Materia Medica
Allium Sativum
Garlic
Adapted to fleshy subjects with dyspepsia and ca- tarrhal affections. High livers. Patients who eat a great deal more than they drirk. Pain in hip, pain iv psoas and iliac muscles. Pulmoncry tuberculosis. Cough and expectoration diminishes, temperature be- comes normal, weight is gained, and sleep becomes reg- ular. Heinoptysis.
Head
Heavy; pulsation in temples ; catarrhal deaf- ness.
Mouth
Much sweetish saliva after meals and at night.
Stomach
Voracious appetite. Burning eructations. Least change in diet causes trouble. Constipation, with constant dull pains in bowels. Tongue pale, red papil- la.
Respiratory
Constant rattling of mucus in bronchi. Cough in the morning after leaving bedroom, with mucous expectoration, which is tenacious and difficult to raise. Sensitive to cold air. Dilated bronchi, with fetid expectoration. Darting pain in chest.
Relationships
Compare : Capsicum; Arsenic; Senega: Kali nit. Complementary : Arsenic. Antidote: Lycopod.
Dose
Third to sixth potency. In tuberculosis, dose, four to six grammcs in moderate state of dessication daily, in divided doses.