronic form of pharyngitis is often due to smoking, which must be stopped. A
99 course of
Kali mur.^ a dose
trituration
three
of the third
times a da:y, will often
work wonders.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
PILES. (Haemorrlioids). Small tumors or lumps formed by a distention or relaxation
They may be
of the veins of the rectum.
external, or so far within the rectum as to
be imperceptible, and they bleed.
Sensation
of
mayor may
not
weight, pain in the
and thighs, straining during stoolj and constipation, frequently accompany them. Piles are frequently caused by excessive fatigue, obstinate costiveness, back^ loins
the abuse of purgatives, sedentarj^ habits, stimulating food or drinks, or by a constitutional or hereditary tendency.
Treatment. present are
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The pain and
much
irritation often
relieved by the free ap-
plication of cold water either by bathing or
immersion.
Aesculas Cerate spread on lint
and kept constantly times beneficial. is
great, rest
to the parts is
When
some-
the inflammation
and the horizontal position
100 should be observed, with a mild vegetable
Everything heating, stimulating, and constipating, must be avoided in the genediet.
ral
diet, all
highly-seasoned food and the
Individuals subject to
like.
piles
should
bathe in the sea as often as convenient, or in snlt
During an attack,
water baths.
jections of cold water suitable
exercises
should
every endeavor made *
may to
in-
be used daily;
be
taken,
and
keep the bowels
regular.
In
the
treatment
must be paid
of
piles,
to disturbances
attention
in the func-
tions of the liver, the digestive organs
the
bowels, otherwise
a
cure
and
cannot be
achieved.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Ferrum jyliosj^h. Inflamed and bleeding must be used before the tumors are hardened. Take a dose every hour and bathe with Hamamelis extract. Calcar fluor. is the chief remedy for the permanent cure. It is useful for blind piles, frequently with backache and constipiles,
pation, etc.
After an acute attack,
it is
the
101
remedy
Take Use the 6th
for the remaining tumors.
one tablet ever}^ three hours.
potency, later the 1-lh or 30th.
Magnes. piles are It
may
the remedy,
j^hosj^h. is
when the
exceedingly tender and painful.
be used in alternation with other
indicated
should be given
remedies, but
dissolved in hot water, a dose every hour.
PI3IPLES (Acne).â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An eruption frequently seen in
young, especially about the
the
time of puberty and whenever the digestive tract
is
impaired.
It consists of dis-
minute boils, seated on a hard inflamed base, which suppurate imperfectly, leaving behind them
tinct pustules not unlike very
which are slow in They generally appear on
small, hard, red tumors,
disappearing.
the tace, forehead, and chin, and are excited
much animal
by too
food, spices,
stimulants, etc.
The treatment
consists
healthy
elimination
bowels.
Eat
fruity
in
through
encouraging skin
and
vegetables, and drink
102
Thorough washing with soap and water the affected part, then plenty of fresh water.
powder with corn-starch,
will prove bene-
ficial.
The chief remedy is Kali mur, followed by Calcar. sulpJi, Take a dose three times a day.
FALSE— Rlieumatic
PLEURISY,
Stitch in the Side.— (Pleurodynia.)
Pleurisy.
—A
rheu-
matic affection of the muscles covering and passing between the ribs, which produces
an acute pain in the side increased on spiration.
It
is
in-
distinguished from^ true
pleurisy by being attended with little or no
and by the increase of pain which takes place on movement of the chest or any exertion causing the contrac-
fever,
alwaj^s
tion of the inflamed muscles.
The treatment consists in the application of heat and administration of Ferrum pliospli. in
hourly doses until relieved.
PLEUKISY. mation
— The true form
of the Pleura, the
is
an inflam-
membrane
lining
103 the lungs and chest, and is a very painful and serious affection. It is accompanied by fever, short breathing, with a stitching Greatly pain in some part of the cliest. aggravated by breathing and motion.
Treatment.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The patient's room must be
kept quiet, moderately warm, but well ventilated.
Perfect rest should be observed.
All kinds of animal food and heating fluids
should be avoided, and the diet should conbarley water,
of farinaceous articles,
sist
arrowroot,
thin
gruel,
light
vegetables,
milk, etc.; returning during convalescence to
beef-tea,
chicken-broth,
A
etc.
wet
bandage may be applied over the painful part
with advantage,
severe,
hot
fomentations,
or
if
pain
the
is
meal poultices, hot During recovery, care guard against catching
linseed etc.
must be taken
to
cold.
The principal remedy pliospli.^
at first is
Ferrum
a dose dissolved in w\ater should be
taken every half hour. This
may be
followed
104
by Kali mur.^ a dose
in alternation
rum every hour. Pleurisy is
with Fer-
often complica-
ted with inflammation of the lungs themselves, giving
PLEUROPNEUMONIA,
a
very
serious
and very dangerous disease which should always receive the attention of a physician. There is high fever, great oppression of the chest, painful breathing,
weakness.
cough and marked
It is a disease especially
danger-
ous in the very young and the aged and in constitutions
other causes.
run down by excess or
The action
of the heart
must
be watched as death usually occurs from heart failure. this disease.
Stimulants are indicated in
Among
Ferrum phosph.^ Kali
the Tissue Remedies, plios,
and Kali
are those most frequently indicated.
miir.
The
remedies must be given frequently, every
hour
at
least,
supplemented by absolute
rest, easily assimilated food, milk, etc.
The application
prove of
much
of
broths,
poultices
may
comfort, but should be done
105 very carefully without disturbing the patient much or exposing him in any way, otherwise they are a delusion.
RED GUM.—Infant Rash.— Pimples
occur-
ring upon the face, chest, and hands of young infants, with redness of the surrounding skin, often dependent upon teething.
Bathe the child in bran
oatmeal
or
water, and after thorough drying with a soft towel,
powder
freely with corn-starch.
Give a dose of Ferrum morning. If the child
pliospli. is
night and
teething, give
Calcar, phosph.^ third trituration, a in his food or
powder
on the ton«:ue three times a *&^
day.
RHEUMATISM. muscular,
or
— Pains
in
the
membraneous parts
fibrous, of
the
body, generally attended with rigidity of the part affected and
aggravation of
the
pains on motion, and characterized by sensibility to
atmospheric changes.
Shivering
106
and a sensation
of cold
sometimes precede
an acute attack (acute rheumatism) fever ^
present,
is
aching,
or
tearing,
shootinÂŤ;
pains with stiffness are experienced in the parts affected, especially in the joints, and in
most cases there the
of
digestive
is
more or
less
disorder
In
chronic
functions.
rheumatism the symptoms are similar, but less urgent and more tedious. Rheumatism is sometimes local, or wanders from one part to another in a most capricious manner, or even attacks internal organs; is sometimes attended with swelling, heat, and redness, and sometimes without such symptoms, sometimes relieved by motion, and sometimes by rest; sometimes by hot and sometimes by cold applications. Rheumatism affecting the loins is called lumbago the hips, sciatica and the chest, false ;
;
pleurisy.
Treatment.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Keep
the parts
dry; flannel underwear
is
warm and
essential.
See
that the bowels are kept in good condition;
avoid too
much meat; drink
milk.
107
The first remedy in tliis painful affection It should be given is Ferrum phosph. every hour until improvement shows itself. If
the joints are swollen, alternate with
Kali mur, every two hours. lent pains,
Magnesia pJiosph,
it
For very viois
to be used,
a dose every hour, stopping the other
rem-
edies meanwhile. Calcar, 2^hosph. is the
remedy when every
weather brings back rheumatic Take a tablet of the sixth potency three times a daj^ for some time. It frequently hardens the system against taking change
of
pains.
cold.
RINGWORM.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; This
is
a contagious dis-
ease caused by a vegetable parasite, and
common in known in adults.
very
which attacks the
children, but almost
The hairs,
parasite
is
is
un-
a fungus
burrowing into the
roots and producing circular patches having
raised and scurfy surface, the which are dry, brittle, lustreless, and broken off* close to the scalp. Some-
a
slightly
hairs on
108 times there
is
a small pustule at the root of
each hair, which discharges a mucous
fluid.
Tlie treatment consists in the application
Carbolated Vaseline
of
and the internal
administration of Kali mur,. a dose three
times a day.
RICKETS
(Rachitis) is
an important dis-
eased condition in children, by which the illy nourished and become malformed in consequence. The bones are softer, owing to a lack of deposit of the
bones are
earthy constituents. ring the
toms
first
are
It
The usual symp-
dentition.
nightly
always begins du-
restlessness,
sweating
about the head, inability to walk or weak legs, large wrists,
fontanelles close.
weak
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the bones
There
is
spine, large
of the
head do not
great tendency
of catarrhal complications,
open
to all kinds
muscular debil-
and nervous symptoms. The teeth are cut late, sometimes a year may pass before
ity
the
first
teeth are through.
109
The treatment
of a rickety child requires
must be regulated; sugar and starchy food must
The
careful attention to details.
curtailed;
be
Mellin's
diet
cow's
fresh
food,
milk, broths, plenty of fresh air; sunlight
and cleanliness must be found sery;
warm
warm
shoes and stockings are
essary
;
nur-
clothing, combination flannels,
massage,
salt
all
very nec-
water baths, inunction
A
of oil are useful aids.
sue
in the
Remedies will
course of the Tis-
accomplish excellent
results.
Calcar, plios.
The bones are
is
the principal remedy.
soft;
sweats profusely,
*is
child
is
weak and
emaciated, cold
;
may
have diarrhoea, sallow, earthy complexion, etc.
It is best
to give
it
continuously in
the food, beginning with tablets of the
first
or second trituration and putting one in its
food
;
later,
give the
potency about three
all
third and sixth
times a day.
This
remedy may be given in alternation with any other that may be indicated.
110
Natrum mur. is
— Especially when the neck
very thin and the thighs,
also, are
much
emaciated. Silica.
— Head
large, rest of
body greatly
wasted away; abdomen swollen, hot; ankles
weak; offensive diarrhoea; child very nervous, sensitive, irritable, cold tendency to boils; child feels better when wrapped up very warmly.
Natrum
phosph,
—This
remedy
is
espe-
cially useful for poorly nourished children,
when
there
is
much
acidity, sour-smelling
stools, perspiration, etc.
A
;
stools often clay-
remedy should be given four times a day and persevered with for weeks, or until marked improvement shows itself. colored.
dose of
SCARLET FEVER liar scarlet
the
selected
(Scarlatina).—
A
pecu-
rash upon the skin, with fever
and contagious; usually commencing with fever, pains in the throat, and vomiting. On the first or second day, or sometimes a little
and sore throat.
It is infectious
Ill redness of the skin appears,
later, a scarlet
smooth glassy spots, first on the throat and then on the face and neck, from whence it spreads over the whole body, and usually continues until the fifth or sixth day. The redness disappears on in large,
slight
pressure,
when
the finger
but is
quickly returns
as
removed.
The fever
is
often accompanied with an affection of the
kidneys, more frequently with severe disthroat and neck, or of some
ease of the
internal organ, and
dropsy. ing
It generally It
life.
often
is
followed
by
occurs only once dur-
comes out within a w^eek
of
exposure to the infection.
The patient with separated.
It is
scarlet fever
be
contagious from the initial
sore throat until the last
been removed.
must
branny
scales
have
Six weeks quarantine
is
not unusual.
The treatment must always be superintended by a physician. It is a dangerous disease,
though epidemics
intensity.
The most
differ greatly in
careful attention to
112 nursing and diet are absolutely necessary
Remedies play but a For the sim-
to ensure recovery.
minor
role in the treatment.
ple forms, nothing outside
administration of Ferrujii
the hourl}^
of
plios, is
required.
This can always be relied upon until the physician can
be
called
charge of the case.
Kali mur,^ Kali
plios,
in
to
take full
For the severer types and Calc, phos. are
required.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;A
SCIATICA.^
most painful
neuralgic
affection of the large nerve supplying the leg,
often very
obstinate
and dependent
frequently upon constitutional defects.
