Category: Materia Medica

PREFACE NINTH EDITION

In preparing the ninth edition of this work, I have followed the lines laid out for all the previous editions, namely, to present in a condensed form the homśopathic Materia Medica for practical use.

The book contains the well known verified characteristic symptoms of all our medicines besides other less important symptoms aiding the selection of the curative remedy, All the new medicines and essentials of the published clinical experience of the school have been added. In its present compact form it contains the maximum number of reliable Materia Medica facts in the minimum space.

I have tried to give a succinct resume of the symptomatology of every medicine used in Homśopathy, including also clinical suggestions of many drugs so far not yet based on provings, thus offering the opportunity to experiment with these and by future provings discover their distinctive use and so enlarging our armamentarium.

I am aware that there is a difference of opinion about the advisability of further introduction of remedies, especially of such as seem obsolete or to some minds illusory. But it is not for the compiler to leave out information about any substance that has received the clinical endorsement from a reliable source.

Our Materia Medica must include all substances which have been proved and which have been used with apparent efficacy. It rests with the individual student to judge for himself the accuracy and, reliability of such observation. In this connection, I cannot forego to avail myself of the high authority of that master of Homśopathy, Dr. Constantine Hering, favoring the introduction of all remedies capable of producing reactions in the body that may guide to their medicinal employment. “Homśopathy is essentially not only many-sided but all-sided. She investigates the action of all substances, whether articles of diet, beverages, condiments, drugs or poisons. She investigates their action on the healthy, the sick, animals and plants. She gives; a new interpretation to that ancient, oft quoted saying of Paul, Prove all things–a new meaning, a new application that acts universally. Elimination of the useless may gradually take place with the growth of accurate physiological and pathological knowledge.”

Again, imperfectly proved remedies necessitate the use of names of diseases at times instead of the component symptoms that alone are the legitimate guide to the choice of the curative remedy. Here, too, I have Hering as pioneer guide for the ligitimacy of this method, which he also followed in his great work, the Guiding Symptoms. He said that he used the disease designations not for the purpose of recommending the particular remedy for that disease, but to show the great variety of remedies that may be used for any form of disease when otherwise indicated. For the same reason I have included nosological terms in the symptomatology and Therapeutic Index, as this is a practical handbook for every-day service, and any aid for finding the curative remedy ought to be utilized. As Dr. J. Compton Burnett expresses it:

“The fact is we need any and every way of finding the right remedy; the simple simile, the simple symptomatic similimum and the farthest reach of all-the pathologic similimum, and I maintain that we are still well within the line- of Homśopathy that is expansive, progressive, science fostered and science fostering.”

The dosage needs some apology. It is, of course, suggestive only; more often to be wholly disregarded. I have followed the lines of the earlier Homśopathists in this regard, and given what was then considered the usual range of potency, to which I have added my own experience and that of many observing practitioners. Every teacher of Materia Medica is constantly importuned by students to suggest the potency–something to start with at least.

The book is in no sense a treatise, and must not be considered or judged as such. It is as accurate and reliable a compilation and the fullest collection of verified Materia Medica facts and clinical suggestions as it is possible to obtain within the compass of the volume. It supplements every other work on Materia Medica, and if used as a ready reminder of the essential facts of our vast symptomatology and as an introduction to the larger books of reference and record of provings, it will fulfill its purpose and prove a useful aid to the student and general practitioner. As such it is again offered with much appreciation of past endorsement to his professional brethren.

I have been aided in seeing this edition through the press by the efficient help of Mr. F. O. Ernesty, who has lightened the labor of making the manuscript more acceptable to the printers, and I desire to express my hearty appreciation of this kind and helpful service.

BOERICK MD

  • Lilium Tigrinum

    Tiger Lily. (Liliaceae.)

