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Pereira and others state that the pollen exerts an irritating 

 effect on the mucous lining of the alimentary canal, and pro- 

 duces purging, etc. 



Medical Uses (Homoeopathic). — Hahnemann states that 

 the wonderful medicinal properties of this drug can only be 

 disclosed by trituration and succussion. 



Clinical Observations. — From the latest experience it 

 appears that this remedy is especially adapted to indivi- 

 duals (more especially women) with soft, mild, and melan- 

 choly dispositions, to lymphatic and leuco-phlcgmatic consti- 

 tutions, and when they are, moreover, subject to mucous 

 discharges, coryza, catarrh, etc. ; and, amongst others, chiefly in 

 affections with aggravations of the symptoms in the afternoon 

 and in a room, with amelioration in the open air. Great 

 sensitiveness to open and cold air* Typical periodical diseases. 

 Diseases with paroxysms of pain, causing great uneasiness, 

 restlessness, and moaning. Diseases with deficiency of vital 

 heat. Diseases with symptoms of obstruction of the portal 

 system. Diseases with inclination to dropsy and affections of 

 the urinary organs (Sec/in). Scrofula ossea (Leon Simon). 

 Syphilis secundaria (Hartmann, Goullon). Periostitis and 

 ostitis, with nightly pains, brought on by mercury. Rheumatic 

 fever (Schellincj). .Drawing and tearing pains in the limbs 

 in stormy weather. Great liability to cold. Cramps in the 

 muscles. Cramps in the fingers and calves of the legs. 

 Violent burning itching over the whole skin and in different 

 parts, especially in the evening and in bed. Chronic impetigo. 

 Impetigo figurata (Rummel, Schroen). Humid suppurating 

 herpes, full of rhagades, and covered with thick crusts {Hart- 

 mann). Chlorosis. Nervous fevers, characterised by ill 

 humour on awaking, etc. Debilitating night-sweats. Absence 

 of mind. Nervous chronic headache (Mutter). Rheumatic 

 headache. Falling off of the hair after illness. Tinea capitis 

 favosa (Knorre). Eruptions on the head, with violent sup- 



puration and coherent thick crusts, forming one mass 



with 



