General Symptoms.- (See “Leading Indications.”)
Fevers.- Low types of fever may require hydrastis at the less acute stages-especially where jaundice, great weakness and offensive perspiration are present.
Mammary Carcinoma.- Hydrastis in the higher dilutions (12 and 30) has achieved some surprising results, even where the skin has become adherent and puckered and the nipple retracted, and sharp, shooting pains exist. For cases where operation is undesirable or is refused it should certainly be considered; where it does not cure it is a valuable palliative, usually relieving pain. It has been very valuable in recurrences, where the lymphatic circulation of the arm is interfered with and the limb is heavy, swollen and painful. it is also credited with a beneficent influence on benign tumours of breast.
Stomatitis of nursing infants and cracked nipples of their mothers are curable by this remedy, locally and orally.
The skin eruption resembling variolous spots, coupled with the pronounced backache, fever and great weakness, have caused it to be used in small-pox, but it has not become as popular a remedy for that disease as are antim. tart, thuja and variolinum. It would be worth consideration in some of the acute attacks of eczema resembling in parts erysipelas in old, gouty subjects, and it is reputed to have been curative in ulceration of skin (syphilitic and other) in lupus and even in epithelioma. Intertrigo should also be mentioned.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) Mucous catarrh in many sites, especially gastric and utero-vaginal and orificial; the type of discharge is first clear and thick, and then yellowish, very stringy, acrid and sometimes offensive.
(2) Prostration due to chronic disease, alcohol and excesses; faint feelings.
(3) depression and gloom.
(4) Obstinate constipation, with or without piles.
(5) Constant, dull, frontal headaches.
(6) Faint or sinking feeling in the epigastrium-at no special time.
(7) Various abdominal pains extending to lower right scapula, caecal region, testes, or spleen.
(8) Jaundice and “low” febrile conditions.
(9) Pains of cancer-stomach and breast or cervix uteri.
AGGRAVATION :
Warmth (skin); after meals (stomach); out of doors (coryza); morning on waking (roughness in throat), swallowing (sore throat); morning (palpitation).
AMELIORATION :
Pressure with hand (headache and many symptoms); rest; passing flatus.
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,