In
the treatment, great attention must be paid to the condition of the bowels, as a loaded
colon alone suffices to greatly aggravate the pain, also to the condition of the foot
ap-
parel,
sometimes heavy shoes or boots, and
warm
stockings going far to cure an attack.
Aali knee,
2)^^os.
great
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Pain
down back of thigh to moving about restlessness,
gently gives some relief for a time.
113
Natrum from a
gouty patients, pain
suIjoJi.—ln
in hip-joint, worse
moving about or
raising
seat.
Natrum mur,
— Chronic
Pains
cases.
better by heat, worse right side, hip
and
knee; hamstrings feel contracted.
Mag lies severe.
plios.
Given
— When the
pains are very
in hot water,
it
will often
mitigate them.
A
dose of the selected remedy
given hourly or of tenor,
when will
less
prove
if
be
pains are severe;
acute, a dose four times a
day
For very obstinate
sufficient.
cases Calc. Phos. and Silica
ST,
may
may
YITUS DANCE (Chorea.)— A
be tried. disease of
the nervous sj'Stem characterized by twitchings and involuntary
movements
of certain
groups of muscles, especially of the
The disease
is
face.
often associated with rheu-
matism, anemia, worms and as a result of
mere imitation. Remedies.
— Magnes
phospli,
phosjyi. are the principal
and
Calcar
remedies. For the
114 acute attacks, give a dose of Calcar
pJios,
morning and night, and Magnes 2)lios. every two hours during the day. When improvement sets in, give one dose of each daily, one in the morning and the other at night.
SHINGLES.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An
eruption of vesicles in
clusters, with red margins which spread around the body hke a girdle or belt, most commonly at the waist, and is attended with heat and itching and often
small distinct
with acute pain of a neuralgic character, vesicles do not burst but
dry up.
and
In
its
chronic form
it is
obstinate
difficult of cure.
Treatment.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Powder the parts with corn
starch after appljdng a
take Kali nation, a
pain
change color and
is
initr.
little
vaseline and
and Natram mur, in altertwo hours. If the
dose every
severe substitute A^a/i^Aosp/^, a dose
every hour.
SLEEPLESSNESS (Iiisoiiiiiia) is an early symptom of an exhausted condition of the
115 nervous system and should be treated by
Avoid men-
looking to the general health. tal
work, especially in the evening;
lants,
especially
coffee,
but
see
stimi^i-
that the
patient does not go to bed hungry.
Often
a cup of beef-tea or hot milk at bedtime will ensure a
good night's
the feet are w^arm
when
See that
rest.
retiring;
neces-
if
sary, put a hot water bag in the bed.
The It
best
may
general rem^edy
is
Kali
be taken with advantage
pJios,
in
hot
milk on retiring for the night. Silica
may
the patient chilly.
A
is
be taken during the day,
if
nervous and excitable and
dose three times a day.
SMALL-POX (Tariola).â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Small-pox commences with fever, accompanied with nausea and vomiting, severe pains in the back and loins, bad smell from the mouth, and frequently with tenderness of the abdomen
On
on pressure. tion
makes
and hairy
its
the fourth
appearance,
scalp,
day the erup-
first
on the face
then on the neck, and
116
At
afterwards over the whole body.
first,
the eruption has the form of small, red,
hard, and pointed elevations, which increase
and enlarge during the next three days, forming into small vesicles on the top
of
each pimple, depressed in the centre, having an inflamed base, and being a clear fluid.
the eruption
On is
filled
with
the eighth or ninth day
at its height, after w^hicli
time the pustules commence to dry up and scab in the order in which they appearance.
make
their
The pustules sometimes run
into each other, and form large, continuous,
suppurating surfaces.
The eruption on the
skin passes through the stages of pimple, vesicle, pustule, scab,
the site of exudation. ally
and leaves marks on The disease gener-
exhausts the susceptibility of the con-
stitution to another attack
and
is
highly
contagious.
Treatment.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The
patient's
room should
be cool, thoroughly ventilated, and dark-
ened; some antiseptic should be used freely,
either on cloth dipped in the solutions
117 or in the form of spray.
Cool, fresh air
should be admitted several times a day, and lie
on a mattress and be
The
linen should be fre-
the patient should lightly covered.
quently changed, and the free use of cooling drinks allowed.
light if
The
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; barley-water,
there
is
with the
warm. ting,
To
during the
and
spare
thin gruel, etc.
like.
in, beef- tea
should be given.
may
be
;
and
no diarrhoea, roasted apples,
stewed prunes, and the lescence sets
water
diet
sj^mptoms should
feverish
conva-
Toast- water and oatmeal-
be used
diet,
When
and chicken -broth
as
beverages
which,
should be more cold than
and prevent pitthe pustules should be painted with allay irritation
glycerine or starch.
Preventive Treatment.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A^accination
is
the only effectual preventive against small-
pox, or
if it
does not prevent,
tainly modify
Kali mur.
its is
it
will cer-
course.
the
principal
remedy;
controls the formation of pustules.
it
118
Kali
sulpTi.
may
be given to pramote the
formation of healthy skin and the falUng off of
Use the 3rd
the crusts.
trituration,
a dose every three hours.
SORE THROAT. dition
the
of
(throat, palate,
swallowing,
of
more
and
inflammatory con-
from the which
throat,
of
tonsils),
impeded
or less fever. It
intensity,
the
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An
back part
the
with
mouth,
difficulty
and
respiration,
may
differ greatly in
slightest irritation
in
vanishes
to
quickly,
cases of great severity ending in abscess and
suppuration, and obstructing respiration to
an alarming extent. Treatment. the throat;
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Use a wet compress
if
the throat
burning
in
throats
of
the
voice
hoarseness.
around
gargle with claret and water
and take Ferrum hour,
See Tonsilitis.
phos.^ a dose is red,
throat.
singers
much.
every half
inflamed, painful;
Useful for the
sore
and those who use Tendency to evening
119 Kali ted
rnuf,
sore
—When
Tough mucus
in throat.
Natritm mur.
— Sore
and after nitrate
smokers
throat of
Throat
of silver treatment.
Chronic
with stitches.
constricted
feels
Ulcera-
tonsils swell.
Granular pharyngitis.
throat.
sore throat with feeling of a plug or
and great Calcara
fluor,
— Relaxed
sore
throat,
in throat.
Hawk-
in the morning.
Burn-
uvula too long, tickling ing of
lump
drj^ness.
mucus early
ing in throat.
Of
the
selected
remedy,
take a dose
every hour in acute cases, for more chronic types, a dose three times a day.
SPASMS tic
are usually
practice
in
met with
children,
who
in
domes-
are
of
a
nervous organization, and have been subjected to
do
to errors is
in diet.
The
first
thing
to get rid of the offending cause,
hence an injection or even vomiting may be resorted to. A hot bath is always indicated.
After these things have been at-
120 tended
to,
give Magnes. phos. dissolved in
hot water every few
This
doses. phos,
may
especially
J
be
in
Oak
phos.
is
especially
from teething Fits during development
convulsions
without fever. in
followed by Calcar,
the 3Iag. phos. fails to
if
give entire relief.
indicated
minutes for a few
In
childhood.
anemic,
pale
patients,
cramps and convulsive movements
of all
kinds.
A
dose three
day
times a
beginning
with the third trituration, and after some time substituting the sixth and higher.
SPINAL IRRITATION ache,
weakness,
impaired digestion, in
hysterical
is
painful etc.,
subjects.
shown by backspine, headache,
frequently found
A
course
of the
Tissue Remedies, together with attention to the general
health, massage, salt water
baths, will be of great benefit.
The
chief
remedies are
Natrum
mur., especially
tient is easily fatigued,
when
the pa-
weakness from the
121 back Salty and head, spine very sensitive. taste and repugnance to food; vision becomes dim after reading; skin dry and harsh, mouth dry; feet heavy; back feels slightest exertion,
restless,
pain
in
broken; bladder weak, dribbling of urine. Silica,— SpinRl irritation of children de-
pending on worms. Nape of neck stiff burning in back. Patient very sensitive to every im.pression, feels better from warmth in general.
Kali
pJios.
with either
may
be given in alternation
of these
remedies as a general
A
powder may be taken three times a day, half an hour before eating. nerve food.
TEETHING. — Dentition.
— There
is
no
doubt that the teething process does predispose the child to various disturbances;
and open to all sorts of impressions and morbid influences. There is more or less restlessness, sleeplessness, fever, bowel disturbance and skin irritation. Look to the general physical it
renders
it
more
sensitive
122
warm clothing, suffimuch bed clothing, reg-
comfort of the child, cient but not too
sunny room, daily
ular bathing, good air^
exercise
in
permits,
etc.
the open
air,
Suitable
mother's milk
if
the
food,
weather
which
of
the best of course,
is
paramount importance.
mother's milk, cow's milk modified addition of barley-water substitutes.
When
pear, a crust of
is
of
In the absence of
is
the
bj^
one of the best
the teeth begin to ap-
bread and broth
may
be
given in addition, though milk should be the principal article of diet for the
There
four years.
is
first
nothing more certain
than the favorable influence of some of the Tissue Remedies in regulating this import-
ant time in the child's
none
is of
life.
Among them
greater and wider influence than
Calcar, phos. in erupting,
development.
it
If
the teeth are rather late
should be given to hasten the
remedy
for
all
troublesome ailments during dentition;
es-
pecially
It
is
useful in flabby, emaciated chil-
dren who are apt
to
have loose bowels- and
I
123 suffer
Give a pow-
from stomach troubles.
der of the third trituration in the three times a day.
It
may
food
be advantage-
ously followed by Calcar. fluor.^ tates
dentition;
which
also greatly facili-
when
indicated
there
vomiting and spasms, incessant crying, Magnes.
i)lios,
—In convulsive
cases,
is
etc.
much
twitching of muscles or complete spasms;
and loose bowels call for it. Should be given after every stool and during spasmodic symptoms every few minutes. colic
THRUSH.
Sore-moutli. (Aplitlioe).—
A
dis-
ease of infants, and also one of which
is
peculiar to the last stage of chronic diseases,
consisting of white, spongy and sloughy
ulcers, resembling loose skin
palate, throat
;
on the tongue,
and sometimes, when severe,
extending throughout the intestinal canal; often caused by want of cleanliness, or bad, or unsuitable food.
Treatment.
—Liquid
must be given.
Keep
and cool food alone the
mouth scrupu-
124 lously clean with a solution of Boracic acid, or Listerine. Kctli
Natnnn pliosph.
mur, and
remedies which
may
the
are
given alternately
be
every hour dissolved in water.
—The appearance
TONGrUE.^
tongue
of the
gives very valuable indications for the use of
the
alone,
Tissue
Remedies.
Sometimes
when very marked, may
it
lead to the
The most marked appearances characteristic of each remedy are the right remedy.
following:
Kali
mur,
—Tongue
swollen;
coating
white, grayish, shining.
Kali phos, brown. Kali insipid,
— Tongue
Edges red and sulpli,
excessively sore.
— Coating yellow, slimy with
pappy
taste.
Natrum nmr,
— Clean, moist tongue, sen-
sation of a hair on tongue. is
not.
dry,
Small
Feels drj^, but
bubbles of frothy
cover the sides and
tips.
saliva
125
— Coating — Cracked
Natnim phos, creamy
at the ba^e moist,
or golden yellow.
Calcar Jluor.
appearance
of
((^uinsj).— Inflammation
and
tongue.
TONSILITIS
swelling of the tonsils, at times going on to
formation of pus. cold.
There seems
position to
it
Usually the
result of
to be a special predis-
which can
in certain persons,
only be eradicated by constitutional treatment. Remedies.
remedy. Calcar,
— Kali
mui\
is
the
principal
Give a dose every hour. sulpli.
—
If
pus forms,
it
may
then
alternated with the former.
