The indications for the homoeopathic remedies are as follows:
Aconite.-Red and broad vesicles with itching, and feverish symptoms. Urticaria febrilis. Great heat, thirst, frequent pulse, malaise, sleeplessness; fear or fright.
Allium cepa.-Nettle-rash on the thighs with stitches and burnings. Acute catarrhal symptoms.
Anacardium.-Nettle-rash from emotional causes. Dull pressure as from a plug in various parts. Weakness of memory.
Antimon. crud.-White blotches with red areolae, violent burning and stinging. Blotches and vesicles, as from stings of insects, on the face and joints, coming on with itching and disappearing in a few hours. Thirst, nausea, thick white coated tongue, gastric derangement.
Antimon tart.-White lumps with red areolae, which itch; eruption comes and goes, makes him irritable, very hot and thirsty; worse after meals.
Apis mel.-Red and inflamed raised patches of hives, with stinging and burning. Aggr. by heat, amel. by cold water. Itching and appearance of blotches after scratching. Stinging burning over the whole body, passing off after sleeping soundly; sudden stinging sensation over the whole body, with white and red spots in palm of hands, or arms and feet, on head and nape of neck; uterine catarrh; urine scanty and high-colored.
Arnica.-Itching wheals, relieved by scratching.
Arsenicum alb.-Itch-like eruption. Wheals of a scarlet color on the face and neck, the size of a half-dollar. Obstinate cases, intense burning. Itching better from external heat; worse from cold or from scratching. Irritability of the stomach.
Astacus fluv.-In chronic cases when other remedies fail. Clay colored stools.
Arum.-Dirty, yellow blotches on calves and legs with burning. Better in a warm room. Melancholy. In light-haired, scrofulous subjects.
Antipyrin.-Dr. Nicot reports in full four cases, all occurring in young women who had since early childhood been subject to attacks of urticaria, in which alkaline treatment had utterly failed to produce any relief. In one of these the eruption appeared periodically each day and Dr. Nicot recommended the use of Antipyrin in seven and a half grain doses two or three hours before the expected period of eruption. After four days of this treatment the eruption disappeared entirely and did not return. His other cases are somewhat similar to the above, with the exception that the periodic element was not so well marked. In very chronic cases the improvement was less marked than in recent cases, though even then the cure was progressive and continuous.
A lady, 24, suffered for many years with recurring attacks of urticaria, from which she could obtain no relief. As an experiment she took Antipyrin. One dose of five grains mitigated the discomfort at once and entirely dissipated the attack. These cures are in accordance with the law of the similars, inasmuch as urticaria has been noted after the exhibition of this drug. Some observers have noted a thick crop of urticaria involving the skin that is not protected by the clothing. Others have discovered swelling of the face and body. A very common condition produced by the drug is “erythema, scarlatina-like redness, with itching and urticaria.”
Belladonna.-Bright scarlet red elevated puffy spots, surrounded by a white border. Parts sensitive to the touch. After eating cabbage or sour-krout.
Berberis.-Blotches like nettle rash on the shoulder and right arm, accompanied with burning and stinging. Momentary cold sensation on the parts. Heartburn with soap-sud taste in mouth.
Bryonia.-Nettle-rash with rheumatic pains from atmospheric changes, with sleeplessness. Symptoms worse from motion and from exposure to the heat of the fire.
Caladium.-Nettle-rash on the chest alternating with asthma. Itching and sudden, violent corrosive burning, often on small spots. Worse at night.
Calcarea carb.-Chronic nettle-rash. White elevated hard nettle-rash which disappears in the cold air. Elevated red stripes on tibia, with severe itching and burning after rubbing. Children inclined to grow fat. During dentition. Symptoms aggr. by drinking milk. Acidity.
Carbo veg.-Blotches on the calves of the legs, wrists and feet. Burning in various places on the skin at night in bed. Bloating of the abdomen after a meal. Frequent eructations. In cachectic individuals, accompanying dyspepsia.
Causticum.-Chronic nettlerash, coming out more fully in fresh air, with decided aggr. and itching from the heat of the bed. Rash on the thighs just above the knees. Worse during day, better during wet weather.
