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=============================&From Clarke
The chief feature of the Drosera effects is a spasmodic cough
resembling whooping-cough, in which affection it is one of the
leading remedies, as it is also in the spasmodic cough of phthisis.
The characteristic cough is: Frequent spells of barking cough,
worse evening and after midnight, patient holds his side, vomits
if he cannot get up phlegm, every effort to raise a little phlegm
ends in retching and vomiting, there may be bloody stools.
Teste, who places Drosera in his Zincum group of medicines, mentions
that it grows in damp prairies, along the border of marshes, and
is avoided by animals.
Barrich states that when eaten by sheep it gives them a cough
which is fatal to them.
Curiously enough, it was recommended by German physicians of the
eighteenth century as a panacea for hoarseness, chest affections,
and even for phthisis.
Serrand, of Paris (translated H. R., vi. 153) maintains that Drosera
has an important rales in the prophylaxis of tubercle.
He refers to the fact that sheep eating Drosera leaves acquire
a nocturnal cough and die, and that the pleura of cats to which
Drosera had been administered were found studded with tubercles.
The indications calling for it in the premonitory stage are: pallor,
weakness, loss of appetite, dry cough, emaciation.
Three laryngoscopic indications are: (1) Anemia and pallor of
larynx, (2) vocal cords not sufficiently approximated from functional
impairment of cricoarytenoid muscles, (3) redness and swelling
of mucous membrane covering and between the arytenoid cartilages.
Dr. Serrand commends Dros. in cases of declared phthisis as well.
He gives it in the low attenuations.
Buchmann of Alvensleben agrees with Hahnemann that Dros. in high
attenuation should not be repeated.
He cured himself of a bronchial catarrh which used to attack him
every spring and fall, characterized by a violent tickling cough,
which almost drove him to distraction at night, with Dros. Ix.
and f.
A single dose as soon as the tickling in the larynx commenced
sufficed to allay it at once and allowed him to rest, and it was
only repeated when the tickling returned.
Among the characteristics of Drosera are: Spasmodic and constricting
pains in abdomen, larynx, throat, chest, hypochondria.
Crawling in larynx, feeling as if a soft substance were lodged
in larynx, as a feather.
Difficult swallowing of solids.
Voice fails.
Stitching pains in chest and all parts, lancinations in brain.
Stitches from left loin into penis, itching stitches in glans.
Hemorrhages of bright red blood, from nose, mouth (bloody saliva),
with vomit, with stool, expectoration.
Gnawing stinging pains in joints and long bones.
Dros. has many pains about the hip-joints and has cured sciatica
with the following characters: “Pressing pains, worse from
pressure, from stooping, from lying on painful part, better after
rising from bed.” Eruption like measles, prickling burning
itching, worse undressing, better by scratching, bleeding, burning
ulcers, cutting pains.
Epileptic attacks: with rigidity, with twitching of limbs, after
attack, hemoptysis and sleep.
Symptoms are worse towards evening and after midnight.
Worse By warmth, by warm drinks, better in open air.
Many symptoms are worse at rest and when lying in bed.
Supporting the part better pains in head and chest.
Stooping worse, walking better, singing and talking worse.
Motion of eye worse head pains.
Motion better stitching in chest and joints, and shivering.
Worse From acids.
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