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Eucalyptus.
Europhen.
Glycerin: very useful: either alone or in combination appears greatly to a.s.sist.
Jaborandi.
Naphtol.
Nutgall.
Pilocarpine: subcutaneous injection has been useful.
Quillaja.
Resorcin.
Savine Oil: Prevents loss of hair in Alopecia pityroides.
Sapo Viridis: very useful as a shampoo night and morning--Take Saponis virid. (German), Alcoholis, each 3 fl. oz. Ol. lavandulae, 30 drops.
Shaving: sometimes useful after illness.
Sodium Bicarbonate: as a lotion in Alopecia pityroides.
Sulphur Iodide: useful both internally and externally.
Tannin: watery solution or made up into ointment.
Thymol.
Thyraden, and other Thyroid preparations.
~Amaurosis and Amblyopia.~
Amyl Nitrite: useful in many cases of disease of the optic nerve.
Antipyrine.
Arnica: sometimes useful.
Digitalis: in toxic cases.
Electricity.
Emmenagogues: if due to menstrual disorders.
Mercury: when due to syphilis.
Myotomy: in asthenopia and hysterical amblyopia.
Nitroglycerin.
Nux Vomica.
Phosphorus.
Pilocarpine: in tobacco and alcoholic abuse.
Pota.s.sium Bromide.
Pota.s.sium Iodide.
Rue: in minute doses in functional dimness of vision, _e.g._ hysterical amblyopia.
Salicylates.
Santonin: sometimes useful in later stages of iritis and chloroiditis, and in loss of power of optic nerve.
Seton: on temple; or blisters, along with iodide of pota.s.sium, in amaurosis coming on suddenly, and a.s.sociated with tenderness of the eyeball on pressure; the disc is sometimes congested.
Silver Nitrate.
Strychnine: very useful in cases of tobacco amaurosis, alcoholic excess, nerve atrophy (without cranial disease), and in traumatic amaurosis.
Veratrine: to eyelids and temples. Care must be taken to keep out of the eye.
Zinc Lactate.
~Amenorrhea.~--_See also Anemia, Chlorosis._
Acid, Oxalic.
Aconite: when menses are suddenly checked, as by cold, etc.
Actaea Racemosa: to restore the secretion, and remove the headache, ovarian neuralgia, etc., produced by its sudden stoppage.
Alcohol: in sudden suppression after exposure.
Aloes: alone or with iron. In torpor and anemia; best administered a few days before the expected period.
Ammonium Chloride: in headache.
Apiol: 5--10 min. twice a day for some days before the expected period; if there is a molimen, 15 grn. in a few hours. Useful in anemia and torpor only.
Arnica.
