Spigelia [Spig]
Give the tincture of the pink root, Spigelia, in from 1 to 5 drop doses, and you will cure most cases of intensely painful neuritis or neuralgia. The tincture may also be rubbed on the affected part.
Elderberry juice The people of south-eastern Europe have a strong conviction that elderberry juice will cure neuralgia. a physician-Epstein-looked into it and found that it would quickly relieve some cases, but not others. Then he came to the conclusion that cases cured were put neuralgia, while those it would not cure were neuritis. Possibly elderberry wine, or preserves, may answer the same purpose. The juice can be taken in from 5 to 20 drops, two or three times a day.
Horse radish This is a very old remedy for neuralgia. rheumatism, joint ache, etc. This scraped root’ is applied to the affected part, or rubbed on. It should not be allowed to remain very long a few minutes, as it may produce inflammation or blisters.
Aconite [Acon]
For genuine neuritis Aconite 3, three times a day, and continued for several days, is considered to be the best remedy by many writers. But in these diseases, as in all others, there are no specifics, possibly because in the final analysis there are no specific diseases, but only ill human beings, each after his own constitution. What is curative in one case is useless in another.
Arnica radix
Case of neuralgia reported by Dr. Dell, guided by the queer symptom of an unusually cold nose, cured by Arnica radix, a little of the tincture in a tumblerful of water, teaspoonful doses.
Remarks Perhaps these two, neuralgia and neuritis, ought not to be classed together, but neuralgia means nerve pain and neuritis nerve inflammation-the latter seems to involve the former.
