Author:
William Boericke
Book:
Boericke
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
Eucalyptus globulusn
Eucalyptus globulus
Eucalyptus is a powerful antiseptic and destructive to low forms of life, a stimulating expectorant and an efficient diaphoretic. Atonic dyspepsia, gastric and intestinal catarrh. A remedy with marked effects on catarrhal processes, malaria, and intestinal disturbance. Influenza. Fevers of a relapsing character. Produces diuresis and great increase of urea. Haemorrhages internally and locally (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 pain in stomach and upper intestines several hours after eating.
Head: Exhilaration. Desire for exercise. Dull congestive headache. Coryza; sore throat. Eyes smart and burn.
Nose: Stuffed-up sensation; thin, watery coryza; nose does not stop running; tightness across bridge. Chronic catarrhal, purulent and fetid discharge. Ethmoid and frontal sinus involved.
Throat: Relaxed, aphthous condition of mouth and throat. Excessive secretion of saliva. Burns, feels full. Constant sensation of phlegm in throat. Enlarged, ulcerated tonsils and inflamed throat (Use tincture locally).
Stomach: Slow digestion. Much fetid gas. Beating and goneness with pulsation in epigastric arteries. Spleen hard and contracted. Pain in epigastrium and upper abdomen ameliorated by food. Malignant disease of stomach with vomiting of blood and sour fluid.
Abdomen: Acute diarrhoea. Aching pains in bowels with feeling of impending diarrhoea. Dysentery, with rectal heat; tenesmus; haemorrhage. Diarrhoea; stools thin, watery, preceded by sharp pains. Typhoid diarrhoea.
Urinary: Acute nephritis complicating influenza. Haematuria. Suppurative inflammation of kidneys. Urine contains pus and is deficient in urea. Bladder feels loss of expulsive force. Burning and tenesmus; catarrh of bladder; diuresis; urethral caruncle. Spasmodic stricture; gonorrhoea.
Respiratory: Asthma, with great 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 form of bronchitis, bronchial dilatation and emphysema.
Female: Leucorrhoea, acrid, fetid. Ulcer around orifice of urethra.
Extremities: Rheumatic pains; worse at night, walking or carrying anything. Stiff, weary sensation. Pricking sensation, followed by 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 show a tendency to foulness, high temperature, accelerated but not strong pulse. Use the tincture.