1)0
Besides the remedies, ice ful.
is
Ice-cream will be found
very gratea
good food.
TONSILS, EXLABCiED.— A very connnon affection
of
childhood,
often
interfering
with l)reathing with mouth closed. resorting to cutting, which
nowadays, a course
is
of internal
so
Bjfore
popular
medication
126 should be given a chance to cure radically.
Frequently a few weeks' treatment will accomplish the result.
The principal remedy Chronic swelling of the
is
Calcar. pJios.
tonsils,
causing
pain on opening mouth, difficulty in swal-
lowing and deafness, husky voice. the
2x
day and
for
Give
trituration, one tablet four times a
two
Vv^eeks;
then substitute the 3x,
later the Gth given in the
same way.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Pain in one or more which varies extremely in degree^ duration, and character, frequently extending to the face, ears, neck, and head, and often resulting from pregnancy, decayed teeth, extremes or sudden changes of temperature, cold, rheumatism, indigestion,
TOOTHACHE.
teeth,
or from hot or cold, sweet
or sour articles
of food or drink, etc.
is
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ferrum
when
there
heat and redness in the cheek and
when
Remedies.
pain
is i-elieved
jjhosph,^
by cold drinks.
127
Natrum
mitr,,
when
the pain
is
with profuse flow of tears or of
Magnes. lieved
2:)lios,^
when the
by the application
associated
saliva.
pains are re-
of heat
and warm
drinks. Silica,
when
the pains^ seem to be deep
in the jaw.
Cakai\
fluor.^
when gum
boil
forms or
other hard swelling. Dose.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A powder of the selected remedy
should be given every half or quarter of an hour.
When improvement
sets in,
not so
often.
TUMORS.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Nothing proves the efficiency
of constitutional treatment
by means
of the
Tissue Remedies more than the disappear-
ance of growths and tumors after a course of
Not
all
in the latter stages
of
this treatment.
but
many
in
yield ;
probably none
their development,
the earlier stages; and
it
is
certain that surgical measures should not
be decided upon until a few months treat-
ment have been
tried.
The indications
for
128 the following remedies are based on the
many
experience of
physicians and cannot
be gainsaid.
Kali
plios,^
has been found of
much
use in
cancer, for the pain, offensive discharge
and
\
debility.
Kali
in
sulpli,^
Epithelioma, cancer on
the skin near a mucous lining, with dis-
charge of thin, mattery secretion. Calcar, phos, this
maid's knee, Calc.jiuor. nels^
— Cysts
of all sorts
require
remedy. Goitre, weeping sinew, houseetc., all
yield to this drug.
—Hard tumors.
hardened glands
Knots, ker-
Indu-
iu the breast.
rated lumps. Silica,
— Enlarged
glands
;
swellings,
lumps that are hard but threaten
to sup-
purate.
The
remedy should be taken for several weeks, two or day and in varying poteneics.
selected
persistently
three times a
— Here,
ULCERS.^ of internal
too, the
administration
remedies does more than
all lo-
129 cal
measures ever accomplished. These are
not to be neglected, but healthy action
is
greatly furthered by the concomitant use of the Tissue Silica,
The
Remedies.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Always
chief one
is
indicated in suppurative
processes, glandular swellings with suppu-
Ulcers of the lowar limbs; spongy,
ration.
easily bleeding ulcers;
hard worked and
sluggish ulcers, in
ill-fed
Ulcera-
persons.
tion following abrasion of the skin over tliP
shin-bone.
Begin with the third trituration dissolved in
w\ater
times
and take
daily.
Then
a dose three
gradually
or
four
substitute
the sixth and later the twelfth trituration.
URINARY TROUBLES.â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Disturbance
in
the normal action of the urinary apparatus,
met with in domestic practice, shows itself more frequently as incontinence, or too frequent, sometimes too scant and more or less painful urination. The causes may be various: colds, errors in diet, rectal troubles;
and, in women, disnlacements of the
womb
130 are frequent causes.
Any
pronounced and
persistent chanj2;e should receive the attention
of a physician.
toms
of the following
fined,
The urinary sympremedies are well
d^;-
and whenever present will often yield remedy:
to the corresponding
Ferrum
plios,
— One
of the best
remedies
for wetting of the bed in children
continence of
urine,
and
in-
when every cough
causes the urine to spurt.
Inflammation of
the bladder; irresistible urging to urinate,
aggravated by standing, with smarting and pain.
Kali
plios,
children.
— Wetting
of the
Incontinence
scalding, bloody urine;
Maqnes urine.
plio^.
the
bed in older old
people;
itching of urethra.
— Spasmodic
retention
of
Gravel.
Natrum plws. of
in
— Chief
bladder.
remedy in catarrh Much mucus in urine;
frequent urination; diabetes.
Natrum
sulijli.
— Sandy
brick-dust sediment.
deposit, gravel,
Especially useful in
131 This remedy
gouty patients.
advanta-
is
geously followed by Calcar phos.
— Tendency
stone in the
to
bladder; flocculent sediment.
Natrum mur.
— Cutting much and
after urinating;
and
in urethra,
frequent urine;
involuntary, after coughing,
when
walking,
etc., etc.
TACCINATION,— Should any show themselves 7nur,
of
and
after
ill
effects
Kali
vaccination,
Silica will neutralize
them; a dose
one in the morning and 'the other at
night.
VABICOSE VEINS.— Enlarged especially in the legs,
knotty,
and
may
colored,
Ferrum phos,
is
more
and occurring
quently during pregnancy.
very painful, and
veins,
They
fre-
are dis-
sometimes become burst,
if
neglected.
a powerful vein remedy.
Varicose veins in young persons; throbbing in the parts.
132 Calcar. fluor,
the chief
is
forms of varicose veins.
remedy
for all
Sharp, piercing
burning soreness, even ulceration
pains,
of
Use the sixth trituration, three Sometimes a local applica-
the veins.
times a day.
tion of a solution of the
water, will be of
VERTIOO
a
is
eased conditions;
much
2d trituration,
symptom
may
in
benefit.
of various dis-
be caused by gastric
disorders as well as disturbed states of the circulation.
Remedies.
If
due
to
congestion of the
shown by hot head,
brain,
give
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Ferritin
hours.
If
full pulse, etc.,
a dose every two anemic condition, give
plios2^1i.^
due
to
Calcar, plios.^ a dose three times a day.
due
to gastric disorders, consult
If
the rem-
edies there indicated.
Kali
ijlios,
in
the aged;
vertigo worse
rising or looking up; nervous causes;
down states of the system. Natrum sulph,^ with biliousness and ter taste
;
excess of
bile.
run-
bit-
— 133 VOICE, LOSS
OF.— Usually from cold or Rest, warm drinks, and
over use of voice.
Ferrum
pJios.
every hour, usually soon re-
store the voice.
VOMITINGr. Bilious Vomiting. der ^'Bilious Attacks."
The Vomiting of Blood. if
it
may
be not a arise
symptom
— See
un-
— This symptom, of
consumption,
from a weakness brought on by
some exceptional cause, such as straining, a blow on the stomach, overheating, etc. Spitting or coughing up of blood may present itself in various degrees of severity,
and may or may not be a dangerous symptom, sometimes arising from the ulcerative process in consumptom; but at other times it may be constitutional, caused by external circumstances, such as quick running,
Care should whether the blood coughed or hawked up is from the lungs or stomach, or merely from the nose, or violent exercise, lifting, etc.
be taken to examine
back part of the mouth or throat.
Call a
134 determine
physician to
this.
Give cold
drinks and dissolve a powder of Ferrum pJws,, third trituration, in a glass
of ice-
water and give teaspoonful doses every
minutes until
better, then
five
every hour.
VOMITING} is a frequent symptom in children from errors in diet or at the beginning of acute diseases, troubles; in adults
notably
indicates diseases of
it
the stomach or kidneys, most excess of
In
bile, so-called
order
to
treat
brain
commonly an
biliousness.
it
successfully,
the
whole patient must be taken into consideration
and the underlying complaint
symptom
but the
is
treated,
very marked in the
following remedies. Silica,
— Child vomits —
as soon as
Morning vomiting with Ferrum phos, Vomiting
ses.
it
nur-
chilliness.
of
food
with
sour fluids, soon after eating; vomiting of blood, bright red.
Kali
phlegm.
mitr,
—Vomiting
of
thick,
white
135
Natrum mur,
—Vomiting
of
soar
fluid,
not food; curdled masses; dark substance, like
coflbe-grjLinds;
of
watery,
stringy
transparent mucus.
Natrum curdy
plios,
—Vomiting with
masses
of
yeilow
sour fluid
coating
of
tongue.
Natrum bitter
sulph.
taste.
— Bilious
Morning
vomiting with
sickness,
constant
nausea. Calcar. phos.
— Vomiting after cold water
and ice-cream. Infants vomit often and easily and want to nurse all the time. Vomiting with teething troubles.
WKITEirS CRAMP
is
a functional ner-
vous trouble characterized by spasmodic, tremulous, inco-ordinate or paralytic distur-
bance when the act of writing It is associated It is a
is
attempted.
with some pain and fatigue.
type of other cramps incident upon
certain occupations, ^ike telegraphers, sicians,
etc.,
who
use one
continuously and without
set of
mu-
muscles
sufficient
rest.
136
The treatment
consists
in
rest
massage and the administration pJiQS.
and Magnes.
A
plios.
some weeks.
If
necessary,
there
is
j^hos.^
largely,
Natrum
dose of one in
the morning and the other at
followed by Galcar,
of
night
these
for
may
he
where
especially
cramplike pain in fingers and wrists.
WHOOPING COUGH.— A convulsive cough, accompanied with a shrill whoop, and returning in fits which are frequently terminated by vomiting of food and mucus. The
commences with cough, hoarsene.ss, and other symptoms of a common cold; and in the second or third week, the cough pedisease
culiar to this disorder
makes
its
•
ppear-
The paroxysms usually occur every two or three hours, and are often worse during the night, or every other da}^ Between the paroxysms, with the exception of being weak, the patient shows no
ance.
apparent symptoms of disease. 1.
of
The
Ciitarrlial Stage.
an ordinary cold
Symptoms.— Those
— sneezing, watery
dis-
137 charge from the nose^ watery eyes, hoarseness,
dry cough, headache, oppression
at the
chest, feverish nights, etc., lasting for
two
or three wrecks,
The Conyulsive, or Whooping Stage. Violent paroxysms of cough of a convulsive and suffocative character, and distinguished by a peculiar whoop. The are sometimes face and neck swollen and livid, the eyes protruded and full of tears. The duration of the paroxysms varies from 2.
Symptoms.-
one to
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
five
minutes, at the termination of
which there
is
often vomiting or expecto-
ration of food or ropy mucus. lasts
from
five to six
Treatment.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The
This stage
weeks.
diet
must be nourish-
ing and the strength of the patient well
kept up.
Plenty
of fresh air
exercise should be enjoined.
and regular Linseed
tea,
or gum-arabic water will be found useful to allay the
irritability of
the
throat.
All
sources of irritation and excitement should
be excluded from the invalid.
138
Magnes phos. should
be
greatly modify
powder
is
given
the principal remedy. steadily,
the
It
and will soon
disease.
Dissolve
a
of the third trituration in a glass
and give teaspoonful doses every two hours and after every coughing spell. Calcar phos, may be needed in weakly constitutions, or in teething-children, and of water,
in obstinate cases
with emaciation.
WORMS, THREAD,— Small worms
resem-
bling ends of white cotton or thread, affect-
ing the last portion of the bowel, and especially the rectum, causing great irritation,
especially at night, nervous derangement, difficulty in
making water, paleness
of the
face, picking of the nose, variation of the
appetite, etc.
They may often be seen
in
the child's stool, or crawling on the child's person*
Treatment.
much etc.
