Helix Tosta
By John Henry Clarke тАФ A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
Toasted snail. N. O. Helicid├ж. Trituration.
Clinical
H├жmoptysis / Phthisis
Characteristics
Snails have a traditional virtue in curing consumption, and hom┼Уopaths have put the remedy to the test by potentising it. W. H. Leonard (Med. Adv., xxii. 310) reports two cases cured with Helix t. c.m. (1) A gentleman had frequent attacks of h├жmoptysis. Continuous hoarseness; dry, tickling cough; < at night, preventing sleep; dyspn┼Уa, < ascending stairs. He had already had all the usual remedies. Helix tost. c.m., three powders given. There was no more h├жmorrhage. A few weeks later a return was feared and a few more doses were given. Four months later the patient was greatly improved in health and remained well. (2) A lady of tubercular diathesis developed the disease after confinement. Several well-indicated remedies failed to check its progress. At length h├жmorrhage set in. Helix was given as in the other case with prompt effect. H├жmorrhage ceased; cough and expectoration gradually improved, and in eight months the patient was well and remained so.