SABINA. If): 



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of Sabina in stoppage of the catamenia. In such cases it has 

 either never or but rarely done any good; and even in cases 

 where the catamenia were restored by Sabina, the result was 

 merely palliative, and frequently followed by the most disagree- 

 able consequences. 



" The hemorrhages occasioned by Crocus seem to differ from 

 those of Sabina, in more than one respect, especially in that of 

 colour and consistence. The blood of the former is charac- 

 terised by a dark colour and consistence ; the blood excited by 

 the latter is distinguished by a brighter redness and fluidity, 

 from which we may perhaps infer that Crocus acts especially 

 upon the veins, and Sabina upon the arteries ; this supposition, 

 however, requires confirmation. 



" Next to the pathogenetic action of Sabina upon the sexual 

 organs, there are many symptoms which show its great power 

 to affect morbidly the periosteum, the joints, mucous mem- 

 brane, and other analogous parts. Eau recommends Sabina 

 against chronic articular gout. A writer in Huf eland's Journal, 

 against a kind of gout which he calls arthritis fixa apyretica, 

 even when nodosities have begun to form, and when anchylosis 

 threatens to set in. Hufeland praises it in any kind of gout, not 

 only nodous gout, but also arthritic pains in the head and 



chest. 



" Of course, such general recommendations and definitions as 



the foregoing are not sufficient for the homoeopathic practitioner. 

 To use Sabina and any other drug successfully, we have not 

 only to specify with the utmost care the finest shades of morbid 

 action which it is capable of exercising upon the organism, but 

 we have also to investigate the minutest shades of morbid 

 symptoms which we intend to cure." 



Antidotes. — Camphor and Pulsatilla. 