«
— Look to the diet;
avoid too
starchy and amylacious food, mushes,
)It
may
be necessary to give an occa-
sional injection of salt
and water, one
tea-
;
139 spoonful to a quart of water, and afterwards
apply a
little
vaseline to the rectum.
Keep
the parts immaculately clean.
all
Natrum plios, is the principal remedy for kinds of worms round, long or thread
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
worms.
There
may
restless
sleep,
picking at
be pain in the bowels, nose,
acidity,
itching of rectum, grinding of teeth, etc.
symptoms more or less present with this trouble. This remedy probably acts by destroying the excess of lactic acid, which all
seems to be necessary for the
worms.
Give one tablet
tency night and morning.
life
of these
of the third po-
140
MATERIA MEDICA. CALCAREA FLUORICA This salt
is
found
(Fluoride of Lime).
in the surface of
bones and in the enamel of the teeth in the elastic fibres and skin.
A
;
the also
disturb-
ance of the equilibrium of the molecules of this salt,
according to the theory of Bio-
chemistry, causes a relaxed condition and a dilatation, interfering with absorption and hence favoring hardening and swelling of
Enlarged veins, piles, swollen the tissues. and hardened glands, tumors, uterine displacements, are conditions resulting from such a cause. Special Syimptoms Calling for the Use of
Calcar. fluor.^
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Head:
Lumps on
head;
hard swellings; nasal troubles; stufly cold;
bad odor with
which throat.
is
thick,
lumpy
discharge,
hard to detach, going back into
141
Mouth and Throat: Gumboil with hard swelHng on the jaw; cold sores; throat troubles, tickling from enlarged soft palate. Hiccough and and Bowels: vomiting; constipation and piles, swollen and hard; bleeding piles; itching of rectum; Stomach
internal piles, with backache
the
of
falling
;
displacement
womb, indicated by dragging pains; of womb; profuse menstruation. The
Respiratory Organs:
chief
remedy
in croup; dry, hoarse cough; tickling
and
cough, with lumps of thick mucus.
and Skin:
Extremities
chief
remedy
Enlarged veins;
for varicose veins
anywhere;
blood tumors; gouty enlargements; crack-
ing in joints; weeping sinew; inflammation
hardened glands; knots and and tumors anywhere.
of knee-joint;
kernels,
Corresponding HoMCEOPATnic Remedies. Fluoric acid,
For hard jod.
Aurum and
swellings:
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Silica.
3aryta
jod.^.
Calcar.
142
For
Aurum and
offensive catarrh:
Kali
bich.
Preparation and Dose.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The
paration for ordinary use uration, of
bean
may
which
a small
best
the sixth
is
powder
size of a
be taken dry on the tongue, three the same
times a day; or one tablet of strength
may
in
After one
be used instead.
week's use of the sixth, ble,
pretrit-
chronic
it is
to
cases,
often advisa-
substitute the
twelfth potency, used in a similar manner.
CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA Lime^),
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;This
bones.
It
salt
is
gives
absolutely
(
Phosphate of
solidity
co
essential
the
to the
proper growth and nutrition of the body
and supplies the tissues.
An
basis for
first
the
new
insufficient supply of Calcarea
phos. results in defective nutrition, imper-^ feet
growth and decay.
It is of
importance during dentition, rapidly growing old age
children, at
and especially
in
greatest
young,
puberty, in
after acute diseases,
14^
drains on the system and in inherited weak-
and
ness
tendencies,
disease
especially
scrofulous and tuberculous manifestations.
Special Symptoms Calling for the Use of
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Head:
Peevish
and
Calc.
phos.-
state;
impaired memory; vertigo, cold
ing in
head;
in
about
headache,
infants, bones
fretful
head do not
of
feel-
puberty; close;
scalp sore, itches, feels cold.
Eyes and Ears: Scrofulous inflammation of eyes
with spots on cornea; eye-troubles
and
in school children
ing of
lids;
at
the time of pu-
by gas
berty; cannot use eyes
light; twitch-
bones around ear aches; ear
feels cold.
Face:
Pimples;
complexion
sallow,
greasy; face-ache.
Mouth and Throat develop slowly; swollen;
chronic
:
difficult
Bad
taste
;
teeth
teething; glands
enlargement of tonsils;
relaxed sore throat; sore throat with pain
on swallowing; constant hawking.
144
Stomach: Flatulence and heartburn; infant wants to nurse all time pains after eating; craving for salted and smoked meat. ;
Abdomen noisy;
Stool
:
summer
is
watery,
offensive,
complaint; pain in rectum;
fistula.
Urinary and Sexual: Wetting of the bed
incontinence in old people
;
diabetes gravel ;
uterine displacements,with rheumatic pains
menses too early and too profuse. After prolonged nursing, leucorrhoea,
etc., it
acts as
a constitutional tonic.
Respiratory: of
Soreness of
chest;
cough
consumptives; palpitation. Extremities:
limbs;
sore,
Rheumatism; numb,
cold
aching, worse any change of
weather; languor, trembling and twitching:
anemia and chlorosis; rickets; flabby, emaciated, sickly, ailing, backward children; polypi; irregularity in development; lumbago, after the use of
maid's
knee;
Ferrum phos; house-
bow-legs
swelling of the joints.
in
children
and
145 Corresponding Homceopathic Reimedies. China, Ruta and
Symphytum.
As a remedy f
01'
more
valuable.
In
children^
ferred,
—
the aged.
Baryta
Calcar. carb.
when they are cold, damp
fair,
much, with
feet
is
is
often
to be pre-
plump, sweat
much
of the
time.
Preparation and Dose. best preparation
is
which one-quarter
— For infants, the
the third trituration, of of a teaspoonf ul
may
be
dissolved in the milk twice a day, and given
thus with the food.
throughout the
may
This
teething
be continued
period.
ordinary purposes, tablets of
For
all
the third or
sixth potency, given three times a daj^, will
be found effective. twelfth potency
For old patients, the
is best.
CALCAREA SULPHURICA (Gypsum).— This
salt is
sue and
it
purations.
contained in the connective
tis-
stands in close relation to supIt
cures at
that
stage,
when
146
The pres-
suppuration continues too long.
ence of pus with a vent
is
the general indi-
cation.
of children; pimples
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Head:
Scald head and pustules on face;
SrECiAL Indications.
cold in head with thick discharge; edges of nostrils sore.
Respiratory:
Cough with
obstinate hoarseness tion;
;
hectic fever;
bronchitis
;
consump-
catarrh with thick, lumpy, pus-like
secretions; cough with herpetic eruptions. Extremities:
Backache; burning itching
of soles; herpetic eruptions all over; boils;
carbuncles; chilblains; abscesses; to shorten the suppurative process
;
felons, ulcers,
with
excessive granulations.
Corresponding HOxAkeopathic Remedies.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Ilepar and Silica.
Calcar sulph. resembles Ilepar, but acts
deeper and more intensely, and
is
often
is
useful after Ilepar has ceased to act.
Silica
preferable in glands that suppurate.
;
147 Preparation and Dose.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Tablets
of
the
two hours in acute, and three times a day in chronic, diseases.
third potency every
FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM Iron).
Iron
is
(Phosphate of
found in the red blood cor-
puscles most abundantly, but also in every cell.
A
equilibrium of the
iron
muscular
is
contained
disturbance of the
molecules in the
fibres causes a relaxed condition,
favoring congestion and haemorrhage. Iron restores the tone, equalizes the circulation,
and abates the congestive
who
All ailments of a
fever.
nature,
especially in
children
are dull and listless, failing appetite,
lose weight, etc.
Head and Face: Rush throbbing headaches;
of blood to
head sore
head
to touch,
with eyes bloodshot, red, inflamed;
florid
complexion; hot, red face; face-ache, with flushed face, cheek sore and hot; cold applications are grateful;
troubles,
gums
with feverishness.
hot; teething
148
Nose and Ears: First stage of all colds; bleeding from nose; noises in ears; earache; deafness.
Throat:
Throat dry, red, inflamed, pain-
ful; first stage of
diphtheria and ulcerated
throat.
Gastric symptoms:
vomiting of
Thirst;
food and blood; undigested stools; haemorrhoids and dysentery.
Wetting of the bed; frequeno urination; menses too early, and frequent, and profuse; menstrual colic. Urinary symptoms^
etc.:
Respiratory symptoms:
First
remedy
for
colds on the chest, especially in children.
Painful cough with fever; soreness of chest;
cough with emission
of
bloody expectoration;
and pneumonia loss
of
in
the
urine; cough with bronchitis, pleuris}^ first
stage; croup;
voice; hoarseness; huskiness after
talking or singing;
whooping-cough with
vomiting; palpitation.
Back and
Extremities:
Stiff
neck;
lum-
bago; rheumatic pains anywhere, that are
149 worse moving and
from warmth;
better
acute articular rheumatism.
Corresponding Homceopathic Remedies.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Aconite and Gelsemium.
Aconite has more
tossing
restlessness,
about and greater fever. Gelsem., more drowsiness
and languor.
In anemic conditions, China and Calcar. phos.
In
respiratory
troubles,
Bryonia
and
Tartar emetic follow often.
Preparation and Dose.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The
best
pre-
paration for acute conditions, in the begin-
ning of
all
uration, of
acute diseases,
is
which a powder
the third size of a
trit-
bean
should be dissolved in a tumbler half full of pure cold water, a teaspoonful of
may
which
be taken every quarter, half or hour,
according to the severit}^ of the symptoms.
When improvement
sets
between
may
When
the
doses
the conditions
tablets of
be
interval
lengthened.
are not very acute,
the sixth potency
every two hours.
the
in,
may
be taken
150
KALI MURIATICUM This salt
is
(Chloride of Potash).
found in the blood, nerve
and muscles.
It
stands
in
cells
chemical
a
and corresponds to the inflammations. Croupous and diphtheritic membranes, lymphatic enlargements, discharges and expectorarelation to
fibrin
second stage of
all
tions of thick, whitish matter. cipal indications for the
The
prin-
drug are such
dis-
charges and white, greyish coating of the tongue.
The
efficacy of this
remedy
is
de-
monstrated in chronic catarrhal conditions, croup,
diphtheria,
dysentery, pneumonia.
In alternation with Ferr, deafness from catarrh tubes, skin
of
pJios, in
the
coughs,
eustachian
eruptions with small vesicles
containing yellowish secretions, ulcerations
with swellings and white exudations;
in
leucorrhoea with characteristic discharge, etc.
Symptoms
in general are
worse from
motion; the gastric and abdominal being
worse after taking pastry, rich and fatty foods.
151
Head symptoms:
Sick headache; dand-
and eruptions on scalp; chronic discharge from ears; deafness and earache; ruff
noises in ears; stuffy colds; thrush, canker
and rawness of mouth; tongue coated ish, white and slimy. Throat:
It
is
useful in most
graj^-
cases
of
diphtheria and specific for diphtheritic sore throat; pharyngitis, tonsilitis; chronic sore
throat with deafness. Gastric
Symptoms:
Dyspepisa with
a
whitish gray tongue after rich food; vomiting of white
action of
mucus;
jaundice,
sluggish
constipation with furred
liver;
tongue; abdomen
tender;
diarrhoea
after
fatty food; piles, especially bleeding, dysentery.
Urinary and Sexual Organs: tion of
Inflammadark colored bladder; urine, with
sand}^ deposit; Urethritis,
menses too
leucorrhoea, thick and bland
womb; morning of the breast.
sickness,
;
late,
ulceration of
and inflammation
152 Loss of voice; asth-
Respiratory Organs:
ma, cough, with thick, whitish expectoration,
croup, pleurisy and
Ferrum
pneumonia
after
phos.
Back and
Extremities:
Rheumatism with
swelling around joints; rheumatic pains felt
only during motion, or at night in bed; epilepsy.
Skin:
Abscesses, boils, carbuncles, acne,
eczema, burns, cold sores, pimples, i)ustules, warts,
etc., all
require a course of Kali mur.,
chief
remedy
in
glandula swelhngs,
old
spasmodic conditions. Preparation and Dose.
