Abdomen.--Pain in liver on pressure. Colic below navel. Pain in sigmoid flexure and rectum. Painful, bleeding, protruding piles.
Compare: Lobel erinus; Ruta; Carcinosin; Conium; Asterias.
A powerful medicine whenever enlarged glands are present. Hodgkin's disease. A valuable skin remedy. Has a specific affinity for the breast; very useful in the dissipation of breast tumors. Eczema of the ear. Pruritus vagine. Lupoid ulceration. Scrofulous swellings (Cistus). Painful hemorrhoids. Tubercular testis. Epithelioma. Nodosities in the breasts (Scirrhinum). Pain in all flexor muscles.
Dose.--Tincture and first potency. Apply locally to cancerous glands also Semper viv.
Ears.--Inflammation about auricle. Deep ulcerated auricle. Eczema around ear.
Eyes.--Distressing photophobia (Conium). Spots before eyes. Stitches in eyebrow. Sore eyeballs.
Head.--Vertigo felt in vertex, greater when standing; drowsiness; pain from forehead to back of head. Eczema behind ear. Crusta lactea.
Modalities.--Worse lying on right side.
Respiratory.--Violent dyspnea, oppression of chest with trembling. Pain about bifurcation of trachea. Asthma in scrofulous patients.
Skin.--Prickling itching, worse back of hand.
Sleep.--Great drowsiness; in morning and before and after meals with weariness.