HEPATICA.

Hepatica triloba, Chaix.

Natural order , Ranunculaceæ.

Common name , "Liverwort." Preparation , Tincture of the full-grown leaves.

Authority.

Dr. D. G. Kimball chewed the leaves twice a day "for a chronic irritation in the throat and lungs," N. Am. J. of Hom., 6, p. 526.

• Eyes somewhat sensitive to light; itching and smarting; slightly agglutinated in the morning.
• Bloody mucus frequently blown from the left nostril for three or four days in succession (after using it three days and continuing it).
• Soreness of the end of the nose at the entrance of the nostrils.
• Uncommonly free and easy expectoration.

The following disappeared while taking the drug: (

• The rough, scraping, irritative, and tickling sensation in the throat and fauces disappears, as also the sensation about the epiglottis and larynx as of particles of food remaining.
• The accustomed accumulation of phlegm, sometimes thick, viscid, and tenacious, inducing frequent hawking and disposition to hawk, disappears.
• The customary paroxysms of coughing, and somewhat abundant expectoration, mostly daily about midday, a portion of the expectoration being opaque, yellowish, of the consistency of cream, the rest mucus and frothy, disappear.
• Apparently, a much better state of the lungs and throat is induced from its use, much stronger generally, as well as locally, and the irritation of the throat and lungs mostly gone.
• Digestion apparently more perfect, and a cessation of most of the remaining dyspeptic symptoms.)