This remedy acts
better in the lower potencies, from
In
diphtheria
and
Locally
Sulphur,
Mercurius and it
is
it
lint dressing.
Corresponding Homceopathic Remedies. Bryonia,
it
a'rains in one-
water every hour.
should be applied on
to Gx.
kindred affections
should be o;iventen to fifteen half glass
2x
Sulphur.
a deep acting
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Like
remedy with
eradicating tendencies, useful as an inter-
,
153 ijurrent
medicine
the
in
treatment
of
chronic diseases.
KALI PHOSPHORICUM (Phosphate ash).
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;This
mal
fluids
salt is a
and
constituent of
tissues,
nerves, muscles
and
of Potani-
all
notably of the brain
blood.
It
is
an anti
and hinders the decay of tissues: Nervous conditions known as neurasthenic, is the field in which this salt has become pre-eminent. The results of a want of nerve power, as prostration, exertion, loss depression, of mental vigor, brain-fag, softening of the brain, and when there is septic
rapid decomposition of
the blood.
It
is
curative in septic hoBmorrhages, scorbutic
gangrene, stomatitis, offensive carrion-like diarrhoea or dysentery,
hoid
conditions,
adynamic or typ-
incontinence
of
urine,
urticaria, predisposition to epistaxisin children,
dizziness
and vertigo from nervous
exhaustion; tongue coated as
spread with
Man}^ symptoms are
dark liquid mustard. aggravated by noise
if
;
by
rising
from a
sit-
;;
154
by exertion, physical and mental; pains worse in cold air; ameliorated by gentle motion, eating, excitement, anything in fact that will reUeve the mind and ting position;
aid in restoring the lacking nerve
Typhoid and
force.
gastric fever, malignant con-
ditions.
Head Symptoms: iety
and
Nervous dread, anx-
fear; brain-fag; depressed spirits;
general irritability; impaired ness,
want
memory;
of energy, hysteria,
and weakness; headaches those w^orn out
;
of students
very sensitive
other impressions;
dul-
nervousness to noise
confused feeling
and and
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; here
follow with Calc fluor., second trituration.
Tongue dry
Gastric:
;
feels as
if it
would
cleave to roof of mouth; coated dark brown
edges sore and red; bleeding of gums; hungry feehng; all gone sensation; constant
pain
diarrhoea, stools
in
of
stomach; flatulence;
sore,
bowel prolapsed
dark brown, bloody,
Back and tions;
pit
rectum
Extremities:
burning
of
feet,
oftensive.
Paralytic condi-
lidgety
feeling,
155
numbness and weakness; Neuralgic pains anywhere with depression; weakness, sciatica; cold
aggravates
all pains.
Respiratory Organs: Short breath, hoarse-
and irregular
ness, faintness; intermittent
pulse, palpitation.
Urinary Organs: of children, this
In wetting of the bed
remedy
when other remedies
is
often effective
fail.
Frequent
uri-
nation in old people; diabetes with nervous
weakness; Bright's disease. Menses premature and profuse, black and offensive
headache with sleepy, legs ache
very
menses, ;
;
dull
and
tired
pain in ovaries and across
lower part of back; yellow leucorrhoea.
The lower poseem to work best. Either the third and sixth, or even the second trituration will answer all purposes. For acute Preparation and Dose.
tencies
conditions, take a powder, size of a lima
bean and
dissolve
in
half
water, \and take teaspoonful hour. For
a
tumbler of doses
every
more chronic conditions, take one
156 tablet of the
third potency four times a
day.
Corresponding Homceopathic Remedies.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Rhus and Phonphorus,
Pulsatilla and IgnaThe ncnrest analogue is Rhus, for the symptoms depending on blood changes, while Phosphorus is more like it in the
tia.
nervous diseases.
As
In menstrual headaches Gelsemium
Coffea.
Pulsatilla
and Cimicifuga.
KALI SULPHURICUM The
nerve sedative,
a
phos. corresponds with Ignatia and
Kali
skin and
(Sulphate of Potash).
mucus membrane
under the influence
of
this
is
salt.
largely It
is
especially called for in the late stages of all
inflammations.
In
all
In profuse desquamation.
conditions accompanied by a yellow
mucous discharge
or caused
of eruptions or discharge.
tient is
by suppression
When
the pa-
worse towards evening and better
in the open
air.
Head: Dizziness and headache, worse in warm room and in the evening; dandrufi'
15T and scaldhead; eruptions on
scalp;
colds,
with yellow, slimy matter; old catarrhs, nose obstructed
lost
smell; offensive dis-
charge. Gastric
Symptoms:
Burning
thirst; cat-
arrh of stomach with yellow, slimy coated
tongue; pressure as of a load in stomach;
dread of hot drinks; yellow, slimy diarrhoea, with
colic;
habitual constipation.
Urinary and Sexual: greenish
Slimy, yellow or
discharge from urethra or from
vagina.
Mesjnratory Organs: Bronchial asthma and catarrh, worse in warm season; cough worse in the evening; great rattling in the chest
;
rattling of
mucus with cough;
suflFo-
cative feeling in hot atmosphere; desire for cool air.
Extremities
:
and extremities,
Rheumatic pains shifting,
in back
wandering,
set-
tling in one place, then in another.
Skin:
Inactive skin;
chafing
of
skin;
scaly tetters; ivy-poison; nettle rash; burn-
158 ing, itching ertrptions; diseased nails; ery-
and
eczema
sipelas;
cancerous
growth;
— When
used ex-
polypi.
Preparation and Dose.
ternally for dandruff and skin, use the first trituration
dissolved
spoonful to one pint.
in
water,
one
tea-
Internally, tablets of
the sixth every three hours will
riieet
most
conditions.
Corresponding Homceopatiiic Remedies. Pulsatilla sulpli.
is
the nearest
analogue.
—
KaU
often follows very advantageously
Kali mur. and Pulsatilla.
MAONESIA PHOSPHORICA
Magnesia).^—^This
salt
muscles and nerves. in
muscular
fibres
is
It
a
(Phosphate of
constituent of
causes contraction
and hence
its
use in
cramps, convulsions and other nervous disturbances. lieved by
Pains anywhere that are warmth and pressure. It is
re-
the
great antispasmodic remedy.
Head:
warm
Pain
in
head alwaj^s relieved by
applications; neuralgia with
chilli-
L59 ness after mental labor; neuralgia around eyes, worse on right side
from cold
air or
;
earache worse
caused by washing in cold
water; faceache^ worse touch, cold wind,
washing,
better
by
application
of
heat;
convulsive twitching of facial muscles or eyelids; toothache; complaints of teething
children, especially spasmodic
symptoms.
Gastric Symjytoms: Hiccough, heartburn, gastralgia, flatulent dyspepsia; flatulent colic
warmth and pressure abdomen watery diarrhoea with cramps; constipation of infants, with spasmodic pain at every attempt at stool with much gas.
relieved by
;
bloated;
Female Symptoms: Menstrual precedes flow; ralgia;
colic; pain
intermittent; ovarian neu-
membranous discharge with menses;
menses too
early, dark, fibrous.
Respiratory
Organs:
Whooping cough,
remedy; any spasmodic cough, worse at night and on lying down; oppression of chest; constriction of chest and throat; angina pectoris; nervous palpitation. best
160 *
Bach and
Extremities:
intercostal neuralgia;
Neuralgic pains;
tingling sensations;
feet very tender; cramps in calves; neural-
with muscular contractions;
gia in limbs
languid and exhausted feeling; chorea; bad effects
from stimulants.
and
Preparation acts best a
when given
powder
of hot
of
For
— This
remedv
in hot water.
Dissolve
the third trituration in a cup
water and drink while warm.
severe pain first
Dose.
it
may
In
be advisable to use the
or second trituration in the same wa3\ colic in
infants, the thirtieth
potency
given in hot water acts best.
Corresponding Homceopathic Remedies.
The most is
striking resemblance of
to Colocynthis
its
—
action
which may be used with
it
and neuralgic afiections. In spasmodic symptoms, Belladonna is similar. In in colic
female
complaints,
it
is
very similar to
PahaiUla and Cimicifnga
NATRUM JIUIIIATK UM (Chlorirte of Sodium or Common Salt). This is a constituent
—
161 of
every liquid and solid of the body.
It
regulates the degree of moisture within the cells.
Wherever we
find a hypersecretion
of the watery elements of the body, with
want
simultaneous
other portion of
activity
of
the
Natrum
in
some
mucous membranes,
you
will find
acts
upon the lymphatic system, the blood,
remedy.
It
and upon the mucous lining
liver, spleen,
of the
miir. the
alimentary canal.
Natrum mur.
is
indicated in headache, toothache, faceache,
stomachache, salivation
vomiting
etc.,
or of
hypersecretion
of
of
is
either
tears,
or
water and mucus; also catar-
rhal affections of
secretion
where there
mucous membranes, with
transparent,
watery,
frothy
mucus; also small watery blisters, breaking and leaving a thin crust; diarrhoea, transparent, glossy, slimy stools; conjunctivitis
with discharge of tears and clear mucus; tongue clear, slimy, small bubbles of frothy saliva
on sides; leucorrhoea, watery, smart-
ing or clear, starch-like discharge,
etc., etc.
162
Very depressed
Head:
chondriacal brain-fag;
in spirit, hypo-
mood with constipation, and hammering headache worse in
morning; sick headache with constipation;
weak; itching eruption on margin of hair at the nape of neck inflamed eyelids; neuralgia around eyes; muscles of neck
feel
impaired vision; old nasal catarrh; loss of smell and taste;
sallow complexion; cold
sores on lips.
symptoms:
Gastric
ous
hunger,
violent
bread; heartburn; stipation,
Waterbrash; raventhirst;
offensive
aversion breath;
smarting after stool;
piles
to
con-
and
fissures.
Frequent urination; catarrh of burning and soreness in vagina
Urinary,
bladder;
after urinating; very melancholic about the
time of menses; prolapse and smarting leucorrhoea.
Back and
Extremities:
Backache better
by lying on something hard; pain in hip; weakness
of legs; cracking of joints.
163 Preparation and Dose.-— General experience has taught that the best results are
obtained
when given
in the higher poten-
cies, 30x to 200j although some advocate For general use, the 3x and 6x potencies. it is
best to begin with the sixth potency,
and
if
itself,
improvement does not soon show give the thirtieth, a dose night and
Locally for stings and as a gar-
morning. gle,
the crude salt or
first
trituration
may
be used.
Corresponding Homceopathic Remedies. 8e2na and 8ulpliu7\ of service after
— These
—
frequently are
Natrum mur.
For the
ill-
effects of excessive use of salt in food, give
Phosphorus 30,
NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM
—This
(Phosphate of
cles
found in the blood, musand nerve cells and in the inter-cellu-
lar
fluids.
soda)-
tions arising
prevented. acids and
is
salt is
Through its presence, condifrom excess of lactic acid are It
serves
therefore a
to
emulsify
remedy
for
all
fatty
dys-
X64 peptic conditions is
the remedy in
traceable to fats.
This
cases where there is an Acts also upon the bowglands, lungs and abdominal organs. It all
excess of acidity. els,
cures sour belchings and rising of fluids;
vomiting;
sour
greenish,
sour-smelling
diarrhoea, colic, spasms, fever from acidity of
the
stomach in children;
ague
with
characteristic coating of tongue; eyes dis-
charging a yellow creamy matter; gastric
derangements with acidity and flatulence; indigestion, intestinal worms, etc. A characteristic indication is a moist, thick, gold-
en-yellow coating on the tongue and paL^te.
