The homopathic domestic physician / by Constantine Hering.

  • Hering, Constantine, 1800-1880.
Date:
1858
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Credit: The homopathic domestic physician / by Constantine Hering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stomach and difficulty of breathing, by Ipecacuanha; if this proves useless, by Bryonia. If caused by noxious food, see Poisoning. For other remedies, see Eruptions. Indisposition from Cold Water or Ice.—If the drink- ing of water aggravates every complaint, confuses the head, pro- duces nausea and heat, take Gocculus. If it produces cough and headache, Aconite ; if cough, vomiting, and chills, Arseni- cum ; if bad taste, as if the water were impure, coldness in the belly, pain in the bowels and chills, China; if nausea and pain in the bowels, Pulsatilla, and if this does not give relief, Rhus. Continuous nausea from drinking water may sometimes be removed by taking a little table salt—as much as will lie on the end of a pen-knife. If drinking water produces hiccough, take Ignatia; oppres- sion at the stomach, Ferrum; if it causes swelling of the abdo- men, as from flatulency, with pressure in the pit of the stomach, difficulty of breathing, and chills, take Nux vomica ; if it causes constant inclination to go to stool, and purging, Capsicum; pain in the chest and shuddering, Veratrum. If it is followed by toothache, take Bryonia, Mercurius, or Sta- phisagria, according to circumstances. If merely irritability of the teeth, without pain, Mercurius or Sulphur. If a person habitually takes cold in the stomach from drink- ing cold water, and has, in consequence, accustomed himself to mix spirits with the water, and wishes to leave of? this habit, let him try some of the medicines recommended above. If he does not succeed, let him take a drop of pure sulphuric acid, and mix it with a pint of water by pouring it for some time from one tumbler into another, and take a table-spoonful of this in the morning, fasting, once or twice. This will often warm the stomach, and gradually accustom it to pure water again. When drinking hastily, disorders the stomach, give Silicea. When merely cold drinking causes indisposition, Nux vomica or Staphisagria may give relief; if not, Calqarea. Indisposition from ice or very cold water, during great heat, when sudden and dangerous, generally yields to Opium, or Glo-