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states that the juice produces shuddering, sense of constriction 
at the chest, rawness in the throat, cough, hemoptysis, pain in 
the bowels, sweat, and diminished secretion of urine. 
Mepicat Usss (Homa@opatuic).—Hahnemann’s observations : 
“* Drosera is one of the most powerful medicinal plants of our 
country. It was formerly used externally, but without success, 
in cutaneous affections, and it seems also to have been taken 
with greater advantage internally. Modern practitioners who, 
according to custom, have tried only large doses, have not ven- 
tured upon giving it internally, fearing to kill their patients, 
and have therefore rejected it. 
“JT first used the trillionth dilution, but have since proceeded 
as far as the decillionth. 
“ A very small portion of a drop of this liquor, that is to say, 
one or two globules, are a dose under homeeopathic conditions. 
“Thus, for example, a single dose suffices for the homeopathic 
cure of the epidemic hooping-cough.”* 
Curntcan Oxsservations.—Noack and Trincks (op. cit.): 
Drosera appears to be especially serviceable in phlegmatic tem- 
peraments, in chilly individuals, and such as are predisposed to 
the hemorrhoidal and inflammatory diathesis. Drosera may be 
useful in diseases prevailing during an epidemic of hooping- 
cough. Intermittent fevers, with much shivering. Pallor of 
the face, and icy coldness of the hands and feet, with bilious 
vomiting, followed by heat and violent headache. Constant 
sneezing, with dryness of the eyes and nose (Caspari). Pain 
in the face (prosopalgia), increased by contact and movement 
(Jahr). Bloody diarrhea during hooping-cough (Hartlaub). 
Hooping-cough in the second and third stage. Hooping-cough, 
with bleeding from the nose and mouth. Hooping-cough after 
* “The cure is certain to take place in seven or nine days, care being taken not 
to give a second dose soon after the first. It is necessary to abstain from giving 
any other medicinal substance whatever, which would infallibly prevent the good 
effect of the first dose, and even caase serious consequences, as experience has 
proved to me.” 
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