Head:
Giddiness, with gastric derange-
ments; sick headaches with sour vomiting. Yellow, creamy coating at the
Gastric:
back part
of roof of
grinding of teeth. pain
after
food;
mouth and on tongue; Acidity, sour risings;
nausea
and
vomiting;
flatulence, colic with acidity; stomach-ache
from presence Respiratory:
of
worms; itching
A
of rectum.
useful intercurrent rem-
edy in catarrhal troubles associated with
165
Pain in chest from pressure and
acidity.
breathing; consumption; palpitation, pulse felt in different
Back and give
legs
parts of body.
Extremities
way
]
Weak
walking;
while
feeling;
pain
in
knees and ankles; aching wrists.
Preparatiox of Dose.-
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The
best general
preparation are tablets of the sixth tritura-
For children^ pellets of the thirtieth potency have been found very efficacious. tion.
Corresponding Homceopathic Remedies. Calcar.
carb.
and Rheurn, especially
children where there tion of stomach
is
much
salt
does
not
acid condi-
(Glauber's Salt).
appear in the
only in the inter-cellular
and regulates the excretion water.
for
and bowels.
NATRUM SULPHURICUM This
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
fluids.
cells,
It aids
of superfluous
Gastric bilious conditions, dropsy,
liver diseases, results of living in
damp, low
dwellings or regions, uric acid
diathesis,
all
are
benefited
by
this
remed}^
The
166 chief characteristic
ance of the tongue
Head
:
symptom
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
the appear-
is
dirty, greenish brown.
Sick headache with bihous diar-
rhoea; violent pain at base of brain; mental
troubles arising from injuries to the head. Bitter
Gastric: slime, thick
and
taste;
mouth full must hawk '
tenacious,
of it
up; tongue coated dirty, brownish, vomiting of bile; j&atulent colic, diarrhoea, stools
darkj bilious, worse in morning, larl}^ after
foecal
wet weather; great
mass; aching in region of
Urinary:
Chief
sandy deposit
remedy
particu-
size of
the
liver.
in
diabetes;
in urine like brick-dust in
the water. Respiratory.
Asthma,
worse in
damp
weather, cough with thick, ropy expectoration;
early morning; difficult in
cough worse in breathing; asthma
bronchial catarrh;
children
from
suppression
of
skin
troubles.
Back and Extremities: Soreness up and down spine and back; drawing back of
167 neck;
under
pain
nails;
gout;
sciatica;
twitching during sleep; intermittent fever in all its stages; drops3\
—Use
Preparation axd Dose.'
the
third
trituration in tablets, one every three hours^
Corresponding Hom(eopath:ic Remedies.
—
—In
the cough, Bryo-
nia, but this is indicated
rather earlier in
Thuja and Sulphur, chest
than Natrum
afiections
hence the
latter
follows
often
sulph.^ it
and
ad van
tageously^
SILICA (Pure
Quartz). —This salt,
very abundantly found
kingdom,
is
in
the
though
vegetable
found only in the connective
any extent. It acts prominently upon the bones, glands, skin^ and is espetissue to
cially suited
constitutions.
to the imperfectly It
is
ttie
nourished
remedy
for
ail-
It ments attended with pus-formation. ripens abscesses and promotes suppuration.
Especially indicated in
who
are always chilly.
sensitive patients,,
168
Head; Oversensitive, irritable; vertigo; headache coming up from nape of neck, worse on right side, worse from noise, exertion, light,
study better from warmth ;
chronic
styes.
vomits as soon as
Child
Gastric:
nurses;
;
dyspepsia;
disgust
it
for
meat and warm food; very hungry; large abdomen; paralytic condition of bowels; patient is cold all the time; menses are associated wiih icy coldness and constipation, and fetid foot-sweat.
Cough
Respiratory:
with
night-sweats;
of sickly children,
hoarseness;
tickling
cough; cough and sore throat, with expectoration of little granules; smelling badly;
deep-seated pain in chest;
much
pus-like
expectoration; chronic heart disease.
Back and
Extrer)i%ties:
Spinal irritation;
soreness between shoulders; hip-joint disease;
whitlow, felon;
brittle;
feet or axilloe;
in feet;
nails
crippled and
habitual fetid perspiration of the
weak
ingrowing toe-nails; pains
ankles; skin heals with
diffi-
169 culty,
and suppurates
very senand ulcerations;
easily; skin
sitive; all sorts of eruptions
enlarged suppurating glands; patient feels better in
warm
room, and by heat generally.
Preparation and Dose.
and glandular
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; In
scrofulous
affections, use tablet of the
third trituration every four hours.
In sup-
and twelfth
tritura-
purations, the
sixth
tions are the best.
Dissolve in water, and
take a dose every two hours. aflfection.'^,
A
For chronic
the thirtieth night and morning.
very excellent preparation
is
the Silica
obtained from the bamboo; it seems to act more quickly, and is especially indicated in acute diseases. Here use Bamboo Silica 6x, a dose every two hours.
Corresponding Homceopathic Remedies.
Mercurius and Pulsatilla, Picric acid.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; In
suppuration, Calcar. sulph.
is better adapted checking it and healing, promoting healthy granulation. It follows Silica.
to
Silica
often
Pulsatilla
follows very advantageously,
and Calcarea.
REPERTORY OR INDEX To the Chief Symptoms
of the
Twelve Tissue Remedies. riental States. Ambitionless, Natr. phos.
Angry, IS at. mur. Apprehensive, Kali
plios.
Anxiety, Calc. phos., Kali phos.
Brainfag, Kali phos.,
Silica.
Changeable mood, Calc. sulph. Confused feeling, Calc.fluor. Crying mood. Kali phos. Depressed mood, isatr. mur. Despairs getting well, Natr. sulph. Despondency, Ka'dphos. Difi&cult thought. Silica.
Dread, nervous. Kali phos.
Fear of falling, Kali sulph. Fear of financial rnin, Calc.fluor. Forgetful, Calc. phos. Fretful, Kali phos.
Hallucinations, Kali phos., Nair.phos. Indifference, Ferruni j^hos.
Indecision, Calc.fluor. Insanity, Ferr. phos., Kali phos.
Melancholia, Kali phos., Xatr.
Night
siilph.
terrors, Kali phos.
Over-sensitive, Silica^ Kali. phos.
171 Passionate outbursts, Nat, rnur. Sadness, Nat. mur. Screaming, Kali phos. Sighing, Xat. mur. Slow comprehension, Calc. pJios, Suicidal tendency, Nat, sidph.
Whining, Rail phos.
Head. Bald spots. Kali sulph. Brain-fag, Silica, Kali phos.
Burning on
top, Nat. Sidplu
Cold feeling, Calc.plios. Congestive headache, Ferr. phos Dandruff, Kali sulph., Nat, mur. Effects of injuries to, Nat. sulph.
Falling out of hair, Kali sulph.
Fontanelles unclosed, Calc. phos.
Headache, menstrual, Nat. mur. **
sick,
'*
congestive, -Ferr. p/i05.
Lumps on
Nat. sulph.
scalp. Silica.
Soreness to touch, FeiT. phos. Sunstroke, Nat. mur. Sweat on head, Calc. phos., Throbbing, Ferr. phos.
Silica.
Vertigo, old age, Calc. phos,
" with bile, Nat. sulph. Yellow crusts on scalp, Calc. sulph ,
Eyes. Agglutination of
lids,
Nat. phos,
Astlienopia, Nat. mur.
Black
si^ots before.
Kali phos,
Blisters on, Nat. mur.
172 Blood shot, Nat. phos. Burning of lids, Nat. sulplu Conjunctivitis, Ferr. phos,, Nat, plws.
Dull vision, Nat. phos. Eye-ball, sore, Ferr. phos.
Eyelids, granular, Nat, mur.
Pupils contracted, Magnes. phos. Redness, Ferr. phos. Nat. mur.* Styes, Silica.
Ears. Aching around, Calc. phos. Buzzing in, Kali phos. Catarrh, Kali mur. Deafness, Ferr. phos., Kali, mur. Discharge from, Kali phos. Silica, Earache, Ferr. phos., 31agnes.phos, Noises in, Ferr. phos.. Kali phos. Ringing, as of bells, Nat, sulpha
Nose. Bleeding, Ferr. phos. Catarrh, Kali mur. " old, chronic, Nat. mur.. Silica, Colds, Ferr. phos. '*
stuffy. Kali sulph.,
NaL mw\
Crusts, Kali mur., Silica.
Discharge, acrid, Silica, *'
**
fetid.
mur.
Kali phos.
**
greenish. Kali sulph.
^*
thick, Calc.fluor., Kali sulph,
"
Dry
clear, Nat.
yeWow, Nat. phos
coryza, Calc.fluor., Kali mur.
Hay-fever, Nat. mur., Silica,
73 Influenza, Nai. sulp^i.
Loss
of smell, Xat,
mur.
Nostrils, sore, Calc. phos.
Odor, offensive, Kaiiphos^ Calc fluor. Pimples on nose, Nat. mur. Posterior nares, dry. Not. mur. " '' hawking from, iia^ip/ios. Predisposition to take cold, Calc. phos.
Running colds, Nat. mur. Sneezing, Kali phos., Silica.
Face. Acne,
Calc. sulpli., Kali
mur.
Blotched, Nat.phos.
Cold sores, Nat. mur.^
Calc. fluor.
Eruptions, Calc. sulph., Kali sulpha Greasy, Calc.phos.
Jaundiced, Nat. sulph. Pale, Nat. mur., Calc. phos^
Red, Ferr. phos. Sallow, Nat. sulph.
Face-ache, Magnes. phos., Ferr. phos.
Hot, Ferr. phos. Yellowish, Nat. sulph.
riouth. Aphthre, Kali mur. Breath, offensive, Kali phos., Nat. mur. Cold-sores, Nat. mur., Calc. fluor.
Drooling, Nat. mur.
Gumboil, Kali mur.
Gums, spongy,
Kali phos.
Lips, crack, Nat. mur. Salivation, Nat. mur., Kali phos.
Twitching, Magnes. phos. Ulcers
in.
Kali mur.
174 Tongue and Taste. Acrid
taste,
Nat. phos.
Bitter taste, Nat. sulph. Blisters
on tongue, Nat. mur.
Brown tongue, Eallphos.y Nat Creamy tongue, Nat. plios.
^
sulph.
Frothy tongue, Nat. mur. Slimy tongue, Kali sulph. Cracked tongue, Gale. Huor.
Dry tongue, Kaliphos. Flabby tongue, Calc. sulph. Loss of taste, Nat. mur. Mapped tongue, Nat. mur.
Numb Sour
tongue. Gale. phos.
taste, Gale, sulph.
Ulcers on tongue. Silica^ Kali mur.
Teeth and Gums. Complaints during teething, Gale. phos. Convulsions during teething, Mag. phos.
Decay Dental
of teeth. Gale. phos. fistula, Silica.
Drooling, Nat. mur.
Enamel, deficient, Galc.fluor, Grinding of teeth, Nat, phos. Gums, bleed easily, Nat. mur, "
inflamed, Gale, phos,
**
sensitive, JVa^. T7(ur.
Gumboil, Kali mur. " hard, swollen, Galc.fluor, **
supiDurating, Gale, sulph.
Looseness of teeth, Galcfluor,
Throat. Burning, Ferr.phos. Choking sensation, Magnes. phos.
175 Chronic sore, Nat. mui\^ Kali mur^ Dryness, Nat, mur. Clergyman's, Calc.phos. Constriction, Magnes. phos.
Croup and Diphtheria,
Dry
Ferr. phos.. Kali mu7\
throat, Ferr. phos.
Feeling of lump, Nat. sulph. Follicular pharyngitis. Kali mur,,
NaL mw\
Glands, swollen, Kali mur. **
suppurating, Silica.
Goitre, Calc.fluor.
Mumps,
Kali mur,, Nat. mur.
Posterior nares dropping, Nat. phos,
Kelaxed sore throat, Calc. phos. '* uvula, Nat. mur. Ulcerated sore throat, Kali mur. Uvula, elongated, Nat. mur.
Gastric
Symptoms.
Acids, sensitive to, Magnes.phos, Acidity, Nat. phos.