    Affects principally the left side of the body (Lach., Thuja). Tormented about her salvation (Lyc., Sulph., Ver.), with ovarian or uterine complaints; consolation <. Wild, crazy feeling on vertex; confused ideas. Profound depression of spirits; can hardly avoid weeping; is very timid, fearful and weeps much; indifferent about what is being done for her. Anxious: about the disease; fears the symptoms indicate an organic affection; marked in both sexes. Disposed to curse, strike, to think obscene things (Anac., Lac c.); alternates with uterine irritation. Listless, yet cannot sit still; restless, yet does not want to walk; must keep busy to repress sexual desire. Desire to do something, hurried manner, yet has no ambition; aimless, hurried motion (Arg. n.). Fears: being alone, insanity, heart disease; fears she is incurable; some impending calamity or disease. Headaches and mental ailments depending on uterine irritation or displacement. Menstrual irregularities and irritable heart. Cannot walk on uneven ground; Pains in small spots; constantly shifting (Kali bi.). Frequent urging to urinate; if desire is not attended to, sensation of congestion in chest. Bearing-down sensation; in abdomen and pelvis, as though all organs would escape (Lac. c., Murex, Sep.); < supporting vulval with hand; with palpitation. Menses: early, scanty, dark, offensive; flow only when moving about; cease to flow when she ceases to walk (Caust. – on lying down, Kreos., Mag. c.). Sensation as if heart was grasped in a vise (Cac.); as if blood had all gone to the heart; feels full to bursting; inability to walk erect. Pulsations over whole body, and full, distented feeling as if blood would burst through the vessel (Aesc.). Palpitation, fluttering; faint, hurried, anxious sensation about apex; sharp pain in left chest awakens at night; irregular pulse; extremities cold and covered with cold sweat; < after eating, lying on either side (on left side, Lach.). Rapid heart-beat, 150 to 170 per minute. Constant desire to defecate and urinate (with prolapsus), from pressure in rectum. Weak and atonic condition of ovaries, uterus and pelvic tissues, resulting in anteversion, retroversion, sub-involution (Helon., Sep.); slow recovery after labor; nearly always with constipation, from inactivity.

    Relations. – Compare: Act., Agar., Cac., Helon.,

  • Ledum Palustre

    Marsh Tea. (Ericaceae.)

    Adapted to the rheumatic, gouty diathesis; constitutions abused by alcohol (Colch.). Haemorrhage into anterior chamber after iridectomy. Contusions of eye and lids, especially if much extravasation of blood; ecchymosis of lids and conjunctiva. Rheumatism or gout; begins in lower limbs and ascends (descends, Kal.); especially if brought to a low asthenic condition by abuse of Colchicum; joints become the seat of nodosities and “gout stones.” which are painful; acute and chronic arthiritis. Affects left shoulder and right hip-joint (Agar., Ant. t., Stram.). Emaciation of affected parts (Graph.). Pains are sticking, tearing, throbbing; rheumatic pains are < by motion; < at night, by warmth of bed and bed-covering (Mer.); > only when holding feet in ice-water (Sec.). Complaints of people who are cold all the time; always feel cold and chilly; lack of animal or vital heat (Sep., Sil.); the wounded parts especially are cold to touch. Parts cold to touch, but not cold subjectively to patient. In some affections, warmth of bed intolerable on account of heat and burning of limbs. Swelling: of feet, up to knees; of ankle with unbearable pain when walking, as from a sprain or false step; ball of great toe swollen, painful; in heels as if bruised. Intense itching of feet and ankles; < from scratching and warmth of bed (Puls., Rhus). Easy spraining of ankles and feet (Carbo an.). Punctured wounds by sharp pointed instruments, as awls, nails (Hyper.); rat bites, stings of insects, especially mosquitoes. Red pimples or tubercules on forehead and cheeks, as in brandy drinkers, stinging when touched. Long-remaining discoloration after injuries: “black and blue” places become green.

    Relations. – Compare: Arn., Crot. t., Ham., Bellis, Ruta, in traumatism; Con., in long-lasting effects of injuries.

