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Hale - Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies · Edwin Moses Hale · 4,135 chars
General
(Lang-wort.)
Botanical DEscnrpTiOH.^Thrallous, coriaceous, las, lacunose. retir.u. latP, diirk Rreen, s.ntl oIItb colored on the upper side; the under side tomcntose, with naked white spots; lobes elongated, separate, sinuate- lobed, retuse truncate; apothecia (fruit-caps) submarginal, reddish. Tlila lichen is common, fertile, on trunks, in mountalua and forests, also on rocks, where it varies and is oftener sterile. It is found in New England, New York, aod Ponnsjlvania.
Officinal Prepabationb. — Tincture of the lichen; dilutions.
Akalootjes. — Aadepias taberosa, C'alcarea ea/rb., Causticum, Oopaivit DuUamo^a, Eryngiwm aq., Geleeminum, Hepar stiVphua; Merewvas, Mumex, Bangmnaria, Sulphur.
Mind
* General confusion of ideas — inability to concentrate them
on aiij subject. *Her iegs felt as if floating in t]ie air; she felt light and airj,
without any sensation of resting on tlie bed. "Hysteria, after losa of blood; as soon as it came night her
feet and legs would dance and jump round in spite of
her; she had to hold them or have them held down.
° Strange sensation about the heart, after which she felt as if floating in the air. (/S.)
Head
* Dull sensation in the head, with sharp pains in the vertex,
side of tlie face and lower jaw.
*Dull, heavy pressure in the forehead and root of the nose.
"Higraine — a kind of sick headache.
She has to lie down; light and noise aggravate; nausea and vomiting nearly to faintness.
(IdlienChal.)
"Catarrhal headache before the discharge sets in; a very suc- cessful remedy.
Eyes
* Burning in the eyelids, with soreness of the ball in closing
the lids, or turning the eyes. ""Catarrhal conjunctivitis, with profuse but mild discharge.
Face
Darting pains in the side of the face.
Jaws. Darting pains in the lower jaw.
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CTTCTA PHLMONAEIA. 693
* Feeling of fullness and heavy pressure at root of the nose;
with tingling in right aide of nose. {Burdich.) ° Acute catarrh of the nasal passages.
(/J.) " Chronic catarrh of the head.
(/5.) " Acute coryza with tever.
(many cases.) (Jh.) ° Epidemic influenza, after the usual remedies failed.
(PetiU.) " Influenza: excessive and painful dryness of mucous mem- brane; the secretions rapidly dried and formed scabby concretions, requiring great eifort to discharge them; the soft palate felt like dried leather, making deghitition painful; irritation in the chest, more in evening and night.
Sticta was the only remedy that relieved. {^Boyce.)
Throat
" Excessive dryness of tlie soft palate, with painful deglutition. " Dropping of ranens down the posterior nares, and the throat feels and looks raw,
Bespiratory Organs.
" Catarrhal affections of the respiratory tract, {Hale.) " Loose cough in mornings, less free during the day; pain in the left side below the scapula; tickling in the larynx and bronchia, {Dr.
Silas Jones.) [It relieves continuons racking cough— in consumption— which lasts for hours, acd causes great exhaustion; also, "incessant wearing congh."] ,
° "Whooping cough in the early stages. (/5.)
° Croupy coughs— during catarrh or influenza. {lb.)
" Bronchial catarrh with oppression of the chest; hard racking:
coughs, excited by inspiration. {/5.) " Pain reaching through the chest, from sternum to spinal^ column; arms powerless from extreme pain; difficult breathing and speaking. Cured in three days. {Chase.) Bieumatism.
* Darting pains in the arras, legs, shoulders, fingers, joints,
thighs, knees, toes, etc,
* General feeling of dullness and malaise, as when a catarrh is
coming on. " llheumatism of all the large and small joints, with swelling: and pain. [Cured by Sticta 1st.]
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° Rheumatism of the wrist joints, with pain and swelling. (/5-)
° Swelling and stiffness of the hands and feet.
° Rheumatism in right elionlder joint, deltoid and biceps mus- cles, extending into the forearm; worse in the morning, better during the day. {Chase.)
" Rheumatism in the right ankle joint. (-^5.)
Sleep
° Sleeplessness — one of the most elficient remedies. [Btirdiok^ ITerves.
" It ought to cure hysterica! chorea. [See Mind.]