MEDICAL ASTROLOGY
ACTION OF DRUGS.
ACONITE.
Duration of action, from 1 to 48 hours.
Antidotes,—Nux vomica, Camphor.
Ailments are always accompanied by thirst, drinking little and often; fever with flushed face and rosy cheeks; great restlesness; imagines that they will die; predicts the time of death: hard, full pulse, useful only in the beginning of disease; suitable for acute inflammation; hemorhages of bright-red blood; croup from suppressed sweat or getting wet; worse at night; lying on the left side; during west winds.
ALUMINA.
Duration of action about 40 days.
Antidotes,—Bryonia, Cham., Ipecac.
Scrofulous affections; complaints from the abuse of Mercury; bad effects from lead poisoning; painters colic; chronic constipation; all ailments worse on alternate days; from an empty stomach; in the evening, and at the Moon's changes.
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