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“* The Creator has ordained that we should learn to heal severe 
diseases by minute, and therefore safe, doses of those valuable 
remedies that call out symptoms analogous to their own. He 
has not given medicines in abundance that we should use them 
lavishly to the injury of our species, as in ordinary allopathic 
treatment. These substances are intended by Nature for other 
purposes, with which we are not yet acquainted, and for which 
they have been created in such large quantities. Nature does 
nothing with one mere view, and each of its productions has 
more than one mode of usefulness. Although we employ them 
under the name of medicines, there is no reason because the 
earth yields them abundantly that we should administer them 
in large doses. For instance, arsenic certainly answers other 
important ends in the economy of Nature, since out of many 
hundred quintals supplied by the mines of Saxony alone, a 
most insignificant portion is required as medicine, if we would 
use it to a good purpose. One drop, or rather a very small 
part of a drop of the quadrillionth of a gtain of the tincture, or 
the quintillionth dilution of the mixture of the fresh juice with 
equal parts of alcohol, appears to be the best dose for use in 
homeopathy.” . 
According to Noack and Trinks (Handbuch fiir Hom. Arznei- 
mittell.), Asarum is especially suitable to chilly individuals and to 
literary men; also in cases of great irritability of the nervous 
system, and after operations on the eye, when the patient suffers 
from darting pains. Helminthiasis, when ascarides are present. 
Intermittent fevers, accompanied with partial chilliness and 
partial heat of single parts, with external heat and internal 
chilliness, or with alternate heat and chills. Megrim. Periodical 
headache. Ophthalmia. Amblyopia. Amaurosis, Excessive 
vomiting. Colic and vomiting. 
Antrpotrs.—Vinegar. Camphor has the power also to calm 
any injurious effects of Asarum, either when given in large 
or in minute doses. 
