The homoeopathic treatment of acute and chronic diseases / by Emilius Kreussler ; translated from the German, with important additions and revisions, by Charles J. Hempel.

  • Kreussler, Emil.
Date:
1854
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    in removing gastric-bilious conditions caused by the abuse of Cinchona. Pulsatilla cures gastric symptoms caused by eating fat. It is particularly indicated by flat or insipid taste of the food, foul or bitter eructations, loss of appetite, vertigo, chilliness with adipsia. These symptoms are scarcely ever accompanied with constipation, but the alvine evacuations are either left undisturbed, or there is slimy diarrhoea. The indications for Mercurius solubilis are nearly the same as those for Pulsatilla, (with this difference that there the chill is generally accompanied by thirst, and the dis- charges from the bowels are either loose, of a brownish or bright yellow or reddish color, excoriating the anus, and causing a sensation of burning and stinging at this part, or else the bowels are costive, and the evacuations are hard, lumpy, dry, or encircled with a thin whitish slime, of a dark-brown color.—Ed.) Antimonium crudum is indicated by complete loss of appetite, weight and fulness in the abdomen, constipation. Veratrum album is an important remedy for vomiting of bile, constant retching and eructations, vertigo, chilliness, thirst, a small, slow pulse. Sometimes there is a greenish diarrhoea, but most frequently costiveness. Ipecacuanha will sometimes be found useful for similar symptoms. Digitalis purpurea, one dose a day, is used more fre- quently in chronic cases of gastric derangement than in acute. It is indicated by a dusky-yellow, rather livid com- plexion, nausea, foul, bitter eructation, sense of oppression in the praecordia, sluggish stool, slow pulse, lowness of spirits, and unusual irritability of the nervous system. SECTION III. A FEW VARIETIES OF CHRONIC GASTRIC AND BILIOUS DERANGEMENT. The remedies which have been mentioned in the former paragraph, are likewise useful in chronic cai-es ; but the following remedies are more essentially adapted to the latter. Sulphur and Sepia often do much good in cases where