Materia Medica

Ginseng

Aralia Quinquefolia — Wild Ginseng —- Panax

Acts on the lower part of the spinal cord. Luinbago. 、sciatica, and rehumatism. Paralytic weakness. .Hic- cough.

Head

Vertigo, with gray spots before eyes; semi-lateral headache; occipital; diffcuIt opening of eyelids; objects appear double. Confusion, with dizziness. Effects of sun- stroke; heat on head, as in type-setters and workers der gas and electric light. Head heavy, but cannot 'av it on pillow. Cannot bear any heat about head. 3etter from uncovering head. Tlrobbing headache. I'ertigo on assuming upright position. Cerebral conges- ion. Head feels enormously large, as if skull were too all for brain. Sun headaches: increases and de- creases with the sun. Shocks in head, synchronous with pulse. Headache in place of menses. Rush of blood to head in pregnant women. Threatened apoplexy. Meningitis.

Eyes

See everything half light, half dark. Let- ters appear smaller. Sparks before eyes.

Ears

Throbbing; Each beat of heart is heard in ears; full feeling.

Face

Flushed, hot, livid, pale; sweaty; pains in root of nose; faceache. Dusky face.

Mouth

Pulsating toothache.

Throat

Tonsillitis, just like Bellad, but in dark- complexioned people. Neck feels full. Collars must be opcned. Chokcs and swells up under ears.

Stomach

Gastralgia in anaemic patients with feeble circulation. Nausea and vomiting. Faint, gnaw- ing, and empty feeling at pit of stomach.

Abdomen

Tense, painful, ruumlling. Pain in right side. Loud gurgling in ileo-cacal region. Perityphlitis. Constipation, with itching. painful hemorrhoids, with pinching in abdomen before and after

Stool

Diarrhoea; copious blackish, lumpy stools.

Male

Rheumatic pains after frequent emissions, Weakness of genital organs. Voluptuous tickling at 353 end of urethra. Sexual excitement. Pressure in toes- ticle.

Female

Menses delayed, or sudden cessation with congestion to head. Climacteric fushing.

Heart

Laborious action. Fluttering. Palpitation with dyspncea. Cannot go uphill. Any exertion brings on rush of blood to heart and fainting spells. Throb- bing in the whole body to finger-tips.

Extremities

Hands feel swollen. Skin feels tight. Contraction. Coldness in back and spine. Bruised pain in small of back and thighs; nightly digging in right lower limb to toes. Burning heat in tips of fingers. Eruption on upper inner thighs. Stiff, contracted joints, heaviness of lower limbs. Crackling in joints. Stiff- ness in back.

Modalities

Better, brandy. Worse, in'sun; ex- posure to sun-rays, gas, open fire: jar, stooping, having hair cut, eaches, stimulants; lying down; from 6 A. M. to noon.

Relationships

Compare: Aral.; Coca. Antidote : Acon. Compare: Ainyl. nit.; Bellad.; Opium; Stram.; Vcrat. vir.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency. GLONOINE = GL. = Glycerine O = Oxygen N = Nitrogen (Nitro-glycerine) (Spirits Glycerinus Nitrate) Great remedy for congestive headaches, hyperaemia of the brain from excess of heat or cold. Excellent for .he intercranial, climacteric disturbances, or due to menstrual suppression. Children get sick when sitting vefore an open fire. Surging of blood to head and 'car. Tendency to sudden aad violent irregularities if the circulation. Violent covulsions, associated with 'erebral congestion. Sensation of pulsation througliout 'ody. Pulsating pains. Cannot recognize localities. Third to thirtieth potency. 355 For palliative (non-homceopathic) purposes, in an- gina pectoris, asthma, heart-failure, etc., physiological doses —i. e., 1/100 of drop -- must be given. Here it is the great emergency remedy. The conditions call- ing for it are small, wiry pulse. pallor, arterial spasm, anaemia of brain, collapse, feeble heart, syncope, dicrotic pulse, vertigo,-- the opposite of those indicating a homeopathic dosage. Often thus used to lower the arterial tension in chronic interstitial nephritis.