Croton Tiglium

Questions

Give the Diarrhoea of Croton tiglium. Yellow, watery diarrhoea, pouring out like water from a hydrant, and associated with nausea and vomiting.

What symptoms has this drug with reference to the mammary gland ?

Pain goes through to the back every time the child nurses, as if the gland were pulled by a string. Give the Diarrhoea of Jatropha. Profuse, gushing, watery diarrhoea, with great prostration, vomiting and purging; cholera, with cramps and coldness and accompanied by much wind and flatulence. Give also the Diarrhoea of Euphorbia corollata. Diarrhoea, with vomiting, purging, and cold sweat over the body. Give indications for Euphorbium off. in Erysipelas. In the vesicular form, where there are large, yellow vesicles and violent fever: pains extend from gums into ear.

What are the chief uses of Stillingia?

Syphilis of the long bones, periostitis and ostitis; pain worse at night and in damp weather. Give the unique symptom of Acalypha Indica. Dry cough, followed by spitting of blood, which is pure in the morning, but dark, lumpy and clotted in the evening, with a constricted feeling around the chest. Give symptoms indicating Yucca filamentosa in biliousness. Frontal headache; flushed, yellow, sallow face; tongue yellow or yellowish- white, taking imprints of the teeth; aching in liver; poor appetite ; sensitive abdomen ; yellow, watery stool, with much flatus; pain from liver to back.

What property has Ricinus communis or castor oil ?

It increases the milk in nursing women.

What are antidotes to the abuse of castor oil ?

Bryonia and Nux vomica.

What symptoms has Hippomane mancinella ?

It produces vesicles on the skin, with an intense erythema; so irritating is it that water dropping from its leaves on the skin will produce vesicles. It has been utilized in scarlet fever when this intense irritation of the skin exists.

What member of the Juglandaceae family is the most important and what are its principal symptoms ?

Juglans cathartica, which has an occipital headache, jaundice, sticking in the liver and bilious stools.

What are the drugs obtained from the Urticaceae family ?

Cannabis indica. Cannabis sativa and Urtica urens.