Prologue
Boericke
Corkwood Elm (DUBOISIA)
- Acts chiefly on the nervous system, eyes, upper respiratory tract.
- Recommended in pharyngitis sicca, with black, stringy mucus.
- It dilates the pupil, dries the mouth, checks perspiration, causes headache and drowsiness.
- On the eye it acts more promptly than Atropia, much stronger as a mydriatic.
- Red spots floats in the field of vision.
- Sensation as if stepping on empty space.
- Vertigo with pale face; not gastric in origin.
- Scarlet fever; locomotor ataxia.
- Palliative in exophthalmic goitre.