SPHERE OF ACTION
This is a spinal remedy; but especially acts upon the solar plexus, affecting more especially the filaments of the nerves that are distributed to the liver, and intestinal mucous membrane, especially that of the colon and rectum.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS
Congestion of the portal circulation, with constant distress in the lower part of the epigastrium, and upper portion of the umbilical region, with frequent sharp cutting pains.
Congestion of the liver, with an icterode condition, yellow coated tongue and brown urine.
Aching pains in the liver.
Black, profuse, papescent, tar-like, very fetid stools, generally in the afternoon or evening.-HALE.
Chronic diarrhoea with inflammation of the mucous membrane of the colon, with hepatic derangement very prominent.
Stools of mucus, with much abdominal pain.
This is one of the best known remedies for chronic diarrhoea, especially where the stools are worse in the afternoon and evening.
It has also cured many cases of jaundice.
(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