The complaint for which the salicylates have been most employed by homoeopaths is Meniere`s disease. Here the association of giddiness, noise in the ears and deafness is exactly paralleled by the drug, and it has been used with great effect. It has been found valuable also for simple deafness with tinnitus; the deafness is direct and perosseous as well as through the air; it is similar to that caused by quinine and, like it, is usually transient, though in each case permanent effects occasionally result.
Natrum salicylicum or salicylic acid should be thought of for divergent strabismus and for stammering.
A case of scrofulous caries cured by salicylic acid has been reported (Monthly Homoeopathic Review).
Its symptoms of general depression, languor, muscular weakness and rheumatic pains have suggested its employment in post-influenzal debility, and it has been found serviceable in that condition.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) Rheumatic pains in limbs and joints; periosteal rheumatism; tonsillitis.
(2) Meniere`s disease. Tinnitus with deafness.
(3) Pains quickly change their locally and painful parts are sore to touch.
AGGRAVATION:
From motion, cold air.
AMELIORATION:
From hot applications, esp. dry heat.
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,