SPHERE OF ACTION
Through the cerebro-spinal system, it acts upon the digestive organs, and slightly upon the skin and mucous membranes.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS.
Its great field of usefulness is in sub-acute cases of intermittents, when the disease is sporadic; not of much value in ague, when it prevails as an epidemic.
Digestive Organs.–Loss of appetite.
Dyspepsia, with nausea, and goneness in the stomach.
Disgust at the sight or smell of food. Symptoms aggravated by eating, with languor and despondency.
Heavy aching pains in the liver; hepatic region swollen, with frontal headache, and mental confusion.
Pressure in the epigastric region, as of a stone in the stomach, worse after eating.
The characteristic fever symptoms of this
remedy are yet unknown, but they closely resemble those that call for Eupatorium perfoliatum, excepting the vagi is not so much irritated, and we have less nausea and vomiting.
(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