Materia Medica
Phellandrium
Water Dropwort
The respiratory symptoms are most important, and have been frequently verified clinically. A very good remedy for the ofensir'e expectoration and cough in phthisis, bronchitis, and emphysema. Tuberculosis, af- fecting generally the middle lobes. Ezerything tastes sweet. Haemoptysis, hectic and colliquative diarrhcea.
Head
IWcight on Tertex, aching and burning in temples ana above eyes. Crushing feeling in vertex.
Eyes
Ciliary neuralgia; worse any attempt to use Lachrymation. Cannot bear light. Headache; involving nerves going to eye.
Female
Pain in milk ducts; intolerable between nursing. Pain in nipples.
Chest
Sticking pain through right breast near sternum, extending to back near shoulders. Dyspnoea, and continuous cough, early in morning. Cough, with profuse and fetid expectoration; compels him to sit up. Hoarseness.
Extremities
Tired feeling when walking.
Fever
Hectic; profuse and debilitating perspiration ; intermittent, with pain in arms. Desire for acids.
Relationships
Compare: Con.; Phyt.; Sil.; Ant. iod.; Myosotis arvensis (phthisis, with copious purulent sputd, emaciation, and night-sweats).
Dose
Tincture, to sixih potency. In phthisis not below the sixth.