Practical Homoeopathic Therapeutics

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901. Excerpt: ... 1. Bearing down pains in the pelvis, with feeling as if the uterus descended so as to be pushed up when sitting. 2. Starchy leucorrhoea. 3. Pressure on the rectum. 4. Menses more painful than usual. The remedy finds its field in pale, anaemic, scrofulous subjects, and it has become a favorite with many in prolapsus uteri, and the first and third of the above symptoms have been found excellent ones on which to use the prescription. Fraxinus Americana. Pelvic congestion incident to displacements, with no special indication for other remedies. WORMS. Cina produces a perfect picture of the wormy child. The patient is cross, irritable, has a sickly pale face with rings about the eyes, grates the teeth at night and has a tendency to convulsions; there is canine hunger or variable appetite; the child picks at its nose and cries out in its sleep; there is jerking of the hands and feet and a milky urine. It does not correspond well to pin-worms, and a noticeable symptom is a bluish color about the mouth. Santonine. The alkaloid of Cina is also a remedy for round worms. It is not as safe a remedy as Cina and no more efficacious. The writer has observed convulsions produced by its use in too low potencies. Caladium. Useful when worms travel over the perineum and get into the vagina in little girls, with tendency to excite masturbation. Teucrium. The remedy for ascarides or pin-worms; there is much irritation caused by them in the rectum. Hughes prefers the tincture or lower dilutions, saying that it rarely fails in this condition. Another remedy for pin-worms is Sinapis nigra. Cina and Cicuta are often indicated in convulsions from worms. Spigelia. Strabismus, jerking, with paleness of the face, blue rings around the eyes, faint, nauseated feeling with colic about t...