Acalypha Indica acal.

Often called for in hæmorrhage of the lungs.

Constant pain. Dulness on percussion. Cough, with bloody expectoration. Hæmoptysis. Emaciation.

Indian Nettle

A drug having a marked action on the alimentary canal and respiratory organs. It is indicated in incipient phthisis, with hard, racking cough, bloody expectoration, arterial hæmorrhage, but no febrile disturbance. Very weak in the morning, gains strength during day. Progressive emaciation. All pathological hæmorrhages having notably a morning aggravation.

Cough dry, hard, followed by hæmoptysis; worse in morning and at night. Constant and severe pain in chest. Blood bright red and not profuse in morning; dark and clotted in afternoon. Pulse soft and compressible. Burning in pharynx, œsophagus, and stomach.

Burning in intestines. Spluttering diarrhœa with forcible expulsion of noisy flatus, bearing down pains and tenesmus. Rumbling distention, and griping pain in abdomen. Rectal hæmorrhage; worse in morning.

Jaundice. Itching and circumscribed furuncle-like swellings.

Worse in morning.

Compare: Millefol; Phosphor; Acetic acid; Kali nit.

Third to sixth potency.

Cupameni. Indian acalypha. (East Indies.) N. O. Euphorbiaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant.

Cough. Diarrhœa. Flatulence. Hæmoptysis.

The chief employment of this Euphorbian has been in violent dry cough followed by bloody expectoration. Expectoration of pure blood in the morning, and dark clotted blood in the evening. Cough most violent at night. Dulness of chest on percussion; constant severe pain in chest. Progressive emaciation. A proving by several Indian physicians has brought out a number of symptoms in the alimentary tracts characterised by: burning, sense of weight at stomach, flatulence, and sputtering diarrhœa.

Compare : Mercurialis ann., Mancin., and other Euphorbians. Ham., Ipec., Millefol., Phos., Aco.

Acalypha Indica Linn. Euphorbiaceæ.
A weed common in the East Indies, like nettle. Proved and applied by Tonnere, of Calcutta, and Payne, of Bath. Holcombe's cure.

Gloomy and despairing, but very unwilling to die. θ Hæmoptysis.
Leucorrhœa, sometimes thick, sometimes watery. θ Consumptive patient.

Cough, with bloody expectoration. θ Tuberculosis.
Violent dry cough, followed by bloody expectoration.
Hæmoptysis.
Hæmoptysis : expectorates pure blood in morning, dark lumps (clotted) in evening. Cough most violent at night. θ Tubercular deposits in apex of lung.

Dulness in chest on percussion. θ Hæmoptysis.
Constant and severe pain in chest. θ Hæmoptysis.

Pulse small and depressed.
Pulse from 100 to 120. θ Hæmoptysis.

Night : cough most violent.
Morning : expectorates pure blood.
Evening : expectorates dark clotted blood.

Slow fever.

Progressive emaciation. θ Hæmoptysis.

Collaterally related to all Euphorbiaceæ ; especially to Mercurialis annua and Mancin .

A weed found in India, belonging to the Euphorbiaceæ. A tincture is prepared from the fresh plant.

▶ Severe fit of dry cough, followed by spitting of blood.

This symptom, doubtless a clinical observation, enabled Dr. Holcomb, of New Orleans, to cure a most obstinate case of hæmoptysis, after other means had failed.