  • Lac Defloratum

    Skimmed Milk.

    The successful treatment of Diabetes and Bright’s Disease with skim milk, by Donkin, was the hint which led Dr. Swan to potentize and prove it. Every symptom given has been verified in the cure of the sick. Diseases with faulty and defective nutrition with reflex affections of nervous centers. Despondent; does not care to live; has no fear of death but is sure he is going to die. American sick headache: begins in forehead, extending to occiput, in morning on rising (Bry.); intense throbbing, with nausea, vomiting, blindness and obstinate constipation (Epig., Iris, Sang.); < noise, light, motion (Mag. m., Sil.); during menses (Kreos., Sep.); great prostration; > pressure, by bandaging head tightly (Arg. n., Puls.); copious, pale urine. Globus hystericus; sensation of a large ball rising from stomach to throat, causing sense of suffocation (Asaf., Kal.). Vomiting; incessant, no relation to eating; first of undigested food, intensely acid, then of bitter water; of pregnancy (Lac. ac., Psor.). Constipation: with ineffectual urging (Anac., Nux); faeces dry and hard (Bry., Sulph.); stool large, hard, great straining, lacerating anus; painful, extorting cries. A woman had taken 10 to 12 enemas daily, often passed 4 or 5 weeks without an evacuation, constipation of 15 years standing. Menses: delayed; suppressed, by putting hands in cold water (Con.); drinking a glass of milk will promptly suppress flow until next period (compare Phos.). Great restlessness, extreme and protracted suffering from loss of sleep (Coc., Nit. ac.). Feels completely exhausted, whether she does anything or not; great fatigue when walking. Sensation: as if cold air was blowing on her, even while covered up; as if sheets were damp. Dropsy: from organic heart disease; from chronic liver complaint; far advanced albuminuria; following intermittent fever; Obesity; fatty degeneration.

  • Lac Caninum

    Dogs (Milk.)

    For nervous, restless, highly sensitive organisms. Symptoms erratic, pains constantly flying from one part to another (Kali bi., Puls.); changing from side to side every few hours or days. Very forgetful, absent-minded; makes purchases and walks away without them (Agnus, Anac., Caust., Nat.). In writing, uses too many words or not the right ones; omits final letter or letters in a word; cannot concentrate the mind to read or study; very nervous (Bov., Graph., Lach., Nat. c., Sep.). Despondent, hopeless; thinks her disease incurable; has not a friend living; nothing worth living for; could weep at any moment (Act., Aur., Cal., Lach.). Cross, irritable; child cries and screams all the time, especially at night (Jal., Nux, Psor.). Fears to be alone (Kali c.); of dying (Ars.); of becoming insane (Lil.); of falling down stairs (Bor.). Chronic “blue” condition; everything seems so dark that it can grow no darker (Lyc., Puls.). Attacks of rage, cursing and swearing at slightest provocation (Lil., Nit. ac.); intense ugliness; hateful. Coryza, with discharge of thick, white mucus. One nostril stuffed up, the other free and discharging; there conditions alternate; discharge acrid, nose and lip raw (Arum, Cepa). Diphtheria and tonsilitis; symptoms change repeatedly from side to side. Sore throats and cough are apt to begin and end with menstruation; yellow or white patches; pains shoot to ear. Throat: sensitive to touch externally (Lach.); < by empty swallowing (Ign.); constant inclination to swallow, painful, almost impossible (Mer.); pains extend to ears (Hep., Kali bi.); begins on left side (Lach.). Shining, glazed appearance of diphtheritic deposit, chancres and ulcers. Very hungry, cannot eat enough to satisfy; as hungry after eating as before (Casc., Cal., Cina, Lyc., Stront.). Sinking in epigastrium; faintness in stomach. Menses; too early; too profuse; flow in gushes bright red, viscid and stringy (dark, black, stringy, Croc.); breasts swollen, painful, sensitive before and during (Con.). Discharge of flatus from vagina (Brom., Lyc., Nux m., Sang.). Breasts: inflamed, painful; < by least jar and towards evening; must hold them firmly when going up or down stairs (Bry.). Serviceable in almost all cases when it is required to dry up milk (Asaf.- to bring back or increase it, Lac d.). Sensation as if breath would leave her when lying down; must get up and walk (Am. c., Grind., Lach.). Loss of milk while nursing, without any known cause (Asaf.). Palpitation violent when lying on left side > turning on right (Tab.). Sexual organs easily excited, from touch, pressure on sitting, or friction by walking (Cinn., Coff., Mur., Plat.). When walking, seems to be walking on air; when lying, does not seem to touch the bed (Asar.). Backache: intense, unbearable, cross super-sacral region, extending to right natis and right sciatic nerve; < by rest and on first moving (Rhus); spine aches from base of brain to coccyx, very sensitive to touch or pressure (Chin. s., Phos., Zinc.).

