Materia Medica

It has been familiarised to everybody during the influenza epidemic as a prophylactic and disinfectant. The provings show that it causes most of the ordinary influenzal symptoms. It is therefore homoeopathic to the disorder. It produces coryza, headache of a dull, congestive character, sore throat, indigestion, excessive development of fetid gas, and fever. Slow digestion is the characteristic. The fever may be of the relapsing or intermittent type. It has also proved useful in convalescence from intermittents. It produces odorous sweat. C. E. Fischer has cured with it many cases of dysentery. Certain vascular conditions come within its sphere: a distinct beating in the stomach region, accompanying a sense of goneness; one prover referred to this as the abdominal aorta. Vascular tumors of the female urethra have been cured by it; also glandular enlargements and nodular swellings over joints. It has cured a tumor, the size of a filbert, with stabbing pains below the left nipple. Eucal. has been largely used for bronchitis and bronchial asthma. Relates two striking cases of bronchial asthma promptly relieved with five-drop doses of Oil of Eucalyptus given in a tablespoonful of water. The dose was given last thing at night. It also relieved the dyspnśa in a case of mitral insufficiency. Burning pains and sensations predominate; pricking, stabbing, and sharp aching are common. Periodicity is marked. Most pains occur at night. It has an intoxicating effect and produces a desire for exercise.

1. Mind:
-Exhilaration, desire to move about, a feeling of increased buoyancy and strength.
─Intoxication followed by depression.

2. Head:
─Full feeling in head; congestive headache; in plethoric subjects, followed by fever.
─Headache in anćmic persons; relieves pain and causes sleep.

3. Eyes:

-Eyes hot, burning, smarting; catarrhal and Gonorrhśal ophthalmia.
─Lids heavy.

5. Nose:
─Stiffness of nose; tightness across the bridge as if profuse epistaxis would come on.
─Stuffed-up sensation.
─Coryza: thin, watery; chronic catarrh, purulent and fetid.

6. Face:
─Flushed, congested face.

8. Mouth:
─Relaxed aphthous condition.
─Excessive secretion of saliva.
─Slightly burning taste extending into throat and śsophagus with thirst.

9. Throat:
─Burning in throat; feeling of fullness and soreness on swallowing.
─Constant sensation of phlegm in the throat, with expectoration of slightly thick white frothy mucus, not profuse.

11. Stomach:
─Increased appetite; tormenting thirst.
─Burning, strong-smelling eructations.
─Burning in stomach.
─Fullness, pressure, and weight, as if he had eaten too much.
─Faintness and goneness; with a distinct sensation of beating synchronous with the pulse (abdominal aorta).
─Slow digestion; eructations and bloating.
─Difficult and painful digestion.
─Spleen becomes hard, resistant, and contracted.

12. Abdomen:
─Burning in the epigastrium and umbilical regions.
─Uncomfortable, uneasy feeling in the umbilical region extending through bowels; skirmishing, aching pains in upper portions of bowels; sensation as if he would have diarrhśa.
─Sharp aching in hypogastrium after dinner.
─Gastrointestinal derangements with sleeplessness and restlessness.
─Condition of mucous membrane favoring worms.
─Flatulent distension.

13. Stool and Rectum:
─Sharp aching in lower bowels; thin, watery yellow diarrhśa on rising in the morning.
─Chronic diarrhśa, mucous and bloody.
─Dysentery, with heat in the rectum, tenesmus, discharge of mucus, great prostration; hćmorrhages.
─Typhoid diarrhśa.
─Fetor of stools and flatus.

14. Urinary Organs:
─Chronic desquamative nephritis; granular kidney; pyelonephritis; hydronephrosis.
─Catarrh of the bladder; sensation as if it had lost its expulsive force.
─Burning and tenesmus on urinating.
─Spasmodic stricture.
─Diuresis; incontinence; increased urea.
─Urine smells of violets.

15. Male Sexual Organs:
─Increased sexual appetite.
─Subacute and chronic gonorrhśa.─Recent chancres.

16. Female Sexual Organs:
─Vascular tumors of the urethra.
─Ulcer round orifice of the urethra.
─Leucorrhśa of acrid, fetid mucus.
─Swellings in different parts of the body; one below the nipple in r. side, the size of Filbert, with stabbing, darting pains.

17. Respiratory Organs:
─Bronchitis in old and feeble persons.
─Bronchorrhśa.
─Breathing quickened.
─Asthma in debilitated, anćmic subjects, with terrible dyspnśa, the heart sympathising strongly.
─Moist asthma in bronchitic subjects; it relieves cough and aids in the expulsion of thick mucus.
─Expectoration: white, thick, frothy mucus.

19. Heart:
─Painful palpitation.
─Palpitation of heart.
─Sudden flushing of the face with much flatulence in women at climacteric.
─Strong beating of the abdominal aorta.
─Aneurisms pressing on the vagus nerve.

21. Limbs:
─Many nodular swellings over metacarpal and metatarsal joints.
─In both upper and lower extremities pricking sensations were first noticed, followed by a painful aching in both arms and legs, together with a sense of fulness in the veins, and a stiff, weary sensation as if too weary to move.

25. Skin:
─Eruptions of a herpetic character, glandular enlargement, and development of foul and indolent ulcers.

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