Materia Medica (Boericke)

Ambrosia

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Natural History.

Rag-Weed

 

General.

A remedy for hay-fever, LACHRYMATION and INTOLERABLE ITCHING EYE-LIDS. Some forms of whooping-cough. Respiratory tract in its entire length stopped up. MANY FORMS OF DIARRHEA, especially during summer months, also dysentery.

 

Nose.

Watery coryza; sneezing; watery discharge. NOSEBLEED. Stuffed up feeling of nose and head. Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes, with asthmatic attacks. (Aral.; Eucalypt.) Wheezy cough.

 

Eyes.

Smart and burn. Lachrymation.

 

Relationship.

Compare in hay-fever: Sabadilla, Wyethia; Succ-ac.; Ars. jod.;' Arundo.

 

Dose.

Tincture, to third potency; 10 drops in water during and after attack of epistaxis. In hay-fever high potencies.

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