    Relations. – Similar: to, Apis, Con., Murex, Lach., Kali bi., Puls., Sep., Sulph. It generally acts best in single dose. Probably no remedy in the Materia Medica presents a more valuable pathogenesis in symptoms of the throat, or one that will better repay a careful study. Like Lachesis, this remedy has met with the most violent opposition from prejudice and ignorance, which its wonderful theraputic powers have slowly, yet surely overcome. It was successfully used by Dioscorides, Pliny, and Sextus in ancient times, and revived in New York by Reisig, Bayard and Swan in the treatment of diphtheria. Reised was the first to potentize it.

  • Lachesis

    Surukuku Snake Poison. (Ophidia.)

    Persons of a melancholy temperament, dark eyes, and a disposition to low spirits and indolence. Women of choleric temperament, with freckles and red hair (Phos.). Better adapted to think and emaciated than to fleshy persons; to those who have been changed, both mentally and physically, by their illness. Climacteric ailments: haemorrhoids haemorrhages; hot flushes and hot perspiration; burning vertex headache, especially at or after the menopause (Sang., Sulph.). Ailments from long lasting grief; sorrow, fright, vexation, jealousy or disappointed love (Aur., Ign., Phos. ac.). Women who have not recovered from the change of life, “have never felt well since that time.”. Left side principally affected; diseases begin on the left and go the right side – left ovary, testicle, chest. Great sensitiveness to touch; throat, stomach, abdomen; cannot bear bed-clothes or night-dress to touch throat or abdomen, no because sore or tender, as in Apis or Bell., but clothes cause an uneasiness, make her nervous. Intolerance of tight bands about neck or waist. Extremes of heat and cold cause great debility. Drunkards with congestive headaches and haemorrhoids; prone to erysipelas or apoplexy. Headache: pressing or bursting pain in temples < from motion, pressure, stooping, lying, after sleep; dreads to go to sleep because she awakens with such a headache. Rush of blood to head; after alcohol; mental emotions; suppressed or irregular menses; at climaxis; left-sided apoplexy. Weight and pressure on vertex (Sep.); like lead, in occiput. All symptoms, especially the mental, worse after sleep, or the aggravation wakes him from sleep; sleeps into the aggravation; unhappy, distressed, anxious, sad < in morning on waking. Mental excitability; ecstacy, with almost prophetic perceptions; with a vivid imagination; great loquacity; (Agar., Stram.); want to talk all the time; jumps from one idea to another; one word often leads into another story. Constipation: inactivity, stools lies in rectum, without urging; sensation of constriction of sphincter (Caust., Nit. ac.). Menses at regular time; too short, scanty, feeble; pains all relieved by the flow; always better during menses (Zinc.). Menses at regular time; too short, scanty, feeble; pains all relieved by the flow; always better during menses (Zinc.). Piles: with scanty menses; at climaxis; strangulated; with stitches shooting upward (Nit. ac.). The least thing coming near mouth or nose interferes with breathing; wants to be fanned, but slowly and at a distance (rapidly, Carbo v.). As soon as he falls asleep the breathing stops (Am. c., Grind., Lac c., Op.). Great physical and mental exhaustion; trembling in whole body, would constantly sink down from weakness; worse in the morning (Sulph., Tub.). Epilepsy; comes during sleep (Bufo); from loss of vital fluids; onanism, jealousy. Haemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed easily and profusely (Crot., Kreos., Phos.); blood dark, non-coagulable (Crot., Sec.). Boils, carbuncles, ulcers and intense pain (Tar.); malignant pustules; decubitus; dark, bluish, purple appearance; tend to malignancy. Bad effects of poison wounds; post-mortem (Pyr.). Sensation as of a ball rolling in the bladder. Fever annually returning; paroxysm every spring (Carbo v., Sulph.), after suppression by quinine the previous autumn. Fever: typhoid, typhus; stupor or muttering delirium, sunken countenance, falling of lower jaw; tongue dry, black, trembles, is protruded with difficulty or catches on the teeth when protruding; conjunctiva yellow or orange color; perspiration cold, stains yellow, bloody (Lyc.). Diphtheria and tonsillitis, beginning on the left and extending to right side (Lac. c., Sabad.); dark purple appearance (Naja); < by hot drinks, after sleep; liquids more painful than solids when swallowing (Bell., Bry., Ign.); prostration out of all proportion to appearance of throat.

