INTRODUCTION
(Lung Wort).
COMPARE WITH
Aconite, Cimicifuga, Gelseminum, Squills,
Sanguinaria.
INFORMATION
We prepare a tincture.
This drug has been used with benefit in catarrhal affections of the nose and likewise in affections of the lungs. The symptoms for which the drug has been prescribed are: dry or fluent coryza violent and incessant sneezing, pain in the forehead, sensation of fullness in the forehead, dryness of the air-passages, cough with expectoration of mucus and blood.
Sticta has likewise cured subacute rheumatism of the joints, tarsal and carpal, metatarsal and metacarpal joints. In milder catarrhal affections, such as headache, ear-ache, bronchial catarrh, its action has proved highly beneficial in some cases.
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.