SPHERE OF ACTION
Through the motor portion of the cerebro-spinal system, it acts especially upon the genito-urinary organs. There is no excitation of the sexual instinct; but complete prostration and impotence; semen watery and deficient, with utter absence of erections; promotes menstruation and the secretion of milk.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS
Premature old age, which arises in young persons from abuse of sexual powers, marked by melancholy, apathy, mental distraction, self contempt, general debility, frequent loss of the spermatic fluid.- HUGHES.
Impotence with complete paralysis of the sexual organs.
Thinks he is certainly going to die, and there is no use of doing anything.
Agalactia in young women; milk much diminished.-HEMPEL.
Complete loss of sexual desire, the penis is small, flaccid and cold.
Bowels constipated.
Retention of the urine from paralysis of the bladder.
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881