Appetite, loss
of,
Kali mur., Calc. phos.
Aversion to bread, Nat. mur. ** " hot drinks. Kali sulph. " meat, Ferr. pthos., " milk, Ferr. phos.
** **
**
**
warm
Silica,
food. Silica,
Biliousness, Nat. sulph.
Burning in stomach, Kali
sulph.
Desire for bacon, Calc, x>hos. **
*'
bitter things, Nat.
'*
"
claret, 6'a/c. sit/p/i.
"
''
fruit, Calc. sulph.
"
'â&#x20AC;˘
ham, Calc.phos.
mur^
Desire for salted food, Calc. phos.
176 Desire for stimulants, Ferr. phos. *'
'*
sugar, Magnes. phos.
Empty, gone
feeling, Kali phos.
Eructations, bitter, Kalijohos. **
sour, Nat. phos.
**
burning, Ilagnes. phos.
**
gaseous. Kali phos.
**
greasy, Ferr. phos.
^
CalCrphos,
Excessive hunger. Silica.
Faintness at stomach. Kali sulph. Flatulence, C ale. phos. ** **
with paljjitation, Kali phos. " sluggish liver, Nat. sulph.
**
ferastritis,
*'
acidity, Nat. phos. ^
Cale. phos
Ferr. phos.
Gastralgia, Magnes. phos.
Heartburn, Nat. mur.^ Silica. Hiccough, Magnes. phos., Gale. Huor,
Hunger, excessive. Nausea, Kali
Silica,
Kali phos.
sulph., Ferr. phos.
Nausea and vomiting, Magnes phos. Nausea and vertigo, Calc. sulph. Pain after food, Nat. phos., Calc. phos^ Pain at pit of stomach, Kali phos. Regurgitation, Magnes. phos. Thirst, burning. Kali sulph.
Vomiting *'
acid, Nat. phos.
after cold water, Calc. phos,
**
before breakfast, Ferr. phos,
^f
bile,
V
blood, Ferr. phos.
Nat. sulph.
**
coflee-grounds, Nat. rnur,
^/
after nursing. Silica,
**
infantile, Calc. phos.
177 Vomiting mucus,
mur.
l^at,
Waterbrash, Nat.plios.^ Kaliphos.
Abdomen and Abdomen
swollen, Kaliphos. sunken, Calc. phos. tender, Kali mur.
*'
** **
tympanitic, Za/i
*'
Anus,
Stool.
feels cold, Kali sulph,
sw^p/i.
fissures, Silica.
**
fistula, Calc. phos.
"
eruption around, Nat. mur.
**
abscesses around,
'*
prolapse, Calc. sulph.
*'
C'alc. ^
sulph.
Kaliphos,
warts, Nat. sulph.
Burning Colic,
pain, Nat. mur.
Magnes. phos.
*'
lead, Nat. sulph.
**
infantile, Calc. phos.
Congestion of
liver,
Nat. sulph.
Constipation, alternating with diarrhoea, Nat. mur.
with furred tongue, Kali mur. habitual, Kaii sulph. infantile,
Magnes. phos,
in aged, Ca'c. phos.
Cramps, Magnes. phos. Diarrhoea, from fatty food, Kali mur. " in wet weather, Nat. sulph, **
irom
**
bilious,
*'
from from
" ''
" **
fruit, Calc. jyhos.
Nat. sulph.
chill,
Ferr. pfhos.
fright,
foul, putrid,
Kaliphos.
Kaliphos.
green, ^ai. p/ios.
involuntary, Nat. mur.
178 Diarrhoea^ painless, Kali phos, *'
slimy, Kali sulph.
**
Tindigestecl, FeiT. phos.
*
watery, Nat. mu7\, Magnes, phos^
*'
white
**
yellow stools,
stools,
Nat.plios. Jia^i sw/p^i.
Dysentery, Ferr. phos., Kalimur, Gallstones, Calc. phos. *'
colic, Ifagnes.
phos.
Hsemorrhoids, Ferr. phos., Galc.fluor, Itching of anus, Nat. phos. Jaundice, Kali mur., Nat. sulph. Liver, torpid. Kali mur. *'
congested, Nat. sulph,
*'
painful, Calc. sulph.
*'
soreness, Nat. sulph.
Marasmus, Calc. phos. Bectum, stitches in, Nat, mur, **
prolapse
of, Calc. sulph.,
Kali phos..
Worms, Nat. phos. "
thread, Ferr. phos., Nat, phos.
Urinary Symptoms. Bladder, catarrh
of.
Kali mur., Nat. murÂť
Bleeding from urethra, Kali phos. Bright's disease, Calc. phos., Kali phos.
Burning after urinating, Nat. mur.' Burning during urinating, Nat. sulph. Diabetes, Nat. phos., Ferr. phos.
Gravel, Calc. phos., Nat. sulph.
Incontinence, Calc. phos. '*
while coughing,
Nat
Increased urine, Calc. phos. Kidneys, inflamed. Kali mur,
Eetention of urine, Magnes phos.
mur.
179 Stone in bladder, Calc. phos. Suppression, Ferr. phos. Urine, brick-dnst sediment, J^at. sulph. *'
copious, (7aZc.p/i05.
**
dark color, Kali mu7\, Nat. sulph. pungent, Galc.fluor.
•* **
gravel, Calc. phos., Silica.
**
with bile, Nat. sulph, mucus. Silica.
** **
sand, Nat. sulph.
*'
yellow. Kali phos.
Wetting the bed, Fer7\ phos.,
Calc, phos.
Female Symptoms. Backache with menses, Calc. phos. Bearing-down pains, Ferr. phos., Calc.fluor, Burning in uterus, Nat. mur. Displacements, Calc.fluor.
Dragging sensation,
Dy smenorrhoea, " "
Calc. fluor.
Magnes.phos. as a preventive, Calc. phos.
membranous, Magnes. phos.
Hysterical symptoms, Kali phos.
Icy coldness at menses, Silica, Itching, external, Nat. mur.
Leucorrhoea, acid, Nat. phos. '•
acrid. Silica.
**
mucous,
*'
creamy, Nat. phos.
"
Ca^c. p/ioSr
greenish, Kali sulph.
*'
irritating, Nat.
'*
itching, Silica.
** •
mur.
milky, Kali mur,
*'
profuse, Silica.
'*
slimy, Kali sulph.
'
180 Leucorrhoea^ smarting, Nat. mur, thick, Kali mur. *
**
watery, Xat. mur.
**
yellow, Kali sulph.
Menses, acrid, Nat. phos. *' with nose bleed, Nat. sulph, '* with pain, Magnes. phos. *' with sadness, Nat. mur. *'
black. Kali m.ur.
"
bright red, Ferr. phos.
**
clotted, J^aZi
*'
copious, Nat. mur.
TTii^r.
"
corrosive, Nat. sulph.
*'
delayed, Nat. mur.
**
every two weeks, Calc. phos. every three weeks, Ferr. phos. excessive. Kali mur. Calc. phos, irregular, Kali phos.
**
" **
^
*'
pale, Nat. phos.
**
premature, lialiphos, stringy, Magnes. phos. strong odor Kali phos.
**
**
J
** *' **
suppressed, Calc. phos., Nat. mur. frequent, ^a/i ?7ii(r. long-lasting, Calc. sulph.
**
profuse, Nat. sulph., Ferr. phos,
**
scanty, Kali])hos., Nat. mur. with coldness, Silica. with constipation, Nat. s^ilph.
** * '
*'
*' **
" ** ** **
with with with with with with with
weakness, Calc. sulph. headache. Kali sulph. melancholy, JVa^. mur. morning diarrhoea, Nat. sulph. rheumatic pains, Calc. phos, excitement, iVa^.p/iOS. twitchings, Calc. sulph.
'
.
181 Ovarian neuralgia, Kali phos., Magnes. phos. Prolapse, Calc.fluor. Sensitive parts, Silica, Sterility,
Silica,
Nat. phos.
Ulcerations, Kali mur., Silica.
Uterine displacements, Kat.
pJios.
After-pains, Kali phos., Mag, phos. Burning in breasts, Calc. phos. Knots in breasts, Calc.fluor.
Enlarged breasts,
Morning
Calc. phos.
sickness, Ferr. phos,
Nijpples crack. Silica.
Respiratory Organs. Asthma, Kali sulph., Nat. sulph. Breathing oppressed, Ferr. phos. Bronchitis, Ferr. phos., Kali mur, " chronic, Nat. mur. *
*
yellow expectoration, Kali sulph.
Burning
in chest, Ferr. phos.
Chest, constiTiction, Magnes. phos,
mucus, Kali
*'
rattling of
**
soreness, Nat. sulph., Calc. phos.
sulph.
Congestion of lungs, Ferr. phos.
Cough, acute, Ferr. phos. *
in the evening. Kali sulph.
**
har'kmg, Kali
**
chronic, Calc. phos., Silica,
*'
convulsive, Magnes. phos.
*'
croupy. Kali mur.
mur
**
dry, Ferr. phos.
*'
Jiaoking, Calc.fluor.
**
htirci,
'*
]oose rsittMng, Kali sulph.
Ferr. phos.
182 Congb, loud and noisy, Kali mur, *'
nervous, Magnes. phos,
"
on lying down, Magnes, phos, Calc.fluor.
**
^Yiori^
**
spasmodic, Magnes. phos,
^
Ferr. phos.
**
suffocative, Calc. phos,
**
tickling, Ferr. phos,
*' whooping, Magnes. phos. Croup, Ferr. phos., Calc. su^ph,
Croupy hoarseness, Kali Expectoration,
sulph,^
Nat. mur,
'*
copious, Silica,
**
frothy, Nat. mur,
**
greenish, Nat. sulph,
**
loose. Kali sulph,
**
Inmpy,
*
Calc. Huor.
naucous. Gale, phos,
**
offensive, Silica.
^*
profuse. Kali sulph,
**
3'opy,
**
salty. Kali phos.
"
Nat. sulph,
slimy,
*'
Kah
sulph.
thick, Nat. sulph.,. Silica,
*'
watery, Nat. mur.
"
Hay
clear,
yellowish, Calc.ftuor.y Kali phos.
fever, TTaZi. phos., Nat.
Hectic fever, Calc. phos.,
mur.
Siliccl.
Heat in chest, Ferr. phos. Hoarseness, Ferr. phos.. Kali mur. Larynx, painful, Ferr. phos. Night sweats, Silica, Calc. phos, Pain in chest, Nat. phos. Pleurisy,
)
Pneumonia,)
Ferr.
phos.. Kali mur.; later Kali sulph.
Calc, sulph.
183 Heart. Aneurism, Oalc.fluor. Angina pectoris, Magnes, phos., Kali phos. Blood vessels enlarged, Calc.fluor, Chronic heart disease, Silica. Circulation sluggish, Kali phos.
Hypertrophy, Nat. mur. Palpitation, Ferr, phos,, Magnes. phos. **
Pulse
felt all
with sleeplessness, over, Nat. mu7\
JTaZip/ios.
around, Ferr. phos.
â&#x20AC;˘*
full
*'
intermittent, Nat. mur.j Kali phos.
*'
irregular. Kali phos.
*'
rai^id,
Nat. mur.
Back and Extremities. Aching
of limbs, Calc. phos.
between shoulders, Kali phos.
**
Ankles pain. Silica. " weeik, Nat. phos
Arms "
t^
heavy. Silica. tired, Nat. jyhos.
Back
cold, Nat.
mur.
"
crick in, Ferr. phos,
*'
pain
â&#x20AC;˘'
soreness
in, Calc. fl.uor. in,
Nat. Sulph,
Backache worse evenings. Kali sulpha **
* *
"
mornings, Calc.j^hos.
better lying
on
it,
Nat. mur.
Bow-legs, Calc. phos.
Bunions, Kali mur.
Burning
of feet, Calc. sulph.