    Relations. – Complementary: Hep., Lyc., Nit. ac. Incompatible: Acet. ac., Carb. ac. [Psor.]. In intermittent fever Nat. m. follows Lach. well when type changes.

    Aggravation. – After sleep; contact; extremes of temperature; acids; alcohol; cinchona; mercury; pressure or constriction; sun’s rays; spring. summer.

  • Kreosotum

    Kreosotum. (A Distillation of Wood Tar.)

    Dark complexion, slight, lean, ill-developed, poorly nourished, overgrown; very tall for her age (Phos.). Children: old looking, wrinkled (Abrot.); scrofulous or psoric affections; rapid emaciation (Iod.); post climacteric diseases of women (Lach.). Haemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed freely (Crot., Lach., Phos.); flow passive, in epistaxis, haemoptysis, haematuria; in typhoid, followed by great prostration; dark, oozing, after the extraction of a tooth (Ham.). Roaring and humming in ears, with deafness, before and during menses. Corrosive, fetid, ichorous discharges from mucous membranes; vitality greatly depressed. Itching, so violent toward evening as to drive one almost wild (itching, without eruption, Dolichos). Painful dentition; teeth begin to decay as soon as they appear; gums bluish-red, soft, spongy, bleeding, inflamed, scorbutic, ulcerated. Vomiting: of pregnancy, sweetish water with ptyalism; of cholera, during painful dentition; incessant with cadaverous stool; in malignant affections of stomach. Severe headache before and during menses (Sep.). Menses: too early, profuse, protracted; pain during, but < after it; flow on lying down, cease on sitting or walking about; cold drinks relieve menstrual pains; flow intermits; at times almost ceasing, then commencing again (Sulph.). Incontinence of urine; can only urinate when lying; copious, pale; urging, cannot get out of bed quick enough (Apis, Petros.); during first sleep (Sep.), from which child is roused with difficulty. Smarting and burning during and after micturition (Sulph.). Leucorrhoea: acrid, corrosive, offensive; worse between periods (Bov., Bor.); has the odor of green corn; stiffens like starch, stains the linen yellow. Lochia: dark, brown, lumpy, offensive, acrid; almost ceases then freshens up again (Con., Sulph.). Violent corrosive itching of pudenda and vagina.

    Relations. – Kreosote is followed well by Ars., Phos., Sulph., in cancer and disease of a malignant tendency. Carbo veg. and Kreosote are inimical.

    Aggravation. – In the open air; cold weather; when growing cold; from washing or bathing with cold water; rest, especially when lying.

