SPHERE OF ACTION
Through the ganglionic nervous system, it especially affects the mucous membrane of the intestinal canal; the watery part of the blood is poured out into the intestinal tract, causing copious watery stools in less than an hour, from one or two drops placed on the tongue.
It also affects the lymphatics and skin.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS.
Watery stools that escape suddenly from the bowels, with great prostration.
Colic and diarrhoea immediately after nursing.
Cholera infantum; teething children, excessive nausea and frequent discharges of greenish or yellow stools.-A.E. SMALL.
Diarrhoea worse after drinking.
Diarrhoea; watery, profuse, excoriating the anus in children.
Skin.-Vesicles on the skin, with a yellow plastic exudation, that burns like fire.
Vesicles on the skin, which are red and burn like fire.
Urticaria of the skin of the abdomen.
Bad effects from suppression of the characteristic eruption.
Most intense itching and burning of the skin. No drug causes such intolerable itching and violent burning of the skin.
Pain extends from the nipple through to the shoulder-blade; every time the child draws at the breast the suffering is excruciating.
Neuralgic pains from pupil of left eye to the back part of the head.
Symptoms relieved by sleep.
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881