Diarrhoea is so common a disease symptom that for a drug to be successful it should be well indicated. Large doses of carbolic cause it in most cases, due to local irritation; for it to be of clinical value, it should be associated with leading indications elsewhere, or of its own modality. nausea, chilliness, cold sweat, cyanosis are concomitants, and involuntary, unconscious stools during sleep should recall ac. carbol. to mind.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) There are few general indications : rapid prostration with cold surface, bathed in sweat, leading to collapse is one.
(2) Severity of (rheumatic or) neuralgic pains, coming and going suddenly and of short duration is another.
(3) Mental depression, disinclination for mental or physical effort, absent-mindedness, with starting and trembling when spoken to are also “general” symptoms, though not very “leading.”
(4) Offensive nature of discharges from nose, mouth, rectum or vagina.
(5) Great foetor of breath, especially in vomiting of drunkards or form cancer of the stomach.
(6) Headache, constrictive, frontal from temple to temple.
(7) Various septic conditions.
(8) Dysentery, tenesmus, mucus, exfoliated fragments of mucous membrane and black, offensive stools.
(9) Pneumonia at the base of the lungs.
(10) Malignant types of exanthemata. Influenza.
AGGRAVATION :
jolting, extending (back pains), strong odours, right side.
AMELIORATION :
lying (headache), rubbing (itching of skin).
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,