    Amelioration. – Generally better from warmth.

  • Kalmia Latifolia

    Mountain Laurel. (Ericaceae.)

    Adapted to acute neuralgia, rheumatism, gouty complaints, especially when heart is involved as a sequel of rheumatism or gout. In heart diseases that have developed from rheumatism, or alternate with it. Pains sticking, darting, pressing, shooting in a downward direction (Cac. – upward, Led.); attended or succeeded by numbness of affected part (Acon., Cham., Plat.). Severe stitching pain in right eye and orbit (left eye, Spig.); stiffness in muscles, pain < when turning the eyes (Spig.); begins at sunrise, < at noon and leaves at sunset (Nat. m.). Rheumatism: pains intense, change places suddenly going from joint to joint; joint hot, red, swollen; worse from least movement. Vertigo when stooping or looking down (Spig.). Pulse slow, scarcely perceptible (35 to 40 per minute); pale face and cold extremities.

    Relations. – Similar: to, Led., Rhod., Spig., in rheumatic affections and gout. It follows Spig. well in heart disease.

  • Kali Carbonicum

    Potassium Carbonate (K2OCO2)

    For diseases of old people, dropsy and paralysis; with dark hair, lax fibre, inclined to obesity (Am. c., Graph.). After loss of fluids or vitality, particularly in anaemic (Cinch., Phos. ac., Phos., Psor.). Pains, stitching, darting, worse during rest and lying on affected side (stitching, darting, better during rest and lying on painful side, Bry.). Cannot bear to be touched; starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet. Great aversion to being alone (Ars., Bis., Lyc. – desires to be alone, Ign., Nux). Bag-like swellings between the upper eyelids and eyebrows. Weak eyes; after coition, pollution, abortion, measles. Stomach: distended, sensitive; feels as if it would burst; excessive flatulency, everything she eats or drinks appears to be converted to gas (Iod.)[Lyc.]. Nosebleed when washing the face in the morning (Am. c., Arn.). Toothache only when eating; throbbing; < when touched by anything warm or cold. Backache, sweating, weakness; after abortion, labor, metrorrhage; when eating; while walking feels as if she must give up and lie down. Cough: dry, paroxsymal, loosens viscid mucus or pus which must be swallowed; spasmodic with gagging or vomiting of ingesta; hard, white or smoky masses fly from throat when coughing (Bad., Chel.). Feels badly, week before menstruation; backache, before and during menses. Labor pains insufficient; violent backache; wants the back pressed (Caust.). Asthma, relieved when sitting up or bending forward or by rocking; worse from 2 to 4 a. m. Persons suffering from ulceration of the lungs can scarcely get well without this anti-psoric – Hahnemann. Difficult swallowing; sticking pain in pharynx as of a fish-bone (Hep., Nit. ac.); food easily gets into the windpipe; pain in back when swallowing. Constipation: stool large, difficult, with stitching, colic pains an hour or two before. Heart: tendency to fatty degeneration (Phos.); as if suspended by a thread (Lach.). Very much inclined to take cold.

    Relations. – Complementary: Carbo veg. Follows well: after, Kali s., Phos., Stan. in loose rattling cough. Will bring on the menses when Nat. m. though apparently indicated, fails – Hahnemann.

  • Kali Bromatum

    Potassium Bromide. (KBr)