Chloral.-Eruption on arms and legs, exactly like nettlerash, in large raised wheals, with intense irritating, itching, oedematous swelling of face, cheeks, eyelids and ears, coming on suddenly from a chill, not from heat. Aggr. by the smallest quantity of wine, beer or spirits. In grain doses in obstinate cases.
Cinchona.-Nettle-rash coming out after scratching. Frightful swelling of the face, forearms and hands in the morning. Debility after loss of animal fluids. Malarial complications.
Cimicifuga.-Urticaria from menstrual or rheumatic disorders. Excessive muscular soreness. Brain feels too large for cranium. In nervous hysterical females.
Cina.-White wheals surrounded by erythematous redness, first on the nose, then all over the body. From worms.
Cocculus.-Hard blotches, surrounded by red areolae, 7 on the limbs, wrists and back of the fingers. Burning itching as from nettles.
Conium.-Stinging like flea-bites, only one stitch at a time. Evanescent itching.
Copaiva.-Urticaria, at first on the face, especially the forehead, then on the back of the hands, and finally in isolated patches all over the body. Large red blotches, with constipation and fever. Violent chills, headache, and general malaise; red, hot skin, nettle-rash all over the body, delirium, drowsiness, scanty urine, which is dark, with brick-dust sediment. Great restlessness.
Condurango.-Chronic urticaria. Gastric pains, mostly at the cul-de-sac of the stomach.
Cosmoline.-Its effects, when applied to the skin in cases of urticaria, eczema, psoriasis, herpes, and in nearly all cutaneous diseases in which the skin is dry and irritable, is certainly very soothing and often curative.
Dulcamara.-White blotches, with red areolae, on the arms and thighs, stinging and itching with burning after rubbing. After taking cold. Nettle-rash over the whole body without fever. Eruption preceding the menses. Griping pains in the bowels, with nausea and diarrhoea.
Fagopyrum.-Sore, red blotches inducing scratching, which aggravates. Swelling, the size of a hen`s egg, on the neck and shoulder. Dreadful stinging itching.
Graphites.-Red spots like flea-bites all over, especially on the calves of the legs. Itching worse in the evening and at night. Skin dry, never perspires, and is inclined to crack. In females with disposition to delayed menstruation.
Hepar.-Chronic nettle-rash on the fingers and hands. Burning and itching of the skin after scratching.
Hypericum.-Eruption like nettle-rash on both hands at 4 P.M. Crawling in the hands and feet, they felt fuzzy.
Ignatia.-During chilly stage of intermittent fever.
Frequent discharge of much watery urine. In nervous subjects.
Kali carb.-Urticaria during menstruation. Worse in warm weather. In persons with dry skin, or who are inclined to pulmonary troubles.
Lycopus.-Troublesome urticaria, especially affecting the left forearm and right leg, before eating.
Lycopodium.-Itching with nettle-rash eruption on the extremities. Desire to eat, but a small quantity of food fills him up. Inclined to constipation. Urticaria from eating oysters, or shell-fish.
Magnesia carb.- Hard blotches as if from nettle-sting, worse during menstruation. Menstrual flow more profuse at night.
Mercurius.-Small flat light red blotches on the sexual parts, abdomen, chest and inner side of the thighs. Easy perspiration without relief.
Natrum mur.-White blotches on the arms and hands, turning red on scratching. Red blotches over the whole body. Violent itching.
Nux vomica-When accompanied by constipation, vertigo and headache.
Podophyllum.-Intolerable itching of the skin on the body and arms; on scratching it raises up in blotches like hives.
Psorinum.-After suppressed itch, frequent attacks of urticaria, with fine vesicles on the top which dry and peel off in fine scales. Coming on after any exertion.
Pulsating nig.-Red, hot spots like nettle-rash. After eating fat pork, fruits or buckwheat.
Pulsatilla nut.-Blotches on the right breast, standing out like measles, with red base, turning white on scratching. Violent itching, worse at night before bed time.
Rhus tox.-Vesicular urticaria from getting wet, during the rheumatism, with chills and fever, worse in cold air. Rheumatic pains worse at rest. Skin swollen and red; itching all over, worse on hairy parts, burning after scratching.
Robinia.-Burning itching wherever a part of the face is touched. Itching of skin where anything rests upon it. Sour stomach.
Sarsaparilla.-Blotches as from nettles. Burning itching with chilliness after abuse of mercury.
