This section is from the book "Medical Therapeutics For Daily Reference", by Rudolph Frederick Rabe. Also available from Amazon: Medical Therapeutics for Daily Reference.
Present only in the bile, and even here, not constant. It stands in close relation to suppuration, curing purulent discharges from mucous membranes. It is curative at that stage in which matter is discharging. It acts deeper and more intensely than Hepar sulphuris. It thus corresponds well to abscesses, felons, ulcers and purulent affections. Boils, herpetic eruptions, pustules and carbuncles come within its range of applicability.
1. Purulent catarrh. All mucous discharges are yellow, thick and lumpy.
2. Promotes suppuration after pus is discharging, midway between Hepar and Silica.
3. Cuts, wounds and bruises, do not heal rapidly; discharging unhealthy pus.
 
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