MEDICAL ASTROLOGY
PULSATILLA.
Duration of action, 10 to 20 days.
Antidotes,—Coffee, Ign., Nux vomica.
Acts on the stomach, bowels, brain and the nervous system.
Vertigo when stooping; after eating; gastric disturbances from overloading the stomach with fruit, fat food, pastries. More adapted to females, pains accompanied by chilliness, and rapidly shifting from one part of the body to another. Worse in the evening; when lying on the left side; from heat. Better from motion; from cold.
RHUS TOXICODENDRON.
Duration of action, 1 to 3 weeks.
Antidotes,—Bryonia, Coffee, Sulphur.
Acts on the tedons, ligaments and skin.
Ailments brought on by getting wet; taking cold; during cold, wet weather. Pains in the bones as if scraped with a knife. Worse at night, during rest and when first beginning to move. Better from continual motion; warmth relieves.
SEPIA.
Antidotes,—Aconite, Sulphur.
Principally adapted to ailments of the female sex; diseases of women with sud-
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