SPHERE OF ACTION
Through the spinal nervous system, acts especially on the skin, producing inflammation of an urticarious and oedematous nature. Also affects the mucous membrane of the bowels, and genito-urinary organs, mammary glands and brain.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS
Urticaria, When the eruption looks pale like the stings of nettles, and requires to be rubbed all the time.
The upper part of the body enormously swollen, pale and dropsical, and covered with confluent, small, transparent vesicles, filled with serum and sudamina.–KING.
As soon as she lay down again, eruption and itching disappeared entirely, and reappeared immediately after rising again. Urtica will only cure when this symptom is prominent.– DR. CHAPUSAT.
Digestive Organs.- Sensation of soreness in the bowels while lying down, and on pressure, a sound as if the bowels were filled with water.–DR. SHAW.
Stools of mucus and blood.-.
Hemorrhage form the bowels, or lungs.
Insufficiency, or entire want of secretion of milk after parturition.-.
Breasts swell, and fill with a serous fluid, and afterwards milk.–FIARD.
Hemorrhage from the uterus.
(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