    Adapted to large persons inclined to obesity; acts better in children than in adults. Loss of sensibility, fauces, larynx, urethra, entire body; staggering, uncertain gait; feels as if legs were all over sidewalk. Nervous, restless; cannot sit still, must move about or keep occupied; hands and fingers in constant motion; fidgety hands (fidgety feet, Zinc.); twitching of fingers. Fits of uncontrollable weeping and profound melancholic delusions. Loss of memory; forgets how to talk; absent-minded; has to be told the word before he could speak it (Anac.). Depressed, low-spirited, anxious, “feel as if they would lose their minds.” Inco-ordination of muscles (Gels.); nervous weakness or paralysis of motion and numbness. Restlessness and sleeplessness due to worry and grief, loss of property or reputation, from business embarassements (Hyos.). Night terrors of children (Kali p.); grinding teeth in sleep, screams, moans, cries; horrible dreams, cannot be comforted by friends. Somnambulism (Sil.). Spasms: from fright, anger or emotional causes in nervous plethoric persons; during parturition, teething, whooping-cough, Bright’s disease. Epilepsy: congenital, syphilitic, tubercular; usually a day or two before menses; at new moon; headache follows attack. Cholera infantum, with reflex irritation of brain, before effusion; first stage of hydrocephaloid. Daily colic in infants about 5 a. m. (at 4 p. m. Col., Lyc.). Nervous cough during pregnancy; dry, hard, almost incessant, threatening abortion (Con.). Stammering; slow, difficult speech (Bov., Stram.). Acne: simplex, indurata, rosacea; bluish-red, pustular, on face, chest, shoulders; leaves unsightly scars (Carbo an.); in young fleshy persons of gross habits.

    Relations. – One of the antidotes for lead poisoning. Often curative after Eugenia jambos in acne.

  • Kali Bichromicum

    Potassium Bichromate. (K2Cr2O7)

    Fat, light-haired persons who suffer from catarrhal, syphillitic or psoric affections. Fat, chubby, short-necked children disposed to croup and croupy affections. Affections of the mucous membranes – eyes, nose, mouth, throat, bronchi, gastro-intestinal and genito-urinary tracts – discharge of a tough, stringy mucus which adheres to the parts and can be drawn into long strings (compare Hyd., Lys.). Complaints occurring in hot weather. Liability to take cold in open air. Rheumatism alternating with gastric symptoms, one appearing in the fall and the other in the spring; rheumatism and dysentery alternate (Abrot.). Pains: in small spots, can be covered with point of finger (Ign.); shift rapidly from one part to another (Kali s., Lac c., Puls.); appear and disappear suddenly (Bell., Ign., Mag. p.). Neuralgia every day at same hour (Chin. s.). Gastric complaints: bad effects of beer; loss of appetite; weight in pit of stomach; flatulence; < soon after eating; vomiting of ropy mucus and blood; round ulcer of stomach (Gym.). Nose: pressive pain in root of nose (in forehead and root of nose, Stict.); discharge of plugs, “clinkers;” tough, ropy, green fluid mucus; in clear masses, and has violent pain from occiput to forehead if discharge eases. Ulceration of septum, with bloody discharge or large flakes of hard mucus (Alum., Sep., Teuc.). Diphtheria: pseudo-membranous deposit, firm, pearly, fibrinous, prone to extend downwards to larynx and trachea (Lac c. – reverse of, Brom.). Oedematous, bladder-like appearance of uvula; much swelling, but little redness (Rhus). Cough: violent, rattling, with gagging from viscid mucus in the throat; < when undressing (Hep.). Croup: hoarse, metallic, with expectoration of tough mucus or fibro-elastic casts in morning on awakening; with dyspnoea, > by lying down (worse when lying down, Aral., Lach.). Deep-eating ulcers in fauces; often syphilitic. Headache: blurred vision or blindness precedes the attack (Gels., Lac d.); must lie down; aversion to light and noise; sight returns as headache increases (Iris, Nat., Lac d.). Prolapsus uteri, seemingly in hot weather. Sexual desire absent in fleshy people.

    Relations. – Compare: Brom., Hep. Iod. in croupy affections. After: Canth. or Carb. ac. has removed the scrapings, in dysentery. After: Iod. in croup, when hoarse cough, with touch membrane, general weakness and coldness are present; Cal. in acute or chronic nasal catarrh. Ant. t. follows well in catarrhal affections and skin diseases.

    Aggravation. – Heat of summer; hot weather.

    Amelioration. – Skin symptoms are better in cold weather (reverse of, Alum. and Pet.).