- ▸Syz.
- ▸7.
- ▸is a native of India.
- ▸It has an edible fruit, the powdered stones of which
- ▸have a popular use in India (B.
- ▸J.
- ▸H.
- ▸, xli.
- ▸275) as a remedy for diabetes.
- ▸The dose is five grains of
the powdered stones three times a day. Dudgeon used Syz. in the lower homceopathic
attenuations with marked success, which has been repeated by many others. Hansen mentions as
having been cured with Syz. "old ulcers of skin, probably of a diabetic foundation." Dudgeon (H.
W., xxiv. 540) relates this case: A scientific man, 56, complained of "prickly heat" all over upper
part of body and arms. The skin was covered with small red papules, which itched so intensely
he could get no rest. He felt very weak, which was perhaps due to his having abstained from all
animal food, and confined himself to bread, farinaceous food, vegetables, and fruit. There was
much thirst and great flow of urine, which he was obliged to pass every two hours, night and
day; mouth very dry. Urine 1036, very saccharine. He was ordered chiefly animal diet, very little
bread, and no sugar. Syz. @, mixed with three times the quantity of alcohol, was given; of this
two drops every three hours. The specific gravity of the urine steadily declined, sugar
disappeared, and all the symptoms passed off; and this in spite of the fact that the dietetic rules
were relaxed.