EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS
Blue Gum-tree
Eucalyptus is a effective antiseptic and unfavourable to low varieties of life, a stimulating expectorant and an environment friendly diaphoretic. Atonic dyspepsia, gastric and intestinal catarrh. A treatment with marked outcomes on catarrhal processes, malaria, and intestinal disturbance. Influenza. Fevers of a relapsing character. Produces diuresis and high-quality amplify of urea. Haemorrhages internally and domestically (Hamam). Typhoid. Symptoms of exhaustion and toxaemia. Conditions of the mucous surfaces of the air passages, genito-urinary organs and gastro-intestinal tract. A gastro-intestinal irritant with ache in belly and top intestines countless hours after eating.
Head.–Exhilaration. Desire for exercise. Dull congestive headache. Coryza; sore throat. Eyes clever and burn.
Nose.–Stuffed-up sensation; thin, watery coryza; nostril does no longer cease running; tightness throughout bridge. Chronic catarrhal, purulent and fetid discharge. Ethmoid and frontal sinus involved.
Throat.–Relaxed, aphthous situation of mouth and throat. Excessive secretion of saliva. Burns, feels full. Constant sensation of phlegm in throat. Enlarged, ulcerated tonsils and infected throat (Use tincture locally).
Stomach.–Slow digestion. Much fetid gas. Beating and goneness with pulsation in epigastric arteries. Spleen tough and contracted. Pain in epigastrium and higher stomach ameliorated by means of food. Malignant ailment of belly with vomiting of blood and bitter fluid.
Abdomen.–Acute diarrhoea. Aching pains in bowels with feeling of impending diarrhoea. Dysentery, with rectal heat; tenesmus; haemorrhage. Diarrhoea; stools thin, watery, preceded through sharp pains. Typhoid diarrhoea.
Urinary.–Acute nephritis complicating influenza. Haematuria. Suppurative irritation of kidneys. Urine incorporates pus and is poor in urea. Bladder feels loss of expulsive force. Burning and tenesmus; catarrh of bladder; diuresis; urethral caruncle. Spasmodic stricture; gonorrhoea.
Respiratory.–Asthma, with terrific dyspnoea and palpitation. Moist asthma. Expectoration white, thick mucus. Bronchitis in the aged. Bronchorrhoea (Bals. Peru). Profuse expectoration of offensive muco-pus. Irritative cough. Whooping-cough in rachitic children. Fetid shape of bronchitis, bronchial dilatation and emphysema.
Female.–Leucorrhoea, acrid, fetid. Ulcer round orifice of urethra.
Extremities.–Rheumatic pains; worse at night, strolling or carrying anything. Stiff, weary sensation. Pricking sensation, accompanied by way of painful aching. Nodular swellings over metacarpal and metatarsal joints.
Skin.–Glandular enlargements and nodular swelling over joints. Foul and indolent ulcers. Herpetic eruptions.
Fever.–Elevation of temperature. Continued and typhoid fevers. Scarlet fever (protective and curative). Discharges exhibit a tendency to foulness, excessive temperature, accelerated however now not sturdy pulse. Use the tincture.
Relationship.–Compare: Oil of Eucalyptus.–(Produces tremendous bodily exhaustion, no want for any motion, unable to do any actual intellectual work, study, etc. The unstable oil possesses, in frequent with different terpenes, the property of changing water, in presence of air and sunlight, into hydrogen peroxide, or to convert oxygen into ozone, which is the rationalization normally given of its deodorizing and antiseptic houses (Merrel). Locally, in catarrhal affections, mainly when of a suppurating or putrid nature). Eucalyptus tereticoris (menstrual cough and prostration). Eucalyptol (depresses temperature of wholesome physique greater than Quinine; acts on kidneys like Terebinth); Anacard; Hydrast; Kali sulph. Eucalyptus neutralizes sick outcomes of Strychnin. Angophora-Red Gum–(dysentery, pains, tenesmus; higher mendacity flat on face; obstinate constipation). Eucalyptus rostrata; Kino.
Dose.–Tincture in one to 20 drop doses, and decrease potencies. Also Oil of Eucalyptus in five-drop doses.
