SPHERE OF ACTION
Through the cerebro-spinal system, acts especially on the gastro-intestinal canal, causing violent vomiting, purging, syncope, and death; all the symptoms very much resemble those of cholera. Important in some affections of the eyes.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS.
Violent vomiting, with purging and fainting.
Profuse watery diarrhoea, with colic and tenesmus.–HEMPEL.
Diarrhoea, of water and mucus, with colicky pains in the umbilicus during stool.
The symptoms are aggravated while sitting and in the evening.