Convulsive form of drunkenness, with violent contortions of the limbs, of the body, of the body, of the head: Nux vomica, Bellad.
Jealousy: Nux vomica, Laches., Pulsat., Staphis., and especially Hyosc. nig.
Fury for striking: Nux vomica, Hepar Veratr, alb., Hyosc.
Fury for destroying everything: Veratr., Bellad.
Fury for killing others: Bellad., Hepar, Hyosc. Inclination to commit suicide: Arsen. (by poisoning, stabbing, hanging, or getting himself run over by a vehicle); Nux vomica (by stabbing, firearms or drowning); Bellad. (by poisoning, stabbing, hanging, and especially by throwing himself headlong from a high place).
Great gayety: Opium, Coffea.
Playing comedy: Stramon., Bellad.
More intelligent: Sulphur, Calcarea carb.
Stupid: Opium, Stramon.
Sleepy: Opium, Bellad.
Impossibility to go to sleep: Nux vomica, Coffea.
Speaking ceaselessly: Laches., Caustic., Hepar, Petrol., Magn. carb.
Yelling, shouting: Stramon., Hyosc., Ignat., Causticum.
Insulting: Nux vomica, Hepar, Petrol.
Complaining, dissatisfied: before, during and after drunkenness: Hydrastis canad.,
Nux vomica, Causticum, Laches.
Inclined to strip entirely naked: Hyosc.
Great genital excitement: Nux vomica, China,
Phosphor., Canthar., and especially Causticum.
Saying what they did not mean to do or say before being drunk: Laches., Bellad., Sulphur.
Among the people whom I treated for the cure of drunkenness there are those whose drunkenness continues or is repeated during three, five or eight days in succession. This prolonged drunkenness may have dangerous consequences, both for the drunkards and for those who are about them. For instance, a coachman may fall from his seat or tip over his carriage with the travelers whom it contains. In such cases I give to the relatives or friends of those drunkards Bellad., 12th dilution, and especially Nux vomica The relatives dissolve three or four globules of a single remedy in a half-glassful of water, and give a small teaspoonful of this dilution to twenty minutes, according as they desire to act more or less promptly.
The remedy is given alone or mixed in coffee, wine or tea.
As there are in France (this is equally true of the United States.-Tr.) homoeopathic pharmacies in only ten or fifteen cities, and allopathic pharmacies in all towns, and even in many villages, I have indicated the remedies which cure drunkenness and which may be procured from allopathic pharmacies, and which are to be administered to drinking persons presenting the following symptoms:
Convulsive movements of the limbs: Nux vomica
Fury for destroying everything: Bellad.
Fury for striking: Nux vomica
Fury for suicide: Nux vomica, Bellad.
Insulting: Nux vomica, raw coffee.
Stupid or sleepy: Opium, Bellad.
Inclination to strip naked: Hyosc.
Unable to go to sleep: Nux vom, raw coffee.
Stupid or sleepy: Opium, Bellad.
Inclination to strip naked: Hyosc.
Great genital excitement: Nux vom, Canthar.
Jealously: Nux vomica, Hyosc.
Jealous to the point of killing: Hyoscyamus
Saying and doing what they would not have said or done before being drunk: Bellad., Sulphur.
Vomiting diarrhoea: Arsenious acid Solution I 1000).
It will be sufficient to take a drop of the alcoholic or mother tincture indicated and to pour this drop into a half- glassful of water of which a small teaspoonful will be given thirty minutes. This will rapidly cure his drunkenness.
Many families, all saloon and innkeepers should procure these remedies to administer to those who might need them, for the benefit of both the drunkards and those about them. There are, I repeat it, two kinds of drunkenness, which are quite different as to treatment, First, acquired drunkenness, which is the easier to cure by means of a few remedies clearly indicated in each individual case. Secondly, hereditary drunkenness coming from parents who have procreated while in a state of drunkenness, or in whom drunkenness has become a confirmed, habitual vice.
In order to cure or prevent the development of hereditary drunkenness, it is necessary to treat the young man, or even the child, before the tendency to drunkenness has manifested itself, by administering to him, for two or three years or more, the thirteen remedies mentioned below, in the following order:
1. Sulphur.
2. Nux vomica
3. Arsen.
4. Merc viv.
5. Opium.
6. Laches.
7. Pulsat.
8. Petrol.
9. Conium.
10. Caustic.
11. Magn.carb.
12. Staphis.
13. Calcarea Carb.
Each of these thirteen remedies is to be administered in a single dose and in the 200th dilution to the young man, beginning at the age of thirteen or fourteen years. The remedies must be permitted to act for the following length of time:
1. Sulphur, forty days 2. Nux vomica, ” ”
3. Arsen., ” ”
4. Mercur., forty days.
5. Opium., ” ”
6. Laches., ” ”
7. Pulsat., ” ”
8. Petrol., Sixty days.
9. Conium., ” ”
10. Caustic., ” ”
11. Magn.carb ” ”
12. Staphis., Forty days.
13. Calc carb Sixty days.
To the children of drunkards, who are less than thirteen pr fourteen years of age and who are very sensitive to the action of these drugs, the thirteen remedies mentioned above are to be administered in the same order, successively, but only in the 30th dilution. As this dilution has a less protracted action, each remedy is permitted to act only one-half of the time assigned for the same remedy in the 200th dilution. For instance, Sulphur during twenty days, Petrol during thirty days, etc.
But when the families of these children, predestined to drunkenness, shall be in frequent communication with a homoeopathic physician, the latter will not always administer the thirteen remedies mentioned in the order which I have recommended.
He will preferably prescribe, out of the thirteen remedies (and also Hepar and others), the one which may be best indicated for each patient by the totality of the somatic and psychical symptoms, which are often violent and numerous, which are often violent and numerous in the children of drunkards. By acting thus, the physician will, little by little, cure a patient of his passions and shortcomings, and will, sooner and more easily, prevent the development of hereditary drunkenness. Carried on in this way, the preventive treatment of drunkenness will bring about the somatic and psychical improvement of each youth, upon whom the remedy will really play the part of a means of moral and intellectual culture. Hence it will sometimes occur that the children of drunken parents will, in this way, obtain a more precocious and complete moral and intellectual development than other children. This will little by little, cause the parents of the latter to give them also the benefit of psychical treatment.
