Acts upon the mucous tissues of the digestive tract, giving rise to a choleraic condition, its chief symptom being : Sudden and powerful vomiting, first of food and other contents of stomach, then large quantities of water mixed with mucus, then clear fluid like rice water ; followed immediately by copious watery evacuations, the diarrhoea and vomiting alternating at short intervals, accompanied by painful spasms of the intestines, great anxiety, and a death-like sense of faintness and exhaustion. (Ars., Verat. alb.) It has accordingly been used with success in the treatment of sporadic cholera, and especially cholera infantum.