Calves, cramps, Calc. phos., Magnes. phos. Chilblains, Kali mur. Coldness of limbs, Calc. phos.
,184 Coccyx painful, Silica. Cracking of joints, Calc. fiuor. Crick in back, Ferr. phos, " neck, JSFat phos.
**
Feet tender. **
Silica.
swollen,
(lali
mur.
Fidgety feet. Kali phos. Finger joints enlarge, Calc. fluor^ Ganglion, Galc.fluor. Glandii swollen, Rali mur, " hardened, Galc.fluor Goitre, Nat. mur.
Gout, Ferr. phos.
^
^
Galc.fluor,
Nat. sulph,
*'
chronic, Nat. phos.
**
rheumatic, Ca?c. p/ios.
Hamstrings
Hands
sore, Nat. phos.
fall asleep, Gale.
phos.
**
get
**
hot in palms, Ferr. phos,
**
Hang
stiff,
Nat. phos.
tvemhle, Nat. sulph. nails, Nat. mur., Silica,
Hips painful, Kali phos. Housemaid's knee, Calc.
phos.. Silica,
Inflamed joints, Ferr. phos., Kali mur,.
Ingrowing
toe-nails. Silica.
Itching of limbs, Kali phos.
Knees painful, Nat. phos. Limbs fall asleep, Nat. mur. Lumbago, Galc.fluor. Muscular weakness. Kali phos. Nails crippled. Silica. " pain at roots, Calc. phos.
Neck emaciated, Nat. **
stiff,
Ferr. phos.
piur,
185 Numbness,
Calc.phos., Kaliphos,
Oedema, Nat. mur. Oversensitive spine.
Silica.
Pain in back, Calc. phos., Ferr. *' " shin bones, Calc.phos.
plios,
" shoulders, Ferr. plios.
** **
go to heart, Nat. phos.
**
through
feet. Silica.
Paralj'tic lameness, Kali phos.
Rheumatic " "
fever, Ferr. phos., Kali
mur,
"
chronic, Calc. phos., Nat. phos,
''
muscular, Ferr. phos.
Sciatica, 2Iagnes phos., Kali phos.
Shifting pains, 7ia/2si(Zp/i.
Shooting pains, Calc. phos. Slowness to v;alk, Calc. phos. Soles burn and itch, Calc. sulph. Soreness between shoulders, Silica.
Stumbles
easily, Kali phos.
Tired feeling, Calc. Huor.
Weakness
in general, Nat. mur.
Wrists ache, Nat. phos.
Nervous Symptoms. Alcoholism, Magnes. phos. Ball sensation, Kali phos.
Chorea, Magnes. phos., Nat. mur. Contortions, Magnes. phos.
Convulsions, Calc. phos., Magnes, phos.
Crawling sensation, Calc. phos. Creeping paralysis. Kali phos. Debility, Calc. phos.
Depression, Kali phos., Nat. mur. Epilepsy, Kali mur. Silica. ^
Exhaustion, Kali phos., Calc.phos,
186 Fears, Kaliphos.
Gait unsteady, Nat, phos.
Hiccough, Magnes. phos. Hysteria, Kali phos., Silica. Infantile paral^^sis, Kaliphos,
Nervousness, Kaliphos. Neuralgia, congestive, Ferr. phos, " intercostal, iVa^. p/i06'. **
Night
obstinate. Silica, terrors, Kali phos.
Squinting, from worms, N^at. phos. Trembling, Nat. phos., Calc. phos, Twitchings, Magnes. phos. Writer's cramp, Calc. phos.
Sleep and Dreams. Awakes screaming, Kaliphos, Cry out in sleep, Calc. phos. Dreams anxious, Nat. mur. *'
lascivious, Kaliphos,
'*
vivid. Kali sulph.
Drowsiness, Kal. sulph. *'
in old people, Gale, phos.
Insomnia, Nat. mur., Kali phos.
Febrile Symptoms. Ague, Nat. sulph. Bilious fever, Nat. phos., Nat, sulph.
Brain fever, Kaliphos, Chilliness, Silica., Calc. phos.
Chill in morniiig, Nat. mur.
Cold sweat. Kali sulph. Feet cold, Nat. phos. Gastric fever. Kali sulph.
Hay
fever, Silica,
187 Hectic fever, Calc. sulph. Intermittent fever, Nat. mur. Scarlet fever, Ferr. plios.
Typhoid
fever, Kali jDhos.
Yellow fever, Nat. sulph. Night sweats, Calc. phos., Perspiration about head, *'
Silica. Silica.
cold. Kali sulph.
"
profuse, Kaliphos^
*'
sour, Nat. phos.
Skin. Abscess, Silica, Calc. sulph.
Acne, Kali mur.
Barber Boils,
s itch,
Magnes. phos.
Calc. sulph.
Bunions, Kali mur. Chaps, Calc. Huor. Chilblains, Kali phos., Silica,
Chronic skin disease, Nat. mur.
Coppery
spots. Silica.
Cracks on skin, Calc. fluor. *' between toes, Nat. mur. Dandruff, Rali sulph.
Eczema, Nat. mur., Kali sulph. Erysipelas, Kali mur., Ferr. phos. Fissures, Calc. Huor. Freckles, Calc. phos.
Hair
falls out,
Nat. mur.. Silica.
Hives, Nat.x)hos., Kali phos. Insect bites, Nat. mur. Irritating:; secretions.
Kali phos.
Itching, Calc. phos.. Kali phos.
Ivy poison, Kali sulph. Jaundiced skin, Nat. sulpha
'
188 Lupus,
Calc. phos., Kali mur.
Measles, Ferr. phos., Kali mur.
Nodes,
Silica, Calc.fluor.
Pimples, Kali mur., Calc. sulph. Shingles, Nat. mur.. Kali mur.
Small pox, Raliphos., Calc. sulph. Wrinkled skin, Kali phos.
Tissues. Anaemia, Calc. phos., Nat. mur, **
of infants, Silica.
Atrophy,
Calc. phos.
Boils, Silica, Calc. sulph.
Bone
diseases, Calc. phos.. Silica,
Bruises, Kali mur. Biurns, Kali mur., Calc. sulph.
Cancer, Calc. phos., Kali phos.
Carbuncles,
Silica, Calc. sulph.
Debility, Kali phos.
Dropsy, Kali mur., Nat. sulph. Emaciation, Nat. mur., Calc. phos. Felons, Calc, sulph.
Glands, Kali mur.,
Silica.
Growths, Calc.fluor. Haemorrhages, Ferr. phos.. Kali mur. Inflammations, Ferr. phos. second stage, Kali mur^ '
Injuries, Ferr. phos.
Marasmus,
Calc. phos.
Offensive discharges, Kali phos. Polypi, Calc. phos.. Kali sulph.
Proud
flesh, Silica.
Scalds, Kali mur.
Secretions, albuminous, Calc. phos,
"
greenish, Kali sulph.
189 Secretions, honey-colored, Nat. phos. **
"
offensive, Kali phos.
watery, Xat. mur.
Sprains, F^rr. phos.
Suppuration,
Silica, Calc. sulph.
Vaccination, after, Kali mur., Silica.
Varicose veins, Calc.fluor.
Wasting
diseases, Kali phos.
190
Something newi aw ADDITION TO ALL fOOD.
B.
&
S.-C0N8TIT0T10NflL TISSUE FOOD The physiological remedy for the groiving organism^ which will favor healthy
development, eradicate disease tendencies^ catarrhal conditions^ stotnach
make
ctire
teething easy prevent and ^
ciit^e
and bowel tfoiibles, cure unhealthy skiii, and every way help to produce pure bloody
in
from which a sound body can be built up. This is a preparation of the necessary Mineral Salts that go to build lip the tissues, but they have passed through the subtle alchemy of vegetable growth, rendering them therefore, of quick assimilation to the growing cells of the child. Its great use consists in the changing of the constitution of the child, correcting disease tendencies and counall sorts. Families â&#x20AC;&#x201D; where there any hereditary tendency to scrofula, consumption, cancer, rheumatism, gout, catarrh, bone and skin diseases, nervous comj)laints, and especially where other children have suc-
teracting blood diseases of is
cumbed
to these diseased conditions
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will find in this physi-
ological food a wonderful restorative power.
growing tissues and a medicine whether hereditary or acquired.
It is food to the states,
to diseased
191 physiological Cell-Salts which are necessary for the
The
upbuilding of the body are
all
present in this preparation,
in a form readily assimilable by every tissue. It is both a food and medicine, and indis]pensable to the growing organism, during convalescence from acute diseases, in run-down states of the system, nervous and physical exhaustion, at the time of dentition, puberty, change of life, especially valuable whenever there is any drain on the system from loss of vital fluids, prolonged diarrhoea, night
sweats, leucorrhcea, loss of blood,
that feed
upon the vigor
constitutional diseases
of the bod}'.
Can be taken with the food or drink, or without. Will not interfere with drug medication, since its constituents normal Cell-Salts that are present in most foodstuffs, but offered here in a concentrated but highly assimilable
are the
form.
Results of Using our Tissue Food.
A more healthy circulation is established, the bodily and mental functions experience new vigor. Weakness, debility, chilliness, peevishness, nervousness, irritabilitj- are removed, because it is a food' for tired and worn-out nerves. By means of this food all the elements which enter into the composition of our bodies are supplied in the needful subdivision.
Price per Bottle,
50 Cents.
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A RESTORATIVE after
Acute Diseases, and
A STIMULANT to
Waning Nerve
Po^wer.
BOERIGKE&RUNYON A, SAN FRANCISCO.
THE GRE^T REMEBY FOR ^LL FORMS OF
NERVE EXHAUSTION A BRAIN AND NERVE FOOD NEEDFUL in many forms of EXHAUSTED VITALITY incident to modern
life,
193
Schuessler's
Nerve Salt is the great EfStorative in the General Debility following acute diseases and from loss of animal fluids, such as occur from Over Lactation, Pro-
fuse Meustruation, Leucorrhoea, Night Sweats, Emissions, Etc., Etc
Symptoms
of
Exhausting
Nerve Tire
Headache, Vertigo, Loss of Endurance,
Irritability,
Sleep-
Muscular Weakne.-s
lessness, General
with Twitchings
Schuessler's Nerve Salt will take
C III Id re II
require
it
them away.
especially
during the Teething
Nervous Irritability^ Restlessness and Sleeplessness so frequently met with. Again, after any acute disease, Fevers, Diarrhcea, etc.
l^eriod,
In
^vhen
it
will quiet the
Older Children,
for
Conditions, St. Vitus Dance,
Headaches, Pains,
Somnambulism,
Spasmodic
etc.
Adultsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; For any symptoms of Nervous Exhaustion in any form, whether affecting the head, mind, stomach or sexual organs,
it is
a valuable remedy, alone or as au adjunct
194 Brain Fag, Impaired Memory, Nervousness, and Nervous Dread and Gloomy Fancies, Irritability and Impa-
to others;
tience,
Hysteria, Vertigo, Headaches, Backaches, Neuralgia,
Sleeplessness, Paralytic
Woilieii — It
is
an
and Spasmodic Conditions. efficient
remedy
Special Ailments of Females, especially
for
many
of
the
when despondent
or
accompanied by Nervous Disturbances. It will regulate the Menstrual Function, especially when painful, and tone up the system after Child-birth, Miscarriages, Long continued Leucorrhoea or Profuse Menstruation. It is the remedy for Hysteria in all its forms, " Nervous Attacks," and for most of the disturbances incident to Change. of Life.
OLD AGE
finds in
Schuessler's Nerve Salt a wonderful aid to overcome
dent at this time
many
of the disturbances inci-
— Sleeplessness, Failure of Strength, Mental
Depression, Paralysis of any part of the body,
Incontinence of Urine, Loss of
and Illusions
of the Senses,
all
Laming
Paius,
Appetite, Hallucinations
Impaired Memory, and
first
stages of Softening of the Brain.
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