Angophora
by John Henry Clarke — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
lanceolata. Metrosideros costatus. Red Gum. (Australian bush.) N. O. Myrtaceæ. Tincture or trituration of dried sap or gum.
Clinical
Constipation / Dysentery
Characteristics
Proved by F. Kopp, Angophora (which resembles Eucalyptus in appearance) produces the following symptoms: Bearing-down and constant inclination to stool. Dry, hard evacuations, accompanied with blood; diarrhœa, headache, nausea, flatulent distension, and colicky pains. For nearly a week there was obstinate constipation; then nausea, sickness and diarrhœa, with vertigo and debility. Pains and tenesmus only > by lying down flat on the face.
Relations
Antidoted by: Ipec.