EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS

  
EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS
Blue Gum-tree

Eucalyptus is a powerful antiseptic and destructive to low forms of life,
a stimulating expectorant and an efficient diaphoretic. Atonic dyspepsia, gastric and
intestinal catarrh. A remedy with marked effects on catarrhal processes, malaria, and
intestinal disturbance. Influenza. Fevers of a relapsing character. Produces diuresis and great increase of
urea. Hæmorrhages internally and locally (Hamam). Typhoid. Symptoms of exhaustion and toxæmia. Conditions of
the mucous surfaces of the air passages, genito-urinary organs and gastro-intestinal tract.
A gastro-intestinal irritant with pain in stomach and upper intestines several hours after
eating.

Head.–

Exhilaration. Desire for exercise. Dull congestive
headache. Coryza; sore throat. Eyes smart and burn.

Nose.–

Stuffed-up sensation;
thin, watery coryza; nose does not stop running; tightness across bridge. Chronic catarrhal, purulent and fetid discharge. Ethmoid and
frontal sinus involved.

Throat.–

Relaxed, aphthous condition of mouth and throat.
Excessive secretion of saliva. Burns, feels full. Constant sensation of phlegm in throat.
Enlarged, ulcerated tonsils and inflamed throat (Use tincture locally).

Stomach.–

Slow digestion.
Much fetid gas. Beating and goneness with pulsation in epigastric arteries. Spleen hard and
contracted. Pain in epigastrium and upper abdomen ameliorated by food. Malignant disease of
stomach with vomiting of blood and sour fluid.

Abdomen.–

Acute diarrhœa.
Aching pains in bowels with feeling of impending diarrhœa. Dysentery,
with rectal heat; tenesmus; hæmorrhage. Diarrhœa; stools thin, watery, preceded by sharp
pains. Typhoid diarrhœa.

Urinary.–

Acute nephritis
complicating influenza. Hæmaturia. Suppurative inflammation of kidneys. Urine
contains pus and is deficient in urea. Bladder feels loss of expulsive force. Burning and
tenesmus; catarrh of bladder; diuresis; urethral caruncle. Spasmodic stricture; gonorrhœa.

Respiratory.–

Asthma, with
great dyspnœa and palpitation. Moist asthma. Expectoration white, thick mucus. Bronchitis
in the aged. Bronchorrhœa (Bals. Peru). Profuse
expectoration of offensive muco-pus. Irritative cough. Whooping-cough in rachitic children.
Fetid form of bronchitis, bronchial dilatation and emphysema.

Female.–

Leucorrhœa, acrid, fetid. Ulcer around orifice of
urethra.

Extremities.–

Rheumatic pains; worse at night, walking or
carrying anything. Stiff, weary sensation. Pricking sensation,
followed by painful aching. Nodular swellings over metacarpal and metatarsal
joints.

Skin.–

Glandular enlargements and nodular swelling over
joints. Foul and indolent ulcers. Herpetic eruptions.

Fever.–

Elevation of temperature. Continued and typhoid
fevers. Scarlet fever (protective and curative). Discharges show a tendency to foulness,
high temperature, accelerated but not strong pulse. Use the tincture.

Relationship.–

Compare: Oil of Eucalyptus.–(Produces
remarkable bodily exhaustion, no desire for any motion, unable to do any real mental work,
study, etc. The volatile oil possesses, in common with other terpenes, the property of
converting water, in presence of air and sunlight, into hydrogen peroxide, or to convert
oxygen into ozone, which is the explanation usually given of its deodorizing and antiseptic
properties (Merrel). Locally, in catarrhal affections, especially when of a suppurating or
putrid nature). Eucalyptus tereticoris (menstrual cough
and prostration). Eucalyptol (depresses temperature of
healthy body more than Quinine; acts on kidneys like Terebinth); Anacard; Hydrast; Kali
sulph. Eucalyptus neutralizes ill effects of Strychnin.
Angophora-Red Gum–(dysentery, pains, tenesmus; better
lying flat on face; obstinate constipation). Eucalyptus rostrata;
Kino.

Dose.–

Tincture in one to 20 drop doses, and lower potencies.
Also Oil of Eucalyptus in five-drop doses.