NAPHTHALINUM 200

Action of Medicine:

• This remedy is indicated in whooping cough, when there are long - continued paroxysms of coughing.
• There is fullness in the frontal region, soreness in the chest and stomach, so he has to loosen the clothing.
• The patient is unable to breathe on account of the coughing. During the paroxysm the face becomes purple, perspiration starts and there is expectorated a large quantity of thick, tenacious mucus.
• It is of service in inveterate cases of hay fever, the eyes are inflamed and painful, there is constant sneezing, while the head is hot, and there is a high degree of asthma. The secretions are highly acrid.
• It is useful in spasmodic attacks of cough due to bronchitis, asthma and hay asthma, which are relieved while in the open air.
• It should be remembered in pulmonary emphysema, dependent upon the playing of wind instruments. There is great dyspnoea with a sighing inspiration.
• The patient is better from violent motion.
• It relieves gonorrhoea after the acute stage has passed; there is a violent desire to urinate, the meatus urinarius is reddened and tumefied and there is oedema of the prepuce.

References: A Manual Of Materia Medica, Therapeutics And Pharmacology By Blackwood, Alexander Leslie, Dictionary Of Practical Materia Medica (All 3 Vol.) By Clarke J. H.