Euphrasia

Questions

What is Euphrasia?

The Eyebright, tincture from the fresh plant.

What is the general action of this remedy?

Acts especially upon mucous membranes, principally of eyes and upper respiratory tract. Give its eye symptoms. Blepharitis, injected eyes, discharge thick and excoriating, the tears scald and irritate the cheeks, photophobia worse in artificial light. Traumatic conjunctivitis. Paralysis of the third nerve.

How is Allium cepa distinguished ?

The discharge from the eye in Etiphrasia is excoriating and that from the nose is bland, while the opposite is found in Allium cepa, nose excoriating and eyes bland.

What are the characteristic indications for Verbascum thapsus another member of this same family ?

Catarrhs and colds accompanied by neuralgia and a hoarse, barking cough, a sort of "'Basso pro/undo.'' It also is a powerful remedy in urinary' irritability. The preparation known as Mullein oil comes from the plant.

What are the members of the Conifera family?

Abies canadensis, Abies nigra, Pinus sylvestris, Pix liquida, Sabina, Terebinth and Tluija.

What are the principal indications for the use of Abies canadensis or the Hemlock spruce?

There is a gnawing or burning in the stomach, a hungry, faint, weak feeling with craving for indigestible or unsuitable articles of food. Uterine displacement with above symptoms.

What is the great characteristic of Abies nigra or the Black spruce?

A sensation as if the patient had swallowed some indigestible substance which had stuck in the cardiac extremity of the stomach; a hard boiled egg sensation; dyspepsia from use of tobacco.

What are the main characteristic symptoms of Sabina?

Metrorrhagia, with parox5^smal flow of bright color, accompanied by pains in the joints. Threatened abortion about the third month, with pains in the small of the back, going down thighs; bruised sensation along the anterior surface of the thighs.

What are the chief symptoms of Terebinth ?

Dull, aching pains in the renal region; drawing pains and distressing strangury; urine scanty, blood 5', dark and smoky looking and smelling like violets; there may be also excessive tympanites.

What is the main symptom of Fix liquida or Tar?

Suppurative processes, with a pain at the third left costal cartilage. Eczema of dorsa of hands.

What drug has a pain at the third right costal cartilage?

A 71 i sum Stella turn.

What drug has stitches in the left breast running through to the shoulder blade ?

Myrtus commimis.