Biliousness

— See also, Dyspepsia, Hepatic Congestion, Duodenal Catarrh. Acids, Mineral: nitro hydrochloric acid especially useful in chronic hepatic affections, dysentery and dropsy of hepatic origin. Aconite: as adjunct to podophyllin. Alkalies: in indigestion due to obstruction to the flow of bile. Alkaline Mineral Waters: in catarrh of the bile-duct, early stage of cirrhosis, and obstruction to the hepatic circulation. Aloes: in constipation, and in deficient secretion of bile. Ammonium Chloride: in jaundice due to catarrh of the bile-ducts, early stage of cirrhosis; deficient intestinal secretion. Ammonium Iodide: in catarrh of duodenum and biliary ducts, in the early stage of cirrhosis, in the malarial cachexia; efficacy increased by the addition of arsenic. Angostura: in bilious fevers. Argenti Oxidum. Bromides and Chloral Hydrate. Bryonia: in bilious headache. Calomel: in exce ive production with deficient secretion; calomel or blue pill at night and a black draught in the morning. Calumba: as stomachic tonic. Carlsbad Water: a tumbler sipped warm on rising very useful. Chirata. Colocynth. Euonymin: at night, followed in the morning by a saline purge. Fried rich shall Water: a winegla ful in a tumbler of hot water slowly sipped on rising. Horse Exercise. Hydrastis: when chronic gastric catarrh is present, in chronic catarrh of the duodenum and bile-ducts, with inspi ation of the bile and gallstones. Ipecac. Leptandra. Manganese: in malarial jaundice. Mercurial Cathartics: in moderate doses night and morning, or in small doses more frequently repeated. Especially useful when the stools are pale, is the bichloride. Mercury Iodide, Green. Mercury Oxide, Yellow. Milk Cure: in obstinate cases. Mustard Plaster. Opium. Podophyllum: in place of mercury when stools are dark. Rhubarb: as hepatic stimulant. Salines. Salol. Sodium Phosphate: in bilious sick headache; also in catarrh of the gall-duct in children: dose, 10 grn. Stilling i a: in cirrhosis; torpidity and jaundice following intermittent fever; ascites due to hepatic changes; to be combined with Nux Vomica, in deficient secretion.