Some bed-side
notes.
By C. Carlton Smith, M. D.
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet(In Homœopathic Physician)
(1) When you have a
case of colic with severe burning pains do not fix your mind on Arsenicum
to the exclusion of other remedies, but keep in mind Solanum
nig. The abdominal pains of this
latter drug are very similar to Colocynth,
also –i. e., better from bending
forward and from pressure. But unlike Colocynth
the pains extend upward toward the heart and left shoulder.(2) SINAPIS NIG., also
has intense burning in stomach with colic somewhat like Colocynth.
with the difference, the pains come on while the patient is bent
forward, but are instantly relieved by sitting up straight.(3) When a patient
complains of an attack of acute catarrh and says that there is a profuse
watery discharge from the right nostril, while the left is completely
stopped up, with chilly sensation alternating with heat, similar to Aconite,
think of Solanum nig.(4) The lumbago,
extorting cries from the sufferer, compelling him to walk bent over,
though the least movement causes intense agony, don’t give Bryonia
but relieve the case with Solanum Tuberosum
Ægrotans. Cold water under this drug causes shock either
from washing the face or drinking.(5) For an excessively
dry spasmodic cough, always coming on toward evening, preceded by
tickling in trachea, think of Styllingia
sylvatica.
Source :
Homœopathic Recorder, 1894.
Copyright © Sylvain
Cazalet 2001