ï~~ 150 IOWA HOMEOPATHIC JOURNAL IOWA HOMEOPATHIC JOURNAL 151 For rapid and profound action Iod. resembles Ars. I have used only the 3rd. Some use a special preparation and inject it. Cuprum: For "flu" complicated with pneumonia, when there is a lack of reaction. There is a little expectoration of jelly-like mucus with much rattling in the chest, showing that the lungs are filling with the same substance. The dyspnoea is very mark ed. The surface is cold and covered with a cold sweat (Tart. Emet., Cup. ars., Arsenide of Atimony). The stools are watery accompanied by crampy pains in abdomen, and legs. The cough is fatiguing, respiration short; both cough and dys pnoea agg. from 11 to 1 at night. seems to act best in the 6th. Rhus Tox. Constant chilliness as if cold was poured over the body or as if the blood ran cold through the veins agg. in evening and from moving; chill with pains in the limbs, restlessness; face alternating pale and red (Per. phos.), The Rhus. patient has great debility, soreness and stiffness. He is very restless and sleepless. The stools are thin, may be yellow-brown, bloody and very offensive. The tongue is dry, red cracked with a red triangular tip. The air passages are stopped up. and you have a dry hard tickling cough, with a grayish green mucus or mucus and blood mixed with very offensive odor. It is most useful for what we call the typhoid pneumonia form of "flu." Use 6th and 30th. Ammonium For the late stage of "flu" complicated with pneumonia. The patient is one who takes cold easily, tires easily, faints easily and often; has a slow reaction generally. We find shortness of breath and palpitation of the heart on least exertion; vio lent cough from irritation in the larynx with spasmodic painful contraction of the chest. The chest is full of coarse, loose rales. We often find emphysema. The lungs are full of mucus which is loose but there is not the power to raise it. The face is hot, red, puffed almost purple the result of lack of oxygen. The nose is stopped up though there is frequent bleeding. We found premature menses in a majority of women. The flow was black, clotted, acrid. The most dangerous condition is weakness of the heart; causing a blood clot and sudden death. Five grain doses of the 3rd every two hours seem to meet the demand. Kali Bichromicum: This is one of our best remedies for a catarrhal condition often left by the "flu." There is marked weakness, ulceration of the mucus membrane of the nose; dryness with pain in the root of the nose and "clinkers" with the tough adherent mucus from all ulcerated surfaces. The stomach has been disturbed and you have thirst, nausea with hot erucations which taste sweet; burning pains in pit of stomach after meals, especially after meals, with salivation extending into the mouth. The stools are sometimes involuntary, watery or mucus or even blood and mucus. The pulse is weak, irregular, soft, rapid. The patient has sharp pains about the heart and. there is marked dyspnoea from the least exertion. People will say they have lost all ambition and strength. Either give it in the 3rd or 1m. Hydrastis: Hydrastic shares the honor with Kali bich. for relieving patients of weakness and a catarrhal condition foillowing "flu." You find weakness of the legs also the discharge is very nearly the same; the modalities are also nearly the same i. e.