Acalypha Indica

The chief employment of this Euphorbian has been in violent dry cough

followed by bloody expectoration. Expectoration of pure blood in the morning, and dark clotted

blood in the evening. Cough most violent at night. Dulness of chest on percussion; constant

severe pain in chest. Progressive emaciation. A proving by several Indian physicians has brought

out a number of symptoms in the alimentary tracts characterised by: burning, sense of weight at

stomach, flatulence, and sputtering diarrhcea.

• ▸Burning in intestines.
• ▸Spluttering diarrhoea with forcible expulsion of noisy flatus, bearing down pains and tenesmus.
• ▸Rumbling distention, and griping pain in abdomen.
• ▸Rectal haemorrhage; worse in morning.

• ▸Cough dry, hard, followed by haemoptysis; worse in morning and at night.
• ▸Constant and severe pain in chest.
• ▸Blood bright red and not profuse in morning; dark and clotted in afternoon.
• ▸Pulse soft and compressible.
• ▸Burning in pharynx, oesophagus, and stomach.

Jaundice. Itching and circumscribed furuncle-like swellings.

• ▸Compare: Mercurialis ann.
• ▸, Mancin.
• ▸, and other Euphorbians.
• ▸Ham.
• ▸, Ipec.
• ▸, Millefol.
• ▸,

Phos., Aco.

Compare: Millefol; Phosphor; Acetic acid; Kali nit.

Third to sixth potency.