SPHERE OF ACTION
The peculiar secretion of the Skunk.
This remedy acts through the cerebro-spinal system, affecting especially the motor nerves and organs of generation.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS.
Especially adapted to neurotic diseases of and hysterical character.
In some forms of asthma it has a wonderful curative effect.
Asthma of an intemperate man.-F.
Cough worse at night, and causes great distress on inhaling.
Dr. Holcombe has found it very useful in whooping cough and in many kinds of spasmodic suffocating coughs.
Whooping-cough at night and after lying down, with suffocation, convulsions and vomiting.
Sensation in the head as if it became enlarged.
Headache, with pain in the eyes and weakness of vision.
The letters become blurred; they run together.
Wakens from sleep at night, with congestion of blood to the lower limbs.
Rheumatic, wandering pains, with much pressure to urinate; and shocks.
Chilliness in the evening, with desire to urinate, and colic, as if diarrhoea would set in.
Fine nervous vibrations in bones.
(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