Croton Tiglium

Leaders

Stool yellow, watery, coming out like a shot, all at once; < after least food or drink.

Excruciating pain, running from nipple to scapula; of same side when child nurses.

Eczema, especially of the scrotum; itches intensely, but is so sensitive to ttnich and sore that he cannot scratch.

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When the Allopaths, in any case where they considered an operation of the hoiecLs imperative, had exhausted all other resources, Croton lifjliiun was their “biggest gun for the last broadside.” In other words, this is a most violent cathartic. Now if .Similia, etc., is not true Croton tig. ought utterly to fail to cure diarrhoea; but it is true, and notwithstanding this remedy has proven its truth over and over again the Allopaths deny and reject Ifomccopathy. As in Podophyllum and /Aloe, Croton tig. cures its kind and no other. Its guiding symptoms are;

First: “Yellow watery stool.”

Second: “Sudden expulsion, coming out like a shot, all at once.”

Third; “aggravation from the least food or drink.”

In this combination Croton tig. leads all of the remedies. The first symptom is found notably under Apis me!., Calcarea ost., China, Gratiola, Hyoscyamus, Natrum sulph., and Thuja. The second under Jatropha, Gratiola, Podophyllum and Thuja. The third under Argentum nit. and Arsenicum alb. The Calcarea ost. is found in the Calcarea temperament and China in cases weakened by loss of fluids, and all the others have strongly marked symptoms which distinguish them from Croton tiglium. For want of space we cannot give them here. Aloe has rumbling Before the stool, while Croton tig. has swashing in the intestines as from water. Both of these remedies having aggravation after eating or drinking, we would have to look further for the symptoms deciding between them. Another symptom that has frequently been verified in this remedy is—“Excruciating pain running from nipple to back (scapula) of the same side when the child nurses.” 1 have cured bad Crises of mastitis guided by this one symptom. Croton tig. cures eczema especially of the scrotum, when the eruption itches intensely, but is so sensitive and sore to touch that he cannot scratch. This comprehends the main uses of this valuable remedy.

NATRUM SULPHURICUM.

Diarrhoea, acute or chronic < in the morning on beginning to move (Bry.), with much flatulence {Aloe and Calc. phos.), and rumbling in abdomen, especially right ileo-c3ccal region.

Loose cough, with great pain in the chest; < in lower left chest (right, Chel.).

Modalities: < in cold, wet weather; damp cellars; hydrogenoid (diarrhœa*a, rheumatism, asthma).

Mental effects from injuries to head. Chronic effects of blows, falls. Toothache > by cold water, cool air {Coff., Puls.).

(gonorrhoea; greenish-yellow, painless, thick discharge {Puls.).

a ihi ihL ilfi Natrum sulphuricum is also one of our armamentarium for diarrhoea, both acute and chronic. Like Podophyllum, Sulphur, Nuphar and Rumex, the diarrhoea is aggravated in the morning. Sulphur drives the patient out of bed, but Natrum sulph., like Bryonia, is worse only after beginning to move. Then again Natrum sulph. has, like Aloe, much rumbling in the bowels as of flatulence. This rumbling of flatus is often with Natrum sulph. located in the right side of the abdomen in the ileo-caecal region.

Again the Natrum sidphtiricuni stool is, like China, Argentum nit., Calcarea phos., Agaricus and Aloe, accompanied l)y a profuse emission of flatus. This flatulence is not always present, but is often so. In chronic diarrhoea there is almost always some trouble with the liver, evidenced by soreness in right hypochondrium, which is sensitive to touch, and hurts on walking or any jar. One very strong characteristic for this remedy in this trouble is aggravation of the diarrhoea, pain, etc., in damp weather. In this it resembles Dulcamara and Rhododendron. The Dulcamara has the aggravation in change from warm to cold weather, whether damp or dry. This aggravation in damp weather is not confined to diarrhoea in Natrum sulph., but is especially present in cases of chronic asthma. I have seen very great benefit in such cases of this very troublesome and obstinate disease, and as aggravation in damp weather very commonly occurs in cases of old asthma this remedy is often indicated. I have not observed much benefit from this remedy in runarounds, for which it is highly recommended; but have seen nice results from it in very obstinate cases of gonorrhoea, when the discharge was thick and greenish and little pain. Loose cough, with soreness and pain through the left chest, is very characteristic. This is one of the chief diagnostic points of difference between Bryonia and Natrum sulphuricum, that while with both there is great soreness of the chest with the cough, with Bryonia the cough is dry, while with Natrum sulph, it is loose. The patient springs right up in bed, the cough hurts him so.

There is as much soreness as there is with Bryonia, and when the patient coughs he springs up in bed and holds the painful side in his hand to ease the hurt. This symptom may be found in chronic affections of the respiratory organs, such as asthma, phthisis, etc., and I have several times seen remarkably prompt relief and cure follow its administration in pneumonia when this symptom was present. This pain through the lower left chest is as characteristic for Natrum sulph. as is that of pain running through right lower chest for Kali carbonicum.