Homoeopathic domestic medicine / by J. Laurie ; arranged as a practical work for students, containing a glossary of medical terms.

  • Laurie, Joseph, -1865.
Date:
1850
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    LOOSENESS OF THE BOWELS. Diarrhoea. Diagnosis. Fluid discharge from the intestines in increased quantity. This affection is simply an increase of the peristaltic action of the intestinal canal, and is so well known under its different forms, that I shall simply allude to the principal exciting causes, and then proceed to the treatment. The exciting causes are : acid, indigestible food, a check of perspiration, sudden changes of temperature, the prolonged use of powerful purgatives, which, although still more fre- quently the cause of constipation, nevertheless, by producing irritation of the intestinal canal, also predispose to attacks of this derangement, worms, etc. Sometimes diarrhoea is a salutary crisis, as remarked under fevers; here again the homoeopathic treatment assists nature, and while it abridges the duration of the affection, and there- by obviates future debility, does not rashly check its course. Therapeutics. The principal remedies in this affection are : Dulcamara, Bryonia, Cinchona, Ferrum aceticum, Chamomilla, Rheum, Mercurius, Pulsatilla, Nvx vomica, Arsenicum, Anti- monium crudum, Rhus toxicodendron, Opium, Sulphur, Calca- rea, Acidum phosphoricum, and Phosphorus. Administration. In recent cases, six globules of the sixth potency may be dissolved in about an ounce of water, and a dessert-spoonful after each motion until benefit results ;—in the case of children, half the quantity, administered in tea- spoonfuls. In chronic cases it will generally be sufficient to administer the dose night and morning, or only once a day, and even only once in four or five days or longer, according to the effects produced.* Dulcamara °fi^fi°, should be administered in diarrhoea oc- curring in summer from cold, probably from wet feet or ex- posure to rain. Particular indications for its exhibitions are