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expectorant effects are less obvious and constant. Sometimes, 

 when it fails to act on the kidneys, it increases cutaneous 

 exhalation. Its influence on secretory organs is probably to be 

 referred to the local stimulus communicated to their vessels by 

 the active principle of Squill, in its passage out of the system, 

 for Emmert and Hering (op. cit.) have shown that the juice is 

 absorbed ; so that Squills may be regarded as an acrid even for 

 these remote parts. When it proves diuretic in dropsies, it 

 usually promotes the absorption of the effused fluid — an effect 

 which is, I think, indirect, and a consequence of the diuresis. 

 But Sundelin (Handb. d. sp. Heilm., Bd. ii. p. 17) observes of 

 Squill, that it promotes the secretion, less by its local irritation 

 of the kidneys than by its general excitement of the absorbent 

 apparatus (Pereira, op. cit.) 



In full medicinal doses, Squill excites nausea and vomiting. 

 Purging also is not unfrequently produced. In excessive doses, 

 Squill acts as a narcotico-acrid poison, and causes vomiting, 

 purging, griping pain, strangury, bloody urine, convulsions, 

 inflammation and gangrene of the stomach and intestines. 

 Twenty -four grains of the powder have proved fatal. 



Lange, in a treatise on the domestic remedies of Brunswick, 

 mentions an instance of a woman who died in convulsions after 

 taking a spoonful of the root in powder. Christison states that 

 he has seen a quarter of an ounce of syrup of Squills, which is 

 a common medicinal dose, cause severe vomiting, purging, and 

 pain. 



Medical Uses (Homceopathic). — Hahnemann's observations: 



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The primary effect of Scilla is to excite the mucous glands of 

 the trachea and bronchial tubes, so that the mucus becomes 

 thinner and looser, and can be thrown off more readily. When 

 used as an expectorant, it palliates the symptoms ; and if the 

 tenacious mucus in the chest be a chronic ailment, Scilla finally 



increases the suffering, inasmuch as, by a reaction of the 



organism, the mucus in the bronchial tubes becomes more and 

 more tenacious, and the cough more dry. Scilla is therefore 



