Naphthalinum

Ringer experimented with the alkaloid (sulphate and nitrate) obtained from

flowers and bulbs of the daffodil, and produced the symptoms recorded in the Schema. A patient

of mine once had a very severe cough set up by daffodils used in some profusion as a decoration

of a dinner-table. In Ringer's experiments the bulb preparation produced the greater number of

effects, including salivation, sinking, vomiting, and diarrhoea. The flower preparation acted on

the head and eyes, and dried up a profuse perspiration of the hands. A fatal case of poisoning

• ▸from eating the flowers is on record (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxxvi.
• ▸244).
• ▸A salad of onions in which were mixed

some bulbs of Narcissus poeticus caused tormina, burning, copious stools with dreadful griping,

obtuse senses, fainting, cold hands, cold sweat, symptoms not distinguishable from the usual

• ▸effects of Colchicum, and similar to those of Narc.
• ▸Pseud.
• ▸The one homceopathic use of Narc.
• ▸on

• ▸record is that of J.
• ▸Meredith (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxxi.
• ▸123).
• ▸He made a conserve of flowers, buds, and stems

by mashing them with six to ten times their weight of sugar in a Wedgwood mortar with a

wooden pestle. Counting this as 1x, he made sugar attenuations to 4x, and with these he cured a

case of bronchitis with continuous cough which had resisted many of the standard remedies.

Lying as if stupefied by a narcotic. Restless. Face pale yellowish hue.

• ▸Marked affinity for the eye.
• ▸It produces detachment of the retina; papillo-retinal infiltration; deposits in patches upon the retina; amblyopia and consecutive amaurosis; sparkling synchisis; soft cataract.
• ▸Exudation in the retina, choroid and ciliary body.
• ▸Cataract.
• ▸Opacity of the cornea.

Running at eyes.—Pupils unduly dilated.—Pupils contracted at first, dilated later.

Hiccough; sinking, faint feeling —Sinking, sick

sensation.—Heartburn.— Vomiting —Rumbling.

Incarcerated flatus in transverse colon causing cardiac distress (removed with

6x).

Diarrhcea with severe aching below I. free ribs.—Stools: watery; relaxed; loose; some

solid.

Sudden, violent desire to urinate; meatus urinarius red and swollen,

• ▸prepuce cedematous.
• ▸—Gonorrhcea.
• ▸—Gleet.
• ▸—Incontinence of urine.
• ▸—Urine: dark brown, becoming

black after standing; albuminous.

• ▸Irresistible desire.
• ▸Meatus red swollen, and oedema of prepuce.
• ▸Black urine.
• ▸Cutting pain down penis.
• ▸Pain in bladder.
• ▸Terribly offensive odor of decomposing ammoniacal urine.

• ▸Sneezing; eyes inflamed; painful; head hot.
• ▸Hay-fever. Spasmodic asthma; better in open air.
• ▸Soreness in chest and stomach; must loosen clothing.
• ▸Dyspnoea and sighing inspiration.
• ▸Emphysema in the aged with asthma.
• ▸Whooping-cough, long and continued paroxysms of coughing, unable to get a respiration.
• ▸Acute laryngo-tracheitis.
• ▸Bronchitis when the spasmodic element is associated with tenacious expectoration and oppression (Cartier).

Respiration: laboured and irregular; asthmatic.—Cough in incessant

paroxysms almost arresting breath—Night cough preventing sleep —Cough with blue or purple

face.—Expectoration: free, thick, tenacious; almost absent.—Cough in violent paroxysms

compelling the patient to hold his head for the pain.

Dermatitis; itching infiltration. Eruptions at corners of mouth and pigmentation around nails.

Non-homeopathic Uses-For worms, and especially pin--worms, one-gramme dose. Externally in skin diseases, five per cent ointment.

Compare: Dros; Corall; Coccus. Terpin hydrat (Whooping-cough, hay asthma and bronchial affections. 1-2 grain doses).

Third trituration.