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Pota.s.sium Bromide: in uremic convulsions.
Strontium Acetate.
Strontium Lactate: if due to renal atony.
Tannalbin.
Tartrates: as diuretics.
Turpentine: as diuretic, 1/2 to 1 minim dose every two to four hours.
Water: in large draughts as diuretic when excretion of solids is deficient; and in dropsy.
~Alcoholism.~--_See also, Delirium Tremens, Vomiting, Neuritis._
Actaea Racemosa: in irritative dyspepsia.
Ammonia: aromatic spirit of, as subst.i.tute for alcohol, to be taken when the craving comes on.
Ammonium Chloride.
Ammonium Acetate.
a.r.s.enic: to lessen vomiting in drunkards, in the morning before food is taken; and also in the irritable stomach of drunkards.
Bis.m.u.th: with hydrocyanic acid, to relieve acidity and heartburn.
Bromides: useful during delirium tremens, or to lessen irritability, in 1 dram doses in the wakeful condition which immediately precedes it.
Capsic.u.m: as a subst.i.tute for alcohol, and also to relieve the restlessness and insomnia.
Chloral Hydrate: to quiet nervous system and induce sleep in an acute attack. Must be used with caution in old drunkards.
Cimicifuga.
Cocaine: to remove the craving.
Faradization.
Gelsemium: same as bromides.
Gold and Sodium Chloride.
Hydrastine.
Ichthalbin.
Levico Water: as tonic.
Lupulin: along with capsic.u.m as subst.i.tute for alcohol, also to quiet nervous system in delirium tremens.
Milk: at night.
Nux Vomica: as tonic and stimulant, both to nervous system and generally to aid digestion.
Opium: May be necessary to produce sleep; to relieve the pain of the chronic gastritis and the want of appet.i.te.
Orange: slowly sucked, a subst.i.tute for alcohol.
Phosphorus: in chronic cases as nerve tonic.
Picrotoxine: for tremors.
Pota.s.sium Bromide.
Quinine: in the "horrors" stage it acts as a sedative to the brain and restores the digestive functions.
Strychnine Nitrate.
Sumbul: in the headache of old drinkers.
Water, cold: a gla.s.s taken in small sips at a time as subst.i.tute for alcohol.
Water, hot: one pint drunk as hot as possible an hour before meals will remove craving.
Zinc Oxide: in chronic alcoholic dyspepsia, and nervous debility. It also allays the craving.
~Alopecia.~--_See also, Tinea Decalvans._
Acid, Carbolic: in Alopecia areata.
Acid, Gallic.
Acid, Nitric: with olive oil in sufficient quant.i.ty just to make it pugnant.
Alcohol.
Ammonia: very useful; take Ol. amygd. dul., Liq. ammoniae, each 1 fl.
oz., Spt. rosmarini, Aquae, Mellis, each 3 fl. drams; mix; make lotion (E. Wilson).
Antimonium Tartaratum: as lotion, 1 grn. to 1 fl. oz. water.
a.r.s.enic: internally.
Cantharides Tincture: one part to eight of castor oil rubbed in roots of hair morning and night.
